it will hold 500 with a capacity to expand to 2,000 jose >> dasha burns in granjeno, texas. thank you. >>> new york governor andrew cuomo is facing even more pressure to resign amid yet another harassment allegation, one he denies today, protesters calling for justice said if he won't leave he should be impeached. morgan chesky has details. >> what do we want >> justice >> when do we want it? >> now >> reporter: tonight, new calls for new york governor andrew cuomo to step down. >> when the governor lies about his abuse of power, as he's doing right now and daily, it's a betrayal of the public's trust. >> reporter: in manhattan, hundreds gathered to hear lindsey boylan. >> the only way we can hold this governor accountable is to impeach him. >> reporter: the first of now eight women to make claims of sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct against the governor at this point what do you want to see governor cuomo do? >> i want to see him resign and if he doesn't resign, i want to see the legislature impeach him, because i think it's time for his term to be over. >> reporte

dasha burns, let me go to you. have been doing reporting on this in terms of one of the things they are going to try to do to solve the problem. not necessarily -- there's not a ton of good options here. walk us through what you learned. tell us a little bit about what you are hearing from people there on the ground about why they have decided not just to make this journey but to do it now. >> reporter: the reporting that you are hearing from my colleague, we have been watching that unfold here on the ground. the majority of migrant families crossing the border here in the rio grande valley being allowed to stay in the united states. we have been spending the weekend and this morning speaking to those migrant families. the majority of them started their journey here to the united states about two to three weeks ago from central america. they came here to the border, surrendered to customs and border protection. they were processed and released into towns. many of them taking shelter with local charities like where

joining us, dasha burns in hildago, texas. you've been on the border, know what the situation is.ou're hearing from officials and people inside those facilities? >> hey, andrea, they generally line up with what we've been hearing. no kids in cages in these facilities but they are overcrowded. you can see a little bit of that, especially in the four-minute video from the donna facility, the epicenter of overcrowding as we know right now. although these images do generally line up, there was very little in these videos that actually showed those living areas, places where the kids are sleeping. a lot of that four minutes was video of empty rooms and phone booths and folks outside. we did not get a huge picture of what it actually looks like, where those kids are sleeping. i think the next step in the process of transparency is to get access, which you know we've been asking for from nbc news into one of those facilities, particularly donna. but, andrea, the bottom line here is these are not places meant for kids, especially not meant to hold kids for an extended amount of time. cust

dasha burns has made her way to texas.eporting and how local organizations are helping the migrant families. >> reporter: the biden administration has been saying and trying to say loudly that the border is closed. they say only unaccompanied minors are allowed to stay here. everyone else, single individuals, family units are largely being expelled. as we have been here, we have watched as customs and border patrol buses brought dozens of migrant families, releasing them from custody right here. one just showed up a couple of hours ago. they largely are going to take shelter with sister norma and catholic charities. some are taking buses and trains to other parts of the country. what is going on? there has not been a substantive policy shift. what we hear from sources here is that there has been a reality shift here on the ground as more migrant families are being allowed into the u.s. this is happening because mexico has recently said they cannot take families with children younger than 6 years old. they say it's due to -

nbc's dasha burns is near the border. dasha, great to see you this afternoon. thanks for joining us on this. while we have this battle going on in washington, people are really suffering down there. thousands of people. what is the latest on what you're seeing on the ground there? >> reporter: yeah, we've been spending time in these border communities like brownsville and mcallen and what we've been seeing, we have been meeting migrant families who have taken desperate journeys to get here to flee from desperate situations, and what we've been watching happen here is customs and border protection has been dropping off buses full of migrant families in downtown areas like this one here in brownsville, and in mcallen. now, this is happening because recently, mexico changed its policy, saying it can no longer accept the u.s. expelling migrant families with children under the age of 6 into its country, so recently, more of those families have been allowed to stay here in the u.s. and these towns, yasmin, this is not new for them. they have been seeing this time and

