what do you make of what's happening. look at what's happening in nebraska and south carolina, where these state legislatures are coming up with really strict things, and in certain states, we're seeing a lawmaker, an 80-year-old man who was saying it was way too soon when it came to six weeks, because a lot of people don't know they're pregnant by then. >> i think the republican party will rue the day when they latched on to these and these draconian laws that are being passed in the state legislature, particularly across the south, i think that this is not only going to become a social issue, motivating pro-choice women, but it's going to be an economic issue. we're already seeing companies saying, we are not going to stay in states that don't respect women. and frankly, states like illinois, cities like chicago, we're going to welcome those people. this is a value statement issue that i think is going to animate the discussion, not only in the next election cycle, but for years to come, where companies are making decisions about where they go, kids are making decisions about where they go to college, on the basis of, what

is state's practices, particularly when it comes to respecting bodily autonomy of women. >> is there a company that has called you? >> i won't name them by name, but, yes, absolutely. we're out there aggressively pursuing those companies. >> yeah. well, it is something that is going to be an issue going forward. obviously, we've been talking about it with every 2024 hopeful. thank you both for joining us. that was a really robust discussion. >> enjoy a little break, okay? >> i will. >> after two weeks from now. >> love it. >> exactly. >> all right. cnn this morning continues right now. that's what we need from the public, that kind of information. right now, we're just, we're running into dead ends. >> do you all believe that the suspect is still in the area? >> we do not know. like i said, we have -- right now, we have zero leads. >> very scary answer. good morning, everyone. we do begin there. the fbi asking the public for help this morning, as a manhunt continues for a gunman accused

of killing five neighbors, including a 9-year-old boy in texas. >> we're also going to take you live to paris this morning, as nationwide protests are sweeping france. it is the country's labor day, as unions are rallying around the government's decision to raise that retirement age from 62 to 64. >> and breaking overnight, first republic bank has become the third major bank to fail since just march. we're waiting to see how wall street reacts when the markets open. "cnn this morning" starts right now. we begin in texas. authorities offering $80,000 in reward money on information on the gunman accused of killing five people, including a 9-year-old boy. more than 200 officers searching right now for francisco oropeza. they say he's armed and dangerous and right now don't have any leads. they're running into dead ends. one man whose wife and son were both killed is speaking out.

>> translator: that was my 9-year-old son and my wife, too. and two people who died protected my 9-year-old daughter. my 1 1/2 mo-month-old son was protected with a lot of clothes so the killer wouldn't kill him, too. >> unimaginable grief. let's go to our ed lavendera. he's live in cleveland, texas, too. no answer for grieving parents. >> reporter: that was excruciating to watch. wilson garcia described that to us yesterday afternoon, that scene. this is the driveway that leads up to the suspect's house. the house where the families were gathered on friday night, is the one you see there in distance. but right now, the focus is on this manhunt for 38-year-old francisco oropeza. as you heard there, in the

lead-in, fbi officials saying that at this point, they have no leads. there's a collection of reward money that is now being offered in the hopes that that will generate some sort of leads. $80,000 in all. we have not heard any updates if that reward announcement has generated any possible leads. investigators say at this point, they believe the suspect could be anywhere. they lost his track on him saturday night, where they found clothes and the cell phone that he had been using. investigators say they believe that he had been communicating with some friends, but that didn't lead them to his whereabouts. yesterday, as the governor of texas was announcing this reward money, he went out of his way to describe the five victims as legal immigrants. that has forced the government to be under some pretty intense criticism for using that kind of language in this kind of tragic situation. and the sheriff here in san jacinto county says he doesn't care what the immigration status

is of the victims, he's just incredibly hurt by what has happened here. >> i don't care if he was here legally or illegally. he was in my county, five people died in my county. that is where my heart is. in my county, protecting my people to the best of our abi ability. >> so more than 200 law enforcement officers in this area conducting this search, which has now gone beyond 48 hours, poppy. investigators are hoping that this reward money starts to generate some leads as to where he might be. but it is still stunning to see that after this amount of time, that there still doesn't be any

