over to texas and governor greg abbott tweeting out a video which shows how the texas national guard 80,000 strong caravan that's headed for the u.s. border. the texas military department planning to double the amount of border guards to roughly 2500 troops. we are taking-- talking about a significant situation here with doubling down on efforts to contain what is overflow at the border. michael lee, we continue to see the administration ignore this overflow. last week secretary mayorkas said if the u.s. is forced to not use title 42, which would send people back then we should expect a group of 400,000 people in october. that would be double what we have seen in the last couple of months, michael. it's been averaging 200,000 apprehensions every month and that doesn't include the got a ways. >> maria, the biting group is ignoring this. this is something they want. i don't know if it's cheap labor to keep wages down for large corporations or to find new voters, but this will be over 2 million people crossing illegally into our country in one year. this is absolutely mind-boggling that

our fox news team goes on patrol with texas national guard troops.st, here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 10 in phoenix public funeral for a federal agent killed in arizona. michael garbo was fatally shot while questioning a passenger on an amtrak train. a second dea agent and a tucson officer also were injured. fox 7 in austin, texas where the city expects a new arrival soon. elon musk says tesla is moving its headquarters to the state capitol. the move comes after a previous threats to leave california due to covid restrictions that forced one plant to close. and this is a live look at san francisco from our affiliate fox 2. one of the big stories there tonight the blue angels soar through the bay area decides part of fleet week, shows and music continue throughout the weekend to cap off the tradition honoring the armed forces. that is tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. ♪ highway to the danger zone ♪ ♪ going to take a ride into the danger zone ♪ (man 1)

let me tell you, it's not just what the border patrol council is saying, it's also what other texas nationalen i've talked to, theyac are very concerned that the administration handling of the border crisis anddl the failuref doing anything is going to lead tto someone's death. this is a very serious crisis, won the administration must pay attention to. jason? >> jason: sara carter iner texas. thank you very much. joining us now is the host of "lara logan has no agenda" on fox nation," lara logan and attorney general mark brockovich attorney general, the biden administration wants us to believe that everything is safe, it's calm there is no problem, there is noo crisis. but in your estimation what's going on down in the border. >> thank you, jason, or having me on. president biden said his administration is creating more jobs. unfortunately he made the cartels more powerful. they'll be seeking more than cvs and walgreens combined we know there is an increase in homicides. we know that opioid and drug overdoses are the leading causes of death for teenagers in the second largest county.ge this

you have texas national guard and dps agents as well. is people, regular, everyday people do not feel safe. >> harris: congressman tony gonzalez schooling the biden administration over the border crisis as a new massive highly organized it has been proven now caravan is making its way toward our southern border. the clear message from them tell biden we're coming. that's a quote. this as fox news has captured exclusive video of a smuggling operation bust. we are live in texas, bill. >> good morning to you. a lot of activity out here yesterday as we were working the trains. got wild video. we'll get to it now. the first clip. this was one of the trains we saw yesterday where there were 23 illegal immigrants hiding inside of a coal car in the middle of the blistering heat. 23 illegal immigrants all single adult men texas dps had to pull them out one-by-one. every one of them were arrested for criminal trespassing and taken to jail not handed over to border patrol. the second piece of video an hour before that we saw another train with more

gunfire ringing out across the border as shots were fired by suspected cartel members, taunting the texas nationalot a look at the crisis visiting a train yard in texas. pete: let's take a look. >> for the state of texas the border fight is bigger than the physical barrier, the tools they use to get into the country, trains, some surrender willingly, other ones, they run. who was there to meet them? the texas department of public safety. >> put a guy in the tower. as the train starts to roll, people are jumping off. troopers are up top on the train. ♪♪ >> we are currently in a train yard in texas where the texas department of public safety special operations are conducting inspections of this train yard. you see a bottle of water from migrants illegally entering the country, electrolytes and even clothes, shows the desperation they have to get into the country. they hide under the train and you see broken ties connected and you wonder how they got the tools. they hide the knife in their shoes. these guys. they were sitting right here. right against the wheel. >> one bad move. >> where are you from

