nearly 250 migrants were taken into custody after turning themselves into authorities at a point of entry. investigators say the group had been smuggled into the u.s. and was made up of mostly people, again, from central america including many families with small children. now, here in california, at the san diego sector, in total, border patrol says so far it s made 2600 arrests related to that migrant caravan. arthel? arthel: jeff paul in los angeles, thanks, jeff. eric: special counsel robert mueller s team disputing buzzfeed s recent controversial article calling that reporting not accurate. the report claims that president trump ordered his former attorney michael cohen to lie to congress about the pursuit of the trump tower project in moscow. it cited two anonymous federal law enforcement sources for that. buzzfeed is still defending it saying in the last hour by the way quote we have confirmed we have reconfirmed, they said,
locations in the building of the school. but then they ll begin the process of trying to question him. at this point they may believe it s time to give him miranda rights. unfortunately we re getting new information on the death toll. what are you learning? this is not good news. we re learning that at least 16 people are now dead. this is according to law enforcement sources, federal law enforcement sources and local law enforcement sources in florida. we re being told 16 dead in this shooting now. 16 dead, not injured but 16 dead. do we know how many injured? we don t have an exact number of injured. we ve been told perhaps as much as 14, but this certainly takes this to a new level, a different level. that number of fatalities, certainly staggering. difficult to comprehend that we re dealing with a school
nothing left in here that s salvageable. a total loss here. there were atf investigators inside this church, is state investigators, local investigators looking for an accelerant or some indicator of what caused this fire. again, federal law enforcement sources tell cnn that lightning is the cause. in fact, there were according to seen mean mocnn meteorologists the map up if we can four lightning strikes in the close vicinity of mt. zion ame. now, this church has been through a rebuild after a fire before. as you mentioned 20, years ago, june of 1995, two members of the ku klux klan burned down the original mt. zion ame. they pleaded guilty, served close to 20 years in prison. then president bill clinton came to rededicate this church and we spoke with the mayor of greeleyville, jesse parker,
over. catherine herridge live in d.c. with the news now. catherine, what s the latest that you are hearing about that. harris, beared on the available evidence. federal law enforcement sources none of the hostages were able to escape. u.s. authorities believe more than 2 owere taken captive. fox news was also told there was an effort by al shabaab to negotiate. the taste group wanted money. offer received more for show than legitimate effort standoff. while 11 terrorists survived. tell fox news kenyan authorities have not been forthcoming with the names on the terrorist renting a store in that mall. u.s. officials say they are still waiting to see evidence that it happened. separately the afp is reporting tonight a radicalized british citizen known as the white widow after her husband became a suicide bomber used a fake passport, a fight photo here is from her south african passport and fake name to rent three properties in the johannesberg area. wrapping up debt in excess of $8,000.