bronx. mr. adams clobbered the progressive in the bronx. why? ric adams ran a campaign around the entire city. he had been in the city for a long time. he was the brooklyn borough president. he had that in his pocket. he went out around the city and really campaigned for harlem, the bronx, a huge proportion of the black vote, we are expecting to go to adams. you saw other candidates like wiley not even go out and campaign in some of those places. tom: why would she not compete with mr. adams for the african-american vote? shelley: i think she did campaign for the african-american vote that it was more of the progressive very left liberal leaning african-american vote, not the necessarily law & order more conservative. tom: lisa is more articulate on this. i am thunderstruck by these results and this issue of folic safety in new york. lisa: i am not under struck because of what i've observed, in terms of the priorities and different areas. the idea that quality of life has deteriorated significantly. people are concerned about someone who can rest

we hit our peak probably in 1972 when the bronx had 430 homicides. >> in the '70s, the bronx looked like once that smoke on the horizon signified industry, progress, jobs. now it means someone is burning down a building. it has become the arson capital of the world. it happens 30 times a day, and the flames are the signal of a national disaster. >> is there anything that can change the situation? >> the bronx, my own estimation, is doomed with a capital "d." >> a lot of gritty stuff went down in new york, and when you think of new york in the '70s you, of course, think of the son of sam murders. >> christine freund, 26 years old, soon to be married, is dead today. dead in a shooting that has no apparent motive. >> the end of 1976, they transferred me to queens homicide. and the first victim that i came across was a woman named christine freund, who was sitting in a parked car with her boyfriend coming from a movie and she got her head blown off. >> there was a series of these random shootings, and the ballistic comparison determined that there was indeed the same killer using the same gu

. >>> next, the horrifying scene in the bronx -- a gunman chasing another man on a crowded sidewalk, opening fire just inches from children who huddle in the terror to avoid the bullets. tonight, the nypd asking for the public's help to find that gunman and his police. erielle reshef with the vote, and we warn you it is difficult to watch. >> reporter: tonight, that terrifying shooting caught on camera in the bronx. two children escaping tragedy by a matter of inches. suspect raysullets striking his 24-yr-old target in the back and both legs. police say the victim, who had an extensive criminal history, may have tried to use the kids as cover. >> i'm disgusted, i'm going to be honest with you. it's very alarming. >> reporter: the children miraculously managing to avoid g the gunfire. authorities now on the hunt for the perpetrator who took off on a scooter driven by an accomplice. new york city seeing a surge in gun violence in recent months. according to the nypd, shootings are up more than 64% compared to this time last year. and police say those kids had no connection to the victim

this is owner of an eyeglass store destroyed in the bronx in the riots. let's watch. >> i do not blame the nypd, i blame the city, the upper of the nypdit, they did not give them, they did not make arrests and stop the looters. they were told just to stand back. it is a free ride. you want to loot? go ahead, you will get away with it. looters know, they are criminals that know the system and the system failed us. >> harris: number one issue, according to financial experts in new york city that we're talking to at fox news, carley, public safety. it matters who is the mayor of new york city, all eyes on nyc. >> absolutely. the thing that gets lost are the victims, the victims are being forgotten and you defund you the new york city police department by a billion dollars, get rid of the anti-crime unit and of course crime will go up. bail reform is one of the worst things that ever happened to the city. last year alone, 500 people were arrestd and released because of reform and quickly committed another crime, many of the crimes felonies. 50 people were sho

they tore through manhattan through the bronx as the black lives matter protests gripped the city.st many of the looters have now been dropped. wnbc jonathan deinst joins us with his exclusive reporting. we have some of these looters' faces on video as they smashed storefronts throughout the city. so why have so many of these charges been dropped? >> yasmin, that's a question many of the district attorneys in new york are now facing. the nypd and the mayor were initially blasted for their response to the mobs that ran through the city last summer. they did set up a task force to try to track down many of the worst offenders, but the courts were closed due to covid. the cases have backed up and piled up. and now critics say the d.a.s are just not moving forward with prosecutions. >> free phones! >> reporter: a year ago, parts of the city were out of control. crowds were seen smashing storefront after storefront. the mayhem continued night after night. at one point, there was even a so-called looting dance party on the streets of soho. the mob seemingly pillaging at will. many were c

