preferring to call it a challenge and officials now scrambling to find places to shelter asylum seekers including an influx of young children we do have fox live team coverage on this. david spunt is in wilmington, delaware covering the biden administration's response to the border crisis. but let's begin with griff jenkins on the ground in mission texas so griff, tell what you say you're seeing there. >> good afternoon arthel we're just seeing what it looks like as this sort of epicenter of the entire border surge because right here in mission texas part of the rio grand valley they're seeing more traffic than they've seen in a long, long time and let me sort of take you to our drone team in the air -- and you can get a sense really for this situation. where we're standing along a border fence a mielg two miles off the rio grand river that's where so many of the migrants are coming and walking ultimately to peacefully surrender to border patrol to claim asylum some families some unaccompany minors and some are single adults but really the concern of these overwhelming numbers they're seeing that is making officials look at the opportunity cartels have in the distraction of the heavy numbers of crowds to push drugs and narcotics and that's one of the things that montana governor greg jim is quite worried about seeing in his communities miles and miles away from this mexico border here's what govan jim had to say, listen. >> we say here we don't have montana meth, we have mexican meth and we've seen the impact across the state in the last eight years we've seen a 50% increase in violent crime. we have the second highest number of kids in foster care per capita in the entire country. and it is mostly meth related. meth comes across to open border, it comes into our communities, it just devastates the families here. we need to secure our southern border. >> speaking of that custom and border protection tweeting this, picture and a report of a seizure of 1.3 million dollars of methamphetamine, disguised in spinach this was not a tactic we known before until showed it and tweeting overall narcotics in span of four dads ceased over 1800 pounds of narcotics totally now while we've been down here we spoke with a border patrol agent chris about this situation. he says, it is not getting better. here's what chris cabrera said, listen. >> this is the worse i've ever seen unfortunately i think there's more to come i don't think it is a high point by any stretch the imagination anything that comes across that river they get something paid to them whether from smuggler or running that particular area so they're going to profit off of it. >> now let's come back to the heavy flow of migrants coming. we have these exclusive photos fox news obtained where we're standing off the river where the migrants are headed straight to the border patrol they're being processed right at the point of contact. different procedure than when they typically take them further away to border separate them from families and children and single adults and sending them where they need to go as and many particularly families are being bussed straight from this location to the bus station in released because of the capacity issues. and that's a situation going on right here arthel. arthel: so griff a couple of things of course we definitely don't want to have a porous border there to this southern -- part of this country. however, listening to the governor he's talking about the influx of met all the way up to montana now he's saying that's been a problem for over the past eight years. but what's at hand right now that we're talking about is we're talking about these children coming over across the border unaccompanied because of the loosened restrictions by the biden administration that the biden administration has tried to get the word out that the southern border is not opened but human smugglers are taking advantage of those relax restrictions. what can you tell us about that? >> boy is that a great question arthel. because when i've talked to the agents here, i've asked them said listen, administration is telling these folks don't come now they're changing asylum process. they will be more beneficial to them in the long reason and biden administration than it was a trump administration. so what officials tell me here is that cartels the smugglers are really blurring message and telling these folks who are facing extreme poverty hardships honduras saw not only covid pandemic hitting them and two hurricanes in their telling those folks that are so desperate, come now. the u.s. will let you in you'll get citizenship. they don't know better. they don't have access to information and some cases that we do watching cable news every day. and so they're making that journey why are cartelling telling them that in this area they're charging $1200 a head according to some officials to for them it is just a profit machine. and unfortunately, the human toll we're seeing on the migrants is very real with signs of it not slowing down it is going to get worse. >> smugglers don't care they just lie. meanwhile are you standing in front of the wall? wasn't that supposed to be a barrier? >> it was indeed, and it's a fence as question saw about a mile off of the point of entry and then i'll turn a little bit here as you can see one of the border patrol agents coming through the gate here. so that gate supposed to be there for them to come and go to go to that processing center and you can see in the distance half a football field size gaping hole that was going to be completed as trump administration under new fence construction but it was stopped under biden administration when he ended all wall construction. the agents much that finished because helping them control flow of migrants because when nightfalls they move around here into these communities, into this local restaurant, and bar and these homes that's not a situation anybody wants and so for those that don't want to be apprehended by border patrol, because perhaps you have a criminal record or some other reason to be here, well, that's to their advantage, and against our guys from stopping them. >> yeah. i hear you. but you know look at the former president -- couldn't get it done in four years so we'll see what happens in that regard. but either way we hope that there's going to be protection there on southern border griff jenkins thank you so much for that report. eric. eric: arthel in last fox news live two hours ago former d.a. secretary chad wolf told us he did not understand where in his worded political appointees in the biden administration decided to stop the kruct construction of the trump wall what we showed him what griff showed you that massive opening in the wall there right near the border. but meanwhile in washington administration we're told is trying to tack the the crisis at the southern border. current department homelands security secretary claims that administration does have a plan to address the number of migrants crossing into our country. but he says we'll take time to compliment their plans, david spunt is live in wilmington, delaware where president is now spending