lori lightfoot filed for re-election and she said chicago is the safest big city in the united states. voters all across the city to remind them not only what we ve done over the last 3 1/2 years but what our vision is for the next four and why the only rational choice is to return me to office. lightfoot makes note murders are down from last year. they re down 15%. 2021 was a staggering year that saw murders jump 60% from pre-pandemic levels when lightfoot took office. when you put everything together both last year and this year have seen reported crimes jump 40% in the city of the big shoulders and 24 shooting incidents over thanksgiving weekend. bill: mike tobin, thanks in chicago. dana: let s keep talking about the chicago crime surge
are up 43%. good leann 18-year police veteran blames it on too many kids with too many guns with too little hope. you don t know how to handle aggression. but could something else be to blame? some suggest police have become less aggressive and visible in high crime areas in the aftermath of public outrage, following the deaths of michael brown and freddie gray. noting cities near or where those incidents happened have seen a huge jump in homicide rates from last year. st. louis is seeing homicides up 58%. and baltimore saw murders jump up 56% over last year. speaking in disguise to brooke baldwin, this baltimore i ve seems to admit cops have backed off. i think the public really really sees that they asked for
bloomberg, no smoking is en smoking by the way is also banned in new york city s times square. and the nation s streets may be just a little bit safer. preliminary figures from the fbi showed crime dropped 5.5% last year, specifically murders and rapes fell just over 4% while robberies went down 9.5%. the biggest overall drop in violent crime was in the east, but it s a little bit of a different story in the northeast which saw murders go up 8%. getting back to the prime minister, we wish him a speedy, recovery, he s a very good man. let s check with jack. the question this hour is does the next generation have a shot at the american dream? mike in dayton, ohio wrote, i m sick of hearing about the next generation inheriting a deficit. my parents and grandparents survived a world war and they succeeded. if the next generation is
teams with he has to deal with the tornado devastation back here at home. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. it s been almost 24 hours since the people of joplin, missouri hid in their homes as the tornado tore through their city. officials say 116 people were killed and many more injured. this makes this storm tied for the second deadliest twister. the toll is expected to climb as one resident puts it. everybody s going to know people who are dead. a massive rescue operations under way that has been hampered by more bad weather. many pipes are damaged. despite the obstacles of success today, the governor says that there were seven rescues. in some cases, entire families were pulled from the rubble alive. at least 2,000 buildings are damaged, including one of the city s two hospitals. brian todd is joining us from outside of that hospital. he s joining us live now. brian? reporter: wolf, as you can see, we re getting another thunderstorm. they have bee