welcome james burnett, he is the managing director of the chase. a nonpartisan reporting on gun issues. how is it that one can be nonpartisan these days on guns? certainly, it is an issue with strong opinions on both sides. we are journalists that is just a fundamental thing. we do think there is an objective truth there. since las vegas, looking at the numbers from the gun violence archives, they have a team of researchers, create something of a real time count of gun violence in american. 800 people shot since las vegas. 800 more shootings since vegas, like a week ago? like a week ago. not all fatal. 250 fatal. that is not going to count suicides, those don t show up in media accounts and other places. that is a big number. that is a lot of shootings. that is a big number. as horrified as something like las vegas is to the country, it is one piece. it is like looking the front part of the forest fire, it is so much bigger. i am not naive in asking the first.
welcome james burnett, he is the managing director of the chase. a nonpartisan reporting on gun issues. how is it that one can be nonpartisan these days on guns? certainly, it is an issue with strong opinions on both sides. we are journalists that is just a fundamental thing. we do think there is an objective truth there. since las vegas, looking at the numbers from the gun violence archives, they have a team of researchers, create something of a real time count of gun violence in american. 800 people shot since las vegas. 800 more shootings since vegas, like a week ago? like a week ago. not all fatal. 250 fatal. that is not going to count suicides, those don t show up in media accounts and other places. that is a big number. that is a lot of shootings. that is a big number. as horrified as something like las vegas is to the country, it is one piece. it is like looking the front part of the forest fire, it is so much bigger. i am not naive in asking the first.
in new jersey. eyewitness news is live with the scope of the overnight damage. also a man reported missing has been found dead on long island. details this morning as investigators open up a murder investigation. good morning, everybody. early on this sunday morning, april the 3rd. thanks for being with us early on this kind of cold, wet, windy. the wind, if you were driving this morning, the wind was pushing me into other lanes. you were coming up from new jersey. it s not a good morning. thanks for tuning in, starting your day with us. i m rob nelson. and i m toni yates in for michelle charlesworth. welcome to eyewitness news. i was up a little late watching the carolina syracuse game, but i swear i saw a few flurries. and these flakes accumulated in parts of the area. poughkeepsie, let s get started first, the winds are wild outside. we have 37 degrees on the thermometer but we have also got the winds gusting above 40 miles per hour and combine those two and