and help make more tomorrows possible. entresto, for heart failure. >> a push for asylum on the southern border of the caravan of migrants puts the trump administration's tough talk on immigration to the test. good evening. i'm rick leventhal this is the fox report. this was the scene just hours ago at the nation's busiest border crossing near san diego. men, women and children from central america scaling an 18 foot wall and getting ready to turn themselves in to federal agents. it's the final leg of a month-long journey that started near the mexican border with guatemala. the trump administration has called this caravan a threat and pledges to prosecute anyone who enters the u.s. illegally. but according to the president of the national border patrol council, that might be easier said than done. >> a lot of these individuals,

they cross with children. so they've caught on how it works. usually the mom will cross with their child. they will be released into the united states, pending obviously the asylum case. and a lot of these people never show up to their cases. the next day, the father crosses, with his child, and we never find them either. so they've learned to game the system. >> the arrival of the caravan sparking pro immigrant rallies on both sides of the border. william la jeunesse is reporting from the border crossing in tijuana, mexico. describe the scene for us there now. >> well, rick, something big just happened. we've just received word from customs and border protection that they will not be accepting any of the caravan immigrants today. they say that they are at full capacity and so they don't even bother showing up at the port of entry which is why possibly this thing is paralyzed right here because we expected this caravan of immigrants to leave the

building you see behind me, walk about 2 to 3 blocks to the border, present themselves and asking or claiming asylum. that's not happening. they are still stuck inside. the organizers may be deciding right now what is the point of going over there, women, children, etc., if no one is going to let you in. also of course mexican authorities would probably turn them around at some point anyway. we know historically anyway regarding the haitians the mexicans will not let you sleep next to the border fence, if you will, for 24 hours, and in the past, the u.s. has said come back tomorrow, take a number. we will deal with you when we can. now, we know that some of these immigrants have received legal advice over the last few days regarding is there credible fear claim actually credible and what would they expect from the asylum process. some speakers we heard from say number one they are demanding the u.s. offer them a fair hearing to accept all the immigrants, to stop separating children from families, stop detaining the pregnant women and incarcerating the asylum seekers

because they claim they are entitled to a hearing. here's what she had to say. >> these individuals are there to follow u.s. law. that's why they are going to a port of entry to present themselves. >> so they could -- the u.s. could slow off this thing or literally deny them entry indefinitely. that's why i believe this could end up in federal court in southern california sometime this week. i did speak to that immigration attorney, nicole ramos, and that's what she said they would do. rick? rick: we are look at the dramatic images of the migrants climbing up to the top of the wall and sitting there. i'm wondering if any of them went over the wall and what happens to those who do go over the wall. >> rick, to my knowledge, no one actually went over the wall. that was a primary fence. the border patrol was only yards away from that. they were there making a statement, and this is a very high-profile thing, has international attention, with

the u.s. obviously -- what the u.s. obviously does not want to do is send a message, if this caravan was allowed in, the fear is on the u.s. side that you would have never caravan leaving central america tomorrow. that's why the president of course has been complaining about the law. however, the law says from what i'm told that everyone who presents themselves with a legitimate asylum claim, has a right to be heard, and even if they are denied a credible fear interview, they have a right to see an immigration judge. that's why this thing is a big deal. i'm going to send it back to you, but right now, this is paralyzed right now as they are going to go to the border or not? >> william, just to be clear, there are attorneys there who are in essence coaching these people on what to tell the folks at the border in order to gain asylum? >> well, i will tell you this, i've talked to obviously attorneys, but as well as many of the immigrants and they say they are not being coached on exactly what to say, but they are being told what kind of a message will get through and what would not. so you can kind of take it for

what you will, whether it's deliberate or simply implied as to what type of claim, if you will, will be heard or looked on favorably, hey, they have gone through four different legal counselling sessions. so any immigrant who knows what they are going to say is going to know what they are going to say after going to all four of those. back to you. rick: we appreciate your time and we will come back to you throughout this hour for developments from the border there in mexico. for more on this let's bring in associate editor at the "wall street journal" and a fox news contributor. john, thanks for being with us. >> pleasure. rick: your reaction to what you're seeing at the border? >> i mean, politics of this are fascinating and then there's the event itself. lau laura meckler from the "wall street journal" has been writing on this. this is an annual event. this is not a sudden surge of migrants toward the american border. it is an annual event. these are people that have gotten together primarily in honduras where there's a lot of

