With violent crime spiking across the Country And Antipolice 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 asianamericans. 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 23yearold woman and ripped off her backpack. Live in New York to start off this morning. What happened to americas 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 the same week last year. W
analysts following the latest for us this hour. we are going to begin on capitol hill. could this actually be the week that we see democrats pass major legislation instead of just talking about it? how many times have we said that? a lot. yes. it s a good possibility though, really. with all sides pushing and optimistic outlook, at least publicly. senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema may get on board. president biden was up front about the challenges with the two centrist senators but sounded confident he could get the deal to the finish line. josh is traveling with the president in delaware. does the white house think this could finally be the week that these big agenda items are passed? well, they sure hope so. democrats and president biden, kendis, could not be any more eager to be done talking about what they don t have and to be able to talk about what they have actually accomplished and to be able to run on that agenda over the next year as they get into th
a 9mm handgun, shooting indiscriminately inside of that card, sending riders running for their lives. to be two people were shot in more than a dozen others were injured in the chaos and confusion. among the evidence recovered at the scene, the key to a u-haul van. bill: that van led investigators to frank james, now named as the lone suspect. investigators say that he is a prolific poster of online videos, they call the content of his clips concerning. dana: meanwhile, the city is in the grips of an all-out manhunt. police using every available resource to find the suspect that they say was hell-bent on bloodshed. speak of this individual boarded the train and was intent on violence. he then fired that weapon at least 33 times, striking ten people. this is a sick act on innocent new yorkers. we want to thank those new yorkers who posted videos, if you look at that video you will see what really makes our city a great city. he saw passengers helping each other. trust
his first television interview since the announcement in iowa last hour. sandra: polling has him at a distant third, and he will have to walk a fine line between his white house experience and distancing himself from his former boss turned rival. how will he stand out? john: one top issue, the push for parental rights, republicans are campaigning on. they need to stop asking little children what they sexually identify as. six years old to decide about sexual things they don t even know. john: a brawl breaking out in southern california where parents pulled kids from classrooms over the push for lgbtq materials in the curriculum. assistant principal instructed staff to teach kids that every child by default is queer and socialist. a busy one, sandra. sandra: second house. a hazy orange new york at the moment, start with the dangerous wildfire smoke smothering not just new york but the entire eastern united states, john. wild pictures coming in. john: take a look
openly hostile environment for black and lgbtq americans and that desantis is making aggressive attempts to erase black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in florida schools. the group s leader was doubling down on all of this earlier. the governor has perfected to gain c campaign contribution. we should not use race or othering as a tool to weaponize against people. unfortunately for a large percentage of floridians, that s what he has done. therefore we are advising african americans and others that if you travel to florida, beware that your life is not valued. that we have a political landscape that could cause harm. dana: team desantis responded to the travel advisory calling the whole thing a stunt. byron mcdonald is slamming the move. it s silly, dumb, political. makes no sense. we should be focusing on making sure people have the opportunity to achieve which florida is actually doing in thriving and way better than other states.