a fiery field hearing taking place just a block away from progress da alvin bragg s office with absolutely harrowing testimony from new york city crime victims and their families. victims like joseph borgen a jewish man who was brazenly beaten by four men in broaddaylight. his attackers were only give an six-month plea deal. he only punched my son once. . perhaps some of the most dramatic moments came when madeline whose son was brutally stabbed to death nine times for significantly lowering the charges against two of her son s alleged attackers. i was totally disrespected. me, my family, my grand children, we were treated like garbage. like garbage. while republicans say the hearing was intended to highlight just how progressive policies are making america less safe, democrats dismissed it as political payback for bragg s indictment of former president donald trump. they insist the big apple is indeed safe. the chairman says this hearing is about violent crime in m
craft was due for its first test flight but according to spacex ceo elon musk a pressure valve was frozen so the launch scrubbed. spacex will attempt to launch again on thursday. tonight we re folk using on the impact of the em-opioid crisis heroin the west coast with san francisco and seattle among the major cities in the grip of this american epidemic. correspondent dan springer takes a closer look tonight from seattle. a recent fentonen awl overdose on the streets of seattle expo another life lost to an epidemic that is now killing far more americans than covid. seattle is averaging more than 25 drug overdose deaths a week, a 30% increase over last year which set a record. san francisco is even worse. it s had 1,000 more overdose deaths and covid fatalities in the three years since the corrin virus pandemic hit.