you will hear for my colleagues about homeland security national security. there is a lot to say there. i will also briefly touch on many other important services from the public purposes that our government is responsible for. when you look across federal government today you will see agencies are starting to use the insights they can gleam from this data that they generate in the viewing of their business. ai technology is also changing -- it could speed up, simple via come up make those administrative processes work better. the examples are wide-ranging. they include ai for weather prediction, ai to help us keep air travel safer, ai is being used to speed up the processing of disability determinations. it is being used to improve how we process patent applications. those are just some examples today. if you take a peek inside labs around the country and look at what is happening with federally funded r&d, you will get a glimpse of where the future is going. ai is playing a huge role there as well. ai can enable the design of the materials that we need for

eric eisen, chief information officer with the department of homeland security. we welcome everyone and are pleased to have all of you here this afternoon. so pursuant to committee rule 9g, the witnesses will please, if you will stand and raise your right hand. do solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god? let the record show the witnesses all answered in the affirmative. we appreciate all of you being here today and look forward to hearing your testimony. i would like to remind the witnesses that we have your written statements and they will appear in full. please keep your oral seems to five minutes. press the button on your microphone so it's on the members can hear you. when you begin to speak, the light infantry will turn green. after four minutes, the light will turn yellow and when the red light comes on, your five minutes is expired and we ask you to please wrap it up for us. all right. with that i'm going to yield to our ranking member of the subcommittee, mr. conn

the spokesperson continues that the entire department of homeland security grieves with the loved onesnforcement officers and first responders who are currently working to secure and safeguard the people of lewiston. the department of homeland security spokesperson said they are working closely with federal, state and local partners to support a lewiston community. we are looking at pictures here of the central maine medical centre in lewiston. 0ne maine medical centre in lewiston. one of the big health care facilities in the area. all the services are coordinating to take care of those people who have been injured in this attack. police have circulated some images of the government. this is an image that was circulated by the lewiston police department a little earlier. the police departments in the area have been updating on social media throughout the evening. we are waiting a press conference at the city of lewiston city hall from those of various local authorities. i'vejoined in the studio by helena humphrey. it's a very fluid situation and it seems to be very much still an active

you were also the secretary of homeland security the obama administration that oversaw the constructionndreds of miles of order barrier. what do you think of the biden administration's new policy of expanding the border fence? ms. napolitano: i tnk it was a difficult decision, obviously, we. and i think it is important for the president to clarify that we are not going to so our immigration issues at the border with a wall. or a fence. the issues are more complicated than that. it requires a more holistic approach. putting up some physical structure in some areas of the border where it is determined that that could really help with the traffic, that is a tactical decision that the border patrol has made in the past. sumi: beyond those physical barriers, because the border is some 2000 miles long, put more is needed? -- what more is needed? ms. napolitano: could be a combination of things. i think of it as a three legged stool. one leg is physical infrastructure, fencing or a wall. one leg is technology, sensors, drones. and the third leg is manpower, making sure you have enough agents o

let's welcome back senator roger hard shall from senate homeland security -- marshall.t know how you keep your composure and, you know, your patience, because secretary of homeland security mayorkas, he's saying nothing about the 8 million illegals caught crossing under this biden white house, theory 1300 terrorists caught under this biden white house on the watch list trying to cross, but he's blaming congress? what do you say? >> well, liz, it is very painful. i think that our secretary has no idea how concerned people are back home about their safety and security. i think that he doesn't either know, he doesn't know the answer or refuses to answer the questions. he refuses to take any type of accountability from the standpoint that their policies have turned on magnet so that 8 million people have crossed the border illegally under their watch. the only pact we got out of him -- fact we got out of him today is he admits that 600,000 gotaways have crossed the border this year alone. 600,000 gotaways, we have no idea where they're from, what they're doing here, where t

taking a look at homeland security, fbi director christopher wray and homeland security secretary alejandro mallorca's. we take it to you in progress. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] chair peters: and i look forward to hearing from our witnesses about how their agencies are looking to address both international as well as domestic terrorism. our nation also faces emerging threats from biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiological weapons, especially if those weapons fall into the wrong hands. i have long been concerned about the danger this poses, which is why i lead the effort to reauthorize the office of countering weapons of mass destruction and will continue to work towards that end. we must also reauthorize the chemical facility antiterrorism standards program and ensure that facilities that store or produce chemicals are secure from terrorist threats. we will discuss the significant threat that cyber attacks pose to our nat

