preferential treatment that these kinds of applicants get goes largely to white students because they make up 70% of these legacy applicants. a district court the preferences they re given to be sizable and significant. and this complaint includes a lot of data. they use admissions numbers to try to make their case. here are some of the things they found. they found in the class of 2026, nearly 2,000 were admitted out of an applicant pool just over 61,000. if you were donor related, related to a donor, the admission rate for you was seven times higher at 42%. this was for a period from 2014 to 2019. the numbers are kind of looking historically. and then this admissions rate for legacy applicants, someone who had a parent or relative who went to harvard was six times higher. so, about 33.6%. and as you mentioned, the timing of this is important because it s coming less than a week after the supreme court limited
philadelphia, they re actually down almost 20% compared to the same time last year. but that other bit of perspective is that it is still, the homicide level here in philadelphia, still much higher than the pre-pandemic levels. so, again, heading into the actual fourth of july holiday, a lot of folks on edge after this mass shooting in the city. audie, phil? thank you for that context, danny. now joining us at the table, joseph, republican strategist and political commentator. natasha alford, senior correspondent at the grillo and elie honig, former assistant u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york. welcome to all of you. good to be here. these are tough stories to open the day with. and so far what they have in common, of course, is the connection of weapons, right? different motives, different things going on. we had the mayor of baltimore on yesterday. and he talked about illegal guns in his state, not always the
a civil rights group is trying to stop harvard from making it harder of sons and daughters of alumni to join the ivy league. we re following all of these stories coming in right here to cnn news central. on this fourth of july holiday, police are investigating two mass shootings in the span of 24 hours. first in philadelphia, five people are dead, two kidsessing neighborhood. a suspect was arrested, he had a bulletproof vest, an ar-15-style rifle, and a handgun. then in ft. worth, texas, just before midnight, three dead, eight others injured in a shooting police believe was related to a fourth of july celebration. let s take you now life to ft. worth with cnn s ed lavendera. so, ed, what are you hearing about a potential suspect in that ft. worth shooting?
to thum s point, there s something wrong with the buttermilk. what do you think is going on at headquarters? he engages with people on twitter about twitter. how many people in the c suite do that? they re always hiding behind other folks. the he s basically saying to everybody, put that darn thing down, and go get some fresh air. why don t you live off line a little bit. this is important. i m still sitting here just mathematically physically trying to figure out how you can view 10,000 posts in a day and function otherwise as a human being. this happened on a saturday morning in the month of july before the fourth of july holiday, and people were losing their minds. really what it was, it was the greatest troll of all time, to let us know we spend too much