>> rich: new at 2:00, first it was the toothpaste, then the laundry detergent, and now the midnight snack. a new york city walgreens store

wraps up ice cream from theft. >> aishah: shoplifters are committing crimes all over the country. you won't believe how much retail revenue has been lost to crime in 2022 alone. number will give you sticker shock. >> rich: welcome back as "america reports" rolls into a second hour. i'm rich edson. >> aishah: even historic winter blizzard cannot stop the smash and grabs. videos all over the place appearing to show stores ransacked in buffalo, new york. we are going to have that for you all new this hour, but first this fox weather alert. >> no flights until the third -- maybe the 31st. >> we kept calling, you can't get through to anybody. >> four, maybe five cancels for the same flight. >> 500 people, nowhere to go. >> i never want to fly commercially ever, ever, ever again. >> rich: thousands of passengers stranded at airports across the

country following the historic winter blizzard. >> aishah: southwest airlines is still struggling to get back on schedule, more than 90% of their flights canceled just today. and the airline has already canceled thousands more flights for tomorrow. u.s. department of transportation says it's going to investigate what is causing this chaos. >> rich: stemming from the arctic blast that gripped millions of americans, killing nearly 60 people. buffalo is the hardest hit area and remains buried in snow. let's get right to it with our senior correspondent steve harrigan. how many cancellations today? >> here in the atlanta airport, we are seeing the mountain of baggage from southwest, people try and point to find the bags, some from sunday, some from monday, and the scene is being repeated at different airports

all around the country. 4,500 flights canceled today. u.s. and international. and 2,500 of those are from southwest, so you just stand here and people come up to you. one woman said she missed her cruise, one is a diabetes and her medicine is one of the suitcases, so people suffering through this, and when you talk to them, the biggest complaint is they are not getting straight information what to do next as they still try and make it home after this christmas weekend. >> we literally spent half of christmas day at the airport finding another flight. and we actually drove six and a half hours here to atlanta just so that we could find another flight to get back to lax. >> i gave someone some money so i can cut, and i know it's terrible, but someone got $100 out of me. my flight leaves in an hour, so -- got my two kids, we are by

ourselves, and -- had no other choice. >> a lot of people are just abandoning even the hope of flying out, they are getting rental cars. rental cars now in short supply as well. president biden just tweeting a short time ago he said airlines will be held accountable for these cancellations. rich, back to you. >> rich: steve, literally in the middle of the mess, steve, thanks. for continuing coverage, tune into fox weather by downloading the app for free at foxweather.com. also use your phone to scan the qr code on your screen. >> aishah: also happening right now, awaiting a supreme court decision on whether to keep title 42 in place, but that is not stopping thousands of migrants from pouring into the u.s. border agents seeing a whopping 16,000 migrant encounters over the holiday weekend alone. the white house's response to

target texas governor greg abbott after he dropped off another group of migrants outside the vice president's doorstep on christmas eve. former u.s. border patrol chief ron vatello joining us, peter, any reaction from the white house today? >> we do have some and are waiting to see what the supreme court does, aishah. if the supreme court does not intervene today, it's entirely possible title 42 could end today. and over the last few days, a lack of information about what they want to follow title 42, what kind of policy is in place, where they think the people coming into the country illegally should be going and the lack of information has some republican critics curious about what this white house actually wants. >> we have the biden administration and most democrats who don't see this as anything but a win. they are seeing this as success at the border. every person you talk to in the

biden administration does not see this as a problem. when you talk to the president, he said look, there are other problems that we have. >> officials here are saying less about migrants arriving at the southern border than they are about migrants being bussed to the naval observatory, where vice president kamala harris lives. they say governor abbott abandoned people on the side of the road christmas eve, a cruel, dangerous and shameful stunt. it has been now more than a week since we were promised details what the white house wants to replace title 42, those are details we are still waiting for. >> there's been a lot of rumors, a lot of speculations, i just, i'm not going to go off of everything, i would not go off of everything that you are hearing quite yet but we will have some more to share tomorrow and there will be a call, too, on this very -- on these varying

