level for democrats. paul: yeah. let's hope that that is exactly what happens, and maybe the senate will come around. remember, if you have your own hit or miss, be sure to tweet it to us at jer on fnc. thanks to my panel, thanks to all of you for watching. i'm paul gigot, hope to see you right here next week. ♪ ♪ arthel: and we begin with startling and unprecedented new numbers from the southern border. customs and border protection reporting more than 250,000 encounters in the month of december alone. that marks a new high for the biden era border crisis now entering its third year. welcome to a brand new hour of "fox news live. q. i'm arthel neville. eric: i'm eric shawn. hay keep on coming, and the numbers are growing and mind-boggling. the latest figure means there have been over 700,000 migrant

encounters just in the first three months of fiscal year 2023. but the biden administration continues to maintain that the border is secure. we're looking live at eagle pass, texas. that's where griff jenkins joins us with the late from there. hey, griff. >> reporter: hey, good afternoon, eric. and if you weren't just watching that drone, we can take you back up to it. the border patrol air boats just passing underneath the bridge here in eagle pass. it is ground zero here in the del rio sector for this crisis is. these agents in texas dps troopers and national guard here are absolutely exhausted from what has been happening, and that is why these december numbers were so startling. take a look at these numbers. let's go into them. 251,000 migrant encounters in december of which 49,405 were title 42. that means that 200,000, eric, were released into the u.s. that is quite a stunning number

there in and of itself. but the the second number is what i wanted to show you. the 717,660 for fiscal year 2023. there have been 113 days this fiscal year since it began on october 1st. that is roughly 7800 migrant encounters a day. that is unsustainable, unprecedented and something that they cannot deal with. but those are just the ones that gave themselves up, the ones that that don't want to be apprehended -- we can show you this video, exclusively cameras embedded with texas dps here on friday night. in the span of six hours, eric, hay stopped three smuggling attempts, arrested two separate smugglers driving, being paid $2,000 or more, they're being charged with human smuggling. that is why the vice president of the national border patrol council down here says it's unimaginable just how much the cartel has a grip on our borders. take a listen here.

>> i don't think there's really anybody who truly sees exactly how much they're able to control it. i mean, imagine the cartel has unlimited resources. they have unlimited money. they don't have a budgetary process like we have in the federal government, they don't have to fill out paperwork to do things or buy things. they do whatever they want. >> reporter: and then let me, eric, leave you with one last number, and that is the number border patrol does not want to talk publicly about, at least cbp and the border patrol bosses, and that's the known gotaways. this fiscal year so far, more than 278,000 known gotaways, meaning they were seen or detect thed on camera, we don't know who they are, where they're going, but they have escaped into the interior, and we'll never know why they're here. eric? eric: so, griff, you have that number, just under 300,000 known gotaways, and you just said 200,000 people who were released. you're talking about half a million people. what happens to those the who are released, and do they ever

really come back like maybe the gotaways don't? >> reporter: that's the a great question, and people have forgotten they are given, essentially, a address for the i.c.e. office nearest to wherever their destination is going to go, and if they're going to claim asylum, it's on their own volition that they'll have to do it. when you and i and arthel first started talking about this crisis in the spring of 2021, the agents were still processing them, giving them a court order to have appear for a hearing. now that has gone all the door. the policy the administration has been doing for the better part of past year is that they're just released en masse and told to report on their own to claim eye asylum. otherwise we don't know where they ended up and whether or not they choose on their own to go to a court hearing. and that is why this problem has become so significant and really the evolution of the crisis. and that's why the border patrol agents are so frustrate thed that these policies have become

this. they hope that they will change in the coming months now that the administration says they're going to try and do something about it. eric? eric: griff jenkins, on top of the story as he always is. griff, good to see you, thank you. arthel? arthel: yeah. and, griff and eric, as those records were broken in december, customs and border protection, they're experiencing, well, a noticeable increase in arrivals from countries like cuba and nicaragua as arrivals if from an area of the world called the northern triangle that we speak about often. well, those numbers are down. the northern triangle is an impoverished section of central america that tiply -- typically sees a lot of migration to the united states. so let's bring in rodney scott now, former u.s. border patrol chief and distinguished senior fellow for border security at the texas public policy foundation. so if you could in simple, nonpolitical terms, can you answer the question why are these migrants flocking to and

