in chicago, it's 47%. our city are predominantly of color, predominantly poor, predominantly of female head of household. go to community colleges and we are on track for 50% to graduate with college credit. starting next year, everybody will have a post high school education plan. it's the best ticket into the middle class. thank you. i appreciate everybody. [applause] >> rahm did yell at me last night. maybe it was that. reid, john harry boehner, and thanking rahm emanuel, it dawns on me that all three have something in common. they are straight talkers. sometimes overly blunt. the favorite harry reid moment for me as the morning after his 2010 reelection when he wanted to make it clear that i got and i told you so. aback.ber being taken the longer i have covered, whether it is harry reid, john boehner, rahm emanuel, you start to figure out the ones that are the blunt talkers, the ones that tell it straight to you, even if it's uncomfortable, even insulting, are usually the ones getting stuff done. they

in 2015, emmanuel appointed her to head the chicago police board.he was also chair of the police accountability task force in 2016, created after the police killing of laquan mcdonald that issued a damning report on chicago police relations with black residents. part of her mayoral campaign focused on ousting chicacago's political machine, and she linknked preckwinkle to an ongog federal corruption investigation at city hall. this is lightfoot addressing her supporters tuesday night in a victory speech. >> thank you, chicago. [cheers] frfrom the bottom of my heart, ththank you. a few moments ago, i spoke w wih toni preckwinklele. in this election, we were competitors. but our differences are nothing compared to what we can achieve together. [cheers] now that it is over, i know we will work together for the city that we both love. [applause] today you did more than make history. you created a movement for change. them ornot us versus neighborhood versus downtown. we're in this together, and we will grow together. we can and we will build trust betwee

chicago's new mayor-elect, lori lightfoot joins me now from chicago. first of all, congratulations, madame mayor. >> thank you very much. great to be with you. >> the "chicago tribune" reporting that you swept all 50 of chicago's wards. you had an unofficial 74% of the vote there. what does your landslide win tell you about what chicago wants from its next mayor? >> well, i think unequivocally, the mandate that we got last night is that people want change. they want to break from the political machine, which has had a stranglehold on virtually every aspect of chicago life. and i'm going to work hard every single day to fulfill that mandate and to make the changes that i think people want to see in our city. >> your first elected office, chicago, the third largest city in this country. how steep of a learning curve are you expecting and how do you plan to -- how do you plan to overcome that? >> well, i worked in city government and held a senior -- a number of senior-level positions. so i think we'll be fine. look, we're working really hard, we've got a

it's my pleasure. >> i have to ask if it makes you cringe as a chicago leader, as a chicago residentscribe chicago in terms of its history of corruption and the challenges that have really become legendary in chicago in terms of public corruption. >> well, as you know, chicago is a complicated, nuanced place, and yes, of course we have a history of corruption, but we also have a history of doing really really great things. i'm going to be focused on that part of it, and making sure that we make city government much more transparent and accountable to voters. i think that's what they voted for last night, and i intend to deliver. >> as a former prosecutor, obviously you bring law enforcement bona fides into this race, from the law enforcement community into elected office. i wonder if that's part of your promise to your constituents in chicago that there is something to do with law and order, specifically the order of the law and the promise of the law that holds the key to chicago righting itself. >> well, i'm a former federal prosecutor who charged convicted and sentenced a corrupt

foreign minist the incoming mayor of chicago, ri lightfoot.ations against joe biden raise questions about respecting boundaries, and much more. >> woodruff: foreign ministers from nato countries are thered this week in washington, and one of the allies, turkey, has come under sharp criticism for its dealing with the alliance's principal adversary: russia. in a moment you'll see my interview with turkey's foreign minister. but first: some background on an increasingly tense showdown between turkey and the unite states. it was all smiles last week as turkey's foreign minister mevlut cavusoglu hosted his russian counterpart sergei lavrov to reaffirm a major arms deal. >> we have made this deal with the russian federatione will honor it. we bought it out of necessity, turkey is in nd of an air defense system. >> woodruff: but turkey's decision to buy russia's top-of- the-line s-400 surface-to-air missile system has angered washington, because of a big arms deal of its own: the u.s. f is selli5 fighter jets to turkey, a nato ally, and fearsn russia