clear picture on where he might be at this point. >> and they believe he's armed and dangerous, so people are all on edge. ed, thank you for the reporting. it's a tragic story. also, on the international front, another round of protests are underway this morning in france. they are largely over that controversial pension reform that was signed into law three weeks ago by the french president. it raised the retirement age from 62 to 64. cnn correspondent melissa bell is live in paris. melissa, we were checking in with you last hour. clearly the number of people behind you has grown. what are you seeing? >> that's right. and what we're seeing is a very diverse group of people, kaitlan. they've come out here to protest for a number of different reasons. not just the pension reform that we've seen at the heart of so many of those protests over the course of the last few weeks, but out here, there are people representing specific causes, kurds, for instance, other people from around the world representing their causes. a lot of people fighting for -- against climate change. of course, at the heart of this

is very much an anti-capitalist feel. that's what you'll see. the first of may, traditionally a day of protests for the left across europe. what authorities near france expect today, kaitlan, is that this is likely to be one of the biggest first of may protests that we've seen, simply because what we've been covering here for the last few weeks, those pension reform protests. the latest on that is that that raising of retirement age from 62 to 64 is going ahead. it is going to become law. but that has dimmed the enthusiasm of the unions for coming out on the street and continuing to cause as much trouble as they can. that's what's going to be at the heart of these protests again today. authorities say they expect about 500 to 6,000 people out on the streets. the unions are hoping for much more than that. there are, kaitlan, 12,000 police officers out on the streets to try to keep things in order, because authorities fear that once again we're going see violence. what they say is they figure that there are about a thousand to 2,000 people determined on causing violence today. >> we'll keep an eye on it. melissa bell in paris, thank

you. breaking this morning, first republic bank has failed. it has become the second largest bank failure in u.s. history. regulators have seized the bank and structured a rescue deal with jpmorgan chase to buy most of its assets for $10.6 billion. in a statement, jpmorgan chase's ceo jamie dimon says our government invited us and others to step up and we did. first republic is now the third major bank to fail since just march, as america's banking crisis flares again. we're keeping a close eye on the markets ahead of the open here. our chief business correspondent, christine romans is with us, and you were just on the call that jpmorgan had that began just a few moments ago. what do we need to know? >> jamie dimon saying to the reporters on this call, this helps stabilize the system and that's a good thing. jpmorgan coming in and buying this panic out of receivership. the fdic had to go in and take it over this weekend. and so what will happen here next is anybody who is a customer of first republic can go to your bank today. you can do your banking

digitalally, online, hour you no normally do it, but it's a jpmorgan property now. and they'll try to integrate this property with their wealth management division. it has some valuable -- this is a bank -- first republic was a bank that you saw the stock just collapse over the past few weeks, but it's a bank that caters to wealthier clientele on both coasts. they'll fold that into jpmorgan's wealth management division. and about job losses, the cfo of the company, of jpmorgan saying, look, they hire 10,000 people every year at jpmorgan. they're hoping that there'll be opportunities to allow those people who work at first republic. >> did they say anything else on the call? >> they just got started. basically, they're talking about what it means for -- there were a lot of bidders over the weekend, you know, so that the government took the bank into receivership, and there were a lot of interested parties. and that it will be, it will add to their earnings. jpmorgan says it will add a little bit to their earnings right away. they'll have to take $2 billion in restructuring costs and the like. but it's just putting to bed what was a weak point in the

banking system. and, you know, wiit's unclear i there will be more bank failures or more bank stress. the fed is likely to raise interest rates this week. it's higher interest rates that have revealed some of the problems for so many of these banks. i think a lot of people are breathing a sigh of relief. there was one interesting question about the $30 billion that the 11 big banks injected into first republic. the question was, why did that not work? and the cfo said, it did work. it bought a lot of time and it allowed this bank to stay afloat while a different option was found, which was, of course, taking it into receivership and selling it to jpmorgan. >> we'll let you get back on that call and finish your reporting. christine romans, thank you very much. >> we want to continue to talk about this. let's bring in former assistant secretary for economic policy at the treasury department, ben harris, who is also the chief economist to joe biden when he was vice president. so a great person to talk with about this morning, because we know treasury officials have been in touch with regular ura

