Its a really, really tragic situation so well hope for the best in terms of additional recovery but were bracing for some bad news just given the destruction were seeing. But i do think the Quick Response was very important and i do think it saved lives. I want to thank the folks for their bravery in doing that. Harris local affiliates are reporting 51 people are unaccounted for. Fox news is working to independently confirm that. Steve harrigan is near that building gathering information and well have a live report from him coming up. I want to move to this. Vice president Kamala Harris finally caving to pressure agreeing to visit the border tomorrow as the crisis there is raging. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. She waited 93 days after President Biden put her in charge. Harris back in march laughed off a reporters question on whether she planned to visit the border. An interesting journey with her. Earlier this month she was giggling when asked about it and at one point dismissed a border visit as a grand gesture. Peter doocy pressed the white house on the sudden Change Of Heart now. Why is the Vice President visiting the border this week when earlier this month she dismissed a trip like that . In an interview with nbc that she would be open to going to the border if it was an appropriate time. She because talking about she hasnt been to the border. She hasnt been to europe either. Does she think those two things are the same . Again, she also said in the same interview that she would be open to going to the border at an appropriate time. Republicans are demanding to know what took so long and whether the Vice President s decision was driven by former President Trumps upcoming border visit. I dont know why they chose el paso. Not the epicenter of the crisis. Weve been sounding the alarm on the crisis at the border saying the Vice President needs to see this crisis at the border. Instead she chose to visit bakeries and yarn shops instead. She needs to see this crisis firsthand. Suddenly President Trump is going to the border they realize oh crap, we have to do something. Harris Texas Governor is here to react. White house officials are hoping that this trip will put the whole Vice President harris has not been to the border yet. They hope they put that narrative to bed with her visit tomorrow. She will head to the border with Homeland Security secretary mayorkas. 90 plus days since she was tapped to look at the immigration crisis. It is where she is specifically going that has many republicans blowing the whistle. She is going to the el paso sector in el paso. The city is hundreds of miles away from mcallen where texas Officials Say theyre seeing most of the illegal crossings. You cant be on the ground for two hours. You have to put some effort into this and the reality is el paso sector is very different than Rio Grande Valley or del rio or the big bend sector, laredo sector. They are all different. In order to understand this crisis you have to understand that all parts of the border are different. The white house is defending the decision to send the Vice President to el paso instead of mcallen. No question a border sound seeing its fair share of immigration problems. Former President Trump will go with Governor Greg Abbott to the border next week. We didnt want to have anyone visit at a time where it would be disruptive to efforts and progress being made on the ground but they made that assessment and she had said a few weeks ago she would be appear open to going to the border at the appropriate time. She traveled to guatemala and mexico hoping to stop people from flooding into the United States. This visit comes as the chief or customs at Border Protection heard it was time to leave. He was told either resign, retire or relocate. Deputy chief ortiz will take over the position as soon as possible. It is also of note President Biden has not yet made a a visit to the border since taking office in january. Harris. Harris thank you very much. David. Weve seen months of chaos at the border including Young Children being abandoned. But Vice President harris was busy doing plenty of other things in the past three months getting to the root causes. She went to guatemala and mexico but our reporters actually spent more time seeing firsthand what was driving people here than she did. She hosted Texas Democrats at the white house promoting the covid19 vaccine in multiple cities. Important obviously but she has been given seven jobs by the president that we know of and we are waiting for her to multitask it all. She threw a fancy dinner for women of the senate a lot. But not the border. Dan patrick republican Lieutenant Governor of texas joining me now. Thank you for being in focus today. My first question for you is when she hits el paso, who will be there from the Governors Office and any contingents that you might be sending . Well, im sure there will be local representatives who will want to be there. Primarily probably democrats that the white house invietd. Were focused on the entire border in texas. Well be meeting with President Trump, the governor, myself and others in mcallen next week where that town and del rio are where the action is, not el paso. To put this in perspective for your viewers who live anywhere but texas, this would be when she goes to el paso, the distance from el paso to del rio, the hot spot now, is the distance from boston to washington, d. C. The distance from el paso to mcallen would be the distance from about boston to charlotte. So imagine you had a problem break out in washington, d. C. And she wanted to get to the hot spot and landed in boston. She wouldnt be in the right spot or in charlotte. She is going to the wrong area. First of all we have issues in el paso as well. Dont misunderstand me but a totally different situation. If you go down to del rio and mcallen you can throw a Softball Underhanded across the river at some points like in roma, texas and you can see people coming. In el paso its built up higher. You look down on mexico. It is a wall, it is the river is different. She is going where she is not going to be seeing active crossings. I dont think they want them crossing behind her in a camera shot. By the way when President Trump goes to mcallen next week. Here is my