last year nearly 30,000 visits by migrants and 300 new babies born to migrant moms staff here at bellevue hospital tell us they're eager to help but the numbers are tough. >> this has been the hardest work that i've ever done but it's been the most impactful work that i've ever done >> reporter: and most of the visits to the taxpayer-funded legal clinic here are by migrants >> our clinics are full and there are waiting lists and people are turning people away or referring them to other places >> reporter: randy redkin from new york's legal assistance group says so many migrants are asking for legal help on asylum representation and health care access, now she says american citizens who need legal assistance with issues like eviction and insurance have to wait up to ten weeks >> if you ask me do we need more resources for legal services, i would say absolutely, yes. >> reporter: meanwhile, new york's governor now slamming the situation at the border >> it is too open right now. people coming from all over the world are finding their way through, simply saying they need asylum >> reporter:

here i'm bill miller senior at bellevue high. this is my first day back at school after a visit with uncle jim in washington dc uncle jim's the congressman from our district. i sure was popular that day especially since there was a test coming up in civics class here of thought i was running a special review session the way they asked so many questions. the gang couldn't wait to get the inside dope on my trip. they wanted to know where i'd been in washington. what did i see? what did i hear? so i told them just what happens when mr. miller goes to washington. he is the stories i told to them. uncle jim met me at the union station is like i got off my train when i told him that my civics class wanted me to make a report he walked my legs off showing me how the federal government works we started out right at the plaza in of the station. the first thing he showed me from the station was capitol hill the seat of our federal government. federal agencies are scattered all over the united states, but washington is a center of all natio

i'm been covering our research in bellevue and my country and research in pregnant women and doing the work we did in diagnosis. and also we had responses and so on, you know, and then looking michigan at the fund global fund has been going on with the distribution of nets. all the preventive measures because you know, malaria can be preventive, can be cute, but progress hasn't really gone on. well, in the african continent it has stalled, and right now the 11 countries that a really high impact, high board and high impact countries, 10 of them in africa. and one is india and more efforts have been put ton to define all of the strategies that one could use to move on the way forward from malaria will also have at the university that puts on the defecting mother a program that i quote share with for us so the on worth and we've been re, thing king, what are the news try to just one can bring in to really help again, move this forward. so we know the work is it's happening. the newest thing though, i see you know, other vaccines. that's one tool that we didn't have, that was the, you kno

in the city we take you to bellevue, they give you fluids mack sure you take your meds and out the door. two weeks is a long time and raise the question -- the concern is to get this guy. did the yellow flag law work or not? clearly it didn't. why not? under a yellow flag law, unique to maine, the only people who can actually refer to the court because it's a civil process to get your guns taken away from you and force treatment is law enforcement. police or prosecutors. family can't do it. so if the family sees him in distress even if a doctor sees him in distress it's not clear whether or not they can do that. doesn't look like they can but this according to the same bulletin you are referring to, he says he was -- it says he was making threats against his base. that is criminal. did that go to the police? you have to ask what the circumstances were because it looks like maybe some safeguards here didn't click in. >> harris: we're all looking at the same schematic here. if the last people to talk to him were the medical facility and didn't flag police he was making threats against a u

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host: joel in bellevue, illinois, independent. you are next. caller: good morning.e call. i do a simple google search of the conflict and since 2008, roughly 6400 palestinians killed and 300 israelis since 2008. the israelis'response has always been extreme. how are we condemning what hamas did -- and i am not condoning anything -- but we are not saying anything about the 1300 dead. are they all terrorists? where they all convicted of terrorism? 1300 dead in gaza. $3.6 billion is not enough to stop a couple of guys in gliders? i see guys in gliders. let's be real. guys in gliders are coming over the fence. $3.6 billion with a "b" everyone, something smells here. host: this is marie in mississippi, democrat. caller: good morning. the first thing i wanted to talk about is my comment on the speaker position. i think back when they were pushing jim jordan to become speaker of the house. the problem i have with that -- and he was involved with january 6 that -- it goes back to when they were upset because nancy pelosi would not put him on the committee. it took me back t