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
Here. as you know, the palestinians, they do not have the tanks, they do not have the aircraft and so forth. so we ll see how the israelis respond because we don t want this to really blow any farther than what it s already blown. proportionalty. something we often bring up when talking about this region of the world. the new york times saying this car ramming and stabbing is raising in their words, fears of a spiraling tit for tat. hamas also coming out saying and supporting what has happened so far saying they ll increase they re calling if you will all forces and energies to now capture the idf s movement here. what is the thought? will we see proportional response from hamas and others in the territories or will we see something that may go away slowly as we have typically seen historically? well, there s no dialogue