Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. We do want to begin tonight with the dueling visits at the Southern Border by the two frontrunners in this years election, showcasing the Record Number of migrant crossings that are overwhelming resources along the border and in major cities across the country. President biden was in brownsville, texas, where he issued a political dare to donald trump to join him in pressing House Republicans to help secure the border by passing the senates bipartisan security bill. Now, 325 miles away, trump was in eagle pass, where he took a much different approach, unleashing attacks on biden, democrats, and migrants, but not proposing a legislative solution. A record 2. 4 million migrants were apprehended at the u. S. Mexican border in 2023, and immigration has become the top issue for many voters heading into the 2024 election. Cbss ed okeefe is traveling with the president , and he will start us off tonight from texas. Reporter the
Described as cold blood. Norah. Imtiaz tyab. Thank you. For a look at how the weather will impact the fires in the days ahead as well as a potentially historic blizzard on the west coast, lets bring in meteorologist mike bettes. Hes from our partners at the weather channel. Good evening, mike. Norah, good evening. Unfortunately the weathers not leng matters across the lone star state. We know dry and windy conditions will persist into the weekend. We have fire weather watches and red flag warnings extending from new mexico and texas all the way into iowa through saturday. And heres the major factor in all this. Significant wind picking back up, especially this weekend, where winds may be gusting as high as 50 miles per hour. Again, fanning those flames. We expect rapid spread of the fire to continue. The rain thats falling actually falls well to the east of where the Smokehouse Creek fire is burning here in the panhandle of texas. Then our attention turns to the west. Weve got a monste
Before the Senate Finance community, topics include rural melt care and telehealth flexibilities. We are meeting today to discuss with senator becerra, the budget and the department of services. The budget comes down to a simple proposition, helping working families and the middle class get ahead. Reducing the federal deficit, they are not mutually exclusive. Today, we are committed to doing both. When it comes to health care, that means protecting medicare for the next generation by making sure that the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes, strengthening medicare, negotiating the cost of medication, and investing and priorities Like Mental Health care, and the health care workforce. Thats sharp contrast to the republican approach to the federal budget. Since the beginning of the year, there has basically been a demand for secret negotiations on unspecified cuts to specified programs wall hosting hostage the full faith and credit of the United States government. Budget chair Committee
To swap hostages for air strikes in a war thats ignited but critics playing fire fighter and the white house contradicts themselves over iran. Fbi director warns about a rise in terror threats and biden collapses the boarder and powerful donors push universities to condemn protest against israel and iran and arab nations called out for not taking in palestinians. Theres a new report special council david wise investigating hint biden is jim jordan score as major win in the bat toll be House Speaker. New constitutional fight over a judge put ago new partial gag order on President Trump. Im elizabeth macdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Elizabeth welcome to the show. Esteem and would highly respected retired general joining us and served as Land Component director and brent sadler, a 26 year navy veteran. Gentlemen, good to have you on. Great to see you. General, first to you, do you believe the reuters report that iran will not assist hamas and engage in military action against
Kudlow is next. Larry hello, folks, and welcome to kudlow, im larry kudlow. Day six of the barbaric, hamas,hezbollah massacre on israel. At least 2400 people now reportedly have been killed. At least 25 americans. Well talk to general jack keane in just a few moments about netanyahu talking about the ground troop invasion. Every hamas member is a dead man. First lets turn to our own mike tobin live in israel with the latest. Mike, thanks very much. What you got for us . Reporter well the israeli cannons continue to thunder into the night. Weve seen several rocket launches from the palestinian side. Each of the rocket launches to the best of our observation, ability were all taken out by the iron dome system, the iron dome interceptors that are protecting these Israeli Border communities. Meantime the israeli armor amassing along the gaza strip. Tanks, armored personnel carriers, armored canons and infantry to the 300,000, 260,000 service who have been called up with active duty, with t