[ ♪ ♪ ] >> sandra: all right, top of a new hour here, and we're getting brand new video of marines at the southern border helps agents with security operations. it's the latest example of president trump's immigration crackdown kicking into high gear just days into his second term in office. and comes just hours after the white house announced deportation flights have began. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into a second hour, and i'm sandra smith in new york and the image we saw is the first flight of the deportations happening.

>> john: marines have a big presence on the border. i'm john roberts in washington. it's friday. but people continue to work and will be working through the weekend. raids taking place across the country from new york to san francisco. i.c.e. says it's continuing to target violent criminals who have been living in the country illegally. >> sandra: blue/red states like california are refusing to assist in the deportation efforts, and this was governor newsom just last month. >> coopting local law enforcement to help with the federal immigration is not assistant with the law in the state of california. >> john: not everyone in the golden state is on board and one california town declared itself a non-sanctuary city. >> sandra: and william la jeunesse with the latest at the border and alexis joins us with the latest on the border. >> and we are talking about the i.c.e. raids that just kicked

off and they had 500 migrants taken into custody in one day and a senior trump official tells me the guys they have behind bars are people that committed heinous crimes like rape, attempted murder and more, i.c.e. says they are also part of dangerous south american gangs. >> you come into the country illegally, and commit a dangerous crime, and if you're a member, we're coming for you, and if you're a member of ms-13, you're a priority, we're coming for you. >> the white house press secretary posting this on social media, photos of a plane officials say was heading to guatemala, taking 80 guatemala nationals back home after officials say they crossed right into our country illegally and were here for quite some time. in one case right here in new york, i.c.e. arrested a man they say is known or suspected terrorist, and officials say he is from turkiye and entered this country illegally, and i.c.e. wd

people with i.c.e. in boston, and there was also a haitian gang member with 18 convictions. he was telling everybody he was not going home. a senior administration official tells us that these raids will continue. they're targeting criminals, okay, who are here illegally. president trump says he's going to send a message if you're here illegally, you'll face major consequences. we'll keep an eye on it. they're moving quickly. >> sandra: breakneck speed. thank you, alexis. john. >> john: a few days in and everyday that the immigration crackdown is having an impact at the border, too. a big one. senior national correspondent william la jeunesse is in los angeles. how big of a dropoff at the border? >> radically different at the border, as well, john. apprehensions down 35% in the first three days. but for some context, right, at the height of the immigration crisis, border patrol averaged

almost 10,000 apprehension as day. now it's just over 800. so that is a 91% decrease. so the word is out, the door is closed. busses, planes headed south. no more catch and release. instead you have something very similar to title 42. it's an executive order the president signed allowing the border patrol to deport any migrant, asylum claim or not if they travel through a country that carries a communicable disease, that's everywhere. agents say it's deterring people. don't waste your money. if you're caught, you're going back. it will be harder when the national guard increases detection and surveillance. >> you're going to see d.o.d. there. you're going to see ietion agents down there assigned for investigation -- see i.c.e. agents down there, and you'll see officers rather than changing diapers and feeding formula, they're going to do national security, they'reing on

the line. >> it's creating a bottleneck in mexico which is building reception centers in tiajuana and juarez to handle those taken home. and some are given bus tickets, and others are headed to the border where smugglers are negotiating a fee. and set price for x-number of times, and five tries. if it fails, you have to pay again. the message is if trump is taking away the reward and there's no job that you may have had under president biden, why take the risk? some will try, but the new policy will radically reduce those who try. >> john: this could have a serious impact on the cartels, as well, which the president designated as foreign terrorist operations. interesting to see what unfolds in the days and weeks ahead. thank you. sandra. >> sandra: a southern california city is defying the state city sanctuary laws after unanimously voting to become a