previously she worked at "the chicago tribune" for 18 years as reporter and editor. she won a pulitzer prize for explanatory editing. we have a venture capitalist, founder of "the texas tribune" and cofounder of the american journalism project, aimed at revealing the news through the power of venture philanthropy. and we have the editor of the nevada independent, a new site breaking stories across nevada. today we are taking a look at innovative nonprofit models of local journalism and will discuss the opportunities and challenges of supplying and financing these ventures. a reminder to our audience, you can tweet questions to us this morning. first, i want to start with john fortin. you founded the american journalism project. you had a goal of raising $1 billion annually for this bencher. -- for this venture. i read that you've raised about $42 million so far in six months. can you give us an update on what that process has been like? >> it has been exhilarating, terrifying, just about any adjective you can think of depending on the day. , the americany journalism

>> shannon: duelling rallies today in chicago on a surprise shannon: dueling rallies in chicago witha surprise decision to drop 15 charges against jussie smollett. how that decision is not only dividing the public but also political leaders. >> palpable anger in chicago outside the office of state attorney kim fox. members of the chicago police department want her fired for her handling of the jussie smollett case, she dropped all charges after police of the grand jury found he faced his own attack. >> our message is we would like him prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. we don't want our officers to have charges dropped. >> reporter: counter protesters led by jesse jackson are backing fox. >> glass out of the wound. >> reporter: smallish was a no-show at the naacp image awards where he was nominated but lost. 's name still top of mind. >> what was he thinking? >> the charges were dropped, we will probably never know all of the details. weaver a lot of information. no one was hurt physically. >> the city of chicago with mayor rob emanuel at the helm once $130,000 restitution

talk beat chicago, which is an off shoot of talk beat covering education news. i follow both of our newspapers, obviously. my husband works at one of them so i better. the radio station, and i think all of it, right? >> there's a lot of bad news often coming out of our industry. i was very interested in hearing any of you share, what are you most hopeful and optimistic about? >> well, 300 million for the knight foundation is a start. if you think about this notion of journalism philanthropy and how new it really is. it was only a generation ago that newspapers were more concerned about being regulated as monopolies than they were about existential risk. and so i get impatient because i feel like journalism and philanthropy in this country needs to be bigger than it is and does. i want it to happen faster, but then i'm reminded in philanthropic time and generation, it's kind of an eye blink. so i think we've got a lot to be encouraged about and i think that knight and increasingly others like them are playing a lead role. >> i don't think that you can be doing wh

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chicago's mayor called smollett a liar. investigation into a letter that they say smollett sent himself. chicago is asking that smollett pay restitution. in $130. the clock is kicking, if he doesn't pay that within seven days it might bring new charges against the actor. >> tucker: not much of a lyricist. thank you. the southern poverty law center lost its founder and president after multiple allegations that the organization they ran was a hot bed of sexual harassment and racism. that's not their only problem. they called themselves an anti-hate organization but they resemble a racket. they have amassed over half a billion dollars by calling anyone against the democratic party a racist or whatever works. an effort to purchase them from society. for doing all of that they can and direct government support to because they are a tax exempt entity. senator cotton asked for an investigation into their tax exempt status. they have a half billion dollars endowment. this is a small organization that has a half a billion dollar end

-- i still don't think enough eyes are on chicago.se let's be clear -- it's not just smollett. it's the d.a.'s office. it's the police office, it's the mayor's office. it's all of the local businesses, that is a city that in its veins has corruption and no one will do anything about it. if the president sends the feds in just for the smollett case, they'll see a lot of nonsense in chicago. >> that's ridiculous to have the doj investigate this. jussie smollett is lying. i work for a state's attorney in baltimore city, any time you dropped the case, it was because something happened. there is something that happened. >> yeah, favor. >> shannon: people have so many questions. >> the point is that -- >> shannon: people have questions about what did happen. >> that's what i'm saying, something happened that tainted this case. that's what i think happened. it probably happened on the state's attorney side. it could have happened from the police department. >> that's not acceptable. >> let's not forget -- i'm not saying it's acceptable. i'm