i want to show you this is the school, the bronx academy. ally, we would be talking about what happens in the building. they have done something particularly interesting today. out here in the playground, look what's going on. they set up tents. this is for kids 12 to 17 years old, as well as people in the community, to come out here and get vaccinated. it's all part of the city's push and a pilot program at four city schools in the bronx, a neighborhood that's been hard hit by the virus and where there's been some vaccine hesitancy. this population among people who are predominantly black and hispanic. they are in partnership with teachers' unions to make this happen. some parents think it's a good idea. >> some people want to get it. some people don't. me personally, i want to get it. i want my children to get it. it's good for me. >> teachers are excited. it's safe for them. teachers want to teach. this is an opportunity for them to come back to school in september in a safe environment. >> reporter: they are trying to make this fun. you c

and in another incident in the bronx a gunman shoots a man on the sidewalk in broad daylight with twoman had a leg wound but somehow the children escaped harm. we are live. reporter: good evening i have been talking to voters all day and crying continues to be the number one issue as they had to the polls and vote today it was the last day for early voting as every single crime category here in new york city is up from this time last year including shootings critics of the current mayor de blasio blame a number of things like defunding the police by $1 billion last summer and with the anti- crimes unit and through the roof. remember all the rioting and looting those were dropped that those i talked to today are fed up. >> . >> here is luck you will see a lot more democrats running and with the nypd captain including catherine garcia and making the final push today he was on msnbc pushing crime reduction. >> and then to try to get the guns if three out of four shooters are killed walking around. >> voter turnout from four.3 million new yorkers who are registered to vote only 191,000 pe

and the bronx d.a. lark the mother dropping hundreds of looting cases from last summer in order to prioritize the ongoing investigation into the trump organization and what is clearly a politically motivated decision. how do you think you're going to stop arson and how do you stop lawlessness and looting if you get people a gel on a free card? former members of the obama administration starting to criticize the zero experience hunter, former obama ethics chief walter shall is now calling hunter's upcoming art show in which he's selling his art at massively inflated prices to anonymous colliers, $500,000 portraits of a crackhead. the latest of zero experience hunter it seems never ending to get as much money as possible living off his dad's name. recently, revealed text messages show that he called his lawyer the n-word and made several racial slurs about asian-americans and abandoned the mother of his own child and kicked her off his health insurance after she gave birth to his child. lied on a gun appli

. >> we're two regular dudes from the bronx. ? >> 45. >> $4,500? >> it's a status thing? >> it's a flex. >> you're not a big flexor? >> no. >> most late night hosts, it is just one person doing their one thing. we have two. and their chemistry and their ability to rip off each other catapulted them into a need to hear commentary. >> for season 2, we had to do it the right way and bring in the mj of late night. >> the talk show gods! >> there is no better proof that desus and mero touched a real creative nerve than the fact they book david letterman. that's the most respected guy in late night for breaking the form and doing original work. >> what would you like, man? >> i told you. >> now he's saying it about desus and mero. >> you are in the office of the bronx prison and we're not in trouble. is that the key to the bronx? >> yeah. >> does that like open every door in the bronx or is that like a metro card? >> it opens a few. >> thank you. >> i thought these guys, this is it. this is the future. this is the way it ought to be. a

city, a campaign volunteer for merrellal candidate eric adams is recovering after being stabbed in the bronx>> he was stabbed multiple times by an ice pick. that is one of the most dangerous weapons you could use for a stabbing. we're trying to get more from the police department. i want to thank them. they have been amazing during this time. >> reporter: the attack happening days after two children were caught between a gunman and his target, also there in the bronx. fortunately, neither of those children were injured. police are looking for this man in connection to the shooting. meanwhile, in chicago, at least five people were killed in shootings with another 40 injured over the weekend. police are also investigating the broad daylight murder of a university of maryland graduate student who was found stabbed to death on a sidewalk in the city's loop. police have no suspects this morning. but a father's day attack in detroit that left an 11-year-old shot in the chest and his dad shot in the leg has police calling for an end to the senseless violence. >> what we're having right now is an is

starting outing giving up a couple runs in 6 let's head to the bronx a's at yankees. 7 taking on the bronx bombers. 3rd batter of the game at paulson. he takes jordan montgomery deep. that's also 20th home run of the season. he's going to be an all-star. he's a legit mvp candidate. one. bottom of the 6 still one nothing but gary sanchez takes shoarma nia to the wall. score tour runs come in to score and to add insult to injury sanchez fakes out matt chapman he reaches 3rd safely to one yankees top of 9th to out. you never see this. 6 for 3 triple play to end the game. that is a tough pill to swallow the yanks have already turned 3 triple played in 31 days already tied. major league mark for a lose 2 to one when i was excellent again, until that double, he only gave up 2 runs. he struck out 11 in 5 in the 3rd. but. >> it didn't matter. alright us open final round torrey pines, jon rahm needed to sink this putt to take the lead on his final hole and he finishes the round with a one-stroke lead. now louis tyson. he's needed a one under in the final 3 holes to tie it. but on 17th, he shot