non-sanctuary city. joining us is the mayor of huntington beach, pat burns. thank you for being here. i love the shirt. >> yeah. >> sandra: brightens our date. >> it's the shirt from last year. >> sandra: tell us about your decision to do this. >> you know, i think the math is real easy on this. it's just serving our community. we put huntington beach first, and for there to be -- our police or any law enforcement to be given provisions not to use all of the tools at their disposal to make our community as safe as can be, i don't think that's right. and for us, we want our huntington beach to be as safe as possible and there should be cooperation at every level law enforcement. i was a policeman for 30 years in long beach. and i know in my career, i used every level from school board to

postal inspectors to fbi and everybody else. we couldn't have done the job as effectively without the cooperation amongst each other either. us helping them or them helping us. it makes it for the right reasons. >> sandra: you heard you say putting huntington beach first, and i talked a an alderman who referenced that twice for the city of chicago. this is the california a.g. >> let me be clear president-elect trump's agenda is draconian and his rhetoric xenophobic. our guidance will happen staff public constitutions and help to protect the migrants and families by outlining steps they can take to ensure they are not using state or local resources to support immigration enforcement. >> sandra: how do you respond

to that, mayor? the california a.g. doubling down on the state's sanctuary city policy. >> well, i think it's irresponsible of him. i think it's almost an illegal order for them to say, you know, do not help our federal agents in immigration if called upon. or don't make your city safer by doing this. they're pushing an agenda, they're pushing their political self-service, not community service. and while here in huntington beach and hopefully other cities will start thinking that our citizens are the priority. there's a lot of conflicts i have with newsom and bonta and with their mandates and their provisions they're trying to put out. it's not for californians. it's nor a p for a political agt doesn't serve us. we'll assist in any way we can, and i'm supporting trump and homan and the jobs they're trying to do for us.

not only is californians, not only as residents of huntington beach, but also for the u.s. and we -- we love our u.s. and we love our huntington beach. and those come first. and those agendas -- political agendas that are at the expense of the people, it isn't going to work for us. >> sandra: mayor, i want to pop up the pictures of the deportation flights that have begun. just several days into president trump's second term here, and we're getting our first look. this has been described and confirmed by defense officials, this picture provided by the president's press secretary, defense official says we can confirm overnight two d.o.d. aircraft conducted repatriation flights from the u.s. to guatemala. how do you respond to those images? >> i love it. i think the people who are flying those in were committing human trafficking crimes and whether they were hired by the federal government or not, you're not supposed to commit an illegal act whether you're hired by the government or anything.

you can't kill your neighbor if hired by the government. you shouldn't be able to human traffic. and it was wrong from the beginning. and now we're just trying to correct it and do what is right. and doing what is right is easy in huntington beach. >> sandra: well, i still can't over the shirt, mayor. loving the shirt. mayor -- >> that's funny. >> sandra: california, you know we're so far away from that. we have snow everywhere here. mayor, appreciate you coming on and responding to all of that. thank you. >> oh, no. god bless. and thank you for what you're doing. >> sandra: all right. john. >> john: all right, this from vermont, the fbi announcing that they have made an arrest in connection with the deadly shooting of border patrol agent. agent david chris mayland was shot and killed during a traffic stop in vermont and we have the latest on this. what do we know about the suspect and the charges? >> yeah, the suspect involved in what was an exchange of gunfire

that led to the killing of border agent david chris maland is identified as teresa young blood. her driver's licence found at the stop. and revealing that maland was with other agents when the car was pulled over on the freezing highway in coventry, vermont, and the passenger was the owner of the prius buckhold. he appeared to have an expired visa. he was killed in the exchange of the gunfire, and it is said that young blood pulled a firearm and started firing, and buckhold tried to draw a firearm, and the exchange of gunfire resulted in young blood and buckhold and the

border patrol agent being shot. and revealed tactical gear, night vision, goggles, and tactical belt with holster, and respirators, and two-way radios, and a dozen elec electronic dev, storage devices, and travel devices, and a journal in yunblut's journal, and we are awaiting her appearance in a court, and she faces charges of resistance with a deadly weapon. >> john: thank you for the update. sandra. >> sandra: john. after his trip to north carolina, president trump is now on his way to los angeles to tour wildfire damage. a look at firefighters' ongoing efforts next. >> john: plus, we are beginning to get a clearer picture of the fire's economic toll and how long it could take to rebuild.

