christina ruffini is at the white house tonight for more. christina. >> reporter: good evening, jamie. that's right, late today, speaker of the house nancy pelosi support a letter to colleagues saying she wants to pass that infrastructure bill, along with a multitrillion-dollar democratic spending plan and a resolution to fund the government all by the end of this week, a tall order given the disagreement with republicans and within her own party. >> we have to get both bills. you can't have one without the other. >> reporter: progressive house democrats say they won't support the president's $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill without a separate, much larger spending plan full of democratic priorities. >> i see us in a position where failure is not an option. it is not an option. >> reporter: but it's still unclear which of those priorities will make the cuts. the house budget committee met in a rare saturday session today trying to hammer out the details. >> our nation, our economy, and our constituents cannot afford to wait any lo

christina ruffini has more. >> reporter: instead of crossing the international bridge that connects acuna, mexico, to del rio, texas, an estimated 12,000 migrants, many of them haitians, are camped out under it. >> we now have one-third of the population of the city of del rio, texas, in a confined space. >> reporter: 400 border agents are being sent to help according to the department of homeland security which says it will accelerate the pace and increase the capacity of removal flights to haiti and other destinations. >> had is just at this point overwhelming for the resources that we have on hand. >> reporter: the u.s. has seen a surge in migrants at the southern border from countries like honduras, ecuador, and guatemala. now haitians, many of whom moved to south and central america after the devastating earthquake in 2010, are also heading north. on friday, texas governor greg abbott added nearly $2 billion to his state's border security budget. >> it is the federal government's job to secure our border, but the biden administration has failed to do its job. >> that was christina ru

cbs' christina ruffini is at the white house tonight with more. >> reporter: good evening. last night, the fbi released a declassified document from 2016. the report shows a closer than previously known link between two saudi citizens living in the u.s. and the 9/11 hijackers, including meetings and phone calls. but the report does not prove a definitive link between the hijackers and higher echelons of the saudi government. >> can al qaeda come back? yeah. but guess what? it's already back in other places. [ inaudible ] every place where al qaeda is, we're going to invade? come on. >> reporter: speaking to reporters in shanksville, pennsylvania, the crash site of one of the plane's hijacked on 9/11, joe biden defended the u.s. withdrawal from the place that once harbored the terrorists. >> 70% of american people wanted to get out. but the palestinian of it is, they didn't like the way we got out. >> reporter: a cbs news poll finds the majority of americans oppose using the u.s. military to create democracies. and want the u.s. to intervene less overseas. but former acting

. >> christina ruffini, vienna, virginia. >> the state department is planning to relocate 50,000 afghanistan refugees in the united states and many plan to settle in sacrifice, sacramentoamento, sacramento california many still fear the love ones behind. >> this man and wife and two young children fled kabul on one of the last flights out, just hours before the city fell to the taliban. his work with afghan national security forces, nsf and u.s. made him a target and the tannehill offensive intensified this summer. >> me an the people like me have been supporting the nsf they had not realized the danger. >> because of the risk his immediate family received a special immigrant visa. >> was the biggest concern with taliban in power . >> he says the taliban control has already knocked on his mother's door. >> sometimes i say i wish i could not made this trip whatever happened i should be at their side. >> you had to do what was best for your family? >> yes, of others who recently arrived in northern california, the family is now working w age, world relief sacramento. >> we'll set goals with he

cbs' christina ruffini is at the white house with more. stina. >> reporter: good evening, errol. that entry point in del rio is now closed and the department of homeland security says our borders are not open and people should not make the dangerous journey. but that message hasn't proved to be a deterrent instead of crossing the international bridge to del rio, texas, an estimated 12,000 migrants, many of them haitian, are now camped out under it. >> we now have one-third of the population of the city of del rio, texas, in a confined space. >> reporter: 400 border agents are being sent in to help, according to the department of homeland security, which says they will accelerate the pace and increase the capacity of removal flights to haiti and other destinations. >> this is just at this point overwhelming for the resources that we have on hand. >> reporter: the u.s. has seen a surge in migrants at the southern borders from countries like honduras, ecuador, and guatemala. now haitians, many of whom moved to south and central america after t

cbs's christina ruffini joins us from the white house. ina, you'll be on that trip, what should we expect? >> reporter: good evening, irika. the secretary of state will be going to doha, qatar, where he's going to thank the qataris forg0 afghan evacuees that came through that country. he's also going to be meeting with members of the state ramstein, germany. the u.s. and other world leaders are also grappling with how exactly to deal with the taliban. secretary blinken has said the u.s. will have to watch and evaluate base on the group's actions. but the women of afghanistan aren't waiting. many of them took to the streets this week, protesting the takeover. the taliban may not be the same as it was 20 years ago, but either are afghan women, and they want to make their voices heard. however, the demonstrations overnight were broken up by taliban special forces. meanwhile, we have seen a few planes take off and land at hkia, that's the airport in kabul. the taliban has been evaluating offers from several governments, including the qataris.

christina ruffini is at the white house where president biden addressed the jobs report before visiting storm damage in louisiana. christina, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. like you said, the economy did add jobs to, and that's a good thing. the problem is the economy is still nowhere near as healthy as it was before covid. the fear is too slow a recovery could compromise the recovery altogether. >> what we're seeing is an economic recovery that's durable and strong. >> reporter: taking the glass half full approach to last month's jobs report, president biden tried to redirect focus on the total number of jobs created since coming to office. >> it's not just that i've added more jobs in the first year of any president, it's that we've added jobs in every single one of my first seven job reports. >> reporter: but that progress has stalled as the highly contagious delta variant spreads both covid and economic uncertainty. >> we saw that every month was a new drama, was a new crisis. it was one step forward, two steps back. it looks like this is a perfect example of that, t

it out of afghanistan the journey was often treacherous even those who are citizens, here's christina ruffinimily's harrowing journey >> both of these american citizens were supposed to be in kabul four days. >> one last trip to see family and celebrate his brother's wedding before the taliban took control. >> on sunday early morning when i woke up i smell my family member burning documents in the backyard and that's when i thought everything's done, it's over now, they're in. >> the trip turned into an urgent evacuation, they registered with the state department and tried to get to the airport but crowds of desperate afghans some with visas most without blocked access to the gate. >> we couldn't get in and that's when we decided to go back and just wait. just wait for a better plan. >> the plan came with help from friends in the u.s. who got them a contact inside the airport. they tried again. this time at night. >> what is the level of anxieyon check point. >> you stop breathing, okay, they know who i am and they're going to take me. >> they let you go. >> they let me go. >> after few tense