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tens of thousands of people are right now facing. >> evacuation orders. >> in l.a. >> fire crews. >> racing to. >> contain two new. wildfires in los. angeles county that have just exploded. one already burning more than 10,000 acres. >> in his. >> first sit down interview. >> since assuming the. >> oval. >> office president blunt slamming joe biden's decision to pardon his family, but then questions why biden didn't pardon himself. is that a potential threat that he may have? biden investigated. >> a shooting inside a nashville high school cafeteria leaves one dead and two injured. we've got new reporting on what authorities found in the shooter's social media. i'm john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. this is cnn news central.

>> the breaking news overnight. there are new fires now threatening los angeles, california. one right off l.a .'s 405 freeway. drivers could see the flames from the sepulveda fire as they drove by. there you see it? it's burned roughly 40,000 acres right across. sorry. it's burned more than just about 40 acres right across from the getty museum. at one point, that fire led to an evacuation order for the community of bel air. that was just a few hours after another fire near castaic exploded in size. that one is called the hughes fire, and it has burned more than 10,000 acres. it's just 14% contained this morning. these new fires are now just adding to the historic disaster that has been unfolding for more than two weeks now, stretching fire crews to their limits. they're still working to contain the palisades fire and eaton fire. president trump, in a new interview, he went after california's democratic governor for his handling of it all. trump is planning to visit the state tomorrow. cnn's josh

campbell. he's in l.a. following all of this for us. josh, what can you tell us about the situation this morning? yeah. >> kate, i mean, our. community here across los angeles is on edge because of those red flag wind conditions that continue here. and just as you mentioned, overnight, yet another fire popping up. i'm now in the sepulveda pass. for those who are familiar with los angeles between l.a. and the valley area. this fire breaking out, as you mentioned, up to 40 acres, but it's near the bel air neighborhood, so near a populated area. authorities were able to halt forward containment on this to 40 acres. i want to get straight to david ortiz with the los angeles fire department. sir, can you tell us we've got crews all around us here? what are they doing right now? >> well, right. >> now, this is what we call the. >> mop up operation. >> we want to make sure that we don't leave anything hot that can later be carried by wind. so our firefighters were very effective in keeping the fire from spreading into the moraga community, which is behind us.

this hill. this fire was topography driven, meaning the fuels and the angle of the of the hillside. the santa ana winds are blowing against this fire. so we had that in our favor. and we also had available aircraft that were able to fly this. we had five medium helicopters and two heavies that engaged this fire right away. 250 firefighters from l.a. city fire jumped on this very quickly, and we were able to keep it to only 40 acres. >> and then finally, the winds are relatively calm right now. but what's your concern over the next few hours? >> so we're still expecting some dry humidity and then gusts of winds possible up to 60 miles an hour before we are expecting rain starting on saturday and sunday, but once that rain passes, it's going to dry up again. so we need sustained rain. a lot of the vegetation looks like this. it's super dry. any one spark will have a new start of a fire that establishes and raises

quickly, like we had yesterday in hughes fire. >> thanks for the update, sir, and thanks for what your team is doing here, kate. you know, this is one fire that authorities here are dealing with. as you mentioned, just north of us yesterday, this fire exploding, the so-called hughes fire up near the castaic area. we saw tons of resources being thrown at that fire as well. thousands and thousands of people are facing evacuation orders at this hour. the good news is that although that ballooned over to 10,000 acres, authorities continue to work towards containment. currently, about 14%. one final good thing i'll tell you is that if there's any good news in all of this terrible activity here, is that because of those two recent deadly fires in palisades, as well as eaton, this whole area has been flooded with fire resources, not only from california, neighboring states as well as canada and mexico. having resources here that were on standby. we saw that heavy attack overnight helicopters, the chinooks, the blackhawks just attacking that fire with water, trying to get that down,

trying to stop the spread. kate. >> absolutely. and they stay at it this morning. josh, thank you so much, sarah. >> all right. there were several eyebrow. >> raising moments during trump's first oval office interview, including one that has some folks asking if trump is about to investigate former president biden the funny thing, maybe the sad thing is he didn't give himself a pardon. >> i went through four years of hell by this scum that we had to deal with. i went through four years of hell. i spent millions of dollars in legal fees, and i won, but i did it the hard way. it's really hard to say that they shouldn't have to go through it. also, it is very hard to say that. >> cnn's alayna treene is live for us at the white house. what more are you hearing about

