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house. and republican tensions hit new heights. house speaker kevin mccarthy accusing hard-liners in his own party of wanting to burn the place down as they deal him another blow in his fight to prevent a government shutdown. and hope in hollywood. make our break moment between big studios and writers. these stories all coming in to "cnn news central." president biden is now responding to growing pressure at the border as a new surge is under way. cnn just learned there were 8,600 arrests in the last 24 hours throughout the southwest portion. now president biden is sending another 800 troops to that region as he also addresses concerns miles to the north. new york state officials pleading for his help saying their facilities are overwhelmed
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with asylum seekers. in response the president is opening up work permits to hundreds of thousands more migrants. we begin the hour in eagle pass, texas. the border town declaring a state of emergency because of the surge. cnn's ed lavandera is there not far from the river and, ed, take us there. what's going on behind you? >> reporter: well, this scene continues to unfold here in eagle pass. the group of people, this large group of at least 100 people or so just moments ago crossed underneath all of this constantina wire and turned themselves into authorities pup see this unfolding now. the process starting to change a little bit, because now the mayor here in eagle pass just told me a little while ago he has assigned a -- an affidavit, partnership, if you will, with state authorities to arrest people who cross illegal on to private property. all the migrants behind me that you see are now, from what we
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understand at this moment, processed and arrested on trespassing charges by state authorities. we've been told by federal and state officials here in the last 30 minutes or so is that they are separating the migrants into single men and single women arrested on state charges. all of these people you see behind me. many of these migrants i've spoken with say they're from venezuela, this large group. where the troopers are standing, the family groups are taken over to border patrol processing. being separated at this point. this has been a bit of a controversial and contentious issue in terms of arresting migrants on these trespassing charges but once again beginning to unfold here on the banks of the river. many of these people and these migrants, i've been speaking with them and asking them why they're choosing to cross this way, given the stiffer penalties for people who cross illegally. they say to a person, all of them, boris, tell us us waiting
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for months and months to get through the legal channel of applying through what's known as the cbp for an appointment. waiting for months and months on the mexican side and are tired of waiting and have chose ton cross over in large groups seeing un23fold here at eagle ps the last few days. the sheriff said over 3,000 crossed yesterday. 2,700's day before. not sure if we'll reach those numbers again today, but clearly, large numbers of migrants once again crossing the river in eagle pass once again and officials say they're simply overwhelmed trying to handle off the people arrives here in this small border town. boris? >> walk us through what the process is like after this? where do many of these migrants end up going? >> reporter: well, the ones you see behind me, boris from what
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we've been told, exactly how this plays out in the next couple hours, it isn't exactly clear. best we can tell at this point, they wills processed, facing state trespassing charges and essentially put through traditional u.s. and texas court system. that, i mentioned, has been very controversial over the last few months, and then those other family units are, the family units you see over there sitting behind a car beyond where the troopers are, those folks will be turned over to border patrol and processed as well. it will take days and days for many of these people either to be deported or released from custody. it's not exactly clear where eventually these people will end up, but for the time being, they will be processed through the various state and federal systems here, and where they end up if they end up getting paperwork they need to present their asylum case in the u.s. it will take some days to really kind of get a clear answer where
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exactly all of these people will end up. >> edlavandera. thanks very much. walk us through work permits and what the biden administration is trying to accomplish with the expansion? >> reporter: boris, picking up on your conversation with ed, a lot of venezuelans go into the united states going through immigration court proceedings. many seeking asylum from a country that has been undergoing political and economic turmoil. many of them went to the state of new york. over the last few weeks we've been covering tensions between new york city mayor eric adams and the white house over work permits, making sure these people can work as, again, they go through the immigration court proceedings. the big announcement yesterday evening. that the white house is expanding what's called a temporary protective status to make 472,000 venezuelans already
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in the united states eligible for work permits as well as giving them deportation protections. this is significant. the largest expansion of this status that we have seen to date, and it is indicative of the challenges this administration faces with this particular population. given the frosty relations between the united states and ven swale ezuela it's hartd to them back to venezuela. those here, potential to work, relieving pressures in some of these northeastern cities and interior cities elsewhere in the united states, to be clear, boris, this only applies to those who were residing in the u.s. on or before july 31st. those people you saw crossing there behind ed would not be eligible for this status. >> thank you so much for details. brianna. now to washington where ukraine president volodymyr zelenskyy is pleading for more help in the face of more deadly
