on trains. this is the next evolution, as he calls it, in that process, he admits, it is an evolution. there needs to be tweaks. he hopes to get that feedback, and to continue to address the sensitive topic in new york city. really, it is not just a lone rock city, it is all across this nation. we will talk about that. brynn gingrass, thank you so much for that. in a skull hayne joins us now, he s a social scientist at the university of pennsylvania with primary expertise in the area of almost and assisted housing policy. professor, brynn just r, brynn d to this. new york city, obviously, isn t the only city dealing with homelessness, so, what do you think is driving this particular plan for mayor adams, and what is your view of it? well, i can appreciate that folks are desperate, the mayor and others would like to have a very quick solution. but this is a deep, systemic problem from years and years of neglect. we are talking about mental health systems that cannot serve adequately
buffalo isn t the only u.s. city dealing with shootings yesterday. milwaukee s mayor imposed a curfew in the entertainment district for people younger than 21 years of age after 21 people were injured in three shooting incidents. and they happened after an nba playoff game last night. no fatalities were reported. first shooting happened just blocks away from the arena, three injured. the second took place a little more than an hour later, one person was injured. and about 40 minutes later, a third shooting, this one injuring 17 people. ten people were taken into custody during the third shooting and ten guns were recovered. they are still trying to piece together exactly what happened. we know that there are people out there that fled or that left that saw something. if they could call and let us know what happened, we have people in custody, but that doesn t mean that we have everybody in custody. a small plane crash near miami, florida has killed one person on board and injured f
now, the explosion of covid cases driven by the super contagious, of course, omicron variant is causing alarm as well as confusion right around the world. france has set an all-time record for daily infections since the start of the pandemic with more than 270,000 on tuesday. authorities warn that figure could soon hit 300,000. italy, meanwhile, has reported its highest number of daily cases on tuesday. some 170,000. that coincides with the record spike in testing. in okinawa, japan, local officials are debating whether emergency measures are needed after an omicron outbreak. they are blaming an american military base for the surge in cases. the u.s. is you apushing back o that. another chinese city dealing with a lockdown, this time the
philadelphia, a city dealing with a rise in violent crime. and sara sidener joins me now, so how are these reforms working because i have to think reforms in some city are getting major pushback. reporter: hey, pam, yeah, they are getting push back in some places. let s talk about what the police commissioner there in philadelphia thinks, we did sit down with her, the very first black female police commissioner in the city s history and said, look, our officers will follow this law, goes into place in the next few weeks and it will be followed, but she says it is happening at one of the worst possible times in the city s history and that is partly because the city s experiencing a huge, the worst ever, number of homicides that its ever seen, happened last year, up to 150, sorry, 550 people, were shot and killed in the city in 2021 and she says she is worried and some
of the time did that stop and that search lead to some type of contraband or illegal weapon. reporter: that figure comes from the defender association in philadelphia, a city dealing with a rise in violent crime. i will tell you, this is not ideal timing. reporter: philadelphia s police commissioner on the city s new law, up next. until, energizer ultimate lithium. who wants a cupcake? the number one longest-lasting aa battery. yay! case closed.