this? because that did to a lot of people, sound like the threat of an investigation against president biden. >> that's right. you could. hear there that he's kind. >> of. >> toying with the idea. >> of. >> you know, going. >> after his enemies. >> potentially through the court. >> and also they're suggesting that perhaps. >> former president. >> joe biden should be investigated. >> look, this is a. >> little bit different. we've heard donald trump vacillate. on this topic throughout. >> his time on the campaign trail. >> one time he gave an interview saying that retribution would be success. >> we heard. >> him just last. >> month. >> when he talked with time magazine and nbc news, saying that he. >> didn't believe. >> that it was up to him. whether biden and others in his administration should be prosecuted or investigated, that he would leave that up to his department of justice. but as you said, as you could hear there, he's kind of toying with this idea of perhaps biden should be investigated and really lamenting what he argues he went through over the last couple of years. now, we also heard him as well bring up

hillary clinton. during that interview, he told hannity that essentially during his first term, he could have gone after hillary clinton. he could have investigated her and potentially prosecuted her, and that he didn't. and one thing just, you know, to take a step back from all of this, just looking at the first few days of donald trump's second administration, a lot of what he's done so far has really been catering to the base. we saw that in his early executive orders and actions with, you know, the pardons on the people who were convicted for their role on january 6th on, you know, really trying to gut the dea programs in the federal government, this issue about whether or not to go after political enemies is something as well, that donald trump's base cares a lot about. they believe, as does donald trump, that he was wrongly persecuted by joe biden's administration. and so it's still unclear, obviously, what donald trump would do. but this answer to hannity is very different from what we've heard him saying over the last several months. sarah. >> yeah. alayna treene, thank you so much for rolling that out for us. appreciate it.

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lawmakers just hours after his release. let's get right to cnn's katelyn polantz for the latest on this. good morning. katelyn. >> good morning john. there is a lot of people right now outside of the republican party, donald trump and the people surrounding him that are pushing back with indignation against the pardons and the clemency the president granted to these january 6th rioters. judges on the federal court that handled these 1400 or so cases, they have been asked by the trump justice department to dismiss the 300 about pending cases that are still in the court system, and they are not doing so without having a final say. judge tanya chutkan, the very judge who oversaw donald trump's own criminal case related to the 2020 election that is now dismissed. she was asked to dismiss one of the rioter cases yesterday, and wrote that the dismissals cannot whitewash the blood, feces and terror that the mob left in its wake and it cannot

repair the jagged breach in america's sacred tradition of peacefully transitioning power. she was one of a handful of judges on that bench who had many things to say to make sure they put on paper that they administered justice neutrally. on these cases. people were convicted and that those actions of violence toward police, especially, were memorialized in the court record. there also were officers yesterday who were attacked during the riot. speaking on capitol hill at a press conference, here is officer daniel hodges with a reminder of what happened to him. >> i was beaten, crushed, kicked, punched, surrounded. someone reached underneath my visor, tried to gouge out my eye, and all these people. were just pardoned by donald trump. >> and so people like that are still speaking publicly at the same time. stewart rhodes, the

leader of the oath keepers, is up on capitol hill. here's what he had to say when he was there yesterday. >> so bottom line, no regrets. >> well, i don't. regret standing up for my country. i don't regret calling out the election as what it was which was stolen, illegal and unconstitutional. >> i'm happy that the president. >> is focusing. >> not on retribution and focusing. >> on success. >> but i will tell. >> you that i'm. >> not going to play by. >> those rules. >> the people who did. >> this. >> they need to feel. >> the. >> heat. >> roads in ontario, ontario. the leader of the proud boys out many, many years, decades before they were supposed to because of donald trump's clemency toward them. jon. >> interesting. they need to feel the heat, says the onetime leader of the proud boys katelyn polantz. thank you very much for that report. sarah kate. >> so we are still in the first month of the year, and america is already facing the first school shooting of 2025. investigators digging now into

