At least 100 people were inside the house for that celebration. When the attacker walked in, the rabbi was actually in the middle of lighting the menorah. The attacker, grafton thomas, is alleged to have stabbed five people with a large machete type knife. One of the victims, actually, is the rabbis son. All of the victims are recovering at the hospitals. One of the guests, joseph gluck, is being called a hero because he threw a coffee table at the attacker and actually wrote down the license plate number of the car he was driving before he left the house. Thats a good thing because he was spotted driving across the George Washington bridge. His license plate number was picked up by technology there at the gwb. He was ultimately arrested in harlem with blood all over him, and then he was transported here to upstate new york where he was arraigned on 5 million bond on five charges. Keep in mind this is a tightknit hasidic Orthodox Jewish community. 90,000 people make up brocklin county
been pointing to in europe for a number of years where there was a very slow, almost lax response to anti-semitism. we ve seen what happened there. we don t want what happened there to happen here. no, we don t. david harris, we appreciate you coming on the program today. thank you. thank you. we re following another breaking story this hour. bloodshed at another place of worship today. three people are now in critical condition after a shooting at a church in white settlement, texas. we re told the shooter is among the injured. this was at the west freeway church of christ. it s located just miles away from ft. worth. joining us now is former law official cedric grammer. cedric, it s good to see you again, but not under these circumstances. what can you make of what happened here? unfortunately, as you can see, this is just another tragic event among many tragic events surrounding innocent people getting hurt in public places, such as churches and malls.
together collaboratively but there is a community component that has to be met. and that component is that all of us across this nation have to verbalize and make it perfectly clear to anyone who is thinking about doing harm to someone because of their race,ot where we re not going to tolerate it. cedric grammer, thank you for joining me today. thank you, sir. stomp mo more breaking news in a busy newsroom. iraq and syria have conducted airstrikes against an iran-backed militia. we ll have details.