its search of narco kingpin el chapo guzman.e ground exposed for 24 hours and still hadn't located the exact house el chapo was holed up in. >> i got a call on the ground from the team saying, look, this isn't working. everybody's hungry, tired, we're exhausted. >> time was running out. >> we've got one option left, chapo's most trusted courier, go find him. >> they did. and sure enough he flipped on his boss and agreed to lead them to chapo's five safe houses. a squad of nearly 50 mexican marines and u.s. agents swarmed the area. drew and brady flew in from the base with another contingent of mexican marines. drew caught much of the operation on his phone. >> i said perfect, it's done. he is done. >> what followed was a tense cat and mouse game. as the mexican marines raided el chapo's safe houses and stash pad in search of their prize. >> the first message that comes in from my guy says cameras everywhere, the place is a fortress. >> drew understood that when he and brady arrived at one of the safe houses. >> i see the steel r

just going after the kingpins allows for more kingpins to come into power.is really critical as well is greater intelligence cooperation wi united states. what is also pivotal is thest united stateping the flow of southbound arms going to mexico. the numbers vary, but at least 70% of the weapons upod in homicides in mexico are coming from thenited states. you look at the major highways mexico and there are gunshopsto that line those highways. there needs to be greater position of the united states in stopping the southwa flow of arms. laura: president trump did offer his help, but given the strain relations between the u.s. and mexico or the ise of migration over the borr, how is that going to go? jason: t u.s. has been helpful with mexico for quite some time helping with the merida initiative, which has been in place for 10 years and provides u.s. security assistance for mexico. what the president offered is actual u.s. personnel to help mexico, which would not be consistent with mexico's sovereignty. but i think that this opens the door for further coopera

rugby league fans at home, they have dropped the mercurial shawnjohnson who has been a linchpin and kingpinee how it goes. it will be a terrific game and one of three matches in the stadium tomorrow. great britain versus new zealand, then fiji against samoa and then. can the lions roar a second time? you can watch that match live on bbc two from 3.30pm tomorrow morning. highlights will be on bbc one later in the day at 1.15pm. england cricket's new head coach, chris silverwood, has made a winning start to his role, beating new zealand by seven wickets. the match was the first t20 of their five match series in christchurch. james vince scored his maiden international t20 half century with 59 off 38 balls. this was the first meeting against the black caps since england beat them in the one—day world cup final in the summer. we have a busy weekend of hockey ahead as great britain's men and women, plus ireland's women look to book their place at tokyo 2020. all three have double—headers. great britain's women face world number 18 side chile in london, and they have to win if they stand any chan

12 years the united states and mexican governments working together have used what they call the kingpin strategy, trying to take out the upper echelons of drug cartels and organized crime groups in mexico. while it does result in bringing certain individuals to justice, what it doesn't do is lower the levels of violence and certainly doesn't seem to reduce the flow of drugs across the border. so in fact we can make the argument and many people have made the argument, when you take out the capitals, the top levels of organized crime groups, what we get is the hydroeffect, you cut off one head and other heads grow and snap at each other and the fragmentation of a organized crime group results in higher levels of violence. host: let me ask you about u.s. efforts to help mexico and ask you what's known as the merida initiative. the initiative is aimed at disrupting organized criminal groups, enhancing mexican public security and border and judicial institutions, implement better infrastructure and technology at borders, strengthening mexican communities against organized crime. when did thi

. >> reporter: the kingpin had cyanide. there is no legal product called dank vapes, but according to the cdc, many that got sick used it. >> we found over seven pesticides in the vapes. we found significant levels of vitamin e and we're seeing trace amounts of formaldehyde. >> reporter: the prize for the most pesticides went to the vapor from this illicit thc cartridge maui wowie with 1500 times the legal limit. essentially, you're vaping pesticides >> at that level, yes. >> reporter: finally, a troubling surprise regarding legal thc products, safe when used at standard temperatures they say but many vaping pens allow users to crank up the heat. >> when we ran all of the cartridges at a higher voltage, we noticed there was carcinogens in not all of them but most of them. even including the legal market cartridges >> reporter: un higher the heat, the bigger the vapor puffs and now we know the higher the chance of carcinogens. >> you can see more of our investigation tomorrow on "today". >>> just ahead for us tonight, why th

