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The number as dropped considerably in the last 24 hours. there are at last check about 9,000 migrants beneath that border bridge. that number has dropped from a combination of things. 24/7 bussing to other processing centers by the border patrol in addition to those flights that will only ramp up in the coming days going from san antonio, texas, to port-au-prince, haiti. we know over the weekend about 300 migrants were flown back home. each of these planes only carries about 135 people at a time...

Exactly what is going on there. but human beings should never be treated that way. and im deeply troubled about it and ill also be talking to secretary mayorkas today. >> morgan chesky is at the border for us in del rio. >> reporter: good afternoon. and we are experiencing just a brief break from the triple digit temperatures that have been plaguing this area for the better part of the past week making it even tougher beneath that border bridge not too far away from where im standing. but it is ...

Camp where about 15,000 migrants, mostly haitian, are staying. nbcs morgan is near the camp. >> reporter: craig, progress is coming here in del rio, but it is taking time that is incredibly valuable, especially in conditions like this with temperatures soon to approach 100 degrees today. 9,000 migrants still huddling in the shade beneath that border bridge not too far away from where im standing. dhs stressing not everyone is being deported here despite flights ramping up from del rio from san a...

Haitians and some haitian families for deportation. joining me now from del rio, nbc news correspondent morgan chesky. morgan, look, the deportation flights started sunday. but in the meantime, is there any improvement on the ground in those conditions? >> reporter: that will depend on who you ask, chris. we have seen drastic changes in the last 48 hours. the first starting with the shutting down of that border bridge from del rio, texas, into ciudad akunya right across the river. they said they...

Bridge tonight a surge of federal agents are heading in, and we now know more about the administrations new strategy to get the migrants back home morgan chesky reports from del rio, texas >> reporter: beneath this border bridge in del rio, texas, a group of migrants grows by the hour the men, women, and children mostly from haiti. tonight, they number nearly 15,000, tripling in size since wednesday. all waiting in near 100-degree heat, washing clothes in the rio grande, sleeping outside for a c...

Texas, in part to at least escape the brutal heat, and the surge is prompting a big federal response. lets go to nbcs morgan chesky there with us. welcome on this sunday. whats happening there today? >> alex, a massive undertaking under way right now, and authorities have gone so far as to now shut down this only bridge from del rio into mexico for about the past 24 hours, also, they can try to take care of the thousands of people that as of this moment are still beneath it. and we know that rig...

Decision to sell nuclear-powered submarines to australia unacceptable behavior between allies and partners and a stab in the back of france, which had been trying to sell australia its less powerful subs. the white house wanted to build up australia as a show of force against an increasingly militaristic china an angry france also canceled a gala in d.c. tonight celebrating the anniversary of a naval battle that france helped the colonies win in the revolutionary war. lester now to a >> draend...

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Those deadly clashes. >> reporter: it had been billed as a new dorm when refugees would simply take aid back in their homeland across the busiest border bridge with colombia but it was closed blocked by venezuelan riot police. im venezuelan she says, holding up her i.d. my father was a sergeant. how would you stop me crossing? but they were venezuelans, too, and also knew its collapse, its hunger. the water youre drinking, she says, its colombian, because your president doesnt give you any. brin...