for education in the first place? [cheers and applause] college should be free because guess what? when we get out, we are contributing to the society and this democracy and this economy and making it stronger. dana: david spunt live-out side court for us this morning. good morning. no matter where you land in this fiery debate i have yet to meet someone that has not formed some sort of opinion on this issue. off to my right you can hear noise. demonstrators have been out here since 3:00 p.m. yesterday fighting for the president s plan and fighting for this student loan forgiveness. some slept outside hoping to get a seat inside the court today lining up very early to watch this process unfold. if the justices rule in favor of the president, millions of people could have up to $20,000 in student loan debt wiped out. our government is supposed to be about people, right? they shouldn t be making money off of us going to school or seeking higher education. it shouldn t hap
john: to say the least. the supreme court deciding whether president biden could ignore congress or go on one of the biggest spending sprees in u.s. history, wiping out student loan debt for millions of americans. and over on capitol hill, lawmakers are holding hearings on both the china threat and the border crisis. sandra: that s where we start a border bust netting enough fentanyl to kill 50 million people. and one mother who knows the drug s devastation all too well. we have a weather balloon from china going across our country. nobody died, and everybody is freaking out about it. but 100,000 die every year and nothing is being done, not enough is being done. you talk about children being taken away from their parents. my children were taken away from me. john: just some of what we heard during today s house hearing on the border crisis. mother who lost two of her sons to fentanyl poisoning not only grieving but also getting downright angry. sandra: and just now
incident to police. that does it for us this hour. our coverage continues with katy tur reports, right now. good to be with you. i m katy tur. what is president biden hoping to get out of today s executive order allowing him to seal the southern border? he made the announcement just a few minutes ago saying the influx of migrants is unsustainable. quote, for those who say the steps i ve taken are too strict, i say to you be patient. the goodwill of the american public is wearing thin right now. doing nothing is not an option. we have to act. he also said that without immigration reform, specifically the immigration bill which was crafted by a bipartisan team of senators and leaned conservative, by the way, signing an executive order was his only remaining option. that order is definitely going to go to the courts. the aclu has already said it plans on suing. and a number of progressive lawmakers including the congressional hispanic caucus are crying foul, saying this isn
or they might push people across the border quickly before any real changes take place. so we sko theoretically sources have told me there have been actually pretty significant spikes in the number of crossings in the desert east of san diego about an hour and a half from here. we might see that again in the next few days. the effects aren t going to be predictable. and again, the border s not going to be shut down from one day to the next. i think our viewers should understand that. and the actual measurable effects that it will have here on the line are at this point somewhat unpredictable. david, thank you so much for helping us understand what might and might not happen. i appreciate it. let s now go as i promised to a red state. the mayor of laredo, texas, who s at the white house. mr. mayor, thank you for joining us. i know you support this measure. i wonder if you can react to what david was just reporting there, that in practice this is unlikely to have a measurable effect.
first world cup final. to the united states now. a state of emergency has been declared in southern california as tropical storm hillary bears down, bringing torrential rain. nine million people are under flash flood warnings. it s extremely rare for california to experience a tropical storm inland, usually they pass further out to sea. this is water streaming down streets in palm springs a city in the desert east of los angeles that usually looks much drier than this. some schools will be closed monday so they can be checked for damage. jamie rhome is deputy director of the us national hurricane center, he says the areas being hit aren t used to this sort of storm. you have an unusual situation of a tropical storm moving into southern california, where much of the area has soil that does