it will be difficult to take out that kingpin. there are plenty of people standing behind him. this has grown to such a massive problem, which is why it is so difficult for governments in mexico and central america to do with it, but the point is this is american demand for drugs. i will refer to senator carper. >> thank.. you all. good to see you we begin by saying, my colleagues have heard me say ad nausea, everything i do, i know i can do better. i think it's true of all of us. i think one of the keys to making progress is to point to the constitution, starting with these words, we the people of the united states, in order to form a more perfect union it doesn't say perfect, it is a more perfect. the goal is that we will aim high. the other thing is we recently had testimony before the environment of public works committee, a top official of the department of commerce from wyoming, he's in charge of national parks and the fish and wildlife service, and he said he has worked for the republican senator from wyoming. he said in his testimony that the most lasting solutions are

kingpins of the game for a long time, but every once in awhile a new team suddenly appears on the radarerella season going. a door mat of a program a few years ago, they're 3 wins shy of winning a division 4 state title. >> i'm completely floored. you mean, i've never been this far with any time ever. >> to be here in the state playoffs is so amazing. i can't describe how it feels. it just feels like we have created something and it's going to continue. >> it's a legacy we've created and it will continue from here. >> the red tail hawks are at alameda saturday at 6:00. there are 7 divisions of volleyball, and arch bishop, they've won so much they have titles hanging from the ceiling. >> is this the team you were working with? >> i was a house announcer for a game. >> very good. we'll be right back. about making choices. well i didn't choose metastatic breast cancer. not the exact type. not this specific mutation. but i did pick hope... ...and also clarity... ...by knowing i have a treatment that goes right at it. discover piqray, the first and only treatment that specifically targets pi

this would be difficult to take out the drug kingpin and by the way there's plenty people standing right behind them. this is growing at such a massive problem, which is why it is so difficult for governments and central america and central america to deal with and the point i am making is i do have some questions here. actually will do is defer to center for the very start my second round. senator. >> german welcome as soon as you. just begin by staying mygo y colleagues acknowledging that a,erything i do, i know i can do better. i say the same is true ofry allf us. i say one of the keys to making progress is to.to our constitution starts out with these words. we the people united states in order to make it more perfect union. this is more perfect not perfect always of course perfection. we may nott get there but at least we know our goal is were going to aim high. the thing we have is recently had testimony before the environmental public works committee and nominated to be top official of the department of commerce from wyoming. and he is in charge of the national parks. in the wildli

shawn johnson who has home, they have dropped the mercurial shawnjohnson who has been a linchpin and kingpin of three matches in the stadium tomorrow. great britain versus new zealand, then fiji against samoa and then. that matches live on bbc two tomorrow morning. getting back to the rugby union great britain's rugby league side have a really tough match this is the japan's most mountain and getting here is the high point of theirjapani and getting here is the high point of theirjapan i we had a number of things to tickle off when we came to japan. we only had two left in our list as of this morning and one was to see mount fuji, done. the only fine i want to take off now is watching england win the world cup final. andy and scott are the lines and pink, a group of british rugby super fans. for the last month, they have been crisscrossing japan, making friends everywhere they have gone. the whole expense has been crazy. friends everywhere they have gone. the whole expense has been crazym has an expense in itself. you will not find it anywhere else. -- the whole experience has been crazy it

this body cam showing mexican commandos pleading with the son of drug kingpin el chapo after they had taken him into custody, to call off his narco militia. the government releasing this grapad to let el chapo's son eventually go and retreat to save lives. the drug violence getting worse in mexico, and tonight, an american family that was ready to celebrate a wedding now preparing for several funerals. >> this is such an awful story. tom llamas reporting live from mexico city tonight. and tom, we're learning more about that brave boy who hid those other young survivors before then getting help himself? >> reporter: that's right, david. he was just 13 years old and so brave. he took his siblings, who were all bleeding from gunshot wounds, he stuck them in some bushes, covered them with branches, and david, he walked 14 miles to get help back home. and because of his work, eight chirp are alive tonight. i had a chance to speak with a former mexican intelligence officer. i asked him, how could these vicious criminals shoot innocent women and children? his chilling response, david? becaus

of choice for the surprise aerial attacks, aimed at sending a pointed message to accused terrorist kingpinin laden. >> america has battled terrorism for many years. we have quietly disrupted terrorist groups and foiled their plots. but there have been and will be times when our very national security is challenged. and when we must take extraordinary steps to protect the safety of our citizens. >> within minutes of today's attacks in afghanistan and sudan, some in washington were openly questioning the timing of it. >> it was the wag the dog question about the movie where a president fakes a war to distract the country from news of his sexual dalliances. >> there are a quite a few people who believe that clinton is trying to distract americans with a shiny object from what really matters which is his impeachment trouble for the remainder of his time in office. he wouldn't authorize attacks unless the information was absolutely perfect because he anticipated that criticism. >> we came within yards literally of taking out osama bin laden himself. >> and he got away, obviously. >> well, by yo