homeland security secretary mayokas and f.b.i. christopher wray will face questions from senators on how they will crack down on national security threats after board are officials arrested a record number of terror watch list suspects trying to cross into the united states. >> john: israeli prime minister netanyahu shutting down any possibility of a cease-fire in the fight against hamas saying any call to do so is a call to, quote, surrender to hamas, surrender to terrorism and surrender to barbarism. peter learner joins us now. the prime minister yesterday pushed back against calls for a cease-fire including from the united nations in an op-ed in the "wall street journal" saying that this is everyone's war. he said, quote, i hope and pray that civilized nations everywhere will back this fight back israel's fight is your fight. in hamas's axis of evil win you will be their next target. israel's victory will be your victory. since 2007 lieutenant colonel, israel has played a cat and mouse game with hamas. hamas will cause trouble,

that's later. >> dana: there is also this on capitol hill you see secretary blinken speak now but homeland securityayokas will be on the hill today. you mentioned border securing, karine jean-pierre did. fiscal year 23, 169 people arrested on the terror watch list. you are the former intel chairman. how concerned are you about that? >> and former f.b.i. agent and served in the military. there is no southern border at this rate. there is also something in that figure that gets lost. something about 1.7 million gotaways. if you are on the terrorist watch list or iranian trained to do bad things, your goal is not to get caught. that means in that 1.7, if you extrapolate the data of the terrorist watch list people the border patrol caught. that tells you there are a lot more on the list we don't understand who they are, where they are and what they're doing in the united states. this is dangerous. >> dana: they said iran is the biggest state sponsor of terror in the world. should we worry about hezbollah agents and iranian agents here? >> yes. i don't think it's a coincidence. we shouldn't take a chanc

usha used to be -- work for house committee on homeland security, including broad background spirits as a service member in the u.s. army, as an intelligence officer and paratrooper. she has engaged in public health. brandy venice principal deputy fort defense for nuclear chemical and biological defense programs. she has held numerous senior federal government leadership positions, including chief of advanced and emergency threats at threat reduction agency, where she was awarded for innovations in detecting contaminated battlefields. next is richard johnson, a deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and countering weapons of mass destruction policy. he was previously at the nuclear threat initiative and also at the state department, where he was a deputy lead coordinator for rand nuclear if limitations are during the obama ministration, richard served as director of nonproliferation on national security council. welcome to all of you. deborah, thank you for your

numbers, you don't know the law to enforce the law so what comes across is that we've got a homeland securityteam that doesn't believe in securing the homeland because you don't care enough to go deep enough into the issue to be able to define the problem and be able to fix it. ms. marcos, i'm going to come to you because i've written secretary becerra twice about these children that they just can't find. now, first letter he got acting assistant secretary jeff hill to send a nonresponse to my office and then i sent another letter and i haven't heard anything from him. i have asked that he come to the committee and talk to us about what has happened with of these 85,000 children, where they are and why efforts are not being made to find them and to be certain that they are being cared for but there is no response to that because there again, you all believe in open borders. your goal is not to secure the country and the border. your goal is to just let everybody come in and to hell with us trying to find 85,000 kids. you didn't vet the sponsors right and you did not do an fbi background check

and so you're gonna hear from uh mr holman a little bit later who uh when i created ice at homeland security, uh i was in charge of i was in charge of that responsibility. we actually enforce the law and he's going to talk about some of the ways that that can be done again. yes. with your voice and creation. right. ok. that some of it back. yes. well, i don't have the exact number that i could get back. but it, the, and this puts life in perspective, we've spent about $100 billion in ukraine in terms of supporting them. the last inflation reduction act was over $1.2 trillion and no republican voted for it and the costs are underestimated. and so as governor, i turned back money, you know, we had too much federal money coming in. we didn't need it. i turned it back, much of that has not been spent and it might take some congressional support to withdraw all of it that hasn't been spent. but i would work toward that because that would take some of the inflationary pressure out of of our economy. yes, sir. this, this is where the tough part comes in. i know, i know what's coming here. yes, sir.

