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dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. we're live in yuma, arizona. give you a look around. 8:00 local time the sun is up. man, it goes from chilly desert chilly to nice and warm quickly. this wall goes for miles. this is the arizona sector here. there is a power plant in the distance. you see where the wall stops and breaks? that has been a problem. a little further another break in the wall. that's a problem. that's where the cartels have been exploiting the human smuggling for the past two years plus. take it here a little bit. the mountain in the distance is all california and the wall in the foreground is california as well. you have the colorado river is the border here. so california finished their wall. tommy, come back here.
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arizona hasn't. the biden administration and senator kelly of arizona, one of his main campaign themes for border security was to finish the gaps that you see. when we were out here last night we saw construction crews working on them. so there is work being done to close these gaps. just like water in a balloon, dana. once you seal one area it moves to another part of the wall. that is what we've seen up and down the border here in recent months. yuma had a big problem here with migrants crossing the area but they've moved more to the east places like nogales in arizona which would be 200 miles down the border here. so yuma has seen a drop in the number but they still have a ton of problems for the community and we're trying to find some of those throughout the day through the mayor. coming up this hour we'll talk to the hospital administrator. they have one hospital for the
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entire county. yuma is a town of 100,000. the county is 200,000 people. they have been dealing with it the best they can. border patrol has had their own challenges. the number of suicides on behalf of agents. you will meet a border patrol agent in a moment, he is retired and been on the force 27 years and worked in arizona. he worked in texas and he was in washington, d.c. he has a heck of a story to tell about what his men and women have been up against. if they get these gaps done it will help. in just this part of arizona. then they have to deal with the rest on down the line. that's coming up shortly as our coverage continues here in yuma. >> dana: looking forward to that. fox news is getting an exclusive news inside a migrant shelter in mexico. people from more than 30 countries applying for legal entry using this cbp1 app. meantime a live look at the southern border.
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thousands of other migrants trying to cross illegally some smuggled by american teens hired by cartels. this is a huge problem. griff jenkins is live in mission, texas with more. >> good morning. we plan to show you all of that footage from the migrant shelter but just in the last 45 minutes i have been riding with texas dps troopers and we got in a high speed. i'm riding with a sergeant as the driver pulled over, bailed and ran. these are the migrants that were ultimately recovered. there were seven total that ran. we were able to bring in border patrol agents as well as texas dps bring all seven into custody. the driver, dana, was a 15-year-old from mexico. he will be processed and charged. one of the migrants that was
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captured told me he was from guatemala and said he paid $7 thousand to the gulf cartel and he has a pay another $7 thousand once they got across. now he and his family are in danger because he doesn't know how he is going to pay that. we talked yesterday with lieutenant of texas dps about the surge in teen smugglers and what he had to say about that. >> they are targeting juveniles using social media platforms to recruit young drivers and because of that we've seen an uptick in human smuggling involved with juveniles. >> that's the reality of the border. one day you are just across the bridge talking to migrants trying to do it the legal way. the next you are in a high-speed car chase chasing smugglers. it happens every day out here, dana. >> dana: thank you so much. bill. >> bill: dana, chris clem border
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patrol agent. 27 1/2 years, now retired. houston texas born and raised. >> born in new orleans, raised in houston and came to the desert 27 years ago. >> bill: you retired. how come? >> i was a chief patrol engineer for the last two years. gave my heart and soul to this country i love and you love and the viewers love. it was a planned departure. something i wanted to do. there is more to give and here is an opportunity. >> bill: what are the agents dealing with as you look at this now in the rearview mirror? >> you know, i look in the rear view mirror but facing us we're in a crisis, a human crisis. agents are strongly resilient. they run to the sound of gunfire but this is a human issue we're dealing with. the numbers, the villainization of the border patrol at times makes it difficult. >> bill: you have been banging on washington for a couple of
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years now. why have you been left to manage this your way as opposed to getting the help you've asked for? >> you look at what we've been doing for several decades. every administration, every opportunity we have to advance border security, whether it's infrastructure, technology or people we've done it. we had a very safe and effective border process, border security process over the last few years and it got taken away from us. it really is putting human lives at stake from not only the agents on the line, communities impacted but people around the world trying to come here. that's something that needs to be addressed. we need to focus on this human factor. >> bill: amazing stuff. yuma has gotten better but they move down the line. the cartels know what they are doing. it is big money for them. >> it is wherever they can make money. right now they're using humans, people, exploiting people and by doing that they are putting people in harm's way and also