. >> let's look at chicago which has strict gun laws as a city but there are so many shootings where teams there are so many shootings in that city. >> part of the problem is the guns coming from indiana were guns are so much easier to get which is why i call for raising the standard and having a muchde tougher federal standard in all 50 states. we also know about chicago andol philadelphia and baltimore in the cities that struggle with gun violence is that violence is contained to individual blocks, individual streets and a small group of individuals perpetuatet the violence and there are programs out there that work with violence interrupters from within those communities and those interrupters know who perpetrates most of the violence and they work with them to change community behavior and to change community norms so that if you and i have spat or disagreement i no longer use my gun to make good that we are able to channel the energy and resolve conflict without firearms. those have been credibly successful in the book i argue we need to fund them significantly. >> let's hear fr

iis there" role for privilege in the law enforcement chicago?privilege should never change the outcome, no matter your financial status or celebrity, everybody should face the same level of justice, and that's the concern that we have in this case. first of all, we need to makeer sure we unand, hate crimes do happen. people are targeted as a rt ult of wey look like, how they -- the god that they worship or who they love, so i don't want to dismiss that, but within this particular circumstance, within fivwee time of when the charges were laid out and seemed like there was an overwhelming case aga this individual, suddenly thef attorney's ofice dismisses charges with no responsibility on the part o mr. smollett. that begs for an explanation. i have been saying for a week nce the issue came up at the state attorney's office has to give a more full explanation so you eliminate the perception you're a celebrity you get better treatment than the vast majority of people making their way through a tor torturous kg system. >> i read yo particularly credi

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lived in chicago. nobody didn't love ernie. white sox fans couldn't bring themselves to not love ernie. he was also this generational connection, fathers, and grandfathers, and what was interesting when the cubs got to the world series and won it, 18 months after he died people were going to his grave in graceland cemetery, about a mile from wriggly field to play flowers on his grave, and pray to the baseball gods that they would win the world series. but they were also going to the graves of their father and grandfathers. can kind of a sadness and a nostalgia saying you took me to all these games and you never saw this. you never saw a world series. ernie grew up in dallas. first 18 years of his life, and people in chicago, and people in dallas don't really pay much attention. for the first time dallas took ialked to five of his classmates and they all told me how frustrated they were that dallas had forgotten ernie. and finally, a businessman raised the funds to erect the statue of ernie outside his

he lied to chicago police.re people in jail right now for the exact same thing but he gets a free pass because of who he is or who he knows? not acceptable. >> bill: thank you both. vincent hill. good commentary and jonna smil -- spill bore here in new york. >> i recognize this behavior. never do i claim that it rises to the level of a sexual assault or anything of that nature. what i am saying is that it is completely inappropriate, it does not belong in any kind of professional setting much less in politics. >> bill: joe biden responding to accusations of inappropriate behavior. lucy flores accusing the likely candidate for 2020 of inappropriate conduct dating back to 2014. she was running for a statewide office in nevada. she says biden smelled her hair, kissed the back of her head during campaign event. what does biden say today? >> good morning to you. the former vice president says he does not remember that interaction the way lucy flores describes it but it is important for men to listen and he plans to.

what does the next mayor of chicago have to contend with?just in terms of policy, they have a bunch on the plate. crime, schools, wrestling with the pension, deciding even on how the city council should be organized. dealing with corruption that has just hit our latest scandal in city hall. plus, what do you do with charter schools? what do you do with the public schools. these are mega issues but they also have to be dealt with at the same time as chicago is and should be retainingist position as a tourist mecca, a place where ceos want to locate businesses. and for those of you who have never been to chicago, it's a beautiful lakefront city with beaches and two ball teams. >> i spend as much time as i can. lynn, washington bureau chief of chicago sun times. >>> today is equal payday. after decades of trying to raise equal way, we're no closer to a solution. there's quite a discrepancy in how women are paid. low wage, consider jobs less than $11 an hour, comes out to about $22,880 annually, women make up 58% of the workforce comparatively.

for him to go to chicago. so he gives him $10 and a ticket to chicago. he sent them into chicago. you bring up another and filter so ernie would not be the only black pair on the cubs. now he is completely astounded by the fact that he is around white people, white ballplayers who after the games, do not go d don't eat in the same restaurants. they go to the homes of the west or north side of chicago he has great difficult a week after they get to chicago the cubs go on the first retreat. they go to st. louis, the bus pulls up in front of the chase hotel, the players get out, and they in a taxicab to a black section of town where they stay in a ruling house. his very great difficulty negotiating or navigating. it is very complicated. going back to dallas which really informed him. it was a difficult port time. if it wasn't for the wpa to deliver flowers, beans, whatever is difficult situation. still there is a sense of community to ensure any adult can discipline a child. once he did it is to stop doing that. you know you're going to be in trouble doing it work my tle wa. the high