the homeland security secretary says there is a an "immediate need." >>> and what if anything should happen to those republicans who voted to oust house speaker kevin "minding your business." >>> also, bob menendez' wife killed a p.e.d. we have evidence. >>> and first dog commander bit more people than we even know. hundred had to be hospitalized. >>> and winning gold with a seventh consecutive team title at the gymnastic world championships. "cnn this morning" starts right now. >>> good morning, everyone. we are back from washington. we did not figure out who the next speaker will be, which isn't a lack of reporting. it's because know one in the house knows who the next speaker is going to be either. >> right. >> paralysis is pretty fair word at this point, but the battle t, they can do with weeks left to prevent a government shutdown. top republicans officially jumped into the race. keeping a close watch to see if anybody else hops in anytime soon. whoever the house republican party picks it could have huge implications from ukraine aid to the looming shutdown. future speaker will

. >> the department of homeland security says the u.s. remains in a heightened threat environment as the violence continues between israel and hamas. the agency reports lone offenders motivated by violent ideologies post the most likely threat. raquel martin reports. >> as the war between israel and hamas re just lawmakers in washington are urging the public not to turn towards heat. we need to speak out loudly clearly forcefully. >> against anti-semitism and against us. on the phone the department of homeland security is reporting a recent increase in threats against jewish muslim. >> and eric communities and institutions, lawmakers like california, democrat ro khanna say they're receiving calls from constituents living in fearful of sending their kids to school. people are feeling vulnerable. they're feeling targeted threats turned to tragedy near congressman bill foster is district where a man is charged with murdering a 6 year-old palestinian boy in a chicago suburb. this is not who we are as americans. the department of homeland secu

you are going to hear a little bit later when i created i said homeland security i was in charge of that responsibility. we actually enforce the law and he's going to talk about some of the ways that can be done again. yes? [inaudible] [inaudible] >> yes. i do not have the exact number that i could get back. this puts life in perspective. we spent about $100 billion in ukraine in terms of supporting them. the last inflation reduction act was over 1.2 trillion dollars. no republican voted for it. the costs are underestimated. as governor i turned back monday we had too much of federal money coming in we did not need it, i turned it back. much of that is notth been spent it might take some congressional support to withdrawal all of it that is not been spencer but i would work towards that because that would take some of the inflationary pressure out of our economy. yes, sir? this is where the tough part comes in. i know it is coming here, yes, sir? [inaudible] [inaudible] who would you clarify it around? who is short candidate as you take on donald trump? okay. with all due respect. [laugh

the president's head of homeland security saying, quote, there is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border. tonight, why the president is now insisting he has no choice. and what he said when he was pressed, will it work? mireya villarreal at the border tonight. >>> in new york city, the deadly unprovoked attack at that bus stop. that young couple coming home. the young man stabbed in the heart and killed. tonight, the suspect is now under arrest, and what we've learned. >>> the abc news exclusive tonight involving former president trump and nuclear secrets. sources telling abc news an australian billionaire who was friends with trump has told special counsel jack smith's team the former president shared potentially sensitive information about america's nuclear submarines while at mar-a-lago after donald trump left the white house. abc news learning that that billionaire then allegedly shared those nuclear secrets with dozens of others, including foreign officials and his own employees. jonathan karl reporting. >>> amid

he sits on the homeland security committee. and he's a member of the biden campaign's national advisory board. it's always a pleasure to see you. thank you for your time. i just like, if you could, to kind of expand on this. the president says very directly, that this is congress forcing his hands on this. is this indeed what we're witnessing? >> i mean it is, first, let's be clear, i agree with many of my colleagues in the house and certainly with the president that border walls do not work. they're inhumane. they have not stopped migration into the united states. we've wasted an norms amount of money on a symbol that is not about the humanity about what is actually happening. they don't work and the president has reiterated that point as early as we -- as we saw yesterday. at the same time, we also know this was authorized prior to president biden taking office. congress actually moved forward and funded this before the president asked congress to reallocate the funds. congress chose not to do it. they're moving through somet

as a governor, as head of the deform e.a., homeland security, and where i had the responsibility to protectricans from a terrorist attack on our soil after 9/11. i've been in situation room with the president of the united states where it was my responsibility to secure plights that were being targeted by terrorists. it was my responsibility to set up the first visa security office in saudi arabia. i've been there. i understand the risks. i've been to israel and saw their security apparatus. so foreign policy, national security, border security, and whenever you look at the rule of law that we have in our country, you need a former federal prosecutor that knows how to take on the swamp in washington, d.c. and i can do that. [applause] here in nashua and i had a meeting with your chief of police, really a law enforcement summit in which i met with the undercover officers that work uh here in this area on drug trafficking on the challenges that we face with opioid abuse and fentanyl. and i heard from your chief rourke who's doing a fantastic job. i listened to the undercover agents and after

