of violence while working at a furniture store. todd: ashley live with the latest, good morning. reporter: good morning, over 1,000 tips since launching the investigation a week ago, south australian laval smith was arrested in california. not far from where he s accused of stabbing u.c.l.a. grad student. le yesterday he had lengthy rap sheets spanning both coasts. he was out on bond for a felony case in sorth carolina for shooting a flare gun into a car with a man and todd ler. he hasn t been in court because of the large because of a massive backlog due to october. he was arrested in foct for possession of stolen items in l.a. it was a felon scri, it s now a misdemeanour. l.a. county sheriffs blame the death on the district attorney.
kelly o grady live in long beach, california, today. kelly. well, benjamin, impacting the most vulnerable populations and i am here at one of habitat for humanity s big build back from the pandemic and of course during at we saw the demand for single-family loans spike even if it is the celebration it is being sold in everything from timing to cost, and how to build a home it requires hundreds of different supplies many of which are severely backlog due to the ports and on top of that construction costs spike as a number of materials have increased nearly 30% this year, you can see that the steel meal, the whopping 81% since the end of the year. the supply chain issues have been a challenge, because we have seen the prices spike and has seen fuel prices spike and delays in getting other materials delivered, signs delivered and things like that. the mixture of these dynamics
struggling and he is saying, look, i elbowed my friend and his wife to the front of the line. i would also love to know how many people in that particular hospital system have been laid off or fired because they refused the facts, therefore creating a huge backlog due to short staffing. jason: yeah, and the president tried to put a big spin on the jobs numbers because they were horrific. they were nowhere close to where they were supposed to be a part of the problem in the white house is you have joe biden and kamala harris, they are both poor communicators and they never take any questions and then when they do talk off script you get something like this which causes its own uproar. it is the worst messaging i have seen and you can go back and study this, in the modern political era. and to blame covid as jen psaki did, it s all they have. did covid force us to withdraw from afghanistan and the disastrous way that it did?
almost insurmountable. what are immigration judges facing? how big is this problem? the backlog is now over 900,000 cases and we have about 420 judges across the country that are responsible for these cases. approximately 5% to 10% cases are individuals who are in detention. maybe 100, 130 judges are responsible for those cases. and so their dockets consist of maybe several hundred cases at a time because doesn t very sensitive to the detention or custody nature of the individuals. the other judges are handseling cases of 4,000 or 5,000 per judge. our judges are in court every day morning and afternoon. not unusual sometimes for some of our judges to be scheduling or told they have to schedule 50 to 80 cases in any session. is the backlog due to
no question, depend which network you watch. however, i have got to say, guys, i really don t have a lot of respect for people that break the law, whether they fought for our country or not. they re above that. they are better than that. our veterans. thises t is the people s memorial. michelle. michelle. awe one aatat a time. where is the outrage, cruz, lee, palin, all backlog due to the federal government. michelle. michelle. hold on. hold on. michelle. michelle. house republicans put forth a bill that would reinstate all of that. that would fund the parks and the senate democrats who rejected it. was it not? was it not? do the house republicans we wouldn t even be having this conversation, no government shutdown had there not been the push by ted cruz and the tea party to defund obama care. how can you call this a shutdown? 17%. prepare to do anything to