issues. the>> that call never happened and unlikely we will get a new commitment to a new presidential immigration policy in the next few days while the president is in st. croix. he's scheduled to fly there later this afternoon or early this evening through next week. >> a pattern with the nonresponses. thank you, peter. >> rich: former acting ice director under president trump and former border patrol chief under president obama. ron, i want to get into what the difference here is between title 42, which is at some point going away, and now title 8, the authority that will be left they'll be using at the border. what's the difference and why is title 42 so much easier to expell people with? >> well, thanks for having me on. title 42 is a u.s. code, in regards public health. and so allows hhs, delegated to

the dhs employees can expell people regardes of circumstance at the southwest border to protect us all from pandemic conditions. was always going to sunset, ba i haved -- based on what the pandemic was doing, and quickly adjudicate those for expulsion. maybe a half hour to expell them back. once they end title 42, whether by the court or other method, title 8 allows front line employees to arrest and prosecute people who come across the border illegally. they are not going to do that, they are so far overwhelmed once title 42 comes down, busier than they are now. both in volume of people coming and in the work flow, what used to take a half hour to adjudicate is now going to require them about 2 to 3 hours to adjudicate, it's a bit about the work flow. but title 42 would not be an

issue if this administration followed the law. it is a federal crime to cross the border illegally, and make a claim for asylum in the united states. they had tools with the migrant protection protocols allowed people to have their due process, but wait in mexico, and after that, we have 40 year lows on the border. this administration refused to prosecute, to put policies in place they know will work and tore down policies that were working and now they are seeing it in realtime. >> rich: you are seeing it in a number of cities really over the last several weeks, el paso, take a look at what el paso is spending, $9.87 million this year, new york city mayor says he needs a billion dollars to help deal with all of this. congress passed the omnibus several hundred million dollars to help communities receive a lot of migrants, humanitarian

assistance. is that enough? >> it's not. cities are not equipped for that, the border is not equipped, dhs facilities are not equipped. what they needed to do is enforce the policies that existed before. that bill should have had conditions for that money. yeah, ok, let's give them the relief, give those communities that were not allowed to plan for this nonsense, help them with some resources. put policies in place that help us control the border. let's give the tools that the men and women of dhs need to control that border. that's what needs to happen. this is what we get with the president who cares nothing about the southwest border. put in charge the vice president not even visited the southern border. >> rich: you worked on the last two democratic administration's as well. what's the big difference between the obama administration and the biden administration on this issue? >> that's an interesting question. i was a career employee for most of my career except for the last nine months under the trump administration. obama did not believe in enforcing the border either. they just hid it better. this administration has openly

called for an open border. and you can see -- an example. they are blaming governor abbott for what happened over the weekend sending a bus to the naval observatory. but they don't say anything about tens of thousands of people crossing the border in the same weekend in el paso. oh, by the way, took the state of arizona to court because they had the gall to put border barriers on the southwest border to help control the flow of illegal aliens in arizona. we know where this administration stands and what we get with democratic control and weakness in the omnibus bill and not helping the front line to solve this problem. >> rich: ron, thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. a huge issue, looking for title 42, when it's going to end, and that expected surge coming to the border. >> aishah: a lot of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on the hill knew it was going to come to an end, it was not going to last forever, even though some hoped it would stay

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>> rich: store owners are sounding the alarm over a nationwide surge in shoplifting. it has gotten so out of control that many shops are locking up their items, including one new york city walgreens that has put a chain lock on the ice cream freezer. lydia hu is here with more from the new york city newsroom. what items are they targeting, lydia? >> hi there, rich, good to see you. you may think this would be a problem at high end stores, pricey items, expensive merchandise but this is targeting every day items. manhattan walgreens has locked up candy, ice cream and even coffee creamer. retail crime is one of the top

challenges today. and a major grocery store chain says products are targeted because they have a relatively high price point and value on the black market, items from steaks to energy drinks and detergent are frequently shoplifted. according to the national retail federation, losses in inventory amounted to 1.4% of retail value in 2021. rich, that's about $94.5 billion. retailers surveyed said covid has worsened the risk of crime, partly because of labor shortages have made it difficult to fully staff stores. others blame soft on crime policies, in fact, grand larceny, theft of items valued at more than $1,000, up 27% in new york city this year over last and thefts under $1,000 also up nearly 34% in the big apple. and now the product is affecting the bottom line. target's ceo said profit losses could reach $600 million by the

end of its fiscal year because it's losing so much merchandise and inventory. the walmart ceo said stores could be closed if the rise in shoplifting is not curtailed. and walgreens said earlier this year, it's losing 50% more money than prior to the pandemic. what it means for us, possibly higher prices and fewer places to shop. >> rich: lydia, thank you. layoffs can be a key warning sign for an economy that's about to sink. a recent surge in americans losing their jobs to end the year, has many worried a recession could be around the corner. let's bring in doug holtz eakin, former director for budget office, and president of the american action forum. good to see you, welcome to the show. thanks for being with us. so you are the numbers guy, you can get into the gritty of this.