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russian strikes. here in about an hour meeting with president biden at the white house, but this morning he was meeting with lawmakers on capitol hill. it's a much different place for him than it was the last time that he visited in march of last year. this time republicans are in control of the house of representatives. the speaker is skeptical of sending more aid to kyiv, and some gop hard-liners are willing to shut down washington over it. let's get to cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond. jeremy, zelenskyy has a much more receptive audience than president biden than with speaker mccarthy for sure. what do we expect out of that meeting? >> reporter: expecting frob announce a fresh package of military aid for ukraine using drowndown authority used time and again to provide ukraine with additional weaponry and financial military support. this latest package includes air capabilities, artillery, anti-armor and anti-aircraft
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capabilities. it will not, however, include attack guns. long-range missile systems that the ukrainian president has been asking washington for. that is despite those requests from president zelenskyy and zelenskyy's impassioned pleas to washington for that very system. that being said, the national security advisor jake sullivan said that president biden ultimately decided not to provide those systems at this very moment, after assessing ukraine's battlefield needs as well as the united states own needs for its defense, but he made clear that this system is not off the table, and we have seen, brianna, time and again, the biden administration saying, no initially to certain requests from the ukrainians for specific military hardware and ultimately acceding to demands later down the road. this moment, though, this meeting between president zelenskyy and president biden comes at really a critical moment. not only on the battlefield in ukraine as ukraine continues to push its counteroffensive to retake territory that russia
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took during its invasion last year, but also comes at a critical moment here in washington. the biden administration has asked for $24 billion of additional financial support for ukraine from congress, but zelenskyy is coming to washington now at a moment that is very different from the one where he, very different backdrop than the one he faced when here last december. that is in particular because republicans are in charge of the house and we have seen this skepticism from kevin mccarthy and a number of house republicans about providing additional aid, despite that the national security advisor jake sullivan expressed optimism that congress will indeed appropriate those funds. we will see exactly how that happens, because for now seems like an uphill battle both the president and president zelenskyy are facing together. bree non? >> certainly does. jeremy diamond, thank you so much for that report. let's go down the road now. kind of up the road to capitol hill. cnn's manu raju is. we've heard republicans today, senator mitch mcconnell echoing
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biden's case for backing ukraine. of course, this is an uphill battle we heard jeremy describe. how do they get to that point they need to in order to fully fund ukraine as they want? >> reporter: a major question here on capitol hill. uncertainty about that $24 billion aid package, despite the plea from president zelenskyy, behind closed doors, meeting with senators today. i'm told from attendees in the room what zelenskyy said, he said "you give money. we give lives." one of the messages today he said. also that if the money dries up from the united states, it could have a cascading effect. european countries could follow suit and he warned ukraine could fall to russia if the u.s. backs away. all coming as a major debate is playing out on the hill whether to provide that money this month as part of a bill to keep the government open by aucoctober 1. no final decision made how to deal with that, but a debate particularly happening on the
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republican side-of-th of the ai. a large number of support among republicans and opposition among house republicans. but a faction of senator republicans. josh hawley, sharply critical providing more aid to ukraine arguing not in the u.s. interests. >> totally wrong. how about this and so many other things. number one, we've spent $115 billion on ukraine. what i heard last night from the administration, that may be it is just the very beginning, manu. they wants $25 billion more now and more later. no end in sight. told it could go on for years. another forever war. >> honestly i don't think you can get josh haul toy change his opinion. why waste the time. go to those who will support it and see what we can get on the house side. >> reporter: the house side is the major question at the
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moment, because speaker mccarthy decided not to have any public photo op with volodymyr zelenskyy today. in fact, he was only seen behind closed doors, pictures obtained by colleague's cnn andy grier got pictures behind closed doors. not a public meeting and denied a joint meeting of congress for zelenskyy to speak to unlike in the democratic-controlled congress. all raising major questions here, brianna, about exactly how the speaker will deal with this. he has made no guarantees that he will move forward on this aid package. certainly not as part of the bill to keep the government open but do it later in the fall? simply he will not say facing pressure on his right flank not to move ahead. brianna? >> interesting moment that shows the shift in the republican party how they hearken to reaganism and his role, russia