just on thursday, it was revealed suspected cartel gunman fired across the border at texas national guarddiers. rich edson is live at the border in anitas, texas with the latest. rich? >> good evening, jon. and texas law enforcement is telling us that for the first time it appears that those gunmen were aiming at texas national guardsmen. they've seen shots go back across from the mexican side to the u.s. side before, but they are saying now this is the first time they have actually seen them take aim at guardsmen. this is a quote from the facebook page of the texas department of public safety, quote, on thursday, october 14th, just before noon, two shots were f fired across the border from mexico into the county, believed to be aimed at texan national guard personnel. there o injuries. the texas rangers are investigating this incident. also, the biden administration is complying with a court order and will reinstate the trump era remain in mexico policy. that requires migrants claiming asylum to wait out their cases in camps in mexico. the white house cancelled the program calling the co

our news to isn't that up with the texas national guard as the try every day to battle cartel smugglers who transport hundred of migrants across the rio grande. the cartels are getting increasingly brazen. here is our correspondent with the latest from texas. >> it is too easy to get across right there. >> it is thursday evening at texas and we are embedded with the texas national guard and on of the most active spots all along the border. >> it looks like christmas. it is all about. >> will the sign was all that out, bringing illegal immigrant across the rio grand. some were turned back by national guard soldiers at the shoreline. as night fell the smugglers started humming nonstop over an over again, all of illegal immigrants with more than 100 others waiting on the mexican shoreline. the smugglers in a move with no fear telling us they are breaking in the money. downloaded hundreds of migrants most of family units. one man telling us that he picked top thousand dollars to get his family across. it's a scene that plays out every single night. >> directly across, it's the mexican city.

they've been taunting the texas national guard, as well as the department of public safety.ormous concern that they are trying to get a reaction from our law enforcement. that means they are trying to persuade them to shoot back or get them to act in a certain manner. they're hoping the reason is that they are going to try to videotape that and let me have -- a national border control counsel explaining why the belief that and why they believe the biden administration has made this more dangerous than ever. >> one of the biggest issues facing law enforcement officials as well as border patrol, on patrol is the fact that the drug cartels have become more and more brazen. are you noticing that? >> we are noticing it in a couple ways. one way, they will run, whether it's people or drugs, right in front of us because we are so tied up with large groups of people, we can't respond. 500 yards away, doing what they do right in front of us. the other thing we are seeing is i think there was something that came out last week or earlier this week were some guys were standing in the mi

the texas national guard, we've got the story.hey are deploying massive manpower as thousands of migrants approach. now why isn't the president telling these migrants to go back? how can president biden find time to go to scotland for a u.n. climate junket but says he cannot find time to go to the border crisis that he created? thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit," it starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: okay. welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. let's start today with senator manchin saying he convinced the president to drop the democrat plan to get the irs to snoop on your bank accounts to pay for the biden agenda. democrats claim the agenda costs zero. senator manchin saying the president indicated all of that in a talk with him. hillary vaughn on capitol hill with more. hillary. reporter: liz, that is exactly right and the idea behind this is the more information the irs has on you the more audits they can do and the more money tax revenue they can ultimately grab from taxpaye

texas. unvented foreign nationals from more than 100 countries, thousands more every day. ral times on this show we have asked with a state of texas plans to do about this. how can texas help to save the rest of the country? well tonight we are happy to tell you the governor of the st, has mobilized the texas national guard to protect the sovereignty of this country and of his state. the governor of texas, greg abbott, joins us now to explain what he is doing. mr. governor, thank you so much for coming on. thank you for doing this. if you don't mind, and if you could give our viewers an overview of what have you you have done to secure our border h mexico. >> i will tell you exactly what we are doing but i want to emphasize a phrase you used earlier, that is the biden administration is actively encouraging this, which is in contrast to what the trump administration did. what the biden administration has taken over, what texas has done, we now have 6500 national guard and dps troopers on the border to help secure the border, and as we are talking right now, they are identify

this is escalating into a firing war on each side of the border where texas and our national guard areves and defend the state of texas. >> reporter: now, one thing that might lighten the flow of immigrants from mexico is the biden administration's plan to comply with a court order reinstating a trump era policy known as remain in mexico. the policy is called migrant protection protocols, requires migrants to stay in mexico while you asylum claims work their ways through the courts. the administration canceled the program. a federal court determined they handled the cancellation wrong. it will likely be reinstated mid-november. we're waiting on numbers for the month of september. that will close out the fiscal year and give us totals of encounters with immigrants and u.s. personnel and, frankly, the numbers are expected to set s records. arthel, back to you. arthel: that's not hard to believe. mike toe bin in texas -- tobin in texas. thank you. eric: in israel when hamas fires across the border of gaza the iron dome protects israelis, what about texans and national guard members who au

