with mexico. just two days until title 42 is set to expire. illegal crossings are already surging to record highs and just this past week there re been nearly 55,000 apprehensions, more than 18,000 known guideways which means a camera got them, somebody saw them. but we can t catch them. that means the population size equivalent to the at&t center in san antonio has been able to sneak into the united states with just seven days, those guideways are really critical. we really don t know who is on them. the border patrol union right now is furious over this. it is going into the dhs with quite a bit of anger pronouncing publicly when and where the border patrol would be conducting target enforcement operations. essentially telling illegal immigrants and smugglers where to run and hide from the border patrol agents. i just spoke with border patrol council brandon judd last hour. this is when activism takes over law enforcement and that should never happen. we should always be
let s get to the news. border towns bracing for the end of the policy that lets the u.s. quickly expel migrants. texas is putting up barbed wire and deploying hundreds of national guardsmen in addition to the 1500 troops being sent by biden to do administrative duty. bill: the white house says the president would veto a republican border bill that s coming up for a vote in the house. despite the number of migrant encounters under his watch ballooning to nearly 5 million. dana: another city bracing for impact is el paso. there already thousands of people are camping on the streets. ice is launching a targeted operation to process and hopefully deport some of them. we spoke to some of the migrants living in el paso and the reasons for them driving to cross the border illegally. they detailed their journey to seek asylum here. americans should know not all of the people are bad. we want to work and get ahead. i m daniel rom rom and have been in el paso, texas for three d
hello, i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. and i m bianna golodryga. a tragic discovery in the search for the four americans abducted in mexico. two of them were found dead and two are pack on u.s. soil. they were all found in a medical clinic in a boerder town. one of the two survives is injured. the group was traveling from south carolina so one of them could undergo a medical procedure. authorities say a group of unidentified men shot at the victims vehicles and took them away. investigators believe the americans were targeted by a mexican cartel that likely mistook them for haitian drug smugglers. diane dgallagher is in south carolina, kylie atwood is monitoring the situation from the state department. diane, let s start with you and what we re learning about the victims and what happened. reporter: victor, i m in lake city, south carolina, which family says is where three of the four americans who were abducted grew up here together. they describe them
a tragic end after a mother s trip to mexico with friends to get a medical procedure. now two in the group are dead. two others found alive. how the group got lost and ended up in the hands of armed criminals. plus i m taking over this plane. taking over this plane, he says. terrifying moments on a cross-country flight when a man threatens to hijack the plane. the video as freaked out p passengers tried to react. plus, cnn s upclose look at how the chinese will go to control its country s messaging. welcome to the lead. and we start today with our world lead and new details in tin vest game into those four americans kidnapped in mexico last week. local officials say one person has been detained after two of the u.s. citizens were found d dead. the two others are thankfully alive, though one is severely injured, according to a u.s. official, and those two have returned to the united states for medical treatment and observation. family members say that the four were
that. in terms of where it was flying, it was well-clear of any territory in ukraine. it was international airspace over international water. thank you. nancy? thank you. during secretary austin s visit to egypt he held meetings with officials even though all press were banned from covering it. past defense chiefs when they ve been in similar situation have refused to proceed. given the biden administration has said one of its key pillars in terms of foreign policy is when presented between a choice of autocrats and democracies that it stands with democracies. can you help us understand why the secretary proceeded with those trips given the ban. our relationship with egypt is obviously an important strategic partnership. the secretary did appreciate the opportunity to meet with his counter parts and talk about that. i will tell you when it came to the press coverage of that portion having looked further into it, the egyptians lived up to what they had agreed upon. some of