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and gorbachev and now mccarthy not being publicly seen with president zelenskyy. stunning. thank you so much. be sure, to catch manu's debut, big debut, hosting the sunday edition of "inside politics." this sunday at 11:00 a.m. we will not be missing it, boris. >> you should tune in for that, manu is most likely going to be talking about the other big story on capitol hill that's unfolding. just nine days left to the avoid a potential government shutdown. the road blocks for house speaker kevin mccarthy are ample. a short time ago his own party blocked efforts to passing a defense spending rule highlighting fractures that could cost mccarthy his position as speaker. earlier this morning he vented frustrations in front of reporters. listen to the way he describes members of his own party. >> it's frustrating in the sense that i don't understand why
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anybody votes against bringing the idea of having the debate. then all of them that don't like the bill. a whole new concept of individuals that want to burn the whole place down. it doesn't work. i know it's an obstacle i find it as a challenge we're going to solve. >> so couldn't pass this rule for a defense spending bill, what does it mean for potential for a government shutdown? let's ask cnn's melanie live on capitol hill. >> reporter: yeah, back to the draws board again mohras they struggle to lead. the chairman's spending mountains try to figure out a path forward on funding bills. one of the things discussed making changes to that defense bill that went down on the floor a little bit ago. cutting ukraine assistance from that bill. it includes $300 million for ukraine security assistance
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initiative. money allocated to ukraine since 2014. it is different than the $24 billion aid package that hard-liners also are opposed to. even though that might win over hard-line critics, it's unclear if the rest of the party would go ago with that. still supportive of ukraine money especially on the day zelenskyy came and visited the hill pleading for more resources, but i think more broadly here, there is serious concerns and doubts about whether house republicans are going to be able to pass a broader bill to avoid a government shutdown in nine days from now. even though the house gop came up way plan and loaded it up with conservative goodies to try to get the right flank onboard, still there's a number of hard-liners opposed and don't have votes to proceed ahead with that bill to avoid a government shutdown. it's created a lot of frustration and tension inside the ranks. take a listen to mike lawler represents a biden swing district in new york.
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>> i think you have a handful of people who are choosing to be obstinate for one reason or another. some personal. the vast majority of republicans are here to do our jobs, and to govern. and we'll get there. you know, if we have to bring them kicking and screaming, but we'll get there. >> reporter: so kevin mccarthy has a choice whether he'll cater to the right flank, could be a dead end. that wouldn't avoid a shutdown with the senate or try to work with democrats, that could put his speakership at risk. not clear how they'll get out of this mess with days to go before the government funding deadline. >> congressman matt gaetz of florida saying negotiates with democrats by mccarthy is a political death warrant. we'll see. one day away from another deadline for a deal between the big three automakers and the union to avoid more walkouts. speaking to the president of an
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ohio chapter an negotiations next. meantime, striking hollywood writers and big studios could be nearing a deal. there was a critical meeting under way today. latest on that. plus following a major shift in the media industry. rupert murdoch announcing he's stel stepping down as chairman of fox corporation. you're watching "cnn news central." we'll be right back. imension? think again. flex any style... with hairspray that flexes withth you. new tresemmé hairsprpray. only unitedhealthcare medicare advantage plans come with the ucard — one simple member card that opens doors for what matters. how 'bout using it at the pharmacy? yes — your ucard is all you ne. (impressed) huh — that's easy the all--one ucard, only from unitedhealthcare. hello 12 hours of relief. 12 hours!! not coughing? hashtag still not coughing?!
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the nation's big three automakers facing increasing pressure under the threat of a union strike expanding. unite auto workers expected to call for more walkouts tomorrow afternoon if there's not significant progress on a new contract and so far workers striking at three factories. one for each automaker. 2,700 workers temporarily laid off at other facilities including 68 stellantis employees at a machine plant in perrysburg, ohio. joining me, tony tati. president of local 14 in toledo. tony, thanks for being with us again. we appreciate it.
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there is, i think, thinking that this is going to be very tough to meet this noon deadline tomorrow. is this looking like you're in for a bigger, longer, more painful strike and are union members ready for that? >> well, first of all, thank you for having me. i just left the strike line over at the jeep facility and spirits are high. hopefully we can get a breakthrough. you know, the president didn't say we had to have a deal by tomorrow. just said we need improvements at the table by tomorrow. hopefully the corporations can see it's in nobody's best interest to expand this or extend it. quicker we can come to a resolution is a quicker we can get back to making quality products. >> tony, these union workers striking are getting $100 a day of strike pay. right? how is that enough over the long haul? >> well, nobody's missed a check yet. right? it's $500 a week.
