as future prospects for police departments look bleak many of the u.s. cities that are reporting the highest per capital percentage of violent crimes are also dealing with staffing issues with their police departments. according to the police executive research forum, a survey of almost 200 police departments indicated that retirements were up 45% and resignations had climbed 18%, from april of 2020 to april 2021, when compared with the previous 12 months. while also noting a 5% decrease in the hiring rate during the same time period. according to a september 2021 analysis, by the detroit news of f.b.i. data places like st. louis, memphis, tennessee, and south bend, indiana were among the top five u.s. cities with the highest violent crime rates last year. and, you guessed it, police departments in those three cities reporting staff shortages over the last several months. shannon? shannon: laura, thank you
entergy, they ve brought in thousands of people, thousands of teams, many of them coming from out of state to try to help. right now they say best-case scenario, they expect for the majority of new orleans to have power back next week, wednesday, september 8th, and other parts of the state particularly hard hit like st. charles parish, they re not expected to see power until the end of the month. in new orleans, they did not open any temporary shelters, but they say buses will be running today to take people who want to head to one of the state-run shelters about an hour away from here to those public state-run shelters. the convention center right here, it is supposed to be a temporary shelter for people with special or medical needs starting today, but as you can see, the signs it still says it s not a shelter. initially the mayor said they were going to try to have that up and running on thursday. then the expected date from the mayor s office slid to friday. they now say it s goi
misinformation. you re just watching this freight train coming that delta is going to sweep across the south, and so many people are going to get infected with this fake narrative out there. if you re young, healthy, and take care of yourself, you re not going to get sick. it is simply not true. seeing all of these young people become hospitalized, knowing it is preventable, it is absolutely heart breaking. already, it seems like it is a return to safety measures that are reminiscent of previous covid surges in some major americanti cities, like st. lou, requiring masks again in public indoor spaces and on transportation. you can see the early signs this mask debate will likely return with the attorney general in the state of missouri promising to sue to prevent that from being put back in place, boris and kaitlan. polo, that debate is likely to heat up on the horizon has schools get back and kids get back into classrooms. yeah. i do want to ask you about some news we are tra
like giuliani or others is very, very high bar. so david henderson are there avenues executed on the legal realm, whether it s inciting a riot or inciting a terrorist attack on the u.s. capitol hill based on a lie? i think we re going to see more discussions about other actions taken against giuliani in light of what he s said and done. it s important to keep in mind this decision relies solely on him making false statements during the election. i spent a quarter of my career as a prosecutor in special crimes when you work on those types of cases you have to be able to tell when people are reaching a breaking point. and part of what the court articulated in its 33-page opinion is that this is of critical importance because our country is reaching a breaking point in many ways. over the long weekend i spent
misinformation and reduce confidence in the vaccine. in fact, this is one example. you have the advisory committee on immunization of the cdc now looking at rare incidents of a disease called myocarditis, which is happening to some extent in young men taking the vaccines. but if you look at the data, you re at a higher risk of getting myocarditis and a lot of other bad things from covid-19 itself. and the fact that s not being mentioned in all the conspiracy theories out there from folks trying to reduce confidence is disingenuous. so incumbent upon all of us to get vaccinated at this point, especially areas of the country like st. louis whose hospitals are filling up again with patients with covid-19, especially for the delta variant which is transmissible. as you know well, there are states across the south where the vaccination rates are in the high 20s or low 30s.