. >> did the shooting as the chicago at 500 homicides for the year. >> so far no comment yet. chicago police have been working hard to prevent it. the 500 happened last night. the shooting death on the west side. 40 year-old nathaniel jackson was pronounced dead just after midnight. three hours after he was shot in the head. his death pushed chicago homicide rate to 500. today that is the talk of the town. >> it is crazy. i think these people are going out of their mind. the need to do something about >> this is only the second time this decade that the homicide rate has hit 500. there were 512 in 2008. the number dropped in recent years. earlier this you're the police superintendent shook up the department to target high crime areas. some feel that is having an effect. >> mccarthy noted recently that overall crime is down by 12 percent. the milestone murder number of 500 as many wary about chicagos national reputation as well as their own safety. >> i do not feel safe at all. i was dodging bullets growing up. maybe next year police will try harder against. >> the mayor's offic

chicago. last night the city saw its 500th homicide this year. ld cnn this morning that 87% of those homicides are a result of gun violence. carol costello interviewed david keene yesterday. here's what he said about chicago. >> i'll tell you who i'd like to have indicted and prosecuted. the people in chicago. the criminals in chicago who made that one of the most violent cities in america. in chicago there's less chance that you'll be prosecuted under federal firearms laws than in almost any major city in this country and that's a crime. >> joining me now is reverend jesse jackson. reverend, good morning. >> good morning, sir. >> i want to get your reaction to what david keene said. but first, what's your reaction to this grim milestone from last night in chicago, the 500th homicide of 2012. >> it is a grim reminder of how desperate we are. we have been riveted by the killing in newtown, the massacre of these children who will never see santa clause again. something about that grabbed us. the focus serves to illuminate the crisis here in chicago.

chicago's homicide rate is up 17% this year, there haven't been these many killings in chicago since 2008 when there were 512 homicides. >>> one man is under arrest accused of leading chp on a pursuit that ended with the death of an innocent victim. the bmw broadsided a lincoln last night not far from the oakland zoo. a female passenger in the lincoln was killed. three other people in the car were seriously injured. this all started around 11:20 last night after officers tried to stop the bmw for speeding at 90th and bancroft avenue. >> the driver of the bmw yielded to the officer as the officers were walking toward the bmw to contact the driver, that driver fled the scene and sped off. >> reporter: the driver is identified as 34-year-old moore of oakland. after the crash he and the passenger got out of the bmw and ran off. officers caught moore but the other suspect got away. >>> el cerrito police caught and and arrested a man who was pistol whipping a woman. authorities have not released the victim's identity. >>> police are hoping two people on a b.a.r.t. train can help identify a

in chicago, homicides are up 17% and shootings up 11% over the last year alone. 't reached the 500 homicide mark since 2008. >>> it has been 512 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? not enough. that gets me to other fourth story "outfront" tonight. bracing for impact. fears of falling off the fiscal cliff are taking a big toll on the financial market. stocks close lower for the fifth straight day, ending the week down nearly 2%. the dow suffered its steepest loss since november 14th and tonight, the president warned of the economic consequences of this partisan gridlock. >> economists, business leaders, all think that we're poised to grow in 2013. as long as politics in washington don't get in the way of america's progress. so we've got to get this done. >> "outfront" tonight, daniel altman at nyu stern school of business. good to you have both here. steven, let me start with you. do you share the president's modest optimism? >> you know, my opinion of this changes every couple of hours, john. because there's these nego

. >> in chicago homicides are up this year. in a neighborhood called roseland this grandmother needs to buy 89 new tombstones. >> we are over 80 behind and we're going to have to rebuild it for the tenth time. >> reporter: diane is fighting youth violence. she's been giving kids an alternative to the streets for a decade by opening up her own home and her own heart. she was honored as a cnn hero last year. >> i felt more honored from the community because of the people who never thought that they would see someone from roseland at that level. ♪ >> reporter: diane's organization has helped an estimated 2,000 young people and since being named a top ten cnn hero, diane's received crucial donations, including a basketball court, computers and a van. she was even featured on an episode of abc's "secret millionaire." >> they found out all our different passions and pushed us to do different things. she is the savior of the hood, in my opinion. >> welcome to come. >> reporter: with the death toll in chicago higher than it's been in y