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dasha burns is in texas, and peter alexander is at the white house.these images from inside the facilities. how do they compare with what you're hearing from officials and families? >> we've been pushing for transparency. this is the first step towards that. the next step is allowing media access to some of these facilities, particularly donna, which we know is the epicenter of overcrowding. these images line up with what we've been hearing. there are no kids in cages, we do see overcrowding especially in that four-minute video. we can see in those partitions, there's more kids than there should be. it's significantly over capacity. the bottom line here, geoff, these facilities are not meant for children especially not meant for children for significant amounts of time. i got the chance to speak with the vice president of the national border patrol council, that's the union representing border patrol agents, and he told me that he felt he and his agents were not properly equipped to deal with a humanitarian crisis, especially not one involving kids. t

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nbc news dasha burns is in texas outside a customs and border facility housing unaccompanied children and digital white house reporter shannon pettypiece. also jacob soboroff. talk to us about the delegation in terms of what the white house is hoping to achieve with this, what is the delegation hoping to learn about this facility? >> reporter: members of congress have been pushing to get more access and white house officials joining them on this. having a reporter along and a tv camera, though, is addressing this big criticism from not only reporters be, but other democrats on the hill as well, about a lack of transparency into what the conditions are like in this facility. so, the most clear, tangible thing the administration is probably going to get out of today is on a public relations front, by being able to show this is not something they're keeping secret, behind the curtain. they are revealing some elements of the detention process here. we will see how much they actually show us and how much flexibility they give to our colleague you mentioned, who is inside there, but answeri

dasha burns is there in dana, texas. dasha, good morning. >> reporter: hey, a congregation have been given access to an hhs facility in corrizo springs, texas. we have not gotten access to this facility in donna, texas. this is a customs and border protection custody these children are under border patrol custody there is one thing everyone agrees on, which is that children do not belong in facilities like this they do not belong here for an extended period of time. we know from julia ainsley's reporting that more than 800 kids have been under border patrol custody for more than ten days what's happening here is a bottleneck with health and human services that is the agency that should be taking custody of these children while they await being united with a sponsor or a relative the problem is they do not have to pass any -- they're not able to create bed space quickly enough to keep up with these numbers, so that is the urgency right now. a rush for expanding capacity with health and human services so children are not st

nbc's dasha burns is in texas.ormer deputy director for hillary clinton and a special assistant to then-second lady jill biden and is now an msnbc contributor. julia, let me start with you and that statement from secretary mayorkas. what steps did he lay out for how dhs plans to confront this challenge, what's being described as this administration's first legitimate crisis? >> right, craig. what he laid out are really steps to get these children into proper care as quickly as possible. as you know we have a backup right now in customs and border protection, so he laid out a plan to try to get what he called joint processing facilities that would take children into the care of health and human services almost immediately after they cross the border. that's where they get better care. but he's also talking about long-term solutions to work with the countries where these children are coming from, to try to improve conditions there, and he talked a lot about the message that they're receiving in those countries very r

let's go to nbc's dasha burns, reporting on the latest from granejo, texas. >> reporter: immigration agencies overwhelmed, struggling to handle the surge of migrants at the us border. over 5,000 unaccompanied minors in custody in overcrowded facilities. total border encounters in february up 28% over the previous month. especially in the rio grande valley in texas. this is the border wall here. just about a quarter mile up the road, customs and border protection has set up an area where they're processing the surge of migrants coming to the u.s. from there they take them on buses straight to mcallen. >> reporter: families are tested for covid and many shelter with local charities before traveling to relatives living across the country. >> in a time of stress you may become noble and generous and courageous or you may become mean and nasty and freak out. what's happening here is people are noble. >> reporter: in mexico, a rising number of families with young children are being allowed to stay in the u.s. 60% in february compared to 38% in january. many fleeing danger back home. >> tra

joining me now is dasha burns in hidalgo, texas. and "washington post" ashley parker.s with our own eyes, what can you tell us about the images that we're being given by the administration and what you're hearing on the ground about the conditions inside those facilities? >> reporter: yeah. this is a step towards transparency. the next step would be to give media access to these facilities, particularly the one in donna which we know is the epicenter of overcrowding. we could see a little bit of that in the videos. we could see a lot of kids in the plastic partitions, more children than probably should be in that area. we know they are significantly overcrowded there. i'll tell you, in the seven minutes or so in total we got from the el paso facility and the facility in donna, we saw few snippets where the children are living and sleeping. that's where they are spending the majority of their time. a lot of the video was empty rooms and computers. we really want to understand what their day-to-day is like. and it's hard to tell from these videos what the actual mood of