you can fully see what took place on the bronx. on the evening of this thursday.t's when the nypd said the masked man charges towards a 24-year-old man on the bronx sidewalk thursday. he's shot while next to him, two children, a 10-year-old girl and a 5-year-old little boy. after the shooting, the gunman hops on the scooter and flees. police on the hunt for the shooter and the scooter. i'll tell you what really stands out, too, from here. aside from the brazen nature of this. look at this little girl. look how she's able to keep her wits that we believe is her little brother and uses her body to shield him from that gunfire minutes away from that action. as for this 24-year-old man, he is still alive. listed in stable condition. investigators are able to obviously get more information from him to try to track down the man who is believed to be responsible for this really terrifying shooting. >> i'm glad you pointed that out. i didn't even see that in my shock. this older sister grabbing her brother and shielding him it's heartbreaking. po low sandoval, thank you s

>> a 42-year-old man was stabbed multiple times in the bronx earlier today. hat to us and the adams campaign says that man went into surgery and is now out and stable. the adams campaign also says this was a regular volunteer for them, and one of the people they rely on as team adams. team adams refers to, you know, eric adams, the brooklyn borough president, former nypd police captain, one of the front-runners for the all important democratic nomination for mayor coming up next tuesday. this stabbing comes as adams made crime the center plank of his campaign, really, and actually he was slated to appear in the bronx at an event to commemorate another horrible incident that happened there earlier this weekend, earlier last week, rather, when two girls barely escaped being shot in that horrific video that everybody saw of that shooting in the bronx earlier this week. so it is a story about one person's battle with crime, this man who was stabbed and apparently getting out of the hospital and had remained stable, and also the story of this new york city mayor's

jillian: a manhunt underway after an off-duty undercover nypd officers attack with a bat in the bronx-year-old was taken to the hospital was a witness says the officer got into an argument with several men when things escalated. investigators do not think they knew he was a cop. police are searching for these men. todd: a man steals a car from a car wash with the owner just feet away, the woman tried to scare him with a hose. he takes off. look at that. with her hanging onto the handle. she eventually let go. the owner of 20 army veteran who just moved to the suburbs. police looking for that car. americans concerned about the violence in our streets, senior political analyst but human says democrats could pay a high price in 2022. >> store closing in san francisco because they can't do anything about shoplifting, the riot squad quitting in portland, those awful scenes of violence in the streets of new york. people noticed this stuff and they don't like it and they never have. if this is still the situation or something like it when the midterms roll around the gravity the party and th

you have that attack in the bronx. you have this narrative running through many of these streets that are dealing with the highest rates of crime like new york, chicago, portland, seattle. you continue to hear calls to defund the police. look at this map. take that in. we're seeing the spike in crime. it is still popular in some of these areas to call for that, ted. how is this possible? >> you know, it's just something that you cannot wrap your head around. in our society, where police officers are out here to protect and to serve us, that there's this so-called call to defund the police. sandra, one of the things that we're having a problem with in america is gang violence or associational killings. these are taking place all over our country. we need more police officers out there to serve and protect us in these various communities. we don't have them. they're leaving, sandra. they're leaving these police departments in droves. these are good men and women. it is very demoralizing for them to continue to try to serv

let's head to the bronx a's at yankee stadium taking on the bronx bombers. 3rd batter of the game atlson takes jordan montgomery deep to straightaway center. that's his 20th home run of the season. he's got to be all-star folks and he's a legit mvp candidate is one nothing bottom of the 6 still one. nothing but gary sanchez takes on the night of the other way and into the right-center gap. 2 runs score and to add insult to injury, sanchez fakes out matt chapman. who gets in 3rd safely one yankees top of 9th now, no outs. you almost never see 6, 4, 3 triple play to end the game. the yankees go on to be oakland. 2 to one oakland loses this series 2 games to 3. let's go to some golf. the last round of the u.s. open jon rahm needed to sink that putt to take the lead and he finishes the round with a one-stroke lead. louise just and got to get guy's name, right. he is one through 17 holes. his tee shot goes wide and into the canyon. he would end up bogeying the whole rahm wins by stroke. his first major. and the first. >> u.s. open win for a spaniard. jon rahm winds us open. i some basketb

