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Arthel: hey, casey, how are you getting to your location? >> reporter: so we are on a road that is still open. you have to go around kind of in some grass, but it's blocked off by the national guard. we have special permission to be in here through the sheriff's office. and this is an area that is, again, you have some houses that are up a little higher, and you have some that are a little lower. so the key, obviously, when you drive around and try to find locations to go live from, we try to look for some higher ground because in some areas, arthel, this water can come up very, very quickly, ...

But, yeah, it is very, definitely, concerning. a lot of people are pointing to that. what was, you know, was there some sort of almost colluding between the house intelligence committee chair, adam schiff, and michael cohen. but it was a closed door session, we really don't know what happened in there other than a few sources that were able to leak out some of those things. jon: other shoes yet to drop, it would seem. >> yes, exactly. jon: elena from axios, good to have you on. as a bodder battle rage -- border battle rages on, officials have their hands full along our southern perimeter esp...

This port of entry and turning themselves in. >> reporter: in a single day, more than 1,000 migrants did just that and showed up in el paso for processing. about 250 took agents by surprise back in january when they arrived in the middle of the night at a remote border crossing in neighboring antelope wells, new mexico. then a few weeks later at a different new mexico crossing, roughly 300 migrants came to this rural station seeking asylum. border patrol considers a group to be 100 or more people. thus far 70 groups have been apprehended as opposed to 13 for the same period last year. in dalla...

Important, u.s. officials and limiting the number of people who could be process for asylum each day. migrants could now be waiting for months to gain entry into our country. this is another caravan has crossed into mexico from guatemala. casey steagall level along the border in eagle pass, texas. casey? >> yes, harris. u.s. border patrol tells us that since the caravan's arrival, a group of about 35 illegal immigrants have been apprehended here on the u.s. side, and that some in that group claimed to be part of the original caravan that arrived here on monday when they came here from honduras...

Is -- i do allude to this, harris -- they could be there for quite some time considering federal agents say they only really have the capacity to process, at maximum, 20 asylum cases a day in this region. even with all those additional resources. when you have some 1800, you can do the math. they could be here for a while. >> harris: and it's complicated for our neighbors to the south, particularly mexico. because they will be housing these people. and we are already reading about limited resources in a place like tijuana. places like that. so we will continue to cover this as it happens. case...