previously she worked at "the chicago tribune" for 18 years as a reporter and editor and also with us we have the venture capitalist founder of the texas tribune and cofounder of the american journalism project a new effort aimed at reinvigorating local news through the power of philanthropy. and last the editor and founder of the nevada independent and nonprofit news site covering breaking news and stories across the state of nevada. today we are going to be taking a look at innovative nonprofit models with local journalism and discuss the opportunities and challenges of supplying and financing. a reminder to the audience you can send messages using the hash tag. first, you founded the american journalism project. i read last week you raised about 42 million so far and you did that in six months. can you give an update on what that process has been like? >> it's been exhilarating, terrifying, any adjective you can think of depending on the day. the american journalism project is based on three interlocking beliefs that democracy and journalism are interdependent at the local level it

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he told that to the chicago tribune.ng at a situation like this jussie smollett isn't going to pay the $130,000 because that is a confession. why would he pay that when the case was dropped against him and he did press conference saying he had been exonerated. it goes back to chicago making the decision to drop the case which is absolutely shameful. shannon: there have been several requests including an attorney who used to be part of the state attorney's office until not that long ago, chicago filed an, the court asking a special prosecutor so there are a lot of development in the investigation, the letter, the federal investigation that was sent as well so we will stand by because the story is far from over but thanks for helping us dig into it. next up tonight's midnight hero. see that's funny, i thought you traded options. i'm not really a wall street guy. what's the hesitation? eh, it just feels too complicated, you know? well sure, at first, but jj can help you with that. jj, will you break it down for this gentlem

. >> new text-messages confirm chicago prosecutor refused herself from the jussie smollett case. find out what other bombshell text she sentiment trish regan primetime begins right now. trish: our border with mexico, is in total chaos. report after report of groups apapprehended by border police n texas and arizona. we showed you the migrants walking off buses to the united states they are travel could as families, they are attempting to illegally seek entry. it is gone beyond the breaking point. i say this with no political bias but fact. as a country we cannot handle more than 100,000 people coming into our country illegally, no proper communication and no security checks. attorney general now directing judges to deny bond hearings for asylum seekers who illegally enter. if you come in the right way, through the port, you can claim asylum. but the wrong way, illegally, you will have a hard time doing so. think about it. if you are a person with no economic find in hondurus or anywhere el, i get it, why not. why not come here. however you can. including illegally. that is what w

and 25% of the chicago police department is also black.nd there's about another 25% that is hispanic. so i don't know where he gets the idea that chicago police are racist but i think it makes for rhetoric. and let's face it. he's a a former black panther, he has never liked the police. he has made incendiary comments in the past and, we stand against hatred. we are there to protect people and not to incite people. so i think he is speaking responsibly and i hope that the members of congress take action. it's the one in chicago is a bit complicated with a lot of disorder and violence and it needs a competent police department. who wants to join the chicago police department when you get called a racist with no evidence by some buffoon in congress? >> this is a very tough job. one of the toughest jobs in the country. this city has gone through a lot of problems and we are trying to make inroads. i can tell you that the fraternal order of police two months ago brought a plan to the superintendent, and we are trying to mend fences and get out

we want them to come to the city of chicago.former federal prosecutor want to make sure that we are doing everything that follows the law and that people's rights are respected. immigrants, particularly asylum seekers, have a right to due process, they have a right to a constitutional process that is consistent with the rule of law and we are going to continue to insist that that law be followed. >> is there, you know, a cap on how many people you can -- you can absorb in chicago? >> well, i think we've been doing a pretty good job with the resources that we have. i don't have a specific head count. but i'm not concerned that we're going to be able -- that we're not going to be able to accommodate the people coming to our borders seeking asylum and otherwise immigrating to our great city. i think the point is, is that we have to make sure that we speak our values. harmful rhetoric, xenophobic rhetoric, hate, is something we can't tolerate. we haven't tolerated it to date, we're not going to tolerate it on our watch and we're goi