. >>> a tail of two cities as chicago's homicide rate increases topping 500 murders in the year, by the. new york city's on pace for the lowest murder rate since 1963. that is when they began keeping records. as of yesterday, four days before the new year, of course, the city had 414 homicides, that's 57 less than the previous low back in 2009. the high for a single year was 2,245 back in 1990. wow. mayor michael bloomberg says the numbers are another sign that the big apple is the, quote, safest big city in america. >>> to a cnn exclusive now. new information on south african leader nelson mandela coming from his own granddaughters. they contacted and spoke exclusively to nadya bilchik. >> over the last few weeks, the entire world has been monitoring the treatment of your grandfather nelson mandela. and he was released from hospital on wednesday. i know the two of you saw him this week. how would you describe his condition? >> we were just so happy that our grandfather's home after his hospital stay. he's doing extremely well. he's surrounded by family. we saw him this afternoon with t

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is four times bigger than chicago, but it's reporting almost half the number of homicides. new york city is also four times bigger than chicago, but the city just set an all-time record for the fewest murders in its history. shootings are down almost 9%. why is chicago so violent? its gun laws are similar to those of l.a. and new york, but police say illegal guns are flooding in inner city. mayor rahm emanuel blames illegal guns too. he also blames blight, poverty, and gaps in policing. but the truth is, 80% of the homicides in chicago are black-on-black crimes. groups like cease-fire say we need to change the way young people talk to each other. >> why you keep looking at me crazy? if you come on this block again and look at me crazy, you know what i'm going to do you, man. a simple argument like that could turn deadly. in order to stop a homicide, you have to have the ability to intercept a whisper. >> joining me now, jesse jackson, the founder and president of the rainbow push coalition. reverend jackson, thank you to the show. >> thank you, sir. >> sir, you appeared on "

with leadership and hopes it will work because overall crime may be down by 30 percent in chicago but homicideshe recently ran the department's gang investigation division and recently he got the task of tackling the ninth 27 years of experience he is focusing on 12 ginks' specifically he is going back to the basics in t is excited about it. >> i plan to utilize the context i have made with different federal entities and i have some friends over there in organized crime and i plan to try to tap into anything we can to pass this down and to make a safer place homicides have been on the rise all year. the future will be handled it differently from here on out. the police are going to treat to gain funerals as a gang of bandits. we have more officers per capita than any large city in this country more than new york, los angeles philadelphia so it's not how many you have, it's what they do. >> what they will be doing with those hundreds of different officers was not shared with us today. gary mccarthy has placed 19 of the 23 police commanders since he took off one and a half years ago. families are

chicago? >> well, we're not worse than many cities. in fact, our homicidee is lower than it was ten years ago. we do have a more serious gun problem than many other cities. per capita, the chicago police capture about six times as many guns as they do in new york city. so we have some specific problems with guns. and i think our gang problem as well. i don't want to make chicago seem like more of an outlier than it actually it is. a lot of the things we're talking about tonight, if we had 400 or 300 murders in chicago, we should be having exactly the same conversation which is how to really execute better, how can we get more cops on the street, how can we create the kind of partnerships that tio is mentioning. if you look at milwaukee, detroit, many cities of the united states, baltimore, have actually higher homicide rates than chicago. but ours is certainly high enough. and i think the gun issue is certainly one area where we have to do so much better. >> harold, tio, i have to get to a break. you know we'll have you back. thank you guys for coming on. i

chicago? >> well, we're not worse than many cities. in fact, our homicide lower than it was ten years ago. we do have a more serious gun problem than many other cities. per capita, the chicago police capture about six times as many guns as they do in new york city. so we have some specific problems with guns. and i think our gang problem as well. i don't want to make chicago seem like more of an outlier than it actually it is. a lot of the things we're talking about tonight, if we had 400 or 300 murders in chicago, we should be having exactly the same conversation which is how to really execute better, how can we get more cops on the street, how can we create the kind of partnerships that tio is mentioning. if you look at milwaukee, detroit, many cities of the united states, baltimore, have actually higher homicide rates than chicago. but ours is certainly high enough. and i think the gun issue is certainly one area where we have to do so much better. >> harold, tio, i have to get to a break. you know we'll have you back. thank you guys for coming on. i wan

