this is from laredo, texas. i put this up there. you can see the frozen fountain there and the poor guy who works for the city out there trying to chip away at it, trying to clean it up, and this icy weather has a big impact on laredo. but if you look there, it's interesting to me to see what was actually the lead, upper-right corner headline in "the laredo morning times" today, even for all of those crises caused by the cold weather and the collapse of texas' power system. their lead headline today is this -- "hundreds of thousands of vaccine deliveries and injections delayed." you know, and that, too, is a frigid weather story. hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses that were due to be shipped from texas instead were held back in anticipation that they wouldn't be able to be administered because of the storm, which seems like a fair estimation to have made. you also see there's a second covid headline on that same front page, and that's actually good news out of that part of texas, that their daily case numbers for covid are down,

the virus is ravaging the area around the south texas town of laredo.has one of the highest i infection rates in the country. this doctor treats covid every night. he's known as the dr. fauci of laredo. >> we have a sniper here that has killed 600 people and it's on track to kill another 1,000 before the year is up. we don't fear it? i guarantee you, if there was a sniper with a rifle, there isn't one person who would be letting their children out. at the del rio hospital, another covid patient needs urgent care. hull perry arrived in the emergency room. he's being rushed to san antonio. >> might be the last time i see him so i asked them if i can see him. they told me i cannot get close. >> reporter: his wife said he felt fine the day before. >> i'm scared not having him come back home to me. ed lavandera, cnn, laredo, texas. >>> iran is still enriching uranium and challenging joe biden to make the first move. the u.s. president is saying no. in an interview, president biden said they will not lift sanctions on iran, particularly not while tehran enric

. >> captain eric segura of laredo, texas, was just 45. a 25-year veteran of the laredo fire department, on the front lines. an ems in this pandemic. his fellow firefighters honoring him. in south carolina, ashley bennett. she had just given birth to eliza, meeting her baby girl just once. touching her arm. >> that's the only time she ever got to see her in person, which breaks my heart, because ashley -- being a mother was ashley's favorite thing in life. >> theodore "ted" lumpkin was a tuskegee airman. an intelligence officer during world war ii. serving his country with hopes it would make a difference back home. >> we prayed hard that our success would be very instrumental in the improvement of race relations in the country. >> he was recognized with the congressional gold medal. ted lumpkin was 100 years old. sue braley from davenport, florida. over 20 years, they were foster parents to more than 300 children. and they would go on to adopt seven of them. >> she told me, carrie, she said, it's not like i want to be a mom all over again

suppose that halt in deportations the children were deported on to flights chartered by ice from laredo texas to haiti's port au prince. is going broke new rules must be put in place to protect asylum seekers and limit these mass deportations the guidance is said to be on the horizon. it's interesting that we're you know thinking about law enforcement agencies you said going rogue when you being that it's ice it doesn't surprise me given the kind of blank check and brutality that they were given over the last 4 years you can't just suddenly turn that back with a stroke of a pen now i think you're right there is a mindset here and i think that you know with as much credit as they get during the chump administration for some of the heinous things that we saw them do i've been ratcheting up these these you know terrible deportations for years now they also did it during the obama administration they got started during the during the latter terms of the bush administration and they've only gotten worse and they've got more expansive states are now using their legislative power to have injunctions

. >> reporter: isa mendez came to laredo, texas, with her parents at the age of 2. she's now 33.er family, including her four children, are now u.s. citizens. except her. mendez is one of the hundreds of thousands of people known as dreamers. president biden is proposing a pathway to citizenship for these immigrants who have been able to live in the u.s. because of the obama-era program known as daca. >> we've lived four years of trump stringing us along with that fear and anxiety so i am hopeful that something will -- something positive will come out of these different legislations or these executive actions that biden has brought. >> reporter: the trump administration rolled out four years of controversial programs that critics have often described as inhumane, but that many conservatives have celebrated. there are still 611 children separated from their parents as part of the trump administration's zero tolerance policy. the biden administration is proposing a task force to reunify those families. >> i will accomplish what i said i would do. much more humane policy based on fa