the campaign volunteer for mayoral candidate, eric adams a step multiple times on the street in the bronx, the suspect took off, no arrested and made so far and in chicago horrifying execution style killing caught on video. police say a husband and wife were shot after traffic dispute over the weekend. video appears to show the couple being dragged from their car and shot in the street. the man did not survive. mayor lori lightfoot vows to hunt down everyone responsible. white house president region psaki blames the pandemic and the trump administration for the spike in violence. >> there's been a rise in crime over the last 18 months. it is the concern of many americans, republicans and democrats too. jillian: this as a former member of president obama's policing task force shifts blame even further saying it has nothing to do with the lawlessness linked to the defund the police movement or last summer's looting and rioting. >> this rise in crimes not the fault of, it is the fault of the police in this is been are point all along. why do we keep funding systems and institutions the keep

dennis boyle, active supreme court in the bronx. e part of a gang that attacked a 6-year-old and was stopped and battered with a garbage can. the judges in their academic tower feel they have an obligation to respect the criminal, not the victim. >> they are taking the woke philosophy that puts law breakers first. they want to strip us of a criminal justice system. this has made he single new yorker, you are less safe because of this no cash bail, no consequences for criminals. they don't show up for an appearance ticket for a serious crime at this point. every new yorker is less safe than they were. judge jeanine: we keep letting them loose. i don't know why they would show up. jennifer, i have got 15 seconds. tell me what do you think we need to do to start getting to the judges and getting the message out that we are not going to take this anymore. >> we need to vote the democrats out of office that appoint these liberal judges. and we need a review process that hold them accountable for the decisions they make. they can't keep re

this week in the bronx, a man stabbed a campaign worker with an ice pick. ctive nick gerace. there is a beef or campaign paraphernalia. the staffer got in his face and they are rolling around on the sidewalk and he's getting stabbed with an ice pick. you don't really pick fights with someone who has nothing to lose. >> it's better to walk away from situations like this. but because of the policies of the radicals in office, you have violent crime up like 75%. in new york city they are up 93%. if he will be processed, told he's a victim, given nicks tickets and a gift card and sent on his way. jesse: there is no way to defend yourself against an ice pick attack. there is another disturbing video. this is out of chicago. a little fender-bender. the next thing you know they have a gang of people pull up, pull these two people out of the car, and shoot them dead at point blank range. >> it's absolutely horrific. it's a hate killing. the mainstream media will not label it what it is. it's unfortunate, these two individuals, two small children at home. made a wron

. >>> to the bronx, the as for the straight win taking on the yankees.the manager aaron boone got tossed in this one. tony camp had a big homer. the first inning, keeping a good swing going. the fourth of the year and a hi mom in the dugout. that is why i love tony kemp. matt chapman, 415 feet to left center and that is a deep blast and let's bash 4-0, as at one s point. but, the bullpen let's criss, the six innings slip away. to the right and judge scores. tieing the game at 4-4 8thing. still tied. geo urshela off of jesus lazara. the yankees win 7-5 and snap oakland's seven-game winning streak of the. >>> stanford and north carolina state opening up the college world series in omaha. the first appearance since 2008. the pac-12 pitcher of the year. starting for the cardinal. johnny butler, 2-run shot. 2-0, wolfpack and pitched a good game, 5 2/3. struggled most of the game until the 7-6-1 game. christian robinson, the 2-1 blast to right. 6-3. how do you deal with the tension of a pressure game in omaha? ice cream, please. more ice cream. 6-4. bases load

organization sued new york for its decision to end its contract with the former president's golf course in the bronx. the lawsuit was filed yesterday. it alleges that new york city specifically mayor de blasio cancelled the contract because of, quote, animosity against president trump. the lawsuit names the january 6th capitol attacks as the catalyst for the city's decision. the mayor said he has a right to receiver a contract with any company engaged in criminal activity. de blasio says inciting the riots was criminal behavior. >>> they're the ping-pong ball bounce the right way for the warriors. we're going to tell you when the team will pick its next player based on tonight's lottery. delicia: this is where all our recycling is sorted -- 1.2 million pounds every day, helping to make san francisco the greenest big city in america. but that's not all you'll find here. there are hundreds of good-paying jobs, with most new workers hired from bayview-hunter's point. we don't just work at recology, we own it, creating opportunity and a better planet. now, that's making a difference. featuring fresh art

