that does it for us this hour katy tur reports starts right now. good to be with you, i m katy tur, after a two-week break, congress is back to work, and boy is there a lot to do there is the debt ceiling, which still has not been raised. speaker mccarthy is in new york city today, courting wall street and arguing massive cuts to spending will be good for everyone he wants to get rid of a lot, and he s playing a game of chicken with the white house we re going to explain what mccarthy is doing by showing up in manhattan and why the speaker is betting president joe biden will ultimately negotiate. also here in new york, congressman jim jordan and the house judiciary committee are here the chair held a so-called field hearing on crime today jordan called it powerful. manhattan d.a. alvin bragg just called it a slap in the face to the nypd we also have news on the senate side senators mitch mcconnell and john fetterman are back in washington after a respected medical can m
16-year-old ralph yarl who is out of the hospital recovering after being shot in the head, the family says he has given his victim statement so we re out to police to see if they can confirm that and whether charges are imminent just to be clear sunday the police said they haven t yet interviewed him, we can only hold the shooter for so long but the family is saying that is not true, the police did interview him and oh, by the way he has been out of the hospital since saturday you got that right. because there are two very conflictinging stories the family s attorney said i won t say it was intentionally m misstated. it could be responsible that chaotic information, maybe the information hasn t gotten to the officials who made that statement on sunday, but they said ralph gave a statement and we want to know where the charges are. so we re out to police to see what they say. good news to hear he is out
of the hospital. the rest of it, i guess we ll wait and see what the police say. and in alabama, grief counselors are at a high school in dadeville after a mass shooting at a sweet 16 party four are dead and 28 others injured. authorities have not released any information about a suspect or suspects. joining me now is correspondent guad venegas what is going on here? they don t know if it is one person or two people or do they know and they haven t told anyone yet reporter: we don t know what they know. the latest update on sunday, police said that they were still trying to account for the individuals that were inside the venue the night of the incident and asking the community for more information but they did not release any information on a possible motive or who was involved in the attack we know after nbc news interviewed the deejay, the deejay indicating it was very
police went on the air basically on sunday and said it s possible it s a miscommunication, but we want to know what s going on police said they were waiting on the victim s statement, they couldn t hold the homeowner indefinitely while they wait on that missouri has a cap on that, 24 hours, you have to let them go while you investigate. we re out to kansas city p.d. to get the full answer and get their response to the family s side of the story. in the meantime, as you point out, outrage in kansas city mounting across that community take a listen. it gave me a sickening feeling, i kept looking back at the house. as a mother of real riize ju come overnight, but the fact there is a kid in the hospital and everything i read says not even a charge has been done. that concerns me so again according to the family
use of deadly force by police that we investigate. later today, the files in this case will also be published on our web site for everyone to see. i m proud of the work of our investigators, as you ll see, their work was extensive and thorough the reason i decided to begin publishing all of the evidence that our investigators find was to help each community that has a tragedy like this to understand what actually happened and to know that the investigation was thorough, expert, and independent to know the truth. now, one of our career prosecutors who presented this case to the grand jury that is attorney general dave yost of ohio providing an update to the jayland walker case where sometimes these cases can