People enjoying themselves in the moments later. Chaos, the Cell Phone Video huge crowds of people literally running for their lives scrambling to find cover as a barrage of gunshots let off near bourbon and Orleans Street at least five people wounded by the gunfire at this hour we do not know the extent of their injuries, however, according to local Reports None of the injuries are lifethreatening the newer Lanes Police Department says it has detained one person in searching for others but its not clear any connection that those people have to the shooting, New Orleans like many other cities across the country of a Police Officer Shortage and a spike in crime this is how the president of the Police Association of New Orleans recently frame the issue. New orleans should be at 1600 commissioned officers and were about A Thousand that puts a 60 of what we should be we are so shortstaffed that we have a backlog of calls and they have to be prioritized but people may be waiting hours as th
through loud and clear, if it hasn t already, the extent of the january 6th riot on capitol hill and the former president s role in all of it. an impeachment trial set to start in just three days time, but donald trump s lawyer says that he has found the real villains in all of this. the democrats. there s an awful lot of tape of cities burning and courthouses being attacked and federal agents being assaulted by rioters in the street cheered on by democrats throughout the country, and many of them in washington using, really, the most inflammatory rhetoric it s possible to use. when you have the president of the united states give a speech and he says you should peacefully make your thinking known to the people in congress, he s all of a sudden a villain. so, while the previous president s preparing to defend the indefensible, the current one is trying to solve the crisis that he left behind. from new efforts to get more vaccines to all americans to the push for covid rel
being shown the door earlier today. he didn t make the announcement, somebody else leaked his retirement plan. a short time later the white house probably confirm joe biden strategy to fill the spot. biden said he will make his pick based purely on race and gender. promised only an african american woman will be selected. at jonathan turley, a democrat, questions the constitutionality of this criteria. he brought this, precisely what the supreme court already declared to be unconstitutional, discrimination. we will have more of his article coming up and we will break biden s potentially break it all down. the unlawful and unconstitutional strategy. but first, another groundbreaking moment at the white house. joe biden action at a public event. that did not involve ice cream but unfortunately for joe, it didn t go particularly well. take a look. i m always talking about corvettes. i will point out, when i went to dearborn driving nuts, you know, i was up there. i don t kno
where a hostage situation is still underway. police have confirmed that one of the hostages has been released and will be reunited with his family. we are going to bring you the very latest from the ground in just a minute. plus, how some in the grand ole party have become anti-reality. and you don t have to be a diplomat to get around visa laws any more. or do you? sydney, australia is trying to figure that out. we re going to explain how tennis star novak djokovic is involved. and the supreme court ruled this week the government has no business telling you what to do with your body except, of course, if you live in texas. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. let s start with the very latest on the breaking news out of texas. nbc s morgan chesky is on the ground for us. morgan, we know one of the hostages was released already. have we heard what led to that release? what s the situation looking like at this hour? reporter: yeah, ayman, the colleyville police sai
hostage was released an hour ago unharmed and should be reunited with family. we don t know what led to the release. we do believe there are still at least three individuals that are still inside. congregation beth israel synagogue, which is about a quarter mile from where i m standing, and we do know that ongoing talks are happening with fbi hostage negotiators and that individual, that man who is pleased to be armed and inside and has been inside that synagogue, ayman, since 10:45 this morning. that s when the initial call went out to the local police here, saying that there was some sort of situation happening in this rather small synagogue in this suburban neighborhood. that s about 30 miles outside dallas. and since that point in time, whenever that synagogue s live stream for their services was interrupted by this man, we have seen federal and state authorities converge on this scene, expand their footprint here to about a quarter to a half mile perimeter, and tell ever