First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this Currents Iteration of the border crisis. You can see Border Patrol footage from april. Shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. The smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. John critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. The white house says el paso was a perfect case study. The Vice Presi
aide to then president trump s chief of staff mark meadows. the fallout continues as americans look to a post roe future. the abortion debates in states. in ukraine new details about the russian missile strike on a shopping mall leaving more than a dozen people dead. we begin this hour with breaking news of a horrific human tragedy in san antonio, texas. believed to be the most deadly smugging tragedy in recent history. the bodies of at least 50 migrants found in the back of a truck. the death toll is at 50 by the mexican president. officials say they likely died of heat stroke. temperatures of 100 degrees outside likely much hotter inside that trailer. no windows. no ventilation. take a look at the truck. completely sealed. officials say it appears it was not refrigerated. 16 people were able to survive including 4 children taken to hospitals. officials saying they were hot to the touch and extremely weak. the president of the mexico said seven from guatemala. two from hon
the new york congressman defended himself outside the capitol just minutes ago. a truce extended for now. moments before it was set too expire, israel and hamas agree to continue the pause in hostilities with more hostages set to be leased today. and elon musk with choice words, four letter words, for companies who pulled their ads from twitter while telling disney to go blank itself win hearts and minds. i m john berman with sara sidner. this is cnn news central. this morning republican congressman george santos speaking defiantly from outside the capitol where he could make history as the sixth member of congress to be expelled from the people s house. if i leave, they win. if i leave, the bullies take this is bullying. the chair of the committee putting out a motion to expel just introducing it was designed to force me to resign. reality is it is all theater. it is theater for the cameras, theater for the microphones, it is theater for the american people. at t
at a serious amount of jail time. that s the sentencing guidelines. it s possible the judge could go to the low side or beyond 55 years. probation said 20 years and the attorneys argued for far less. locked up almost two years ago. convicteded on 5 of 6 counts in december of this year and expected to hear from the victims. five in total should be here to speak to the court and the judge about the impacts of abuse to them has had on their lives specifically psychological and substance abuse issues for a number of years. in one particular case included in the filings with the court a number of images from two attempted suicide attempts in the hospital. so today not promising to be a
First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this Currents Iteration of the border crisis. You can see Border Patrol footage from april. Shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. The smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. John critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. The white house says el paso was a perfect case study. The Vice Presi