texas dps has made 1300 rests on trains since july including gaining and cartel members. >> the head of the united nationse should scale back energy exploration saying if texas wants to be prosperous in 2015 or 2070 texas will have to diversify its economy and be less dependent on oil and gas. mike moreno publisher of climatedepot.com and author of the new book green frog joins me know, thanks for being here. what is your response to that statement? >> the united nations knows nothing about how to be prosperous, that's the first point. the man who made these comments is the former president of socialist international. when you put that together, the united nations siphoning hundreds of billions of dollars a year from the developed world to give to the developing world as a wealth transfer telling texas how to be prosperous is absurd, ridiculous and here is the kicker, texas is the largest oil and gas producer. it led the world in making the united states energy independent and dominant over the last decade, the united states led the world in reducing co2 emissions which the un peace purports to care about

travelling are attempting to make more than 2400 kilometer journey to america. sylvan order on foot, texas national guard says it's already strengthening its forces at border. that leads to 4 members of the taliban have been killed in a day of multiple attacks in the eastern province of nangle hall. now there was a separate incident as well where 2 roadside bombs killed at least 2 people, including a child official say the bonds were targeting a taliban vehicle, but no taliban members were harmed. it comes as security operations continue against. i sil, stephanie deca has more multiple security incidents on saturday in delilah, but that is the capital of manga our province in the east of the country. it is believed to be the area weisel in afghanistan, has their main presence. the taliban has been carrying out operations against the group in that area. what we saw on saturday, one of the attacks against taliban had been in geo that killed 2 of his body guards . also understanding there was an ice latasha on a taliban police station. we understand there were casualties on both sides. according to ou

first, we want to check in on bill melugin who has taken a flight above eagle pass, texas as the nationalan oncoming migrant caravan said to be at least 3,000 people. bill, can you hear us? >> yes, i can. good afternoon to you. we're currently riding along with texas dps above eagle pass, texas right now where the state of texas is preparing for the my grand caravan moving through mexico as we speak. what the texas national guard is doing, they deployed humvees along the international bridge here in eagle pass. you can see humvees have been deployed here. there's at least 30 of them. goes a couple miles as far as the eye can see. they're trying to deter this caravan from entering in weak areas of texas. we remember what happened in del rio. what you're looking at is the state of texas sending a clear message that this caravan won't be allowed to enter here in eagle pass. if we can pan up. this continues to go around all through the international bridge area. they have trooper vehicles here. they have humvees stationed here. and they're positioning as many potential resources in anticipati

s. department of homeland security is aware of the caravan and the texas national guard says it's already strengthening the board. up out there is john holeman joins us live now from mexico city. this is a, a grueling and treacherous johnny for these refugees and migrants. john, tell us about attempts that have been made to, to prevent them from making their way to the you us? yeah, exactly married. this is a pattern that we've seen repeating again again over the last 2 years after the 1st caravans, which involved thousands of people were in some way successful in getting up at least as far as tiquana on the border with the united states. what makes can officials have done since then is firstly, tried to prevent people from getting into mexico toll on their southern border. and then once they are in southern mexico, they've been trying to combine them in a city called tap. a chula which is one of the biggest cities on the southern border with guatemala. that's what's been happening for quite a few months now, with haitian as well as central america migrants trying to get out are many of t

the texas national guard says it's already strengthening the border. and these images film, just shortly after the caravan got on the way, even if they do make it the border, many migrants will end up detained and sent straight back to tampa schuler. earlier, we learned that the u. s. is detained, more than 1700000 undocumented refugees in migrants on its board with mexico in the past year. the highest number of recorded well, let's go live now to john home and who's following developments from mexico city. and what do we know about the response to this caravan and about how they've been dealing with any attempts to to prevent them making that journey to america's border. yeah, there has already been one attempt to stop them getting through. just to say we're heading out of top of tula, that there was a sort of shield wall set up by the country's national guard. and usually in the, over the last 2 years in which these caravans have been pretty spectacularly unsuccessful. that's been the sign for basically the national guard or migration authorities to

texas national guard was able to turn one of them back, the other boat picked up by border patrol. looking for, and as it got later in the night, human smugglers start bringing raft after raft after raft to the u.s. shoreline, and these boats were full of family units; women, children, parents, little kids. the smugglers very brazen, they were laughing. there was one shirtless guy who was telling us, you know, money, money, money, is what he was saying. he was rubbing his hands together. they're not afraid of getting caught, and these texas national guardsmen are in a tough position because they don't want to risk the safety of the migrants trying to grab one of these guys. thermal images as these families were coming across, this is what was on the other side of the river, hubs more migrants -- hundreds more migrants waiting to be escorted across the river. a second photo showing one of those smugglers bringing them over with that thermal imaging. and perhaps the craziest thing, take a look at this, this is automatic gunfire from a machine gun, a suspected cartel machine gun being

