summed up by the washington post headline that reads, u.n. human rights chief deeply shocked by migrant detention centres in texas. or by the reporting over the weekend in the new york times, the outbreak of scabies, shingles, chicken pox were spreading among the hundreds of dealts being held in cramped cells. the stench of the children s dirty clothing was so strong it spread to the agents own clothing. people in town would scrunch their noses when they left work. the children cried constantly. the administration is responding to all of this. just this week on abc the acting homeland security secretary was on the defensive. you referenced three things that were unsubstantiated. inadequate food. inadequate water and unclean cells. this is an extraordinarily challenging situation. we had an overflow situation with hundreds of children crossing every day. we have no evidence that children went hungry, first of
u.s. the latest on this story can be summed up by the washington post headline that reads, u.n. human rights chief deeply shocked by migrant detention centers in texas. or by the reporting over the weekend in the new york times, the outbreak of scabies, shingles, chicken pox were spreading among the hundreds of children being held in cramped cells. the stench of the children s dirty clothing was so strong it spread to the agents own clothing. people in town would scrunch their noses when they left work. the children cried constantly. the administration is responding to all of this. just this week on abc the acting homeland security secretary was on the defensive. you referenced three things that were unsubstantiated. inadequate food, inadequate water and unclean cells. this is an extraordinarily challenging situation. we had an overflow situation with hundreds of children
we had an overflow situation with hundreds of children crossing every day. we have no evidence that children went hungry, first of all. police station cells are not a good place for children. the president continues to support his own administration s treatment of the migrants, posting social messages that again blame, fake news and the democrats for the immigration crisis. just today vice president mike pence announced on friday the second lady and i will travel to the u.s./mexico border at mcallen, texas, with a bipartisan delegation of members of the senate judiciary committee. the senate passed bipartisan humanitarian relief, but much more must be done to secure our border and end the crisis. it will hardly be a surprise visit. several days ago, several members of congress toured migrant facilities in both texas and florida. when we went into the cell, it was it was clear that the water was not running. there was a toilet but there was no running water for people to drink
agents, and supervisors, lawyers , lawmakers and aids, who visited the facility and an immigrant father whose children were held there. congresswoman also said she saw bad conditions at the migrant detention center in clint, texas herself. it s traumatic. i mean, i don t know how to explain to people what we saw when we re explaining to people and they re kind of looking back saying well that can t be true and i said but we re all there. reporter: and so you have her saying that she saw it for herself, however acting homeland security secretary says allegations of inadequate food and water and unclean cells at the clint center are unsubstantiated. because there s adequate food and water because the facility is clean every day, because i know what our standard s are and i know they re being followed because we have an extraordinarily challenging situation and we had an overflow situation, hundreds of children
buybacks we saw even in the last month. we re going to take a turn to the flu. experts say it is one of the worst flu seasons in years. it didn t just hit joe and mika. it s hitting this country. the centers for disease control and prevention reports three times as many cases as this time last season with outbreaks in 46 states. southern california, which is interesting, has been hit particularly hard. the l.a. times reports emergency rooms and pharmacies are struggling to keep pace. nbc s jacob zubrof joins us. those of us in new york always think flu season is where it s cold. it s cold outside and we get sick. but that s not the case, not this year. no, we re getting hit super hard out here, stef. 10% more confirmed cases of the flu in southern california at this time this year than we had last year. in san diego, a tent setup outside the hospital to deal with an overflow situation with patients.