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some video and some photographs that you sent us. some of it was taken from your ring doorbell as the flames were approaching your home and you had to get out of there very, very quickly. my understanding is you were home recovering from a minor surgery. still trying to get through the effects of the anesthesia wearing off and your husband called and said get out. what was that day like? >> yeah, it was crazy, and i was going through an ivf egg retrieval and i was under anesthesia that morning and on the drive home, we kept saying oh, my gosh the winds are so crazy. i came home and went to sleep and my husband kept calling me and i wasn't answering because i was having the best nap of my life. so finally i answered and he told me to wake up, get our cat and get out as fast as i can. and thankfully, he was in touch with our neighbors who would have come and got me, woken me up if i hadn't woken up.

there was no warning from our city. we were talking about our neighbors to try to figure out what to do. we all decided together, it's too close we should evacuate. but my husband never got a warning once. so... >> john: wow. >> that was scary. >> thank goodness he woke you up and had the neighbors as backup. good forbid what would have happened if you hadn't wo woken. the president is going to be here in three and a half hours or so, if you have an opportunity to chat with him, what do you want to say to him? oh, that's a good question. i mean, our government was not prepared at all. our local government. and i think he probably knows that. but we need brush clearance. that was something that we weren't prepared for. the lack of preparation was just awful. everyone in l.a. knew these winds were coming. we should have been more prepared. our reservoir was empty.

and yeah, the brush clearance, it's something that seems simple and our fire department wasn't funded. the lack of funding. but i think that's just california politics. >> john: well, the president has been very critical of the governor and the state government for not transferring water from the northern part of the state to the southern part of the state. here's what he said in north carolina a short time ago. >> president trump: they got hit hard, as you know. a lot of that could have been prevented, i think, if they had water which they had plenty of but didn't use it. >> what do you say to that? the north does have a lot more water than the south does. the reservoir which is above pacific palisades was out of commission because the cover was being repaired. there's 117 million gallons of water in that reservoir. the fact that the pressure ran out in the fire hydrants. they have to bring the big water buffalos in. you said the state and local

governments were not prepared at all for this. what happened would seem to back up your claims. >> i mean, i think there wasn't enough manpower and enough warning because by the time our house was burning, i mean, our neighbor's house burned. we saw it on the ring cameras, and we were the ones that sadly had to tell them their house was on fire. there weren't fire trucks on our street for hours after this, and there was not enough manpower, really, it is what it seemed like. they were trying to evacuate people at one point. so i mean -- lives are more important that houses. so getting people out was the priority. but it just seemed like there weren't fire trucks on our street or anywhere near our neighborhood by the time the houses caught on fire. >> john: are you going to be able to rebuild? >> yes. thankfully my husband is a builder, so that is a silver lining and i'm a realtor.

so we feel like we can help our community because of our careers. so, yes, we will rebuild our house. and all of our neighbors are going to rebuild. a lot of people are saying that 70% of the palisades isn't coming back. but that's not true. the neighborhood will be back. >> john: well, i know it was a lovely neighborhood. been through it many, many times. our prayers go out to you, your family and all of your neighbors. kati, thank you for joining us. appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> sandra. >> sandra: thank you, john. well, the president's visit comes as the wildfires' economic toll continues to climb. the l.a. chamber of commerce estimating property damage alone to be at least $28 billion. max gordon is live in the pacific palisades. he has more from there for us. hi, max. >> hey there. well, so much damage here. so much to clean up and, this is going to be a very costly process to rebuild. these are the scenes that president trump is going to visit when he visits pacific