that's why we find nbc news' dasha burns. good to have you with us.ham are you seeing there, and what do we know about why it took so long for the administration to be more forthcoming about this? >> reporter: hey, ayman. we've been here for several days now, and what we've been seeing is customs and border protection bringing buses full of migrant families and releasing them here in mcallen. most of them head to local shelters, and from there go on to another destination in the u.s. now, folks in the biden administration say that there has not been a substantial policy shift, but what we are seeing and hearing from hearing community leaders is that there's a substantial reality shift here on the ground. they are seeing more migrant families come in. what we are learning from people like sister norma when's been working with migrants for a long time and the mayor of mcallen is around the time of biden's inauguration mexico stopped allowing the u.s. to expel migrant families with children under the age of 6 to their country so right now families with c

now there's overcrowding in the facilities dasha burns is in donna, texas good morning, dasha. >> reporterbiden administration who says they want to create a more humane immigration policy, but the reality here on the ground and what we're hearing from sources is that things are still pretty far from humane, especially at facilities like this one here. one dhs official told my colleague this is the epicenter of over crowding right now we don't know a lot about what's going on inside. we have not yet been able to get access we have requested it no one has been allowed to go inside of the facility we have asked for images or videos the only images that are released are before any people were actually detained there we also have asked for numbers of how many people are actually in the facility at the moment. have also not been given those numbers yet. what we do know, we know largely from the lawyers who have been allowed to speak to children inside of the facility, i spoke to one lawyer who interviewed about 20 children. she said she met kids as young as 1, as old as 17 said that they were u

dasha burns joins us from brownsville, texas. how is this recent surge of migrants affecting people who live in those areas? >> alex, we've been spending time in brownsville and these are two towns at the heart of the migrant surge in the rio grande valley and it looks pretty similar. customs and border protection brings busses or vans full of migrant families and mostly those with young children, drops them off at bus depots like this one here where non-profits from there will help the folks get covid tested and help them find food and shelter and between brownsville and non-profit. so far they've seen 80 people here and alex, this is nothing new to these border communities and they've seen it happen under democratic presidents and under republican presidents and they say things look pretty similar this time around as they have in the past. i spoke to the mayor of mcallen. he's been in office since 2013 and he was on the front lines of this in 2014 and 2019, and i asked him if he thinks that the biden administration ask their se

those agencies are tightlipped about the situation at the border but our own dasha burns was able to nt who is also the vice president of the union who represents those agents. and dasha joins us from hill da go, texas. dasha, what have you learned? >> the first step is now an important next step for access in the facilities, especially the donna facility, which we know is the epicenter of overcrowding. what we saw in the videos, they do largely line up with what we've been hearing, there are no kids in cages there but they are overcrowded. we saw a little bit of that in the videos that were released, particularly the four-minute video from donna where you see kids inside partitions, more kids than there should be. we know that facility is significantly overcrowded. i would say in the seven minutes or so that were released from the facility in el paso and donna, we only saw a few minutes of the sleeping video of children and other parts of empty rooms. that's why access is so important. it's hard to tell the mood and state of these children from these videos. i did get a chance to spe

>> nbc's dasha burns.that great reporting, as always. >>> joining me is former hud secretary and mayor of san antonio, julian castro. secretary castro, i have to tell you, i have been looking forward to speaking with you all morning. i want to have a conversation free of political spin and free of fearmongering and free from hyperbole about this issue at the border. migrants are not overrunning border towns. that is a fact. but the fact that the biden administration is now responsible for 15,000 migrant children, that is a real humanitarian crisis. how can the biden administration settle on an immigration policy that is humane but is also effective? >> yeah, geoff, it's good to be with you and i'm glad, you know, you started the interview off that way because i think we need to put this into context. you just said, you know, there are over 15,000 minors in u.s. government custody. different points of 2018 and 2019, there were over 13,000 minors in u.s. government custody. here's the difference between wher

