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julie? >> reporter: it's strange. the last week, title 42 was here, right? and, yet, migrants came in and they were processed and let go. that is not title 42. that is not even the biden administration rules. whose rules were there? when we ask him and people and julie and me are asking. we are at a limit. the churches are full. the churches are doing this all on donations and they are not getting federal funding but from people when el paso donating money and food but nothing left to do. we have hit that breaking point. what happens now? i asked that. they hope to spike levels off. you know the people have been walking for months and people in the cue are crossing all of those countries aren't going to stop until they get here. it's tough for border patrol because you seen people are outside on the desert floor in the blaing sun and freezing
photos and you see the scarrin on the desert floor, knowing what we know now, it's ver obvious that those look like graves >> this is what albuquerqu police chief ray schultz say investigators saw when the looked at old pictures of th mesa in this 2002 image of the area where the bones were discovere there's nothing unusual. just desert and sage brush wit a dry stream bed running through it but two years later, in 2004 when most of the women o detective ida lopez's list wer disappearing, the images sho tire tracks leading from thi road to a few bare spots in th vegetation spots that weren't there before this photo, taken the followin year, shows even more bare spots. clustered within 20 yards of each other >> it's kind of eerie lookin at those satellite photos.
major groups cross over the rio grande here, texas dps and other states are consistently busting illegal migrants, one is in yuma sector over in arizona. border patrol there say that migrants cover themselves in tan sheets in an effort to blend in with the desert floor after illegally crossing the border this week. and near fort brown, texas, agents eased over 100 pounds of marijuana seizures, this fiscal year, more than 11,000 pounds recovered. and texas dps seizing more than 1.3 million doses of fentanyl in a single bust, a traffic stop in colbertson county. this week, governor abbott announced his one pill kills campaign that will give $10 million to educate texans on fentanyl and the program will perhaps more importantly ship 20,000 doses of fentanyl reversing narcan to every
molly: title 42 a pandemic-era border policy is expected to end next month and some experts are warning this could lead to a surge in people attempting to cross the border. meanwhile migrants and drugs are already streaming into the u.s. at an alarming pace. matt finn is standing right there in eagle pass, texas with the latest, matt. matt: hi, molly it's been slow in eagle pass in terms of larger groups. earlier this week rescue of migrants. the river is high and moving fast which makes it difficult to cross and also we are told that migrants might be honoring the holy week this week but all across the southern border there are still got aways and migrants illegally crossing. one example of that is over in arizona, yuma sector says migrants covered themselves in tan sheets in an effort to blend in with the desert floor after
♪ ♪. jon: texas governor greg abbott announced new measures of the board in an effort to crack down on america's opioid crisis. we discussed those efforts the deadly effects of fentanyl at the one pill kills drug prevention summit. matt vision is live in eagle pass, texas with more. text hi jon, here it eagle pass the past week has been relatively slow. there was one large group rescued from the river on monday. since then we have not seen any of the larger groups. the river is very high and moving very fast right now. it's very dangerous to attempt to cross. we are also told, believe it or not that migrants may be onto the holy week this week that is what we're seeing a slower week. but across the southern border they were illegal illegal migrants who were apprehended including an arizona in this sector there border patrol says they apprehended migrants covered in tan sheets in an effort to blend in with the desert floor after illegally
monday but since it is been rather slow in terms of the larger groups it's an interesting time because the rivers very high am to be very fast so it is very dangerous to try to cross. and also believe it or not we are being told perhaps the holy week is being honored. all across the southern border, border patrol law enforcement are still catching illegal migrants crossing into the night states affect over the state of arizona border patrol there said agents this week caught migrants covered in tm sheets in an effort to blend in with the desert floor after illegally crossing into the united states but also this week near fort brown, texas agents seized 140 pounds of marijuana there. and texas dps reports seizing 1.3 million doses of fentanyl in a single bust this week governor greg abbott says a part of that one pill kill program up to five texans are dying every day. as part of his new program there
the big ben sector. >> smugglers love this area, it is so open, so remote, so easy to hide, not as many border patrol agents looking for them. >> tucker: resources are already stretched thin. customs and border protection and department of public safety have cameras through the desert to identify illegal crossers, but the technology isn't enough. the only way to stop deadly drugs from entering this country is hunting smugglers in person. on the ground, in the field. abandoned drug bundles litter the desert floor, ditched by smugglers that hear law enforcement helicopters overhead. after hiding drugs, this he blend in with immigrant groups to get away scott free. >> sergeant morris decided he wanted to find drug bundles. >> tucker: he joined a mission to recover bundles with sorj morris. >> we investigate, get two bundles with 100 pounds of
was the stuff of science fiction. it's truly incredible to watch this massive booster literally fall out of the sky. just when you think it's going to crash on the desert floor, it sfiers off its thrusters and gently down to a perfect landing after you hear a sonic boom. that was science fiction until just a few years ago. blue origin, spacex made it possible. you have this other science fiction becoming reality, the original captain kirk officially becoming an astronaut, kate. >> absolutely. stick with me, kristin. let me bring in miles o'brien on this. miles, i will say watching that booster, it really wobbles at first. it's unbelievable that it even corrects itself. what are your thoughts in seeing this? >> it's scary to watch and cool, too. this is why they call it rocket science, right?
about a safe return. well, right now it looks like that's exactly what we have. those teams are making the way to the capsule. that's had a soft landing via the three parachutes and the thrusters right before making impact there. and from our vantage point, a couple miles from the launch pad, i can't impress upon you enough what it's like to hear the sound and then see that rocket already rising above the desert floor, but then feel that boom hit you as it rises even higher. what's so unique about this entire launch is the fact that just as it disappears from sight, when you're looking up into the blue sky, a few minutes goes by before you look up again and see a glint of sunlight returning back not exactly to the launch pad, but to a pad not too far away from where it initially took off. that's one of the main focuses jeff bezos harped on is having this reusable process, a