we were shaking hands with and smiling and our meteorologist jonathan, i look over at him, he was sitting next to me. he looked like a i don t even know. i looked at his face, and i i said, what s wrong? and he pushed his phone toward me with the screen up, all lit up. and a former colleague of ours, again, we re all connected no matter where we ve gone in life. amber roberts, she basically told us through text message so we all found out at a very important event yesterday and just left it was awful. i can t explain it. our hearts go out to you. we re so sorry about the loss of your friend and former colleague there at wtci, anchor there. anna, thanks for your time. we send you and all of your colleagues nothing but the best. we know how difficult this is. thank you. appreciate it. absolutely. the other story we ve been following today in politics is happening in south carolina.
that s what i know and the after math is the media. when you re getting the phone call from your son and he is telling these thing action, they have to be surreal. spencer is the member of the air force. yes, right. my son is national guard. your son we had a screen up. this is is spencer stone and he is active duty and then your son is with the national guard, right? army national guard here in oregon, yes. and then anthony sadler is the third friend in all of this. talk to me how much did you know of these three friends and it goes back. it goes way back to the childhood. neighbors where alek came to live me me when he was 13. they were really brothers.
report that says there was no force used in the arrest of mr. gray and that is squarely contradicted by the fact he s screaming in agony at the point where he s placed in the van. and jason, in terms of what happened in that police van, we know that the driver of that van said that they needed an additional unit for him. then they said that around 8:59 on the clock. that they needed an additional unit. it wasn t until 9:54 that a call was made for a medic. do you have any sense of what happened in that 25-minute timeframe? i have a screen up for our viewers to see. 8:59 additional unit was called. medic was not called until 9:24. does that gap concern you or is that something that can be explained? the gap is tremendously disturbing. mr. gray was unlawfully districted just a few blocks away at four or five blocks away at best a six-minute walk.
then you click yes or no. to go to mike s point, can t these guys pay attention for a few hours out of the year? you would think they would put a big screen up and they should scroll all of the tweets. like the scroll lines for cth n. bill, the congressman was clearly flirting, was he not? he was clearly flirting, but he will get fired because the excuse is essentially, oh you said that wasment to that was meant to be a private message. that holds weight. maybe she is a family trend. no, i was going to tell her that privately how much i love her. he is single and she is single well who cares?
with the guns in their hands are the problem, it s interesting because gun violence and violent crime has gone down in this country significantly. u.s. violent crime in the past two decades down 49%. u.s. murder rate down 49%. yet the rate of gun purchases and who owns guns is up. that s a very important step. a lot of these gun control advocates are saying it is the number of guns, the type of guns, type of magazines. if you put that screen up, that is from the f.b.i. the first numbers are from the f.b.i. that show that violent crime rate is down 49%. murder rate so it takes into account the population growth. the second one is from the department of justice that shows the number of firearms held by american citizens has gone up almost 100%. as more guns are entering our society, the violent crime rates are going down. if you want a pro- advocate full screen, keep playing that one. steve: because there