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chicago locked in a groundbreaking battle.htfoot and toni prekkwiprek preckwinkle to become the city's fir first. >> that is unbelievable. >> reporter: leading in the polls lightfoot positioning herself as a progressive candidate who could also become the city's first openly gay mayor. >> it will define, i hope with my election, the dawn of a new era in chicago. >> reporter: preckwinkle also hoping to leave her mark on the city. >> i think it's historic. i'm a history teacher and i can appreciate the history of it. >> reporter: lightfoot supporters say she's just what the city needs. a fresh face that could shake up a stale political machine. >> to grow up and see someone that looks like me and able to make a big impact on chicago and hopefully make some real changes, i think is so important. >> reporter: but lightfoot's critics say she doesn't have enough experience to fight the issues that have left the city in crisis. like the crime and violence that have plagued two-term mayor rahm emanuel. >> i have decided not to seek re

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take look at "chicago sun times" headline.ds 28 hours without a shooting when nearly 30 people are shot in one weekend, what is the reaction there? how do you react to this? >> i think it's the same as every chicagoan how we are all reacting that this is not only just unfortunate, it has become our new normal. i do believe as many chicagoans do, there is a way out of this and the only way out of this is for us to begin to look wholistically at solutions, everything from addressing trauma to thinking about economic opportunities in neighborhoods, providing pathways for people so we don't continue in this cycle of violence. >> what -- to what degree is this tied in with guns and gun laws? because gun laws in chicago are fairly stringent. is this something that has to happen on a socioeconomic level as opposed to a gun law level? >> yeah. so everyone knows when you think about chicago it does have some of the strictest laws in the country around guns and we know our borders are porous. we border with indian that has much more loo

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machine. >> thank you, chicago. >> a woman who's never been elected to office has busted chicago's longtical machine. she dominated tuesday's run off crushing her opponent, a career politician by nearly 50 points. the former assistant u.s. attorney made fighting crime and the political corruption that has plagued chicago politics for decades bedrocks of her campaign. at least two city alder men are currently caught up in fbi investigations with one already facing federal charges. >> we can and we will break this city's endless cycle of corruption. and never again, never, ever allow politicians to profit from elected politicians. >> her mother worked as a health care aide. her father work ed in a factory and as a janitor. he often brings up her own background while promising to improve the city school system and bridge the economic gap between city neighborhoods. >> i want to make sure the kids who lock like me and growing up in families like mine have the opportunity at their fingertips. >> together, we can and will make chicago a place where your zip code doesn't determine your destiny

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the city of chicago and chicago law department will not have any further comment at this time. smollett's lawyers say he won't be intimidated and vow that if the city follows through with the lawsuit, they would insist on deposing former mayor rahm emanuel. police superintendent eddie johnson and other key players. there was no mention of deposing state's attorney kim foxx who is under fire for dropping the charges against smollett. all three chicago police chiefs associations have voted no confidence in foxx and have demanded she resign. foxx is refusing. but even the new mayor of chicago, lori lightfoot herself a former federal prosecutor says foxx owes a public a better explanation for dropping those charges. >> sean: trace gallagher on the west coast newsroom. i sat down recently with our old friend elizabeth hasselbeck to talk about her time at fox and the view. including an exchange she had with barbara walters and her new book. something we can all learn from. great to have you back. >> glad to be back. >> sean: you disappeared. you've been like -- oh, she moved to nashv

breaking tonight, chicago officials say they will sue empire actor jussie smollett for refusing to pay the cost of the investigation into his alleged hate crime hoax. wyatt means bigger trouble now being for the battle director. plus, 202 2020 town hall with a contender potentially howard schultz the starbucks invited h. the future of the democratic party and his views on the border controversy. hello, welcome to "fox news @ night," shannon bream in washington. we begin with chief national correspondent ed henry and heading to the southern border, good evening, ed, the president is shutting the border down soon and still an option saying he will not guarantee the border is staying open for a year. and putting tariffs on mexican cars out there as a stick and if that doesn't work all bets are off. the president declaring the taxes on mexican cars, a powerful incentive for the neighbor to the south to get serious about spreading drugs and illegal immigrants across the border. in the president, you noted and homeland security kirsten nielsen and president headed friday to the border crossi

louis, chicago and then to the bronx zoo.ey were going to go into these stadiums and rope antelope and bison to show people what the wild west was about. they didn't get any farther than chicago. it was a debacle. the bison already were pretty crippled up by the time they got and the cowboys were pretty rough on the bison in the stadium. anti-report on the viciousness of them all. canceled,howings were mccoy did not do so well with that. those are interesting side things. is there an estimate on how many had traversed the trail during this activity? become theicago slaughterhouse world? you talk about the cattle going directly to new jersey, was chicago developing the same time and did it depend upon refrigeration cars? i don't have a good firm answer for you on the first. i don't know how many individuals went up and down the trail. just be a wild guess on my part. to your second question, chicago starts dominating the stockyard trade by 1900. they were in kansas city, omaha, colorado. refrigeration helped. the consolidating

