to border patrol. and also out last night was oklahoma senator james lankford riding along to get a firsthand look at what s been happening, and he says front-line agents just aren t allowed to do their jobs. take a listen. whether it s single adults that are coming in, family groups coming in, they re coming across, checking in and then border patrol agents and other individuals who are here to enforce the laws of the country are actually just managing and being more like hotel check-in staff and being instructed by the administration, here s how to process people and release them rather than to try to actually carry out the law. reporter: according to a dhs source on thursday here in the rio grande valley, border patrol arrested five men from syria who crossed illegally in the hidalgo area, about 20 minutes away from where we are now. send it back to you. arthel: hotel check-in staff. that paints a picture. bill melugin, thank you.
keeping the lights on. about 100,000 plus people across massachusetts pretty consistently without power over the course of today. we are in plymouth, massachusetts. this is the area that s being hardest hit by power outages. the south shore, cape cod, sandwich, massachusetts, a lot of people without power all all the way down to provincetown. emergency management showing that provincetown is essentially in the dark 100% without power right now. but a lot of these folks, these box the trucks, folks coming in from across the country from florida and michigan, they re going to be working to keep the lights on throughout the course of the storm. big concern as well, the coastal flooding that could be occurring and has been occurring. there was a high tide this morning, there s another one tonight, caused some big, splashy waves at the pilgrim sand hotel. this is something coastal areas see in these bigger storms. streets are flooded, so