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
How s it different that you ve heard when you re on the road from the midterms to where we re at today in terms of how democrats are leveraging abortion rights today? i think what s going to be really fascinating is as i m out there covering the 2024 race on the republican side, it s a presidential year. you and i both know in years where there s a presidential battle, the top of the ticket set it is tone. watching these contenders really awkwardly dealing with this question of what the right week mark is on abortion restrictions. watching people like ron desantis pass a six week ban. that pushes the party to the right and that s going to be an active debate. each month these republican candidates stand on the debate stage and frankly get pushed more to the right to make it out of a primary, that s something we re going to watch democrats be able to seize on. so they re not just looking at what s happening at the state