so at one day you wake up inh kamala harris is the vice president . how does that happen, youyo wonder? no one will say, but youu can r be sure there s a story there.ef so here s the latest example of unexplained weirdness in the news. mike pence, of all people, has just swooped in to save joe biden. yeso , mike pence, a man so flamboyantly pure he won t have minner with ladies, not his wife. and yet mike pence also hadkp secret documents in his house, just like joe biden that you didn t see tha that coming. it wasn t so long ago thatene pence was on television saying was sure he had no classified documents in his possession. he said that a few times. then just days ago, then mike pence sent his personal attorney to searche sent his fah home in carmel, indiana, fore in classified documents. now, if mike pence didn tnk think he had classified documents, why would he send his lawyer to go look forhe sen classified documents? we can t say for certaihin, but it s
raining. the outer band still lashing puerto rico. t a least four deaths reported so far. emergency crews have rescued more than 1,000 people. the efforts are still ongoing as responders try to get to people in hard to reach areas. parts of puerto rico are still recovering from hurricane maria that made landfall there five years ago today. cnn s leyla santiago is live for us in san juan. what are you hearing? brianna and john, as i checked in with families this morning, if you were in san juan, the metropolitan area, there is a small portion of areas that have had power restored. they are getting water back this morning. but if you are in the interior, if you were on the southern coast, really hit hard by hurricane fiona, there is still no power, no water. there are still people at shelters, and there are still crews trying to get access to some areas because of that flooding. i know you went over a lot of the numbers in terms of how much water has come down, the deaths
their destination in the last three months, migrant encounters i in and around miami are up for 100%.eaving their haitians are leavingy be caustheir country because ofityc deepening political instability, which is saying something considering haiti is among the mostlly unst politically unstable places on the planet. the planet. there s not a single there is not a single democratically elected institution indemocrat haiti, ni and haitian nationals are now fleeing in numbers not seen inn more than two decades. last fiscal year, the coast d more guard interdicted more than 7000 haitian migrants. that does not include the tens a of thousands who have come across the southern border. the migrants ac found today arehe being taken to the bahamas, processed and then returned to haiti, though many on board said they would simply get on another boat and try to come back to the us . now, dhs secretary alejandrodhse orka says alcrl haitian migrants caught at sea would be repatriated, but it s almo
of feeling they have to come here. what are you hearing from your republican colleagues? there are unique challenges when you re talking about people fleeing from communist regimes. you know, we have a law that goes back years and years and years. probably into the 60s, that if you get to this country from cuba, which was of course, castro and the communists, you put your foot on american soil, you re in. and i can t remember what it s called, wet foot dry foot, something like that. i m interested to see whether those who advocated for immediate entrance for people from cuba will also say the same for nicaragua and venezuela because the issue is the same. these people are fleeing communism. but brianna, there s a larger issue here. we need to deal with the border, but the problem is the debate about immigration has become so emotional and so political, we re forgetting about legal immigration and the need we have in this country for workers. at all levels.