unrest right now because it's safer to go in a caravan, you know, through honduras and into mexico and up to the border than not to go with others. and it has become something of a political statement too. it's pointing out that there's still such, you know, problems in central america that the international community needs to be looking at the human rights of these individuals. rick: it is getting a lot more attention this year you believe because the president made a bigger deal this year. >> well, i think that's for sure. and he has some political, you know, agenda attached to that as well. look at the end of the day, there was something on the order of a thousand or more that started and that sort of went down. mexico granted several asylum. others settled in mexico for other reasons, they have family there. a few hundred on five or so school buses that made it to the border. the president is focused on this because of his larger agenda item on immigration, on the

wall, on the border, made this kind of into a bigger deal than it probably is, but that doesn't diminish the important politics of this. rick: there are laws that allow for asylum for -- in certain situations. what about the fact that there are attorneys down there, maybe not coaching but certainly talking to these people about what they can and maybe should say in order to gain asylum into the u.s.? >> maybe not a bad thing -- rick: not a bad thing for the people trying to get in. >> maybe it is kind of helping people kind of game the system. the border patrol and the authorities down there will have to figure that out. rick: yeah. >> at the end of the day, though, this is going to be a focus for congress for months to come on what's to be done on the wall. what's to be done frankly on immigration policy. no matter how small this group is that finally got to the border or how small this event is, i think if both sides, republican, democrats, feel that it is long and coming, some kind

of addressing of reform of immigration. rick: we will get to more on that in a moment. stay with us. we want to bring in texas attorney general ken paxton who is joining us on the phone now. attorney general, thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me on. rick: we understand these folks are at the border with california, but you obviously share many miles with mexico. are you prepared for a similar onslaught? >> look, we have been through this before, and it is challenging for us when so many people come in at the same time. it puts -- it strains our resources, and it's challenging, it makes it difficult to process everybody. rick: we've heard so much about the national guard being called in to help out along the border. are they down there now in your state ready to play a role? >> oh, yeah, they've -- as soon as trump authorized it, president trump authorized it, our governor engaged and was quick to start sending national guard, and they are -- they have been down there helping border patrol and customs enforcement

and local authorities for the last couple of weeks. rick: is it your sense that these folks have a legitimate reason to come into the u.s., or do you think they are trying to game the system? >> look, it is probably a mixed bag. it is a little concerning there's so many lawyers who are guiding them through the process. obviously you want people to know the process, but at the same time, you don't want them to be coached to say things that aren't true. it is clear from what the secretary says from homeland security that they are very aware of the possibility here of people being coached, and that's why i think she made her statement about, you know, if people are coaching them to say things that are false, they will potentially be prosecuted. rick: we are hearing a lot about this issue this year, but in fact, according to i.c.e. statistics, the number of arrests and returns have actually gone down over the last decade or so, from 2009 to 2016, you see there in 2009, 333,000 arrests. in 2016, 114 -- 200,000 less and the removals, big disparity between 09, almost 400,000 and

then about 240,000 the last year that we have numbers for. is that -- does that affect you in any way, sir? >> absolutely. i think part of what the president has done with his rhetoric and also with just beefing up border security, through the national guard and just in general, with more border agents, i think it's affected illegal immigration significantly, and obviously it's been a huge help to us in texas because we have committed significant resources ourselves over the last decade, and obviously we don't have the resources to take this on. we also don't have the authority to take it on. so it is very much a welcome for us. rick: john, what about those numbers going down? >> they have gone down even further if you go back to 2000 when it was well over a million, close to 1.6 million people that were, you know, that they had to return. mr. paxton, i'm wondering just from a law enforcement standpoint, from your standpoint there in texas, would a wall along the border help you enforce the law more?