patrol facility for days in texas the mother whose identity we are concealing speaking to nbc's dasha burns. >> can you tell me about your daughter >> translator: she cries and is scared but before she wasn't like that. she is very happy. >> reporter: the border patrol said it can't comment on specific cases but any child without a parent is considered unaccompanied and must be transferred to hhs without the adult relative meanwhile, republicans say president biden everybody couraged this by reversing trump's policies. >> it's getting worse because of biden's policies what president trump was doing was working. >> our thanks for that report. >>> nbc meteorologist janessa webb is busy tracking weather that could impact millions of people good morning, janessa. >> good morning, everyone. we have a dangerous setup that has been heightened from the storm rediction center a high risk from across alabama. 29 million people across the deep south and lower mississippi valley going to be dealing with some long track tornadoes. the problem with this tornado scene that we're going to see is it will be

the mother, whose identity we are concealing because she is seeking asylum, speaking to nbc's dasha burns. >> can you tell me about your daughter? >> translator: she cries and is scared. but before she wasn't like that. she was very happy >> reporter: the border patrol says it can't comment on specific cases but that any child without a parent is considered unaccompanied and must be transferred to hhs without the adult relative meanwhile, republicans say president biden encouraged the migrant surge by reversing former president trump's restrictive border policies. >> it's getting worse because of president biden's policies what president trump was doing was working. >> reporter: tonight president biden says he has no immediate plans to visit the border his dhs secretary will appear before congress tomorrow where he's expected to face tough questions about the situation here lester. >> all right garrett haake along the border, thank you. >>> in just 60 seconds, was there foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election? we have the new intel report to share. >>> and the future of tra

the mother whose identity we're concealing because she's seeking asylum speaking to nbc's dasha burnsou tell me about your daughter? >> she cries and she's scared but before she wasn't like that. she was very happy. >> reporter: any child without a parent is considered unaccompanied and must be transferred to hhs without the adult relative. meanwhile republicans say president biden encouraged the migrant surge by reversing former president trump's restrictive border policies. >> it's getting worse because of president biden's policies. what president trump was doing was working. >> reporter: tonight president biden says he has no immediate plans to visit the border. his dhs secretary will appear before congress tomorrow where he's expected to face tough questions about the situation here. >> correspondent garret haake reporting for us tonight from el paso in his home state of texas. our thanks. >>> coming up, because it matters a look at where we were a year ago today. a year ago tody i'm a verizon engineer, part of the team that built 5g right. the only one from america's most reliab

joining me now from johnson city, tennessee is dasha burns.'re making me want to sing a song. >> i heard that one before, just about every time i visit here. >> so what are you hearing? >> katy, we have been reparting on this region for months now. and the last time that we were here in december it is some of the darkest times we spend times with nurses in the icu's. we saw trailers that were brought in here when the hospital's mourge ran out of room. and there was rumors that it was a hoax. since then there has been a big shift here inside the hospital and outside of the community. there is is not a single ventilator. there is also a change in mind-set here alison johnson is a nurse of 17 years and a member of this community. when we met in december she said she would go to the grocery store, see her neighbors without masks and worry she would see them in the icu. >> as of today we have no icu patients with covid. >> is it the vaccines? is it a conversation you have been having about how real it is. telling your story about what you might see

garrett haake and dasha burns are following this from the texas border. garrett is in el paso. joined by kelly o'donnell. it's good to see you all. garrett, let me start with you. we are waiting on this press conference in house republicans. what have you seen so far as you have been down there at the border in el paso? what are you expecting to hear from republican leaders today? >> reporter: on the ground in el paso, the reality of migration is well-known. this is a recurring issue. it's a seasonal issue. you see more and more people start to come every year as the spring and summer begin. the numbers, as you pointed out, particularly of unaccompanied minors are on a track, ahead of where we should be for february and march, suggesting this problem could get worse and worse into the spring and summer months. people here are i think relieves fema is now getting involved. the emergency disaster specialists, logistic specialists for the federal government who can help alleviate some of the problem. on the politics end, this is an easy to understand why republicans are coming aft

