investigation looking at homelessness in several cities shows that seattle s residents don t believe their leaders can solve the issue and despite millions spent on the problem, clearly it is getting worse. it ditto, los angeles. tucker: that was the most inspiring tape i ve seen in a while. thank you for that. well, we told you repeatedly this year that thanks to homeless epidemic across the country, particularly in the west, medieval diseases like typhus are making a comeback. for instance, in los angeles. titus is popping up in l.a. skid row and area where homelessness sprawls across 50 city blocks. an infectious disease eradicated in the 1800s that festers in filth and bites please and rats is back. the city allows hundreds of homeless people to set up shacks on the sidewalk and live there forever. tucker: that was fox s hillary vaughn. we were happy to have year on the site tonight with an update on that. everyone knows rats are dirty
martha: that is the thursday of this thursday augus. as always, the story goes on. really like your tomorrow night. see you at 7:00 p.m. now tucker carlson is live in washington, d.c. good night, everybody. ms. gomez: tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. the past couple of years we have reported in some detail, horrifying detail, on how the professional left has totally transformed of the city of san francisco from this country s most beautiful city, arcade town, into a cesspool is filled with homelessness and drug addiction. that is not and it exaggeration. there are now more junkies in san francisco than there are high school students. you won t be surprised to learn that the city has also become threatening and dangerous. the rate of property crime in san francisco is the highest of any big city in america. more than five dozen cars are smashed and robbed every single day of the year. it s a disaster. but don t worry, the city s
idiot. but i guess the bottom line always is not ideological, it s practical. i mean he can say whatever he wants and he can jump up and down and make all these announcements but the test is life in the city, has it gotten better or worse under bill de blasio and what s down his answer to that? and virtually we are not better off today than we were for six years ago when bill de blasio took office almost all of the gains that we made under the giuliani and bloomberg administration have all but evaporated under this mayor. he is so interested in up raising his natural profile and to being the leader of the so-called progressive movement that he shows little to no interest in managing the day-to-day affairs of the city and the proof is in the numbers. we have an affordable housing crisis in the city, we have a homelessness epic inanimate, unlike anything we ve ever seen before. our police department lost all respect, all confidence in the mayor and where is the mayor? campaigning for p
but in los angeles, the rest can be deadly and we showed you that. last march we showed you conditions on the streets of los angeles that are brought medieval diseases back to life like typhus and since our report, the rat problem is even worse. more cases of the disease continue to pop up. since 2018 in los angeles, there have been 150 cases of typhus and 27 typhus outbreaks. a report from a formal california survey 23 private pest control comedies, all of them say rat reports have spiked in the last year. just two weeks ago, work safety inspector found that employees at city hall in los angeles are exposed to heat of trash and bodily fluids from homeless encampments line the streets not far from l.a. s skid row. l.a. mayor works at city hall but has not declared a state of emergency to handle the homelessness. l.a. city councilmember joe blue sky you know met with the mayor this week begging him to declare a state of emergency in the city telling us, quote, these efforts