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nobody can live off that. you know? we're not professional strikers. we're professionals at what we do and that's build quality products for the consumers. the thing that we're having an issue with is, you have members working side-by-side, one making $15 an hour and the other one making $32. that goes years on end. especially at stellantis, that's just not right. look at ceo compensation, our ceo at general motors makes $29 million a year. 362 times the average worker, but when you look at the temporary worker, they're really exploiting, over 600 times what they're making. that's really what's at hand here. until they come up with a better solution to that problem we're going to stay out as long as it takes. >> yesterday gm idled about 2,000 em 3ployees in kansas. seeing a ripple effect from the targeted strikes.
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were you expecting that? >> yeah. it's a trickle down. i mean, we produced transmissions at our facility, and we provide the transmissions for winceville. that same facility caused fairfax to go down will impact our schedules and it's only a matter of time when that facility was taking 500 to 600 transmission as day. with us still producing transmissions at some point that's going to impact us as well. >> would it be sufficient enough to members of the uaw to see a sizable increase in hourly pay without having the autoouautoma get back into the business of let care and pensions? >> talking about for our retirees? you know, all of these things they're dealing with at the table. not just wages. our contract is broken ever since the restructuring in 2009.
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that's the two tier whole system that, you know, we gave up during the hard sometime times it was a thing. even the corporation at the time said when we get to a better time wee adjust this. we're at that better time. year after year of record profits. they're making record compensation. the stockholders are getting buybacks to take care of them and when it comes to us they say, can't afford that. yeah, you can, because you're a publicly traded company and we get to see what your profitability is. so i understand everybody's looking to say, well, how much is good enough for you? and we leave that to our negotiator, at the table, but it would be nice if the corporations get real and understand that this is just an adjustment they need to make to be right by their people that make them these profits. >> do you have concerns that doing some of that might end up with the automakers right back
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where they were leading to the bankruptcies we saw? >> right. and i understand that, and we care about that as well. you know, we don't want to kill our jobs, and we know that that would lead to that, but these corporations, when you look at stellantis. s ss 12ds billion first six months. general motors last year on pace for that again can't afford it. we don't want to put them back there, but what also got us into that situation was the housing market, credit crunch, that sought the industry as well as the corporations were doing a pretty bad job of running their business. they shuttle a lot of brands and we're in a healthier place. e were don't want to kill the companies. we know that their longevity is to our benefit. we don't want to jeopardize that, but we deserve a raise. we deserve some of these things back that we gave up. >> tony totty thank you for
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joining us again. appreciate it. >> thank you so much for having me. >> boris? still to come, that other strike we're following. are hollywood writers about to get the happy ending they've been pushing for? the latest on negotiations with big studios when we come back. we pioneered a technology which are 50 centimeter shexagos serving as home for corals to grow on. abu dhabi is the perfect location to come to because of a strong appetite for environmental solutions and a willingness to drive pioneers projects. am i a big deal? yeah you are, because it's big deal, when you get a big deal. wayfair deals soig that you might get a big head. because with savings so real...
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now to the writers strike and what may about new glimmer of hope in tinsel town. the second straight day striking writers are meeting with let's of four major studios. the person familiar with yesterday's talks tells cnn attendees left "feeling encouraged." standoff now dragged on more than 140 days and estimated
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costs are pushing towards $6 billion across multiple industries. joining us now, a cnn media analyst and senior media reporter for axios. sarah, negotiations under way with writers could have a big impact on content produced and could mean something for the actors' strike as well? >> absolutely. if they can get it done they can pivot attention to the other ongoing strike with the actors. the thing is nope today is a pivotal moment. writers and producers met first time yesterday in over a month as tensions were growing bigger. they restarted negotiations today. if we don't get a deal soon, it's likely this strike could go on towards maybe even end of the year. so if you think about what it's already done to all tv production, pushing shows out to 2024, imagine if it goes through end of the year? talking about award shows potentially pushed. more movies pushed into later
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2024. not only wreak havoc for a lot of hollywoodkys, consumers waiting for new shows to hit streaming services and linear tv networks. >> in terms of timing, if things play out really well in negotiations and the strike lifts, how soon these workers, these writers and actors, get back to production? >> a good question. depends. part of the reason it depends, you have actors strike still ongoing. some scripted television can't get bark to work until writers resume. talk shows, day time, writers no actors, probably get back to work right away. again, meeting held this morning at 9:00 a.m. pacific time. should be wrapping right now. we were supposed to get insight by around 2:00 p.m. but no word yet whether or not there's a deal. >> sara, while we have you, pivot to the other big media news being that rupert murdoch
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chairman of fox and news corp. is stepping down or taking on a new role. now chairman emeritus. do we anticipate he's still going to have his firngerprints on conservative media? >> we do. he said he will be "daily involved" even moving into this emeritus role. the other thing to keep in mind, sole chair of both companies his son lachlan who tends to have the same world view of rupert. he espoused today in his note to staff. the main question, what's the largest succession for rupert murdoch. steps out of the chairman role he's a 92-year-old executive. a large looming question what happens after he passes to his enpyre. >> a step back, you have to appreciate theability of influence he's had not only in cable news across the media landscape and in politics, too.