crossing this southern border in record numbers? >> so i will answer that question why, it's because there's no consequence. and griff did a great job going through all those numbers, but those are only southwest border numbers. so if you look at the totality because it's the united states, it's not just the southwest border, it's over 300,000 encounters with illegal aliens. that's numbers on the canadian border and our coasts are also increasing was they know that we pulled our resources and sent them to the southwest border. the reason they cross is because, one, there's no consequences and, two, the cartel is using them as human shields. when paul talked about the control the cartel has, you can't understate that. i don't think a lot of people understand. the cartel, they do make money off of human smuggling and trafficking, but more importantly, they use these human beings as shields, as distractions to overwhelm law enforcement so he can create huge holes where they can just

bring across narcotics, criminal aliens or anything else. every time arrested illegal aliens significantly surges upwards, drug seizures and criminal arrests usually decrease as a percentage because the agents are simply overwhelmed, and that is the national security threat we keep trying to drive home. arthel: so how do you combat the cartel? >> first and foremost, you take away the tools that they use against us which is massive illegal immigration. and that's simple, you make sure there's a consequence to illegal entry, and you're not allowed -- even if you're claiming assue lumbar, you're -- asylum, you're not allowed to roam freely until the judge has adjudicated your case. as soon as people see that we're serious, the flow stops. last month when the secretary the talked about a new program for venezuela and some others, you saw a little bit of a dip -- arthel: yeah. let me -- i know what you're talking about --

[inaudible conversations] let me explain for the viewers, give me a second. i beg your pardon, i have a little bit of a delay. let me explain the policy you're talking about for the viewers, and then i'll get your reaction. so a couple of weeks ago, is what you're talking about the, the biden administration, they issued a new policy in part this would accept 30,000 migrants a month in this fiscal year, 2023, which ends in june. the migrants would be from venezuela, nicaragua, haiti and cuba, and they have to have an eligible sponsor in the state, and they have to pass a background check. and the administration will also crack down, according to this policy, will also crack down on those trying to come in illegally. so back to your answer, will this help fix the problem or not? >> if it was real and it was meaningful, it would. but it's a lot of smoke and mirror toes. they talked about a 5-year ban. that is only if the individual is actually deported from the united states. and they're the actually not doing that part.

so if they show up at the border or do that cbp one app with an appointment or they cross the border illegally, there's sill a high probability they're going to get released into the united states, the vast majority. so there was a quick dip because people listened to it, but as soon as they got phone calls from their relatives that it wasn't really working that way, the flow just continues. you have to have real, meaningful consequences. it can't just be lip service. arthel: let's listen to democratic congressman henry cuellar. he is of texas, as you well mow. here's his idea of a solution. let's listen. >> we can do this with the law enforcement and the right policies at the border without the military. as you know, there is a law that prohibits the military from coming in. keep in mind that the national guard and the other military that we've had have only provided support services, support services to the border patrol. but it's not only the personnel that, the technology, it's the

policy at the border. arthel: so what do you think about what the congressman is saying? >> so there's partial truths there, but the end statement is 100% accurate. right now it's policy. we could line all of our military up on the border, but as long as you're still releasing every single person we catch into the united states, they're going to keep coming en masse. it's that policy that is the pull factor the currently. we proved in the last administration if you had consequences and due process in front of the release, then all of a sudden the fraud was gone, and then that took away mass human shields prosecute cartel. and -- from the cartel. and then criminal arrests increased because we are doing our real national security job. arthel: and what's the difference? was it title 42 that you were able to use in the last administration managers -- administration. i have to go, but i wanted to ask you that. >> it was a whole slew of things, most importantly probably the migrant protection