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bringing in poison into our communities, fentanyl and methamphetamine. some of the numbers may be dropping as far as people but the rescues, assaults is increasing. >> bill: i want to do something. off to the right here just tell us, sir, just explain the gaps in the wall here on the arizona side of the border. >> one of the biggest things we have here is infrastructure helps us slow down designed to impede, deny, control and detain. it was planned out. by a pen, it was put on hold. it really took me as the chief, senator kelly, ambassador salazar sent a message to washington, d.c. to say we need to close these gaps. human lives are at stake. communities at risk. it is finally getting done. >> bill: we saw construction crews last night and it is only 8:00 in the morning and they will come back again today. will these gaps be closed as
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senator kelly said and as the biden administration said in july of last year? >> it is my understanding these will be getting closed. construction is underway. it will help but it will take policy. it will take policy and really a collective group of the community, congress, business, to say how are we going to stop this problem, this flow of people? how will we get this poison out of the streets and get people in the right way? we should be a nation of tall fences and wide gates to let people come in the right way that deserve to come in. we have to get poison out of the street and bad people off the streets and be able to address this in a smart way and effective way. >> bill: what i thought was intriguing as we went up and down the wall last night before the sun went down, they can cut through portions of this wall. they can burn through it in an hour's time. it is almost like a cat and mouse game. do you have a good answer for that? >> again, infrastructure designed to impede and deny
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doesn't mean people can't get through. >> bill: you slow them down. >> allows our agents to respond. that's the big problem when things got shut down in january of 2021. it was a package that included technology. it wasn't just the wall. it was roads, technology, lighting, all the resources we need to do our job. >> bill: thank you for your service and thank you for your time. how is life today for you? >> i haven't shaved in a while. second or third times i have had to set an alarm. we're doing a lot of good things and working with lot of people that want to do good for this country to really save lives and keep people safe, keep america safe. >> bill: an honor meeting you. thank you for your time you've done here on the border up and down and washington, d.c. i hope you get the help you need, okay? thanks for shag -- sharing your story. >> dana: a classified briefing for the entire senate is getting underway on the unidentified
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objects shot down over north america in the past ten days. senators from both sides of the aisle voicing frustration with the lack of information so far from the biden administration. following this for us congressional correspondent aishah hosni is on the hill. >> good morning. that's right. senator chuck schumer walked into the classified briefing and told reporters we're looking forward to learning much more. that would be the consensus for all senators out there as this briefing could not come soon enough. we were starting to see bipartisan frustration over a lack of information really start to bubble over as late as last night. >> what are you learning about the balloons? >> i haven't learned anything yet. i'm dying to. >> we have not given any firm information on what we've concluded in terms of how long they've been up there, where they came from, what they may have picked up in terms of information. >> there has been bipartisan calls to hear directly from the president. arkansas gop senator tom cotton
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put it this way saying the president owes the american people an explanation direct and on camera of what we know about these objects. meanwhile again schumer wanting to do a deep dive here into why defense officials didn't understand china's massive espionage program better and earlier. >> congress is going to conduct a careful bipartisan examination at these various incidents and also look into why u.s. authorities didn't find these chinese surveillance balloons sooner. >> an all-senate briefing. the house is out this week so unclear as to when those folks will get their classified briefing. they also want one. >> dana: thank you for that. >> the only way black kids now can succeed in america is through charter schools and private schools and maybe catholic schools. they cannot in the current public school system right now
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reach the affluent county of montgomery county in maryland. that county has been stocking up on narcan. a school nurse demonstrates how it can save someone from a fentanyl overdose that starts those drugs along this arizona border here. >> we find somebody who is down. hey, hey, are you okay? there is no response. i can see his breathing is slow and shallow. i check his pupils, they are pinpoint. so we get the narcan and thinking it might be an opioid overdose and put it in one nostril and spray. >> bill: this now as montgomery county sees a surge in opioid overdoses among young people. chief washington correspondent
