There's breaking news tonight, action in Congress and the humanitarian crisis on the

border and we'll bring that to you as we go tonight.

We begin, though, with the graphic reminder of what this is about.

It's a new photo, which I do want to warn you is hard to look at, but we think shouldn't

be ignored.

With that, the photo shows the bodies of a man.

His name is Alberto Martinez and his daughter Angie washed up on the Mexican side of the

Rio Bravo River.

Now, they were from El Salvador and drowned trying to cross into the country, drowned

trying to cross into the United States.

Even had they made it across that river, they might have faced a difficult and possibly

dangerous future.

What has become, keeping them honest, a human disaster involving the conditions these

migrants now face in U.S. custody, especially kids.

There are kids tonight who are living in filth and crowded together, young children who

are caring for even younger children.

They're living this way because of the numbers of people crossing the border and decisions

made in Washington and policies set at the very top.

A guest who joins us momentarily, a pediatrician describes it this way, children being held

in conditions comparable, she says, to torture facilities.

Extreme cold temperatures, lights on 24 hours a day, no adequate access to medical care

or basic sanitation or water or adequate food.

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