today. first, here we go again. gas prices on the rise. the white house appears powerless to stop it. don t say we didn t warn you. i m bill hemmer. dana has the day off. big welcome back to sandra. sandra: couldn t think of a better way to start my tuesday with william hemmer. here we go. i m sandra smith, this is america s newsroom. enter the president s strategy of tapping the strategic oil reserves appears to be falling flat. we re watching gas prices up to $3.80 at the national average. if you live out west, that probably sounds like a steal. bill: california gets the worst, $6.41 a gallon ahead of an opec meeting tomorrow that could make prices higher. this hurts the poor people of california. california has the highest poverty rate in the nation. poor people in california are not the ones driving electric cars. they are in gas-powered gars and paying through the nose. this all started on day one of the administration when he ended america s energy independence.
justice system. bill: the rap sheet a mile ago. girlfriend accused him of assault and he served two stints in prison and under the los angeles d.a. policies he was let off the hook, put on probation. a year later and we have two dead police officers and a town that is reeling. dana: on the left side of your screen are the two officers. they were both husbands and fathers. bill: they are just two of the more than 150 cops shot in the line of duty this year. at least two dozen shootings were fatal. jeff paul begins our reporting live in los angeles with more from there today. jeff. bill and dana we re getting a better grasp of what happened leading up to the moment when the two police officers were shot and killed. we ve obtained new security camera footage that shows how chaotic the scene was as shots were fired. [sirens and gunshots] in the timeline of this shooting the portion of the video took place there was a lot of gunfire. the officers were responding to a pot
to take. what happens is by the time these kids are 11, 12, 13, pills are so normalized in their head from allergy medication, tile lon, others, when they go to a party at age 15 when they are supposed to make mistakes, 16, 17, kids are supposed to make mistakes. they look at a pill and it is not scary. and so it has to be something these parents are taught and these schools have got to get on board. sandra: i know you are fighting for your son. so sorry for your loss. thank you for joining us. bill: mid-terms 35 days away. there is news in the heated race in battleground p.a. that could help determine the balance of power in the senate. watch this race and listen to karl rove in minutes. plus critics on both sides of the aisle accusing democrats about doing nothing when it comes to the border and the crisis in the american southwest. they stopped building the
the tampa bay lightning as the avalanche game one of the stanley cup finals. the winning goal was sudden death overtime. tampa bay the two-time defending champion will try to even the series in game 2 saturday. my brother-in-law was at the game. looked like they were having a good time. bill: good game. dana: i ve heard the avalanche are faster than the lightning. i heard it. bill: we can watch. tampa won it two years in a row. really good team. good game last night. dana: great game. i ll have to watch saturday. bill: wild card in battleground p.a. democrats said to be nervous over the health of their candidate john fetterman. this democratic congressman was in france at a wedding when he cast a vote in the u.s. house. dana: my favorite story of the day. you have to see this.