in rome, where we can bring you live images of the traditional easter vigil. pope francis is due to lead the easter vigil mass. as you can imagine, it s rather a hectic week. yesterday, the pope missed the good friday procession due to extremely cold weather in rome . about 10 degrees. he was released from hospital only a short while the go from hospital only a short while the 9° from hospital only a short while the go ago having suffered from bronchitis. we will keep you up to date as the easter week on roads. you can reach me @bbc tanya beckett. i ll be back soon, thanks for your company.
it s the snow load has become too much. it caused traffic jams, caused the roads to be closed, when roads are closed, people want to ski, you re gonna find a way to get around it. they re gonna try to find a way to get around it. people have been stuck in their cars, on roads, that sometimes you can get now when there s five feet of snow in the wind blowing sideways. 17 people spent the night on one stretch of road that we couldn t get to them, because the roads were so impassable, it took another day to get them out. fortunately, everybody survived. but it s been a lot, and we ve had avalanches, with the north south highway, which has isolated several communities. one of the avalanches took out a power source for our residents in bridgeport. they are isolated, they are still without power. they do have roads that are opening up, though, it s been quite an ordeal. you talked about being
the biden administration. to be clear, biden administration had announcedded days before my meeting with him that they were going to el paso. but it wasn t until late the night before he arrived that they sent an e-mail to a lower-level person in my administration that got up to my chief of staff to invite me to meet the president at the tarmac at airport. with no invitation to do anything else with him. listen, i ve been with the former president of the united states, president trump, on the border. and as governor, i ve been on every component of the border, so i can get around on rocks, on roads, on dirt. whatever the case may be. so there was nothing stopping the president from including me with him other than the fact he did not want to attract remember this last thing, neil, and that is el paso at the instruction of the biden administration completely cleaned up all of the migrants who were sleeping on the streets in el paso to sanitize
invite me to meet the president at the tarmac at the airport with no invitation to to anything else with him. listen, i ve been with the former president of the united states, president trump, on the border. as governor, i ve been on every component of the border. so i can get around on rocks, on roads, on dirt. whatever the case may be. so there was nothing stopping the president from including me with him other than the fact that he did not want to deextract from his message. remember this last thing, neil. el paso at the instruction of the biden administration completely cleaned up all of the migrants that were sleeping on the streets in el paso to sanitize neil: who did that? so the president wouldn t see anything out of place. it was the border patrol. it was the border patrol that 80 asked to do that. the president took border patrol off of the border to clean up the streets of el paso. neil: your name keeps coming up in a growing list of potential republican governors