distance. >> i'm scared, not having him come back home to me. >> reporter: ed lavandera, cnn, laredo, texas thanks to ed lavandera for that important reporting. >>> it's been one week since the military coup in myanmar. activists, civilians and the like are taking to the streets, demanding democracy. we'll show you more, straight ahead. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ for every trip you've been dreaming of, expedia has millions of flexible booking options. because the best trip is wherever we go together. ♪ sure, your health insurance tells you to see a doctor but, um, look around. these days it's not that easy. you're telling me. but humana helps make it easy. human care gives you tons of ways to talk to your doctor: phone, computer, in person, or tablet. hey jean! hi! this is just a quick follow up. your numbers are looking great. you don't even have to put on shoes. ooo! easy peasy. you like that, huh? mhm. humana. a more human way to healthcare. at visionworks, we want you to feel safe humana. and we want you to see yourself in your new glasses and think, "ooh!" but if you get home and your "ooh" is more of

>> whether it's in chicago or here in laredo, texas where i'm at or san antonio, there's a debate with some of the teachers, some want to open up and some don't want to open. in fact, yesterday i had one teacher that told me let's not open up and the other one said, hey, we have to get them back to open it up. it is a difficult situation that the school boards and, of course, the texas education agencies, we do want to open up but how do we find the balance with the health of the individual? mike: is it time for the president to get tough with the teachers and say, look, you're essential workers and we need to get back in the classroom? >> some teachers are asking me if they are essential workers and as you know they are not under category 1a and 1b. so that's the thing, until we start getting vaccines, we need to go ahead and think about how we talk to the educators. mike: now, to a story first reported by the washington post and confirmed by us here at fox news, u.s. immigration and customs enforcement preparing to issue new guidelines to agents this week that could sharp curve arres

officials here, the ice agents in laredo texas. working the border have a tough job on a good day now there also dealing with the covid pandemic, are you concerned about proper testing of people who are crossing our border into south texas for example? >> yes if they come in they are not being tested, border patrol i talked to, i'll be traveling later on this week to the rio grande valley and i've been talking to them constantly. we have to get the border patrol agents the men and women in blue and other folks, ice agents, their vaccines, we have to get them vaccinated, it's very important because on the front line. in border patrol said they don't have the capacity to give them a test so therefore this is what we have to look at is there a return to some need returned under title 42, what happens to the family units that they do release in the united states and are not being tested for a covid test, that concerns me and my community. mike: i am curious, your democrat living on the border, has there been appropriate outrage from th

mendez came to laredo, texas with her parents at the age of 2. she's now 33.er family including her four children are now u.s. citizens, except her. mendez is one of the hundreds of thousands of people known as dreamers, president biden is proposing a pathway to citizen ship for these immigrants who have been able to live in the u.s. because of the obama era program known as daca. >> we've lived four years of trump vincstringing us along wi fear and anxiety. i'm hopeful something positive will come out of these different legislations, or these executive actions that biden has brought. >> reporter: the trump administration wheeled out four years of controversial programs that critics often described as inhumane but that many conservatives have celebrated. there are still 611 children separated from their parents as part of the trump administration's zero tolerance policy. the biden administration is proposing a task force to reunify those families. >> i will accomplish what i said i would do, much more humane policy based on family unification. >> reporter: the

so in other words they could be down in laredo texas and they said i want to arrest that person because whatever reason, and then some lawyer in d.c. is going to decide whether or not to do it. >> right. right how eventive is that and this is going to be disastrous dangerous and going to impact every county every city, every community in this country. and again, this is total lawlessness, we have to have interior enforcement along with strong border security or we have no laws. steve: this is one of the reason why is state of texas sued the federal government over these thing he is ultimately, though, sheriff it comes down to safety. personal safety. public safety, will the public and i don't know the toons this i'm hoping you do. will the public be safe with rules like this where you can get arrested for a variety of reasons but they won't sending you back will we will safe going forward with this kind of direction at i.c.e.? >> steve the sans no we've seen this year after year after year americans will not be safe. immigrant communities will not be safe. these types of laws -- lead to