numbers, i thought this was shocking. this is the forbes layoff tracker. and shows 125,000 employees lost their jobs so far this year, but doug, take note. almost half have happened since november. that's shocking. so, some folks are saying look, these companies were just -- had just overhired, they were trimming the fat. what do you think? do you think this is a sign of recession? >> well, certainly it's been a lot of concern about the strength of the economy through 2023. i mean, that's on everybody's radar, and when you hear numbers like, you know, a firm laying off 10,000 employees, that's 10,000 bad news stories and there's nothing to think lightly about that. for perspective, 155 million americans that work, and to move the big numbers, the unemployment rate, the fraction of the population that's out of work, you have to have a lot more layoffs than what we have seen so far. so it's a concern, but we still

have ten and a half million job openings out there, 3.7, very, very low unemployment rate, so more layoffs on everyone's radar screen. recession in 2023 is certainly better than 50/50 chance, given historical record, but it's not here yet, that's for sure. >> aishah: not on your radar yet. explain to people at home, what would be the warning signs we need to be on the lookout for? >> i think two big warning signs. every post war recession except the most recent one, business spending goes down first. so you see firms, they stop building new buildings, stop buying new equipment, stop investing in new software and that down turn is usually followed a quarter, six months later by a down turn in household spending. keep your eye on the businesses and spending patterns. when you see the ceo say no expansion, no acquisition, that is a real warning sign for

recession and the second one that jumps up is new claims for unemployment insurance. when the pandemic recession hit, new claims jumped by 2 million in a month. then you know you are in trouble. >> aishah: interesting. we know the fed has been super aggressive with interest rates and obviously wages are still hot right now. so, the president about to sign this 1.7 trillion omnibus with your cbo experience, we have to ask you, how is that going to play a factor in all of this? how is that going to impact you and me? >> that's, you know, 1.7 trillion more in spending, not financed by any sort of taxes, so that's deficit spending, which is where the inflation came from to begin with, makes the fed's job harder. it's not enormously harder but it's going the wrong direction. and so that means the fed continues to raise early this year and when the fed raises, it does that in a way that is well intentioned but once you have inflation you have choices, and

hear about layoffs and business problems like the housing sector, more of that in early 2023. a top priority for the next congress is going to get the spending under control, make the federal budget add up over the long-term. that's a problem that's been around for too long and needs to get fixed. >> aishah: see if house republicans can do anything about it. doug holtz eakin, thank you for joining us. a pleasure to see you. >> thank you. >> rich: inflation is no match for the holiday spirit. new numbers show overall sales actually rose 7.6% during the christmas rush this year, exceeded expectations from experts. says it was mostly fueled by online shopping for clothing, along with spending at restaurants. so -- >> aishah: a couple different factors. online shopping is so easy to say yes, and click buy, purchase, without taking the credit card out and punch in the

number, not a victim, but a part of this. >> rich: sure, you contributed. >> aishah: a lot of folks had to put their gifts and you know, holiday shopping on credit cards this year, and that was really tough i think for a lot of americans that normally would not have had to do that, but prices are so high across the board and when you are feeding a family, guests coming in. i heard a story somebody was charging their relatives for christmas dinner, and i don't know if that's not a bad idea, but -- >> rich: also have to wonder how much the supply chain problems that were happening last year, how much that, the businesses have been able to get online. not looking at something that's going to arrive in nine months, but looking at maybe you can get in a few days or a week or so. so, that could be playing as well. but the economy is still lurching back from all that we saw during covid. >> aishah: you've got it. as fighting continues in

ukraine, rich, president putin claims he is ready for peace talks. do his actions tell us otherwise? dan hoffman is going to weigh in on that straight ahead. >> rich: plus, a major change could be coming for gun owners in florida. new law governor ron desantis is fighting for could be in effect as soon as next year. >> this was something i've always supported, even states like vermont and new hampshire have been able to do that. the so, we'll get that done.

