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in the blast. we begin with the extreme weather threat across the central and southwestern u.s. more than 12 million people under flood watches, heavy rains pummeled phoenix, leaving streets and walkways flooded. meanwhile, a storm warning has been lifted for far southern texas, but rain from that system could spread into oklahoma and louisiana through midweek. so let's talk more about this with cnn meteorologist derek van dam. so much going on. what is catching your eye right now? >> well, some of the new flood watches that have been issued by the national weather service encompas...

The new commitments that they make. today what we'll be watching for is turkey. their leader will be speaking. we also have kazakhstan and kyiv because they are on the border with russia. you have a number of european countries, france, germany, eastern flanked countries. another set of can you be tris interesting to watch are the african countries. you have the central african republic. you have the republic of the congo today. another number of african countries today and the key is what they say and what they're asking the international country for. we know the food crises in those countrie...

Nicaragua. that is a 175% increase from last august. the number of undocumented immigrants from mexico, el salvador, guata mall la and honduras down 33%. cnn's loria palmino is live where there is an expected influx of migrants. can you tell us what you're expe expecting, what you're seeing. >> reporter: brianna, we are seeing numbers of people arriving at the port authority bus terminal over the last several months. a record number of people that at least and that is pushing the city to the limit. mayor adams said the city is reaching a breaking point. required to provide shelter as migrants ...

That's the logic of it. this is just ridiculous. u.s. domestic law passed by the congress side that -- says, number one, that the country concern -- in the country concerned an asylum seeker has to have access to full and fair procedures for asylum. a guatemalan official said i believe today that the entire government has about eight asylum officers or people in the office to handle these claims. so the notion that guard at the mall la has a full and fair procedure is ridiculous. second is that the united states cannot return anyone to a place where they will be at risk of persecution. >> guat...

I spoke to a former senior intelligence official said it's his job to know where the terrorists are and there aren't any on the southern border. crime is a great issue but he shouldn't lie where it comes from. >> literally to your point, the first year of the presidency, the apprehensions at the southern border was a 45-year low. the apprehensions has been dropping since the year 2000. >> which is great. if he wants to win, maybe he should run on that. >> democratic response now is coming up from senator chuck schumer, the leader of the democrats of the senate and house speaker nancy pelosi. >...