lives to chase the american dream facing a new level of uncertainty today. even with title 42 gone, the government insists the border is not open as u.s. officials try to care for the thousands already here and brace for thousands more. plus, an ex-marine surrenders facing manslaughter charges accused of putting a fellow subway rider in a fatal chokehold. how daniel penny is defending himself about how he felt, quote, entitled to take jordan s life. and fresh off beating former president donald trump in court, e. jean carroll may be ready for another round after trump once again mocked her and called her a whack job during that televised town hall wednesday night, carroll says she s considering hauling trump back into court all over again. so a lot to get to, but right now roughly 13 hours after title 42 expired, dire predictions about a mad rush of thousands of migrants pouring over the border simply haven t come true. now, while officials acknowledge that the situation
guad venegas, tell us what s happening where you are. reporter: chris, we have this camp that has been here for days, the camp has been growing in numbers, but border patrol has also been picking up as many asylum seekers as they can. so every day they arrive in vans and buses. they take them in groups of 20, sometimes in groups of 50. we were told the last large group was picked up earlier this morning, and we now see i think the biggest change today, chris, is more women and children. in the first few days of course the group was smaller, and we didn t have as many women and children as we can see now. there s also a second camp with all men that is about a mile west of us towards the ocean. i spoke with one of the men that came down from that camp to charge his phone. there s ngos that will charge phones and help them with food. he told me that camp is even larger than this one. we haven t seen a large mass of people arriving after title 42 was lifted. what we ve seen, c
great plains. wife of the supreme court justice clarence thomas, and her role to overturn the election. yet she doesn t seem to be on the raider of the january six committee. one week ago, a gunman filled with hate targeted a black community in a deadly rampage. i will talk to mayor byron brown about what can be done next to heal the community. we are still dealing with covid and now that there are new fears of a new medical issue in the united states, monkeypox. we ll tell you if you need to be worried. we will begin with the battle for abortion rights. it s happening right now. gop can state-controlled legislators across the country. a rush to pass bills in anticipation of roe being overturned by the supreme court. take the city of oklahoma, a bill made its way to the state legislature on thursday, which bans abortions from fertilization with exceptions. here s more on the pending legislation. the governor has promised to sign any anti abortion registration that rea
Cities, what the end of the covid era title 42 policy looks like from san diego, california, just a few miles outside of tijuana, and in el paso, texas, where one middle school turned into a migrant shelter is already housing more than 100 people. a new update from that city s mayor. plus, at a breaking point, thousands of miles from those border cities, chicago, one of several american cities already under a state of emergency tied to the influx of migrants arriving from texas, and one community organizer says it s about to get even harder. all of that raising the stakes for the biden administration, how the federal government is responding to all of this right now as they face a new legal challenge over part of their strategy to relieve the backlog of cases just a handful of hours before the policy officially expired. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, and we begin at the border in san diego.
Have one option with lesser quality products, with higher prices. we have been supporting a local gentleman by the name of alex wright, who is trying to put a book brick and mortar co-op in the neighborhood, very close to that tops. there are people who are on the ground community members who are working to beat back some of the systemic challenges that we face, but this is not anything that is new. again, we can create policy, we cannot create policy, and if we are serious about helping this community heal and get better and lifting people out of concentrated poverty and disadvantages that allows something like this to happen, we will make sure that we are crafting policy and legislation and putting real, tangible resources into this community, because black people don t deserve any less than anyone else. what is that policy looks like to you? it looks like supporting