the us mexico border. officials have said that when title 42 is no longer in effect, tens of thousands of people could try to cross over. let s look at what the policy is. the temporary law title 42 was introduced by donald trump and meant illegal migrants could be removed quickly and it expires overnight tonight. the policy made it easier for the us to send people back to mexico using the coronavirus pandemic as justification. the winding down of covid measures means the policy no longer has any public health justification, prompting officials to announce it would end on may 11th, the same day as the official us public health emergency. and when it ends in a few hours from now, the us will return to a policy where migrants are screened to determine if they are eligible for asylum and quickly deported if they do not qualify. earlier, us homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas had this warning for those who are not eligible to seek asylum. our borders are not open. pe
u.s. todd: jonathan lines on the ground in yuma, arizona, but we begin with caroline shivley. we are here at gate 40 along the border wall in el paso. it is hard to get a sense in the dark, we are on this side of the border. on the other side are migrants, take a look at what it looks like in the daytime. migrants huddled together just wai waiting begging to be let in. the 2000-mile border, has set up a tent city, some waiting near checkpoints. 10,000 migrants were caught trying to sneak over the border tuesday alone. these are children being swept away on the rio grande river. two adults plunged into the water and saved them. fox captured video of migrants crossing into brownsville. president biden says scenes like this are nothing new. president biden: we ve had chaos at the border for a number of years. we have to fully fund border security efforts. purpose what we are doing now, is making legal immigration more streamlined and going in direction people know there is
house. the limit is suppose expected to be breached the first of next month. jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. big headline here, no movement toward a deal happening today at least but we did learn that the big four congressional leaders will huddle with the president again on friday. the republicans emerged from this meeting feeling frustrated saying biden stalled on having this meeting in the first place and then brought to it no ideas or proposals even though the votes just aren t there to get him what he is asking for and the president, we re told, continued to reject republican proposals to bring the budget back to last year s levels calling that draconian. we re not going to take any questions now. we re going to get started. we re going to solve all the world s problems. treasury secretary s warning the u.s. could run out of money as soon as june 1st got the president to open the oval office door to congressional leadership. but the
here, phil promises. stay with us, cnn news central starts now. new details this morning about the victims after at least eight people were murdered at a mall in texas. officials are focused on right wing extremism as a possible motive. right now an investigation is under way in brownsville, texas, after an suv slammed into a bus stop killing several people. ahead what we re learning about that driver. this is the week title 42 ends. cnn is at the border as the biden administration and the cities on the front lines prepare for an expected surge of migrants now. these major stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news central. this morning cnn has learned the name of at least two victims murdered at the mass shooting at the mall in allen, texas. family members say christian lacore was a sweet caring young man, he is on the left there. we re told the man on the right was an engineer living in mckinney, texas. they were two of at least eight people who were ki