has been delighting new york city for more than a century. we are carrying the tradition of enchanting our customers and new yorkers. reporter: they paid tribute to frontline workers. now a return to the traditional as shoppers come back to the city. covid-19 and its variants are still here. . you still have to wear your mask and get your vaccines and stuff. but it s nice to be out again seeing people, enjoying things. it s great to start over again. reporter: but a dose of holiday cheer is making the season a little brighter. all right. that is all to say that new york does the holidays best. you have to look back and think about where we were last year. we were just starting to see shots going into arms. we are talking 200 million americans who are vaccinated. this is real cause for celebration for so many families. a lot of people will be happy to put up with the travel headaches to be able to celebrate. it was nice to see all those smiles in that piece. thanks s
called. in huge groups with cars waiting outside. then they just fill the shopping bags with everything that they can get their hands on. hundreds of thousands of dollars of merchandise in some of thinks cases. this was in chicago. in illinois. oak park, i believe. then open shootings like this on the sidewalks of new york city. crime is up and crime is up in cities all across the country. this latest grim count, this is the data that has come in from these cities a dozen cities have now hit their all-time annual homicide record according to an abc analysis of the data. several of them broke records that they set last year. rochester new york is on that list. they have a crime wave. captain frank reno has called this worse than a war zone. he joins me now. thanks for being here today. what goes through your mind when you hear people say that, you know, like a.o.c., alexandria ocasio-cortez from new york, she said the numbers are exaggerated of the smash and grabs. it s not th
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