officials do say though it's too soon to rule it a homicide because it may be a domestic dispute. harris, chicago records show last year there were 435 homicides. >> harris: wow, dangerous place right now. anna kooiman, you just mentioned this. we are going to have more on the subway story. thank you very much. a tough scene in the new york city subway after someone pushed a man in front of an oncoming train. this the is second time we have seen this thing in a month. police released video of the suspect running from the station just after it happened. officials tell us the victim was 46 years old from india and a worker for a printing business. it is unclear whether he knew his attacker. but witnesses say she has been following him and was mumbling to herself just before the fatal push. as you may know, we have reported another man died earlier this month after police say the man you see here pushed him on to the train tracks inside times square subway station. the suspect claims the victim was the aggressor in that. well, it is official. russia has banned american families from adopting russian

this death marks of 500 homicides in chicago this year a number we have not seen since 2008. community activists holmes was following last night's deadly attack, one of 400 he's responded to this year. holmes like many others has praised superintendent gary mccarthy's initiative to refocus police efforts in high crime areas today he called the homicide unacceptable saying: overall the homicide rate is up 15% from last year a statistic that does not sit well with many chicagoans. it's very dangerous. if i'm not going to verse, i go in my house, i don't go out anymore i don't do anything. . new york mayor michael bloomberg talking about the city's statistics on homicides rates is about to hit a record low this year the lowest number they have seen in 18 years. it has tripled the population of the city of chicago. the last inmates at the super max have been moved out the closure will save money demonstrators protest to the prison last april demonstrating against the isolation imposed on inmates there was a 15 year experiment on prisons which advocates believe the state still nee

. >> police say there is been 500 homicides in chicago this year. the 500th victim was killed thursday night. there were 435 last year. they haven't seen this many since 2008. police say they blame gang violence and illegal guns. community leaders say they are struggling to curb violence in certain neighborhoods. >> if you grow up in one of these communities where violence is a learned behavior, it's the culture you have guy that plan out what they are going to do tonight what they are going to do tomorrow. they get into a slight altercation or beef they are going to take that person's life because they have been taught to do that. >> some say police and community leaders have to work harder to change attitudes toward violence. >> congress is considering whether to provide more aid to the victims of hurricane sandy. the senate has passed a relief package, republicans argued the bill included to much money for unrelated aid projects. it struck in late october. it killed more than 250 people in seven different countries. the relief bill goes to the ho

chicago reached a dubious milestone overnight. a shooting victim on the west side became the city's 500th homicide of the year. an was shot in the head outside a convenience store. no arrests were made. chicago has been struggling for decades to overcome an epidemic of gun violence. this year's figures are 17% higher than last year. but it's still just half the murder rate of 20 years ago. according to chicago police statistics, 943 homicides were recorded in 1992. >>> in suburban st. louis, let's just say an alleged shoplifter picked the wrong store on the wrong day. it happened shortly before christmas. the man was trying to leave with stolen liquor and got into a scuffle with a female worker. just at that point, professional kick boxer and marshall artist jesse finney walked into the store and saw the commotion and took action. >> i'm still trying to fight me and saying choice words. he wasn't getting up, i can promise you that. i was like just chill out, relax. i'm not going to hurt you. the police are on their way. you're going to get arrested. >> he owns a store in the area. >>> authorities plan to haul a

take the epic number of gunshot deaths in chicago which surpassed 400 homicides in september. e, chicago has suffered at least 425 homicides in this year alone, and though are just the ones gun-related. including the shooting death last sunday of 16-year-old jeffrey stewart. like jeffrey, 117 of those gun victims, 117 of this year alone were under 21, and now they are gone. it is not just chicago. in my home, in new orleans, 174 murders so far this year as of last night. most of which are gunshot deaths. 512 homicides have been record ed in los angeles, and 75% of those resulted from a gunshot wound. these are the homicides that are treated as routine. tragic, but expected, and yet, they need to be included when we talking about the newtown, connecticut, because their victims are just as real. joining me are ari, and michael and joy-ann and jeff. >> well, i want ted to talk abo the top thak is so important and if you look at the research on the childhood development what we see is the exposure to what would consider adult themes and notions of instability, and insecurity, risk,