. >>> the wife of el chapo the notorious drug kingpin will soon make her debut on reality tv.l appear on season 2. a former pageant participant. she'll reportedly talk about her life after el chapo. convicted on several charges back in february and was sentenced to life in prison in july. >>> the warriors will play le lebron james and the lakers tomorrow. after missing five games with a hand injury, the warriors were losing the 4th quarter when green was called for a blocking foul. he clearly didn't like that call and the revs had green with his second technical. green had four points and seven rebounds. . >>> will you be traveling for thanksgiving. getting to where you need to go. a new study shows that last year 54 million people drove more than 50 miles on thanks thanksgiving. thanksgiving travel is at least slightly stressful. 25% said they'd rather cook a whole thanksgiving dinner themselves than sit through a long drive. 26% said they'd rather pay for a flight. pam. >> yeah. i agree with all of that. it's also it's very expensive and crowded to fly. i will be driving int

now and i want us use start talking about these homewrecker's the way this a gang of wall street kingpins and cricket bankers all friends of the president how they operated to make gains under obama but then to profit with the president now wilbur ross is still working secretary mnuchin is still working in the homes are still being rented out and the other thing i would say to catch us up to 2019 they are already thinking about 2020 and the next play. they are already ahead of me. >> and with that housing policy that you found interesting quick. >> i think it's very impressive how many democrats have these plans elizabeth ward was first after we did our redline coverage talking about on the senate floor she got a standing ovation and after that the other candidates got the idea they should come with something so mayor pete has something that's real kamala harris and castro has something they all have something bernie has something joe biden i don't know. but he may be the outlier. but the impact with the book i want to push this in front of them. they had these plans because the people wa

hardware stores for as little as $100." ( laughter ) it's a plan pioneered by mexico's deadliest crime kingpinsproperty." ( laughter ) yes. we will cut through the wall! ( cheers and applause ): : yesill through el trump's wall, and then it will increase -- flow. ( laughter ) perhaps a kitchen island somewhere in there. ( laughter ) this weekend, trump offered a solution for how to fix his wall. >> cutting is one thing. but it is easily fixed. one of the reasons we did it the way we did it, it's very easily fixed. you put the chunk back in. >> stephen: yes. ( laughter ) yeah. taking it from donald trump, that's how real construction guys to it. "we're making the wall out of reinforced chunks. the material is a high-tech composite of lumps and things, extruded with tactical-grade stuff." ( laughter ) if you think it's outrageous that we've spent $10 billion on something you can breach with a trip to lowes, trump wants you to see the big picture. >> we have a very powerful wall. but, no matter how powerful, you can cut through anything, in all fairness. >> stephen: he's going to have to update hi

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that northern region of mexico, brutal war of drug gangs splinters of the cartel that was load by kingpinls are trying to establish their own dominance through violence and hyper violence. this family was basically caught off in the middle of that. >> mexico's president ordered a new commission to investigate the murders consisting of mexico's foreign minister and top military officials. the police are not mentioned as being part of that commission. analysts say there's still a lack of complete trust between mexico's national police and especially local police forces since they have been corrupted by those cartels for decades. >> very disturbing story. thank you for that update. more breaking news coming up next. the white house braces for public impeachment testimony next week with growing concern about one witness in particular. r there was a sports car and a family saloon car and i always had in my mind that one day the family car could compete in rallies and racing when the mini actually came out i said this is the one to do it. people, our sales now appla new low!10 frames. at vision

way, who adopted and "hogs not bullets" policy, and just last month, he defended handing over drug kingpin's son. here to react, ron botelho, former acting ice director to people in border states like texas, arizona, new mexico, california, need to wake up to who is dealing with this in a common sense fashion, and who is doing pie-in-the-sky thinking? >> absolutely. the cartels are running mexico. nothing illegal happens on the border without the blessing and paying off of the cartels. president trump is trying to take action. you see me testify the last three times in the last six months. congress will not address the board issue. the president stands on his own on this, and if the mexican president doesn't stand up, he will be in trouble. mexico has failed to do with the cartels. until the address and dismember the cartels, tear them apart, border issues are going to continue. >> laura: ron, yet today, we had montgomery county, maryland, starting to back away a little bit from their sanctuary policies, and yet, tucson had a ballot initiative to have sanctuary policies, in the city of tucso