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>> absolutely. fox supported donald trump, critical to the 2016 election. you recall fox being the first to call the election in favor of joe biden in 2020. it has a huge implication of politics for the last two years. it's actually caused a huge rift between donald trump and the murdoch family. big picture, rupert murdoch populist, hard news outlets like the "wall street journal," for example, they produce hard editorial straight news but sections influential for republicans over the years. curious to see how this moves forward as he steps into a new role. >> sara fischer, great to get your perspective. thanks. >> thank you. still to come on "cnn news central," a 96-year-old federal judge gets benched. we'll explain why, just ahead.
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just in to cnn following breaking news out of orange county, new york, where there has been a deadly bus crash. want to get to cnn raul sandoval following the latest details. poo what are you hearing? >> reporter: based on what we've confirmed a significant, major bus crash that took place shortly after 1:00 p.m. as a result according to new york state police, one person dead. multiple injuries, we are told, by state police. in fact, several of them having to have had to be air evacuated from the scene there. we are working to get you also
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pictures and in those images you will eventually be able to see a bus on its side in a heavily wooded area just off of, about 16 mimes northwest of new york city where it took place in orange county, new york. you're able to see and will eventually see the bus on its side in that wooded area apparently careened into an embankment here as authorities are still at what is a very active scene. based on the preliminary information directly from new york state police, we now understand at least one person dead. multiple injuries and still a very fluid scene unfolding there in orange county after this major bus crash that took place shortly after 1:00 p.m. accordsing to authorities. that just to wrap things up here, boris, appears to be on interstate 84. a portion of that is shut down near exit 15a. back to you. >> staying on top of this story to bring you the latest details. polo sandoval thank you. the oldest judge in america has been barred from hearing any
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new cases over concerns that she can no longer do her job. judge pauline newman is 96 years old appointed by president ronald reagan nearly 40 years ago. senior supreme court analyst following the story. pretty unusual here. what can you tell us tab? >> highly unusual. especially the way it's playing out publicly. a lot of talk about age in public official. senators in 80s and 90s. presidential contenders age 80 and 77. a judge as you say is 96. what happened yesterday is that the judicial counsel in the federal circuit where she sits issued and order suspending her a year and they said they had been investigating her interviewing more than 20 people looking at her emails and found she is not able to do the job pointing to evidence of memory loss and confusion. one particular paragraph from the long report. with no rational reason other than frustration over her own
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confusion, judge newman threatened to have staff arrested forcibly removed from the building and fired. accusing staff of trickery, deceit, backing at her adversary stealing her computer and files depriving her secretarial support. this order yesterday, brianna, specifically arose from judge newman's refusal to take some medical evaluations. talked to herr l lawyer. okay somebody wants to investigate judge. don't have it done within her own circuit. the federal circuit right here in washington, d.c. specializes in patent cases. it's one of about a dozen u.s. appellate courts right below the supreme court. its appeals go up to the u.s. supreme court. a powerful court. her lawyer said was, you know, do this the proper way with due process of law. send it to another circuit. so judge newman is going to seek broader review of yesterday's order from a larger yjudicial
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conference and a case is pending in federal district court seeking to be restored to duties on the federal circuit. >> sounds like they're describing paranoid behavior and maybe behavior actually out of character for her. >> right. it's tough. you know, look, she's 96. there would naturally, we presumeship age issue us. she is saying herself and through her lawyers she's still competent to do the job and if not should not be assessed by league colleagues serving as complainers, judge and jury. should be done outside of the circuit. >> keep looking at this. very interesting. thank you. >> thank you. >> boris. we just got new information about the breaking news we brought to you a moment ago. the deadly bus crash in orange county, new york. looking at live photos now of what looks like a bus that careened off the side of a road and wound up in a wooded area. cnn's polo sandoval is back with
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us and new detail whose was onboard the bus. what can you tell us? >> yeah. boris, as we look at these images from our affiliate wabc we can confirm according to authorities that bus was carrying students from farmingdale high school on long island. headed reportedly to a music event for band camp when this crash, this actually took place here in orange county, new york, earlier this afternoon. that's according to a spokesperson from the high school confirming to cnn. the bus you're looking at there just off interstate 84 on its side in a wooded area. reportedly carrying multiple students and now according to new york state police at least one person confirmed dead as result of this accident. you see that charter bus on its side appearing to have careened out of the highway and into that embankment here. of course, so many questions especially about the people were injured, and also certainly the cause, but at this point according to authorities, this
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is a bus that was transporting a team of students from farmingdale high school. on long island. as we continue to gather more specifically from the school district, just released a statement saying they also have been informed this was a bus on its way to pennsylvania, boris, for band camp when this accident took place. >> difficult to look at. some of those live images especially when you see things like backpacks and -- the debris that was strewn by in that area. looking at, it appears officials are setting up some kind of triage. we're stale on top of the story. please, keep us up? date with the latest. stay tune to "cnn news central." we're back in just a few minutes.