factors leading to gun violence from newtown, connecticut to the streets of cities like chicago, where the homiciderate spiked earlier this year -- more than 500 gun murders in the past year, and behind closed doors in cases of domestic violence, we're joined by goldie taylor. she lost both her brother and father to gun violence. she is an msnbc contributor and managing editor of the goldie taylor project lead she recently wrote a piece titled, "after my father and brother were murdered, owning a gun made me feel secure. now it's time to give it up." and she did just that on monday. goldie taylor, welcome to "democracy now!" let's go back. how you ended up getting your gun. tell us your life story. >> i grew up with guns. it was a part of our life. we grew up in east st. louis. having a gun was part of the family security along with having burglar bars and those kinds of things. when my father was murdered in 1973, my mother immediately bought a gun and kept it in the house for all of our lives. my brother was murdered in a similar fashion about 20 years later. it really took the family by storm. a

. >>> the fatal shooting of a 40- year-old man in chicago pushed the city's 2012 homicide tolls to 500 the first time chicago had that many killings in four years and he's more. >> reporter: she was a beautiful little girl who loved school. >> reporter: countless times this year, mothers have wept and buried innocent children. she was six, shot and killed as she sat in her village porch in march. >> for us to face this is heartwrenching. >> reporter: numerous times, pastors have performed funerals for victims of gun violence, including one where a murder happened at a funeral. >> people want to believe the only ones getting shot and killed are these kids out here doing criminal activity. there are innocent children going on their daily activities of life and they're being gunned down. >> reporter: the city's 500th homicide happened last night in the austin neighborhood, a 40- year-old man shot in the head. >> and the $500 number should sound the alarm. >> reporter: father michael flagler said in order to bring about real change, we have to go after the culture of violence in this count

chicago reached a total of 500 homicides last night when a 40- year-old man was shot in the head while standing outside a convenience store. according to i-casualties.org only 309 troops have died in afghanistan. that's 191 fewer than those in chicago. >>> a major collision in montgomery county sent five people to the hospital. it occurred this morning. police stay driver of a volkswagen started driving in the wrong lane, hit three other vehicles and one man had to be taken to baltimore shock trauma for treatment of potentially life-threatening injuries. four other people were taken to the hospital. they are expected to be okay. >>> new information about the three victims of that i-95 accident. police say the 87-year-old driver and his two passengers were headed to a funeral in florida when they lost their lives. the accident happened when the victim's career ended a tractor- trailer that had stopped in traffic. >>> u.s. customs and border protection says it seized more than 200 pounds of an illegal drug at dulles airport. it could sell for $30,000 on the street. a spokesman said no ch

chicago. a shooting overnight became the city's 500th homicide of the year. nvenience store. no arrests were made. now, chicago has been struggling for decades to overcome an epidemic of gun violence. this year's homicide figures are 17% higher than last year. but it is still only about half the rate of 20 years ago. according to chicago police statistics, 943 homicides were recorded in 1992. >>> for the second time this month, a man has been shoved to his death from a subway platform in new york. it happened last night in queens. police and witnesses say a woman who had been pacing and mumbling pushed a man in front of the train before running down two nights of stairs and into the street. surveillance video actually caught part of that. the woman is still on the loose, and the suspect in a fatal subway shove earlier this month is in custody, charged with second-degree murder. >>> the music world is mourning the loss today of r&b singer fontella bass, best known for her 1965 hit "rescue me." ♪ rescue me ♪ or take me in your arms ♪ rescue me ♪ iant your tender