palisades later on this afternoon. but president trump says he might withhold federal disaster aid from los angeles unless california changes its water policies. take a listen. >> president trump: i will be the greatest president that california has ever seen. i want the water to come down and come down to los angeles and also go out to all of the farmland that's barren and dry. >> reporter: now fire officials say hydrants ran dry during both the palisades and eaton fires because of the spiking demand from the firefighting, and ruptured lines from burned down home, and gavin newsom has been critical of the president saying he is spreading misinformation, and still he will be on the tarmac to greet the president when he arrives. the price tag of the fires is now coming into view. according to the los angeles economic development

corporation, the fires dealt approximately $53.8 billion in property damage based on current market value. there's also been $2.9 billion in economic loss. but storms are coming this weekend. that's good news when it comes to fire danger. but that is bad news when it comes to mudslides and debris flows. again the soil here is so loose with all of the wildfires, there's nothing holding things back. back to you. >> sandra: stunning, the images behind you. i just think immense task ahead. max, thank you for the report from there. fox corporation has made a $1 million donation to the red cross california wildfires relief efforts and continues to be a program partner and allows the red cross to respond immediately by providing safe shelter, hot heels, and meals and aid inrecovery. here is how you can help,

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overhauling fema or maybe getting rid of fema. i think frankly fema is not good. i think when you have a problem like this, i think you want to go. >> john: president trump earlier today on his plans for an executive order to overhaul fema and potentially get rid of it altogether. it's just the latest example of him leaning into a new role as disruptive-in-chief. team coverage. shanoon b.shannon bream breaks t might play out on the global stage and first. >> you were there, john, and every day is something different. if you think you know what is going to happen, this is something different. >> and promises made on the campaign trail, as john mentioned, things are moving fast, and on thursday, trump signed an executive order directing security officials to redtorelease documents to the dh

of president kennedy and robert f. kennedy. >> president trump: that's a big one. people have been waiting for this for years, for decades. and everything will be revealed. okay. give that to rfk junior. >> and he's ordering documents tied to the death of martin luther king junior be released. and the family wants to know what is in there first. they put out a statement saying... for us, the assassination of our father is a deeply personal family loss that we have endured over the last 56 years. we hope to be provided the opportunity to review the files as a family priority to its public release. perhaps the biggest shakeup is the change to the federal bureaucracy itself. government agencies are being told get people back into their physical offices. there's a deadline of 5 p.m. today for agency directors to

revise their telework policies. a government memo is spelling out the change. it's written from the office of opm saying... there is one lawsuit filed this week trying to block the administration's effort to reclassify some federal workers. trump says it's all necessary to ensure that merit is rewarded. critics say it's an effort to remove some employee protection. it's amazing how much reaction to the executive orders in real time. >> he likes to shake things up and he is doing it. this is week one. we told everyone don't measure in terms of 100 days. measure it in terms of 100 hours. thanks. sandra. >> sandra: shannon bream joins us, and this is him getting nato to pay more. listen. >> president trump: we're not te

not protecting us, we're protecting them. >> and we gave them billions of dollars, and the united states spent $200 billion more than europe. why did we spend more? because biden never asked europe to spend more. >> i mean, we're just in the first few days here. i mean, he has hit the ground running, and he is -- he is disrupting things as he promised to do. >> and like you covered with our fox news voter analysis so well, you'll know this better than anybody, the number of people that told us they wanted substantial upheaval. they didn't just want a tweaking. they wanted major change. you pointed out the numbers repeatedly, and that's what people are saying they want. and remember this week, before he was inaugurated and president trump shows up at the notre dame cathedral rededication, and there were people grabbing the ring, and they dealt with him

before, and trump has been through this before, and now as president, he is shaking things up, and foreign leaders like macron in france saying maybe some governments should be spending more in defense and contributing more. this is something where they following president trump's lead. >> sandra: and people said they wanted total upheaval, and time magazine says that's happening. and trump's disruption is back, it reads, and trump is an unpredictable force for change, and whatever it means, he is the most change agent since franklin delano roosevelt. and change agent, and he said this on marine one ahead of the pro-life march in washington. listen. >> president trump: we're all for it. in fact, as you know, i just signed a pardon and the pardon release 23 people that were

