National Childcare:President Obama met yesterday with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who later criticized him for not visiting the border to see the immigration crisis first hand. “That’s what presidents do. That’s what leaders do. They show up,” Perry told CBS News.

Obama told reporters, “There is nothing taking place down there I am not intimately aware of and briefed on … I’m not interested in photo ops. I’m interested in solving a problem.”

The president said he’s trying to give the governor what he wants to stem the crisis, and pressed the Texas congressional delegation to help pass an emergency spending bill.

As of yesterday the Department of Health and Human Services said they had custody of 8,726 unaccompanied minors who came to the US illegally. More than 50,000 unaccompanied children have been taken into custody crossing the Mexican border since Oct. 1. Federal authorities expect that by the end of September, the close of the 2014 fiscal year, they will have dealt with 60,000 unaccompanied minors.

HHS says three quarters of the children are boys and most are over age 14. Ninety-three percent are from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

Spy V. Spy: Germany has kicked the top US intelligence official out of the country in retaliation for American recruitment of spies inside the German equivalent of the CIA. It’s a major slap from one of America’s biggest allies. A German spokesman said, “The government takes the matter very seriously.” German authorities have arrested one man and are investigating another suspected of spying for the US.

Gunbeat: A Houston man is in custody this morning, accused of killing six people, including four children, in an apparent domestic dispute. Ron Haskell, 33, was arrested after a low-speed chase and a standoff that lasted hours. The victims were two boys, 4 and 14, two girls, 7 and 9, and a man and woman, 39 and 33. A 15-year-old girl was wounded and survived. All of the children were Haskell’s biological or adopted children.

Futebol: After playing Argentina to a scoreless tie in 30 minutes of overtime, The Netherlands missed two of its first three penalty kicks, ceding a 4-2 win to Argentina. The victory is a further humiliation for the Brazilian hosts who fell by the wayside Tuesday. Argentina is their big rival. The Argies meet Germany for the Cup this Sunday at 3 EDT.

Big Easy: Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who rose to national prominence in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the rebuilding of his city, was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in federal prison for public corruption. Nagin was convicted in February of taking kickbacks from contractors doing business with the city. He originally ran as a reformer in the notoriously corrupt city. During his trial Nagin denied everything, including recognizing his own signature on documents.

The Hemingway Award: A Chicago writer who helped write the book “How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona” is now a survivor of the bulls of Pamplona. Bill Hillman fell and was gored. He told the Chicago Tribune, “The horn went in one side of my thigh and exited the other side and he pulled it through.”

He was a big bull. He was a strong bull. And the bull ran. The man ran, and the bull ran. And the bull gored the man but the man forgave him because he was a beautiful bull.

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