Devastating impact from helena and a strike that is threatening to compounded, a warning from the Homeland Security folks that fema does not have enough funds to deal with it, First To Georgia where president Joe Biden is set to survey the damage and make remarks this hour. Welcome, im neil cavuto. Lets go to Lucas Tomlinson in georgia, what we are likely to here as the president visits the hardest Hit States and towns from helene. What do you have . Reporter good afternoon. President biden has just arrived here, to receive an operational update and or the damage. It is notable that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp wasnt your degree to president. As you mentioned, bidens a Dhs Chief says hes running out of money. We are meeting immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We dont have the funds, fema doesnt have the funds to make it through the season. Reporter earlier today, President Biden arrived on Air Force one in tallahassee, florida, the St
pass, texas, new december records as house speaker mike johnson says the crisis at the border is an unmitigated disaster. welcome to fox news live, i m alicia acuna. hi, griff. griff: hour two, here we go. the house homeland security committee is set to hold its first impeachment hearing against dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas next week. casey stegall is live in eagle pass, texas, where mayorkas will be traveling, i believe, on monday. casey, what s the latest? reporter: yeah, griff, he will. we ll get to that in a second, but first, illegal crossings have slowed dramatically at least in this spot. it has been a relatively quiet morning here in eagle pass. with yesterday it was a little busier. we saw a group of about 200 migrants cross the rio grande river and turn themselves over to border patrol agents. you re looking at drone video of that now. as the state of texas continues to assist doing what it can through operation lone star to mitigate the problems. that has l
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the job. somebody else has got to come in. but just to give them more money to continue these mystery flights, these just bringing people in, they re doing this on purpose, alicia, if you haven t figured that out. and the american people and the congress is, this week is saying, enough, we re done. we re not doing the same thing anymore. alicia: you know, secretary mayorkas, casey stegall s reporting, is going to head to the border on monday except it s going to be closed to the press. in a week where immigration where impeachment hearings are also beginning over his job, how does that square, not talking to the press, not talking to the public all while this is happening? it doesn t. you know what he doesn t want to see when he s there can when we were there, people were actually just walking across the river, walking through the barbed wire. our homeland security folks would put them in a van and then take them off to get processed to go. so the reason he doesn t want
check on the migrants. every sij one of the people i speak to say the hell they go through, the worst part is going through mexico because officials are there to extort them, rape them and abuse them. that s the reality going on. with us to continue our conversation is the mayor. thank you for being here. it s food to see you. the homeland security folks tell hat fewer migrants have beens crossing. but they have been able to move 10,000igrasut of the city in the past couple days. you just over the weekend called for a state of emergency here. why? i think it was important to see that we didn t want people sleeping in the streets. the temperature would drop around 20 degrees. it was important to make sure our visitors are safe and i said any time our city or visitors were thot safe, i would call a state of emergency.