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police say a 17 year old male student opened fire wednesday and killed a 16 year old girl and wounded two others before he took his own life. a focus now of the investigation. social media posts from the shooter. listen to this. >> the investigation. >> is still very much ongoing as to a motive. we're looking into that. there are some materials on the internet that we're looking at that's under the investigation and the initial stages, but we'll continue to follow up on that. >> cnn's ryan young has the very latest on this for us. ryan, good morning. >> kate, this is tough to look back at obviously. investigators are looking into those social media posts. but as you understand, even if they have racist posts, it still doesn't give them that solid motive in terms of moving forward, in terms of what the shooter may have been thinking at that school. you're talking around 11 a.m. in the cafeteria. we've all sat in our school cafeterias, but

it's that sound that reverberates through the room because this was partially live streamed. we want you to take a listen to this, because when you hear it for yourselves, you can understand the fear that these students must have been feeling. take a listen. >> oh. >> no. he shot himself. >> yeah. jocelyn escalante, 17, was killed in that shooting. you can understand the fear that was going through that section of the cafeteria. the things that we do know right now, you can obviously shoot. the shooter fired his pistol multiple times. he did take his own life. the parents at the school obviously were shaken by this. the violence happening again just outside of

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with this on february 1st. >> but prices. that was a big reason why americans put donald trump in office. you know, how soon might americans feel the pinch of this? >> it won't be a light switch on february 1st, because a lot of the bigger retailers kind of saw this coming. so they brought in merchandise early to try to stave off these higher prices. but for a smaller business, they don't have the capacity to bring in so much merchandise early and stockpile. so for the smaller businesses, they're going to feel it quicker and then they're going to pass it down ultimately to the consumer. if they simply can't absorb those costs. >> we will see if this threat comes to fruition. vanessa yurkovich, thank you so much for explaining all of that and how it impacts regular people. john. >> all right. today on capitol hill, a key procedural vote to advance the nomination of pete hegseth as secretary of defense. this comes as cnn has learned that hegseth ex-wife gave a new statement to the fbi about his alcohol use. one source familiar with her statement says samantha hegseth told the fbi, quote, he drinks

more often than he doesn't. with us now, cnn's senior political commentator david axelrod and republican strategist doug heye. i don't want to spend too much time on this, doug, but i do want to ask you quickly, new information here. maybe we'll find out more about it. maybe we won't. but what would it take at this point for something to derail in your mind, the hegseth nomination i think. >> what we would need is. very verifiable information and full releasing from fbi reports. what we've heard is obviously troubling, but not troubling to the overwhelming majority of republican senators. and if the vote were held today, pete hegseth would get through. it would probably be a 5050 vote, maybe 5149 or a 5150 vote, because jd vance would, as vice president, would have to vote. but if there's not anything that is truly verifiable, republicans will find a fig leaf that they need to support him. >> all right. i want to move on to other issues here, and i want to read a section of the memo that went out to federal agencies, employees at federal agencies yesterday about

basically rooting out dea practices. processes, individuals. it said to everyone in the government, there will be no adverse consequences for timely reporting, timely reporting. this information as is. is there any dea operation in this agency? however, failure to report this information within ten days may result in adverse consequences. in other words, if you get caught not telling on someone, you're in trouble. now, i'm not asking you about this specifically, david, but speaking with you back up 50,000ft, you see something bigger going on here in the first few days of this trump administration? >> well, i think what we see is pretty clear. this is trump unchained. he's beaten back all of these obstacles. greatest comeback in american political history. and he's in his final term, presumably. and i think he feels completely unconstrained. he's going to do whatever the hell he wants. and his priorities in this first 48 hours has

been really sort of. a maga pyrotechnic show. the thing that's curious to me, you know, we heard this conversation with sarah and vanessa earlier is people did not actually elect him to do some of the things that he's done. they certainly didn't elect him to pardon the the six people. this notion that somehow that was adjudicated in the election, no people voted for him because their their costs were too high. yes. they were worried about the border. i think there'll be some broad approval for muscular border security. but at the end of the day, they're still concerned about the price of eggs, which are going up, by the way, and all of their groceries. and at some point they're going to say, wait, what about us? and i was really shocked, frankly, that he didn't spend more time in his inaugural address and all the other addresses he made that day and in his interview and so on, saying this is a real focus of mine. i want to get these

costs down. some of the things he's doing are going to send costs up. if he actually follows through on them. so i think for him, he's he may feel immune, but republicans who have to run in 2020 6th may feel less so. >> what about that, doug? the idea that he's leaning into the things he was elected in spite of, rather than because of? >> yeah, look, it's obviously been, you know, a trump 2.0 really an extension of how he how he campaigned and how he governed the first time with, as david said, unchained, unshackled and all of that. but i would i would tell my democratic friends, stop following the bouncing ball that donald trump does on purpose. donald trump is a matador, and he raves, waves a red cape and democrats in the media always follow it. and look, i'm sickened by the pardons of violent criminals. and that obviously is something that should be looked at and discussed. but voters are still saying, here's why, here's what we care about. we care about what things cost. to david's

