. >> reporter: representative charlie dent of lehigh county, pat meehan of delaware county and jim gerlack of berks county toured facility earlier and met with some of the young children september here illegally from central america. >> handing our young children over to a stranger to go thousands of miles, i just can't imagine. you must be desperate beyond all measure to be willing to do that. >> reporter: but despite how they feel the congressman say that their tour of the berks facility has pressure them to create new border securing policies in washington. >> policy based on the rule of the law as well, not on emotion but rule of law, and that is what our challenge will be. >> my objective is to learn the fact, better understand how we are being impacted in this region and be better armed to go back to washington for work on solution that is help us. >> reporter: in addition to bet henie children's home i'm told one other locationes accepting these an code minors, including a location in lehigh county, called kids, peace representative dent said he will be visiting them in the near fut

now, 2,000 cyclists headed over there, right now, we talked with congressman, pat meehan, about the event. >>> i have a long history, as former us attorney, and da, with so many people in law enforcement. now the firefighters are part of this. this is a great tradition, and a great just great ride. and now a nice day for it, because not so hot. i think a lot of people probably make good time down to the shore. >> that's right. they are headed to the irish pub, in atlantic city, they left this one here in center city, 65-mile journey. they should arrive starting around noon, and then, from there, it is going to be a big old party at the irish pub over there. it is $20 to get in. they are still raising money right now, goal $700,000 for this year's event. live in center city, syma chowdhry, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> thank you, syma. developing right now, in the middle middle east, hamas has just agreed a 24 hour holiday trues in the gaza war starting at 2:00 this afternoon. just this morning, hamas had resumed the rocket fire even though israel's cabinet had said it was ready to extends