about what this was going to look like. what's your sense of what happens now? i was talking to a top house republican who say, they basically saw this as unfinished business from svb. >> i think that's a fair characterization. here we are, 8:00 a.m. eastern this morning, and there's a lot to digest with this deal, but i think there are sort of two key takeaways. the first is that the resolution was largely what markets expected. we didn't know there would be jpmorgan buying, but there are a lot of bidders, and eventually we got very well established bank, obviously, taking the bank over from the fdic, which is exactly how the system is supposed to work. and the second point is that this really feels, and this could obviously change, it really feels like the stress is unique to these three banks that have failed. and it doesn't look, here we are, you know, the first day of may, it doesn't look like this will seep out into the rest of the financial system. so it does look like everything is pretty strong as of today. >> but ben, let me ask you this. i thought it was interesting that ro khanna, congressman from

california, you have two california-based banks that have failed since march, said yesterday morning that, look, the reality is, in our economy, you have $8 trillion in uninsured deposits. meaning they're above that $250,000 fdic threshold. and he said, until we get -- until we guarantee those deposits, you run the risk of more bank failures. do you think he has a point? >> so i think that if you read the report that michael barr released last week -- >> yeah, i did. >> -- it's clear that not everything is working the way it's supposed to. there was breakdown in supervision. there was breakdown obviously in management by these banks, which were not taking the best action when it came to rising interest rates. the specific question you're talking about, as far as what to do about uninsured deposits is a really interesting policy, question right now. you know, i do think that congress will probably revisit that quoefr time. you know, they may raise the cap, they may insure a portion

of deposits well above that up to some limit, but that's something we've worked out over time. and this particular congress doesn't feel like it's going to come together with any sort of fundamental reform of the financial system anytime soon. >> doing unlimited would be a race to the bottom with no discipline. the other contact is what this looks like with jpmorgan. they just got bigger with this. is this going to increase scrutiny from progressives in your view? >> proifgressives are already unhappy about the size of jpmorgan. look, i think you had to put out this fire right away. and it does feel like a very reasonable resolution to me. but i think that those that are concerned about concentration in the financial sector, concentration in banks, are going to take a hard look at what happened this morning and probably criticize it. >> ben harris, thanks so much for that perspective on this. >> thank you. all right. this just in, former president trump asking the judge to declare a mistrial in the civil battery and defamation trial

that he's facing from e. jean carroll. trump claims the judge made a, quote, perpervasive, and prejudicial ruling. he's talking about previous ruling against him. defense attorney joe tacopina says the judge has mischaracterized facts of the case and improperly shut down certain lines of questioning. it would be unusual, we should note, for the judge to declare a mistrial based on his own statements. e. jean carroll is suing trump, claiming that he raped her in a department store in the mid-90s, and defamed her when he kept denying her claim. trump has denied any wrongdoing. we'll keep you posted. also, soon house speaker kevin mccarthy will address israel's parliament. it's his first trip abroad as speaker. he made a comment that the white house will be responding to and we're live in jerusalem next. despite no evidence, some republicans like the my pillow ceo mike lindell still pedaling the lie that the 2020 and 2022 elections were stolen. >> kari lake, mark bencham,

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>> they all lost -- >> no, all of them won! every one of them was stole with the computer. and we can show you that. >> the majority of americans believe the 2020 election was not stolen and machines were not the problem. the majority of americans find that -- >> who -- where do you find this fact. who gives you them? where are you getting your facts? because don't spew a lie -- >> that's not a lie. >> true, it's a fact. joining us now is that other voice you heard, "new york times" reporter conducting the interview with lindell and stead herndon. where to begin? what was most illuminating. what did that tell you? >> i -- we really started this process because of how we started our podcast. we were originally at the point in the rnc, and we saw rana mcdaniel really come on and really embrace mike lindell. the chairwoman of the rnc. and he kept popping up with all of these different republican events. and he was doing so, not only with a hoard of fans around him,

but continuing to push that election conspiracy, not just denying the results, but actually acting as a voting machines had been coopted by globalists, by the ccp, others, he popped up in that defamation lawsuit against fox news. and this is someone who has engrained power throughout his own business, throughout his own fame, and i'm using that in terms of advertising and fox. we wanted to push him on that. we knew his beliefs, but how was he using those beliefs to really spread that conspiracy? because as we know, election denial was a losing issue for republicans in the midterms. it was an issue they were supposed to be moving on from, looking ahead to 2024. but that cannot be possible as the chairwoman of the rnc was bringing lindell on. and someone who knows that he needs that credibility. what stood out most to me is he was very consciously using his fame and money to gain credibility from the establishment corners of the republican party. and he knew that would engrain his conspiracy even further. this was an active effort for him, not a passive one.