chicago recently reached 500 homicides in the calendar year. the latest was a deadly shooting outside a convenience store. the city's police superintendent says the sad milestone is reflective of gang violence and illegal guns. but residents say it's much simpler than that. >> there's no magic spell that can end it. you know, it's a matter of people and neighborhoods coming together and deciding that it's not going to happen. >> last year the windy city had 435 murders. the last time chicago reached the 500 mark was in 2008. >>> a new york woman is facing multiple federal charges, accused of helping a man kill two firefighters lured to a burning home. authorities say dawn nguyen bought the guns used in the murders. she was william spangler's neighbor. she bought the guns because he wasn't able to because he was a felon. he shot and killed two firefighters and injured three others before killing himself. >>> the first lawsuit has surfaced in connecticut. it's on behalf of one of the survivors. the hartford current reporters an attorney is asking

one of my local newspapers, the "chicago tribune," reports that at the end of march, murders in my city had spiked almost 60%. and as of june, homicides in chicago were up almost 20% over last year. 488 murders to date. ranging from 18 months to 19 years. these are americans also shot down like dogs in the street. as i recall being in the hospital room when my son was pronounced dead, there was a primal scream that came from his sister, his mother. it wasn't a scream of a black woman. it wasn't a scream of a white mother. it wasn't a scream of a latina mother mother or a scream of an asian mother. it was a scream, a primal scream of a mother. a scream that is rarely duplicated anywhere. it is a horrible scream and i can't get that scream out of my consciousness. so i applaud speaker pelosi, leader pelosi, soon to be speaker pelosi and i applaud the democrats who are standing here. we must stop future sandy hooks right now. we cannot allow the schools of america to become killing fields. we must act now. i applaud all of those who are involved. >> do you want to speak very briefly? >> we call our caucus america's caucus. because it is

chicago has already reached 500 homicides before the end of this year. the highest level in four years. windy city is desperate to lower its murder rate. correspondent mike tobin looks at one initiative to supporters hope will do just that. [ siren ] >> guy in the middle of the street. looks shot. >> gangland shooting part of every evening in chicago, the gun control debate is ongoing. solution passed by the cook county board of collisioners another tax. $25 on every handgun sold. this gun store owner says it's tax against the legal gun owners. >> the new tax is sold with the idea it would offset public cost of medical care for shooting victims. aconfidencing to the board president own numbers that cost is shy of $35 million. estimated revenue is $600,000. it's clear that the motivation for tax is not revenue. it's more of a public policy issue in terms of trying to deter people from buying firearms. >> buyer has the option of taking his business over the county line where there is not a tax, proponents say he will. >> i would be astonished if this doesn

if you live in chicago and you have random shoot thags are regular -- >> highest homicide rate. >> generally going down. >> children in chicago are being killed horrifically. >> any children, obviously, who dies is one child too many in a homicide. whether it's gun or knife or anything else. but the rates are going down so you can say, look, it is actually a relatively safe country given the fact and this is what we have to focus on. there are 300 million guns in the united states of america. between 280 million and 300 million. 4 million guns come online every year so we're a country saturated with guns and somewhat of a miracle this doesn't happen more than it does. i mean, what do you tell your -- i don't knowful i'm trying to work but that right now. how do you explain evil and breakdown in policy an people who aren't fit to carry a pen knife much less a weapon have access to weapons? even in the state with relatively tough gun laws like connecticut. i don't know how you explain any of that except to say that maybe this is the day to talk about those issues. as much as i understand the i

chicago recently reached 500 homicides in a calendar year. latest was a deadly shooting outside a convenience store. the city's police superintendent says the sad milestone is reflective of gang violence and illegal guns. kids need to learn other ways to resolve their problems. >> teaching our young people alternative dispute resolution, nonviolent strategies for addressing conflict, and getting guns off the street. >> last year the windy city had 435 murders. the last time chicago reached the 500 mark was in 2008. >>> a new york woman is facing multiple federal charges accused of helping a man kill two firefighters lured to a burning home. authorities say dawn nguyen bought the guns used in those murders. she was william spangler's neighbor, and police say she knew he was not allowed to own a gun because he was a felon. on christmas eve, spangler shot and killed two volunteer firefighters after setting a huge fire. he also injured three others before killing himself. >>> more than two weeks after the mass school shooting in connecticut, the

