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good morning everyone and welcome to CNN
10 I'm Omar jenez not Coy wire though I
will settle for the fact that I have
hair sorry Ki I'm just filling in for
today and tomorrow so don't worry in
today's show we're going to explore
border security but not in the way you
might expect in the news lately the
focus has been on the US border legal
immigration and how Congress may or may
not fix things but us officials do more
than just secure checkpoints in our
first story CNN's Josh Campbell goes
behind the scenes with US Customs and
Border Protection as they use AI
artificial intelligence to detect drugs
being smuggled into the country in the
short time we've been here this packet
of fentanyl was seized in the mail the
cender of this envelope now under
federal investigation the deadly drug
detected by artificial intelligence its
street value about $100,000 worth of
ventina every piece of mail every
package entering the United States is
scanned by CBP right now that's done by
x-ray with officers staring at images
across their screen and if they become
suspicious they open the package up to
determine whether a threat's inside but
AI could revolutionize the way US
Customs and Border Protection does
battle against Smugglers we're here near
Los Angeles International Airport in a
facility that processes over 200 40
million packages every single year
officers seizing numerous items
including counterfeit merchandise
illegal food as well as precursors to
the deadly drug feny now in order to
help stop America's fenel epidemic
officers are now relying on artificial
intelligence like this system a package
is sent through this main system called
idss This is similar to what you might
find in a hospital or at an airport a 3D
image is taken and then sent to What's
called the student this is the Halo
system artificial intelligence at work
unlike old Technologies such as x-rays
this system is constantly learning and
teaching itself the mission of this AI
system part of a CBP pilot program is to
identify patterns how Smugglers are
concealing fentanyl in order to evade
detection at the end of the whole
process this system will get a grade
after scanning 10,000 images an officer
will look to determine how well the
system actually did determine whether
this is the type of machine that CBP
might want to roll out to its multiple
facilities Across the
Nation this pilot program is currently
being used for cargo arriving by air to
LAX CBP hopes to expand the use of AI to
other critical points of entry into the
United States one looming question with
well funded drug cartels known to adopt
advanced technology of their own how
long will AI provide us authorities a
cuttingedge advantage to stay ahead of
the threat so when we think about border
security we're usually thinking of
efforts on land but waterways also need
Focus too our senior National
correspondent David Culver gets a rare
inside look at how US border agents
defend the Pacific Ocean from a rising
Trend in smuggling migrants and
Drugs hours before the Sun's Up over San
Diego we get on board for a rare look at
border security from the Pacific Ocean
it's going to be 4 to 5T Seas out there
so uh we're going to be getting tossed
around suspected migrant smug are about
to make a
drop 200 y off right now suddenly we're
0 to 60 on the water that is fast and
cold can't go through the K we get stuck
this is a side of US Customs and Border
Protection you don't often see and for
good reason with border patrol on land
these agents handle the skies and seas
they're part of Amo air and Marine
operations it's going to be just off our
starboard beam heading right for the
beads and what does it sound like a boat
or Chet Sky they don't have a visual of
it so all they know is that there's a
radar contact eastbound right behind us
back here headed our way so they kill
the lights and we wait in the dark the
Pursuits coming right to us right now
this way yeah after a few minutes still
nothing seems the suspected Smuggler on
a jet ski turned back there's a lot of
them coming so we're we're we're
constantly busy in the past year the
agents say it's become increasingly
deadly but like drug trafficking
migrant smuggling is a business they're
Reckless with their lives they're
Reckless with other people's lives do we
know CT are they are they connected
often to cartels do we know their
background at a smaller level yeah this
is all cartel
driven they often launch in the dark of
night leaving from various points along
the Mexican coast once they cross the
maritime boundary line the ocean border
separating the US and Mexico the
Smugglers usually head to the beaches of
San Diego County where they drop off the
migrants though more recently they've
ended up cruising even farther north to
places like
Malibu officials tell us the number of
incidents along the Southwest coast is
up threefold over the last 5 years and
they say migrants like these often pay
tens of thousands of dollars for a
one-way ticket on the open ocean and
you'll have people Captain actually try
to swim they often do it at night and
under fog and sadly it's tragic some of
them don't always make it that's where
the Coast Guard comes in We join them on
a tet Patrol positioned just north of
the maritime boundary line with a view
of the Southern border I'd never seen
before and then right there that's all
Mexico pretty much right in front of us
yeah as Mexico the ghost guard here
focused primarily on keeping folks alive
to do that you need to keep the lines of
communication open there really are no
egos amongst the different organizations
we all speak on the same frequency um so
when you when somebody gets notified
we're all notified at the same time
offer
350 uh 28 nautical miles that's where
he's at off your 350 that frequency also
shared by the cbp's air assets watching
and tracking from
above yeah David So when when we do
detect a Target I hook it so the system
is Now tracking it and and we we get
everything down here right the
coordinates where it's at how fast it's
going that information related to Crews
on land and sea they have to be prepared
for anything on the water and you're
doing that at night pitch black 6ft Seas
it can be very uh challenging moments
like these where boats filled with
migrants Rush towards the shoreline a
near nightly occurrence now over the
last three years we've seen an
exponential increase in Maritime
smuggling they don't understand fully
the Peril that these Smugglers are are
putting them in it's the callous nature
of their operations and how they just
don't care about human life 10-second
trivia time where was the game of chess
created China IND India Russia or
Egypt if you said India check mate you
got it chess originated in 6th Century
India during the Gupta dynasty the game
today is now played in more than
170
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countries and now let's Crown a story
that as Koy would say deserves a 10 out
of 10 we want to highlight a young
talented migrant girl from Colombia who
has found a home here in New York as a
nationally ranked chess player Katie
Vasquez with Net TV shares her
journey watching Maran helv Vargas play
chess you might be surprised to learn
she's only been playing for a year field
weights nervous and the same time like
um when you play you feel like um you're
very focused in the game the 12-year-old
grew up in Colombia where she says chess
isn't common but something her family
was familiar with was gang
violence in October 2022 mudy and hell's
parents decided the danger was too
much and made the brutal Journey
traveling through the desert in Mexico
to come to the US good game as M onell
was adjusting to her new life in New
York she saw a flyer at her school ps11
advertising Spanish chess lessons the
charity in charge the gift of Chess had
noticed the influx of Spanish-speaking
migrants and founder Russell makovski
wanted to help it's like a curriculum in
itself with Incredible educational
benefit and then once you learn the game
you can begin interact with your class
that speak English because you're
sharing that that that language that
universal language of the game of chess
quickly Russell noticed maranell
becoming a master she's currently ranked
in the top 50 of players uh girls her
age in the United States her father says
she's achieving the dream that they came
here for all right everyone we hope you
enjoyed our show today we know border
security can sometimes be a divisive
topic but we hope you learn something
new that you can use in your
conversations at school and Beyond
now it's the best part of the show shout
out time we're going to go to Shephard
Pratt School in Rockville Maryland thank
you for watching and also a special
shout out goes to Haven Middle School in
Evon Illinois shout out Evon I went to
college at Northwestern which is also in
Evon thanks for hanging out everyone I'm
Omar Jimenez it was a pleasure being
with you this morning I'm going to be
right back here tomorrow to finish out
this week have a great
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