or would it not work? >> you know, it depends on where it is at. like if you look at el paso, in 1998, i think it was, they put up a fence. a little over 100 miles, 130 miles long. before that fence was put up, el paso had one of the highest crime rates in america. once that fence went up, the crime rate went down, now one of the lowest in america. obviously there's still problems, but it has worked. i think there's places along the border where a wall or fence would work and other places where, you know, you just need more agents or technology going into effect. rick: the president has warned that this caravan better be stopped threatening repercussions for countries participating. your reaction to that? >> you know, i don't blame him for saying that because obviously these people came all the way through mexico and it would be nice to get some help from the mexican government to stop them from coming to our border and to deal with as many of them when they come into their country. there's safety issues. they are crossing a lot of land

in mexico. there's a lot of risk involved with that. it would be nice if mexico would handle most of this. rick: attorney general ken paxton from texas we appreciate your time. also john bussey from the "wall street journal." we will continue to keep an eye on this developing story. thank you very much. right now north korea's kim jong-un telling his south korean counterpart that he is willing to give up his nuclear program. but there's a catch. what he wants from the u.s. in return. plus secretary of state mike pompeo waste nothing time getting down to business -- wasting no time getting down to business, making his first trip abroad as our nation's top diplomat. his big meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >> -- its quest for nuclear bombs must be stopped. its aggression must be stopped. we're committed to stopping it together. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish,

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ally in the middle east arriving in israel for talks with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. pompeo using his first overseas trip as america's top diplomat to call for an international response to iran's missile program. this as president trump faces a looming decision on whether to pull out of the iran nuclear deal. >> we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel and the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east remains. the united states is with israel in this fight. >> i appreciate the president and your position on stop iran's aggression in the region. that aggression has grown many fold since signing of the deal. the people thought that iran's aggression would be moderated as a result of signing the deal. the opposite has happened. and iran is trying to gobble up one country after the other. rick: pompeo's visit comes just days after the latest eruption of violence along the israel gaza border.

hamas has been organizing week he protests there -- weekly protests there for the past month. nearly 40 palestinians have reportedly been killed. speaking of the iran nuclear deal, president trump approaching a deadline on may 12th about whether to walk away from the controversial agreement. national security advisor john bolton says the president has not yet made a decision and he is not ruling out the possibility the deal could be fixed. >> it's possible in the discussions with our european allies that we'll be able to see some possibility there. he will make the decision when it's appropriate to make the decision, and that will be up until may 12th. rick: molly henneberg is live in washington with more on this. what can we expect to happen on may 12th? >> hi, rick. president trump will have to decide if he's going to waive sanctions on iran again or ask congress to reimpose them and that would essentially be pulling out of the nuclear deal. some democrats say, though, use the agreement as a starting point. >> i think this is a terrific

opportunity for president trump who made his reputation as a builder to build on the iran nuclear deal and to deal with as you just said the areas that were not fully resolved through the iran nuclear deal, the ballistic missile program, their support for terrorism in the region, their terrible human rights record. >> president trump has called the iran deal quote one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the united states has ever entered into. in part because the u.s., the united nations, the european union all agreed to lift billions in crippling economic sanctions on iran even as president trump asserts iran has broken parts of the deal. nor does the agreement put any limits on iran's ballistic missile program as you just heard the senator talking about just there. rick? rick: our new secretary of state was also talking about the iran deal and israel today. what did he have to say? >> secretary of state mike pompeo was in tel aviv today meeting with israeli prime minister netanyahu and said the u.s. is concerned about iran's, quote, destabilizing and malign

activity through the the middle east. -- throughout the middle east and the world. if the 2015 agreement to reign in iran's nuclear ambitions isn't working he said the president won't just ignore it. >> president trump has been pretty clear. this deal is very flawed. he's directed the administration to try and fix it. and if we can't fix it, he's going to withdraw from the deal. it is pretty straightforward. >> secretary pompeo is on his first trip abroad as secretary of state. he stopped in saudi arabia before going to israel. both saudi arabia and israel are staunch adversaries of iran. rick? rick: molly henneberg in washington, molly, thank you. president trump once again slamming james comey following the release of the house intelligence committee report on russia. but the former fbi director is firing back. what comey is saying now. plus the trump administration drawing a hard-line on immigration, threatening to prosecute anyone entering the country illegally. what this means for the hundreds of migrants arriving on the