. >> marion reverie joins us as texas national guard rivers are being taunted along the rio grande. >> the crisis at the border not showing signs of letting up and fresh pictures showing suspect is a gunman dressed in tactical gear and holding ak-47s seemingly taunting members of national guard since the border to assist with the constant influx of illegal crossers which texas governor greg abbott calling out alejandro mayorkas for his lack of candor. >> i cannot count the number of misrepresentations that have been made by secretary mayorkas. he has continuously misled the american public, he is a disaster and what he has done and no one should put any trust or confidence in anything he says. >> the dire situation at the southern border prompting republican governors to unveil a 10 point plan for dealing with it, many terry into the biden administration officials for doing nothing. >> the president must act. he cannot continue to ignore this humanitarian and security crisis any longer. >> president biden has done nothing to confront the self-inflicted crisis. >> vice president harris

has a lot of ties to prepare for the caravan if and when it gets here and we started to seek texas nationalumvees line up in rio grande eagle pass. about 3000 national scholz shoulders are deployed as editor turns. guard members are allowed to make arrests of illegal immigrants caught while on private property. since march, when operation lone star was flushed from a military has made combined 150,000 apprehensions. 1200 arrests led to trespass charges and jail time and a state prison in texas. >> there is concerned they are staying in jail longer than they should but once we get complaints filed against them within 30 days, it is a process. you have to go to the arraignment process and guilty or not guilty, you go to the child. reporter: late yesterday the administration, a lot more conservatives here when they said they are trying a second time to undo the remaining mexico policy that began in the trump era policy upheld by a court and now the administration wants a second time to go to court to get that overturned. arthel: dan, thanks, dan. eric. eric: drivers every time they go to the p

the texas national guard is increasing for caravans expected to cross because of biden's border policye working with the texas department of public safety to seal surge locations and arrest trespassers. that is what texas is doing with a major new wave of haitian migrants making their way north. rachel: there was a infrastructure project at the border. it was called a wall. joe biden stopped that. americans lost jobs. now we see the border patrol could have used that help with the wall with this surge. "the l.a. times" interviewed, an anticorruption activist in guatemala. here is what he says. so frustrated that conditions worsened since harris visited. he wants more conversation. americans can afford to look away from a country on the other side of the globe. if they ignore nearby ones you will have one million people at the border. pete, i would say, that as kamala harris said she wanted to look at root causes, not actually seal our border, or lift the morale and help out the border patrol, one of the root causes of people migrating, maybe not haitians but certainly central americans

two shots were fired across the border from mexico into stark county believed to be aimed at texas nationalxas rangers are investigating this incident". the biden administration complying with the court order remaining in policy. migrants claiming asylum to wait out there cases at camps in mexico. they canceled the program. the biden administration went about that the wrong way. the department of homeland security is now reluctantly reviving the policy. officials say they should be ready to reinstate it by mid-november but they will move to terminate it again in a way that complies with the court order. the department of homeland security also says they are building courts on the side of the river in the united states to try to process some of these backlogs and asylum claims. back to you. eric: rich edson live at the border. thank you. eric: let's bring in charles moreno. former advisor to the department of homeland security and an expert on homeland security. charles, thank you. the biden administration reversals on some of these policies. is it too little too late? >> yes, it is. the bid

