town with tourists once again filling the streets. benjamin, times square is still a shadow of its former self, but as you point out, tourists i ve started to return. crime does still remain a significant problem. travel in new york city is the fourth largest single employer in numbers of visitors drop by 67%. money spent plunged by 73%. officials are optimistic though but experts think it will take until 2025 until spending in new york city will turn to prepandemic levels. compute the latter, murder up 23%, shootings up 13%. 80% and hate crimes up 77%. governor andrew cuomo says that the epidemic of crime is a top priority. we have a major crime problem in new york city. everything we talked about with the economy coming back you know what the first step is? people have to feel safe. among them, newark, los angeles, washington, d.c., all reporting a surge all reporting a surge that could scare travelers away. the pulse of the city in times square, there are now over 20
biden. alexandria hoff is live with more. good morning. alexandria: good morning. the financials are different. fox news have been speaking with desantis donors, waiting on the sidelines to infuse this campaign with cash. in the 24 hours following desantis announcement, the presidential candidate raised 8.2 million. desantis campaign manager said this historic fundraising hall shows grassroots republicans are united behienemy governor desantis s vision for our great america. it will be a near miss with former president trump who arrives in des moines the following day and will head to new hampshire and south carolina. in iowa then desantis will travel and make up for lost time, while in iowa, desantis has to do work, former president trump holds 3-1 advantage with republicans signalling they would pick the former president as the party nominee. similar margin on the other side of this cnn poll showing whopping majority opted for kennedy over president biden. here is kennedy
was sworn into office. off and this time the u.s. responded, killing at least eight iranian fighters in atn least two counterstrikes. but a fefiw hours later, undeterred, iranian proxy forces were at it again.a felaunching a series of new rocket attacks against the u.s. installation in the region, injuring even more us service members. the situation on the ground and over the skies in syria, it is not good to say the least. meanwhile, our commander ingood chief,. joe biden, was in ottawa, canada today having a grand old time adjust with justin and his socialist friends in canada s parliament. watch. good afternoon, mohajer. canada. we re going to move five thousand five hundred electric charging stations. guess some union workers, in the words canadian and colonel john mccrie still call to us from flanders field, echoing their charge through the ages. and i quote it to you, from falling from failure for m me fo to you, from failing hands. t we throw the torch to you t
in uvalde, texas where president biden will be tomorrow, jeff to you. and the more we learn about the shooting, the more difficult it gets for in community to grasp what exactly happened at robb elementary school. despite what investigators had initially told the public. we learned the shooter was not confronted by anyone from the time he crashed his pickup truck and began shooting at the school. a minute before the suspected shooter crashed that truck, a teacher at the school had walked outside, propped open a door and then went back inside, and left that door propped open. we re learning that 19 officers stood in the hallway of the school for nearly an hour before a border patrol agent showed up with a master key he had found to open up the door to enter and then kill the suspect. and while the clock was ticking for that to happen. investigators disclosed children were calling 911 begging for operators to send in police to help. texas dps say the local incident commander
charity medecins sans frontieres says attacks intensified overnight, adding it has lost contact with its medics working there. israel s defense forces have been closing in on northern gaza. these purple areas show the approximate align has come in that operations at al shafi hospital have stopped because of a lack of fuel. meanwhile, in an interview with the bbc, the french president emmanuel macron has called for israel to stop killing babies and women in gaza. france, like the uk, has proscribed hamas as a terrorist organisation. our correspondent nick beake is injerusalem with the latest. this was israel s aerial attack on gaza overnight. an unrelenting barrage, like most nights over the past five weeks. israeli forces have now surrounded gaza city s major hospitals, where they say hamas have built headquarters underground. but thousands of patients and those just trying to seek shelter are stranded on what is now a front line of the fighting. the red cross says hospitals