protocols in the remain in mexico program where it prevented people from being able to exploit the loopholes in our asylum system and get released before a judge made a decision. we just put due process -- arthel: is mention owe -- mexico still onboard with that? >> mexico was onboard with that before because the united states government put pressure on them and made it in their best interests. this administration has not put any political pressure on mexico to restart that program. arthel: well. i have more follow-ups, rodney, but i have to go. thank you for your patience for the delay we had, sorry about stepping in you. take care, and we'll talk about you. >> thank you, have a great day. appreciate it. eric: it's not just human and drug smuggling that's on the rise on the southern border. border patrol says they have actually seen a surge in egg smuggling there. eggs. you know, the price of eggs here at home has skyrocketed about 60%. bird flu, inflation, supply chain among those issues being raised.

and down at the border they say, yep, several people have been caught trying to illegally bring eggs back to the u.s. from when they come back through the u.s. from mexico. a border patrol official from san diego, that office tweeted this saying that smuggled, raw eggs could be contaminated and any smugglers could be fined up to $10,000. president biden is spending the weekend at his beach home in delaware. new details now emerging that the senator decades ago, well, mr. biden then tank thed jimmy carter's cia nominee over the handling of classified documents then, and that man was famed jfk adviser ted sorenson. meantime, we're getting more in a big staff shake-up, a change in the west wing. lucas tomlinson has more. >> reporter: that's right, eric. ron klain, the president's chief of staff, is expected to resign in the coming weeks according to

media mutt -- multiple media outlets. fox news has not independently confirmed this. we have reached out to the white house for comment, but we have not heard back. this comes as more democrats are stepping up pressure for the president's handling of classified documents to be investigated. >> i want the facts. i want the department of justice to be completely thorough, completely honest, and i want the facts. >> we need to know who knew, when did they know, and why did they choose to keep it secret from the american people for, again, more than two months right before an election. >> reporter: and now two democratic senator, tim kaine and joe manchin, both facing re-election in 2024 also want to see in the matter investigated. manchin telling our colleagues at fox digital, quote: the report about president biden's mishandling of classified documents are extremely irresponsible and disturbing. these a allegations should be investigated fully. president biden's spending weekend in his other house in delaware. the white house says no

classified documents were discovered there unlike his other home in wilmington. the new republican chairman of the house intel committee sent a letter to biden's intelligence chief more than 10 days ago and hasn't heard back requesting a damage assessment, the same type done when those documents were taken -- similar documents were taken from donald trump's mar-a-lago estate. after remaining quiet over the past week, president biden spoke thursday. >> i think you're going to find there's nothing there. i have no regrets of following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. it's exactly what we're doing. there's no "there" there. thank you. >> reporter: once again reports that president biden's chief of staff, ron klain, will be resigning in the coming weeks. eric: about ron klain, he's been with the president for a long time, lucas. he was chief of staff for mr. bide when he was vice president -- >> reporter: right. eric: -- in the obama administration. any word on when he will be moving on and who could be tapped for the job? >> reporter: that's a good point, the second time that ron

klain is resigning and leaving joe biden after serving as chief of staff back during the obama administration. of course, there's a slew of candidates, anita dunn, other top advisers who have been very close to president biden. just no telling exactly who will step forward. eric? if. eric: we'll see. lucas, as always, thank you. arthel? arthel: eric, thank you. this just in to fox news, police have now captured all five inmates who escaped a missouri jail. the group had been on the run since tuesday, and police say they made their way onto the roof, then stole a car from a nearby parking lot. one of the inmates was captured yesterday after being spotted at a bar. the rest were found in ohio a short time later. and now we're going to go to this other story here with new questions about the mysterious death of a california public defender at a resort in mexico. elliott9 blair was celebrating his first wedding anniversary

