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CNNW CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield June 23, 2018

Surgery. President trump tweeting this, my thoughts and brars are with Katie Arrington of South Carolina, including all of those involved in last nights car accident and their families. Sanford posted on his twitter account our thoughts and prayers go to Katie Arrington, her family and those involved in last nights automobile accident. Joining me now by phone is schuyler croft with the post courier, newspaper in South Carolina. What more can you tell us about this accident and how Katie Arrington is doing . It was last night about 9 00 and she and a friend were leaving the charleston area, heading toward hilton head where she was supposed to get an ward from a medical association this morning. It was a particularly dark stretch of the highway. Its highway 17, which is the coastal road out of charleston, the southern part of the state. Its famous for traffic accidents. Theres no lighting out there at all. Its very, very rural. And so schuyler, she and another passenger were in this vehicle. What can you tell us about the the paerng in the vehicle with arrington . Were reporting that arrington was in the passenger seat. Correct . She was and the friend was a friend of hers from louisiana who had come up to visit. So they were going down together. You know, it was kind of a busy weekend here. She had won her primary. We had a governor primary still going on. President trump is supposed to be in columbia monday. Im sure she would have been there, barring this accident. What can you tell us about that route . It was at 9 00. This is very close to the coast, along the barrier islands. And typically on a number street there is. They can be very dark. They wont have lights. Theres no lighting. Its the rule area between South Carolina and metropolitan, charleston region in that area. Its famous for accidents. Schuyler is there any way of giving us an idea of how her family is doing, how folks who have been working on her campaign, working so closely with her, how are they doing in how did they receive the news . Everyone was in there very early on this morning. She had search today and is looking at search this evening or tomorrow, ive just been told, by the campaign. There are a number of people there. Her cell phone was still in the vehicle, at the vehicle. They dont know the amount of condolences that have been coming in. Theyve been coming in from around the state. Shes at the medical university now. And shes alert and was talking afterwards. You know, she works out a lot. Theres that kind of stuff daily. The doctors have credited her for good physical condition, for it not being worse than it was. Shes at the medical university there in donetown charleston. What do we know about, if anything, the circumstances of this accident. Changing lanes kind of situation, passing someone . What do we know . Its four lane. Someone was clearly the other driver was not where he was supposed to be. He was killed in the accident. I believe it was a he. The identity has not been closed just yet. The other person was definitely not where they were supposed to be. Schuyler kropf, thank you very much. All of us are wishing the best for Katie Arrington and all of those involved in this accident. Whats happening with the u. S. Border with mexico . Now 500 migrant families have been reunited. Thousands more remain separate ed ended forced family separations at the border. Theres still no clear path. Many democrats are still demanding answers. Today, more than two dozen lawmakers are getting a glimpse inside immigration facilities in two states, texas and florida. We have Team Coverage from those sites. First lets join polo sandoval. What kind of access do we believe that these lawmakers are getting or will get . Weve seen firsthand Congress Members making their way into this facility at the southernmost tip of texas here. Why are they coming here . This is one of the busy eiest. Brought in, processed after they turn themselves in or apprehended at the border only a few miles from where im standing. Theyll also be able to tour the facility they use behind me which is essentially a detention facility where many of these individuals are housed until they get their day in court. Part of the zero tolerance policy implemented about a month and a half ago now. This is also the place that seems to be leading the way when it comes to prosecution in south texas that have already seen a significant increase. These misdemeanor cases that theyre prosecuting. The democratic members, about 26 congressmen and women who have traveled here should be bringing us up to speed on what they say, what they heard from immigration officials especially when it comes to reunification, which we heard is a very complicated process, very lengthy process. The head of i. C. E. Yesterday said they have to go through a process. Often times that can mean fingerprinting, dna testing to confirm that the parents being reunited with their children or at least adults being reunited with children are, in fact, their parents. Democratic senator bill nelson and other lawmakers are getting ready to tour the facility in south