for example, we are seeing homeland security going to use ai we are seeing homeland security going tog at technology vendor is to provide ways to test and validate and understand in unexplainable wave that is going on with models when we see something to do with privacy. immigration law is another great potential win for the us in terms of bringing more talent in. what we really have a lack of at this moment is the ability to put any teeth behind what happens if a technology vendor doesn't comply with an executive order? we are at a point when it is almost six months since most of these different labour and department groups have to tell us what their strategies are. i think we are at the very beginning of something that is probably not really going to be in effect for about a year.— really going to be in effect for about a year. does that mean that _ for about a year. does that mean that there _ for about a year. does that mean that there won't - for about a year. does that mean that there won't be i for about a year. does that. mean that there won't be that much impact on companies,

so late last night, the secretary of homeland security posts this, the homeland security department doesve regulations the u.s. federal register outlines construction in star county in the rio grande valley sector where the administration says there is high illegal entry. mayorkas, secretary, says he is using his authority provided by congress to waive 26 federal laws, including the clean air act safe drinking water act and endangered species act because there is an immediate need. mayorkas just spoke to reporters a few minutes ago. >> there is no new administration policy with respect to the border wall. from day one, this administration has made clear that a border wall is not the answer. that remains our position and our position has never wavered. >> bret: except that there is an immediate need. if you need a whiteboard, join the club. let's bring in our panel jason riley "wall street journal" columnist. senior fellow at the manhattan institute. byron york, chief political correspondent for t "the washington examiner" and "u.s.a. today" white house correspondent francesca chambers. a

in fact, he said that he agrees with the department of homeland security's assessment that the 2020 election was the most secure election in american history. it's quite an about-face for meadows. he was by trump's side as he tried to overturn the election, including setting up that phone call where trump urged georgia's secretary of state to, quote, find 11,780 votes. >> mr. president, everybody is on the line, and just so -- this is mark meadows, the chief of staff. >> reporter: and meadows was standing backstage with trump and his family at the january 6th rally outside the white house. >> mark meadows, an actual fighter. >> reporter: but sources tell us meadows testified that in the weeks after the election, he repeatedly told trump the allegations of significant fraud were turning out to be baseless. there was simply no evidence. meadows also said he thought of resigning many times himself, those sources say, but he stayed on because he wanted to help ensure a peaceful transition to a biden administration. this comes on a day of drama and tears in a georgia courtroom, as another close t

in regard to the southern border, with the department of homeland security is requested is money forers. so i'm not against doing that, providing that type of money, but i don't think they should necessarily be combined with the ukrainian issue, but we'll see how it comes out of the legislative process. comes out of the legislative rocess. ., , , ., comes out of the legislative rocess. ., ,, ., ., ., process. congressman, one more cuestion. process. congressman, one more question- you _ process. congressman, one more question. you said _ process. congressman, one more question. you said the _ process. congressman, one more question. you said the select - question. you said the select community on china. —— select committee. is that a good thing, do you think prison bunch you get out of this meeting? i bunch you get out of this meeting?— bunch you get out of this meetin: ? ~ �*, ., ., ., meeting? i think it's a good thin , meeting? i think it's a good thing, president _ meeting? i think it's a good thing, president biden - meeting? i think it's a good l thing, president biden should t

the secretary of homeland security has been briefed as well.arlier. she said she was aware of the situation, she was aware of the situation, she had been briefed on it, and urging everyone to follow the direction of state and local law enforcement while she would continue to monitor the situation and stay in close contact. as we were saying, the direction of local law enforcement and state—level law enforcement, as you can see beneath the governor's tweet on x, the advice from the state police in maine, asking people to stay at home with their doors locked. very much still an active situation. in lewiston in maine. the second biggest town in maine, a little north of portland. we were speaking earlier to a resident there who said, she describes there who said, she describes the state as being lucky they had the facility. we are looking now at the central maine medical centre, a large hospital. from what we are hearing, this is a very large scale event with a large number of casualties. aha, scale event with a large number of casualties.— of casu