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mike emanuel has the story in silver spring, maryland. 2400 miles from us in arizona. mike, hello. >> good morning. with overdoses on the rise, schools in this upscale washington, d.c. suburb are fighting back. landon houseman was a 16-year-old known for being smart and funny and athletic. he took a percocet pill laced with fentanyl and ended up dead at home on his bathroom floor. his father, mark, found him the next morning and mark houseman, as you can imagine, is devastated. >> fentanyl is the big game changer. dealers are lacing fentanyl in other things as well, too, from marijuana to harder drugs. you know, people ask me all the time what is my view about fentanyl? the best way i can describe it, it's a destroyer of worlds. >> montgomery county, maryland schools have stocked up on
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narcan used to treat someone having an overdose. this product has been used 11 times in this county this school year. this has become a critical tool for those responding to overdoses in school. >> i think it is our best hope in the school at this point. >> just last month there was a suspected overdose at this high school behind me. narcan was used in the ambulance saving the student's life. this is not just a suburban washington, d.c. problem. in students in los angeles will be able to carry narcan with them under a new policy as fentanyl has invaded the nation's schools. bill. >> bill: incredible stuff. they say up to 90% of the fentanyl in america can be traced to arizona and the border down here. you are seeing it firsthand in silver springs. thank you, mike emanuel on that
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story for us today. >> dana: the border crisis is front of mind for governors across the country. joining me now is colorado governor polis. last week you were in washington, d.c. all the governors were gathered there talking amongst each other and to the administration what you need. was there a bipartisan con sen us asking the biden administration to do more on immigration? >> it starts with border security . 80,000 fentanyl deaths in america last year. it crosses in trucks and cars with the technology and dogs we can significantly reduce that and need congress to fund that. of course the broader security, border security as well. we also knowed to make sure we process asylum claims quicker. people caught up for a year, year and a half in paperwork until they can work and earn a living are a burden. they become an asset the minute they get the work card. we need workers in states like colorado and across the country
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and we have two job openings for every unemployed person right now. >> dana: what did you hear back from the administration on that? >> well, as you know if it's about border security the reason that president trump and president biden haven't been able to secure the border it takes congress to step up and fund it. no president has the power of the purse, the ability to spend money. congress needs to step up in a bipartisan way and actually fund border security. i am confidence that both this president, the last president support border security, ran on border security but it has been tr treated as an after thought. there are areas they need to make shoot. they need to make sure that they have the right investment the reduce the flow of fentanyl and people illegally. >> dana: have you seen a fentanyl problem in colorado? >> yes. sadly colorado is no exception to these trends occurring nationally. the vast majority enters at
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checkpoints at the southern borders. it is more controllable. industrial operation. it is killing people. we have a multi-pronged approach including behavioral health, outreach, education, tougher criminal penalties to go after dealers with pill presses. we have added a felony charges for possession of a pill press. a lot of people consume fentanyl and die. a war across the country on fentanyl. >> dana: i went to public schools and we moved out to the suburbs. ada story about baltimore has terrible math scores for their children there in that city. the colorado report card is not great, either. fourth grade at or above proficient in reading and math is only 38% in 2022. that's a decrease. in math 36%, again a decrease for the fourth graders, eighth graders have a similar situation. are you alarmed, concerned and
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do you think that school choice might be something that can help here? >> you are one of our proud high school alumni and never forget that. one of the things we look at. a simple correlation of time on task and learning. so we're working on after school math tutoring. like the rest of the country colorado math scores dropped. we want to help fund through the state across the state charter and public schools and every school after school math tutoring. great examples of choice and innovation in our state. 15 1/2% go to charter schools. there are good ones and charter schools that don't perform as well. but the fact is that we have these choices empower parents the make the best decision for their child. >> dana: you want to possibly eliminate the colorado state income tax. quick word on that. >> we saw two reductions voter
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approved since i was governor. reduced it to 4.4%. two different reductions and doing our best to use surplus funds we have to try to get the legislature to do another reduction along with other refunds. we should find things what we call negative -- things we don't like as a society that should have effectively taxes or fees not something like income which we want everybody to make income. it is a great thing for everybody. >> dana: you might have a lot of new yorkers heading to colorado. i don't know how you feel about that. >> we welcome them. they need to be more easy going than they are in the streets of new york city. >> dana: thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >> bill: 25 past now. back here on the border protecting kids from online predators . intriguing idea. lawmakers pushing a minimum age for you to get on social media. is it viable? we'll look at these intriguing ideas.