florida, a few days after he says he was denied access. Cnn correspondent Diane Gallagher got to go inside that facility. This is a detainment facility, diane. This is a facility thats next to an air reserve base. What did you observe especially after what you described last week in mcallen, texas, facility . How does it square and compare there in homestead . Reporter fred, this is a very different facility. First of all this is a more longterm facility. Hhs and the people who run it here like to refer to it as a temporary shelter. Its not a processing center. With the exception of this large fence thats surrounding the property, i didnt see any of those kennellike cages we saw in the centralized processing center. What senator nelson will see in an hour and a half may differ from what i saw today. These are very controlled, guided tours, similar to last week. This one felt like i got a chance to interact even less than i did at that cpc. I went through here, fred, we attack about an hour. This is a massive campus. It looks complete with dorms, dining hall. I could not speak to anyone there unless they were authorized to speak with me and only workers could do that. I did see lots of children, ages 13 to 17. People have been asking where are the girls, there are about 400 teenage girls here. Boys outnumber girls 21. Roughly 1200 kids here. The great majority of them came across unaccompanied, by themselves across the border. Now if youre seeing images, thats because the u. S. Government gauv us these images. Once again, they would not let us take our cameras, phones or recording devices in there. Just pen and paper. They said that it was due to privacy concerns. Thats also why they said we couldnt talk to the children. I couldnt ask how they were doing. You probably cant hear it. I can. Look, they were outside playing. Right now they sound like theyre outside playing soccer again. It is a very rigorous schedule they have for them. Schedules are posted on every single wall. They wake up at 6 30 in the morning, do six hours of school work, including history and science, english as a second language. Art and pe classes, some leisure time thats bumped in there as well and reading and then lights are out at 10 00 p. M. Every day, they shower in the morning and at night they are given five days worth of clothes when they get there. We did see them wearing some of that when we were there. Girls in the pink and red shirts, boys in various shades of blue shirts. Again, they cant leave. And the status of each one of these individual children, i couldnt really confirm because of i wasnt allowed to talk to them. They get that school work in. Dorms we went inside, 12 per dorm. Its sort of split into two with three bunk beds on either side and a sink on either side. But, fred, this does look different and the people here said that they are focused every single day on reunification. I felt like it was pretty simplified the way it was presented to us. They made it seem like it was no big deal, tracking down these parents and finding them like, yeah, we do it every day. How do they do that . Are there photographs . They wouldnt tell us. Exactly. I can tell you, they do have case workers. Most of them were actively on the phone. You have to remember most of these kids who were in this facility were not separated at the border under trumps facility. 70 at this facility fall in that basically in that department, they said. So, you know, finding these parents, they wouldnt go into detail, fred. Basically all they said was, yeah, its not that hard which again differs from Everything Else weve heard from anyone else trying to solve this problem. So bill nelson earlier in the week said he tried to gain access there and said as senator he gets oversight and should be granted access. He was denied. He said on our air that he was told he would need twoweeks notic notice. Or is this kind of a spontaneous moment likely to unfold today . Its our understanding both from hhs and senator nelsons office that this is going to actually be a tour. Hes going to get inside this time. Marco rubio, the other senator from florida came in yesterday and toured the facility. So, it appears that for whatever reason, hhs is starting to allow lawmakers and cbp, theyre all starting to allow these lawmakers into these facilities. Hhs says its because theres a protocol they have to go through. They have to fill out forms to go in and alter the day, think about privacy of the children, the people who are being detained in these facilities. Marco rubio said he dealt with the same thing i dealt with. They cited privacy concerns. I dont know that bill nelson will get a chance to speak to anyone. Well wait to see if he is able to complete that tour. Appreciate that, Diane Gallagher. Keep us posted. Chaos at the border. Cnn political commentator and assistant editor for the Washington Post. Ryan lizza is chief Political Correspondent for esquire and with me robin bernard, immigration attorney for the nonpartisan organization, human right rights. President ial order, executive order, reversing this policy of separating policies at the border. The confusion only seems to be intensifying and reportedly there are heated disagreements in the