>> you spent three hours with him. did you expect this to be a three-hour interview when you went into this? >> no, we expected it to be 45 minutes. we had a script of questions, but the way that he talks, infusing every portion of his life, infusing every mention of his book, going back to those conspiracies over and over, to get those answers, it required that amount of time. >> how did you finally have to wrap it up? >> we actually ended up wrapping it up -- he told us stories about prince in minnesota, he told us kind of all of these fabulous stories about his life. and we wanted to sift through that noise, because it's still someone who is really using that power to do something dangerous to democracy. this is not something that i think people should dismiss as a past issue. this is something that has taken on new life in the republican party. and that's because even among the base, there's a sense that this grievance is a valid one. that the election is another piece of the kind of culture war, that has been stolen from them. and that that's what he has really playing on. and that's what i was important.

it was also important for us to pair it with talking to the gop chairwoman after that, to come to rana mcdaniel and say, mike lindell is saying this. and she was not stepping away from that. >> what was she saying? for people who haven't listened yet? >> she was saying that mike will lindell had a place in the republican party. that she did not agree fully with his conspiracy, but also did not fully deny fraud claims either. this is someone who did not take the opportunity to step away from lindell when we were doing that interview. and we were really talking -- >> and he challenged her for her job. >> he challenged her for her job. this just speaks to the level of that conspiracy is engrained with him, as a figure is engrained to the party. we were doing it to try to show the coindependent relationship between the grassroots version of republicans and the establishment. they need each other right now. and they both know that. and so you've both have lindell seeking out rana mcdaniel to give him credibility, but you have rana mcdaniel who knows she

needs the people who like mike lindell and was not willing to step away from them. they're happened in hand right now, even though they're trying to move on from the most explicit versions of his conspiracy. >> i want to hear the prince story in the commercial. >> on top of all of this, he has been ordered to pay $5 million because he said they couldn't prove him wrong on election fraud and they proved him wrong and now he won't pay. >> this is someone who is trying to push those type of conspiracies. >> astead, three hours! i want the uncut version. >> do you? do you? >> i don't know. astead, thank you so much. also, tracking this nationally. over the last four years, there has been a decline in high school graduates who are deciding to go college. it's a new trend. harry enten crunched the numbers. he's here in a moment with that analysis. >> and willie nelson celebrating his 90th birthday in style, singing the classic "roll me up" with snoop dogg. how fitting. ♪

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new this morning, a u.s. navy ship has now safely evacuated a hundred americans from war-torn sudan. you can see some of the images here to saudi arabia over the weekend. the u.s. government launched two convoys of buses to get citizens out of the country amid concerns about their safety. "the new york times" is reporting this morning that armed american drones flew overhead and guarded the convoys as they made that 525 mile journey to the red sea. larry madowo is at a sea port where americans are being processed. larry, you have been doing great work processing this all weekend. what are you seeing and hearing about this journey and just how dangerous it was. >> we're seeing the final stages of what happens men the americans get over here to the port of jeda, and then they are processed. so many of them have their passports ss stamped here. they were received by a big u.s.

k embassy team including the console general. if anybody is sick, they have medical attention. and there were 105 american citizens on that ship. but there's more, because some of them are legal permanent residents. the u.s. naval ship brunswick is the first u.s. military ship to do this trip across the red sea. there's likely going to be more, because there are still americans who are in sudan, waiting for a way to get out of there. and i met this one family that talks about the difficulty of living through war zone with little kids. wa watch. >> i started feeling like, is that thunder or something? >> and after the first week of the shooting, he starts to -- >> all right, you take that and i'll use this, yes. aren't you grateful that they're so young that they don't fully understand what's going on? >> yes, like -- it was hard for them, because until now when they hear any sound, they keep asking me, is that shooting? is there any bomb? we have to go under the bed or in the corridor, like that?

