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todd: caroline schiffley is live on the ground this morning. caroline. post-title 42, here at gate 42, couple miles from where we were yesterday, buses are coming and migrants are being taken to processing center. in the last hour, we shot new video to show you of migrants coming through and being checked and loading up on the buses. numbers from the el paso sector on the border patrol. in april, el paso sector saw 1400 encounters are if the whole month. the last two days, they had 1500 per day. they pushed to get to the border and they wouldn t be allowed in if they waited. mayorkas released a statement saying, starting now, if you arrive here, we will assume you are not eligible for asylum and they have 24000 border patrol and asylum officers and judges. we are ready to meet them. we expected to see large numbers of encounters initially, we are seeing high numbers in certain sectors. the texas national guard is along the border in brownsville. tactical team me ....
we are glad you are here. just so you know it is national hug g.i. day. i expect a hug from you. a man hug. rachel: you didn t serve the country the way pete did. will: i was worried about giving up hug. rachel: is not give him a hug. good call. pete: working the steady cam, working the cord. same year. we didn t know each other but he was an mp inside will: that is why won t be giving him a hug. rachel: at cpac weekend, thinking about the last time i went there was a long time ago with andrew breitbart celebrating his birthday. that was a fun time. will: recognition of how much influence he had. rachel: still remembering. will: we will watch the speeches today at cpac. we played some earlier in the program and will play some later. we get to additional news including what is happening overseas. president biden met yesterday with the german chancellor, all off scholz, we finance our 33, i lost count, 33rd security assistance package to ukraine. this time it is $400 ....
they are very involved and remain point throughout all of this. . reporter: [ inaudible ]. not information i can release yet. reporter: [ inaudible ]. not information i can release. we still consider him armed and dangerous. reporter: is it one shooter? at this time that s the information we have. reporter: [ inaudible ]. we re still working on that. we ll take two more questions. we re not going to go into the specifics of where the gun was recovered but a firearm rifle was recovered. reporter: what s the ages? what s the ages of those passed away? we ll have more information on that. we ll be releasing that as soon as we can. we have six confirmed deceased and we have approximately two dozen that are seriously injured. okay, thank you. we are coming on the air after that update from police, from the local sheriffs in highland park on that horrific, 4th of july parade shooting that happened about 10:15 local time there. a massive manhunt now ha ....
treat victims compared it to those sustained in a war zone. we heard gunshots people thought for five seconds that it was fireworks until people started screaming bodies down, bodies down and everyone started running. there were six people who i saw who were horribly, horribly injured from the gun shot, and the gunshot wounds that these people sustained are like war injuries. i ve never served, but i ve been in the emergency rooms and i ve seen horrific things. the bodies that i saw it was not an image that anyone who is not a physician would have an easy time processing. let s bring in nbc news correspondent rehema ellis who has been covering this story for us. rehema, what is the latest on the ground? the very latest on the ground is they are engaged in an intense man hunt for this suspect. hundreds of officers are blanketing the area trying to find the person responsible for this mayhem. authorities say that local, state and federal authorities are all workin ....
live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. ukraine s president will be appealing for more international aid this week when the ukraine recovery conference gets under way in switzerland. he urged his fellow ukrainians to stay optimistic. here he is. translator: no matter how difficult it is for us today, we must remember that there will be tomorrow. and tomorrow should bring maximum benefit to ukraine. everyone should do absolutely everything possible for this. russia s relentless rampage in ukraine is now most heavily focused on the key city of lysychansk, one of the few places still under ukrainian control in the donbas. a local ukrainian military official says the city is on fire. meanwhile days after russian forces abandoned snake island in the black sea, ukraine s military is claiming it destroyed some of the equipment russians left behind. as they put it, russian spirit does not stink there anymore. scott mclean is joins us live from the ....