. >> the texas national guard supporting law enforcement partners, mobilizing additional personnel, equality and capabilities under governor abbott to deal with this crisis. >> how bad is it? >> we are at an inflection point because we are out of illegal immigration, mass migration is you have seen with the caravan in del rio. >> reporter: we heard there's another wave of migrants, are we prepared to handle that with the current resources we have? >> hard to say if you are prepared when you talk about 60,000, that's a tall feet, however we are continuing to mobilize additional personnel, equipment and capabilities well in the thousands. we are ready for this. jillian: a live report in the next hour of "fox and friends first," so stay tuned. >> federal is court rejecting the latest attempt to undo the legislation, the third time since october of last year, we will get an answer, the appeals court sided with texas and that the restrictions stand. the law bans all abortions want a fetal heartbeat is detected which is usually around six weeks was a lot more coming on the abortion debate. andrew

texas governor greg abbott among 11 republican leaders at the border saying the national guard is gearing up for the next big surge. want to bring in lieutenant christopher olivarez from the texas department of public safety. what do you know about the caravan that you can tell us today? >> good morning. first of all we're monitoring the current situation. we're monitoring the caravan that could surge the border. i can tell you now we have resources in place. we have an intel group working closely with u.s. border patrol. as you mentioned in your introthe national guard is deploying additional resources to support the department of public safety personnel. what took place in del rio several weeks ago is a perfect example of collaborating with our national guard partners and federal partners by stemming the surge of illegal immigrants coming across. we're able to form a steel wall with our patrol cars. deployed over 1,000 dps personnel and send the surge. we'll provide more resources to the southern border to stem any potential surges that could take place. >> dana: congressman cuellar is

noon two shots were fired across the border from mexico into star county believed to be aimed at texas nationaluard personnel. there were no injuries and the texas rangers are investigating this incident. also the biden administration complying with a court order will reinstate the trump-era remain in mexico policy. it requires migrants claiming asylum to wait out their cases in camps in mexico. the white house canceled the program calling the conditions in the camps inhumane. though federal court said the biden administration went about it the wrong way, so the department of homeland security likely by mid-november will reluctantly revive the policy officially known as migrant protection protocols or mpp. department of homeland security in a statement says, quote, we are working to do so despite our appeal of the court's order, dhs will also be issuing a memorandum terminating mmp and republicans have been pushing the administration to reinstate it. >> yeah, no, myself and many of my republican colleagues have been pushing to reinstate the trump-policies that work, the remain in mexico policy

take a look where we are now above eagle pass, texas about an hour away from del rio, you can see here as well governor abbott started deploying nationalesources. they are lining the river in an attempt to send a clear message that this caravan will not be allowed to enter the state of texas. reporting above eagle pass, texas, we will send it back to you, bret. >> bret: bill melugin above the border tonight, bill, thanks. up next, students and parents have their say after a ruling in the case of a sexual assault in a virginia high school restroom. first, here is what some of our fox affiliates are covering tonight. fox 35 in orlando. the initial autopsy on brian laundry's remains produce no, sir concrete results on the manner or cause of death. these according to lawyer for the laundrie family. no comment from the sarasota medical examiner or the fbi. laundry was of course a person of interest in the strangulation of girlfriend gabby petino. her body was found last month at grand teton national park in wyoming. $20 billion in fraudulent unemployment benefits have gone to criminals. that includes $810 million to killers on death row and

across the border from mexico into starr county about an hour west of us, believed to be aimed at texas nationalere no injuries and the texas rangers are investigating this incident. meanwhile, the biden administration is complying with a court order and will reinstate the trump era remain in mexico policy. that requires migrants claiming asylum to wait out our cases in camps in mexico. they canceled the program and the biden administration went about it the wrong way. so the department of homeland security is reluctantly reviving the policy and officials say they'll move to terminate it again in a way that complies with the court order. dhs also says it's building temporary immigration courts along the border to process these asylum claims. we are also awaiting border patrol apprehension numbers for the month of september, that's the final month of the 2021 fiscal year. already in that fiscal year there have been more apprehensions down here along the southwest border than any year since 2000. so depending on the september figures, if you get 200,000 or so, we could have for the fiscal year of

speak of the state of texas is preparing for that caravan, which of the texas national guard to deployea around the international bridge in del rio. that is the same area that saw 15,000 haitians crossing illegally last month. texas dps tells us governor abbott is surging resources to send a message. >> we been able to mobilize resources and the message is very clear to any potential caravans making the journey to the southern border, do not come to the state of texas because we will take appropriate action and we will arrested those who violate state law. >> preparations are also being made, take a look at the dps helicopter. you can see national guard humvees as well as texas dps cruisers beginning to line the rio grande in the area immediately around the international bridge. >> shannon: there is another border showdown looming tonight, that thousands of strong migrant is making its way north through mexico toward our southern border of the you might not know anything about it if you been watching mainstream media. let's bring in fox news contributor's leslie marshall and jason chaf