i was feeling so sorry about them for that. >> so many kids have been through this. and that's the innocence, right? i see this little kid over there moving around with a suitcase and enjoying that moment. the innocence of it all, it's a dangerous journey. the journey from port sudan to jeddah is 10 to 12 hours. it's not easy. they get sea sick, they get bored, sometimes they don't have any entertainment, and yet that's the only way out to safety. >> it is amazing to see these little kids. you should larry, you've been doing great work. today, may 1st marks college decision day. the pressure is on for high school seniors. over the last few years, undergrad college enrollment has dropped nationwide. our senior data reporter harry

enten is here with this morning's number. is it because it is so darned expensive? >> i think that certainly has something to do with it. people trying to save money. and let's just sort of get into this, okay? new high school grads going to college. it's down four points from 66% for new high school grads in 2019 to 62 f% for new high scho grads in 2022. but it's interesting when you look at the split of what's going on. this is the new high school grads going to a four-year college. that has stayed mostly steady from 2019 to 2022. new high school grads, 45% of them are going to a four-year college in 2022. there was some dip during the covid pandemic, but it's come back up. where it has not come back up is two-year colleges. back in 2019, 22% of new high school grads were going to two-year colleges. now that is just 17% that are going to two-year colleges. and this is part of a allong trd line, poppy. back in 2012, 29% of new high school grads were going to

two-year colleges. now, why? because of a constant strong job market that makes that degree less desirable. >> i also wonder how chatgpt and everything changes all of this. when like your whole job and everything is going to change. there are places where we're seeing an increase in enrollment, though? >> we are. so trade schools. trade schools. look at this, the change from 2021 to 2022. up 19% in construction. culinary, up 13%. mechanics, up 12%. but on the other end, right -- so this is about getting more money, right? you want to get more money, you enter these professions. also about getting more money, look at the ivy league acceptance rates. across the five schools that released the data, in 2020, the acceptance rate was 6.6%. look at 2023, now just 4.6%. it's interesting. you have the trade schools on one end and the ivy league schools on the other, which are becoming more desirable. >> a lot of thoughts, there are so many great colleges out there. it's what you do with the opportunity. >> that's exactly right. my mother went to city and state

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the clock is ticking right to avoid a hollywood writer's strike for the first time since 2007, in an industry increasingly dominated by streaming, writers are demanding changes to the way that they're congressm compensated. nearly 98% of the writer's guild union members have voted to go on strike. that would bring production on film and television shows to a standstill. let's talk about that and a whole lot more, about his new show, "white house plumbers," premieres today on hbo and hbo max is the show's executive producer and director, david mandell. great to have you, good morning.

the show is phenomenal. we had judy grier on a few weeks ago. i have loved what i've seen of it in the sneak clips that i got. but let's start on the writer's strike. is it going to happen, and if it does, what does it mean? >> i, unfortunately, think it's going to happen. i am part of the 98% that voted for it. i'm the director of "white house plumbers," but i'm a writer during the rest of my time in life. and it just, unfortunately, we have a situation where too many writers, certainly that i know, my contemporaries, guys in their 50s, women in their 50s who all of a sudden, even though this is supposed to be peak television, are not making a living. like, are worrying about how they're going to like pay their mortgage and stuff. and that just seems insane. and unfortunately, i didn't tell these big companies who are crying poverty to make some of these deals they did, to go all in on streaming. i was not consulted on that. so i'm not quite sure why writers should pay for it.

