stuck in long lines in the cold to get tested ahead of christmas or finding that tests are sold out at stores everywhere. and though he wishs he had ordered the tests earlier the president defending his handling of the crisis in a sit-down interview with abc news. if you go to the pharmacy we hear this over and over again empty shelves, no test kits. is that a failure? president biden: i don t think it s a failure, i think you could argue we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago, i ve ordered a half billion of the pills. 500 million test kits that will be available sent to every home in america if anybody wants them. peter doocy has more from the north lawn. hi, peter. and there are some new signs in the press area that say either n-95 or kn95 masks are required. a new measure to try to keep this new variant in order. but it hasn t always been like that. let me ask you about what you said on july 4th. i know you remember it well.
thing every year so sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don t. coming up, we ll have the latest weather forecast with what you you can expect today during your celebrations. we re going to start with two u.s. cities responding to a series of mass shootings last night that left a combined eight people dead in fort worth, texas then in philadelphia. in fort worth, three are dead and more than a dozen injured after two separate shootings. while in philadelphia, a gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and armed with an ar type rifle killed five people and injured two. a toddler and a 13-year-old boy. at least one man is now in custody and officials there are set to give a press conference at the top of the next hour. we ll cover that for you live. in a statement, president biden responded to the violence writing quote, today, jill and i grieve for those who have lost their lives and as our nation celebrates independence day, we pray for the day when our communities will be fre
Suspicious substance was found at the white house sunday and that it s tested positive for cocaine in a preliminary field test. that discovery of the substance prompted a belief evacuation. authorities have sent the small amount of a white powdery substance discovered in a work area in the west wing to a lab for further testing as they determine how this got into the white house. the secret service did not specify where exactly in the west wing the substance was found but they confirmed president biden was not in the white house at the time it was discovered. the white house has declined to comment so far. up next, what s changed since the deadly mass shooting at a july fourth parade in a small town in illinois a year ago? we ll talk to a highland park resident who survived that shooting with her son and is now an advocate for gun safety legislation. how is this still happening? how are our children still dying and why are we failing them? dyg and why are we failing them?
people worried about crime. they are saying the videos of break-ins and a new report how several major crime categories have spiked this year in los angeles, including violent crime. this as a dozen democratic-led cities have set homicide records earlier this month. and all this as the surge in violent crime hits close to home for two democratic lawmakers who supported police reforms in illinois a state senator and her husband were carjacked at gun point just outside of chicago. fortunately they were unharmed. then less than a day later pennsylvania congresswoman scanlon was also carjacked at gun point. this time in philadelphia. while she was unharmed the thieves did get away with many of her personal belongings. it was less than a month ago that philly s d.a. insisted there was no crime crisis. there is not a big spike in crime. that is not true. there is also not a big spike
More presidential in a suit than in a santorum southern vest. i m joking, michael, partly because does this stuff matter? it it does to a certain degree. certainly for a lot of folks who fixate on that. but i think for rick, you know, he s trying to project the image of the potential president. so you re going to see him probably a lot more in suits than sweaters. it s great to see you michael steele. it s mitt romney who is trying to get out of the suit. thank you all very much. something very much on the minds of everyone on the campaign is what s going on on in afghanistan. the american soldier accused of gunning down 16 afghan civilians has now been flown into afghanistan and into kuwait. u.s. officials say that doesn t mean he won t be tried in afghanistan. lawmakers are threatening not to sign a strategic partnership agreement with the u.s. unless that soldier faces justice in