Americans Shelter In Place As Violence Erupts Across Mexico
Erin Burnett OutFront
CNN
3.9 • 715 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Out front next, breaking news, Americans stranded. |
| 0:05.0 | Caught in a violent outbreak in a major tourist spot, told to shelter in place after the leader of a major drug cartel was killed. |
| 0:13.0 | His cartel, now out for revenge, an American who's trapped tonight trying to get home is our guest. |
| 0:19.0 | And free fall, Trump's support among Latino Americans cratering, according to our new poll. |
| 0:23.6 | I'll speak to a Republican Congresswoman from Florida with a warning to Trump that he could lose even more support from Latino voters. |
| 0:31.6 | And breaking this hour, the record-shattering blizzard. |
| 0:34.6 | 30 million Americans still under a blizzard warning. Travel bans right now |
| 0:38.7 | are in effect as five states have over two feet of snow. Let's go out front. And good evening, |
| 0:47.4 | I'm Aaron Burnett. Out front tonight, the breaking news, Americans stranded and tonight still no end in sight. |
| 0:53.6 | American tourists told to shelter in place after chaos and war in the streets following the |
| 0:58.4 | killing of Mexico's most powerful drug lord known as El Mentiono. |
| 1:03.0 | Terrifying footage taken by tourists in Puerto Vallarda, one of the most popular resort towns in Mexico, |
| 1:08.5 | shows the cartel exacting revenge. You see road blockages, |
| 1:13.1 | buses, taxes, and businesses burning cars burning there on the streets. In fact, so many vehicles |
| 1:18.0 | and buildings are on fire, you can actually see the black smoke from space in this image. |
| 1:24.3 | One American radio show host was there on vacation and told USA today about his harrowing drive to the airport trying to get out. |
| 1:31.3 | It said that the driver who took us didn't break at all. He drove on parts of the road that he shouldn't have. |
| 1:36.3 | We were dodging, burning buses and burning taxi cabs, and he was clinching a rosary and kissing it a couple times. |
| 1:42.3 | Now that American says he's now stranded at the airport with no idea when they will leave. |
| 1:48.0 | The State Department, meantime, says it's received hundreds of calls from Americans. |
| 1:51.6 | And just to give you an idea of what's happening here in this tourist hotspot for Americans, |
| 1:56.7 | and we've got new video just into this show of deserted streets littered with the burned out shells of vehicles, you know, literally like being in a war zone. |
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