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Rhetoric and imagery. certainly that's the case with changing the asylum rules and what josh and others saw friday during the vice president's visit. just to recap briefly to what was there, it was border facility in texas and they saw -- there was one room where children were, and according to reporters that was relatively queen and kept and children seemed okay and it was the room where the adult men were being held. they're behind caging where it was foul smelling, it was sweptering. there was not enough room for the men to sit down. they had to stand. there was not enough room to lay down....

I found enough dead bodies in my day. >> reporter: as the house oversight committee released a new report of the at least 2648 children separated from their parents, at least 18 were infants and toddlers under the age of two, including nine babies under the age of one kept apart for 20 days to six months. >> the administration child separation were more harmful, traumatic and chaotic than previously known. >> reporter: meantime today vice president mike pence and a group of republican senators are making their own visit to a border facility in texas. all democrats invited to join them declined...

>> shepard: continuing coverage of barry heading to louisiana. a live of new orleans. what could be the first hurricane of the 2019 season. right now it's a tropical storm set to hit louisiana early tomorrow morning sometimes before sunrise. forecasters warning rain and flooding the biggest concerns. vice president mike pence touring a border facility in texas this hour. this comes as house lawmakers hold a hearing on the treatment of migrant children and the conditions in those facilities. hillary vaughn reporting live on capitol hill. hillary? >> shepard, we've seen republicans and democrats...

Man, oh, man. b6 expected to tout the economy, pushing for a new trade deal with mexico and canada. it is a standby. stay tuned for that. in the meantime, moments from now on the hill, house hearing getting underway for the crisis at our southern border. the focus could be on the child separation policy amid allegations of conditions that are terrible at border facility is facilities housing children. that is the allegation on behalf of democrats, just recently at the border. republican from texas, his district straddles the border to mexico. will hurd, thank you for coming back here. what do ...

>> i will never forget the image of being in a cell and seeing 15 women, tears coming down their faces, as they talked about being separated from their children, about having no running water. >> one of the women said that she was told to drink water out of the toilet. >> there are times that i walked through the facilities and was enraged. there are times when i walked through the facility and i was brought to my knees in tears. >> what we saw today was unconscionable. >> the u.s. cuss coupltums and customs and border agencies tweeted out this, a video, wednesday, showing off a border facilit...