our electricity, the mayor and gary mccarthy and talk a lot of there's a need for any additional resources. i know that they added more cops on the beach. there is a dramatic change. a look like things are moving in the right direction. when we have setbacks like this, this terrible shooting incident it is a reminder that we are still vulnerable. i am open to appealing to the governor or even the president if necessary. at this moment in time let's keep cool heads and or put the police to solve this crime also called for tougher gun laws. here she should not be allowed to buy a gun legally in the u.s.. >> to of the victims have died. earlier in the evening five others >> a two year-old girl dies after a driver slammed into her and her grandmother on the south side. the toddler is being pushed in a stroller by her grandmother. police said the car was heading north on more and when the driver struck the man crashed into some barricades and parked cars. the death of a worker inside a chicago store wednesday night remains under investigation. flash flooding swept him away after he removed his

police superintendent gary mccarthy laid blame on illegal firearms. >> we need to keep l illegal guns and military type are firearms. illegal guns, illegal guns, illegal guns drive violence and military type weapons believed to be used in this type shooting belong on a battle field not in a street or a corner or a park in the back of the yards. >> mayor rahm emanuel cancelled meetings in washington to fly back to chicago today. in a statement he said senseless and brazen acts of violence have no place in chicago and betray all that we stand for. there were 500 homicides in chicago in 2012. but officials say killings this year are down from last year's pace. you know joie what's remarkable about this story is that the violence continues. just earlier this afternoon a 15-year-old boy was found dead on the south side of chicago after being shot in the back. >> christoph that's incredible. you spent much of this past summer in chicago yourself. reporting on the violence and the gang scroinls there. does this incident mirror anything that you saw there? >> you know unfortunately joie it bo

gary mccarthy was the top cop in new york and newark. we spoke to him in august. >> was there anything about chicago when you got here that surprised you? >> in chicago we have higher gangs that have been around for generations. you know, the grandfather was a gang member, the father was a gang men. >> reporter: police overtime is on track to hit $100 million this year. >> it's the same officers on the same beat every single day. they get to know the good kids from the bad kids. >> reporter: the grandmother of the smallest victim says the solution involves more than just police. >> some of us parents stop being afraid of our kids and stand up. >> reporter: and it continues, brian. just a few miles from here late this afternoon, the body of a teenager was found shot to death. >> john yang starting us off from chicago tonight. john, thanks. >>> now to one of the other front lines in this battle. the doctors struggling to save the lives of innocent victims. as we said we started this week with a mass shooting in washington. one of the endur

chicago police superintendent gary mccarthy. >> illegal guns. illegal guns drive violence. and military-type weapons like the one we believe to have been used in this shooting belong on the battlefield not on a street or in a corner or in a park in the back of the yards. >> reporter: with more cops on the street using detailed block- by-block intelligence, chicago's rate of gun violence is actually down 23% this year. and last june we talked to mccarthy about that. do you have a sense of confidence that i won't be back here in another three months talking about the bloody summer we've just gone through? >> my expectation is while there's going to be violence we will be reducing it. we're making progress. that's why i say all the time progress not victory. >> reporter: chicago mayor rahm emanuel has promised that those responsible for the shooting here last night in this park will be brought to justice and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. but, scott, we learned late this afternoon that two more people have been shot in chicago, including a 15-year-old boy, and he di

. >> this is a press conference gary mccarthy, superintendant of the chicago police, at a presser talkinghe shooting last night. >> based on ballistics information from the scene, we believe the weapon used in this incident was an assault-style rifle with a high-capacity magazine. based on evidence in our initial interviews with witnesses, this appears to be a gang-related shooting. however, that by no means justifies or lessens the seriousness or the nature of this particular event. >> so, eric, this is an interesting statistic. fbi calls chicago the murder capital of the world. they've had 500 murders. compared to new york's 3419. but chicago is -- new york is three times the size. >> murder rate is -- another way of saying the murder rate is more than triple the new york murder rate. the police chief there says it's an assault-style weapon they believe and the gangs have it. no crap, chief, that's the problem. the gangs have the assault weapons. they want to take people who want to defend themselves against high-powered weapons -- the gangs will always have assault weapons -- >> they'l

that's what gary mccarthy said and that is what many citizens who live in the neighborhoods are also saying, these guns are illegal and coming into this area from other parts of the country and often purchased illegally or purchased legally and sold on down the line. soon enough they get into the hands of the wrong people in neighborhoods like this and those people are the gangs. you know, the school system here has already got a safe passage program in place to help kids get from school and home and back again without getting shot. that's the situation that exists in neighborhoods like this. neighborhoods where kids can't even go to school safely without fear of getting shot. as we saw last night, they can't even go over and shoot hoops or hang out in the playset without fear of being shot by the gangs. the gang problem is a huge problem here. the police have put a lot of resources into these neighborhoods and got a lot more men and women on foot patrolling these neighborhoods and they have seized more guns than new york and los angeles combined but tamron, as we saw and found out l