white house about all of this. Any idea where the priorities might be . Transporting people, placing kids in foster care, providing care. What . Yeah, good morning, fred. Theres a push and pull between at the highest level, the president wanting to appear tough on this and steer tolerance policy. After two weeks of intense for example us for members of congress, from the media, 67 of americans did not approve of the way the president was handling this particular issue. Interaddicting and separating families from childrens. As a lot of people have reported the president s executive order on wednesday did give them sort of a fever break in terms of saying, okay, were addressing this. Were changing course. It didnt solve that problem because a lot of this, going back to the bush administration, the Obama Administration before that, is supposed to be handled according to the flores versus reno 1997 court case. As we know there is a log jam in congress as to how to address this because republicans and democrats simply dont agree on the way to go forward. Right. Right now only, you know, they remind us an extenuating circumstances so, ryan, you know, this border confusion, this chaos, all of it seems to kind of mirror what happened just about a year ago in january of this muslim ban. And then people were in the air, you know, in transit in some cases and folks didnt know those who were working at the airport really werent sure how to handle things. How reminiscent is this kind of lack of forethought or plan ini and not letting everybody know how to carry it out. Thats the right analogy. Thats exactly what i thought of when looking at this executive order this week. In the words of steve bannon, shock and awe, the system with as many Trump Campaign promises in the early days of the administration. Can you partially say they didnt know what they were doing. That might explain the chaos of that decision. Cant say that now, a year later. Obviously, theres no excuse now. Its been reported in a lot of detail this week. We saw what happened. The president , who is not very detail oriented when it comes to policy often doesnt understand the difference between legislation that Congress Enacts and executive authority that he has. Was worried about the political fallout of the images from these children and as the Washington Post and New York Times reported over the last couple of days, he ordered up in the morning an executive order that he wanted to sign by the afternoon. And one of the details in one of these reports is his understanding of this issue was so clouded that he said he wanted to sign legislation that afternoon. And people in the white house corrected him that it doesnt work like that. Now he was satisfied with this one ceasing of separating families. Theres still the larger problem. All of these children dispersed in different places. They were still facing potential prosecution, ryan, but then youve got this problem of what to do with who is caring for and these images are incomplete. Its a big problem. Big problem. When you go from a 180 of having this as your policy and having all the people in the federal government try to implement it and then overnight say, okay, thats not the policy, but with no guidance to dhs or any of the other agencies about how to quickly shift you create more chaos. You would have the federal government turning quickly. There seems to be no thought in how to implement it. Everyone agrees its a big problem but its more than that. Were talking about the welfafa right now and in the future of a number of children. What have been you your observations . What would have been the real stresses that some of these kids and parents are enduring . And what do you see happening in the short term . Yes. So many of these parents have no way to contact their children. In over three weeks, all she could focus on the executive order moved to a policy of family separation to a policy of indefinite family incarceration. Ive worked in these Detention Centers across the country and theyre still baby jails. They are no different to what these kids are experiencing in the juvenile facilities that theyre being detaened in separately. Jails are no places for children. Well leave it there. Robin barnard, ryan lizza. Even hearing the descriptions of imagery just like that even more unsettling. Thanks to all of you. Appreciate it. Still ahead, another night of protests in pittsburgh over the death of antwon rose, who was shot and killed by a Police Officer outside of the city. 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Protests in downtown pittsburgh after the Fatal Police Shooting of 17yearold antwon rose. Four people were arrested friday as demonstrators shut down a bridge and two highway entrances. In this video, a car drives through the crowd. It was then hit and surrounded by some of the protesters as it passed by. Police say there were no injuries and theyre looking for that vehicle. In another incident, tense moments as a tow truck driver confronted the crowd. Video posted on facebook shows tuesdays fatal encounter. Police say 17yearold antwon rose had been a passenger in a car stopped by police because it matched

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