dan springer has an update on that here it is. >> the streets of portland and open-air drug market and everywhere. oregon voters thought it would be different. in 2020 they overwhelmingly passed the first state law decriminalizing possession of small amounts of all hard drugs mass heroin even fat and all. the idea was treatment not jail time. but 15 months into the experiments drug overdose deaths had all-time high last year at 1,074. portland set a record for murders many time to drug turf wars. >> tucker: state rep sedative from oregon she joins us tonight thanks so much for coming on. this is not see very compassionate at all. >> it is not to allow someone to stay in their addiction on the street is not compassionate. they are miserable we need to do a better job of providing help. >> tucker: so this was pushed in the name of compassion and if you like people thought that the drug war was not wishing working as intended, but this seems like a nightmare to people in oregon voters organize that you think? >> absolutely oregon voters were told that the criminal justice system wasn't th

dan springer, thank you very much. great report. adams is vowing to get crime under control in the city. he says, quote we'll turn this crime thing around. when we do so people will really see the progress we made in other parts of the city. public safety and justice are prerequisites for prosperity. if you're not safe you really can't thrive. public safety is crucial. crime has really taken all of the oxygen out of the room. adams said shootings are down 24.2%, homicides are down almost 32% but adds crimes like robberies, burglaries, still need to be addressed. >>> all right, coming up, new signs that those long wait times are at restaurants are not going away anytime soon. meantime, retailers are nabbing up all the empty storefronts in new york city. does this mean the big apple is back? madison alworth has more on new york's retail rebound right after this. ♪ finding my way forward with node-positive breast cancer felt overwhelming at times. but i never just found my way, i made it. so when i finished active therapy, i kept movin

down even further on the hills of that brutal q1 earnings for the former ceo, dan springer, stepping down. it has been one hit after another when it comes to the nasdaq. >> actually has. yesterday, reporting that the afghan beckman radar, dlc by crypto lender, with blurred great scoop. tell us more about it.?? so, really interesting. this is according to the resources familiar with the ftx lunch. i was told by one source of knowledge of the deal that the price can be as low as $25 million. they told me last night it could be closer to $50 million at the end of the day. another castaway ftx might consider applying options to exercise at a later date. either way, it would be a fraction of the private valuation of $4.8 billion, remember sam beckman's creed. and companies also extending a $250 million line of credit. so, unclear how that would be accounted for in a deal. sources expect it to be signed before the holiday weekend. the ceo, pushing back on the $25 million number in a tweet. we have got no official comments from block phi or ftx. also, i am told offers were on the table. the

dan springer is live in seattle and has the story there. hi, dan. >> hi, dana.t no vacancies over the last many years as this has been the darling for real estate investors. the problem is worse in portland where they have 12 downtown office buildings up for sale. a number never seen before. vacancy rate is 25%. as bad as that is it doesn't reflect the space rented but not occupied. the owner of this building will sell it for a multi-million dollar loss because it's sitting at 95% empty. employees no longer felt safe going to this area. homeless and drugs around the building. we saw a drug bust go down across the street while we were there. two people arrested for selling crack cocaine and fentanyl. all his employees have had their cars broken into and the security guard has been assaulted seven times in the last year. >> the city shut down from covid. they also elected not to enforce a lot of the laws that were in place. >> and portland has a lot of social unrest. just on july 4th they had another mini riot with people climbing on cars and social unrest is peop