on wednesday, the department of homeland security, announced that 20 mile of barriers will be built int in a sparsely populated area of the rio grande valley. members of his democratic party said walls did not work, while rival republicans accused him of hypocrisy. but speaking to reporters in the last few hours, president biden defended the decision. i was told that i had no choice, that i, you know, congress passes legislation. to build something, whether it's an aircraft carrier, a wall, or provide for a tax cut, i can't say, "i don't like it, i'm not going to do it." if this hadn't been vetoed... you said yesterday that you tried to re—appropriate the funds. yeah, we tried to ask congress to consider changing the law. to re—appropriate, use it for another purpose. give me more border agents, give me more technical capabilities. detect fentanyl, that's what i want to do. the announcement comes as officials at the southern border report increasing numbers of crossings. last month, border patrol agents registered about 210,000 apprehensions. that's the highest level this year. and sin

demanding a cease-fire multiple arrests for assaulting capitol police officers, and the warning from homeland security, the heightened threat environment in the u.s. as the war rages. >>> and the nypd asking for help finding the suspect in a hate crime attack on a jewish woman. >>> also tonight, jim jordan losing his second ballot for speaker getting fewer votes. what is the path forward for republicans? >>> and after 18 years, the stunning confession in the natalee holloway case. the prime suspect, joran van der sloot, admitting he killed her on the beach in aruba. how and why he says he did it and what he did with her body. our one-on-one with natalee's mother after she finally learned her daughter's fate. our special edition of "nightly news" begins now. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt reporting tonight live from israel. >>> good evening, and welcome. today president biden was here in israel standing with its people in the face of tragedy while across the arab world, anger raged. protests from the mideast to europe, some aimed at the u.s., over the deadly explosion at a ga

>> no. >> reporter: but his own homeland security secretary, traveling in mexico, said they do work. mayorkas issued a notice stating there is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers in order to prevent unlawful entries into the united states. immigration is a sensitive political issue for president biden, who made this campaign promise in 2020. >> there will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration. >> reporter: but as illegal border crossings have surged above 200,000 last month alone, even some of his political allies have grown critical. in chicago, hundreds of migrants are sleeping on the sidewalks outside police stations. illinois governor j.b. pritzker wrote, "the federal government's lack of intervention and coordination at the border has created an untenable situation for illinois." new york city's democratic mayor has also been outspoken and issued this warning in mexico today. >> we want to give a real picture of what's happening in new york city. we are at capacity. >> reporter: late this afternoon, the administration annou

please join me in welcoming the secretary of homeland security, sec. mayorkas.you for the courage of coming here and sharing your experience with us. the images of the children, the young women, the elderly has made me think yet again about my mother and her experience fleeing the nazis and the lasting impact of her suffering seeing children leave home never to return, impacting how she parented and kept me close. just as the experiences of the parents and grandparents, ancestors and have on the successive generations, so with the savagery inflicted on israel and its people for decades to come. acts of hate are not limited by geography nor by time. rabbi from whom we heard a moving prayer of the union and i have spoken about the fact that there are no such things as a small act of faith, a swastika, graffiti on an elevator wall impacts so many more than just those who step in or off that elevator. here in the united states in the last week. last weekend's chant of gas the jews were heard in sydney australia. british media reported more than 300% increase in anti

the president has been very clear about. >> does he have an agreement with the secretary of homeland security>> he said no, he doesn't believe the border wall is effective. >> that's a direct contr contradiction. >> i hear you. i'm speaking for the president. >> he said there will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration. something changed. what? >> you want us to break the law? is that what you want? you want us to not comply with the law? >> i'm asking about -- >> you want us to not be an administration that follows the rule of law? >> mayorkas would later say the administration's position has not changed. joining me now, democratic congressman of new york. congressman, biden did pledge not another foot, no more money for border wall. why is this happening? >> well, opinions change, views change, people evolve. i trust the president. i think he's a man of his word. >> do you think his opinion has changed about the wall itself? >> no, i don't think so. i know there's money that was allocated back in 2019. perhaps they need to access that money. this crisis is a deep pocke