we have a great partner with the texas national guard that has deployed thousands. io with the haitians, texas will not allow that. that won't happen again. we're closely monitoring this caravan. we'll work closely with our federal partners. the question is, once they get to a certain location, where are they going to break off and where are they going to end up. right now we have plenty of assets in place to deter this caravan from surging the southern border. that's what we're focused on right now. >> what was the message? you have folks from all over the planet really. it's like a united nations. there's a qr code, a lot of money had to go into the organization of this. what do you think the message was? get to the border and you mentioned your federal partners. once you get past the border patrol, some federal agency will make it easier for you to get into the united states? >> that's the issue right now. the issue the federal government sent out this message that right now is the time to come to the u.s. you'll be let in to the country. that's why you see the la

is the state of texas is now preparing for this migrant caravan, deploying massive amounts of texas nationalrd resources down to the bridge area, this is the exact same area we saw those 15,000 haitians last month, the idea behind this being the state of texas will step up where the federal government is not securing the border, they will not allow another situation to happen so they are prepositioning resources all along the border to send a message to those caravans, you will not be allowed into texas, texas telling us unlike the federal government, they will not roll out the red carpet for these caravans. we will send it back to you. >> tucker: that is heartening to hear, thank you so much. finally, this does with the federal government will not do, we put in a request to talk to governor abbott. it's a disaster and it's hard to believe as you watch that tape that not so long ago, this country actually enforced immigration laws. just two years ago in august of 2019, federal agents kick down the doors of seven separate chicken plants, arrested hundreds of foreign nationals who were living

todd: texas national guard gearing up to block an increased number of cara vans you atementzing to cross -- atempting to cross the southern of border. >> when you overlay a global pandemic with in haiti the earthquake and the assassination of the leader, the economic crisis in the region and it's only getting worse. some of it is inducement from the biden administration policies and traffickers using that to message to people in the region come on up, come on up. jillian: governor greg abbott tweeting this video of the tactical vehicles used to transport equipment and personnel to the texas border amid the ongoing crisis. todd: landmark rulings from the supreme court on guns, religious freedom and you abortion expected soon as they begin a new term today. in december they will hear arguments challenging a mississippi law that bans abortions of unborn babies over 15 weeks old, also cases about concealed weapon laws. to the nfl we go, tom brady getting a lot of love in his big return to new england. >> brady! brady! brady! todd: they were saying brady, brady, brady, if i'm reading the subt

criminal cartel and greg abbott releasing a video of texas national guard giving up to protect support headed here, i think it doubling the number at the poor, up to 2500 troops, is that enough? >> probably not we need the federal government to do its job but this administration time and time again has tied to his not only of the border patrol but ice to do interior enforcement, they tend to blame law enforcement first, punishment first as we saw patrol and deflect blame elsewhere from their own policies. >> the border towns and neighborhoods and communities keep saying, why don't you declare it a federal disaster area? it would.millions of dollars toward us. they are feeling high and dry, if the white house doesn't reach out to them and we've got now, 100 terrorists the last three years trying to cross into the u.s. we are so important, why is it that a hair on fire fire engine red for the white house. >> it is scary and perhaps should be fire here moment, it's hard to get this administration to change policies because we been asked going on ten months and i fear it's going to require

. >> the texas national guard is a supporting our law enforcement partners.ll as capabilities under the direction of governor abbott to deal with this crisis. >> how bad is it, general? >> we are at an inflection point because i think we are out of illegal immigration. its mass migration that you have seen with the caravans in del rio. >> we have heard there will be another wave of migrants coming this way. are we prepared to handle that right now with the current resources we have? >> yes, it's hard to say you are prepared if you are talking caravans of 60,000, that's a tall feed, but we continue to mobilize additional personnel equipment and capabilities well in the thousands. >> so, you are ready for this? >> we are ready. >> we are live from texas all morning long on "fox & friends". a do not miss it. a republican pastor flipped a seat and i was state house dealing a blow to democrats who have held it for decades. >> jon dunwell joins us now. congrats. why did you win? >> thank you very much. i think it's partly because we are listening to what people are