. >>> eight people were killed and another violent weekend in chicago, and that brings the total number of homicidesto 484. amazing. illinois governor pat quinn launched an ambitious anti-violence program two years ago and called it the neighborhood recovery initiative, and on paper it looked like a great idea, but a cnn investigation has found a serious set of questions about whether this was politics or crime prevention. drew griffin now with our special investigations unit explains. >> hello? hello? anybody here? >> reporter: this is one of the community organizing groups hired to help reduce violence in chicago. part of a $54.5 million initiative. governor pat quinn's neighborhood recovery initiative, or nri, rolled out just before his contentious 2010 election. this group called the wad woodlawn organization got $1.2 million. so this is all that's left of the woodlawn organization. we walked through a front door that was wide open. you can see the equipment is here. this was defunded by the program because they couldn't figure out what they had done with the money. >> reporter: it was one of ab

. >>> in chicago tonight, a stunning milestone to mark this year's end. 500 homicides in that city, near a record high, which they attribute to gang violence and illegal guns. in new york city, 414 murders. the lowest in 40 years. >>> the mayor here michael bloomberg is making headlines when he talked about the crime numbers. one of the reasons of thefts is the iphone. >> it's part of an expending robbery epidemic, apple taking. this survey vance video shows a thief sneaking up on her and putting her in a head lock. new york major michael bloomberg said that iphone thefts are single handedly driving up the city's crime rate. >> thefts of apple products, our total crime rate would be lower than it was last year. >> in new york city alone, iphone theft has spiked 30%.d. in washington, d.c., police told our pierre thomas, they make up 40% of all robberies. >> they target those who are more vulnerable, women, women with baby carriages. >> police have stepped up awareness >> i really don't enjoy being stolen. >> reporter: they're registering cell phones so owners can be contacted. now if you

. >> in chicago tonight, a stunning milestone to mark year's end. 500 homicides. near a record high which they attribute to gun violence, lowest in more than 40 years. the new york crime rate is 414 that's the lowest. michael bloomberg talked about the crime numbers for the year, one reason for the spike in thefts is the iphone. >> it's part of an expending robbery epidemic, apple taking. this surveillance video shows a thief sneaking up on her and putting her in a head lock. new york major michael bloomberg said that iphone thefts are single-handedly driving up the city's crime rate. >> if you just took out the thefts of apple products, our total crime rate would be lower than it was last year. >> reporter: in new york city alone, iphone thefts have spiked 30%. more than 16,000 snatched. and in washington, d.c., police told our pierre thomas, they make up nearly 40% of all robberies. >> they target those who are more vulnerable, women, women with baby carriages. >> reporter: police have stepped up awareness. in las vegas, there's a psa announcement with the voice

struggled, it's nothing compared to chicago which just hit an almost unbelievable milestone, 500 murders this year alone. hours after police announced they were one homicide away from the 500 mark a man was shot in the head outside a convenience store in the city, but this is not the first time chicago has reached that number. back in 2008 there were 513 killings in the city of chicago. rm. >>> for the second time this month a new york commuter has been pushed to his death on a subway platform. police are looking for the woman in this surveillance video here. the camera caught her running from the queens subway stop. moments earlier witnesses saw her pacing on a train platform. then when the train approached she pushed a man onto the tracks. she is now wanted for murder. earlier this month a man was pushed to his death at the times square station. >>> three police officers recovering after being shot inside their police station this morning. it happened in gloucester county, new jersey. a man is being processed on domestic violence charges grabbed a gun and began shooting. three officers were wounded. the prisoner was shot and killed. the officer's injuri

chicago has reached over 500 homicides this year. plain the rise in violence plus more national headlines when we return. >> in national mills. it has been a bloody year in chicago. authorities said the city has seen 500 murders happened in 2012. if chicago hit a milestone last my what a 40 year-old man was shot in the head while he was standing outside of a convenience store in the west side neighborhood. so far, no suspects have been arrested in the case. authorities said that the city's homicide rate is up by 17% this year. >> new york city police are looking for the woman they said showed that men in front of an oncoming subway train and killed him. if police in new york released a sketch of the woman. she was also seen on security video running from the station. witnesses said she has been pacing and the platform and talking to herself. the man who was killed has been identified as 46 year-old graphic designer, sunando sen of queens. >> a 24 year-old woman is now being charged in the christmas eve ambush of two volunteer firefigh