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rick: customs telling a caravan of migrants from central america that they have reached capacity at the san diego port of entry. hundreds of men, women and children have gathered there seeking asylum. many of them say they are on the run from gang violence and you see others marching back towards the border right now. the trump administration has called the group a threat and is urging those families to go through the proper channels. >> if you are truly seeking asylum, i encourage you to go to a port of entry and present yourself to an officer and be

processed under our laws. but by joining a caravan, that doesn't give you any special right to break the laws of the united states. if you enter illegally, you will be prosecuted. rick: american immigration lawyers warning parents they may be separated from their children as the legal process plays out. james comey firing back after the release of a final g.o.p. report finding no collusion between the trump campaign and russia during the 2016 election. comey's remarks coming just hours after president trump doubled down on his attacks of the former fbi director at a campaign style rally last night. >> you watch comey and you watch the way he lies, comey's a liar and a leaker. you know, i did you a great favor when i fired this guy. i tell you, i did you a great favor. rick: ellison barber is at the white house. i understand we heard from james

comey on this today. >> we did, and he's saying very different than president trump. comey is saying that the house intelligence committee itself is a wreck and their latest report a political document. >> look at what's happened. look at how these politicians have fallen for this junk, russian collusion, give me a break. i will tell you, the only collusion is the democrats colluded with the russians -- >> that is not my understanding of what the facts were before i left the fbi and i think the most important piece of work is the one the special counsel is doing now. this strikes me as a political document. >> as fbi director comey was leading the investigation into russian meddling and potential leaks between the trump campaign and russia, his firing led to the creation of special counsel with the help of memos. comey previously testified he had friends leave notes he kept after meetings with president

trump hoping it would lead to the creation of a special counsel. he recently told fox's bret baier that he doesn't consider what he did regards to the memos and his friend a leak. obviously the administration and president trump disagree. rick: everyone in washington seems to be talking about something else today, not congress or legislation, it is that white house correspondents dinner last night, what's the drama there? >> among journalists you would have some of the normal things of people on the left politically saying they thought it was great because it attacked the administration, people on the right saying the opposite. there's been a lot of back and forth between journalists. some feel like what the comedian at last night's dinner michelle wolf said particularly when it comes to her comments about white house press secretary sarah sanders crossed the line and overall made for a bad night for journalism as a whole. politico tweeted quote michelle wolf didn't just fail because he was spectacularly one-sided it was because she was

unnecessarily cruel on a night the white house correspondents association was trying to showcase decency and purpose undermined an otherwise meaningful night. wolf responded to some of the criticism writing on twitter why are you guys making this about sarah's looks? i said she burns facts and uses the ashes to create a perfect smoky eye. i complimented her eye make up and ingenuity of materials. she said her jokes were about sanders quote despicable behavior. here's some of what was said. >> every time sarah steps up to the podium, i get excited because i'm not really sure what we're going to get, you know, a press briefing, a bunch of lies or -- [inaudible] >> for the second year in a row president trump declined an invitation to attend the dinner and instead held a rally of his own in another washington, michigan, white house press

secretary sarah sanders attended the dinner, rick, in place of the president. eric: ellison barber at the white house. thank you very much. >> you bet. -- rick: ellison barber at the white house. thank you. before a november vote, republicans have to choose their nominee, leading up to that may 8th primary, fox news is hosting a debate featuring the top three g.o.p. candidates vying for that nomination. the debate will be moderated by bret baier and martha maccallum set to air at 6:30 p.m. eastern time this tuesday night right here on the fox news channel. federal health officials are warning people to stay away from romaine lettuce as a dangerous bacterial outbreak spreads to 22 states. plus, a dramatic meeting between the leaders of north and south korea fuelling optimism that president trump could strike a nuclear deal with kim jong-un. but are expectations too high?

