thank you so much for letting us in your homes during these extraordinary times. the beat with ari melber starts right now. happy monday. happy monday, thanks, nicole. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. the civil case against donald trump over defamation and battery, nicole was discussing that earlier. we have that later in the hour here on the beat. our top story tonight is a topic that could be the top national story on most nights by many metrics. america s gun epidemic and the ongoing threat and reality of a highly armed nation with easy access to some of the most dangerous guns in the world and a gun-related death toll that exceeds every other country per capita in the world. that can look like this. [gun shots] that was the harrowing scene at a recent little league baseball game in south carolina. you can imagine and feel how all the kids and parents felt and that is the kind of story that may not even make what we call national news, that you may not have
voices or with weapons. harris: the protests are going. last night after a day of it yesterday and shut down a major new york city bridge for more than 20 minutes as the protestors marched to the courthouse. others gathered in the subway station with the 34-year-old jordan neely died on monday. some demanding a criminal prosecution now for the former u.s. marine who put neely in a choke hold after neely reportedly started yelling and threatening passengers. progressive congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez getting into the mix early quoting neely s death was a public execution. before that she called it a murder. the death, however, was ruled a homicide by the coroner s office simply meaning the cause was another person. mayor eric adams called alexandria ocasio-cortez s claims irresponsible. those will criticize no matter what s done. i have a responsibility for this entire city. and i have faith in the criminal justice system and i am going to let the process take its
that does it for us on this friday morning, ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. happy friday. so glad you are with us. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and it may be friday, but there s still a lot of news this morning, including big economic shifts. we just got the april jobs report, and instead of the decline economists expected, unemployment numbers ticked down. the unemployment rate is 3.4%. jobs were added, many more than expected. that is some good news, but with interest rate hikes, banking turmoil, layoffs, and store closures, how do you assess the state of the u.s. economy? former new orleans mayor mitch landrieu who s also a senior adviser to president biden will join us. plus, a judge could hand down a record sentence for a january 6th rioter today. how long that defendant could spend behind bars. and we re following reaction to the historic verdicts against members of the proud boys. what does it all reveal about the
another interest rate hike. i don t think anyone is ever preparedt moving forward. russia is accusing ukraine of trying to assassinate president vladimir putin in a drone attack on the kremlin. then come on get norah: good evening and thank you for joining us on this wednesday night we begin with breaking news the suspect accused of opening fire inside a medical center in atlanta has been found. all of the victims were in age s old. please have identified the alleged shooter as 24-year-old dion patterson. here s what we are learning about what happened sources tell cbs news that patterson became agitated while waiting for a medical appointment when he took out a handgun and immediately started shooting. the coast guard veteran. he was on medication for mental health issues. the c 190th mass shooting in the united states this year just reminder 123rd day of 2023. cbs s mark strassmann is on the scene. he will start us off tonight from atlanta. good evening, ma
tonight may soon be the top story in the markets or even on main street. the president summoning leaders to the white house scheduled for next week to face what they re now calling a far more urgent threat of default with some republicans threatening to take the economy hostage. the final deadline is earlier in the month, republicans doubling down on threats which you may recall picked up in the obama years that instead of voting against new spending, which is the standard way that a politician or a legislator can curb the size of government, totally fine, you say, hey, let s not spend as much. nowadays you may have heard, republicans try to hijack the process of paying the bill, the debt, and they do that as a sort of a voodoo to scare the market, scare the white house, e tract concessions and keep the government from paying the bills it has, that includes naturally bills run up by both democrats and republicans, including recent spending under former president trump. we