guest. The Border Patrol will have open arms for him and welcome him with cheers. I dont think she wanted to go down to mcallen. I dont think they would give her the same welcome. The comparison would be different. Harris are you looking at any possibility that this will be seen politically if you dont go there while she is there after all the criticism from republicans . Is it a missed opportunity to say facetoface what took you so long . Well, harris, this is the way it works. I was very close to President Trump when he was in office. His campaign in 16 and 20. When he came to texas the white house invites you. The Lieutenant Governor and governor we dont throw ourselves into the motorcade. If Kamala Harris wants to send me an invitation to ask me to go to el paso i will meet her on the tarmac. I dont know about the governor. We were always contacted by the president. We road in the limo or s. U. V. Briefed him the entire time and briefed him afterwards. We havent heard from this white house. We havent in our office. Im one of the leaders with the governor on our new building the border wall with Texas Dollars since they arent doing it. You might think she would warnlt to talk to us. Harris you are getting help from other states as well. Ron desantis is florida. The call was put out youll need some people on the ground to back up Border Patrol and Law Enforcement. A new fox poll finds 41 approve of joe bidens Job Performance on immigration. Already the white house is taking criticism for as you pointed out, where the Vice President is not going actually to where you can visibly see the root causes unfolding in front of you and other parts of the border. Real quickly what the white house is doing in already a Defense Mechanism in place because they have to. They have to. If you checked with the large latino population that lives along the valley. 90 plus the Approval Numbers for biden would be much lower. President trump flipped seven counties in the Rio Grande Valley in 2020. So the people on the border are disgusted. Democrats, republicans, independents. We elected the first republican mayor in mcallen since 1972. People are frustrated what the democrats are doing on the border. We normally apprehend about 435,000 people a year. From san diego to brownsville. Were about 1200 miles and 1900 miles of the border. We are already projecting 2 million apprehended this year. Remember, for every one we catch another two or three get through that we dont catch. Thats two to three million, maybe more crossing the border just the first year under biden harris. It is an invasion. People dont like that word. Some people dont like it but its true. Thats what is happening. Texas and america is being invaded. What do you do with a 15yearold from guatemala who cant speak english and three grade levels behind . You cant put them in a school. What is their future here . They join a criminal gang or work for slave wages the rest of their left and send money to the cartel. They have created a new slavery class. Working in canteen as Massage Parl Lors and low wages sending a third of their paychecks. They are enslaving a brandnew population in america today. On the american side it is crime, criminals, drugs, fentanyl that kills people. Overcrowding our schools and hospitals. It is a disaster for all concerned. We put America First and texas first and why well build the wall ourselves. Harris Lieutenant Governor dan patrick. The way that you put that and those words for some you say it will be offensive, maybe you are trying to move the ball. Well see if ka rm hair and democrats can do that. It would be helpful to go to places like arizona along the board and other parts of texas, too. To see really whats unfolding. Thank you for being in focus today. Thank you. If she is going to do it do it right. Dont laugh it off. It is a serious situation and people are dying. If the white house is watching. Im sure they watch you every day. They can find my number. Harris you bet. Thank you. We want to take you to South Florida now where there is a tragedy unfolding. Weve been covering it on fox news all morning. The building, this huge building gone. Its gone. Harris right now rescue operations continue as the fatal collapse of the beach front condo leaves a community in shock and grief. A Fox News Live Coverage Continuation ahead. Also President Biden finally addressing the massive surge in crime across america, but republican lawmakers are accusing him of letting criminals and the Defund Police crowd off the hook. Joe biden today is kowtowing to the most radical people in this country on Border Security and crime. Take cash out of your home. The Newday 100 Va Loan lets you borrow up to 100 percent of your homes value. With todays rates near alltime lows and home values at record highs, you can take out 50,000 or more and lower your payments by 600 a month. The Newday 100 Va Loan. Only from newday usa. Paul loves food. But his diabetes made food a mystery. Everything felt like a no. but then paul went from no to know. With freestyle libre 14 day, now he knows how food affects his glucose. 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Those numbers continuing to change and well cover it as that happens. The Search And Rescue far from over. Some 35 people already have been rescued. Local reports say 51 people are unaccounted for and were working to confirm that. Look at the cars, look at that. So many car alarms going off as they were listening for breaths or calls for help it was hard to hear overnight. They had Listening Devices and dogs. They are listening for calls for help and the car alarms are blaring. The mayor of surfside said this earlier, watch. This is beyond crazy. This doesnt happen in first world countries. Buildings just dont fall down like this. This is inexplicable. We dont have answers now but well find out what happened. Harris Steve Harrigan is live for us near that building in surfside and quickly i was reading about a child that they were able to rescue overnight. They are still looking for that childs parents. Reports from local affiliates there. Thats right. Keep in mind these numbers will continue to change perhaps dramatically over the next few days. We look at a three Story High Pile of rubble. This building had more than 100 units and 