point, we care about the situation at the border. those are the things that democrats should be focused on. if prices go up with tariffs and maybe some of the other trumpy things that he's doing in the administration. so, you know, the diy stuff on on staffing, you know, that that doesn't really speak to everyday americans concerns. but we do see the hiring freeze impacting the veterans administration. doug collins, who's an old friend, former member of congress, is the nominee. he'll be having hearings soon. that's an opportunity for democrats to go back to that line that donald trump used very effectively in the campaign, where he said that kamala harris is for they them. i'm for you. this is an opportunity for democrats to say we're focused on voters and what they need. >> i didn't know matadors bounce balls, but that's a different that's a different question. >> capes, capes and balls. mixed metaphors. >> no, i think i think doug's absolutely right. democrats should not chase every shiny object and should be focused on the things that voters were

focused on. my the point i was raising is trump's not really focusing on the things that voters were focused on other than the border, which was something that he very much is focused on. and, you know, but the vengeance stuff, the parole, more than anything, i think people look at it and say, what does this have to do with me? >> and when do you think that would manifest itself or metastasize politically? >> well, i think he has a grace period for sure. and let's be clear, donald trump is the greatest marketer, salesman, spinner that we've seen because he has no audacity. he has all this incredible audacity about it. and so and he now has means of communicating elon and the social media. so he is he is sort of at the zenith of his spinning power. but you can't really spin what happens at the grocery store. and that's going to be harder for him. if i were advising him and i am not, i would say, you know, let's focus a little bit more on the reason you got

elected. >> david axelrod doug heye, thanks to both of you. kate. >> we are continuing to follow the breaking news this morning. two new wildfires in southern california. an evacuation warning has now been lifted, though, for the bel air neighborhood after a brush fire exploded late last night. the sepulveda fire threatened the northbound lanes of the 405 just across from the getty center. this comes as the powerful winds that we've seen that have just would not have not let up. they have picked back up, triggering a high wind warning from the national weather service. let's get the very latest on that from cnn's meteorologist allison chinchar. she's standing by with more on this. what? what are you seeing with this? with the fires, with the winds? where this what what the forecast looks like, right. >> so the forecast does still include those high winds for today. they get a little bit weaker as we go into friday. and then finally maybe some rain chances as we get into the weekend. but we've got the short term concerns here. you can see the hughes fire that just exploded yesterday. this is just to the

very far northwest of los angeles. this the second fire that also began to develop. this is just to the northwest, very, very close to los angeles. here you can see over that highway, you can see the sparks off in the distance. we have five different fires that we are keeping a close eye on, none of which at this point in time are at 100% containment. the conditions today are going to make it a little bit more difficult for those firefighters. look, you can see already we've got some wind gusts up around 60 to 70mph. in some places you have the red flag warnings. this is valid not only for today but also into early friday morning. the wind gusts on the north side about 55 to 65mph. farther south, 60 to 70. you've got those high wind warnings, especially as we go through the rest of the day today. but again, the good news is we finally will start to see some rain in the forecast for the weekend. >> some good news there. thank you so much, sarah. >> all right. if you noticed, you've picked up a couple of new friends on instagram. well, there's a reason for that. why? meta says some users are now following the president and

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institutes of health received an email yesterday halting all grant approval meetings. nih is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. these research committees, or panels of experts that advise the government on its regulatory decisions, including which grants and proposals should get funding. the full impact of this move it is not yet known. contacted by cnn, though, a spokesperson for hhs characterized it as a short pause to allow the new team to set up a process for review and prioritization. this isn't the only public health disruption coming from the trump administration so far. the president, in one of his first acts after inauguration, withdrew the united states from the world health organization again so we paid $500 million to world health when i was here, and i terminated it. >> china with 1.4 billion people, we have 350. we have nobody knows what we have because so many people came in illegally. but let's say we

have 325. they had 1.4 billion. they were paying 39 million. we were paying 500 million. it seemed a little unfair to me. so that wasn't the reason. but i dropped out. >> the united states is the largest contributor to the world health organization. china. far below that. joining us now is elissa digiorgio, president and ceo of the global health council, a nonpartisan group that advocates for global health. thank you so much for being here. i've seen reporting that the leaders of the w.h.o. say that there's still time, possibly to negotiate with the trump administration over this announcement. regardless if the united states is out of the world health organization, what will the impact be for world health operations? do you think? >> well, thanks so much for having. >> me, kate. >> i'm glad to be here and talk about this really. important issue. so just to say that the executive order that was