the chicago police superintendent gary mccarthy calling again for a ban on high assault weapons thatlved in that shooting. >> yeah, the shooting we're talking about happened last night in a park on the city's southside. police say the attack appears to be gang related. no arrests so far. of course, this is just the latest of a troubling trend in the nation's third biggest city. the fbi reports chicago leads the country in homicides. last year, 500 of them. >> the mayor rahm emanuel canceled a trip to washington today. his office issuing instead this statement saying senseless and brazen acts of violence have no places in chicago. and betray all that we stand for. >>> this is just the first of the major steps destroying syria's chemical weapons under way right now.cnn has learned the assad regime has at least submitted an initial disclosure of its chemical weapons stockpile. more information is also expected over the weekend. >> yeah. it's procedure they have to follow. it's all started now being handled by the world chemical arms watch doug, the organization for the prohibition of ch

chicago police superintendent gary mccarthy. >> illegal guns. illegal guns drive violence.ary-type weapons like the one we believe to have been used in this shooting belong on the battlefield not on the street or in a corner or in a park. >> reporter: chicago mayor rahm emanuel promised those responsible for thursday's shooting will be brought to justice and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. dean reynolds, cbs news, chicago. >> for the first time, president obama mentioned the recent shootings in chicago during a speech last night at the congressional black caucus guyla. the president founded stead -- sounded steadfast in his commitment to gun control. >> we fought a good fight earlier this year, but we came up short and that means we have to get back up and go back at it because as long as there are those who fight to make it as easy as possible for dangerous people to get their hands on gun, we have to work as hard as possible for the sake of our children. we have to be one, we're willing to do more work to make it harder. >> today, the president will honor the vi

we are also expecting to hear within the hour from the police commissioner, gary mccarthy, of chicago. they are fighting a perception battle, because on the one hand they have statistics that show that crime is down from last year. last year a record year or near record year for chicago. but shootings are down about 22%, murders are down about the same amount from last year and actually homicides, not just down from a record high, but homicides are on their way to the lowest level since 1965. and yet we have nights like this occasionally in chicago. it fights -- it's a perception battle that they're fighting and that they are really trying to get -- as they try to get their hands on the violence problem. richard? >> nbc's john yang in chicago. thank you so much, john. >>> i also want to take you back to the house floor. again reporting for you this hour as we look at the post-vote discussion as well as what they are going through at the moment, we saw just around 11:17 a.m. local time that the vote began. it passed right about four minutes after that. 230 votes at least in the yea col

. >> reporter: the police superintendent gary mccarthy told reporters a high-powered assault weapon was used in the thursday night massacre and he said sensible gun controls are a must. >> illegal guns illegal guns drive violence. and military-type weapons like the ones we believed were used in this shooting belong in battlefield, not on the streets or in the parks or in backs of yards. >> reporter: yet it's actually an improvement over 2012. more police have been put on the beat gathered better intelligence in block-by-block sweeps of gang areas, and because of those new approaches gun vieolence is down 23% this year. for "cbs this morning saturday," dean reynolds chicago. >>> now to washington and the budget showdown that could force a government shutdown and maybe even default on the federal debt. house republicans are looking to defund the obama health care act and neither side is backing down. let's get the latest from jeff pegues in our washington bureau. good morning, jeff. >> good morning, anthony. late yesterday the president called the house speaker john boehner vowing not to

chicago police superintendent gary mccarthy says he needs tougher gun laws and harsher penalties forone of the gunman was not sent to prison after being caught with an illegal weapon last year. >> if the state wants to give us some help, then give us some gun laws out of springfield that are going to help, have an impact on what is happening in the streets of chicago. >> it's drastic and it calls for drastic action. bring in the national guard. >> reporter: state representative monique davis whose district is on chicago's south side thinks the city should ask for help. >> they are shooting innocent people who are playing baseball, playing in the park, riding a motorcycle, walking to school. >> reporter: others think the idea of the national guard patrolling the streets of chicago is ridiculous. >> we do crazy things but we are people and i just don't why the community can't be invested into all of the money that it's going to bring the national guard. at some point they are going to have to leave and then what? you're still left with the same issues. >> reporter: the fact is, homicid

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gary sinesese performed with his group the lieutenant dan band. >> activist jenny mccarthy is if in her first week as co-host of "the view" this, is the show's 17th season, the last season for retiring barbara walters, mccarthy's hiring follows departures of joy behar along with elizabeth hassleback who was staunchly conservative. mccarthy says she will be neither. one thing she said is that she won't be bringing her controversial views to this format. >> i am coming into the table with a down the middle point of vu. i love my parents for what they taught me which was, to choose issues that are important to you. and not necessarily sides. >> what what she means is she's not going talk her views on childhood vaccinations which she believes caused her son's autism. >> still ahaetd 4:00 bay area schools paying tribute to the u.s. ambassador killed in libya last year. >> plus, remembering a bay area man killed on september 11th. how his mother is honoring him today and new documentary about his life. >> and new there are so many things that we do on a daily basis. we run errands. we run to