>> aishah: welcome back. fox news alert, vladimir putin claims he is ready for peace talks but aparentally only on russian terms. rejecting a proposal for a peace summit, making it unlikely. they bombard ukraine with missile strikes targeting the power infrastructure. dan hoffman is standing by to break this down for us. putin's thinking in a couple

minutes. but first, nate foy is live with the latest in kyiv. nate. >> hey, aishah, ukraine accused of targeting civilians in the past hour, regional authorities in kherson say russia attacked the maternity ward of a hospital, take a look at these pictures that we are just seeing for the first time. remarkably ukraine says nobody was hurt in this attack. ukraine says two children were born at this hospital today, thank goodness they are ok as well as the five mothers who are staying here. take a look at this next video, as intense fighting continues in the east. this video from the front line city, ukraine says russia's actions on the battlefield are proof they are not interested in peace. here is foreign minister. >> we are aiming at the end of february. they regularly say they are ready for negotiations, which is not true, everything they do on

the battlefield proves the opposite, to the contrary, they are not seeking peace. >> this comes one day after russia claims to have shot down a ukrainian drone targeting an air base deep inside russian territory. ukraine has not taken public credit for this, but they did call it a consequence of russian aggression. ukraine also promises to be fully trained on the patriot missile defense system in the next six months. listen to this. >> to meet ukraine's needs, u.s. administration has elaborated and a special force to make our operators ready within much shorter period of time. without any damage to the quality of the use of the weapon on the battlefield. >> the patriot system will just be part of ukraine's air defense strategy and it's badly needed to protect the critical

infrastructure here in the country. president zelenskyy says right now there are 9 million ukrainians without power. back to you. >> aishah: nate foy live in ukraine, thank you, nate. >> rich: for more on this, who better to turn to than dan hoffman, let's get to what the russian government has said about this, dan. this is from lavrov, the ball is on the side of the kyiv regime and washington that stands behind its back. they may stop senseless resistance at any moment. are we any closer to any type of real legitimate negotiation or is this the same posturing that we have seen, dan, for the last ten months? >> you know, the kremlin's demands have not changed from the start of the war over 300

days ago. foreign minister lavrov is saying stop resist ting, so that russia can complete the annexation of the territories that vladimir putin announced even though part of the territory of kherson is under ukraine control and they can topple the zelenskyy government. that's what russia wants. they don't want to be subjected to the justice over the war crimes they have committed, targeting ukrainians and hospitals and schools and neighborhoods and targeting ukrainian civilian infrastructure and denying so much of the population, 40%, without power. those are agregious war crimes and russia does not want to be subjected to the justice for which they richly deserve. >> rich: what's the mindset of the putin regime here as they have utterly failed to take the capital, to topple the government, supply chain problems, troop level problems, all of these issues now as they lead in occupation that's turned out to really be somewhat of a

mess here. is there a disconnect or how do they come to terms with how this war has gone over the past ten months? >> vladimir putin is in his most weakened state over the past, you know, 20 years. i mean, this war has done nothing but cause his rein in the kremlin to be more tenuous than ever before and his regime security is absolutely on the line. russia considered ukraine a threat because what scares putin is democracy. could never have ukraine seeking to have commercial ties with the european union and military ties with nato and build a functioning democracy and russia's border. that's what scared vladimir putin the most and why he decided he needed to invade, topple the zelenskyy government and have his puppet regime. he has failed miserably, and

ukraine has done more than any nato has done and to cut russian down to size, and china has to have buyer's remorse over their partnership with russia, and china has to be seeing now the west has been awakened from their post cold war slumber and is ready to do something to help ukraine to fight for democracy and freedom and liberty in the face of this brutal russian onslaught. >> dan, on the flip side of that, the united states has been forced to spend tens of billions of dollars, and focusing on china seems to be compromised yet again. how much has that hurt the u.s. posture in east asia? >> well, look, i think the united states -- i saw this from my decades of service at the cia. we could talk all we want what

we would like to focus on, but sometimes a crisis will happen in the world and we have to deal with it. as much as the biden administration would have preferred not to have to support ukraine in this war, that's the way it worked out, and our return on investment has been quite significant as i mentioned. and ukraine, the price that ukraine has paid is significant. look at 100,000 roughly casualties ukrainians and the same on the russian side. you know, ukraine is fighting with everything they've got and they are not going to give up until the russians have left their territory, and that includes the donbas, and things are interconnected and the more we help fight against russia and show a nuclear arms state cannot invade another and mount what fiona hill has called an imperial land grab, the more we cut china down to size, the things are interconnected in an

