great middle of the week. clearly they are playing that song for you, katie. she has some kind of wonderful. it is good, great day so far halfway between christmas and new year s the weird we saw a couple of poinsettias on the left and right but are you celebrating christmas? katie: why not? the tree is still on fox square. it is not new year s yet and i think it s great to have a couple of days. griff: rachel said we have to abide by the 12 days of christmas and not take any trees down here that will not happen on this show. katie: everything has been great. i am with you guys this morning. griff: a lot happened the last 24 hours, obviously regarding the border supreme court keeping title 42 in place against the white house s wishes for now. katie: and title 42 dropped, we could see 14,000 encounters every single day at the border, which would add up to 5 million illegal crossings each year. joey: lucas tomlinson is live, what do you got? speak with the s
supreme court is keeping title 42 in place against the white house s wishes for now. griff: if title 42 is dropped, we could see 14,000 encounters every single day at the border which would add up to over 5 million illegal crossings each year. joey: live from washington and he s got the latest on this, lucas. good morning. the supreme court says title 42 will remain in place for now after 19 states as to the high court to give it around. one of the courts conservative justices sided with his liberal colleagues in the 5-4 ruling. the dissenting opinion, saying the current border crisis is not a covid crisis. court should not be in the business of perpetuating atex design for one emergency only. elected officials have failed to address a different emergency where a court of law not the policymakers of last resort. dhs gave the candidate mission, we will continue to manage the border. we will do so within the constraints of a decades-old immigration system that everyone
in a 5-4 vote the supreme court blocked the biden administration from repealing the trump-era policy letting border agents turn away migrants over health concerns. the high court will hear oral arguments in february. rich: president biden has no plan to secure the border. images of large groups of migrants crossing into the country illegally every single day. leaders there are getting frustrated with the lack of action from washington. we re asking the biden administration to come down here, visit our border, talk to our border patrol agents, and to the cities around here. we re talking 10, 12,000 people crossing our borders at one time. they have not put any policy nor any plan in place. rich: big numbers. three days border patrol encountered nearly 15,000 migrants, plus 500 pounds of marijuana, one gang member, one murder suspect and the list goes on. julie: we re covering the crisis from every angle. council president brandon judd joins us in a moment but first mat
there is more than 7,000 utility workers here in the buffalo area. they are working to get the lights back on. as a last update, there was less than 1,000 customers here in erie county without power. some really good news there. unfortunately, there has been looting associated with this storm. people breaking into businesses, stealing tvs, liquor, things you don t need in a storm necessarily. they are not trying to steal essential items. buffalo pd has put together a looting task force. they say they ve arrested eight people so far. this is what buffalo s mayor had to say about the looters. people who are out looting when people are losing their lives in this harsh winter storm is just absolutely repreh reprehensible. i don t know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror. they are the lowest of the low.
erie county were without power. good news right there. there have been bad actors out there taking advantage of this disaster to loot. people stealing liquor, electronics, things you don t need for survival. buffalo p.d. established a looting task force in the wake of these crimes and they say they have arrested eight people in connection with looting. buffalo s mayor on the looters. people who are out looting when people are losing their lives in this harsh winter storm, it s absolutely reprehensible. i don t know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror. they are the lowest of the low. driving ban is still in place here in downtown buffalo. supermarkets have reopened in