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u.s. agrees to formally end the decades long korean war and pledges not to invade his country. this coming just one day after kim pledged to shut down north korea's nuclear test site next month and open his doors to allow experts and journalists from the u.s. to verify the process. however some members of the trump administration remain leery of kim's intentions, most notably national security advisor john bolton. >> i think the maximum pressure campaign that the trump administration has put on north korea has along with the political military pressure has brought us to this point. relieving that pressure isn't going to make negotiation easier, it could make it harder. rick: jillian turner has more on this from washington. >> president trump's new national security advisor isn't getting swept up in the hype surrounding his boss's pending face-to-face meeting with north korean dictator kim jong-un. while the media has been caught up in speculation about the practical elements of the trump kim encounter, where and when,

he is keeping his eye on the bigger prize and not getting distracted by the play book. >> if in fact kim has made a strategic decision to give up his entire nuclear weapons program then i think deciding on the place and date should be fairly easy. there's nobody starry eyed around here. i think the president sees the potential here for historic agreement. >> the groundwork for the trump kim summit is being laid by north korean and south korean leaders half a world away culminated in kim agreeing to complete denuclearization in the peninsula in a joint statement committing to new era of peace. new in another gesture, north korea says it will shut down its nuclear testing site in may and invite american and south korean journalists and experts into the country. brand new secretary of state mike pompeo's counting this development as a win. >> i think it's a big deal. it's important. every step along the way matters. >> but some democratic

lawmakers, while optimistic about the progress being made are still urging caution. >> we have been here three times before, as you know, under previous administrations of both parties. kim jong-un, his father, his grand father, the regime that rules north korea, has done two steps forward, one step back strategy. >> north and south korea are now deep in discussions about how and when to open up the closure of the north nuclear testing site to international visitors. a move towards transparency that just a few weeks ago would have seemed impossible. rick? rick: jillian turner in washington. for more on this, i'm joined by gordon chang, asia analyst and author of "nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world". gordon thanks for being here. >> thanks, rick. rick: i thought the most remarkable images of not the week, the month maybe the year seeing kim jong-un step over the curb in the dmz and the north and south coming together. >> the south korean president is very sympathetic with north korea. he grew up in a generation that identified the u.s. as the

adversary of south korean democracy. they call it the 386 generation. and a lot of people in his age, he's 65, don't like the united states. but older south koreans who remember the korean war, very pro american. younger south koreans don't care one way or the other about us, but they don't like north korea. they don't want unification by large. moon has a small sliver of the population in favor of what he wants to do. rick: it was just months ago that you and i talked about the possibility, the likelihood of a war between the u.s. and north korea. let alone south and north korea. why did kim jong-un change his tactics >> why did he change his mind? >> i think there's two things, first of all, he's unnerved by the threats of the trump administration and also the chinese were unnerved by this but more important were the sanctions. trump has enforced u.s. sanctions, tightened them up, also going to the u.n. to get tougher u.n. sanctions that has constricted the flow of money into north korea. kim knows if he doesn't get

sanctions released he very well may be gone. those two things together are forcing him to do this. rick: you mentioned china, senator graham of south carolina also talked about china playing a key role here. listen >> when china agreed to additional sanctions on north korea, that really brought their economy to a stand still. 90% of all trade in north korea is with china. so the day that china turned off the spigot, north korea really was in a box, but there's a doubled edge sword here, and i hope china knows that and i hope north korea knows it, and if i were the north koreans i would not meet with donald trump unless i was deadly serious about giving up my nukes because if you play trump, you're going to be a big loser. rick: president trump was instrumental in getting china to enforce those sanctions, was he not? >> he certainly was because basically what he did was we suggested to the chinese we were willing to put pressure on them and their friends the russians because those are the two big power sponsors of north korea. you know, china is much better if you look back two years ago,

in enforcing u.n. sanctions but if you look back two months ago, china's gotten markedly worse and what they are trying to do is support kim jong-un and president trump now has a very difficult road to hoe with getting the chinese to back off again. rick: we have seen this movie before. >> yes. rick: we have seen north korea go back on its word before and people are telling us to be skeptical. what is your sense? >> well, yeah, we should be skeptical because this is north korea after all. but the thing is, this is not so much a trump -- a kim question. it's a really i think a trump question because if as john bolton said we keep the pressure up, then the north koreans will have no choice but to do what we want. but that's going to require a lot of political will on our president's part and i hope he has it to make sure he can see it through to the end. eric: k. rick: the president has a summit coming up with the north korean leader. we don't know where or exactly when, but what happened this past week seems to set it up perfectly. >> oh, certainly. this summit with kim is certainly going to happen

