with violent crime spiking across the country and anti-police sentiment is on the rise. welcome to america reports. i am john roberts in washington. sandra: i am sandra smith in new york. homicide rates are surging. minneapolis and portland sharp increases and protests and calls to defund the police. shootings are all up in big cities like atlanta, chicago, los angeles and philadelphia with portland seeing the largest increase. john: in new york city, every type of crime is up including attacks on asian-americans. a suspect hits an asian woman in the face with a hammer in times square. stunning surveillance video released by the nypd captured the moment a mother is sucker punched a 23-year-old woman and ripped off her backpack. live in new york to start off this morning. what happened to america s safest big city? john, i dug into those crime stats in new york city and we are living in troubling times. look at this past week. shooting incidents jump 182% compared to t
live as soon as it begins. at the very same time we are keeping a close eye on what s happening down in texas. the deep freeze there is over but you have still got 8 million people without power, people lining up to get food and that s not all their problems. some texans are now getting hit with massive electric bills. this woman s monthly bill was over $6,000. i ll explain why that is happening in just a minute. and finally, a new and terrible milestone, the number of covid deaths in the united states of america has now surpassed half a million. a figure equivalent to the total population of kansas city, or miami, florida. the president and first lady will hold a ceremony this evening to honor and remember those who lost their lives. but there is good covid news out there. coronavirus numbers keep coming down across the nation, new cases have fallen, more than 40% over the last two weeks, hospitalizations and deaths are down at least 30%. i want to start this very busy w
migrant camp under the bridge in del rio, texas, might be gone but most of the thousands of haitians who crossed illegal into the u.s. are here to stay at least for now. hello and welcome. a brand-new week. implant sandra smith in new york, new york. hello john. john: i m john roberts in washington, welcome to america reports. dhs secretary mayorkas telling chris walsh on sunday that more than 12,000 haitians or potentially more have been released. sandra: he says the processes in place to make sure migrants make appearances in immigration court but how many of those immigrants actually show up? that s the question that still in the air. former acting ice director tom homan is here and he is standing by to weigh in on that. john: but first we go to griff jenkins in upper tula mexico where in the many migrants start their journey north. and there s another group looking like they are ready to go. good afternoon. the pipeline of haitians trying to get into the united
now seven last word with laura jean coming or it s. good evening rachel, this raises an untrusting artistic question, and that is what the discussion is cameras in the courtroom has been going on for a while. they re in almost all courtrooms in america, and the place where they re not allowed or in federal courts. and because we don t allow them in federal courts, we still have some court artists left. . and are doing this work, and my worry about cameras in the federal courts is what happens to that body of art? and i have some wonderful pieces from courtrooms from decades ago that i treasure. i don t know what the future is if, for that, if we don t have cameras in federal courts. i was thinking about that today. as a journalist, i want cameras in the courts, because i want more materials, as a citizen i m not sure that i do. you re right about losing that as a job. a thing that people need to be good at in our country. i remember one of the things we actually prepped
good evening, rachel, this raises an interesting artistic question, and that is what the discussion is cameras in the courtroom has been going on for a while. they re in almost all courtrooms in america, and the place where they re not allowed are in federal courts. and because we don t allow them in federal courts, we still have some court artists left. who are doing this work, and my worry about cameras in the federal courts is what happens to that body of art? and i have some wonderful pieces from courtrooms from decades ago that i treasure. i don t know what the future is if, for that, if we don t have cameras in federal courts. i was thinking about that today. as a journalist, i want cameras in the courts, because i want more materials, as a citizen, i m not sure that i do. you re right about losing that as a job. a thing that people need to be good at in our country. i remember one of the things we actually prepped when we talked about art lien today was during the tr