unjustly put in having to do with pro-life. and they will be released and they'll be out very shortly. it was disgraceful. th>> sandra: this from his vice president, shannon, last hour speaking to that group, listen. >> no longer will our government throw pro-life protestors and activists, elderly, grandparents or anybody else in prison. it stopped on monday. and we're not going to let it come back to this country. >> sandra: they are following through on the change that voters said they wanted. >> that's true. some of these cases our viewers will know about this. 89-year-old grandmother, and 75-year-old grandfather and a 2-year-old put in jail because of the protest. it was supposed to go after both directions, and those protests for and against. but a lot of the critics from the biden time period say the drcd.o.j. was going after

pro-lifers and not necessarily the clinics aimed at preventing abortions. the trump-vance team says it's going to be very different and those people are out. >> sandra: to bring it altogether here, we know he's trying to put in the right team to bring about this change and just a quick update that we're getting from our own program on capitol hill this hour, he says fox is told that there are still a few issues with members, he writes "plural" on the hegseth nomination, and can you add to this? source indicates that the vote could be held open for a senator to arrive late and vote. so we're still tracking this vote to confirm hegseth as the defense secretary. what do you see happening here, shannon? >> this is some of the drama we get around the votes sometimes. we know two gop senators no on moving forward and that is no on the nomination, and it gives you a clue of what is going to happen and they could lose one more, mitch mcc mcconnell or

somebody else who expressed concerns and then vice president j.d. vance could come in and break the tie, and it reminds me of senator danes, the wedding weekend of his daughter and the critical vote on justice kavanaugh and they had to make a deal so that could be passed and he made it to his daughter's wedding, and kavanaugh was confirmed and it is dicey and sticky to make sure that people are in the seats in the votes when they happen. >> sandra: incredible. tom cotton, fox news sunday, a big show, and lots to talk about. >> no shortage of topics. >> sandra: great to spend time in washington. >> you, too. >> sandra: great to have you in new york. john. >> john: sandra, preof the trial hearing for quadruple idaho just wrapped up for bryan kohberger, did kohberger's case make the case to get the

evidence tossed. mercedes colwin and mark eiglash give their take coming up next.

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investigative genology, and they discover evidence on a knife sheath, and they threw it out to the great wide world and got a hit back that kohberger might be a guy. does the defense have a case here, mark? >> no. next! >> john: in a word. >> it's meritless, but don't be upset with them. they're doing their job. they don't attack every single piece of critical evidence that will land him into a life sentence which i absolutely believe will take place. then they're not doing their job. they'd be setting up an ineffective assistance of counsel claim so if he is convicted and sitting there and doing his life sentence. he then or his lawyers can argue that his first lawyers at the trial level failed to do what they're supposed to. so they're doing what they're supposed to and there's no way he has a right to privacy argument here. it makes no sense. >> well, certainly, his attorney general, anne taylor is arguing that. listen to what she said. >> in this case, if society is

not ready to support suppression of every bit of our dna when the government does not have a warrant and searches it, there is no privacy right left. >> john: what is interesting about this case, though is that another judge in 2023 agreed with the defense that things might look a little fishy here, let's do an investigation of how the police and other investigators conducted this investigative genetic genology. >> sure. this is one of the critical piece of evidence that ties bryan kohberger to the murders. everything else is tangential, and that knife sheath was found at the murder scene, and to mark's point, this is the defense attorney's playbook. this is the critical piece of evidence that ties bryan kohberger to the murders. if that is tossed out, then you can challenge the rest. but there is no way -- god bless