with me is msnbc reporter dasha burns. what are you hearing on the ground there in texas?o are working with these migrants? >> reporter: hey, alicia. just about a quarter mile past the wall here, customs and border protection set up a temporary area where they are processing an increasing number of migrant families who are coming here. from there we watched as buses have taken them from that facility over to downtown mcallen where they are dropped off and typically those families take shelter with catholic charities or other nonprofits. now, my colleague julia ainsley got data that showed 60% of migrant families in february were allowed to stay in the u.s. compared to 38% in january. the biden administration says there has not been a policy change, that the borders are still closed to anyone except the unaccompanied minors we've been talking about, but there has been a reality shift on the ground here as we've been talking to local officials. they tell us that mexico is no longer allowing the u.s. to expel migrant families with children under the age of 6 into their countr

. >> dasha burns live for us in texas, thank you. >>> let's cross back over to minneapolis and a newd to the stand as the trial resumes. jack rupert. >> can i take this off >> please. >> thank you >> thank you, your honor good afternoon is it officer ruble? >> lieutenant. >> what law enforcement agency are you with >> minneapolis police department. >> how long have you been employed by the minneapolis police department? >> just under 32 years >> you indicated that you are a lieutenant how long have you held this rank >> since 2000. >> before you talk a little bit about yourself, you understand that you have been called here as a foundation witness? >> yes, sir. >> your personal involvement in this case is somewhat limited and we're going to be offering various video evidence through you. do you understand that >> yes. >> all right and so, what are your present duties with the minneapolis police department, lieutenant? >> i manage the police business technology unit. >> and what is that? >> myself and my staff basically manage the technology equipment, software, systems that officers

they're supposed to at least get their contact information, but some of the immigrants my colleague, dasha burns, spoke to yesterday said they were just released without being given anything, except for a paper to show maybe a cop at a traffic stop, really no idea how they will ever be contacted to appear in immigration court. so, that is sort of the short-term solution just to alleviate pressure, mainly because we're not going to release the children. you wouldn't release children onto the streets of the united states without any kind of care. they need to go to health and human services after border patrol where they are cared for and placed with a vetted sponsor. but they need to release the parents and the families and the single adults just so that they have more room for the children in these facilities. so, that's a short-term measure and one we're certainly going to be watching to see how long that exists and whether or not they expand that to other parts of the border. but this trip down to central america, i think that's significant. we know that they're sending roberto jacobson. she w

here's dasha burns. >> reporter: this is the border wall here. just about a quarter mile up the road, customs and border protection has set up an area processing the surge of migrants coming here to the u.s. from there they take them on buses to mcallen. when they are released here, they're tested for covid. many shelter with local charities before traveling to relatives living across the country. >> in a time of stress, you may become noble and generous and courageous or you may become mean and nasty and freak out. but what's happening here are people are becoming noble. >> reporter: due to capacity issues in mexico, a rising number of families with young children are being allowed to stay in the u.s. 60% in february compared to 38% in january. many fleeing danger back home. >> her father was killed when she was 9 years old. >> reporter: some say the new president gave them hope for a life in america. >> why did you decide to come now? >> take advantage of the opportunity that the president has given to the people from central america to come wi

. >> let's bring in nbc's dasha burns in texas and ashley parker and senator clair mccaskill is back.it like down there? what is the emotional tenor? what is the latest? >> reporter: we keep hearing that the border is closed, that only unaccompanied minors are allowed in but according to data and reporting here on the ground right now the families traveling to the u.s. and crossing the border, they are being allowed to stay and in part because of the capacity issues with the facilities already overcrowded with unaccompanied minors, many families are released and itch new reporting today with my colleagues that as of saturday border patrol agents have been authorized the release migrant families without a court date. that is a departure from typical customs and border protection practice and as we talk to some families this morning i asked about a dozen or so people whether they have a court date and all said no and we looked at the documents from those that rehmaned to be anonymous and in the place where there should be a court date it says date to be met and some families said nobody