especially robberies has been a major problem in the city for some time. after the judge was robbed near the tennis stadium over a week ago, we decide food take a closer look. we sampled some opinions on the street and asked the police union and the chief of police to weigh in on what we and what we discovered may surprise you. if you re curious about violent crime, all you have to do is subscribe to the d.c. police twitter feed where you will find a continuous list of robberies and crimes takes place. according to the statistics listed on the d.c. police website, violent crime is up 10% when compared to the same time last year and with sex abuse up 3% and homicides are down 23%. if you stop people on the street and ask their perception of crime, you get eye-opening answers. i would say about 40%. and i would say it s up 25, 40%. about 25% in this area. reporter: according to the president of the police union, the district is bucking a national trend and there are p
index is in excess of that. more coming up. we re feeling it. thank you, see you in a few minutes. and we are following breaking news out of silver spring, maryland right now. a customer stabbed inside a post office. sky fox high above the scene on new hampshire avenue. police say the whole thing may have started with an argument. fox 5s audrey barns is live on the scene with the latest. what do you know, audrey? reporter: that post office was crowded with customer when is this incident began. witnesses say a 58-year-old man was stabbed by another patron who felt like he cut in line in front of him. police say the man who was stab head been doing some business at the counter and had to move aside to finish it. he got back in line after that. witnesses said that angered another patron who pulled a knife on the customer as he was leaving. we were just waiting in line and we heard someone say that two people were fighting, to call 911. they had a knife and we went closer
and no. senior political analyst david gergen is with us from cambridge, massachusetts. david, i don t believe it. i don t know. what do you think? if romney picked condoleezza rice would that not be a game changer? it sure would create a lot of buzz just as even the rumor has overnight. coming from matt drudge. you know, it s conventional wisdom within the political community that matt drudge has a direct line to one of mitt romney s top people matt rhodes who is very close in and drudge and rhodes are good friends. so all along drudge has had a pretty good take on it. when he came out and said conned condoleezza rice is at the top of the list everybody said wow. i thought this was off the table. look, i think it s more of a trial balloon than anything else. i m in that camp. the romney people wanted to change the story and get away from bain and get on to other things. it s also true that they could stir things up and sort of put things up in the air and say, conserva
i m suzanne malveaux. america s largest bank opens its books. it ain t pretty. also the late joe paterno speaking out in the wake of the penn state sex scandal. the outcry over teen usa s olympic uniforms. why one lawmaker wants them burned. let s get straight to it. in london soccer star john kerry has been found not guilty of racially abusing an opponent. the two had an exchange of words in a match last october. ter dion eyed they were racially motivated. the world needs airline pilots believe it or not. one of the biggest commercial jet companies says in the next 20 years the air travel industry will need almost a half million more trained up pilots. boeing sums it up this way. the global economy is growing fast and airlines are expanding just as fast to support it. here is the problem. analysts are afraid the pilot shortage will mean trains will suffer and less qualified pilots will be hired. condoleezza rice has said over and over she has no interest in being mitt
excuses. the power lines must go underground. reporter: the president of pepco s electrician s union told council members that the company in 1993 employed 209 line mechanics. you can. ly, pepco has 123 line mechanics with varied training and experience. they can perform some level of customer service restoring a. of these, 29 have just enough qualifications to restore service to homes from poll error errors on the street. poll error errors on the street. reporter: the president of the international brotherhood of electrical workers said pepco cut the workforce of the separate alley-oop unit that connects the powers underground, a third or half of the city has the power under ground and they cut that workforce, too. managers at pepco had not begin testifying and in the past, they said they have cut their unionized workforce and supplemented with local contract workers and have the mutual aid plan where out-of- state utilities send workers. that explaining was not goin