be a potential, including a gun buyback program and eric adams is expected to actually travel to the bronx today to the very site of that shooting and condemn police violence. it's certainly on the minds of new yorkers and it's certainly on the minds of the men and women who would like to be new york city's next mayor. >> no question about that. just looking at that video, when that big sister puts her whole body around that little boy, that is a gut punch right there to watch. hopefully they will find out more information. thank you so much. >>> let's talk more about all of this. joining me now is jillian peterson, an associate professor of criminology and the co-founder of the violence project. thank you for being with us. we just watched that latest video. the numbers are startling, 284 mass shootings this year. why are we seeing so many of these? >> you know, when we talk about mass shootings, it's important to be clear about exactly what we're talking about. so on the one hand, what i study is really public mass shootings where four or more people are killed, not in the course of anot

it happened in the bronx on thursday, the kids, thank god were not injured. shooting victim is in fact expected to survive. what is your reaction to this video? >> this is horrifying and unconscionable, cannot be allowed to happen on the streets of new york. as a parent, i can only imagine what they kids went there and how traumatized they were. thank goodness that they weren't harmed, but we need to get the gun violence down in new york city. the way to do that is to ramp up the resources available to the gun vile position suppress division, as well as in the individual precincts where neighborhoods are experiencing high levels of gun violence. >> i would start a unit of plain-clothed officers. i'm heading to the bronx as soon as we are done and there is a technique called focused deterrent where two thirds of the shootings are gang related. in a lot of neighborhoods, they know who the dangerous people are. so if you go to those people ahead of time and say, look, if anything happens in this vicinity we're going to come to you first, and it has been shown to

chose a 24-year-old man stumbling around two small children while being shot at on a sidewalk in the bronxex hogan has the latest. >> good evening, we are seeing more videos of violent crime so clearly capturing people's panic. this one especially sickening showing to young children caught in the middle. >> disturbing footage in the bronx on thursday, the victim tripping over two small children as he runs away from the government. that doesn't stop the shooter. a brave young girl shielding the smaller child with her own body as the bullets ring out just inches from them, striking the man repeatedly. police say the shooter escaped after jumping on the spec of a scooter. the victim is in the hospital with multiple wounds. no word of the children were hurt physically. police sharing this footage taken on the lower east side of manhattan on wednesday morning showing a man demanding at 82-year-old give him money inside a convenience store. when the older man refuses the suspect punches him in the head and steals his cane, causing the victim to fall to the floor. cities across the country taking

and in sports, the a's wrapping up their series against the bronx bombers in a way you won't believe sports director jason dumas with the highlights. still to come tonight here on kron. 4 news at. >> and now kron 4 sports. >> well, we've got some great weather for baseball father's day. the giaots were looking to take 2 of 3 from their skipper's former squad. let's head over to 3rd in king to see how it all played out. nice family photo right there on father's day. let's go to the bottom of the first mike yastremski had a huge grand slam earlier this week. he goes deep again, this one those into mccovey cove. it's a 2 run. jack. 2 nothing giants. next. batter wilmer flores let's go back to back kerry. does just that is a home run center field giant's role 11 to 2 flores had 2 homers on the day sam along with his first major league start. he only gave up a couple runs in 6, a knicks. all right. let's head to the bronx a's at yankee stadium picking on the yankees 3rd batter of the game at all guy is having a heck of a year. this is his 20th home run of the season. he's going to be an al

the a's and the yankees are in the bronx. matt olson you should give this man the all-star game.omeruns. sean held them scoreless in the six. sanchez finds it to the right center. there was the one run score the yankees take a 2-1 need. nobody out and the a's are threatening and guess what he grounds it to the game ending five, four, three, triple play. the game is ended on the triple play since 2009. >> when you are around long enough you see everything. we had them on the ropes and he ends up hitting it in the wrong spot. >> that was a crazy thing to happen. he just happened to be in the right spot . >> you saw it right here, the sun's host the clippers, devon booker had 18 points in the third quarter. he was getting buckets cut out 4 straight it gave the next the lead. booker got his first career triple-double on the break . he ran with bridges and bridges gets the flush. the clippers rallied back to back threes terrence mann l.a. down 2 with 22 seconds to go. these nba plows have been so good. booker has the ball, he slams it home, with sons went by 6. golf, the final round o

in new york, a brazen attack in broad daylight one man opening fire on another in the bronx. the bullets missing two young children by inches their father says they're traumatized. today he urged the president and congress to do what they could to stop the violence the community is on edge >> scary because i want him to go outside, but safety first. >> reporter: tonight police here are looking for a person of interest, but so far no arrests, lester. >> gabe, thank you >>> a victory for free speech rights today by the supreme court which ruled a school went too far for punishing a cheerleader for a social media post. pete williams explains >> reporter: the ruling is a big boost for the free speech rights of the nation's public schoolchildren and a victory fo brandy levy of pennsylvania when she was a ninth grader she lashed out one weekend after finding out she didn't make varsity and would remain a junior varsity cheerleader. on snapchat she wrote, "f" school, "f" softball, "f" cheer, "f" everything. >> i was upset and i just wanted to blo off steam and express my feelings. >>

