We'll bring you down to the bor,
where the crisis becomes more desperate,
hear from families with sick ba,
and no one here seems to know
what's next.
County leaders share their plans
they prepare for the end of Title 42.
We'll hear from Chairwoman Nora Vargas.
Plus we sit down with El
Cajon Mayor Bill Wells,
who says federal help is needed
for local cities near the borde.
CBS8 News Live at six starts no.
Conditions at the border keep
getting worse as the clock ticks
down to the end of Title 42.
Good evening and thank you for
joining us. I'm Carla Chichetto.
I'm Marcella. Lee County and ciy
leaders are expecting an influx
of asylum seekers. And tonight.
They're trying to figure out
how to accommodate and shelter
such a large number of people.
We have team coverage for
you throughout the hour.
CBS8's Richard Allen is at the
border with more on the dangersy
of these people face as they wa.
And our Steve Price has more on
how county leaders are preparin.
But we start out with CBS8
Anna Laurel with the latest
from San Ysidro tonight. Anna.
We've seen desperation.
We've seen crying.
What we have not seen are any
authorities coming and picking e
people up and taking them off t.
And that's why a lot of
them tell us they are here.
They thought they would make it to the wall,
that authorities would pick them up and start
the process of letting them get into America.
But what we've seen today, well,
let's get to the video and you n
see for yourself what we've see.
Distribution until you make the line in
the dirt with their children starving,
no shelter, just begging for food and water.
I mean, I hope the president can
see this because this is inhuma.
That's Denise McEwan describing
what she saw when she brought fd
and water down to the border wa.
After hearing about all the
people stranded here this week,
I'm seeing people in their eyest
banging. For human rights, food, water.
It rained here last night.
All people have our trash
bags and pieces of plastic or
clothes tied up to cover them.
This family from AS Bear
Jean has a three-year old son
and a three month old baby,
their clothes soaked through totally wet.
Is your country dangerous? Yes.
Too yes. Still yes. We are invo.
I saw Camilla
as I walked along the wall.
She was looking out through the slits,
big tears rolling down her chee.
She traveled here from Brazil.
She turned 20 years old just last month.
She says she's anxious,
desperate and afraid.
Beside her is another woman she
met at the border from Brazil.
Vanessa says she traveled
11 days to get here.
She's been at the wall for nearly a week.
She says she thought when she got here
she would cross a river or a wa,
and then authorities would take her into
custody and she could declare asylum.
I must start someone to just sh,
she says. The situation is sad,
difficult, delicate.
They've been given water and plastic wraps,
they've been given little food,
and they're hungry and they dont
know what's going to happen nex.
I asked everyone,
why did you come this far?
Why did you come here?
And they all answered the same.
Just like Camilla,
Karen Trap says we need she
says she wants to enter the
United States for a better life
here at the border.
This is Anna Laurel for CBS8.
Thanks, Anna. Mark County leaders are
also bracing for the end of Tit2
CBS 8 Steve Price continues our coverage
tonight with the steps they're taking.
With Title 42 coming to an end this week,
local leaders are preparing for an increase
of migrants and refugees in our county.
This afternoon, Chairwoman Nora
Vargas shared details on how
the county is getting ready.
It's not a matter of if they're coming,
but when and how many county
leaders admit there are still a
lot of questions they can't ans.
We don't know where we are right now with
the numbers and what's going to happen.
But Chairman Vargas says the coy
is taking steps to make sure wee
prepared to keep everyone safe.
County Medical authorities are
working with the federal and ste
authorities to monitor the capay
to adequately provide the medicl
screenings that migrants. Need to have
Vargas also says the county has
secured a $35 million investment from
the federal government to help l
charities provide shelters and services.
What I want to make sure we emphasize
is that this is a different
county than it was before, righ?
We as a county understand that s
is a federal issue and we need o
make sure that there's a respone
from the federal government.
The concern is St.
releases, where shelters are
so full the people entering the
country are simply dropped at ss
around town with no place to go.
But Chairwoman Vargas is optimic
that won't be as big of an
issue as it's been in the past.
The majority of the asylum seeks
have a destination already and
so it's the processing that has
to take place so they can reach
their final destination intact.
She also believes new regional
processing centers opening in Central
and South American countries will help
reduce the number of asylum sees
that need to enter our county. t
this means and why this is so important
is because it's really intendedo
the reduce the number of people
that are coming into our border.
