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Democrats seeking action after the deaths. and dianne feinstein is seeking for treatment of immigrant children. kirstjen nielsen will visit the u.s. and mexico border today following the death of the felipe alonzo-gomez. we have dan simon in texas. >> reporter: joe and christine, kirstjen nielsen is heading to the border to oversee what is happening. she is facing the crisis and one of the things she has ordered the agency to do is offer enhanced medical screenings. she will be in el paso on fri...

Really an unprecedented amount of migrants coming into this kungtry. just last month, you had 25,000 families who were arrested. so obviously, the system is at maximum capacity, and thats why you have what we saw here at the bus transit just a few days ago, with hundreds of migrants simply being dropped off here at the bus station with no apparent plan for them. that practice is now apparently stopped because of the pr fallout there, but it just goes to show you how overtaxed the system is, kate...

I want to go to cnns dan simon in el paso. whats happening with the migrants. >> to fully understand this situation, you have to look at the historical context in terms of the way this has been handled in the past. migrants have been dropped off at border communities spanning different administrations. it has been done in a humane way and in coordination with area shelters. what made this situation in el paso so extraordinary and different, the shelters did not get a heads up. you had hundreds d...

On tuesday. after surgery last week to remove two cancerous nodules. the 85 year-old was hospitalized after she fell in her office in november. and fractured three ribs. doctors treating her found the cancer on her left lung. she has had two previous bouts with cancer. a spokeswoman for the court says the justice now appears to be kans cancer free. >> some doctors are questioning the medical care given to an 8 year-old guatemala boy who died in u.s. custody. infectious disease experts say it app...

And just in to cnn, homeland security secretary kristen nielsen will be traveling to the border on friday and saturday, warning that the border has been pushed to the breaking point. the head of the border patrol says his agency needs a complete overhaul and more money to deal with the influx of migrants at the border. the dire warnings comes after the district attorney of another migrant boy in custody. it was the second death of a migrant child in u.s. custody this month. nielsen blames parent...

Who died in a month while in the custody of border patrol, its raising questions about whether or not border patrol can handle this influx of migrants. secretary crikirstjen nielsen in her way to the border. she has ordered her agency to do enhanced health screenings, obviously to help prevent any future deaths with children. >> dan simon in el paso, texas. a beautiful boy, a terrible tragedy. well see how the homeland security secretary addresses it when she gets there this weekend. >> on wall ...

Shelters. ryan. >> dan simon along the southern border in el paso. thank you for that report. >> coming up, first the cryptic video online. now new details about how kevin spacey plans to fight allegations he sexual assaulted an 18-year-old boy. ♪ voice-command navigation with waze wifi wireless charging 104 cubic feet of cargo room and seating for 8. now thats a sleigh. ford expedition. built for the holidays. (hurry!) its the final days to get zero percent financing plus twelve hundred and f...

After months of legal wrangling because of restrictions imposed by president trumps travel ban, a yemeni mother has finally arrived in california to be reunited with her dying toddler son. shes spent more than a year trying to get a state department waiver that would allow her to join her husband and 2-year-old son in america. dan simon has the latest on this familys plight. >> reporter: dozens of yemeni americans came to the international terminal to welcome her to the united states and also to...

Him. he has very little time left. dan simon, cnn, san francisco. >> this is from the you have to see it to believe it file. a bmw flies through the air. this is a driver in slovakia who fell asleep at the wheel, drifted off the roadway and launched off a guardrail before entering the tunnel. he grazes the top of the tunnel before he lands. the craziest part is the 44-year-old driver walks away with just minor injuries. that does it for me tonight. thank you for being with us. im back tomorrow a...

All right. we do have an important update to a story we have been following closely. a yemeni mother who had been blocked from seeing her dying son in california because of the trump administrations travel ban has just been granted a visa to come to the united states. >> yes, appears to be in response to pressure from coverage of the story by cnn and other media outlets. dan simon is at the boys hospital in oakland, california, with more details. i imagine the family, theyre facing so much, the ...