with violent crime spiking across the country and anti-police sentiment is on the rise. welcome to america reports. i am john roberts in washington. sandra: i am sandra smith in new york. homicide rates are surging. minneapolis and portland sharp increases and protests and calls to defund the police. shootings are all up in big cities like atlanta, chicago, los angeles and philadelphia with portland seeing the largest increase. john: in new york city, every type of crime is up including attacks on asian-americans. a suspect hits an asian woman in the face with a hammer in times square. stunning surveillance video released by the nypd captured the moment a mother is sucker punched a 23-year-old woman and ripped off her backpack. live in new york to start off this morning. what happened to america s safest big city? john, i dug into those crime stats in new york city and we are living in troubling times. look at this past week. shooting incidents jump 182% compared to t
in this country, tracking severe storms at this hour that have turned deadly. the man outside atlanta killed in his suv. the severe thunderstorm and tornado watches as we come on, from texas to the carolinas, then up the east coast tomorrow. ginger zee is here to time it out. news tonight after the deadly boat tragedy off san diego. a crowded boat slamming into a reef, capsizing. people seen jumping into the water. tonight, the captain now in custody with the investigation under way. as u.s. troops begin to pull out from afghanistan, the new attack tonight. a bomb exploding near a school. ian pannell reporting from afghanistan. the news late today from bill and melinda gates, ending their 27-year marriage. what we re learning. and our made in america is back tonight. as america gets back on track. the summer tradition making a comeback and the american families leading the charge. good evening and it s great to have you with us as we start another week together here a
version. these county administrators are walking back the promises they made. show the tape. if you ain t got nothing to hide, show the tape. let s go live right now to north carolina and cnn s natasha chen joins us in elizabeth city. explain exactly how we got here and where things stand right now. reporter: right, ana, you just mentioned the death certificate that was obtained by our colleagues brian todd and producer devon sayers, and just to repeat, this is very new information compared to the 911 audio we ve been listening to for the last few days. again, this death certificate saying that andrew brown jr. died by a penetrating gunshot wound to the dead to the head and died within minutes of being shot. this differs from the 911 audio that we ve been hearing where an emergency responder was heard saying that he was found with a gunshot wound to the back. all of this extremely concerning to the family and community that have been gathered outside this public safety
home on march 13th of last year, killing her, right after she got out of bed. federal officials were specifically looking into the warrant that sent the police to taylor s home and how it was obtained, and possibly the louisville police response to the protests after the shooting. last year a grand jury formed by kentucky s attorney general charged one officer with putting taylor s neighbors in danger, but issued no charges in her death, prompting a huge uproar and continued calls for justice. the investigation will assess weather lpd acts with force in certain activities. it will determine if lmpd determines stops and seizures and whether or not they execute search warrants on private homes. it will also assess weather lmpd exercises discriminatory conduct on the basis of race or fails to have public services along with this act. there will be a review of the louisville police department s policies and training. it will also assess systems of accountability. this pattern
some of the uk s biggest employers say they don t plan to bring staff back to the office full time instead opting for a mix of home and office working. let me know if you can t wait to get back to the office or perhaps you ve preferred working from home and want to keep it that way. on twitter, it s @annita mcveigh or #bbcyourquestions. also this hour. the us backs a move which would allow developing nations to make cheaper versions of coronavirus vaccines. and it ll be an all english champions league final in istanbul where chelsea will play manchester city each club is set to receive 4,000 tickets. good morning and welcome to bbc news. dozens of french boats have arrived offjersey to stage a protest because of a dispute over post brexit fishing rights. french fishermen are protesting at the island s main port st helier, claiming their rights are being unfairly restricted. two royal navy vessels, hms severn and hms tamar, are patrolling the waters around the island