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maga actually belongs to the people. a nationwide shortage of baby formula sending the white house scrambling. it s terrifying, it s terrifying when that s the only true source of nutrition your baby gets. will voters blame president biden if back to normal is still beyond their reach. putin s worst nightmare. an expanded nato. will finland and sweden joining the alliance spur a wider war? inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. good morning, and welcome to inside politics sunday, i m abby phillip. racially motivated violent extremism. that is what the department of justice is calling saturday s mass shooting in buffalo, new york. according to a statement from the u.s. attorney general merrick garland. police say an 18-year-old man who was dressed in tactical gear and protective armor drove for hours to reach a predominantly black area of buffalo before opening fire on shoppers at a grocery store yesterday. ten people killed ....
Reporter thats when he turned on his car and drove more than a half mile away to this fire station on 98th avenue. First responders treated him for a graze. Off camera People Living in this area say this is a relatively quiet neighborhood. And wednesday nights shooting comes as a shock. They say this type of crime is misinterpreted and not a fair representation of those who live here. Its not indicative of what happened last night. Like i said, id have friends and a girlfriend living here for two years, its a diverse community, and never really had any problems before. Reporter now, police have not released information on leads or suspect description at this time. If you know anything about this case, youre asked to give them a call. Paul, its remarkable when you think that car hit at least 30 times. Do we know of any homes or any other cars in that area were struck . That is an awful lot of shots that were fired. Reporter it is, b ....
Unstable air masses late into the well, we are getting late into winter but we are into winter now. Heres the totals. Als. Grass valley almost a foot of snow so very productive in the snow in the mountains. Im going to back it up so you can time out your day. You see here the lightning strikes. About noon right up around the marin county area, you see those popping in. Thats 12 48 around danville so you see a few strikes there. Thats where most of the lightning strikes in the areas of the strong convection, thats where the lightning strikes were. Can coolcool air is still unstable where you might see some showers as we are seeing in San Francisco well, just east of San Francisco up in the north bay, clearlake even seeing snow on konocti and Cobb Mountain and south to santa cruz scattered showers, as well. So just a cool sto ....
Tools that became news platforms. This story is about more than what is happening in one small town in the Mississippi Valley in the heat of the night that has tempers and twitter boiling over. It goes right to the core of racial conflict and social divisions in america and the way that those issues are reported. Our starting point this week is ferguson, missouri. Its no longer a 24 hour news cycle. Its a 24 second news cycle. A technological eyewitness to history. From the moment the first couple of tweets hit and once you reach that first 25,000, it quickly turns into four million or whatever, the next thing you know, those people are spreading it to their networks. You dont need a mainstream platform to access a significant chunk of the population. Its word of mouth writ large. Or tweeted large. To understand what drove the coverage of the ferguson story during its early stages, it helps to understand this according to data ....