begins right after this. less than eight hours left on that u.s. policy used to turn away migrants at the border. what s going to happen after midnight? the lead starts right now. crisis at the border and it s about to get worse. cnn rides along as migrants climb on top of a train. others crawling through barbed wire trying desperately to get into the united states. what s gonna happen when that key title 42 immigration policy runs out at 11:59 this evening? well, top biden administration official is here and we will seek answers. also, trump s 2024 campaign playbook seems to be a repeat of falsehoods and decency from 2020. how not only democrats such as president biden and also republicans today are expressions revulsion at things that he said at the cnn town hall. plus, 18 years after disappearing, today movement towards justice in the tragic vanishing and murder of natalee holloway. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with a huge story in our world
dana. thank you very much. great to see you. all right, good evening everyone, i m alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. the u.s. is bracing for tens of thousands of desperate migrants to try to cross the southern border in a few days. that s when the trump era policy expires, that allowed some ministry quickly turned away. already, men, women, and children are lining up for food, sleeping on the streets. when 150,000 people are reportedly just across the border waiting to cross. but it s the responsibility of congress to pass new immigration laws. so, what can the biden ministration actually do? our panel has ideas. plus, nobody wants to live in fear that we re only a day or two away from the next mass shooting. this past weekend saw another one, eight people killed, this time at a mall in allen, texas. the shooter was a 33-year-old who served in the military for three months. but a defense official says he was terminated years ago because of a mental health condition. th
children back. what s the reason? what s the motivation to keep that allowed authorities to them as your nationals with your passport, teach them a foreign quickly expel migrants seeking asylum was allowed to lapse. language? why not give them back to their families, give them to a third state, as required by the geneva a tweet warned it could be chaotic for a while. tens of thousands of migrants conventions, let that state return them back to their are believed to be massed in homeland? they re not doing that, and it northern mexico and two counties begs the question why. issued disaster declarations in you re in new york to brief preparation. the security council on the today there s no evidence of a human rights situation in libya. rush, at least not an immediate a lot of people have not paid it one. this video is probably the best evidence. much attention since gadhafi was on the left you see the border killed. as it was yesterday with but it is a broken state. migrants
you from msnbc and los angeles mayor christmas eve to all o you celebrating, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with th latest on the deadly winte storms moving across the u.s., leaving dangerously cold win chills across much of centra and eastern states at least 20 people have died i storm related incidents across the country in, erie count police say ambulances are stil unable to respond to emergency calls, in a timely manner. the problem is in the hardest hit areas, up to two thirds of emergency response vehicles are stuck fire, ambulance, police, i addition, a man in vehicles ar causing significant problems, have to note this, it is not something we are proud of, but in the worst affected areas, there is no emergency servic available. there s no guarantee that life-threatening emergency situation, that they will be able to respond immediately. we are dealing with situations all night, including a situation with a baby at a hom location which is on
resigning from the papacy because of the sailing how. nbc s molly hunter is joining us at the vatican. molly, welcome. we know every other pope since the 15th century have led the catholic church until their death. so what do we know about funeral plans, especially since there hasn t really been one for a retired pope in what, six centuries. six centuries. and certainly the vatican didn t release any plans over the last several weeks or days, alex. before i go to the actual, planning i do i don t know if you can hear the hints of the background. i do want to just bring our audience a little bit of this. this is the final prayer service of the year 2022. pope francis had already scheduled. does this was pre-scheduled. he started his plans even other news of course this. morning this is the first time that we saw him since the news of his predecessors that broke. i just want to share a little bit of what he said tonight to open up of service. he said, with emotion, we remembe