largely because kim needs it to happen and also i think president trump understands that diplomacy is the best way out of this. but of course as bolton said, you got to keep the pressure up. rick: how much credit do you give to president trump? and how much credit do you give to the new national security advisor, new secretary of state pompeo for going over there and talking to kim and maybe laying the groundwork for this? >> president trump created the conditions for this. there was a frozen status quo. it was frozen for a decade. and what trump did with his threats, as well as his sanctions, really worked to loosen things up. when that happened, then you had moon, the south korean president do a number of things to create the mood for all of this, and i think that that certainly you can see that this is really the united states at work. we have enormous power. we americans sort of underplay that. we don't think we have it. but we certainly do. and this is an example of american power working not only for the benefit of america, but also the international community. rick: the key question is will they denuclear rise -- denuclear

rise? >> that's up to trump. that's up to trump. >> thank you very much. we're going back to william la jeunesse. >> we're about 50, 60 yards from the port of entry, just south of san diego. the group has stopped momentarily. they have women and children, as well as an individual in a wheelchair, they have taken a few stops here and there probably for health reasons as far as i can tell. i know that the united states in this -- i have basically received some information that the u.s. while they are not going to accept any asylum seekers today, claiming they are at capacity, it doesn't mean they won't accept some in the future. what they are also trying to do is basically say, listen,

refugees, asylum seekers should claim asylum in the first safe country. [inaudible]. rick: we apologize for those audio difficulties. he is coming to us live with some backpack technology from tijuana, mexico, and we will try to get back to william, when we can. meanwhile, a nasty strain of bacteria is continuing to drive a growing food poisoning outbreak linked to romaine lettuce. federal health officials reporting nearly 100 people are sick in 22 states. claudia cowan is live in los angeles with more on this story. claudia? >> rick, you know, most people who get food poisoning from e-coli usually recover within a week. but this strain is sending more than half of those who get sick to the hospital. 46 people have been admitted so far, including 10 with kidney failure. health officials say those numbers are unusually high. the outbreak has spread to 22 states, california and

pennsylvania have 54 of the 98 cases, with patients ranging in age from 1 to 88. people started getting sick in the middle of march. the most recent case was reported on april 20th. the outbreak is being blamed on tainted romaine lettuce from yuma arizona. officials with the cdc say they have identified the source of an outbreak that sickened eight prison inmates earlier this month in alaska. but that they are still trying to nail down the source of the broader outbreak in the lower 48 states. for now the fda is advising consumers to just stay away from romaine, including caesar salads and salad mixes unless they know for sure the romaine is not from arizona. one produce provider in phoenix says he's tossed out hundreds of boxes of the leafy green. >> in the past, they would always say a recall and it would come from an exact farm or exact distributor, etc. but right now it is just a blanket all romaine, started

with all cut romaine, now it is all romaine coming from the yuma area. >> cdc is continuing to work with our state death departments to -- state health departments to interview ill people and find out where they ate their romaine lettuce and collect receipts and that kind of information to get to our regulatory partners of the fda who are continuing to trace back to the source of the romaine lettuce to see which romaine lettuce that is making people sick. >> bottom line, if you have romaine in your refrigerator, and you don't know where it was grown, just throw it away. and before you buy it at the market or order it at a restaurant, ask to make sure it did not come from yuma, arizona. rick? rick: i thought salads were supposed to be good for you. claudia? >> right. rick: it's just not fair. >> they are mostly. rick: thank you very much claudia cowan in los angeles. so is a comeback in the cards for atlantic city? why the board walk town has some folks betting big once again.

