is it the extent to which guns have become more available? is it domestic incidents? is this an issue of mental health here? there are a lot of questions so many are trying to understand. when you look at here in new york city alone, the number of shooting incidents in 2021, more than 1,400. that s double the number that new york city saw in 2019. but also when you look at the number of homicides here, the number of homicides on the rise. a nearly 40% increase if homicides in 2021 compared to 2019. willie, this is a moment in which a 20-year vet cop, eric adams, took over just this month as the new mayor of new york city. just earlier this week he gave a speech, a solemn speech in which he addressed the need to address gun incidents here in the city. part of that was putting greater focus on increasing the charges that individuals will face for gun trafficking, but he also
thanksgiving in 2019. willie? yep, people moving through airports out on the roads pre-pandemic levels. john, this is omicron variant, we should point out, we don t know a lot about it yet. it s likely here but we haven t seen any cases here. we hope it s not what it s been advertised to be. but this sort of reinforces the truth for this administration and for this president, nothing is solved until covid is solved. it s the defining mission of the presidency. he was elected to manage the pandemic. he got the vaccine distribution program up and running in the springtime with real success. white house aides acknowledged they were caught off guard by the delta surge over the summer. they regret the 4th of july celebration where the president declared independence from the virus. we see cases start to tick up again. as far as the variant, there s a lot we don t know. south africa cases seem mild so far but also younger patients. we will have to see what happens when older folks are af
one year drop since world war ii. deaths from covid-19 and drug overdoses fueled the decline, bringing the 2020 life expectancy down to 77.3 years. a 1.5 year decrease from 2019. willie? let s turn back to yesterday s move by house speaker nancy pelosi rejecting two of minority leader kevin mccarthy s picks for the committee to invest the attack on the capitol. leann caldwell joins us now. perhaps it s not surprising with the two people kevin mccarthy put up for the committee. what s next? they have hearings that start in a few days. speaker pelosi and democrats