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Make a large group entry. it was in those engagements where people started throwing rocks, assaulting our agents. we had four agents hit with rocks. thankfully, they were wearing protective gear. we dont have any serious injuries. they had to respond to resolve those assaulting engagements as safely as possible with less lethal pepper ball spray. >> is there such a thing as the good kind of tear gas? every tear gas i have been hit with has been nasty. theres only one kind. i get what pepper ball...

But were not able to get through the final barrier. thats when border agents used tear gas canisters and pepper bullets or pepper balls to keep them back, saying they were able to hold them back. 42 arrested. mexico now saying if others engage in this sort of behavior and try to cross illegally that they will be deported as well. back to you guys. >> miguel marquez, thank you very much. lets go to the other side of the border. nick watt has been in san diego. enormous deployment of resources the...

They overwhelmed a mexican policecades and moved over this direction, under this bridge, and into the tijuana river here. and then moved all the way up to the u.s. border. what youre looking at, the brownish steel fence out over there, that is the u.s. border. they moved to that for this riverbed and then all along the border looking for any sort of place that they could get over the border. there were women and children that were among the many hundreds that ran in that direction. cpd thats sev...

In the border fence and they started trying to pull it back a little bit. and run through. and they were, of course, met with u.s. border patrol agents on the other side. and one or maybe two or three of those young men picked up rocks and started hurling them across the border. and thats when border patrol agents responded with nonlethal fire, so they were firing off maybe pepper balls, they were firing off flash bangs. so non-lethal explosions to scare people back away from the line. so at tha...

Fired tear-gas canisters and pepper bullets or pepper balls at them. many of these individuals were women, children, and some men, cpb also says they are throwing projectiles at some of their officers as well and they shut down the border for several hours and things are back to normal right now, and we kraucrd over several times and things are normal right now but tensions were higher. >> lets talk about this. we want to bring in cnn chief analyst, jeffrey toobin and michael smerconish and nia-...

>> reporter: now most of the 42 people that they say were arrested were adult males but there were women and children amongst that group, as we just heard rodney scott say. the cvp was prepared for this. they knew there was going to be some sort of demonstration, protest. extra personnel were put on the border. normally about 100,000 people cross this border every day. yesterday four to six hours, this border completely closed down. huge cvp presence. helicopters up in the air. they regained con...

Associated with the caravan. >> dana: jeff flock is live near the border in california. >> reporter: were standing here along the border in tijuana mexico where the situation has calmed down. yesterday a much different story. this is the border wall, where a huge group of those migrants ended up rushing to and in some cases starteded throwing rocks and cement. because of that, border patrol agents saying they had to use pepper balls and tear gas to get the crowd to break up. now, some of those f...

Ainsley: its cyber monday. just learned about all these great savings we can have. pete: wonderfully festive time of year. my vikings won sunday night football last night against the packers. steve: thats why you wanted a helmet. pete: purple helmet. im in the market for one. steve: next up is christmas. lead story is what went down south of our border in san diego yesterday at 11:20 in the morning migrants clashed with mexican police in riot gear. they rushed a concrete canal near the san ysidr...

The heartless felons, it will be delivered by the special response team, a specially trained s.w.a.t.-like team of officers also known as the men in black. >> were going into a dynamic entry, were going into a pod to make a show of force. were going to throw this on and let them know we mean business, we aint going to play with them. >> these are pepper foam launches theyre called. they shoot off pepper balls. when we go in, well just make the perimeter. first guy break off to the right. second ...

>> the scene at the mayors home is largely dissipated. but what youve seen is groups and its commercial pop out and it dissipates and the police show up and you have another skirmish at another location. you can see pepper balls fired out here earlier. in the police are just trying to keep the street clear. and it looks like they are working in the other direction. it looks like they are trying to hold the people from moving forward in this direction. so the trouble starts and stops and then wel...