anne taylor trying to make an argument and trying to make chicken soup out of chicken feathers, but there's a wealth of cases out there that says that you don't have a privacy right to your trash. you simply don't. lots of good police investigators find critical evidence in trash. we have covered those cases. mark and i have covered lots of cases to that effect and when the courts are pushed to find privacy rights to the trash, guess what, you lose. as long as the dna was found, in the trash in pennsylvania in kohberger's family's home, it's a losing argument. >> i haven't heard of chicken soup made from chicken feathers, it's usually something that comes out of the chicken. the defense argues once kohberger was identified, law enforcement lied or omitted critical information in order to obtain search warrants. does the defense have any part of a case, mark, with that

argument? >> yeah, you make that argument. i make that argument daily and every day i have judges saying dndz and you go to the a-- denied, and you go to the appellate court, and they say you are in second place again. i hate to be so skeptical, and in a high profile murder charge where the judge suspects he's probably foo -- probably guilty, because he's not foolish. if thunless there's a precedents going to go in the case of the prosecutor here. he will make the arguments that need to be made. but he'll be denied. >> john: the father of kaylee goncalves agrees with you on that point. here's what he said on the defense tactic. >> this is their last hoorah, the last go-for-it, they have to challenge and get things kicked up. nobody wants to go to court with dna at the crime scene

underneath under of the victims. >> john: found at the crime scene under the victims, hard to explain away or try to get it tossed. >> that's the biggest issue, obviously, you have the csi effect. you have jurors incentivizeed and truly understand -- the csi effect is real. they presume if you have dna evidence and the experts to back it up, you know, john, mark, this case is going to be filled with experts and law enforcement type of testimony that comes in, you have that type of support, you can establish that that is the dna and then you support it through the genealogical testing that you did, it will continue to point fingers at bryan kohberger. you will have a successful prosecution. and you will have the juries that do understand that dna doet rather very critical evidence that shows and points to the guilt or innocence of the individual that's being charged. >> john: all right. well, we are expecting a decision from the judge some time next week or so.

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>> it's being debated. the surgeon general's idea to slap a cancer warning label on alcoholic beverages. will it change anybody's drinking habits, and that is where kelly saberi is in chicago at a bar. what are you hearing? >> sandra, even though three quarters to the poll say they

agree we should agree to have the labels on alcohol, and they said they wouldn't change their habits. and 31% says they would drink less. but 66% said they would not. and we spoke to people on the street who told us that things won't change for them. take a listen. >> definitely not. >> a lot of other life things make me think twice, that would make me add to the list, sure. >> no. because a lot of different things can cause cancer, and i don't think it's something to be scared about. >> been enjoying it for 52 years. going to keep enjoying it. >> no. no. not at all. >> no. not really. >> i'm still enjoying my margaritas. >> business owners like here at the bar in the loop that you just mentioned say they're more worried about super markets because people buy certain bottles because of what the bottle looks like.

it won't be as esthetically pleasing if there is a damper on it this morning and at restaurants, can you in a sense hide the label and that change things and on the other hand, the brewers association is also speaking out saying this is going to cost brewers more. and in a statement they tell us, quote, brewers would incur significant cost to up date the packaging if legislation were passed to change the language on the label. the brewers association will continue to advocate on behalf of small and independent brewers to minimize costs.and when thd in the 70's, we learned the smoking rates fell 70%. sandra. >> sandra: the price quadrupled. kelly saberi, live there, and willis tower, interesting restaurant at the base of the tower. thank you, kelly. i think the takeaway, john, is something is going to kill you, right? >> john: at some point, we all

die, right. pretty looking bottles, aren't they? speaking of drinking, the party is apparently over at the white house. politico is reporting the trump administration is urging staffers to steer clear of knocking back a few with members of congress. staffers say they are still encouraged to socialize, just as long as they do it sober. the report adding the new rule is a departure from previous administrations, including president trump's first term. he's famous diet coke drinker. doesn't touch alcohol. maybe he'd like the staff to do the rest. >> sandra: i mean, interesting. i mean, he is a change agent. we'll give him that. thanks for joining us, everybody. i'm sandra smith. >> john: yeah, it's only friday. i'm john roberts. "the story with martha after the break.

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