bill? neil, good afternoon to you. this week alone here in brownsville, thousands upon thousands of people crossed illegally. as a result of that border patrol here over capacity and they have been conducting mass releases. take a look at this video. a few hours ago in downtown brownsville, migrants walking around a bus terminal. some carrying folders with their dhs paperwork. there s an ngo that helps these migrants out with their travel documents. a lot of them are venezuelans. we caught up with one venezuelan man that was released this morning. here s what he had to say. title 42 ended yesterday. in my message, it doesn t matter. you can make it to the u.s. last night as the click hit midnight, title 42 expired, we were with a grouped of four gop senators that were getting a tour from the border patrol union. they had said there was an expectation that there were 22,000 people across the river getting ready to cross the river. that did not end up happening. the senat
the senate will get its own briefing later this morning. bill: the u.s. revealing the spy flight was part of a larger espionage program going on for years. china maintains it with as a weather balloon that drifted off course and traveled over sensitive military sites in the u.s. the pentagon says no chance. i can assure you this was not for civilian purposes. we re 100% clear about that. we are very confident we ll be able to detect these kinds of capabilities as evidenced by the continuing body of knowledge that we ve been able to build up on this. obviously that s something our intelligence community will continue to work closely on for this and any other potential threats. dana: bryan llenas is in myrtle beach, south carolina where crews are still searching for debris. we begin the aishah hosni on capitol hill and more on today s briefings as we get thursday going. hi, aishah. this all-house briefing got underway an hour ago and already seen some of these members e
years and did nothing about it. customers of which there were thousands were frustrated and they want answers. it s horrible to be sitting in an airport for five hours. it shows the lack of leadership. there was a major problem. a disconnect somewhere. this should not be happening this day in age. we shouldn t be having this kind of ground stoppage throughout the country. it makes no sense to me. dana: the hearing about begin in moments with one notable absence, southwest ceo jordan will not face questions because of a previous commitment. lydia hu has what to expect. hi. good morning. the hearing before the senate committee on commerce, science and transportation is scheduled to start around now. southwest chief operating officer is expected to apologize again for the holiday meltdown that stranded an estimated 2 million passengers over the christmas holiday. lawmakers will demand answers on why the budget airline was unable to adequately cope with the massive wint
situation. we re going to have a live report from ukraine. and we ll speak with former ukrainian president on how his country can defend itself. 28 days until the midterm elections and georgia senate candidate herschel walker is getting help from two key republican senators. we ll have a report from georgia. pressure is growing on several city council members to resign after the release of a recording revealing of making racist remarks. we ll talk with with one of the reporters who broke the story. and an attorney at the center of the investigation into former president trump s handling of classified information speaks to federal investigators. and we ll speak with an iranian journalist about the situation in her homeland. why she s calling it iran s berlin wall moment. we begin this hour in ukraine where overnight air raids rang across the country including in kyiv as russia launched another wave of missiles striking multiple cities for a second day in a row. the mayor s
one of the best defenses in the country. of course we would be remiss if we didn t mention how most teams would love a trip to the sugar bowl but the alabama crimson tide not one of them. they lost two games this season by a combined four points both on the last play of the game against texnnessee and lsu, so they miss the playoffs. they ll face kansas state tomorrow, some of the georgia fans in our sports department told me to remind you you can t spell sugar bowl without uga. i apologize for that. i ve been to the sugar bowl more times than i can count on two hands. spent a lot of time in new orleans in college. she was so annoyed we were doing the sugar bowl situation in the show. i ll be watching tomorrow. we kickoff at noon, it s fine. actually love nick saban said yesterday this has been one of the most enjoyable nonplayoff bowl preps they have had. that s one way to see it. yeah. coy wire, we ll be watching. roll tide. thank you so much. all right. cnn