Vargas also says she's been in
communication with leaders from
cities around the county to make
sure there's collaboration.
Make sure everything possible is
being done to make this as posie
of an experience as possible.
It's important for me as a Chaif
the Board of Supervisors to remd
folks that we are welcoming County and
we're going to do everything we can to
ensure that everyone that is hes
treated with respect and with dignity.
Steve Price, CBS8.
As people seeking asylum wait
to get into this country,
they could face even more dangers. CBS
Eight's Richard Allen
continues our coverage tonight.
He is live at the border, Richa.
And Carlo and Marcela.
That's right, of course,
Starting tomorrow night,
Title 42 officially sunsets.
And we've already seen hundredsf
migrants camped out at the bord.
Well, here in the city of Tijua,
thousands of other migrants have
been hunkered down for the past days,
weeks, months in dozens of shels
throughout this city that we hae
opportunity to visit one of thee
shelters called Casa del Migran,
which actually just celebrated 6
years here in Tijuana serving migrants.
We got a first hand look at whyo
many migrants are forced to flee
their own countries and the dans
they face as they hope to enter ours.
Now, one of those biggest danges
these migrants faces that of hun
smugglers who offered to transpt
them illegally into the United
States for thousands of dollars,
and that's often their life sav.
Now, according to Customs
and Border Protection,
their officers have seen a spike
in human smuggling attempts
in recent months and weeks,
and this is an increase that
Supervisory Border Patrol Agent
Daniel Anderson tells us.
That they expect to continue as
Title 42 lapses,
offering a warning about the tht
that these smugglers pose to migrants.
Smugglers.
They don't care about the the
humans in the lives that
they're they're smuggling.
They're in it for the money.
The people they smuggle are just
a commodity that no different
than vegetables or drugs, They'e
just moving people for a profit.
And migrant rights groups tell s
that whenever there's a signifit
change in border policy, like rt
now with the sun setting of Title 42,
human smugglers take full
advantage of this mass confusio,
praying on these migrants who are desperate
for a way into the United State,
exploiting them for their own profit.
And in some cases,
these migrants who are smuggled
end up in forced labor or even n
sex trafficking to pay off their
debts to the smuggler now.
Coming up live on CBS8 at 11:00 PM tonight,
we'll have our full report
on targeting migrants,
the threat of human smugglers.
Of course,
human smuggling is one of the biggest
threats that these migrants fac,
but of course it's not the only threat.
Also tonight at 11:00,
we'll have a closer look at the good work
these shelters here in Tijuana are doing,
specifically Casa del Mi Grande,
and trying to take care of
and protect these migrants.
Carlo and Marcella.
All right, Richard, thanks.
The mayor of El Cajon is reachig
out to the federal government,
sending a letter ahead of tomor.
Bill Wells says he is sympathetc
to those seeking asylum.
That says federal help is neede,
especially in his city, he says,
when it comes to shelter.
He will sit down with our Jesse
Pagan coming up new tonight
in our second-half hour.
Make sure to stay with CBS8 forl
the updates on the ending of Title 42,
which happens tomorrow at 8:00 .
We will have the very latest
developments on cbs8.com.
You can also follow us along on social
media or download the free CBS8.
Right now the Coast Guard is searching
for survivors of a small plane
crash near San Clemente Island.
This crash was first reported
around 8:00 this morning.
The aircraft was carrying three
people when it went down.
A crew from Coast Guard Air Station San
Diego launched to help with the search.
They found a debris field in the water about
a mile southwest of San Clemente Island,
but nothing else.
The city of San Diego's plan to prevent
traffic deaths needs more money,
according to a coalition
of City Council members,
safety advocates and survivors of collisions.
They gathered at City Hall today
to say the city's safety plan,
called Vision 0,
needs more funding in the city budget.
That includes more resources foe
city's Department of Transportan
to better analyze crash report .
Vision Zero's goal is to elimine
traffic deaths in the city by 2.
This City made a commitment to making
our roads safer, and unfortunat,
we are farther away from that
goal today than we were in 2015.
How effective has Vision Zero been so far?
Public records obtained by CBS8.
Show that 427 people have died n
traffic related collisions since 2015,
the year Vision Zero started.
CBS8 has a full breakdown on Vin
Zero's effectiveness so far.
Just go to our website cbs8.com
and click on this story.