The situation could get farmers before it gets any better. Sandra the mayor of eagle pass, texas, will join us with whats happening on the ground of his border community. We begin with alex hogan live at a dea facility in mcallen, texas. What are smugglers bringing into the country . What are you seeing . Hi, sandra and john. Cocaine, meth and heroin are stored here for about 72 hours from what were finding along the border but marijuana stays here for about two months. This is 26,000 pounds of marijuana. The dea says the humanitarian problem of more migrants entering the country really creates an opportunity for drug smugglers. He was a live look at the border with our drone crew. So far in 2021 the dea has seized nearly double the amount of fentanyl as it did in 2020. Multiple agencies call for more resources. We cant do it alone. We need the publics help. To know that this much narcotics is coming into the u. S. Is disheartening. Its sad. Meanwhile the growing number of migrants has
counties. that s along the gulf of mexico, southwest corner we pointed out a moment ago. you have 40,000 linemen on the ground. they will need them in order to restore power. dana: they have restored power to a significant portion already. it is impressive the work they ve done. there is a long way to go. 14,000 people in shelters. also a call for everybody to make sure they are being very smart in using their generators in order to protect people from any problems there and from electrocution and also from carbon monoxide. follow those instructions very, very carefully. bill: we are tracking ian and get back to that in a moment. we listened to governor desantis. pine island, sanibel, those are going to be rebuild efforts. the sanibel bridge had breaks in multiple parts of it. it was not where the water and pylons were. those held up well. it is where you had it on the sandbar and it got washed out. dana: the scale of the wreckage is southwest florida is staggering. m
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