i represent the bronx, new york. i also represent mt. vernon and i represent yonkers. and if you look at the pockets of poverty in these areas, if you look at how public housing is falling apart. if you look at how the lack of programs for kids and young adults and work readiness and lack of green spaces and the cross bronx expressway which goes through the bronx and destroyed the borough many years ago. we need help. we need support. so we have to go big on infrastructure. we have to go big on climate. and we have to go big on racial equity and racial justice. when i traveled throughout my district, the number one thing i hear is there's nothing for kids to do. our housing is falling apart and that's why we see a rise in some of the violence in crime because people are desperate and in desperate circumstances. so, that's fine if we want to have a bipartisan agreement which i believe we have one currently in place. but it has to be coupled with an agreement that's going to be very big, that republicans probably are not going to agree to but at this moment, democrats are

we showed laying off lead in broad daylight across the cement that was in the bronx. she doesn't want to talk about that, she wants to talk about context. >> dana: so the strategy from the white house seems to be we don't have a new policy except for the gun policy that the president announced last week. there's no effort to show greater support for police, no commitment to reducing crime, it's just sort of it's your fault but if you are in government, shouldn't you run to the problems that rather than running away from them? >> harold: politics is politics and everyone will put their spin on it. the most important statement about crime and politics in new york city is what happened in the mayor's race a week ago when you had a democrat that came out first, the one democrat looking at two of the top three which make up more than 50% of the vote. they are against defunding the police. they are going to bring bills to the floor to defund the police and no serious mayor or police chief the most important authoritative police chief in my generation and my -- called the pro

according to an nbc, new york investigation, the bronx, tarboro ravaged by fires and mass including some more than 6 dropped and in manhattan when looters freely assaulted in soho , over 200 of those arrested had their cases dropped. according to the media, pointin out that problem makes you the problem. take new york city mayor candidate who in the last mayoral debate tried to explain what every citizen in this shaken town understands. >> the fact is mentally ill homeless men are changing the character of our neighborhoods. a woman come up my wife ellen i friends with and her mom group was punched in the face by a mentally ill man. this is happening new york city and were not talking enough about it. families are leaving is a result . yes mentally ill people have rights, but you know who else have rights? we have a right to walk the street and not fear for our safety because it mentally ill person is going to lash out at us. he make sense, he smokes he speaks soberly and the exact qualifications democrats hate and a mayor. michelle goldberg who on hearin gang wrote this, every other can

torres: not only from the great state of new york but the great county of the bronx. education is infrastructure and who better to speak about education than a lifelong educator, -- educator. well before run for congress he was a principal who dedicated his life to educating the students of the northeast bronx. he's one of the first black members of congress to represent westchester county, which was historically in ground zero for resistance to fair housing. if you've ever seen the movie "show me a hero," in yonkers, that's the district of our next speaker. even though he embody how far we've come as a country, he knows more than most how far we must go. ladies and gentlemen, the one and only, congressman jamaal bowman. mr. bowman: thank you for yielding and thank you for your overall leadership and vision not just for our country but for the boogie down bronx. thank you, madam chairwoman for yielding and thank you for your incomparable leadership and wisdom and vision for the c.b.c. and for our country. it is my honor to stand here with both of you to call for a big,

young man and two children struggling to avoid gunfire as a shooter opens fire broad daylight in the bronxn's polo sandoval is following this in new york. watch us through what happened. >> the children is okay physically but emotionally one can only matter what they faced. it's important to see the video for a couple of reasons. a, nypd hoping it will generate any kind of leads who was responsible for this broad daylight shooting that went down on thursday evening in the bronx. in that video, as you can see, it's a mass gunman that approaches another individual who is a 24-year-old man, the one in the red there. then opens fire and hitting him several times we believe in the legs according to investigators. the mass gunman flees aboard a scooter. police are looking for that gunman and the man driving that scooter. we want to pause the video to point out, because we would be remiss if we didn't call attention to heroic action of the little 10-year-old girl you see there. you can see how she actually grabs the little boy and pulls him towards the ground and using her body as a shield to pro

