joined the freedom convoy in ottawa. a bloody we can and democrat lead cities like chicago and new york where there has been alarming spike in shootings and stabbings. marianne rafferty live in los angeles with moore, marianne. good morning carley and ashley, raising crime in blue cities over the beacon with subway stabbings in new york despite increasing patrols peer of the suspect pictured in the surveillance wanted for punching a 20-year-old woman in the back and stabbing her three times in the abdomen at a subway stop. an busy times square, popular tourists a 4-year-old boy randomly had by this man, his mother tackling and holding him down into the police arrived. the suspect was arrested for that attack. and there has been a 75% increase in transit crime in new york when he occurring and the city subways. overall crime is up 38% since this time last year. in chicago come my mother turns 18-year-old son in marching him
communities, making their own decisions here. so gary, we see the testing lines are long. we know the cases are up. how about hospitalizations? are those up, too? yes. hospitalizations are up a little bit. about 25 00 people are in the hospital in new jersey right now. but that s not nearly what we saw last december. clearly what s happening here is people in the hospital are unvaccinated. the people that are vaccinated are getting to stay out of the hospital. all right. gary, thank you. they re testing now at the turnstiles in new york city. what can you tell us about that? two subway testing popup sites that opened today, one here in times square. another at grand central. five additional sites are expected to open in the coming days. we have seen vaccination sites in subways prior to this. there s still one here at the times square subway stop, but testing inside of a subway, that s a first for the big apple.
possible. and how did you get i out? well, myself and one of my friends- out? well, myself and one of my friends. first out? well, myself and one of my friends. first we out? well, myself and one of my friends. first we evacuated - friends. first we evacuated two floors of our office. mandatory evacuation. and we walked down 30 floors and because the building, 120 broadway, is a very old building, it was a subway, eight lexington subway stop, and wejustjumped on the subway, went to grand central. and i was fortunately on the last train out of manhattan, i made it home to westchester about that moment, seeing that aeroplane heading towards you, have been absolutely terrifying and i m sure there were psychological consequences but it was the physical consequences that came back to haunt you when you returned to the office shortly after that. tell us about that, please downtown was quarantined for
in the operation is going. as soon as the doors opened to my subway stop, i immediately heard this rush of water that sounded like niagara falls, it sounded like a natural waterfall and i turned around and knowsjust an enormous crush of water. what s the situation on the ground today? how has that changed? are things a little bit better? in our neighbourhood in particular in bushwick in brooklyn, it was almost eerily calm today. the weather outside is beautiful at the moment, which is very jarring after last night. i know there was a volunteer community clean up working in the neighbourhood
prokupecz now. it is remarkable to see, right? it looks like rush hour. we are just after 1:00 a.m. let me flip the camera here. everyone is kind of stranded and many people are trying to figure out if they re going to be able to get home tonight. you have people sitting here and people standing and a lot of people are starting to sit. there is no indication the subway is going to be restored any time soon. there is announcements being made over hhead, because of excessive water on the track, there is no subway. up and down the subway stop, this is what you are seeing. it is people lingering and trying to figure out clearly how they re going to get home and what really scary is some of these people may have to spend