around in the dark a little bit, but i think the fact that we are starting to see the headline, the kingpinsas it were, begin to cut production a little bit, suggests we will see some big effects down the chain. just don't know how big those multiplayer effects will be. but i think it will probably be significantly larger than in the .ast guy: a very nice supply chain function on the bloomberg. just want to point out when out. dixon -- peter dixon from commerce bank is going to stick with us. romaine: let's check on what is happening with the global markets. taylor riggs is here with more. taylor: we hit all of those record highs on wednesday, and today taking a little bit of a breather. we know that it is a light trading session, see you are seeing stocks fall, certainly here in the u.s. the stoxx 600, we were getting more concerned reports that there was some police activity on the london bridge of a stabbing come of that they are treating as a terrorist activity. so you have a little bit of risk off their, at least over there in london. as we know, generally today is a pretty light volume

of course, a general election kingpin is very different to a european parliamentary one. in a refrigerated lorry in essex last month. police have released all their names. a 26—year—old woman who sent heartbreaking texts to her parents saying she was dying and couldn't breath was also confirmed to be among them. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports. some of the faces of the 39 people who died in the refrigerated trailer 6,000 miles from home. all were from vietnam and were being smuggled into britain. the oldest was 44, but ten of them were teenagers and the two youngest were just 15 years old. one of the 15—year—olds was nguyen huy hung. his relatives say he had been trying tojoin his parents who live in britain. hoang van tiep was 18 and had been living in paris for a year. he told his family he was getting a taxi to the uk, but they had not heard from him since. bui thi nhung was one of two 19—year—old women in the lorry. she had posted pictures of herself sightseeing in brussels just days before she died. and pham thi tra my was the 26—year—old woman

it is reminiscent of a drug kingpin or mob boss to have underl underl underlings do these things. i think one of the things that really undermines his own claims is the very call he had with the president of ukraine, in which he insists you should talk to my lawyer, rudy, and he ties that conversation to an investigation of the bidens as an investigation of the 2016 election. so i think this effort to distance himself to rudy giuliani just isn't going anywhere. it's only a matter of time before he claims he doesn't know who rudy giuliani is. >> to force the president to go into a corner and hide there and say it was rudy doing it, something about o'reilly's not so much credibility because that's a problem with him, bu his toughness -- he did lie to him, but how did he force him to this, to throw giuliani under the bus just like that? >> we've seen the president only wants to talk about these issues with conservative outlets -- >> so o'reilly's people or his people? >> certainly that has been the pattern when he and these white house officials have been willing to talk about these

jail inmate in the country being held in a jail that had previously housed both terrorists and drug kingpinsguards sat 15 feet away, and during the 8-hour shift, when they should have checked on him 16 times, they allegedly failed to check on him even once. instead, prosecutors say they shopped online for furniture and motorcycles, walked around theua common area, and slept for two yhours. it wasn't until they finally want to give him breakfast that jeffrey epstein was found unresponsive. prosecutors say that is when the guards tried to covereg their tracks by falsifying documents claiming they had checked on epstein every 30 minutes. today, before congress, the bureau of prisons director said this about the guards. watch. >> we have some bad staff. we want rid of those bad staff who don't do their job. we want them gone one way or another, even by prosecution or termination. >> bought the guards pleaded not guilty and were freed on $100,000 bond. an attorney for one of them said they were being scapegoated in a rush to judgment. the guards indictment also included information that could tam

this is what he called the drug deal and the kingpin is the president, and he assigns rudy giuliani toarry out this extortion scheme. what we're learning now is that rudy's not just an extortionist, he's not just a character assassin going after ambassador yovanovitch, he is an influence peddler, and he's in it for himself in the same way that, you know, the top guy is. it always comes back to money for trump and for all of his thugs. they're all in for his their own interests. they're the corrupt ones. the prosecutors that they're with ukraine are corrupt prosecutors, the honest people are people like you von vch. at a certain point you'll yawny will get cut loose by donald trump. i'm tired of throwing under the bus but they'll have him go out and play in traffic. they'll whack him. >> we mentioned too this reporting about what prosecutors might be looking at when the comes to giuliani, and this reporting seems to raise an interesting question because we understood this campaign pressure that existed to get marie yovanovitch out as the ambassador to ukraine, and that has been commonly

