let s do it. cnn news central starts now. he shared photos of guns, targets, ammunition boxes and a tactical vest. this morning the disturbing social media posts from the gunman who murdered eight people at a texas mall. a pivotal meeting today, an attempt to keep the debt ceiling from crashing down. president biden is sitting down with top congressional leaders from both parties, but can they hammer out a deal before the u.s. goes into a catastrophic default? king pinning terrorist, that is who israel said it was targeting in an overnight military strike in gaza. now at least 13 people are dead. these major stories and many more all coming in to cnn news central. we begin with today s high stakes meeting amid a resolving the debt ceiling standoff. if there is no deal it could lead to financial disaster. in just a few hours president biden will meet at the white house with these four congressional leaders, house speaker kevin mccarthy, senate majority leader
because of what immigration experts call a perfect storm of catastrophes, the pandemic, the ensuing recession, and the war in ukraine, which choked off grain exports, in other words, food. almost nowhere has been hit harder than latin america, pushing millions to flee in search of not just a better life, but life period. couple that with what smugglers are doing to take advantage, and a fire hose of misinformation on social media, telling people that now is the time to come. and you get what we are seeing right now, a crisis at the border, but not just the border in cities like el paso, interior cities, including new york, say they are at capacity. what exactly does that mean? what exactly is being done, and what exactly is being blocked by lawmakers who arguably benefit from using immigration as a campaign talking point? joining me now is nbc news homeland security correspondent julia ainsley who s in el paso, texas, for us. so julia, you know this story, this subject in and
less than 72 hours from the end of title 42. it s been used nearly 3 million times in the past three years. but that all comes to an end this thursday. bill: that s when the flood gates are expected to swing open. the number is expected to jump almost double to 11,000, which would completely overwhelm yet again anyone working on that border. dana: under title 42 they can process my grants in the span of 40 minutes. starting thursday it will take agents 30 minutes to an hour to process a single person. lawmakers suggesting the white house is wildly unprepared for what happens next. the man in charge, secretary mayokas, insists that is not the case. so we are prepared, number one. number two, we have a migration information center that is specifically set up to communicate with state and local officials and we have been doing so. we are using our fema regional coordinators ascii points of contact. we need immigration reform. everything that the department of homeland se
plus, e. jean carroll s attorney says she may sue trump again after comments he made about her at last night s town hall. putin s spokesperson claiming with a straight face that russia is not, quote, waging war. denying that ukrainian towns are being destroyed. is it a sick joke? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we re hours away from a major change in u.s. immigration rules. this is what s happening on the ground tonight. hundreds of migrants right now waiting between barbed wire and the border wall. waiting for a chance to cross into the united states. and there are tens, if not hundreds of thousands more behind them. in fact, the united nations today saying as many as 400,000 migrants may attempt that journey to cross that u.s. border. the reason is tonight s deadline. at midnight, title 42 is going to come to an end. we have just a few hours here. title 42 has been used nearly 3 million times to turn migrants away from the united states. and there
at least 10 other people are injured. brian: the driver is in custody and facing several charges already. police say they are still investigating and have not yet released the identity of the driver. steve: i was reading in one of the local papers down in brownsville today, and what the police officers there in brownsville said there are three possible explanations for why that suv plowed into those people. the first one? intoxication. the second, an accident. or the third one intentional. ainsley: yeah, one police officer said doesn t appear to be accidental but a judge, judge eddy trivino jr. said it s unclear with the driver lost control or intentionally ran into the group. i guess they will know more after they interview them. awaiting toxicology reports to find out if there were drugs or any alcohol in their system. brian: hit a cu curb, lost control and people were miss his way. defense attorney would have representing the driver. this is going to be unbelievabl