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>> guad venegas, thank you for your ongoing reporting. we appreciate it, and if we go about 700 miles east from where guad is to el paso, texas, the first group of more than 100 migrants released from customs and border patrol have started filling a former middle school. nbc's brie jackson is there. i understand the mayor and other officials, emergency officials have just updated the situation. what did they have to say? >> reporter: good afternoon, chris. well, they said partly what they've been saying for the past couple of days, they are prepared for the unknown, and that's what they're get...

This is all about. >> jose, thank you very much for reminding us of what it means to make that journey and the desperation you would need, the desperate straits you would need to be in to be willing to make that journey. we have seen that image all morning of the father putting the baby in the suitcase to carry the baby, to wade through the river to carry the baby. you just don't do that unless you are desperate. guad, i know you are in san diego, also one of the largest border crossings in this country. tell me what it has been like there. >> reporter: katy, we have the port of san ysidro, th...

At least i know that my granddaughter will have a better future here and one day, one day we'll be able to see each other again. >> so the mother is planning to be reunited with her husband, and she says if she has to be deported along with them, even though her process is in place here, she will do that with the dream and the hope that one day they could be reunited, chris. >> i don't know what 1-year-old baby and you just hope that something, anything can relieve those nightmares for them. nbc's guad venegas meantime is in san diego. guad, what are you hearing from people on the other side o...

The united states. it's a coordinated effort to try to solve this humanitarian crisis while hundreds continue sleeping here, women and children with cold nights and hot days as the numbers grow here at the u.s./mexico border. back to you. >> guad, thank you so much. for the decades you've been in politics, the decades i've been in journalism, this is a recurring nightmare over and over again. what do we do in a moment like this? the cracks this our system so exposed, legislative solutions seem to impossible, what do we do? >> so you asked the most important question, and the only answer i can ...

There is plenty of diesel fuel do not buy gasoline any different than you always used to buy it. do not wait in line when you have more than half a tank of gasoline there is no need to do that. and please understand that we're trying our very best to bring this back to normal. >> reporter: so, essentially what he told me was that people mostly go pump gas when they have less than half a tank that's usually the way it happened and they can tell because of the receipts that they see, the amount of gallons people pump. what they saw during the last few days were people pumping three to five gallo...