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In the next 24 to 48 hours. this is really the front of it. >> now the shelter person told us, the director of the shelter said they are expecting about 2500 total coming. so this is growing as it heads north towards ultimately the united states, guys. steve: all right. griff jenkins live in guatemala city where it is 5:36 in the morning. tom homan joins us. you know him. former acting ice director. over the last two days griff has been talking to people. the reason they are marching north, they...

Heather: as the migrant caravan closes in and donald trump announces measures to limit asylum to those entering the country illegally our next guest says those thousands of people entering at once could major impact on our economy. joining us is peter maurice the, professor of business at the university of maryland, great to have you with us. we keep talking about the humanitarian aspect of this but you are talking about the money and we according to you cant afford it. >> we cant afford it econ...

That were in the caravan. that were marching north, trying to save our families and save our children. weve got to start putting ourselves in the shoes of other people. let us reach out to those who have less. lets stop putting up up walls around ourselves and not understanding the polite, the trouble and the problems of others. it is not right. and the lord doesnt want it. >> laura: well the lord didnt want him as the gop nominee, either. its a shock, ann that he didnt win the nomination by put...

And the loopholes human traffickers exploit every day to entice vulnerable families. >> reporter: tell me about the phone call you had with the president of honduras who told you about the origin of this caravan in venezuela? >> we heard the caravan is forming in honduras, donald trump and the rest of the leaders in central america, this concern and desire to prevent this caravan from marching north, it is organized by leftist organizations and political activists in honduras, from venezuela. th...

But its also changing the laws, ending catch and release, endtion the loopholes that human traffickers exploit every day to entice vulnerable families to make their way north. >> can you tell me about the phone call that you had with the president of honduras who told you about the origins of the caravan, possibly in venezuela? >> we heard the caravan was forming in honduras. president trump direct mead to call leaders in central america, tell them about his concern and his desire to see them ta...

>> but governor, its not representative fully of the american people because despite these continued attacks and divisiveness from the president, his poll numbers are going up. how do you explain it? >> well, first of all, theres a big chunk of the country that doesnt support him. so lets -- lets look at where things are inside the republican party, its shrunken. and you know, look, things have also become very tribal. heres what bothers me. we have a caravan coming north. we dont want all those...

Been in several, several hours. still getting some serious tropical storm gusts at least. i certainly would rate these as hurricane strength. its the back side of the hurricane. its supposed to go down. gradually go down for the rest of the afternoon. the center of the storm keeps on marching north/northeast. the streets are flooded. power is out all across apalachicola and across the bay, east bay, over to east isle, or east point is the name of the town, beg my pardon. duke energy and gulf ene...

>> reporter: hi, wolf. we started at times square where we had about 200 protesters. a crowd was joined by another group which doubled the size, and now you can see, after staying in times square and chanting and protesting there for a while, they have begun marching north. we know this is the general direction towards where that rockefeller tree lighting is supposed to happen tonight. people have been chanting, shut it down, shut it down! talking about the tree lighting. but at the same time, i...

Is really get, were told this, get eyes on and try and assess iraqi forces. will they -- do they have leadership? do the troops have confidence in their commanders? do they have sufficient equipment? these are the kinds of things theyll look at, making recommendations to the pentagon about what the next steps might be. jim. >> i just flew through the baghdad airport last week and i was thinking, how close are those isis fighters to the airport there. theres one question about will iraqi forces k...

Center up there, sending advisory teams up there. none of that is happening now because basically were told theres no iraqi military force in northern iraq to assess. the iraqi forces are largely gone from so many of those areas. so it is going to be very problematic by all accounts for the u.s. teams to get into northern iraq and to figure out what to do there because the iraqis are not even there right now and no indication, at least at this point, that they can or will mount the kind of massi...