breaking this summer, and it is happening here in america s third-largest city. homicides in chicago are up 38% this year. that s 275 murders so far in 2012. nearly all of them casualties of a gang war. it s even more remarkable when you consider that overall crime in chicago is down, and so is crime nationally. the police here tell us that july is the worst month for murders, saturday the worst day, 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. the worst hour. today the mayor announced a new attack on gangs and we ll have our interview with the mayor in just a moment. but we ll start with this last weekend. 17 new shootings, and dean reynolds was at the hospital to meet them. reporter: at the cook county trauma unit in chicago s strojer hospital, one ambulance after another delivers victims of the gang violence that just won t stop. we ll be doing a whole bunch to you right now. reporter: this unit treats about 1,500 gunshots and stabbings a year. stop that! reporter: in the first six m
million more people. we have to assume the worst case mechanism. reporter: in the midst of the mayhem is dr. fred starr, who was in charge of the unit this weekend. i ve seen more people probably this year who have been caught in the cross fire or caught a stray bullet and that is certainly alarming. reporter: how do you react? you certainly get angry to some extent but also when i see the children, i have three children of my own, and it makes it very personal for me. reporter: the victims include seven-year-old heaven sutton, shot to death selling candy outside her home. and sten-year-old kitanna peterson, shot as she played in the spray from a fire hydrant. she was treated at this unit last week they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. they re collateral damage to some of the violence which is happening on the streets. reporter: do you ever feel overwhelmd? it gets busy here but you get used to it. on the way in we heard another shootin
reporting tonight from chicago. pelley: good evening. there s an important story breaking this sum, and it is happening here in america s third-largest city. homicides in chicago are up 38% this year. that s 275 murders so far in 2012. nearly all of them casualties of a gang war. it s even more remarkable when you consider that overall crime in chicago is down and so is crime nationally. the police here tell us that july is the worst month for murders, saturday the worst day, 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. the worst hour. today the mayor announced a new attack on gangs and we ll have our interview with the mayor in just a moment but we ll start with this last weekend. 17 new shootings, and dean reynolds was at the hospital to meet them. reporter: at the cook county trauma unit in chicago s strojer hospital, one ambulance after another delivers victims of the gang violence that just won t stop. we ll be doing a whole bunch to you right now. reporter: this unit treats about 1,
much more than any other country from a government standpoint. so i think we will continue to be the biggest spender on space, the united states. but i think the budgets will decrease because of overall compression on the federal budget. we have a huge budget crisis and largely have our head in the sea and were ignoring the reality we are spending far more than were bringing in. that chicken will come home to roost. so i think we can expect massive pressure of hold budgets including base just because we won t have any other choice. i want to get more to the space expertise. does he not just talked about the political issue that is out there about how what are the appropriate role of government and encouraging job creation? your 1500 employees at spacex. you have the shots in the united states. you re the launch facility in the marshall islands. yes, our facility is at cape canaveral and we are building a launch site at her first base in california. we are not currently
gal, a discussion of u.s. trade initiatives in afghanistan and central asia. this 90 minute event is hosted by the central asia caucasus institute and a train to study program, which is affiliated with the school of advanced international studies at johns hopkins university. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, ladies and shot him in. my name is fred starr chairman of the caucus institute. the program today is cosponsored by the center for strategic and international studies and i am pleased to introduce our co-convener and friend from the sis, anger questions. let me also note that there are various books and studies on today s topics, some of them free. and these are available out right after the program. on the 20th of july in chennai, india, secretary of state clinton had this day. she said, i want to be very clear, the united states is committed to afghanistan and to the region. we will be there. yes, we are beginning to withdraw combat troops and transfer respo