a troubling new report from the cdc finds that the u.s. homicide rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020. that s the highest yearly increase in modern u.s. history. we want to be clear, though, the overall murder rate in the u.s. is still significantly lower than it was in the 1980s and the 90s. cnn s ryan young is following the developments. ryan, tell us more about what we learned about this spike. yeah, victor, when you think about this, it s over 21,000 families that had to deal with homicide last year. it s a really sobering number when you think about the numbers of homicides that happened in the country. look, we have been tracking it for over a year. looking at some of the these increases. we have been to portland, shreveport, birmingham, alabama, baltimore, tracking this crime, what we have seen the impact sort of of covid. the guardrails on community sort of fell off during the space, and we saw that increase in gun violence.
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questions from here on the cease an well, from neighbors. there continue to be reports of people who saw something. there was a report yesterday of a neighbor who saw a few years back a naked woman crawling around in the backyard. you just played the interview with the neighbor with jeff rossen. police have been asked about this repeatedly, and they continue to insist that reports of multiple calls to 911 are false. that s what we re hearing from the police. and that s something i want to ask clint about. is this discrepancy between what we re hearing from the community and from law enforcement. neighbors say they sauce suspicious activities taking place at the house. there was? cause for concern or at least alarm. police are saying there was not linking the community sort of what the community was saying to actual police reports. how much is that sort of going to be combed over in the coming