effective foreign policy. the world is so interconnected now we need to be prepared to deal with multiple fronts, whether it's north korea, iran's nuclear program, trans national terrorism, china, russia, that's the challenge for the biden administration. >> rich: have to stay nimble. sometimes history gets in the way of best laid plans. always a pleasure to have you join us. >> aishah: rich, we want to get to this. another war may be brewing in europe. serbian troops are on high alert at the border with kosovo, as that nation continues its refusal to recognize the republic's independence. the move comes despite calls from nato to ease tensions. the u.s. and most e.u. countries officially recognize kosovo's declaration of independence from serbia in 2008. we will keep an eye on that.

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made this decision. goldberg was temporarily suspended ten months ago from "the view" for insisting the holocaust was not about race. aishah. >> he promised he was going to come home and got drugs one more time and that is what had the fentanyl in it that time. >> she went to a party, took what she thought was xanax, and it was fentanyl. >> unfortunately he was able to easily obtain what he believed was oxycodone through social media and that pill took his life. >> aishah: heartbreaking stories from family members who lost their loved ones to fentanyl poisoning. the deadly drug making its way across the southern border and into the hands of americans. just last week, arizona's nogales port of entry, two-day stretch seizing more than a million pills, unbelievable.

derek maltz, former dea special operations director, thank you for joining us and taking some time for us. those stories are so heartbreaking. what kills me are the kids in all of this. not only the kids that are now being targeted by the cartels with that rainbow-colored fentanyl but also the kids that have lost parents and i want to put up some numbers quickly to show just how many deaths we had. 106 -- 107,000 nearly, about 16% up from 2020. clearly, derek, something is not working. so, what is it? >> well, for one, aishah, thanks for having me. fox is doing a great job covering this and i work with the families, i know all the families very well, it's very sad. so, number one, the cartels have made a business decision to sell synthetic drugs to our country. and they have mass amounts of supply right now being produced on a daily basis, and the incentive is very high.

if you look at right now, it's less than $0.15 to make a pill, a fake, deadly pill. and we just seized like millions, right? seizing millions all the time. cbp is doing prework. dea reported the seizure of 50 million pills this year. the problem is, the pill production and the fentanyl production labs are operating with impunity, the president of mexico is soft on crime like our president and the bad guys are taking total advantage. pills are all over america. we don't even know how many pills are here. we know law enforcement has done a great job seizing tremendous amounts of pills, but we have no idea what's really here. but we can only imagine like if you look at historically they said, you know, we seized 10% of what we actually -- what is getting into the country, so do the math, its off the charts.

>> aishah: derek, i want to bring up something that most people don't know, i think, is we see what's happening at the border, and we see how wide open it is, right. the border is not secure. but most of the fentanyl is actually slipping in through ports of entry. i was down in san diego earlier this year and i got to talk to some border patrol agents and they were telling me they are about to open up an extra lane just through the drive-thru traffic because they were getting ready for title 42 to end. so, maybe help us understand why so much fentanyl is getting through these ports of entries. >> well, you have a lot of reasons. number one, the cartels are very savvy, very smart. they are taking advantage because our border patrol's mission has gone from security to bureaucracy and paperwork and baby-sitting. they can't man all these poes properly, they don't have the adequate resources, don't have the technology that they would need, and the cartels, by the way, are taking total advantage

of the wide open border. they are flooding the zone of the border patrol where they are sitting and then they are going, you know, a mile, half a mile up the river and just blitzing the country with the deadly drugs. but let's not forget. christmas day 300 families got a call that their loved one had passed away. six overdosed or poison in san francisco. let's look at new york, in a county, two weeks ago, last week, 14 poisoned in a day and a half. then if you look at broom county, new york, seven dead in 11 days in early december. so, it's going to continue until this administration goes after those cartels and pushes the mexican government to do more. right now they are not doing anything. what they did seize, by the way, 600 pounds of pills early december, over 3 million pills they reported. so, they are making some seizures but we have to go after

the cartels, destroy their labs, and we have to shut it down. >> aishah: we have to go, i'm so sorry, i could talk to you about this all day long. heartbreaking, changing families forever. people are losing their parents, mothers and fathers, heartbreaking. thank you for joining us and sharing some of your insight with us. >> rich: the state of florida is set to make a very big change to gun laws. governor ron desantis says he would sign the measure. second amendment advocates are big supporters but gun control calls it reckless and dangerous. that's next. appraisal or termite inspection. no upfront costs at all. let us get your family security of cash in the bank.

