along with jessica tarlov, charlie hurt, and jimmy failla, it s 5:00 p.m. in new york city and this is the five. give us your poor, your tired, and your federal money. at the leaders of three sanctuary cities are begging president biden to shower them with some cold hard tax paying funded cash as they wind their hearts out over the big texas governor busting illegals to their doorsteps. you cannot continue to do the federal governments job. they must take the lead and lead on the humanitarian crisis instead of leaving it for the states. we need the federal government to lean in and provide more federal assistance. all of the cities have reached a point where we are either close to capacity or merely out of room. we need more federal support to manage this amount of inflow that will cross city budgets around the country as we know looking at about $160 million in potential costs going into next year s budget. almost 10% of our entire city budget. you know what the de
reporter: first of all, you can just call me sam. we ve known each other for years. it s been through the entire pandemic, and i haven t seen you once. it s crazy. reporter: you re actually correct. this social distancing at its finest. we are in miami, pretty representative of what we re seeing around the country. you just documented that new york city line snaking through the city. we re seeing a virtual lock jam here with nonstop cars. we just broke a record 26,800 new cases. that s the second highest daily figure since the delta variant swept over the state like a tsunami. one, certainly the spread of omicron. the other, katy, people cannot get at-home tests. the positivity rate i m told by the manager, is approaches 30%