in chicago we had a wave of youth homicides. have seen this happen every 10 or 15 years in chicago. l across the country, every big city has a turn of being the homicide capital. washington d.c. went through that in the late-1980s, the early 1990's. there are different theories about why homicide rates go up he. you can find arguments against each one of them. the fact is this is an anomaly. we said that when i was in high school, john kennedy was assassinated, and then we had to build or three more assassination attempts over the next few years. -- two or three more. dr. king, george wallace. charles whitman went up into an texas power at the university of texas and opened fire on people with a sniper rifle. that was an anomaly. look at how many more times we've seen that since then, in the school shootings. i hope this is an anomaly, that we don't see more grade school getting shot up, but we need to pay attention. host: a democrat on the line in california, mike. caller: i enjoy watching europeyou. republicans are beholden to grover norquist instead of the american people. is grov

. >> reporter: this year the homicide rate in chicago is up about 30%, which is not what first-year policet gary mccarthy envisioned would happen when he took the job. >> it's playing out not as well as i anticipated. we expected to make much greater gains by this point. >> reporter: chicago's overall crime rate is actually down 10% from last year, and like other cities, the murder problem here is concentrated in a few specific areas. >> the entire city suffers when that violence happens, and this idea of, not in my backyard, is not okay. we have to make the entire city safe. >> reporter: mccarthy's plan he's confident will work includes holding gang members in custody, taking back specific street corners will drugs are sold and using gang information to predict and stop retribution killings but he said he needs more help from it community. >> law enforcement itself is not going to solve the gang problem or gun problem in chicago. law enforcement is not going to fix the educational system or the poverty rate or any of those other things. >> get closer to home now. it's starting to get late

one of my local news -- the chicago tribune reports that at the end of march, murders in my city had spiked almost 60%. and as of june, homicide in chicago were up almost 20% over last year. 488 murders to date. ranging from 18 months to 19 years. these are americans also shot down like dogs in the street. as i recall being in the hospital room when my son was pronounced dead, there was a primal scream that came from his sister, his mother. it wasn't a scream of a black woman. it wasn't a scream of a white mother. it wasn't a scream of a latina mother mother or a scream of an asian mother. it was a scream, a primal scream of a mother. a scream that is rarely duplicated anywhere. it is a horrible scream and i can't get that scream out of my consciousens. so i applaud speaker pelosi, leader pelosi, soon to be speaker pelosi and i applaud the democrats who are standing here. we must stop future sandy hooks right now. we cannot allow the schools of america to become killing fields. we must act now. i applaud all of those who are involved. >> do you want to speak very briefly? >> we call our caucus america's ca because it is divers

chicago police say the city has logged its 500th homicide of the year. latest victim was shot in the head outside a convenience store. >>> former president george h.w. bush's condition continues to improve. a family spokesperson says he has been moved out of intensive care unit, but remains hospitalized for a bronchitis-related issue. >> heather: as lawmakers try to hammer out a budget deal, president obama is also pushing for another more scaled down proposal. in the meantime just in case that doesn't happen. one, that according to many critics would only deal with half the problem. so is this really the best course of action? first, listen to what the president had to say about this during his weekly address. >> leaders in congress are working on a way to prevent this tax hike on the middle class and i believe we may be able to reach an agreement that can pass both houses in time. but if an agreement isn't reached on time, then i'll urge the senate to hold an up or down vote on a basic package that protects the middle class from an income tax hike, ext