with his wife in rosarita beach. investigators say blair fell from the balcony of their second floor room, but his family suspects foul play and wants their own investigation. christina the coleman spoke to the family's attorney, and she is live in los angeles with the very latest on this. christina. >> reporter: hi, arthel. mexican authorities have said that elliott blair was intoxicated and die after falling from a balcony after the resort. but his family disputes that claim. their attorney says blair's wife was told by a detective at the scene that he had been shot. >> the cop literally walked over and looked at the body and comes back over and says, yeah, he's got a bullet hole in his head, right? why is a cop going to say that if that's not true? >> reporter: the family's attorney, case barnett, says this is video of blair and his wife enjoying the resort and spa before he was found dead last

saturday. he were dancing and appeared happy. hours after this video was taken, barnett says blair's wife woke up around 1:40 in the morning to hotel staff the outside her door asking if some guy was her boyfriend. she says she went downstairs and discovered her husband face down on the ground, then started screaming for help. barnett says she does not know why he was outside at that hour. >> in front of their hotel room in his underwear, a t-shirt and socks? it doesn't make sense that he was out there at all. >> reporter: blair's family wanted to have toxicology tests run on blair's body before it was embalmed as part of their own independent investigation to prove that he didn't fall off some balcony while intoxicated. however, a funeral home official told them that his body had already been embalmed. it was another def can stating blow for his -- devastating blow for his family. >> when elliott's mother said

the body's already been embalmed, family was destroyed. i mean, kim fell into the fetal position screaming. the whole family, and this was like one of those moments, it was almost like having to experience the death again. jr. blair's body is still in mexico at this time. his family is trying to get it back to the u.s. as soon as possible. mayor of anaheim, california, is in communication with some high ranking initials in mexico e to -- officials in mexico to try and help family's efforts. arthel? arthel: christina coleman, thank you. eric? eric: we'll have the latest on the prosecutor's move to charge alec baldwin with man manslaughter charges in that deadly movie shooting. some wondering if they're trying to pressure the actor to take a plea deal. we'll take a look at the case and what alec baldwin could face as fox news continues. ♪ ♪ meet leon the third... the second... and the first of them all. three generations, who all bank differently with chase. luckily, chase has solutions that grow with you.

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arthel: well, production is expected to restart on movie rust more than a year after a deadly shooting on set halted filming. comes as alec baldwin, the film's lead actor and producer, will soon face involuntary manslaughter charges in connection to that shooting. the film's weapons specialist

will also be charged. iowa lex sis mca also also that the the details. >> reporter: act or alec baldwin faces up to six and a half years in prison if he's convicted, and the d.a. says baldwin won't be arrested, but will have to appear at least virtually before a judge. we know he is here in new york, arthel. he was spotted in video in new york city in midtown manhattan as he faces charges of involuntary manslaughter for the shooting death death the sin of the cinematographer. is so the shooting happened back in october of 2021, that's the scene there in santa fe, new mexico. these pictures of baldwin were taken right after the fatal shooting, on the phone frantic, calling someone. baldwin was pointing the pistol when the gun went off. halyna hutchens was killed, she was a wife and a mom. her family's seeking justice as the special prosecutor tells fox news that the fbi already determined baldwin did pull the

trigger on the gun. it's a claim he has denied over and over again and says that despite massive amount of media attention, they're focusing on finding the truth. >> alec baldwin, he is an a-list actor and there's a lot of, you know, hype around all of that, but he isn't bo the law. we're more concerned with getting justice for halyna hutchens and also making it clear that these movies immediate to invest in safe i and on a low budget film like "rust," safety is not something that needs to be compromised, and that's what happened here. >> reporter: and, arthel, hutch ins' family is seeking justice the, and baldwin's attorney said mr. baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet. he relied on the professionals who had assured him there were no live rounds many that gun. arthel. arthel: live right here many our new york city newsroom, alexis mcadams, thank you. eric? eric: some believe that the

district attorney's decision to announce the manslaughter charges before they're actually officially filed could be a strategic move to try and strike a plea deal with mr. baldwin. and the prosecutors say the film's assistant director has already agreed to plead guilty to one count of negligent use of a deadly weapon and serve six months' probation. as alexis reported baldwin and the film's armorer are facing up to six and a half years in prison they're found guilty on two counts of involuntary manslaughter. or her mercedes -- can mercedes, isn't it unusual for a prosecutor to announce, well, we're going to file charges, you know, in a few weeks or the end of the month? i mean, they usually have a press conference when they file charges. any sight sight on what they're trying to accomplish and why they did? >> that's a great point, eric. part of it is exactly what you said at the introduction of this segment, is the fact that this is really a call for plea deals.