. >> shannon: meanwhile, greg abbott says the texas national guard is gearing up at the border in responsef it tonight with evan or dan patrick. great to have you back. want to start with where bill melugin finished up and what he also added in his reporting is that there is often reports of people coming across. he talked to panamanian officials who said they'd stopped several people with ties to al qaeda who were planning to head north to our border. what you make of the situation question mike >> when you have an open border, anyone can come in and they're coming from all over the world. week keep track of the country they come from. name a country, they are coming here from there. i look at this comparing it to afghanistan and afghanistan the president left the taliban in charge and are border the president is leaving the drug cartels in charge. in afghanistan, americans were left behind. and on the border, americans are being left behind here because he doesn't care about those people who live along the border. and almost all of them are democrats, elected officials, the mayors, they

todd: texas national guard gearing up to block an increased number of cara vans attempting to cross thean says the biden administration's border policies are to blame. listen. >> when you overlay a global pandemic with, you know, in haiti the earthquake and the assassination of the leader, the economic crisis in the region, and it's only getting worse. some of it is inducement from the biden administration policies and traffickers using that to message to people in the region come on up, come on up. todd: governor abbott tweeting this video of the tactical vehicles headed to the border to block the incoming wave of migrants. jillian: drugs laced with fentanyl coming across the border at an alarming rate. todd: misty garagino lost her 17-year-old daughter to an accidental fentanyl overdose earlier this year. she joins us now. condolences for this horrible loss. before we go into the details, tell us about your daughter. >> my daughter was kaley, she was amazing, 17 years old. the funniest kid around. scheduled to graduate early, an honor roll student, very normal family. she was a middle

he says cartels are continuing to open of fire on texas national guardsmen who are trying to secure the border. this aztecs as congressman van taylor slams the biden administration's lack of authority in protecting the lone star state. >> the biden administration has completely destroyed border security. the biden administration owns this lock, stock barrel. they did this. it was their decision. >> reporter: immigration activists walking out during a meeting that reinstated the trump era remain in mexico policy. an add he vo get from the -- an advocate telling politico, quote, i can't stand one more meeting of them pretending, they give accolades on the outside, on the insigh, we have to take out the metaphor rick knives from our back of. on capitol hill, president biden's pick to lead u.s. customs and border he protection already facing scrutiny ahead of his confirmation hearing tomorrow. chris magnus is the police chief in tucson, arizona. he touted his proximity to the border, saying he has an understanding of the crisis. he is facing backlash for an op-ed he wrote in 2017 on sanctua

it happened in front of a couple texas national guard members. >> we are trying to repel [inaudible] already -- back. >> operation lone star is the effort by the state of texas to crack down on illegal immigration crime. humvees are starting to line high trafficked areas in hopes of deterring the large caravan making its way through mexico. since march, the texas demght department of public safety says it has made over 1400 arrests for trespassing. the state also says it has seized 10,000 pounds of marijuana. more than 3,000 pounds of cocaine and meth. and 132-pound of fentanyl. a staggering amount that equates to 30 million lethal doses. as for caravan fox news saw officials key port three bus loads of migrants on this plane. it's not know where these deported caravan members were taken or more in the coming days, that leaves some good news for texas officials gearing up for the arrival of thousands of migrants, bret? >> bret: dan springner roma, texas, dan, thanks. up next the panel on the latest in the spending negotiations and the virginia's governor beyond our borders cases and d

human smuggling harmed with rifles standing on the other side of the rio grande and taunting texas nationalre wrecking the slides on their rifles and yelling over to the soldiers, making threats. and just a few nights after the incident, weg were embedded with machine gun fired across the border directly into the united states. i caught it on video. take a look at this. >> [bleep]. [indiscernible]. that's just indiscriminate firing. >> and what you're looking at right there are tracer rounds from a suspected cartel machine guns. those are coming from mexico directly into the united states those rounds went right over national guard observation post. it was unclear if it was from a cartel gun battle in theua mexico city or if it was an intimidation factor but thankfully no soldiers were injured. that kind of gunfire coming in directly intoo the united state. as this is all going on, there was another migrant caravan in mexico, tens of thousands trying to get to the u.s. and they've got an activist leader who has some fighting words. take a listen. >> [speaking non-english language] >> and th

eric: and the reports that the cartel are shooting at us, shooting across the border at the texas nationaler, always good to see you. we will follow this, of course. thank you. >> thank you. eric: arthel? arthel: big name democrats set to campaign in virginia as the closely-watched governor's race enters the final weeks, but one top lawmaker does not have plans to make the campaign visit. details coming up. insurance from liberty mutual so they only pay for what they need. woooooooooooooo... we are not getting you a helicopter. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ regina approaches the all-electric cadillac lyriq. it's a sunny day. nah, a stormy day. classical music plays. um uh, brass band, new orleans. ♪ ♪ she drives hands free... along the coast. make it palm springs. ♪ cadillac is going electric. if you want to be bold, you have to go off-script. experience the all-electric cadillac lyriq. age is just a number. and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health. versus 16 grams in ensure high protein. boost® high prote