so, anyway, i think, unfortunately, it's going to happen. >> so you do think it's going to happen? we'll continue to track that, and of course, what is at stake there. we also want to talk about your new show, "white house plumbers," it's out today. it's about watergate, which i think so many people feel like they know what happened, but this is from the perspective of those that orchestrated it. i want to show our audience a clip of what to expect. >> i have to say, fellas, i'm impressed. you should have seen this guy operate. it's the cleaning lady that let us in. e ergo, 100% legal. and they can't identify us. >> and the best part, when she leaves at night, she doesn't even lock the back door. >> slip in, get into the filing cabinet, get out. >> without anybody knowing. textbook black op. >> i'm going to run your black bag op biery errlickman, but i

think he is going to like it. great work. >> plumbers? >> we fix leaks. >> i think everybody prefers odessa. >> no, plumbers is better. pretty clever. >> okay, dave, the show is funny, but it's -- you don't see it as a comedy, because this is real and it actually happened, and there are implications for today's politics even. >> yeah, i kind of called it all through production a really funny tragedy. because it's absolutely horrible. these were -- these were people under assignment from the president of the united states working to subvert the will of the american people, to break laws. and yet, sometimes the way they went about it, the very guise they were, their sheer desperation to get it accomplished was funny. you can't help but laugh, even though they aren't jokes. we're not writing jokes.

it's just actually happening the way it happened. and it's unbelievable. so, like i said, a very funny tragedy. >> sort of goes to that, you can't make this stuff up. frank rich, who is also an executive producer, called it a slapstick tragedy. and we had judy grier on, who told us the timing is sort of perfect right now. do you agree? >> yeah, you know, it's one of these very funny things, when we set out to make this show, it seemed relevant. it seemed important. obviously, we've been through a couple of almost impeachments and stuff. and now, here we are, just a couple of weeks after a former president of the united states is indicted in a courtroom in new york city. you sort of -- you can't plan these things, but the issues of watergate are the same issues we're facing today. we have a president sort of overreaching in the name of power. you have guys like sort of the michael cohens of the world, who

are such true believers, that they're willing to put themselves out there for a president, for a closeness to power. and yet, at the end of the day, these are the first guys that get tossed to the side and go to jail. so i think this will give us -- i think "white house plumbers" will give us a lens to kind of see what's going on today. sort of, there's a real connection between watergate and right now. so that's my hope. >> you had a premiere of the show in washington. bob woodward was there. and i know the two of you spoke after. what did he say to you about it? >> i mean, first of all, let me just say, it was so scary, because basically, you're having mr. watergate watch your watergate show. which i do not recommend. but, so i was very nervous, but afterwards, he was fantastic. i certainly never want to put words in his mouth or dare i say, ever misquote him, but he said that we captured the sort of clown show aspect of these

guys and how dangerous they were and yet how often, like, weird and funny they were at the same time. and that made me very happy, needless to say. >> it's a fantastic show. david mendel, thanks so much. >> oh, thank you. >> congrats, dave. >> thank you. >> it's great. it's really funny. also this morning, the city of el paso under a state of emergency as the mayor there says he has made a declaration in anticipation of the unknown consequences of title 42. it's expiring next week. that's that border policy at the center of debate in washington. we'll ask what he's expecting. ♪ it's our turn now we'll make it up again. ♪ ♪ we'll build freelelance teams with more agility. ♪ ♪ the old way of workrking is deader than me. ♪ ♪ we'll scale up, and we'll scale down ♪ ♪ before you're six feet underground. ♪

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and the unknown is what will happen after may 11th. >> may 11th, of course, is when title 42 is going to expire. that's that immigration authority, that was in place because of the covid-19 pandemic. border authorities now predicting a surge of migrants after that. the pandemic-era restriction allowed the u.s. to quickly expel certain migrants into mexico or back to their home countries. joining us now is el paso mayor, oscar lisa. mayor, thank you so much for being here this morning. you see this up close and personal in a way that very few others do. what are your concerns about what may 12th is going to look like. >> well, i got the opportunity to spend about four hours on friday and kind of looked and see what is happening over there. we went over there and we looked. and other shelters are fairly empty, but the streets have a lot of asylum seekers on the streets. we figure that's about 10 to 12,000 getting ready to come in on may 12th. our biggest concern is after talking to some of the asylum

