the national news. as luck would have it, we brought you the story for the first time a week ago at this time. it s a story out of new mexico. just tonight as we are getting on the air, there is a major development in that story tonight and it is a shocking one. i imagine given these new developments in the story, this will not be the only place you will be hearing about this over the next several days. all right, what we were able to tell you last week is news of a spate of recent shootings that had targeted the homes and offices of at least a half dozen elected officials in new mexico, all of them members of the democratic party. no one was injured in these shootings. these shootings hit buildings, not people. but they apparently had all been targeted at democratic politicians during december and january. so just over the last few weeks. we first learned of the shootings at five homes and offices belonging to some county commissioners and two state senators and new mexico s
targeted at democratic politicians during december and january. just over the last few weeks. we first learned of the shootings at five homes and offices belonging to county commissioners and two state senators and new mexico s newly elected democratic attorney general. then we learned that there is also been an additional shooting at the house of the incoming speaker of the new mexico state legislature. we have since learned some additional details about the shootings targeting individual democratic politicians. it is alarming, it is not an individual pot shot here in there. for example, on december 4th, it was a shots that were fired into a home of one democratic count county commissioner in new mexico. that was december 4th. then on december 11th, it was 12 bullets that were fired into the home of a county commissioner, again, this is all in new mexico, all democrats. december 4th at one politicians home, he s a county commissioner, a shots fired into his home. a week l
not at all certain, so be careful. it is not even close. i m telling everyone to assume that every single race is that close that you, yourself will be the deciding vote. anything can happen. turnout will be key. take nothing for granted. as of now, nearly every major race is dead even in polls or within one to three points. that includes the live free or die great state of new hampshire where a republican is up by one in two brand new poles. straight ahead, bualance duck joins us. we hear from south carolina senator on this race and others, tim scott, and new mexico, their gubernatorial candidate mark ron high temperature oh, polling neck in neck with the state s democratic incumbent. we will check in with carrie lake and blake master s together in arizona. the senate race in the great state of arizona is tied, according to new insider advantage poll. i have to imagine it will mean something that the libertarian bailed out, in pennsylvania, less than a point separates dr. oz
sports. hello and welcome. we begin in washington where the us house of representatives has adjourned in disarray after three failed attempts to elect the republican kevin mccarthy as speaker. it s the first time in a century the procedure has a small number of hardline republicans are refusing to support mr mccarthy. nothing can go ahead in the house until a new speaker is elected. our north america correspondent peter bowes has the story. the heart of us government deadlocked because its members can t agree on who will be the next speaker. the house of representatives is meeting for the first time at the start of the new congress, with the republicans in charge. pursuant to law and precedent, the next order of business is the election of the speaker of the house of representatives for the 118th congress. with a slim majority, the republicans have the votes chris to select the next speaker, but only if most of them agree. kevin mccarthy is the front runner. the republican le
Right now. they lifted their strict lockdown measures late last year and numbers there appear to be just skyrocketing. hospitals and morgues are overwhelmed. officials in china say close to 60,000 people have died of covid just in the last month alone. and this is coming out of a country that notoriously undercounts not only their covid cases but also their covid deaths. one reason china is getting hit so hard right now is because lots of adults in china haven t had the full course of the original course of vaccines, let alone any new booster shots that would target new variants. but it s also important to note that china is in a different situation than we are when it comes to vaccines. they distributed their own vaccine. they didn t distribute the very highly effective pfizer and moderna and even johnson &