we re joined live with the very latest. david. john, at the outset it is not believed that anyone in lee zeldin s family was being targeted by this shooting. but it was literally at his front door. a few moments ago i talked to the congressman and he is running for governor here in the state of new york against a democrat cathy hochul and he did tell me his two 16-year-old daughters were in the kitchen when they heard the gunfire. one of the bullets he told me landed 30 feet from where his daughters were sitting. the two daughters immediately locked themselves in a bathroom and then called 911. he issued a statement saying in parting the two individuals shot were laying under my front porch in the pitches in front of our porch. my understanding is that they ve been transported to area hospitals and i do not know their identities and the law enforcement is at my house and my family is homeworking with investigators and working with home cameras and my daughters are shaken b
we are learning new details about the tragedy in connecticut. two officers were killed in the third critically wounded and what police believe was an ambush following a phone 891 call for help. critics say anti- police rhetoric is only making things more dangerous for the men and women in blue who risk their lives daily to keep us safe. correct alexis mcadams is live in new york city which much more on this tragedy. what a shocking thing to happen in connecticut. how many people in that committee are grieving the loss of the families who have to say goodbye to their loved ones but across the country though crime against police is up. and up a lot for the national fraternal order of police funding at all on failed policies and anti- police rhetoric. this comes as crime is more the top priorities for voters right now. just a sense of monday at least 12 police officers have been shot. four of them killed. you can see right there on the map the shootings happened in half a doze
symbol of our commitment to democracy. judges of presidents primarily populate the capitol rotunda the exceptions are bust of martin luther king and a monument to women who fought for the right to vote. hamilton was the odd man out. do not want to remove martin luther king and so he is the one that has been relegated requesting to come to the placement of capitol statues it s just like real estate. all that matters is location, location, location. hamilton s xl to the hall of columns and is one floor below the capitol rotunda. and it s not exactly the room where it happens. the place that he has been moved to is on the lower floor and probably the least prestigious of the places brick works hamilton s sought rise in recent years. the biography in the tony winning broadway musical. the hall of columns as congressional steerage compared to the rotunda.
the mock democracy and replaced with a likeness of president ttruman. this magnificent statue standing in the heart of the capitol as a constant symbol of our commitment to the democracy. symbols pop late the cam toll rotunda and it s the exception of martin luther king and the women that fought for the right to vote. hamilton is the odd man out. don t want to remove hamilton or the women and he s been relegated. when it comes to the placement of capitol statues, it s just like real estate. all that matters is location, location, location. hamilton s now exiled to the hall of columns, it s one floor below the capitol rotunda and not exactly the room where it happens. the place he s been moved to is on the lower floor and lease prestige yous in the rise in recent years.
The House cleared legislation on Monday to honor former Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor with statues in the Capitol.