i can't believe it. here we are at the let us do good village. first community like this in america. a hundred families together that lost their loved ones. the kids that lost their mom or dad protecting us. and today is the day that we're going to deliver the first beautiful home to the thornton family. some wonderful people donated. a bunch of land in land o' lakes. to let us do good village. having stood here on this same property with a shovel and now seeing a home where a family is going to move in. built all of our roads, all of our infrastructure is here. we've got several homes are under construction.

and this is absolutely amazing to me. it's going to have a pool gym, rec center, beautiful facility, a movie theater where the folks, again, can live and heal and grow together. to see it completely done, to see it fully furnished, it's a blessing to be able to get a home like this. my children struggle a lot, but i feel like this community will bring a closeness with other children that are struggling with the same thing that they are. this is going to be my home. if you look around, can you just imagine the families like minded folks? that's going to be here. here at the let us do good village, we can bring all those folks together. this is something that america is missing. people seeing these things happen inspire others to do good. we need to take care of our gold star families. tunnel to towers does that. this is a foundation that you should be a part of because not just helping me, but there's so many people like me that need help.

this time next year, we hope to have another dozen houses done with another dozen families in. it's a way to say thank you to the americans that paid and made the ultimate sacrifice. every inch of this community has meaning. >> a permitless carry bill will allow people to carry a gun without a safety training. phil keating has more.

how many other states have a law like this? >> hey, rich. this year texas, alabama and georgia joined what is half of the country. as it is right now, if you want a concealed gun on your body in public, you have to first apply to the department of agriculture, get fingerprinted and you get a special permit. then you have to take a four-hour gun safety class. much of that could go away if florida passes a permitless carry law allowing florida writtians to carry a handgun loaded an concealed all of the time. paul rennor says such a bill is a priority. ron desantis says he will sign it. >> this is something that i've always supported. puts us in line with a majority of states that have done that and give states like vermont and new hampshire have been able to do that.

so we'll get that done. >> 25 states have already have such a law. the states in green from maine to alaska. florida would make number 26. not knowing who is packing heat and who is not is the whole point. >> it's the mystery aspect in arms society being a polite society. if you assume that everybody can be armed, you'll treat everybody with more respect. you're not going to challenge people and unnecessarily engage in aggressive acts. >> gun control advocates disagree vehemently. they plan to lobby hard in tallahassee against such legislation. >> why are we going to make it easier to carry a firearm? it doesn't make sense. it is reckless. it is dangerous. it's the height of irresponsibility. >> now, to buy a gun at a federally licensed gun store, a shop like this, you're still going to have to get a

background check from the federal government. but if not, if you pass and you get your concealed weapon, in half the country much easier now and the florida legislature convenes in early march. rich? >> phil keating live in miami. phil, thanks. aishah? >> how about this? an oklahoma dog has its day after firefighters make a daring rescue. watch this. incredible video here. a golden retriever fell through a frozen lake on a christmas eve. you can see here a first responder grabbing a paddle boat to go save the pup tugging on his collar and getting on the board. the pup reunited with its owner. the owner wanted him back. >> don't go near the lake again. >> he's a rascal. >> needs to have a talking too. thanks for joining us so much on your afternoon. i'm aishah hasnie. >> i'm rich edson.

"the story" with gillian turner is in for the next hour. stay tuned. >> thank you, aishah and rich. good afternoon from washington. i'm gillian turner in for martha maccallum. we're awaiting word from the supreme court on title 42. any moment, the justices set to issue an order ending the border policy or keeping it in place. if it does end, border agents say they expect a new surge of people across the southern border worsening what they say is an overwhelming crisis. the "new york post" is reporting that cbp is building a makeshift facility near el paso in anticipation of title 42's end. we have fox news coverage. matt finn is live at the border and peter doocy at the white house. we'll bring in rodney scott who says this is a national se