good afternoon. i m bret baier in for martha maccallum. right now on the story, president biden s education department now probing a handful of ivy league universities, colleges, even a k-12 district all reporting cases of anti-semitism or islamophobia as the israel-hamas war continueses to roil american schools. in moments, we ll go live where pro palestinian students are rallying against ethnic cleansing and genocide of palestinians. first, to molly line. good afternoon, molly. good afternoon, bret. the aim according to the education department is to take aggressive action to address the alarming nationwide rise and reports of anti-semitism, anti-muslim, anti-arab and other forms of discrimination. the seven schools under investigation, lafayette college, cornell university, columbia, wellsly college, the university of pennsylvania and the cooper union and maize college. the level of intensity is high. we need to match it with a level of response that meets the moment
we re live in chicago with garrett tenney on the splash and grab that keeps repeating everywhere. grady trimble in washington on the delivery drivers the thieves are now targeting. retired police lieutenant joe cardneli on what needs to be done to stop it from happening. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. tis the season to deal with a lot of grief if you re a retailer or these days a shopper. let s get the latest from garrett tenney in chicago with more. garrett? yeah, neil. it s not just regular old stealing. in a growing number of cities like chicago, it s part of organized crime with gangs of criminals storming in and taking everything they can before walking out and heading to their next target. just this week, one group of thieves in chicago smashed the windows of this ulta beauty store and stole 10,000 worth of goods. throughout the summer though, all across the country, we saw how scenes like this one in l.a. are becoming a lot more common where as many as 50 peop