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>> we had a very safe and effective border process, border security process over the last few years and it got taken away from us. it really has put human lives at stake from not only the at on the line, communities impacted by it but people around the world trying to come here. it is something that needs to be addressed. we need to focus on the human factor. >> bill: the border special agent for 27 years recently retired. been retired 30 days. he has some stories, too. we're back live in yuma, arizona, a town that has seen so much. they have seen so much that a congressional hearing will take
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place in yuma in the next week or two. members of congress will come down here to hear a lot of the stories that we've been sharing so far today. yesterday our team was about 30 minutes down range here along the border wall when they encountered a number of migrants waiting to get picked up by buses and you can see about a half dozen or more waiting for the bus to arrive and they take them to a processing center. and that is the rhythm of the day up and down this area of the yuma sector that goes on, dana, for 110, 118 miles. now listen, a year ago they had 2500 a day come into this county. those numbers are down significantly. a number of different reasons for that but they are not out of the woods. i think one of the key points to remember here just the geography for this part of america. yuma county is bordered by two different mexican states on the
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other side. they deal with two different mexican cartels which means the pressure from both those areas for pushing drugs in this area is significant and they have got their hands full. >> dana: there is so much pressure on everybody there. did you see some of the big railroad containers? i saw video of that. then there was a controversy and they had to remove some of them. what are we looking at here? >> bill: a great point. the containers were put down on behalf of the state but then washington, d.c. sued them about six months ago and eventually they had a court fight and forced to move those and take those out. dana, we haven't seen any of those containers in the last day or two that we've been here. it was a problem the state thought they had a solution for areas of these gaps in the wall. washington shot it down. just going back 30 minutes ago, dana, these gaps are doing work
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now to try to close these gaps. which will help but until they are all done and all sealed the locals here will not get the relief they are looking for. >> dana: looking forward to more for the rest of the hour. >> bill: yep, okay. momentarily on that. in washington, the senate judiciary committee on protecting kids from the dangers of social media after the surgeon general said 13 is just too young for kids to be on those sites. gillian turner has the story with the ideas that are quite clever in washington. hello, gillian. >> hi. the top concerns for the panel this morning are protecting kids and teens from on lynn sex predators and protecting personal data and protecting their mental health. a slate of draft legislation out there now that deals with these issues. senator josh hawley is leading is way with a prosal to ban social media for all kids under 16. >> young kids in particular why do they get on social media?
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because their friends are on social media. the sense of i don't want to miss out. this is good for the kids, too. we now have more and more data on the effects of social media platforms on children, particularly young children and it is overwhelmingly negative. >> 13 is the age at which they allow kids to their platform. the surgeon general thinks it is way too young. >> based on the data i've seen believe 13 is too early. we need to think about what they think about their self-worth and the distorted environment of social media does a disservice to those children. >> cdc released a devastating report finds american teen girls are in crisis with nearly a third of them reporting they have considered seriously taking their own lives. engulfed in a growing wave of violence and trauma girls were
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twice as likely as boys to be electronically bullied through texting and social media. the essential question before the panel this morning is how young is too young for social media and is it up to the government or parents, bill, to protect them? >> bill: really interesting. solutions hard to come by. good story washington, d.c. >> dana: officials say they have recovered a large portion of chinese spy craft off the waters of south carolina but america is waiting for answers on the three other objects shot down over the weekend. former secretary of state mike pompeo says the country needs to hear from its commander-in-chief. >> president biden should be speaking to the american people not sending out proxy spokes people to talk about what has become a significant issue and allies across the world are wondering what the heck is going on. the united states allowed a balloon to travel for five days across the united states? they lose confidence in america.