there had been already rumblings a long time ago, certainly after ms. hutch hutchens' death, that they were looking into criminal charges. in fact, there had been some sort of at least overtures saying, well, we might immediate some funding to bring charges against four individuals. that was call then to say, let's see, who could that possibly be? the armorer, gutierrez reid. the assistant director, david halz and alec baldwin. so they knew for a long time that that was going to happen, and david halls, frankly, was a very strategic, smart move on his behalf and his lawyer's behalf to strike a deal before the involuntary man manslaughter charges arose. now you have a cooperating witness, and that is going to be problematic for mr. baldwin and gutierrez reid who are the two individuals they're seeking charges against.

eric: alec baldwin, as you know, has called this a tragic accident, but he says he's not responsible. first of all, said he didn't pull the trigger. fbi says that's, apparently, not true, that the trigger was pulled. but he says he was told that the gun didn't have live ammunition in it, so do you have to show criminal intent on his behalfsome he says that -- behalf? he says that that when the director handed him the gun, the director called cold gun meaning no live weapon or ammunition in the weapon. >> you don't have to show intent to create murder in in the case or physical harm, deedily harm, any of that. it's criminal negligence. it's a deviation from a standard of care. so let's unpackage that for a minute. so you and i are jurors in this case. the first question in our minds will be, you're handed a gun. well, certainly, if someone handed us a gun, eric, i will

bet my life that you and i will be looking at that a chamber or at least have the individual open up the gun fully to see whether or not there's a live round in it. would we really take someone's word on that? especially when you're talking about the fact that if there is the a live round in there, someone's going to die. so that's going to go lu jurors' minds -- through the the jurors' minds. and on the prosecution, it's a simple them. they're not overprosecuting this case. they're not charging them with intentional murder. premeditated murder. none of that. they're saying you deviated from the standard of care, and someone died. it is a simple message. it's one that can be very relatable for a jury sitting there, and heir going to question, well, if you have two individuals -- of course, alec baldwin's lawyers are going to say you had the armorer, the assistant director that said rethere were no live rounds, and the assistant direct canner says i didn't handle this gun, so i'm

the fall guy in all of this. it's going to be a hard case for the jury to say i can't find responsibility for the two remaining individuals who are being charged. it's difficult. eric and is you mentioned the armorer, a young woman whose father is in the business. isn't it her bottom line responsibility as armorer to make sure there are no live rounds in the weapon? >> yes, there is. but we already know days before ms. hutchens' death that there were security issues on this set. there were individuals, it's been reported, that walked off the set because they said security was lax and they felt unsafe, and they walked off the set. so if all of this is happening and there were also reports that ms. giewpt less reid, who is very young, didn't have a lot of experience, felt overworked, had a lot of guns, apparently, that she was trying to imagine all of those things are a recipe, you put it all together, and you know the prosecutor's going to do that. they're going to go step by step e, show from the inception the

problems on the set, state the issues and the concerns. and, lo and behold, someone dies. ultimately, the jury's going to say you should have known, gutierrez reid and mr. baldwin, that there may be a security issue. maybe that gun isn't safe and cold. and one of the things to point out, eric, that you mentioned before, the fact that a alec baldwin has gone on the airwaves and said i didn't pull trigger and there is a rebuttal by fbi experts that step thed forward and said there's no conceivable way that bullet would have been discharged without someone pulling the trigger. that's very problematic if mr. baldwin takes the stand, because there will be this competing narrative. and, frankly, it could be with up to the jury to decide. it's best that he not even mention the fact that a he didn't pull the trigger. could have easily have said i don't remember pulling the trigger and, obviously, i never intended for ms. hutchens to die. we'll see what happens. eric: it is a tragedy and also