issued, um, is an intent to withdraw. there's a stipulation that the withdrawal is a year long process, and that's why you're hearing from the world health organization some hope that there are opportunities to still negotiate with the u.s. and prevent the u.s. from withdrawing. i think it's important to note that membership in the u.s. is actually quite beneficial for the united states on a number of fronts. one is that we have, through our membership in w.h.o., access to real time global health and surveillance data about emerging threats that may initiate abroad, but definitely put the lives of americans at risk. and this helps our own health and human services department to prepare for any diseases or, you know, incoming threats of public health that we may see on the horizon. it not only helps the department of health and human services, but it also helps state and local health departments be prepared as well for emerging infectious

diseases. without membership, the u.s. does become more vulnerable to these health risks because we won't have access to that data and surveillance. it's also really beneficial for the u.s. to stay at the table. i hear president trump's frustration with the dues and the membership fees, but i think it's really crucial that we recognize how much influence the u.s. does yield at the world health organization as one of its founding members, both with the organization itself and inspiring reforms that, you know, further efficiency and reduce costs, but also influence with the other 193 nations, including china and russia, india, a lot of countries that may, in the absence of the u.s., take the opportunity to step into that vacuum and shape the global health world in a way that they want to see, that actually wouldn't further u.s. interests or protect american people. >> so that that is quite interesting because you can be

sure a few things in this world, but you can be sure that one of the intentions of president trump in making this move would not be to allow china to give china more influence over anything, or china, china a bigger seat at the table. considering the considering the way he's talked about it for so long. but you think that when when the leading contributor being the united states, would withdraw from, well, any multilateral organization, someone's going to step into its place. you see this as, i don't know, an opportunity actually, maybe even a historic one for china. if the united states does withdraw i think that is a real risk. >> i think that the u.s. has played an extremely constructive role in helping to shape the way these multilateral partnerships work, particularly at the w.h.o., and to keep policies and other, you know, attacks on what we would see as american interests at bay in these multilateral

institutions. and so you can't do that if you're not there. so i think it is really important to consider what stepping away would mean. um, particularly in terms of access to data surveillance information, other emerging health threats that may, you know, be transferred from animals to humans, that we're just not going to have the same access to if we're not members of w.h.o. so if we're at the table, we can push for greater transparency, greater accountability. but if we walk away, then that that leadership gap is there for the taking. >> well, let's, let's that is a really interesting element to this. um, we'll see kind of what impact it has and what this means. as you as you said, it's an intention to withdraw. it's it appears that it's a year long process for the united states to do what donald trump says he very much intends to do. so we'll see together. elissa, thank you very much for coming in. sarah. >> all right. on the radar for you this morning. seven san

antonio police officers were shot while responding to a call wednesday night. the suspect was found dead after an hours long standoff. the police chief says swat officers arrived to the scene and the suspect barricaded himself inside an apartment for several hours. four officers injuries are believed to be non-life threatening, while three others are unknown at this time, authorities say the suspect had been arrested saturday on assault and dwi charges and was out on bond. all right. an oklahoma cattle rancher jumped into action to save a calf in a frozen pond. hunter wagner, his brother connor tried to break up the ice as hunter did what any brave, animal loving rescuer would do to save a struggling calf. he partially stripped down and jumped in that frigid water. >> as soon as i saw it, man, i kicked them boots off, jeans off, and i was i was going in there. every ranchers had to do

this kind of thing before. like, we really do love these little animals. >> oh, what a sweetie. you could hear the baby mooing there as they got him out. hunter wagner good deed has gotten him a lot of attention. the video has now racked up at least 3 million views, including me, john and i, for the record, would do the same. >> strip down and jump in. >> that is right. >> truer words were never spoken by. >> anyone. >> all right. this morning media is pushing back after some users accused the company of boosting the social media profiles of president trump and vice president j.d. vance, and not letting people unfollow them on instagram. cnn's clare duffy is here. and basically, meta says this is just what happens. >> that's exactly right. >> we've seen people. >> over the last few days log on to their instagram or facebook accounts, and seeing the facebook or instagram profiles for donald trump. >> or j.d. >> vance at the top. it appeared that they were following them, even though these people said i never chose to follow these specific men.