this is escalating into a firing more on each side of the border where texas and air national guard ared the fed the state of texas-- defended that state of texas. maria: to be clear, we were in del rio and you said it's getting worse in other areas of texas? >> everyone saw what happened in del rio with regard to the haitians that came in there, but right now the hottest point is in roma, texas, in the stark county area and that's the area where the cartels on the mexican side of the border are shooting at the national guard on the texas side of the border. what texas has to do is to step up and guard multiple points across the entire border. maria: unbelievable, and i know the mexican cartel are very smart and they know how to flood one area so it opens up another area so they can get through smuggling humans and drugs across. we have new unofficial numbers from one of our border sources that says in the last month we saw 187,000 apprehensions, but of course, the number of got a ways is higher. 42,649 doctor waste, 91 people died in the u.s. in the desert. what do you want to say abou

of what appears to be cartel machine gun fire from the mexico side near where members of the texas nationalounds went above one of their observation posts. jason, they'd better not hit our guys. >> jason: they better not not because i don't want to see a loss of life because i don't know how the biden administration would actually respond and my sense is probably wouldn't respond. i think it's curious about all of this, the polling about the president's approval ratings at the borders, despite mostly a blackout despite on fox news people are noticing him people are figuring this out and seeing this total chaos in just a few months ago, no problems whatsoever, not chaotic, with got the situation under control and yet they very clearly don't. these southern states and border states which is very important but this impacts ohio and new hampshire, new york, washington, very, very easy to smuggle into this company and its killing folks here. >> harris: obsessed is not the right word. shocked by the fact that so much that has gone on with this administration since january 20th has happened so qui

migrants flood in texas national guard have seen cartel gunfights increase near the border recently andunted in recent days by cartel members armed while across the rio grande river. there have been multiple and growing instances of this happening, too so when you see tens of thousands of migrant coming to the border and what not being understood and you and i have talked about this, the drug cartel want to drag the migrants to the coyotes to deliver drugs across the border. your word on back? >> absolutely. we are seeing this measured in ways we can't even count so the cartel make money, they are making billions of dollars, we've seen a surge an explosion of drugs coming in, we know the price of functional is falling into places like arizona because there's more supply so that will have an effect on overdose deaths and inner-city violence from chicago to take st. louis and all over the country and we know the cartel are becoming more brazen and embolden because the biden administration so i know you and i have talked about this, i worry in the future mexico is on the brink of becoming

yesterday, two shots were fired across the border and they say they believe they were aimed at the texas nationalthey're investing all of this. this happened about an hour west of where we are right now. also another border announcement from the biden administration today, the white house says foreign visitors may come back and return to the united states after they were largely barred from doing so because of the coronavirus. that can start november 8th, as long as they're vaccinated. bret? >> bret: rich edson along the border thanks >> up next is the honeymoon officially over between president biden and the media? we'll see. we'll be right back. ♪♪ new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. when you sponsor a job, you immediately get your shortlist of quality candidates, whose resumes on indeed match your job criteria. visit indeed.com/hire and get started today. it's sleep number's fall sale on the sleep number 360 smart bed. it helps keep you effortlessly comfortable by sensing your movements and whose resumes on indeed match your job criteria. au

attention right now to what's going on in texas, you need to be because what's happening here is absolutely what's going to flow across the rest of our nation >> reporter: texas has until thursday to respond to the justice department this case could ultimately be decided at the supreme court lester >> all right catie beck, thank you. >>> in just 60 seconds new details about the downfall of las vegas raiders head coach jon gruden >>> and after days of chaos at southwest airlines new warning signs about holiday travel >>> harrowing new images of that deadly plane crash in a suburb of san diego. surveillance video shows the plane going down before it struck two homes and several vehicles two people were killed, including a ups driver and the pilot, who was a doctor from arizona. people in the neighborhood helped to rescue one couple from their burning home >>> now to the bombshell rocking the nfl tonight. super bowl-winning coach jon gruden resigning from the las vegas raiders after e-mails containing racist, homophobic and misogynistic language were revealed. steve patterson now with the growing fallout. >> reporter: the news came as millions