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sfar star welcome week kicks off this week. >> welcome week was a saving grace. we met some amazing people. we've had awesome experiences. it's been wonderful. i volunteer with blue star families now. we're big on giving back. >> in honor of this big week we've enlisted the local chapters of the nonprofit blue star families, full disclosure, i'm on the board of, to help us with a little competition to see which one of our states or territories is doing the best
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job. >> i'm telling you i have zero doubt, i'm fully confident -- >> new york is going to win. >> the sunshine state of florida -- >> d.c., baby. >> we have tons of military families. the three-time stanley cup winning tampa lightning are rolling out the red carpet for them. watch this. >> hi, blue star families. we're here with the tampa bay lightning to welcome you to tampa bay. >> hey military families, welcome to the area. hope to see you at a game soon. >> i want to give a big tampa welcome to the military veterans and families to our area. >> this is blue star welcome week. >> you can try, but you can't compete with the natural beauty of florida, the beaches, the weather, the people. it's great for military families who get to call it home.
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there are so many military bases in florida. tampa calls itself military bay. >> yeah, okay. on the right there in blue, all american blue, the best city in the world, new york city. happens to be my hometown. clearly where it's at. part of the blue star welcome week families get to visit the statue of liberty. family service members have been invited to ring the opening bell at the nasdaq and new york stock exchange. a fair amount of money runs through those places. military families give back cleaning up the beaches on staten island and tackling food insecurity with military families as well. >> the food pantry i'm sitting in got started by a coast guard spouse andy cokely. this is special because it's a group effort. blue star families work in
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partnership with the staten island giving circle, volunteers with americorps. they've all pulled together their resources to help families stationed at fort hamilton and the staten island supplement their food and make it to the next paycheck. >> it's pretty tough competition. i really think the d.c. area is going to win this. the spirit of our nation's capitol, they know how to welcome military families, including in our local schools that go out of their ways to support military-connected kids. meet julia kim who is helping other military kids feel at home. >> in total i think i moved eight times. we have a special program called masters. we specialize in people who move
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here during the middle of the year or not at the start of the year. we give special welcomes to them. we help them walk through their schedule and we have one-on-one sessions with them to help them feel welcome. i do this because i think it's important that i can support others who go through the same things as me. i can empathize with military kids because i moved around a lot. >> d.c., what is cooler than visiting your own commander in chief at the white house? military families get to go to the famous white house easter egg roll. give me some love. i want some love on my gauge. come on. how are we doing? >> florida is doing pretty well. florida is on top. >> i need more. >> new york city best city in the world. >> bring it up. you know what, i have a thing. i have a thing in my pocket that
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pushes d.c. over the top. you have to see how our washington nationals recognize military families. >> been there. >> you've heard of the seventh inning stretch. we have the fourth inning salute to service. they recognize service members and their families. check out this first pitch at the nats' game. a family member threw out their first pitch together while they were separated during a depl deployment. >> oh, wow. >> hey, good afternoon. i'm throwing out the first pitch for the nationals game from k qatar. >> great pitch. >> complete with an appearance in qatar from screech the mascot as the colonel's family were in d.c. and his sons brady, colby
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and bryce threw out the first pitch. >> that's very cool. >> screech is a scary mascot. i would say mr. met is better. >> who's winning? >> come on. >> there we go. >> florida, no. >> shining as it should. >> oh, clinched. >> this is rigged. >> it might be rigged. >> at least she admits it. >> new york didn't have to be third. >> first in our hearts. welcome blue star families. we'll be right back.
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