55 of them are destroyed pan caked down as a major section of the Building Collapsed. Theyre stressing this is still a Search And Rescue operation. One of the techniques being used in addition to sniffer dogs are also tunnels. Theyre tunneling in to parts of that debris. As far as the numbers go they will continue to change. First responders were on the scene almost immediately not just from surfside but miamidade and all over florida and civilians pitching in to do what they could including a man who helped rescue a 10yearold boy from the rubble. It was extremely quiet and i could hear somebody yelling. I could hear and tell it was a young boy and so he was just screaming and saying can you see me . He was sticking his arm out of the rubble and so thats how we saw him. We saw his fingers wiggling. So we i let him know we were here. He was screaming dont leave me, dont leave me. Still not clear how many people are unaccounted for. Some reports in the local media are saying as many as 50 people. Some without homes have been moved by the red cross to hotels. A mystery is the cause. You heard the mayor saying he was perplexed how this could happen. Some residents point to the fact that roof repair was going on or a Major Construction of a building next door which caused cracks. Still major questions yet to be answered. Harris we cant point to anything yet until they can rescue everybody and reach everybody in the rubble hopefully still alive and the investigation. Quickly it seems to have a situation where the weather is abating and we pray for that because youve got drywall and other things that can continue to collapse in that building if it soaks. It could affect the structure of that building and a risk First Responders took. They were all over the building trying to save who they could despite the risk of collapse. Harris bottom of the screen. The Family Reunification Hotline is there. 3051641819. As youve been reporting all morning with those 51 people that we know of that theyve confirmed local reports were still working on it, they need to know whether or not those people were in the building. Theyre counting on people to call the number to say my loved once is with me or to fill in gaps of information. Thank you for the update. President biden as we emerge from this pandemic the summer spike could be more pronounced. Things we know work that reduce violent crime. Background checks for purchasing a firearm are important. Ban on Assault Weapons and high capacity magazines. No one needs to have a weapon that can fire over 30, 40, 50, up to 100 rounds. Unless you think the deer wear kevlar vests or something. Harris President Biden calling for more gun control as he acknowledged finally the huge explosion in crime across the country. The president blaming it on summer and the pandemic. But not on the actual criminals themselves. He failed to mention that in many places where crime is highest, calls to defund the police are loudest. This created this crisis of defunding the police, allowing criminals to go free and be on the streets and now they are pretending theyll solve the problem by using the crisis that created to push for more gun control. Joe biden said well use money from a relief fund, federal money to basically bail out democratic mayors and City Councils that have defunded the police in order to rehire police that they have defunded. Harris portland, oregon alone murders are up by more than 500 while other blue cities that have reduced their Police Budgets are also seeing double digit spikes in crime. James freeman is Assistant Editor for the Wall Street Journal editorial page and a fox news contributor. Fantastic reporting on this and writing about this. Your top line thoughts. Thanks. I think your clip from the president at the top summarized why that speech yesterday and also the remarks from Attorney General garland were so disappointing essentially trying to blame this on covid. Talk about the pretend it is a seasonable issue of summer and then the gun control issue. To say to the people in high crime areas were going to discourage and prevent the police from protecting you and now Going Forward we are going to emphasize gun control to make sure that you cant protect yourselves. It just no wonder people want to flee areas like chicago where the violence has just gotten to this intolerable level. I think so many disappointing things in the biden remarks. He talked about Community Violence interrupters. Well, this is i guess sort of community organizer, what the Community Violence interrupters that americans need right now are more cops on the streets. You heard Attorney General garland saying we dont want to focus merely on arrests and convictions but thats what we need right now. To keep people safe we need cops who are allowed to do their jobs and allowed to arrest and let prosecutors prosecute. Harris i want to get to this and get your reaction immediately. Senator marco rubio is warning the actions being taken against police by politicians are creating a crisis all its own in recruitment. I know a number of Law Enforcement officers seeking to get on the retirement pathway. They have the opportunity to retire in florida many are retiring at a certain age and getting out. Harris this is really going to be hard. If we are going to try to put money back into the system as reports have come try to rehire the people who have been laid off it may be hard to do that. I dont know that the trust is there to go forward among these police officers. I talk to many of them on this hour every day. You are so right. It is not just funding. Obviously there are cities like baltimore, like minneapolis, like oakland, like new york who realize already that it was a terrible mistake to go start defunding. They have now tried to restore some of that funding but it is not just the money. The New York Times recognizes how cops have been discouraged and worse, have been targeted. Things thrown at them and spit on and obviously presented by so many reckless, irresponsible politicians as if cops are the worst people in our society. Yes, when they do wrong they should be prosecuted like everybody else. But they are often the best people in society and we need them to maintain public safety. So i think that is one of the things that i think wa