some of the october 7 attack. you are watching fox and friends first, on tuesday, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. greg palkot is on the border of lebanon. we begin with jonathan hunt. jonathan: israeli defense sources consider this to be one of the most significant gets since war was declared on october 7. they took out a commander in hamas northern brigade. they say he was responsible for directing some of the attacks of october 7 that were launched from the northern part of the gaza strip and they say in taking him out, they believe they have significantly reduced hamas s ability to disrupt the idf ground operation in the northern end of the gaza strip. they believe he was a big player in hamas northern gaza command. ground operation continue and what the idf appear to be trying to do is encircle gaza city in the gaza strip. they have gone down the western side of gaza and coming from the north00 east and appear to be trying to encircle entirety of gaza cit
those are the faces of the immigration surge. there are more children coming across the border than we have facilities for. there is a crisis on the texas border right now. this crisis as a result of president biden s open border policy. announcer: this is new day weekend. a shot of capitol hill there and the flags flying as we begin with we have to tell you we have a crisis at the u.s./mexico border. this is an unprecedented high. homeland security secretarial happen droe secretary alejandro mallorcas is directing fema. up on capitol hill for us this morning, what do we expect to see? reporter: victor, it s going to be an incredibly busy week in congress. as you said, house minority leader kevin mccarthy leading a group of 12 republicans to el paso tomorrow where they will tour a migrant processing facility. this has been a major issue with republicans. they have been hitting the biden administration on this influx of migrants crossing the border in rec