the news is breaking now in chicago. here's what's just happened.announced a vote of no confidence in the prosecutor whose office dropped charges against the empire actor, jussie smollett. we'll have new details and talk to a defense lawyer that is a prosecutor next as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news. if you're a veteran homeowner who needs cash, call newday usa. home values are rising, and with newday's va cash out home loan, you can borrow up to 100 percent of your home's increased value. you could get 54,000 dollars or more and lower your payments by over $600 a month. with automatic authority from the va, newday can say yes when banks say no. take advantage of your home's increased value. call newday usa now. go to newdayusa.com or call 1-800-405-6714 our grandparents checked zero times a day. times change. eyes haven't. that's why there's ocuvite. screen light... sunlight... longer hours... eyes today are stressed. but ocuvite has vital nutrients... ...to help protect them. ocuvite. eye nutrition for today. why people

courtroom drama facing a lawsuit in the city of chicago and he could well be called as a witness inederal lawsuit that was filed today but the actor was not named as a defendant. he does say the attack was a hoax directed by jussie smollett right down to the use of a news, bleach, and it is directed and his high-powered legal team and lawyers for the osuntairio brothers said he made reprehensible and damaging statements, the brothers claim the reputation and personal training business were damaged and also suffered emotional distress. gloria schmidt said that two one of the actors followed a successful actor and want to clear their names. >> they were asked to do something by a friend who they trusted and at the end of the day betrayed their trust. >> part of the statement reads the so-called lawsuit by the brothers is more lawyer driven nonsense and a desperate attempt for them to stay relevant and further profit from an attack they admit they perpetrated. the suit will be thrown out, the brothers are seeking an unspecified amount of money and legal costs. shannon: thank you very m

is this chicago politics at its worst? sounds like it.go's fraternal order of police president, kevin graham, who you just saw in his comments today. it's so good to have you, sir. >> thank you. trish: what do you really think went down? >> you know, first of all, this is why we asked for an investigation from the department of justice, because certainly she had what we consider inappropriate text messages between an attorney in los angeles and the state's attorney's office. this is just one of a long series of problems that we've had with kimberly foxx and the state's attorney's office. trish: she collects all this evidence, you hand it over to her and all of a sudden, you know, something happens and there's no case anymore. she just drops it. >> you know, i would guess that all around the country, people are scratching their heads saying how can this happen and certainly when we have officers that come into my office with broken kneecaps, they have had their fingers almost bit off and we can't get felony charges for felony battery again

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one of them at a baby shower john hendren has the latest from downtown chicago. it was a violent weekend in chicago twenty four people were shot three of them killed over a twenty four hour period that began at four am on saturday police say most of the shootings happened on the south and west sides of chicago those are the violent areas where gangs operate where most of the violence happens in the city one of those shootings happened outside of a baby shower in the englewood neighborhood where six people were shot hitting children ages eight and ten this was the weekend of the year and police say that is when the violence tends to happen because after all people come out and elder each other chicago's gangs were largely decapitated over the past decade when police arrested the heads of those gangs that means in some neighborhoods every corner is really a battle area where people are fighting for turf and these are the times on these warm weekends when that violence increases but to put it into perspective last year five hundred thirty people were killed in chica

but for top cops in the chicago area, it's not enough. calling for foxx to step down earlier this month. >> ms. foxx needs to resign, quickly. >> reporter: flanked by supporters, foxx has said she won't leave office. >> i appreciate the support. i will tell you that i'm not going anywhere. >>> nancy pelosi is gracing the cover of "time" magazine. the house speaker is one of six honorees included on the covers highlighting "time's" 100 most influential people of 2019. christine blazey ford is not on the cover but did make the issue. she accused brett kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers. he denies it. kamala harris writing an article about ford for "time" magazine. it says through her courage, she forced the country to reckon with an issue that has too often been ignored and kept in the dark. >>> all right. you see two fighters in the background. investors may be feeling beat up this morning. all the markets in the red. the dow jones down about 17 points right now. cnbc reporting that's because of health care losse