individuals, often young children. correspondent bill melugin shows us tonight from la jolla, texas. good evening, bill. bill: bret, good evening to you. this border crisis here really showing no signs of slowing down. just a short time ago i had a chance to talk to a border patrol source who told me that just here in this rio grande valley sector in the last 24 hours they have apprehended more than 1300 illegal immigrants remarkable numbers for one single day. and today we witnessed a lot of that activity ourselves. take a look. a little girl stands alone on railroad tracks in la jolla, texas friday morning. momentarily separated from her family she runs towards a border patrol unit where her parents have been apprehended nearby after crossing into the u.s. illegally. also nearby is a group of more than a dozen unaccompanied kids who have all given themselves up, all of them from guatemala. they include this brother and sister, ages 4 and 7. they came without any guardia
good evening. i m erin burnett. our democracy on the line is the quote from former president barack obama tonight as he says the united states must protect voting rights or america s democracy could be destroyed invoking the january 6th insurrection to make a point. the violence that occurred in the u.s. capitol on january 6th, just a few months ago should remind us that we can t take our democracy for granted. around the world we ve seen once vibrant democracies go into reverse. walking in power for autographs and business interest and blocking out of the political process, protesters and opposition parties and the voices of ordinary people. it is happening in other places around the world and these impulses have crept into the united states. we are not immune from some of these efforts to weaken our democracy. those words come as the fight over voting rights comes to ahead in the senate. senate majority leader chuck schumer vowing to bring a sweeping voting rights bill
yet. she is just minutes away. in a violence, vulgar message sent wow containing white powder sent to the home of senator rand paul. we have the breaking details on this disturbing story coming up. in one year after the death of george floyd, calls for justice and for some, calls to defund the police. the u.s. is facing surging crime rates in big cities nationwide. and now many localities are reconsidering the millions they stripped away from law enforcement. we begin tonight with the latest development giving significant new way to one potential theory that covid-19 originally escaped from a lab in wuhan, china. white house correspondent tracking it all for us tonight. good evening, kevin. great to be back with you. the origin story of covid-19 as you know has been a bit of a forbidden topic in the corporate/mainstream press for the past 16 months. often people bring it up on social media and they are immediately subject to banishment or media ridicule and so-called fact-
covid-19. what they re doing here and in maces like it across the country is key to getting us out of this devastating pandemic that has taken more than half a million american lives. despite that incredible loss of life, polls are showing about a third of americans are still hesitant or downright unwilling to get a covid-19 vaccine. the anti-vaccine movement has had a long history. before covid history we were invested in filming a documentary about vaccine hesitan hesitancy. now more than a year in the pandemic, we thought that was more important than ever for you to see. this is a cnn special report the truth about vaccines. measles is making a come back. the nations is in a public health emergency. this is the epicenter. akin to taking a pipe bomb and throwing it in a busy times square subway. this was a public health nightmare. what do you do? i ve never seen anything quite like this. traveled all over the world, seen outbreaks in refugee camps in haiti and
the angle more about the forever covid cabal. if the pandemic ends, democrats lose their leverage and they know it. that is why every chance they get, their media allies stoke the fears of a weary and board nation. they want you to be afraid. very afraid. because when you are afraid, they have more power and they have more authority to tell you how to live your life. they want this to continue indefinitely. no, no where has this been more apparent than in blue state america. gretchen whitmer and tim walz all of them opted for lockdowns over, controls over common sense. perfect one city state and county health officials get their big excitement every year is maybe recording, i don t know, a psa for handwashing during the flu season? for more than a year they have been see list celebrities c list celebrities. that is real power. and they got drunk on it. last summer, which showed you about dr. travis gail. health officer of montgomery county, maryland. a wealthy see that dc