Sandra fox news alert, a live look at capitol hill, screen left. Screen right, the Southern Border. Eagle pass, texas, as we count down to a Blockbuster Hearing on capitol hill. Cia and the fbi director set to testify about the growing threats facing americans and we do expect the border crisis to play a starring role. We are watching it all for you live at the top of a new hour. Im sandra smith in new york. John and john roberts in washington. Good to be with you, sandra. This is america reports. Just months ago the fbi director warned congress that so many migrants are flooding across our border that Law Enforcement cannot possibly keep up. The threats that come from the other side of the border are very much consuming all 56 of our field offices, not just in the border states. Any time you have a group of people in the United States that we dont know nearly enough about, that is a source of concern for us. Sandra and now an illegal immigrant has been charged with killing 22yearold N
Still we have a lot of information. and we have a lot of unknowns here. you and i are standing in the shadow of one world trade, trade center, site of the attacks of the september 11th. terrorism returns to lower manhattan. this is not the first time we re talking about terrorism on this block. in february 1993, youseff also rented a truck, filled it with explosives and attempted to take down one of the towers, and he failed. al qaeda on september 11th, they were able to put down the world trade center. the street where we are standing, you and i, and the stre streets behind us, where the truck is now, the terrorist truck is now, you had thousands of people running up the streets, trying to escape the
Commands will be out in force. even though there are no specific threats we re dealing with, you ll see them. this is a good thing. you ll see well-armed police officers with long guns. you ll see the dogs. this year the nypd will have thousands of june formed officers on patrol and using the sand and blocker trucks which will be used for the first time for a fireworks show in new york. the nypd is looking to use them after the bastille day massacre in france when 86 people were killed when a terrorist truck flew into a crowd watching pyrotechni pyrotechnics. bag checks will also be used to help keep the crowds safe, greg.
Shipping. it is almost lights out for a popular christmas display in jersey. amanda mare field covers her house with thousands of lights each year. now the air force social worker has to move out of state for her job. she spent 18,000 on lights and decorations over years. that display will stay up until january 3rd. remember the falling. thousands gathered at arlington cemetery to lay reiths on 240,000 headstones. much of this is thanks to you our viewers as we reported just a few weeks ago the group was short 30,000 reiths and you graciously helped them fill the gap means every hero is properly honored hthis holiday season. 11 men s after the hour. a terrorist truck with a texas person s phone number on it. he saw his old vehicle in isis videos. man s best friend the touching story behind this photo