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trump's investments there. after chapter 11 bankruptcy filings he eventually cashed out and so did many others. it looked like the gambling mecca was over. but some people are betting big on atlantic city's resurgence. once called the 8th greater wonder of the world, trump's casino was one of the last five casinos to give up. but two casinos are opening up this summer. seven others have stabilized earnings and nearly all were in the black last year. high end apartments are under construction and thousands of jobs are waiting to be filled with military veterans getting an extra look since vet unemployment is higher here than the national average. >> i have a masters in business. i'm here hoping to get a job either in business or accounting. >> and you? >> i'm just kind of open to different possibilities.

>> we realize now that this is our best second chance. i think there's an energy not only in the industry, but also in government realizing that we have to make it right this time. >> i like to call it the rebirth. >> the mayor says the key to ac's comeback is making sure locals are involved. >> without employment, you cannot actually have a clean city. without a clean city, you will not have investors interested in coming to the city. >> you know, everybody wants to be in at the bottom, but one of the things that happens when you are at the bottom, it looks kind of scary. >> joe is part of the team rebuilding a building into a hard rock hotel and casino investing to gut the sprawling facility, with 2,000 rooms, 20 restaurants and 7,000 seat arena and separate theater offering 300 live shows a year. >> still have close to 30 million people within a three-hour drive of atlantic

city. you still have the board walk and beaches and the amazing attractions of the shore that we think we can reenergize that and give atlantic city a second look. >> the hard rock's grand opening is june 28th. the town is filled with cautious optimism. roads are being repaved. empty lots are getting landscaped. locals are getting first crack with thousands of jobs. as the city improves, they hope their business will grow and everyone can win. severe weather is expected this week. which parts of our nation could get hit hard? that's coming up next. [whispers] the search was intense. we spent weeks canvassing the quadrant to pinpoint our perfect location. once locked in on our target, we knew we had to move fast. fortunately, we were already pre-approved for a no money down loan with navy federal credit union, and were able to put an offer on this place immediately after it went on the market. i see you dad! how are my tomatoes doing, babe? ah, pretty good. navy federal credit union

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sports the kentucky derby now just six days away. this year's event expected to bring more than 160,000 spectators to churchill downs with 90% of the women wearing hats. average cost between 500 and a thousand bucks. also more than half a million cans of beer. the winner of the race will take home a minimum prize of 2 million dollars and if you see me there, make sure you say hello. the australian federal government pledging nearly 380 million dollars to restore and manage the great barrier reef. the vast ecosystem has had -- has lost 30% of its coral in recent years due to increasing man made and natural threats. >> this is the single largest investment in reef restoration and management in australia's history. the money will go towards improving water quality, working with farmers to prevent

sediment, nitrogen and pesticide run off into the reef ensuring we tackle the crown of thorns star fish which is a natural predator to the coral and has done enormous damage over the last three decades. rick: this funding announcement comes ahead of the 42nd session of the world heritage committee. the united nations organization put the reef on its list of culturally and environmentally important sites back in 81. that new avengers film is taking over the box-office. it's already breaking records here and across the world. what sets this blockbuster apart from the competition? ♪

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at the box-office maybe because it has more superhere res than -- superheroes than any film ever. grossing an estimated 630 million dollars worldwide in its first weekend. the biggest international opening ever. it is also expected to have the biggest domestic opening ever bringing in roughly 250 million dollars since thursday. have you seen it? >> no, not yet. rick: okay. me either. we're also keeping an eye on the southern border near san diego where a caravan of migrants is seeking asylum. customs has told them that the port is at capacity. william la jeunesse who has been there at the border tells us that these folks will likely try again tomorrow to seek asylum and is obviously keeping an eye on this developing story as are we. updates as we get them throughout the evening. and that is how fox reports this sunday, april 29th, 2018. i'm rick leventhal. thanks for spending part of your sunday evening with me.

"fox news sunday" starts in 12 seconds. chris: i'm chris wallace, the leader of north and south pledge to clear the peninsula of nuclear weapons. now can president trump seal the deal? >> it's going to be a very important meeting, the denuclearization of the korean peninsula of north korea, denuke, denuke. chris: we will discuss what comes next for kim jong un and president trump. >> i look forward to the meeting, should be quite something. chris: with john bolton first appearance at white house security adviser and then the president's new lawyer meets with robert mueller, as the senate panels moves to protect the special counsel, we will