ken, the homeland security secretary did not mince words. he said this is not a moment to let our guards down. what else did you hear? >> that's right. he and chris wray said the ongoing war in the middle east has raised the threat of terrorist attacks on americans. wray said that the actions of hamas and its allies will serve as an inspiration the likes of which we haven't seen since isis launched its so-called calaphate. and pointed out al-qaeda has issued its most specific call to attack the united states in the last five years and that isis is urging followers to target jewish communities in the u.s. and europe. there was a really dramatic moment when senator hawley was questioning secretary mayorcas about the actions of a dhs asylum officer who praised the attack on israel in some really objectable language. >> is this typical of people who work at dhs? this is an asylum and immigration officer who is posting these frankly pro genocidal slogans and images on the day israelis are being slaughtered in their beds. what have you done about

in an official notice, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas saying there is an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers to prevent unlawful entries into the united states. facing a growing influx of migrants illegally entering the country, the administration is waiving 26 federal laws in order to allow more wall construction using money allocated before president biden took office. it's a sharp policy shift for a president who once called a wall spanning the southern border a waste of time the new construction will be along a stretch of border in starr county, texas. and tonight, former president trump, who built his successful 2016 presidential campaign around a promise to build a border wall, is claiming vindication peter alexander now with late details. >> reporter: tonight, a major reversal the biden administration waiving 26 federal laws to permit more border wall construction in southern texas, amid a record 3 million migrants crossing the border in the past year the head of homeland security, alejandro mayorkas, overnight declaring, "there is presently an acut

homeland security departments will take on ai threats to infrastructure.ll ai developers to share their safety tests with the feds. >> look, in the wrong hands ai could make it easier for hackers to exploit vulnerability in the software that makes our society run. that is why i am directing the department of defense and the department of homeland security both of them to develop game-changing cyberprotections. >> the tech world reacting. calling it a giant leap towards ethical ai. it will attract great ai talent to the u.s. but, a trade group that represents large trade companies like google, amazon and x are against the order saying it will quote result in stifling new companies and competitors from entering the marketplace. >>> from that let's shift to something that we know right now, our forecast. paul heggen is all over it. all of us are wondering what is it like tomorrow night when we knock on the doors for those big candy bars? >> it will be nice out there for halloween evening. looks like the weather will remain nice. i think the most they will do

please join me in welcoming secretary of homeland security alejandro mayorkas.in our community this morning. noa, thank you for the courage coming here and sharing your experience with us. the images of the children, the young women, the elderly has made me think yet again about my mother and her experience in fling the nazis and the lasting impact her suffering. seeing children leave home never very much howct she parented me. she kept me very close. i didn't have the pleasure of a sleepover or sleep away camp as so many of my friends did. and just as the experience of our parents, grandparents, ancestors have a lasting impacts on successive generations, so, too, with the savagery inflicted in israel and its people for decades to come, and impact future generations. ask the fate are not limited by geography nor by time period rabbi moshe hauer of who we heard of moving prayer spoken about the fact that there is no such thing as a small act of hate, a swastika, graffiti on an elevator wall impacts so many more than just those who step in and offin that elevator.

secretary of homeland security clearly did not get that message.ement, alejandro mayorkas said, quote, there is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the united states in order to protect unlawful, prevent unlawful entries into the united states in that protected area. and the white house press secretary also today had trouble explaining the administration's position. >> the -- ineffective, why is the homeland security secretary saying it's necessary to prevent lawful -- >> i've not seen that full statement. i know -- >> -- >> i hear you. i'm just saying i've not seen his full statement on that. what i can speak to is for the president and the president has been very clear. >> does he have a disagreement with his department of homeland security? >> i want to tell you what the president said and what your colleague asked him, he said, no, he doesn't believe in -- >> -- direct contradiction to his own -- >> direct contradiction -- >> and speaking for the president. president. >

neo-nazis seeking to exploit the war according to intelligence memos obtained by nbc news a homeland security official telling nbc news, dhs is monitoring a heightened threat environment in the u.s., the fbi also on high alert >> we stay laser focused on mitigating those threats. >> reporter: tonight the nypd's hate crimes unit asking for the public's help finding this man, who they say punched a woman in a subway station saturday telling her he did it, quote, because you are jewish this as protests continue across the country. in washington, d.c., dozens were arrested at the capitol during a rally of jewish americans calling for a cease-fire [ crowd chanting ] and in suburban chicago last night, more than 1,500 people packed a vigil for a palestinian american boy. >> he was a child, a child filled with love and not any hate. >> reporter: prosecutors think 6-year-old wadea al fayoume was stabbed dozens of times by his family's landlord, who they say was angry about the hamas attacks. joseph czuba faces murder and hate crime charges in illinois and has not yet entered a plea a child taken and