the weekend. david. >> hi eric. and growing call for president biden to personally visit the southern border republicans and democrats say that he needs to get a good idea of what's going on with his own two eyes so he can make a determination based on what's going on in the border. you mention secretary alley. the homeland security secretary he gave an interview to -- one recently i want to read some of that interview to you a quote that came out very striking. he said the situation is not out of control. it most certainly is challenging. both from a logistic perspective and also from a humanitarian perspective. but not saying that it is out of control. republicans, though, are calling it a crisis secretary and his team calling a challenge eric no matter worlding there are problem on the border one is sorning of unaccompanied children. sometimes very young desperate to get into the united states. i want to put up a graphic that shows some encounters with cpb custom and border protection just in february alone. a hundred thousand encounters, unaccompany minors, about 9500 family units about 19,000 and single adults almost 72,000. >> you can't build enough facilities to take care of all of the people that are going to continue to come across the border. you have to do something to stop or to slow down the input or flow into the country. >> republican texas senator john cornyn wents on a bipartisan codelegation down to border with texas congressman henry a democratic who says says that de narrative that's been out there for years kids have not been in cages in biden administration or trump administration. >> so it is not cages if anybody saying cages they are definitely not cages. and nobody has had cages in the past. >> now, president biden has to decide whether he will make a friendship to border nothing listed on his schedule yet, of course, it is always possible, though, he could make that trip now he's meeting with advisors talking about that covid relief plan that nearly $2 trillion covid relief plan, and after self weeks of back and forth in washington, he's going to be going out on the road to georgia and pennsylvania to tout that plan and tell americans how he believes it will benefit them and also some americans are starting to see some of those 1400 dollar economic relief checks in their bank account this weekend. eric. eric: yeah. that's what we're told david thank you and few momentses take a further look at what the president has changed from president trump on immigration, editor chief on the hill about what they're doing all about that. david thank you. arthel. arthel: thank you new york governor andrew cuomo remains dedefiant saying he will not resign because that would be bough to cancel culture. more than 160 lawmakers now saying they want to see him gone. this includes a majority of the new york congressional delegation. all of this as another woman came forward with an accusation against governor cuomo bringing the total to 7. alex hogan live in new york city, alex. reporter: hi arthel. this scandal continues to grow as you mentioned more than 7, 7 women now have stepped forward with these allegations against governor, and he has responded to some of those saying, that he simply denies them altogether. others he has apologized for his intentions that came across in a way he says was not what he had hoped for. take a listen. >> i never harassed anyone. i never abused anyone. i never assaulted anyone. now, and i never would. reporter: the latest accusation comes from journalist jessica bakeman she spoke to new york magazine about her time covering the governor saying, he use touching and sexual to stoke fear in us this is textbook definition of sexual harassment and state attorney general is creating website for the public to submit information as more women come forward. more than 135 new york lawmakers are sounding alarm commanding resignation or impeachment senator majority lead or chuck schumer senator deer stand gillibrand xangd calling to step down for good of administration and facing investigation into handling of nursing homes during this pandemic manager 15,000 new yorkers die in the long-term care and critics argue who scandals will only overshadow state work. prchght putting together a state budget, there's no way that is happening. the only thing he's going to be focused on is -- the two investigations one from the fbi and doj, the other from the attorney general. >> governor andrew cuomo was asking public to wait until these two investigations play out before making their own opinion. now we also talked with the governor's office and they theyy that administration is continuing to simply focus on budget and the vaccine rollout putting all of this aside as they focus on that work. arthel. maria: alex hogan thank you we're going to have much more on the two scandals vowngdzing governor cuomo when we talk with juteth miller up later in the show. eric. eric: out west a major storm is now bringing snow to the rock yis and great plains over this weekend let's take a live look at denver and mile high city already getting a coating of snow. looks a little kind of more wet a little more rainy but man, oh man they say it is coming. more than a foot for denver, another parts of the state could see up to three feet of snow. meteorologist adam tracking what do they expect? >> a big winter storm around corner lingering through there saturday night across the day on sunday not really wrapping up until you get into monday but it is all happen wring you see a pool of warm air off to the north and west currently 31 degrees in denver nose numbers are going fall and then that kind of heavy rain is going to become more and more snow at times very heavy snow. this is our current satellite radar it is all one system i'm going to be talking about. out in front of it warm talking about severe thunderstorms. back behind it that's where we're talking about in some cases blizzard-like conditions dealing with. these are your winter storm advisories watching and advisories and across colorado stretching up into wyoming big red areas into portion of nebraska and wyoming that is a blizzard warning already currently. so we're expecting visibility to be low. winds to be very strong, and some of that really heavy snow you were mentioning as far as how much snow we could see with areas maybe somewhere between -- 18 inches or so. but you get into these pink and purple colors that's indicating as much as 3 feet of total accumulation of snowfall so a real big snowy mess and in front of this system where it is a little bit warmer we're looking at severe weather so a possibility of a big severe thunderstorms today. i want to show you this is currently so we have got tornado watches and not big tornadoes but big swee weather winds hail, rain a mess today. eric. eric: people have to take care this weekend adam thank you. arthel. arthel: southern border dominating headlines, as the number of migrant crossings rapidly growing up next what the biden administration can do to try to stem the tide. ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ hey limu! 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