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The department of homeland security says it needs more help in handling the crush of migrants at the u.s. border in del rio, texas. just moments ago dhs officials gave an update on what needs to happen. >> were working around the clock to expeditiously move migrants out of the heat elements and from underneath this bridge to our processing facilities in order to quickly process and remove individuals from the united states consistent with our laws and our policies. >> cnns rosa flores is in texa...

The biden administration is trying to talk to some of the transit countries to see if theyll take these haitian migrants back. the other thing thats happening is that i.c.e. and the u.s. coast guard are also getting involved, trying to move migrants to other processing facilities along the border. there are many other processing facilities along the border. some of those ramped up recently in the rio grande valley, here in del rio dont have a lot of capabilities. one of the other things, fred, d...

Griff: as we look at the drone pictures, 14,000 or more migrants under there in the last 24 hours my sources confirmed for me, tom, that 1,949 migrants were processed. thats not even 2,000 and theres 14,000 under that bridge. theres only 50 to 60porta potties, a hygiene nightmare. how are they going to get this under control even if they have a 6-point plan which includes among other things 400 agents to be surge today that location bringing in ice to move migrants to other processing centers an...

Located up and down the texas border. but it will be airplanes to make the biggest difference here to cut some of these numbers down to a more manageable level. dhs say they plan to strike those flights to deport those migrants back to haiti as soon as next week and theyll be flying to other processing facilities up and down the entire border not just here in texas. as it stands right now there are still medical needs here. it mayor tells me that multiple women have gone into labor underneath th...

Increasing it by 400 and say that they will be adding more officers if thats needed. theyre also getting i.c.e. and u.s. coast guard involved to transport individuals to other ports of entry, other processing facilities so they could be processed. they say they recently moved at least 2,000 migrants to other processing facilities. all of this is in response to this influx of migrants. the other thing they say theyre doing is theyre going to increase the humanitarian action which is something loc...

Closed. ice and the u.s. coast guard are also getting involved to try to move some of these migrants to other processing facilities so that they can get that processing done a lot quicker. i can tell you from talking to a migrant just within the last hour, i was in shelter where some of the migrants are getting help and he was able to paint a clearer picture of what is actually happening underneath this bridge. he explained it when migrants get to the bridge, theyre given a ticket, a number. his...

Additional staff to go to embassies in the region. that had come after the government was pressed for details, at that point when it was talking about creating processing facilities, centres in neighbouring countries but i think that was a sort of initial response to the crisis and there hadnt been many more details, and it is still not clear whether this is more thanjust some personnel being sent to embassies in neighbouring countries. difficulty there too is how anybody would reach those centr...

>> reporter: the general telling reporters the us is prepared to take action against those responsible and insisting the evacuations will not be slowed by the bombings, 100,000 people have been evacuated since august 14th, british forces are in the final stages of evacuating people from kabul. britains defense ministry says processing facilities were closed and no one else will be called to the airport for evacuations. jillian: thanks so much. the president vows to avenge the death of 13 us troo...

>> yes, we are. and ive got members that are nervous about the vaccine, you know, i think that as soon as the fda approves the vaccine, instead of an emergency use and makes it more standardized, i think that well have a much better result. weve had about 80%, 90% of our processing food members that have been vaccinated. and its really reduced the amount of transmission of disease in those packing houses and into processing facilities. so, we have some basis of information and some statistics th...

What are you seeing today? >> a few minutes ago we saw a dozen or so, maybe more migrants being corraled by border patrol and put in vans and buses to be brought to processing facilities. this is one of the areas where they have been frequently coming into the united states through the southern border of our country and in fact just in the past 24 hours in the rio grande valley there have been more than 2100 apprehensions of migrants coming through here. as you said it is not just people coming ...