. >> new york, the bronx, another brazen shooting in broad daylight. police say it was gang related targeted a 24-year-old man. children ended up in the line of fire. luckily the children were unharmed. in dallas, a gun battle at a strip mall left a 10-year-old and 15-year-old wounded. in detroit an 11-year-old boy was shot in the chest. his father was shot in the leg. as they sat in their car. >> what we are having right now is an issue with people just creating violence for no reason? the gun violence archive tracked 0 mass shootings across the united states this weekend. in chicago alone, 54 people were shot. 8 killed. chicago's mayor complained the pandemic effectively shut downstate court leaving suspects on bail indefinitely. the superintendent complained too many violent suspects are on the street. >> violent offenders need to be held accountable to the highest consequence that the law provides. full stop, put a period right there. >> as politicians default to the familiar refrain of tougher gun laws, one chicago alderman says the problem isn't t

. >> a's looking to take the series in the bronx. solo shot to dead center field, not even judge could get that on olson with 20 home runs this season. shut down yankees for first two times through the line up. judge can't catch up, career high 11 strike out. he ran out of gas in the sixth, a pair of walks. two run double, this ended his day. a long ball to left hit off the ball away from wade. he is into third for his third triple of the year. a's had tying run 90 feet away with only one out. but they could not bring him on. to the ninth the yankees closer walked the first two batters faced on nine pitches. so a's had two on, nobody out for murphy. >> this could be one, two, and to first, it's a triple play! they've done it again! >> can you believe that? that's how the game ends. yankees turn their third triple play of the season, second this week, and they hang onto beat a's 2-1. >>> won u.s. open two weeks after testing positive for covid-19. it's his first major title. that's the latest in bay area sports. i am dennis o'donnell.

and she would get on the bus between 6:30 and 6:45 to head to the bronx, to lavelle school for the blinduld have occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, in combination with feeding therapy. she would also have musical therapy, adaptive p.e., which is adapted physical education. now, things are definitely different. she now has all of those things, but it's in combination with mom and an ipad. in the beginning it was hard because i was working remotely and doing the schooling remotely. you have to be sitting with her for every single lesson. you have to do hands-on with her every single lesson. so that was overwhelming. it was extremely overwhelming. but then i went to become furloughed, receiving unemployment, which is not even close to what i was making at work. and now i'm doing the remote learning fully, and it made me much happier to know that my daughter is safe, but i'm still struggling financially. so it's like a catch-22. it was very disheartening in the beginning, but at the end of the day, i pray on it and i know that things will work out. soledad: so just how a

it barely miss two young children in the bronx on thursday. a 10-year-old girl helping to walk and shield her 5-year-old brother. it is now a big talking point in the campaign. a bit later on this hour, as we look at this video, watch this for a second. horrifying. yeah. it is just horrifying. look at those two little kids trying to scramble out of the way. yeah. been terrible. and that's the topic we'll be talking about regarding the mayoral election in new york city, and we have a primary day on sunday. tuesday, rather, there. so let's go beyond the headlines. we have nbc's monica alba at the white house, scott mcfarland at the capitol for us. where do lawmakers stand, first, on the voting rights bill ahead of tuesday's critical vote? >> there was a flurry of activity in the last couple days. remember, this is something that the white house and the president really wanted to see action on. but there had been such republican opposition, it was unclear just how they were going to be able to do it. but somebody else that was really a democratic

in the bronx, we are 15% to 20% unemployment. we don't provide adequate health care. we clearly do not provide adequate education. we clearly do not provide homes. the undocumented, like many in the underserved communities, have not been served. we need a plan to do that. my plan to focus on jobs -- the most inclusive economic comeback in the history of the city is for those who have been excluded, like the undocumented. no job, no city. no job, no dignity. it applies to the undocumented as well as the documented. >> i'm going to give you each 30 seconds to answer this. you will all get that time, so keep that in mind. what is the worst idea you have heard from another candidate? we are going to mix up the order and begin with you, mr. yang. mr. yang: the worst idea was eric adams' advice to bring a firearm to church as a public safety measure. think it speaks for itself. >> mr. adams, we were scheduled to go to you next. mr. adams: it went from ubi that mr. yang had and then monopoly money, and then hope and prayers. we have to have real solutions for real new yorkers

you see our iconic picture of bill lovingly looking at fat joe there, the bronx terror squad sensationh was name checked out of the blue. his latest moniker and jopra, because he's been talking, and bill kristol, director of the group, defending democracy, together. glad to have you together. >> great to be here. >> thanks for having us, ari. >> great to be with fat joe. good to be with ari, but it's great to be with fat joe. >> thank you. >> who's over your shoulder there, joe? >> that's me, but it's me and big pun. i only see me right now, but it's me and big pun. that's a classic photo right there. thanks for having us, ari. we love to be on the number one show in msnbc. >> shout out. >> check's in the mail, joe. that's good. he's an experienced pro, right? he said it as if it was natural and he believed it. that was good. >> he knows how to do it. the photo is beautiful. i love big pun. rest in peace. but right now, because of the way we cropped it, it's just like i'm talking to one kristol and two joes. i can love with that. joe, let me ask you straight up on politics, you and bil