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>> dana: former secretary of defense mark esper. good news they've recovered a significant portion of the spy craft. what can we learn from that? >> yes, it is great news. there will be a lot of things we'll learn. first the type of instruments on it. electrical, optical, signals collection technology and tell us what they were looking for and what they collected. if we know what they are looking for it may tell us what gaps they have in their space surveillance program. i this i the third important thing is the technology will give us an indication about where they are getting this hardware from. is it from the united states, from western countries? close up that gap in terms of tech release to the chinese. i think it is very important. the sooner we hear about what they captured i think will be important as well in terms of making the case about this unauthorized chinese surveillance. >> dana: kirby made some comments yesterday at the
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briefing. >> president biden came into office directed the u.s. intelligence community to do a broad assessment of chinese intelligence capability. china has a high altitude balloon program for intelligence collection connected to the people's liberation army operating during the previous administration but they did not detect it. we detected it. >> dana: how do you respond to that? >> look, in the trump administration we were constantly assessing chinese capabilities intelligence and military domes i can espionage all the time. i describe them as the greatest threat facing our country in this century and made it my priority to pursue that. look, it is true we weren't aware of this at the time. they detected it. we don't know how. it seems to be finger pointing after the fact. i this i the important thing is to focus on the way ahead and to talk about how those gaps are being closed to update the policy and procedures with
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regard to air surveillance protecting our sovereignty and taking the appropriate actions. clearly, they didn't make the right call allowing the balloon to traverse the united states for five days and then decide to shoot it down. that should have happened before the chinese scooped up a lot of important intelligence from the country from our most important strategic sites. >> dana: your gut instinct on the three other objects. do you know what they were or where they came from? >> my sense based on the factors it is not a chinese spy balloon. could be from russia. but maybe the more likely it is research on scientific experiments put up by companies or research institutions or friendly countries. will take time. >> until we know better about what's going on if we can determine it's unmanned i prefer policy of shoot down first especially if there is a threat
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to commercial airspace. >> dana: thank you for joining us this morning. >> bill: taxpayers on the hook for nearly $350 billion in pandemic relief fraud. the president said he is on the case. what took so long? the migrant crisis pushing the only hospital in the entire county of yuma to the brink. how that affects medical care for american citizens. >> we're in a crisis. it is a human crisis, agents are dealing with it. bank, use your va benefit at newday usa. you can borrow up to 100% of your home's value and take out an average of $70,000. pay off your car loan. pay off your high interest credit card debt. and pay yourself to have the security of cash in the bank. no upfront appraisal fee, termite inspection fee, or water test fee give us a call.
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the hospital and food banks. the president of yuma community food bank and we have a doctor from the medical center. great to see you both in person. doctor, you have one hospital in town that covers the entire town and the county itself. that's not a lot. we first came across your story a month ago when we heard about people pregnant women trying to give birth, there were no beds in the hospital and they are driving 2 1/2 hours to phoenix. is that still the case? >> it's not the case today but it was the case. we had -- we still had a significant impact on the hospital even today with the migrant population that's coming in. historically, you know, we've had the largest cohort we've had to seek care is pregnant females. they come here and deliver their babies. many times those infants wind up in the neonatal intensive care unit. women haven't had any prenatal
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care. some of the chronic diseases we've seen are secondary complications of chronic disease. individuals in our icu for a month at the time. we've had babies in the neonatal intensive care unit for a month at a time and more. >> bill: wow, a big challenge. >> it is significant. >> bill: what about your challenge? >> it feels like groundhogs day 2019 when we first faced the border crisis. this is far different and far worse and far intensive on our resources. we have had to reach out to many different sources, church of jesus christ of latter day saints has been a big help to us as well as fema to help fill the gap when some of our usda orders are canceled. >> bill: you are associated with feeding america, a terrific charity. >> it is. >> bill: when they needed help during the pandemic america piled a lot of money into that
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group. has that helped? if you were to make an ask today that would make your food bank stronger, what would you ask for? >> of feeding america or anywhere? >> anywhere. >> secure the border. that's the biggest help we could use. feeding america is still a great resource but we're being taxed well beyond the ability for many food banks along the border to be able to provide for this. >> bill: a lot of people rely on that. >> yes. >> bill: doctor, a congressional hearing coming in yuma, arizona? will you testify? what is your message? >> we don't have a payer source for the migrants that come across the border and seek care at the hospital. we are the only hospital in the area that does what we do. next closest hospital is 180 miles away. we provided over $26 million in uncompensated care to the migrant population alone. that's an auditable and solid
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figure and tracked it closely and gone back and looked at every medical record. $26 million is the number. we don't have a payer source. it is an unsustainable business model to have rising expense with no revenue to off set it. >> bill: have you asked washington to reimburse you for the expenses you've laid out? >> yes, we have. we haven't heard anything. we've talked with our state leaders, we've talked with our federal leaders and everybody is sympathetic and listen but nobody has a solution. we've been at this for well over a year now. >> bill: the word he used sympathetic. the people here, you want to help others. >> we're kind and compassionate. yuma is one of the most compassionate communities i've ever lived in. i lived here the majority of my life but i also lived in los angeles. hands down yuma jumps up and delivers. >> bill: thank you for coming and sharing your message.
