have lost their house, their car, their job, their business, their records, their photographs, everything. chris? chris: steve harrigan reportingg from kentucky, thank you. now to the spike in crime across the country. at least a dozen major cities hitting all-time homicide records already this year. meanwhile, major retailers are pleading for help as smash-and-grab robberies are on the rise. the white house says more guns and the continuing pandemic are behind the crime surge, but critics point to changes in cash bail and more lenient prosecutors, calling on the federal government to do more. in a moment we ll talk with the mayor of the country s biggest city, new york s bill de blasio. but first, let s turn to david spunt at the white house for a look at how the biden administration is responding. david. reporter: chris, the white house and justice department are pumping millions of dollars into fighting crime, but city leaders on the ground say it s not working fast enough.
please, go ahead, maranda miranda. quickly say we have pictures of hunter and joe media hunter for clients at least ten of them . and he has gotten away with tha because the rest of the media about was doubly so that we hav the washington post yesterday back to check try to pack check our latest store and get everything wrong. all he managed to do was actually prove that where brigh cove that joe biden went to caé milano last year in 2015 when h was vice president and met with foreign clients of hunters from three different countries, from russia, kaz extent, and ukraine and he s pumping millions of
very worried that time is running out especially since the boys can t swim out yet. they cannot dive at this time. we re at war, he says, with water and rain. monsoon rains are forecast. this could soon get so much worse. they re pumping millions of gallons of flood water out and pumping air in, but the urgency of a rescue is now growing by the hour. well, the commander here says nothing like this rescue mission has ever been attempted before. he says we re at war. we ve only won the first battle which was discovering the boys. there s a will the more to come. everyone thinks we re succeeding, he said. we are not. so time as well as falling oxygen levels and rain really are closing in on the rescuers and you know, it s exactly two weeks today since the boys went
reporter: the issue, of course, is that this cave system has been flooded. they ve been pumping millions of gallons of water out for the past week or so. the pumps have been running 24/7 and it is now at a point that about a third of the journey it is a nearly three-mile journey. about a third is walkable, but it is an exhausting walk. it is from the cave entrance to where the water s edge is, it is about a 90-minute walk. for these experienced divers who are physically fit, the royal navy divers doing this for a living, they re exhausted by the time they reach the water. they need to sit, have a rest, eat, take 45 minutes, and the air inside there is also very thin. these are the conditions that they re grappling with and they re just not sure at this point if these boys are strong enough to do it. ayman. wow, absolutely heartbreaking to see this. it is a race against time as well. janis mackey frayer, thank you very much. president trump announced on twitter yesterday he has
ineffective until this point? well, in fact, the pain is at the local level, you know, our governor, then governor, shumlin, addressed he dedicated his entire state of the state address in 2014 to the opoid addiction problem. i remember my colleagues in the house saying, peter, why is the governor doing it, it s bad publicity. but then they acknowledged that the problem he was discussing was real in their own communities as well. so the response and the pain have come from the local level and you re seeing us all here experience the pain that s so powerful in our own communities and families that we know. while i have you, i do want to ask you about the washington post investigation about that bill that you co-sponsored. the allegation basically being that the bill was passed over objections from the drug enforcement agency. and it s led to what s called a pill dumping in rural areas, especially these drug suppliers are pumping millions of opioids,