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eric: the justice department is reportedly investigating the company at the center of the lingering baby formula shortages across the country. "the wall street journal" was the first to report the probe of abbott laboratories. fka inspectors say they found bacteria at the company's built in michigan a year ago. that, if you'll recall, triggered a major recall that forced the factory to shut down. at the time the plant produced about one-fifth of our country's baby formula.

the whistleblower alleges abbott employees covered up food safety violations from fda inspectors before that recall. abbott says it is fully cooperating with the investigation. arthel? arthel: all right. eric, thank you. well, treasury secretary janet yellen says the u.s. is taking, quote, extraordinary measures after u.s. hits its debt limit. yellen says those moves will help federal government to continue paying its bills until june. at that point the u.s. would be in danger of defaulting on its debt. analysts though warn there is no financial danger, at least not yet. >> we're not in the brunt of fiscal crisis, but the problem is the more you run up your debt, higher the risk that you can get into one. and we are, look, a strong, powerful country, we're the greats economy in the world, and so we can bear a lot of debt. but the bigger they are, the harder they fall. and so when that crisis does come, if it comes, it could be a global financial disaster.

arthel: all right. well, joining us now is peter morici, former u.s. international trade commission chief and now a business professor at university of maryland. so, professor, let me set this up. president deficit -- if the deficit is caused by spending more than you make and debt is an aa cumulation of deficit, is the best way to fix it increasing the debt ceiling, kind of like increasing how much you can charge on credit cards or stop spending as much or make more money? >> well, we certainly would like to make more money, but i don't think that's possible. we're make all we can. we either have to raise tax the, cut spending or raise the ceiling. and even if we raise taxes and cut spending, we couldn't do it enough to avoid raising the ceiling simply because the deficit is too large at this point to so abruptly change our fiscal posture. if we did that, the economy would tank because there simply wouldn't be enough spending. the other thing to remember is that we print the world's money. we're the reserve currency.

and because of that, we naturally have a trade deficit which is financed partially by printing money and having a budge deficit. the real -- budget deficit. the real question is a matter of proportion. are we borrowing too much? yes. can we not borrow at all? no. arthel: huh. and we're showing on the screen right now the debt -- it's at $31.4, 5 trillion. the debt per citizen is $94,000, and the debt per taxpayer is $246,000 and some change there. so can congress control the budget though without cutting or reducing programs like? >> oh, we don't have to reduce social security to deal with this problem, but we have to recognize that we have a huge entitlement state. you know, we give food stamps to healthy men who could be working who choose not to. we don't need to do that. so we could cut entitlement

element -- entitlements. and the republicans talk a lot about that when they're not in power. when they were in power, they blinked, they didn't do anything about it. remember, they were going to fix obamacare? obamacare's enormously pension i. and there's -- expensive. and there's very little in the way of cost controls. we talk about, for example, prescription drug can coverage inside of medicare. the republicans are against regulating prices that the government pays for prescription drugs as is done in every other industrialized country. the united states spends 50% more than germany on health care, but the germans don't have a system like britain. they have a system like ours. hay basically have a system that looks like blue cross blue shield. why is it that it's so expensive here? the answer is congress isn't willing to take the steps, republican or democrat, necessary to rein in the gravely train. grave -- gravy train. arthel: well, why not? >> because there are people who

have livelihoods tied up in it,st painful to do it, and it would be a point of disappointment. but at some point something's got to give. we all recognize -- i hate to get on my china hobby horse, but the problems we have in the pacific. to deal with those, we're going to have to dramatically increase the navy or bear a considerable amount of risk. that costs money. the issues in the ukraine, that costs money. here at home, you know, we've been running segments here about the immigration crisis. even if we had -- joe biden got up in the moment and had a paul on the road to damascus event where he decided, gee, i've got to really get tough on immigration policy, it would cost a great deal of moneyed to do it. there's a lot of things in the country that are being neglected. we need to reprioritize what we spend. we're a wealthy country, we waste a lot of money. arthel: peter, i have follow-ups, but i don't have the time, so i will say good good-bye for now. peter morici, appreciate your