but what meta says is that there's a simple explanation for this, that every new administration, those accounts, the vp account and the potus account get handed over. and so people may have been following joe biden or kamala harris. and then they were like, wait a second, why? why is donald trump showing up on my feed? we saw a number of really prominent accusers complaining about this. singer gracie abrams posted that she had to unfollow those accounts three separate times yesterday, but meta says that it could take some time as these accounts change hands for the follow and unfollow requests to go through. meta spokesperson said people were not made to automatically follow any of the official facebook or instagram accounts for the president, vice president or first lady, but i think you can see in the reaction to some of this people sort of skepticism, as we've seen these rightward moves made by meta in the past few weeks. mark zuckerberg showing up at the inauguration, these moves to pull back on content moderation. i think you get the sense that users are worried about how that's going to show

up in their experience on the platform. >> i guess you can see that. i mean, i mean, obviously if you are actively unfollowing them and they don't go away, that would be something. but i guess we'll have to see what happens the next few days. clare duffy, thank you very much. kate. >> also this morning, thousands of active duty u.s. troops are being ordered to the southern border as part of president trump's immigration crackdown. well, not clear right now which specific units are headed there. the initial wave is expected to be around 1500 troops. there's already roughly 2200 active duty forces at the border, acting in support of customs and border protection operations. the president's aggressive push, like this one against illegal immigration, is also raising questions, though, about what it could mean for some migrants in the u.s. legally. cnn's david culver has more. >> calling out to us. >> from the back of the. >> bus. >> juan manuel cisneros. >> shows us what he. >> describes as his american dream come

true. >> musica aqui esta estoy aqui en este pais. >> i said, do you always carry that. >> document with you? >> and he goes, yeah, because if anything happens, he can pull it out and say, i'm here legally in this country. >> everyone on this bus can say the same. they're farmworkers here on h-2a visas, which allow foreign workers to fill temporary or seasonal agricultural jobs. >> they come here for about eight months. all the folks on this bus are on their lunch break are from mexico. he says they're able to work the field. and as he sees it, it's a good solution to be able to make money and yet at the same time, be here legally. >> but with that visa comes grueling work. >> nobody local wants to work in agriculture, harvesting crops. nobody. these are hard working, able bodied men. and that's what they're doing. they're doing manual labor. >> and they're doing it in a place that might surprise you. >> that's east. yeah. if i go far enough, i'll hit mar-a-lago. >> yeah you will.

>> you need only travel about 40 miles from here. as roth farms sits just on the western edge of palm beach county, florida. >> it certainly doesn't feel like the beaches of palm beach. >> but it has the weather., which can be brutally hot and humid for those working these fields. >> yet, despite his need for a reliable and cost efficient workforce, roth says he supports president trump's stance on immigration. >> is it going to get more difficult to get workers, do you think, under president trump and the crackdown on immigration? >> no, i think it actually will get easier. we just want people to be vetted and we want good workers that have come out, come out here. >> so the h-2a visa program may seem like a perfect solution to keep predominantly migrant workers employed on farms like this one here in florida. but critics point out that it doesn't cover every person or every situation. say, for example, those migrants who are fleeing violent and dangerous situations and don't have a home to go back to once the season is over, or those who simply want to live and work

with their families year round in the u.s., then you've got small farmers who say that the program is just way too costly and way too complicated. >> for now, though, rough. >> seas. h-2a visas as the best way to keep u.s. farms running, he hires a third party company to handle the logistics. they recruit the workers from abroad and then place them at several different farms, including roth's. >> you hire them in mexico and you transport them over here. you pay all the transportation. costs for that. i pay all the transportation costs. we put them up in housing, we pay all the housing costs. the only thing we're allowed to charge them for is the cost of the food. when we feed them. >> so what is it like for these workers? so here it is about 5:00 in the evening. and these workers have just finished their shift at roth farms. they're arriving back at their housing complex. juan manuel and the others invite us to meet them after their work day

is over. yeah. what do you do this time of the day? yeah. when you get here from work de la tarde llegamos a comer. dinner's at six c. we can go with him. he's inviting us up. wow. muchas gamas aqui. no, they've been working ten hours today. they work six, sometimes seven days a week. they have just a few things that they need. a few changes of clothes, some snacks and not much privacy. juan manuel shows us his setup. he says what he makes is about $16 an hour. so here what you make in an hour, as he puts it, is an entire day's work in mexico. this is his third year on the visa work program, he said. the money that he makes here, he's able to support his family in mexico as well, and help his mom and dad and brother and sister. >> para poder sobrevivir. >> and he said, that's what you need to do to survive. you can see all the workers now are gathering from all the