West virginia, new york, and california. As always, we will take your calls come and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is saturday, october 12. Welcome to washington journal as Congress Continues its recess over this long holiday weekend, we continue to track house and Senate Members at town hall meetings. The number of town halls is up this year, due to the increase in freshman lawmakers. Lawmakers of course are spending lots of time on local issues as well. Thesion is when question is, when lawmakers return to washington next week, can they balance impeachment legislating . Can they do both at the same time . Participateyou will tak in this program, we will take your calls over whether lawmakers can balance impeachment and legislating. Republicans can call 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independence, 202 7488002 is your number. Several other ways to take part in the conversation, you can send us a te
Also, were going to turn now lets go to marcus who is there on 138th street in monthaven, good morning marcus. Reporter good morning michelle and rob, weve moved on to the hospital where we are awaiting that briefing momentarily from commissioner bratton and mayor deblasio after an officer shot over night a few blocks away from here. This was some sort of party, apparently in some space on 138th street. There was some sort of dispute that spilled out on the street, observed by a team by antiprime officers, they observed this dispute this argument, involving a large group of people, thats when the nypd officer was shot. That officer shot in the ankle. Officers return fire not the officer who was injured but another officer returned fire and the suspect who had fired upon the officer, police say, was also shot in both taken in the meantime a third person showed up at harlem hospital with a gunshot wound claiming he was shot in manhattan but police have reason to believe he may have been
About his motives. And back behind bars, a mexican drug kingpin returns to the same prison he escaped from six months ago. Im pat battle. Also want to get you updated on the weather. It is changing. A we are watching out for patchy freezing drizzle north and west of town. Some slick spots to watch out for early this morning. It gets milder as the day goes on. Were keeping those clouds in the forecast for sure. Rain arrives tonight into tomorrow. Tomorrow for your sunday thats a rainy and windy mess of a day. Winter weather advisory still in effect well north and west of drizzle. Were seeing that as very light precip on Storm Tracker 4 radar. Temperatures already into the 40s in many spots. A high of 47 today. Were well above average. Lots of clouds and drizzle today. Tomorrow is a different story. Well take a look at that coming up. Were following breaking news out of the bronx where at least seven people are in the hospital, including a Police Officer, after a shooting. It happened ar
About the cot of a small lot today at your local starbucks. Melissa liberals everywhere are looking to spread the new mayors messe. They want to join bill de blasio and tax the rich and redistribute elwell. Sabrina schaeffer ss this that could makethe economy even worse. Lets start with you. Why do you think that . Is funny. Its a new year and i want to try to be optimistic. Melissa good for you. But i dont want to be resentful to myneighbors might make more money. Im ted of the class warfare. I want to see growth for all americans and that is something that seems to be eluding bill de blasio and many other democrats. It is definitely eluding our new mayor and it seems like others are embracing it. Do you think it isspreading . I dont think it is, but the idea has be around forever. Whenever things e bad, you are going against the big ceo guy. Because nobody can defend that guy. And we would make the income ineqlity smaller, not by making the poor up, by redistributing wealth. It s exa
About the cost of a small lot today at your local starbucks. Melissa liberals everywhere are looking to spread the new mayors message. They want to join bill de blasio and tax the rich and redistribute elwell. Sabrina schaeffer says this that could make the economy even worse. Lets start with you. Why do you think that . Is funny. Its a new year and i want to try to be optimistic. Melissa good for you. But i dont want to be resentful to my neighbors might make more money. Im tired of the class warfare. I want to see growth for all americans and that is something that seems to be eluding bill de blasio and many other democrats. It is definitely eluding our new mayor and it seems like others are embracing it. Do you think it is spreading . I dont think it is, but the idea has been around forever. Whenever things are bad, you are going against the big ceo guy. Because nobody can defend that guy. And we would make the income inequality smaller, not by making the poor up, by redistributing