a gunman opened fire on a street in the bronx thursday just inches from a 10-year-old girl and her 5-ar-old brother. the kids are okay. the shooter is still on the loose this morning. his intended target is in the hospital. yesterday the children received a treat courtesy of the new york yankees, they were guests at the game against oakland. >>> now to a test run for royal caribbean setting sail in a simulated voyage. volunteers bordered "freedom of the seas" at port miami sunday making sure all cdc measures are in place for paying customers. it's been 15 months since the industry shut down. >> we're ready to take them safely aboard and create amazing experiences for them. they cook forward to get many people on board our ships. >> the test voyage comes after a federal judge sided with florida's governor declaring the cdc cannot enforce covid restrictions on cruises. royal krabian will let passengers who are not vaccinated embark in florida but their access will be limited and they have to pay for covid testing. >>> and next the battle of the summer sales. amazon's prime day kicked of

the pentagon says there were 5 drone attacks on us led coalition personnel in the bronx since april. and the us says iran backed militia, including cat, has belong, say, the show that use the facility that was attacked on sunday. laurence cove is a senior fellow at the center for american progress. he's also a former assistant secretary of defense. he says the us is keen to send a firm message to iran. i think they are very significant because this is only the 2nd time the president biden has use military force. the 1st strike was almost exactly 4 months ago. the end of the end of february, i also think it's significant that he attacked rainy and back courses. at the same time, the negotiations are going on about reinstating the j. c p. away because i think he wants to send a signal that yes, we want to get back into the nuclear agreement, but we're not going to let you do all these other things. and then finally, i think it's also a signal that even though the united states is getting out of afghanistan, we're not leaving the region. we're going to keep troops in iraq until we can se

born in the bronx and raised my a single mother, blige had a rough childhood. young girl she was sexually abused and discussed the incident in 2011. >> when i was five years old, i was molested. i remember feeling right before it happened i could not believe this person was going to do this to me. >> reporter: her mother moved the family to yonkers where blige said there was little opportunity. salvation came in the form of music. >> singing was an escape for me. singing made me forget that we were struggling so much. it just made me forget that i was going through what i was going through, even as a little girl, i had insecurities. i was always blue and sad, but singing made me feel free. that is what i had. that is what i held on to. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: inspired by aretha franklin's "everybody loves the sunshine," blige found her sunshine by blending soul music with hip-hop. releasing her debut album in 1992 at the age of 21, titled what's the 411. the album and the gritty, honest lyrics along with her genuine persona was inspirational to so many, especially you

next up, a trip to the bronx at yankee stadium that begins on friday. ar from the squad. >> you know, they would have done in that. the bring you don't really think about it when it when i'm older these guys compete good good cody pitch go out there and. >> there was a good going over again. >> you know, we played good baseball here recently after getting off to slow start to the season and or second. halves are better 1st half. so, you know, we're just going to continue to grind here in no word if this point in time we played good baseball enough to have that record. >> it's been fun. now the giants, their game up in the nl west. thanks to late ending heroics by mike yastremski that grand slam. that's the mccovey cove shot now despite slumping, a bit in dc the giants bats are still ranked 3rd in the league in home runs with 94 earlier today gave kepler game craziest and his coaching staff for their amazing work and their support of the players. >> the players are all the credit for the steps forward that they take and might just stood in the batter's bo

immigrants and we found an immigrant story called queen of glory set in the new york borough of the bronx to handle the traditional elaborate ashanti funeral in her mum�*s honour. this looks like a family affair. nope, that one�*s just black. these moments of comic relief define nana mensah�*s debut film. as a child of ghanaian immigrants, she grew up seeing plenty of trauma in african immigrant films, but that didn�*t reflect her experience. so she wanted to create something different with queen of glory. we laughed a lot growing up. my parents told crazy stories from back home, or, like, the crazy things that happened to them when they first came to this country, so i wanted to tell the story. where's the body? she was cremated. of course it centres around a woman losing her mother so it�*s not all laughs, it�*s not a screwball comedy but at the same time, there are moments forjoy. i'm not getting on the scale... mensah shows what it�*s like straddling two worlds as a first—generation american. including the challenge of upholding traditions while also showing the powerful connection cu