administration as soon as tomorrow. the program forces asylum seekers to stay in mexico while they wait for an immigration court in the united states to hear their claims. asylum seekers, including many children, often have to temporarily live in dangerous border towns in terrible conditions with limited resources. what s unusual here is that the biden administration has been one of the program s biggest critics. president biden actually repealed the policy on his first day in office. now, however, the administration says it s reluctantly reinstating the policy to comply with a court order. and a statement from the department of homeland security, the administration said that remain in mexico, quote, has endemic flaws, unjustified human costs, pulled resources and personnel away from other priority effort, and failed to reduce the root causes of irregular migration. even as they malign and vow to terminate the program, they re actually preparing to expand it to apply to migrants from m
creasing the military posture, also trying to put on the priority list this engagement and dialogue. that is creating this distance because it s all in contrast to this close relationship that we just heard about between president trump and prime minister abe. from that perspective, president moon is perceived to be in a position of trying to play catchup, in an environment where the stakes are very real, and this priority effort is really binary, you re either on board with that primary goal or you re trying to do things that may seemingly be distracting from that primary goal. as we look at the development of a nuclear north korea. there is the question of whether south korea will nuclearize. we look at some of the recent polls. 60% of north koreans want to develop their own nuclear capability. this why from a gallop korea poll in september, of this year.
harvey, the federal response priority was to rescue people trapped by the enormous flooding. in the state of florida, what s been the priority for the federal government? a number of priorities for the federal government. now because the storm is ongoing our priority is life sustaining in the keys taking a considerable amount of our attention right now. what you re see in florida and more broadly speaking acomparative area, narrow operations kpired to what we have now. a large-scale area of operation. we re trying to do marshal resour resources where needed. it s a priority effort. worried about flooding, housing, debris and power restoration is access to refined fuel. you ll see in the next weeks and days play out, clears debris from roadways so people can gain re-entry. right now the message is not to rush re-entry. there are still dangerous conditions.
that are closed down because of poor academic performance or for other reasons, whether or not those folks will get could back first on a priority effort. the other issue is whether or not teachers will be evaluated in the system the city currently has which does lean heavily on standardized testing. jenna? jenna: it seems like you re saying the teachers are really digging in op some of these issues? reporter: yeah, it really does look like it. they ve only been able to nibble around the edges. karen lewis says that the major issues haven t even been brought up at the negotiating table is, apparently, the stance of the city that what they ve offered is what they re going to offer until today bring it back out at these bargaining sessions. jenna: day two, no school. all right, steve, thank you. jon: america remembers and never forgets 11 years after the 9/11 attacks. the president and first lady, michelle obama, joining defense