good day to our virs iewers the united states and around the world. i m danny freeman in for kasie hunt. it is 4:00 a.m. in mexico city where secretary of state antony blinken is set to meet with the mexican president. they will discuss ways to stem the surge of migrants at the southern u.s. border and they will be joined by homeland security secretary mayorkas. more than 11,000 migrants are still waiting in shelters and camps as they have for years for a chance to enter the u.s. legally, but this one border patrol sector which includes eagle pass, texas, migrant encounters have dropped significantly. more from rosa flores. reporter: as a migrant caravan forms in southern mexico with thousands, the scene in eagle pass, texas has changed. the area where thousands were waiting to be transported last week were emptied out this week. the flow appearing to be down a trickle. a senior customs and border protection official telling cnn that while the scene at eagle pass has improv
plane. it s a holiday nightmare when a 6 year old in florida gets put on the wrong plane. merry christmas, everyone. hey, julie. julie: that s worse than a real-life home alone. brian: yeah. julie: that s scary stuff. i can t believe it. so spirit is offering to reimburse the family. but they could just be asking for answers. that s what the family really wants. we are live in new york. how did this happen. reporter: we re scratching our heads,b and this reminds us of the classic home alone. a grandmother says her 6 year old grand son was scheduled to fly from fortmyers, florida, and when she got there, he was nowhere to be found. listen to this. i ran over to the plane, and i said where is my grandson. he was scheduled to leave from philadelphia. she said i have no kids with me. now, shortly after, she said her grandson casper called and said he landed, but three hours away in orlando where she picked him up. and spirit airlines offered to reimburse her for the
what we are learning tonight. a family s nightmare. a 6-year-old traveling alone to be with his grandmother for the holiday put on the wrong spirit airlines plane arriving in the wrong city. the tense moments for his family and what the airline is now saying this in the middle of a record breaking holiday travel season with millions hitting the roads and taking to the skies. we re following a cross-country storm making its way in the south. millions on alert for potential flooding and the blizzard warning in the northern plains. christmas celebrations canceled in the traditional birthplace of jesus where the fighting in gaza hangs over a time that is usually a time of joy. as relentless combat in the israel-hamas war takes a toll on civilians and both sides of the fighting and the grim death toll. prime minister benjamin netanyahu under pressure inside israel, rick clement from bethlehem. fear that the israeli-hamas conflict will spread as tensions escalate in the red s
this was the view across the israel lebanon border earlier today where we ve seen a thick plume of black smoke in the sky as hostilities continue in that border area. so, let s start this hour by hearing from israel s prime minister. translation: last night, - i talked again with president biden. i do appreciate us steadfast position at the security council a position which backs our war effort. yesterday, i told president biden that we will fight until total victory, as long as it takes. the us understands this. i saw false reports that claimed the united states has prevented us from operational activities in the region. this is not true. israel is a sovereign country. our war decisions are based on our operational considerations. this is the live scene over the israel gaza border, where we ve seen continued bombardement this weekend. an israel military spokesman says it s expanding its ground operations in the southern and northern parts of the gaza strip. reuters is
you are live in the cnn newsroom, i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with donald trump arguing that lobbying owe election officials to overturn the 2020 election was within his official responsibilities as president. that argument was part of a brief filed last night in which attorneys for the former president asked an appeals court to dismiss his criminal election subversion case, one day after the supreme court refused to decide for now whether he is protected from prosecution. in the filing trump s attorneys argue that, quote, president trump has absolute immunity, the judicial branch cannot sit in judgment over a president s official acts. the legal wrangling could push a verdict into the heat of the 2024 campaign or even after the election if trump is elected he will try to pardon himself. politico argues trump s legal argument seems to be as much about prevailing in the appeals court as a bid to slow down the case against him. let s discuss that and mo