we have a big new unit to crack down on county lines drugs gangs can arrest the kingpins who are puttingyoung people, i'm afraid young men, who carry knives on the street. i do believe an expanding stop and search and giving the police the support to do it. i think it is a kind and loving thing to ta ke think it is a kind and loving thing to take a knife away from a young person on the street rather than allow them to endanger themselves and others. thank you for that and you touched on the community part but not as much as i'd hoped. we know that youth services were cut andl know that youth services were cut and i understand the need to be a law element to it but communities are crying out for support so how are crying out for support so how are we helping those families that are we helping those families that are going through these issues? there was a huge amount we are doing to support youth centres and outreach projects around the country to engage with families and support mentoring schemes, particularly, i'm afraid for these gangs, it tends to be young men although there are many

the kingpin strategy doesn't work. we can talk more about that if we want to. it only leads to more violence and competition between the surviving groups that are still there. this is a multi-billion dollar industry. taking out the leaders only makes the underlings more ambitio ambitious. this details the circulation of power and influence between drug trafficking organizations and the powers that be in those particular countries. particularly, an example of this is one orlando hernandez, the president of whonduras. u.s. partner and the signing of a ridiculous third-county agreement, which my colleague will talk about. also, his brother is facing trial in new york for involvement in narco trafficking. this is talk that one of orlando's -- or as known this honduras, ho has received money from traffickers dealing with his brother, allegedly. all right. the other sort of most -- well, one of the most visible violent actors in central america are, of course, gangs. this is probably an image that many of you have seen. this is since the early '90s. transnational gan

including violations of the foreign narcotics kingpin designation nation act. pending has legislation to bring sanctions for illegal opiods. mr. davidson's concerns are under standable but this would limit support u.s. jobs and small businesses and further exacerbating the conditions that have contributed to this opioid epidemic. i urge my colleagues to vote against this amendment. and i reserve. the chair: the gentlewoman reserves. for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? mr. davidson: i would like to make the point that this bill -- this amendment that i have offered has substance because it expects something for america's assistance. at least some of my colleagues are consistent and don't want the president of the united states to expect anything from a foreign power in exchange for american participation. they want nothing in return for our dollars. no condition on their behavior. in fact, rather than trusting the united states of america to determine whether our country is cooperating with us on our effort to stop synthetic opiods, they want to

conversations with his pal and former and the creator of the apprentice friend, mark burnett, rlt tv kingpinbout potentially reviving the show either during or after the trump presidency has concluded. which ideas have been kicked around most prominently apprentice white house. again, these conversations happened. it is 100% true. we broke the news at the daily beast. if that upsets the president and or mark burnett now and they want to deny it they can go with god. do whatever they want. but it is true. >> the man stands by his story. thank you for the time. president doing his maga challenge now. getting back into the realm of game shows. >>> much more ahead including my life stit down with the white house aide turned critic of president trump. anthony scaramucci and what he thinks of the strategy to vilify the whistle blower and the witnesses coming forward. >>> and who michael bloomberg could hurt the most among the 2020 presidential contenders. that's coming up next. 2020 presidential contenders that's coming up next. .♪ ♪when you pine for the sunshine of a friendly gaze.♪ ♪for the holi

. >> reporter: they also tell us the illicit kingpin had cyanide in it.ts >> if somebody gave it to you, it would be hard to determine. >> reporter: there is no legal product called dank vapes but according to the cdc, many of those suffering from vaping-related illnesses had used this illicit product, which is very popular with young people how about the vapor testing of dank vapes >> the vapor testing was terrible again we found over seven pesticides in the dank vapes, significant levels of vitamin e and trace amounts of formaldehyde, all the carcinogens. traditionally of all the testing we've done, dank vapes have been the first. >> reporter: but the prize for the most pesticides went to the vapor from this illicit thc cartridge, maui wowy essentially, you're vaping pesticides >> at that level, yes. if you look at some of the cdc data for fatal dosing, i'd be willing to bet that some of these are over what they would consider a fatal dose. >> reporter: last week, the cdc said they found vitamin e oil in the lungs of the 29 patients they tested. it's a

12 years the united states and mexican governments working together have used what they call the kingpintrategy, trying to take out the upper echelons of drug cartels and organized crime groups in mexico. while it does result in bringing certain individuals to justice, what it doesn't do is lower the levels of violence and certainly doesn't seem to reduce the flow of drugs across the border. so in fact we can make the argument and many people have made the argument, when you take out the capitals, the top levels of organized crime groups, what we get is the hydroeffect, you cut off one head and other heads grow and snap at each other and the fragmentation of a organized crime group results in higher levels of violence. host: let me ask you about u.s. efforts to help mexico and ask you what's known as the merida initiative. the initiative is aimed at disrupting organized criminal groups, enhancing mexican public security and border and judicial institutions, implement better infrastructure and technology at borders, strengthening mexican communities against organized crime. when did this