who is scheduled to hold that press conference in less than 30 minutes. now to one of the reasons we re here in arizona. the migrant humanitarian crisis at the southern border. roughly 160 miles from where we are this morning. u.s. and customs and border patrol says it arrested 231,000 migrants at the border last month. for the first time ever, the number of arrests of undocumented immigrants exceeded 2 million in one year. in an increasing number of migrants are coming from venezuela, cuba, nicaragua and haiti. places with authoritarian regimes with major human rights issues. doug ducey has joined his republican counterparts from texas and florida in sending migrants to other parts of the country. arizona has reportedly sent nearly 2,000 migrants to washington, d.c., since april. some of the migrants flown from texas to martha s vineyard, massachusetts, by florida governor ron desantis are now suing him, claiming they were victims of fraud. desantis responded in a statement
planet. on global health, we delivered more than 620 million doses of covid-19 vaccine, 216 countries around the world with more available to help meet countries needs. all free of charge, no strings attached. and we re working closely with the g-20 and other countries in the united states to help lead the change to establish a groundbreaking new fund for pandemic prevention preparedness and response at the world bank. at the same time, we ve continued to advanced the ball on enduring global health challenges. later today i ll host a conference for the global fund to fight aids, tuberculosis and malaria. with support in our congress, i have pledged to contribute up to $6 billion to that effort. so i look forward to welcoming
different direction every morning. come on, white chocolate. oh, no. yup. he can explain that one, soledad. soledad. bye, guys. captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m going to try to compose myself here. it is top of the hour. 9:00 a.m. eastern time. we begin with five days until florida s republican presidential primary and just hours from the cnn debate there. mitt romney and newt gingrich are locked in a dead heat in the polls. this debate could be a game changer. the votes the candidates want right now, latinos. the ads prove it. joe johns is live in mount dora. he s calling romney the most anti-immigration candidate. reporter: that s absolutely right, kyra. it s very interesting to watch as that develops. senator marco rub yes who s sort of a favorite son of florida actually chaz tiesed gingrich for putting that radio ad out saying it was inaccurate. gingrich saying last night in a press media availability here in florida that he pulled the ad because he did it
bill: in the unresolved problem segment tonight as we told you last week, billions of dollars have been sent to haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake. there is very little improvement in the country. many believe much of the money has been stolen. now comes a report that the global find to fight aids tuberculosis and malaria may have also scron dreld billions of dollars. the u.s. has pledged 10 billion taxpayer dollars to the global fund. a report says that billions of dollars spent by the fund may have been wasted or stolen. very disturbing in light of this. flew the global fund to fight aids, tuberculosis and malaria, over 3.5000 lives are saved every day. that s 1.3 million people every year. we can win the fight against these diseases. it s just a matter of galvanizing the funding and getting the political will to