seekers that have come in, that they're under the impression that after may 12th, they will have asylum into our country and we're trying to explain to them that that's not true. our border is not open today. our borders will not be open on may 12th. so -- but they're coming across, we have quite a few already out in el paso in the streets, and trying to talk to them. and when we talk to them, they tell us that they're waiting for may 12th, so they continue on to the next destination. they're not coming to el paso. they're actually coming to the united states. >> remarkable, you crossed the border, you went and you spoke with them yourself. what did they say to you, that is not what happens on may 12th. it doesn't mean that the border is open. >> that's not what they've been told, and that's really a big problem for the united states, because as they're coming through the country, coming to the united states, they're told that after may 12th, they'll have political asylum and they'll be able to come in. that's created a big challenge for us and that's what we're working on. we're working with the federal

government and we've had some conversations where we're trying to relay the message back into mexico as they're trying to come across. >> do you think the federal government is doing a good enough job getting that message across? >> we just started doing that. they have the registration areas all over the country and we'll continue to work with them to make sure that message is coming across. but as we see thousands of people already in the streets of el paso, our job is to make sure that we keep them off the streets and make sure that we protect our asylum seekers, but also the community as we're moving forward. so we're opening up the state of emergency, which i've declared effective at midnight this morning to make sure that we open up temporary sheltering for all of the asylum seekers to make sure that we have no one on the streets. we don't want children to be exploited and we don't want to create a bigger problem, not only for el paso, but for the country as a whole. >> and i believe that state of emergency is set to go into effect for about seven days. do you think you'll have to

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house speaker kevin mccarthy is about to address israel's parliament. he's the first speaker to do that since newt gingrich in 1998. just hours ago, the speaker had a private meeting with benjamin netanyahu. mccarthy has vowed to invite netanyahu to washington, if president biden doesn't. netanyahu spoke with our fareed zakaria about u.s./israeli relations on sunday. listen to this. >> i don't know of many countries that have, within a few days, the leaders, the democratic and republican leaders of both sides of the

aisle coming to jerusalem. so i'm confident about the strength of our alliance. yes, president biden did say that he had hoped that we would have a consensus, seeking a consensus here on judicial reform. it's an internal matter, but i happen to agree with him. and that's what we're trying to do right now. >> hadas gold joins us at the knesset. that is israel's parliament. obviously, really significant that he's here. first time we've seen something like this since gingrich. is there an indication on what he's going to say? what the focus is going to be? >> mccarthy just walked through this honor guard behind me. any second now, we're expecting the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu to walk through this honor guard to the parliament where kevin mccarthy, as you noted, will become the second speaker in israeli history to address the israeli parliament. we've all got a bit of a preview of what that speech will be like in some of the comments he's made so far. saying this is his first trip abroad as speaker and there's a reason for that.

he wants to make it clear that the united states has no greater alley than israel. it's a much different sort of tone of voice than what we've heard from the biden admini administration, of course. joe biden and i believe president benjamin netanyahu just walked by behind me towards the parliamentary floor. but kevin mccarthy essentially taking a different tone. if you remember, president biden saying that benjamin netanyahu will not be getting an invite to washington anytime soon this. this has to do with the controversy that benjamin netanyahu's trying to push through. he wants to show that the u.s. has no greater. saying that in the united states, they admire his courage and leadership. he's establishing himself as different than joe biden, saying if joe biden does not invite benjamin netanyahu to the white house soon, he will do so, that he will invite benjamin netanyahu to address the u.s.

cong >> really significant day for israel and the united states. thanks for being there. as we wait for more updates out of israel, the so-called grandfather of artificial intelligence has lost his job. jeffrey hinton left goog where will he worked more than a decade. of course he is a pioneer in artificial intelligence. everyone in the business knows him. in 2012, he and two of his graduate students created the technology for the current ai systems like chat gt. hinting he left google so he could speak about the risk of ai.

i thought it was 30 to 50 years or longer away. obviously, i no longer think that. hinton is concerned that the internet will be flooded with fake pictures, videos, text, and the average person won't know what's real and what's not. he's worried technologies will take over human jobs-he said, "i don't think they should scale this up more until they understand whether or not they can control it." a warning statement for him. we'll talk with people who signed letters about that. >> that's an interview you want with him as well. >> something you're hearing from elon musk and -- >> stephen hawking has warned about it, bill gates. where does this go? >> big question. >> much more on that tomorrow. we're glad you're with us. "cnn news central" is now.