liberaciÓn de cientos de familias que ha ocurrido en los Últimos dÍas, no sÓlo a quien mcallen texas, en laredoor otro lado, en el lado estados unidos la patrulla fronteriza indicado que lo que estÁ ocurriendo que simplemente no hay espacio para alojar a todas estas personas y tambiÉn el temor a la propagaciÓn de la pandemia de covid 19, todo esto se ha juntado y ha permitido esta suerte de crisis porque ya polÍticos, sobre to republicanos han identificado esta ralea como caos, como el primer caos que puede estar enfrentando en el Área migratoria el presiente biden. las autoridades simplemente dejan a las familias en estas terminal de buses y camiÓn al albergue, allÍ se le da asistencia y luego retornan a la terminal para ser reino del paÍs o van a los aeropuertos. esto no sÓlo ocurre en esta terminal de autobuses, tambiÉn ocurre en otras ciudades fronterizas de manera similar y es una realidad que esta afectando donde miles de familias que fueron retornados con el programa de permanecer en mÉxico. es la realidad que se vive en la frontera. carla: gracias por informarnos desde mcallen, texas. l

maria mendez reports on south texas and the border for texas public radio and joins me from laredo.you for having me. and, yes, this storm has impact did. immigration has innocence continued in the sense that, you know, federal authorities have reported they have had to go into the rio grande to try to protect migrants who have been trying to cross, despite freezing temperatures and authorities have been worried about their offices and migrants are like getting hyper romeu and you know, other migrants who are still waiting to seek asylum in mexico though have been breathing this cold weather, basically intense —— briefing. so a lot of immigrants have been trying to help them stay warm. we know how many _ help them stay warm. we know how many peeple _ help them stay warm. we know how many people have - help them stay warm. we know how many people have been . how many people have been trying to cross the border in such terrible weather? i don't have any _ such terrible weather? i don't have any big _ such terrible weather? i don't have any big figures, - such terrible weather? i don't

laredo participÓ en este operativo. jorge: muchÍsimas gracias. en breve, aumentÓ el nÚmero de muertes por las condiciones de tiempo en las carreteras de texas.o aprovechamos los abundantes recursos de energía solar y eólica de california, enfrentamos el cambio climático. usa menos energía de 4 a 9 pm para que sigamos brillando. ilia: nueve personas han perdido la vida. otro tres muertes se sumaron a la sede del choque mÚltiple de mÁs de 130 20 vehÍculos en una carretera de dallas que se produjo este jueves. el accidentes que se extiende por una milla se debe al hielo sobre el asfalto. jorge: el juicio en contra donald trump. la defensa argumentÓ durante tres horas que donald trump no incitÓ a la violencia cuando en un discurso exhorto a luchar el pasado 6 de enero. sostuvo que los demÓcratas lo han enjuiciado en el senado como parte de una venganza polÍtica. pablo estÁ directo desde washington. >> la estrategia de la defensa es clara. [ habla en inglÉs] pablo: negar que las palabras de donald trump incitaron el asalto al capitolio y denunciar la violencia. [habla en inglÉs] >> los fiscales mostrar una evidencia aplastante contra donald trump

so were sing this in laredo, and reported the offenders found in this whole group of border crossers who were discovered in texasctors of the border. you know this mark . poor migrants, these poor migrants have to sell everything and then, they're beholden to these human smugglers to pay back with a charged. to get them across the border. it is the century serious issue . now we have mexico expediting a drug trafficker. what we are following here is a crime. this will be tracking here the evening and it . your reaction to that. mark: i appreciate it. because you're bringing this to light . and you continue to do so. were not talking about enough. we were shepherding in a new era now. united states government encouraging and facilitating illegal migration. breaking our country's laws, the sovereign laws of this incredible nation. it is unbelievable. if you do not apply consequences to illegal behavior, is only going to beget more illegal behavior. this what we see. with the 3500 and skyrocketed just in the last couple of months. they're still coming. when people say what is going to happen. it has already happene