unfairly created by what he called unsubstantiated allegations. unsubstantiated allegations of terrible conditions and crowding at facilities locking up immigrants run by his department. he said the claims about those facilities and the conditions in which immigrants including little kids were being held, those were all unsubstantiated claims, there was no reason for the national uproar over this, there was no reason for this unfortunate sensation. all of the supposed concern and criticism about those alleged conditions, they weren t based on reality and they were just making things harder for his department. we heard something similar from an unnamed customs and border patrol official who did a press call with reporters last week. after a group of lawyers came out of border patrol facilities in texas describing what they said were the worst conditions they had ever seen in decades of monitoring conditions at facilities like that. after those lawyers came out of those facilities and st
at facilities locking up immigrants run by his department. he said the claims about those facilities and the conditions in which immigrants, including little kids were being held, those were all unsubstantiated claims. there was no reason for the national uproar over this. there was no reason for this unfortunate sensation. all of the supposed concern and criticism about those alleged conditions, they weren t based on reality and they were just making things harder for his department. we heard something similar from an unnamed customs and border patrol official who did a press call with reporters last week. after a group of lawyers came out of border patrol facilities in texas describing what they said were the worst conditions they had ever seen in decades of monitoring conditions at facilities like that. after those lawyers came out of those facilities and started telling those stories, customs and border patrol official who would not give his or her name did a press call last week w
the raging wildfires in california are impacting several nfl teams as they prepare for their sunday games. vince has more on the bleacher report. good morning. how are you? a lot of the players minds, more than just football for sure. the l.a. rams had to cancel their practice in thousand oaks on friday due to the fires. head coach sean mcveigh says about 20 players and coaches have been evacuated from their homes including coordinator wide phillips. 45 other members of the organization have been displaced. the rams are set to host the seahawks sunday at the l.a. coliseum. meantime, the raiders host the chargers in oakland sunday, and jon gruden s team had to limit practice on friday due to poor air quality. nfl officials are monitoring conditions in los angeles and oakland. as of now, they say that the
also monitoring these forecast models. he s monitoring conditions. let s go jennifer gray who is tracking joaquin. churning around the bahamas right now. really still is it too early to tell how strong this will be? it is going to weaken as it travels to the north. that s the good news. the million dollar question is where is it going to make landfall. right now this is devastating for the bahamas. category 4 storm right over the central bahamas, most of the resort islands are to the west of this. but still devastating for the islands there. winds of 130 miles per hour, that s sustained winds with wind gusts up to 155 miles per hour. now this is the current forecast track. we re not going to get an update on this for another three hours. right now the national hurricane center has it as a category 4 through friday morning. possibly going down by monday morning. then tuesday a tropical storm.
they re underway as well in san francisco, minneapolis, boston, you name it. a number of cities across this country. but lower manhattan, this is where this all began, where it s still pretty strong. right now new york police threw up barricades around zuccotti park, which they cleared of camp sites on tuesday. but late this morning, protesters, they threw the barricades back, and they surged into the streets of financial district. at least 75 people, take a look at that picture. this is what was going on. these scuffles just a short time ago when these demonstrators decided to move the police barricade. at least 75 arrests taking place, including that of a retired philadelphia police captain. also, a woman. a video we have been seeing, a woman dragged bri police. this was caught on a cnn ireporter. take a listen. now, we don t know why this woman was arrested, but nobody s being allowed to block streets or trying to enter buildings around the stock exchange without authori