one of my local newspapers, the "chicago tribune," reports that at the end of the march murders in my city had spiked to almost 60%. and as of june, homicides in chicago were up almost 20% over last year. 488 murders to date. ranging from 18 months to 19 years, these are americans also shot down like dogs in the street. as i recall and exspeerns -- experience you can't escape the pain. being in a hospital room when my son was pronounced dead. that was bad enough, but there was a final scream that came from his sister, his mother. it wasn't a scream of a black woman, it wasn't a scream of a white mother, it wasn't a scream of a latino mother, it wasn't scream of an asian another, it was a primal scream of a mother. a scream that's rarely duplicated anywhere. it's a horrible scream, and i can't get that scream out of my consciousness. so i applaud speaker pelosi, leader pelosi, soon-to-be speaker pelosi, and i applaud the democrats who are standing here. we must stop future sandy hooks right now. we cannot allow the children of america to being killing fields. we must act now and i applaud all those who are involved. >> we call our caucus ame

chicago-- >> cenk: we have more gun violence now when it is out of control. >> washington, d.c. the places with the strictest gun control has the highest homicide rates in the country. >> cenk: you keep going back to the island of ocean of guns. you tell me that the problem in chicago is that there weren't enough guns, right for people to protect themselves. hold on, wait a minute. that's exactly what you said. >> i'm not advocating that everybody should have a gun. i'm advocating that people should have one. >> cenk: let me ask the question. but in most of these shootings or in a lot of these shootings it was gang shootings. both sides have guns. why didn't it work? isn't that your ideal dream scenario yes both sides have guns. >> no, gang members--i don't think gang members--they are criminals--you haven't taken that valium yet. the gang members should have guns. >> cenk: you tell me-- >> they get them illegally. >> cenk: you say both sides should have guns. >> not gang members but homeowners and shop keepers yes. but not gang members. >> cenk: do you know people who are shot are four and a half more times likely to have guns on them when the

. >> pittstheir troubles began in 1991 when chicago was in the midst of a violent crime wave-- more than 900 homicides months. police were under enormous pressure to solve those crimes. terrill swift was 17, was still in high school, had never been in serious trouble, when another teenager from his neighborhood implicated him, vincent, michael and harold in the rape and murder of a 30-year-old prostitute named nina glover. did anyone ask you "terrill swift, did you murder this woman?" >> swift: that was the first thing they said. whoa. "raped and beat who? nina, i don't know nina glover. can i get my mother in here so i can get a lawyer?" and nothing. >> pitts: terrill voluntarily turned himself in to police and was placed in an interrogation room, surrounded by several detectives. the questioning, he said, lasted for over 12 hours. how close were they? show me, physically, how close were they? >> swift: like, right here. "you're going to die in jail. you're never going home." >> pitts: yelling at you? >> swift: yelling at me. >> pitts: were you scared? did you cry? >> swift: absolutely, i was crying,

. >>> chicago just hit a grim milestone. 500 murders this year. hours after police announced they were one homicide away from the 500 mark a man was shot in the head outside a convenience store. but this is not the first time the city reached this number. back this 2008, there were 513 killings in chicago. >>> for the second time this month, a new york commuter has been pushed to his death from a subway platform. police are looking for this woman that you can see in the surveillance video there. the camera caught her running from the subway stop in queens. moments earlier witnesses saw her pacing on the train platform. then when the train approached, she pushed a man onto the tracks. she is now wanted for murder. earlier month a man was pushed to his death at the times square station. >>> fire officials are meeting next month to discuss the upcoming station closures in contra costa county. four fire stations are closing january 15th because there is not enough money in the budget. supervisors voted last month to close stations in walnut creek, martinez, lafayette and clayton. meetings will be held

. >> meanwhile chicago hit a milestone t city logged it's 500th homicide of the year.nd shot on the sidewalk outside a convenience store late yesterday. he was pronounced dead at the hospital. in arrests have been made there. last time they reached the homicide mark was 2008 when the year ended with 512 killings. last year the city had 435 homicides. >> sheriff joe area pie owe announced plans to put armed volunteers at schools in the wake of the connecticut school shooting. he plans to station members outside schools. he is known for his crack down on illegal immigration in arizona. >> an australia surfer is recovering after being attacked by a shark. that's 29 year old luke allen. he was surfing with friends when a shark rammed his board and by the his hand and thigh. he fought back despite his injuries he managed to get the tip of the board and drive it into the head of the shark which is brave to do. >> the shark did back off and allen was able to swim to shore. he is now being treated for his injuries. >>> in developing news this morning, there's hope for fans of