expertise. we'll see you again, thank you. eric? eric: well, google's parent if company, alphabet, it's the latest tech giant to announce a number of layoffs, and they're massive. the company plans to cut 12,000 of 150,000 employees. as big tech braces for what they think could be a recession. alexandria hoff has the late from washington. >> reporter: those 12,000 employees represent about 6% of company's work force. in a blog post and e-mail sent out to employees, the ceo wrote of the, quote, difficult decision. adding this, over the past two years, we've seen periods of dramatic growth, to match and fuel that a growth we hired for a different economic reality than one we face today. these job losses add to those already dealt by company like amazon, microsoft and meta. according to layoffs.fyi, since the beginning of 2022 tech firms and start-ups have lashed --

slashed more than 190,000 jobs. and with that has come the phrase white collar recession with companies coming to terms with overhiring during the pandemic boom. google, in particular, may have overinvested in artificial intelligence technology as well. but could the mass layoffs indicate darkness ahead for the rest of the u.s. economy? the white house says, no. >> i think there was arguably bloated employment. but what we're finding is that given the tautness of labor market, given the fact that there's over 10 million vacancies, unfilled jobs out there, many of those folks are finding jobs and good jobs pretty quickly. >> reporter: u.s. job growth as a whole does remain solid with 13 months of job openings above 10 million. there are signs though that it is beginning to soften in the face of higher interest rates. many december, 223,000 jobs were added to the economy, the smallest gain in two years. in terms of tech layoffs, the white house says that they watch closely anytime americans lose their jobs. eric? eric: all right, alexandria, thank you.

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take a look at some of these solemn images from in the funeral service with grieving family members, bid e does, parents and children gathering. even ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy visibly crying during this memorial. outside of the cultural center in the capital hundreds of residents gathered lining up for hours holding flowers to say good-bye. meanwhile in ukraine's donetsk reason, russia is celebrating victories for the second day in a row by claiming to have gained new ground. they do surround a hot zone, the center of some of the the most intense fighting that we have seen in recent months. soldiers there say that it's the tanks that would make greatest difference in holding on to mortar story and pushing russian forces back out of this land. however, little headway has been made on that front. nato's ukraine defense contact group in germany met yesterday,

but berlin has not signed off on sending leopard ii tanks to ukraine and neither has the u.s. in serving abrams. the u.s. did, however, unveil its massive package of more than $2.5 billion in security aid to ukraine. this is the second largest package if just -- package just after largest package which was $3 billion announced just a few weeks ago. altogether since the start of the war, the u.s. has given more than $26 billion. arthel? arthel: yeah. , and alex, meanwhile, images of the grief-stricken loved ones emphasizes the human toll in this horrible, horrible war. alex hogan live in kyiv, thank you. eric? eric: and that the continues. well, already new concerns here at home about the safety of the nation's busiest airport after a recent string of incidents including one man who police say tried to enter the cockpit of a plane and a woman accused of blasting passengers with a fire

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investigation, a man without a boarding pass, police say, got onto a plane and inside a cockpit. jonathan serrie is live at hartsfield-jackson airport in atlanta. jonathan, what's been going on there? >> reporter: hi will, eric. authorities are investigating a couple of incidents, a couple of security breaches here at what happens to be world's busiest passenger airport. on january 6th police arrested a man named terence sue art for criminal -- stewart for criminal trespass and awe though theft after she allegedly climbed perimeter fence, drove a delta the service truck the, a pickup truck, to a southwest airlines hangar, allegedly boarding a plane where he came face to face with an employee in the cockpit before leaving in another delta truck. that same day another man allegedly slipped past the tsa document checkpoint without showing any id or a boarding pass. authorities say once he got to the other side, he walked

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