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>> thank you for being here. seeing it, live and in person. >> bill: maybe someone is listening. doctor, nice to see you and good luck at the hearing as well when that begins. back to new york now and more with my colleague, dana. >> dana: dozens of dead whales are washing ashore on america's east coast. energy may be the cause. ewday and save hundreds every month. there are no upfront fees to apply. pain hits fast. so get relief fast. only tylenol rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast for fast pain relief. and now get relief without a pill with tylenol dissolve packs. relief without the water.
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>> dana: this is distress ping. another dead whale washing ashore in new jersey. the latest of dozens up and down the east coast and there is a growing debate about the possible role of off shore wind farms. with more alexis mcadams is live in new jersey. hi. >> you can check it out over my shoulder. another dead humpback whale. the ninth to wash up in two months and counting. stepping out of the way we give you a look at what people are seeing along the jersey shore. it happened yesterday washing up
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in the afternoon on shores of new jersey. crews spotted this massive whale floating in the ocean. 24 feet long and they called it in as it made its way closer to shore here. this morning work is underway to find out what the age of the whale is and the cause of death. it is a problem up and down the east coast. cameras have captured whale strandings in atlantic city and long island. it marks the 22nd humpback whale stranding along the east coast since december alone. whale deaths are increasing since 2016 according to the agency. they say since then at least 183 humpback whales have died. they call it an unusual mortality event. why are they dying? experts haven't said but many activists tell us they're blaming it on off shore wind projects. the projects are part of president biden's climate agenda and been in the works along the east coast. the massive equipment and drilling on the ocean floor
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could impact the whales interfering with communication and travel here and also leading to death. some lawmakers and activists are calling for a hold in the preparations. many other groups like the sierra club are pushing back calling this unfounded and premature. another live look at the jersey shore and you can see the crews now are with this humpback whales trying to figure out what caused it to die here. it is so many different parts have been here in new jersey quite a few times for the stories. so many people come to see it and want to see how large they are but still so many questions for local, state and federal officials. the new jersey governor says he has no plans to pause anything with off shore wind or drilling. >> dana: all right. alexis mcadams. sad to see that. thank you so much. before we go, bill. you had an amazing experience there in yuma. i'm so glad you were there for us. >> bill: sure did. what a contrast, dana. we come out here for the super
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bowl, spectacular weekend. it is every year. you drive 160 miles due south and find the situation down here is entirely different. america can pull off that great event every year and we do it without blinking. but this crisis on the border is something that we have not cracked just yet. a couple of things to keep in mind. in yuma this month there will be -- remember leading up to the mid-terms we talked about republicans bringing the actual congressional hearings to the border? it is going to happen. it will happen at city hall in yuma this month. republicans and democrats are both coming down here about a dozen or 14 of them will be here. something to keep in mind on that. the other thing we talk about the cartels. what they will tell you is it is a ticking time bomb in yuma. this is not a political discussion. this is a national security issue. fentanyl, drugs on the border,
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and those on the terror watch list who are getting by and that is a security matter they're dealing with as we hear border patrol fire up on the colorado river behind us. see you back in new york. i hope today was enlightening to some degree. a national challenges and we have to figure it out. >> dana: i loved learning from you and important you were there. "the faulkner focus" is up next. here is harris. >> harris: why does our military keep shooting objects out of the sky and the white house says nothing useful about it? new information on what they just picked out of the ocean off the coast of south carolina. from that original china spy craft they shot down. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." the one that start evidence it all shot down ten days ago, our military now in the possession of the critical part of the payload from that china spy craft. full of sensors and other electronics that can
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