it can homeland security stop the violence from coming here? >> we can reduce the risk.urity expert after dealing with attacks. >> it's hard to anticipate every attack. >> reporter: how does the ground invasion by israel change the threat environment here in the u.s.? >> anything that elevates the number of casualties creates horrifying visual images. some people are going to take that as a final push into taking violent action on their own. ♪ ♪ >> norah: finally tonight, it's hard not to get emotional after hearing stories out of gaza and meeting so many people in israel who've lost everything and for some, everyone. as a mother, the hardest thing to hear is about the impact on children. children who lost their lives, their homes, their families, and their innocence. 13 year old waited 16 hours in a what were you thinking? >> i was thinking in the moment, any moments going to be my last moment and i was so afraid if anybody's coming because are they going to take me, are they going to shoot me? i didn't know what can happen to me. >> norah: tell me about your walk to fr

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. >> can homeland security stop the violence from coming here?urity is in an excellent position to try and prevent any foreign-directed threat from entering the united states. but unfortunately you can never have 100% security in these kind of moments. >> reporter: while there's no specific or credible threat here at home, multiple officials describe the situation to cbs news as evolving with law enforcement on standby, ready to response, norah. >> catherine herridge, thank you very much. >>> tonight the number of people in israel taken hostage is on the rise. officials say that number is now at 203. k cbs's roxana saberi spoke to one american family in israel whose hope that loved ones taken by hamas will return home turned into heartbreak. >> i think it's everyone's greatest nightmare. >> reporter: it's the outcome abby was dreading. she says israeli authorities confirmed yesterday they found the bodies of her cousin, 80-year-old carmella, an israeli american citizen, and her 12-year-old grand daughter, noya. >> tell me about noya. >> she is a

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the department of homeland security is warning of an increase in threats against jewish and muslim americans their places of worship. our maggie vespa has this report. >> reporter: authorities in the u.s. ramping up security, amid warnings about potential violence mounting nationwide over the israel-hamas war. in new york, the nypd ordering officers to be uniformed and ready to deploy. nbc news told extremists are flooding social media with calls for attacks on jewish communities and other targets, and neo-nazis seeking to exploit the war. a homeland security official saying that there is a heightened threat environment in the u.s. the fbi also on high alert. >> we stay laser focussed on mitigating those threats. >> reporter: the public's help sought for this man who they say punched a woman in a subway station saying he did it because you are jewish as protests continue across country. in washington, d.c. dozens were arrested at the capitol during a rally of jewish americans calling for cease-fire. and in suburban chicago, more than 1500 people packed a vigil for a palestinian-american boy.

the entire department of homeland security grieves with the loved ones of those killed and injured anding closely with federal, state and local partners to support the lewiston community. however, this is a relatively small city, as we heard from billy jane cook earlier, is normally a very quiet place, they are not used to this level of even sirens sounding. the not used to this level of even sirens sounding.— sirens sounding. the part emphasise _ sirens sounding. the part emphasise here - sirens sounding. the part emphasise here is - sirens sounding. the part emphasise here is that i sirens sounding. the part . emphasise here is that there was highways, those routes into the affected areas completely closed off due to the sheer number of emergency responders we then saw in that area. this is despite the fact it is the second largest city in maine, relatively quiet area, not used to this level of violence according to the local mayor, saying everybody in this community knows each other. when they ran into each other usually they are talking about things like pot holes in streets, they

the secretary of homeland security announced the country's plan to build a border wall in the state of texas. construction of the border wall between america and mexico it was started to deal with the arrival of immigrants in the trump administration. after entering the white house, joe biden criticized anti-politics. immigrants trump had stopped this plan. according to the officials of the southern states, 3 to 8 thousand migrants cross the common border with mexico and reach america every day. french health authorities have reported a shortage of drugs. the director general of the french national agency for drug safety stated that the amount of antipyretic drugs, antibiotics or amoxicillin is regularly monitored, and when it is low, the export of these drugs is stopped immediately. last year, at the same time as the rise of infectious diseases and colds, the french national drug safety agency received more than 2,160 warnings and alerts about the risk of shortages of antibiotics, amoxicillin and paracetamol. the british army finally took responsibility for the suicide of the british