mike: southwest executives are reluctant to ballpark the financial impact of the big meltdown but it say it will hurt fourth quarter earnings and it will be weeks before they can track down all of the customers in line for compensation. bret? bret: mike tobin live at midway. mike, thank you. meantime, let s go to the southern border. new record numbers from the southern border tonight. more than 600,000 migrant encounters in the first three months of the new fiscal year. it starts in october. that s an average of more than 6800 per day. correspondent matt finn reporting again tonight from eagle pass, texas along the border. good evening, matt. good evening, bret. on the ground here in texas. the state is noticeably bolstering its border. these shipping containers were brought in shortly before christmas. today we watched as the national guard finished installing razor wire on top of these containers that sit along the rio grande river. in el paso, northwest of eagle
trafficking, sex trafficking is rampant, nearly 100 individuals on the terror watch list have been apprehended trying to cross. and we have no idea how many were not apprehended. that would mean terror cells are trying to get into this country to bring our country harm. to bring your family s harm, yet this administration, i m not sure exactly how they sleep at night knowing that this is their sheer incompetence and malfeasance. we turn our attention to the southern border tonight, can someone may be pretty please with sugar on top let the white house know that a monumental catastrophe is now unfolding. it is a national security crisis of epic proportions for two street two years under the biden administration, illegal crossings has reached a record high on top of last year s record high. this year arezzo on the southern border has now topped over 2 million for the first time ever and is about to get
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constitutional scholar are both outfront. breaking news, the supreme court putting a temporary freeze on plans to end title 42, the trump-era border policy, as thousands and thousands of migrants have been lining up to enter the united states. we are live on both sides of the southern border tonight. and putin making a rare visit to belarus where russia is now training belarusian pilots to fly jets capable of carrying, quote, special warheads. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. welcome to a special edition of outfront. we are live from washington tonight. and it is countdown for the justice department this evening. as the january 6th select committee makes history referring donald trump to the doj for the criminal prosecution. this has never happened before in american history. and the committee is recommending not one but four criminal charges against trump. the first, obstruction of an official proceeding. that charge alone could carry a 25-year sentence i
the favorite drag queens and a performance by cindi lauper. first, our attention to the southern border tonight. can someone maybe pretty please with sugar on top let the white house know that a monumental catastrophe is unfolding? it s a national security crisis of epic proportions for two straight years now under the biden administration illegal crossings has now reached an all-time record high on top of last year s record high. this year arrests along the southern border have topped over two million for the first time ever. it s about to get dramatically worse. next week on december 21, title 42 will come to an end. now that s the measure enacted by president trump that enables the federal government to quickly expel illegal immigrants because of public health risks. soon the process of deporting those that break our laws don t respect our borders or sovereignty will be long, it