christmas shopping season. also breaking tonight senate republicans with the help of democrats vote to block president biden s federal vaccine mandate for private employers and a live report where things stand right now and what happens next. jurors and the jussie smollett trail will reconvene and hours after deliberation set to resume a second day. the legal panel standing by the live to weigh in and we began with the americans crime crisis and rising tide of criticism of progressive policymakers refusing to acknowledge or address the problems of some of their cities. cheap breaking news correspondent trace gallagher is on the case tonight good evening, trace. three weeks to go in 2021 more homicide records could still fall but for at least a dozen major u.s. cities, this has been a year to forget. philadelphia leads the list with 521 murders breaking a record set back in 1990. five other cds toledo, baton rouge, columbus, indianapolis and louisville broke mike broke on th