senior correspondent dan springer is live in seattle, where the fight is underway. good evening. >> good evening, no doubt the 4000 residents of chinatown are angry and saying this is way too big of a huge homeless complex, it will make a bad crime situation a lot worse and they were left out of the decision. >> residents in chinatown protest everyday to block a megaof had plex homeless shelter on the edge of their neighborhood, part of a downtown area with rising crime and scores of addicted and mentally ill people. >> you go at night, and you see drug dealers and people actively doing drugs, back when heroin was a big deal, we'd see needles everywhere and collect needles everyday. now fentanyl is on the rise and we see overdoses everyday. >> king county will add 50 tiny houses, 60-bed shelter. officials say there are 700 people living in the surrounding streets. >> downtown seattle for this shelter has more people experiencing unsheltered homelessness than any other part of the county. people want to stay in their community. >> this does attract problems, two year

dan springer in portland, oregon, thank you very much. jacqui. jacqui: rich, for more on what issues are important to voters with midterms three weeks away, we're joined by congresswoman from iowa and budget committees, ashley hinson. thank you for joining us, appreciate your time. thanks, jacqui for having me. jacqui: of course, i want to pop up on the screen just some inflation data here and we can dive into the numbers. inflation in september hit 8.2% compared to last year and some of those categories are really, really bad. eggs up mo are than 30%. milk more than 15%, fruits and vegetables 10%. coffee more than 15% and then the more alarming data i think from the report if you strip out the volatile food and energy costs, core cpi hit a 40-year high 6.6%. the president argued that his policies are working that money from the infrastructure law got supply chains working and that some of the other bills they've passed won't take effect until next year so people really have to wait to see the prices come down. taking off your partisan hat for ju

she's in a tough spot. >> dan springer live in portland, oregon. thank you.e officers under attack as america's crime crisis continues to spiral out of control. this week alone, 13 officers were shot and ambushed and connecticut leaving to officers dead in the third injured. at west point crime continues to be a problem in california, video capturing moments someone stabbed a disabled man in the neck inside a los angeles restaurant. fox team coverage live in los angeles but we begin with alexis mcadams. >> crime against police is up across the country, you mentioned attacks that have happened, this year 56 officers across the country have been killed. the national fraternal order of police blaming failed policies and anti- police rhetoric. this comes as a community outburst in connecticut grieves the loss of two young police officers. police sgt. dustin and officer alex were both killed while responding to a 911 call. investigators said the call was made to lure the officers to a home where they were ambushed in the driveway. the gunman opened fire, a third p

we have jonathan serrie in atlanta, but we'll start off with dan springer in portland, oregon. >> reporter: yeah. hey, rich. as you know, very few democrats have chosen to campaign with president biden this year, but when he asked if he could come out to oregon and help with the run for governor, tina said come on out. biden's three-state western spring began in colorado where he appeared with senator michael bennett who looks to be pretty safe there. he attended fundraisers in california and now he finishes up in portland. he gives a speech on lowering cost for american families. cotech is locked in a three-person race, and it's been locked up for months. betsy thompson, most believe is taking more support from the democrat than from the republican. she attacks cotech relentlessly over the dual crises of homelessness and crime. in a statement she said, quote, i hope biden comes more often so that portland will clean up more of the trash and tendencies that tina's created between the airport and downtown portland. kotek has been pretty much in lockstep with outgoing governor ka

dan springer, it's fascinating.look at the race right now, areasonable doubt doing to the polls, she is up. there is an independent that is getting support. it did get support from former nike founder phil knight and others and basically on the issue of crime and homelessness in portland. >> well, the fact that we are even talking about a potential republican governor of oregon tells you about how much the winds right now are in favor of the republican party after the democrats with the abortion issue seem to have some momentum over the summer. no wonder stacy abrams is trying to diffuse that issue. at the same time you look at one of the bluest states in the country new york where governor kathy hochul who succeeded she was lieutenant governor of andrew cuomo now a few points ahead according to the latest polls of her republican challenger lee zeldin, if democrats are having to play defense in states like that. tells you in more competitive states where a lot of the republicans had been written off by the press as

neil: who would have thought crime be maybe the deciding issue thank you very much, dan springer in portlandnext guest knows of what dan just reported quite closely, loretta guzman is the coffee shop owner with a good idea to have a coffee event with a cop and then came, well, you guessed it, the crime. loretta, tell us what happened. >> the day before i took in and posted that i was hosting coffee with a cop, because a lot of the community members, customers , they have a lot of questions and they feel like they aren't being heard, so when i was approached by the sergeant and asked would i be willing to host coffee with a cop as i have in the past i said yes and that might i got a lot of backlash and i was woke up and in the middle of the night, all my front windows were busted out and paint was sprayed throughout my whole shop, and so i came right over and my windows were still cracking at the time when i came up to the shop. neil: wow, and it was in response, you think, to this coffee with a cop plan of yours? >> well, i never had anything happen to my building before, or to my business,

dan springer is live in portland where the president just finished speaking. dan, what more can you tell us? what's arthel this speech today by president biden was all about the inflation reduction act. he did not mention tina at all by name he is still here shaking hands in friendly territory in portland. but biden's other goal today it was to fire up democratic base in this a blue state that he won by 16 points two years ago. but a lot has changed since then with out-of-control inflation and record high gas prices, biden's job approval in this state is just 43%. betty is in county where he won by 66 points in 2020. democrats need this county to show up big on november 8. biden is wrapping up a three state western swing he started in colorado. bad polling numbers have largely kept him off the campaign trail with candidates. but here in oregon democrat tina at deciders worth the risk to bring him in. she is locked in a tight three-person race and polls show her trailing republican kristine drazen with well-funded independent candidate betsy johnson pulling more

dan springer is live in seattle and has the details. this is on the ballot, dan?ed closely election night. many feel if approved by voters it would be one of the most restrictive gun measures in the country. most controversial aspect is a requirement that before you can purchase a gun, you have to have a permit. to get that permit, you have to do live fire training approved by law enforcement. the oregon state sheriffs association opposes the measure saying there is no way police agencies from the personnel or even the gun ranges to permit every person who wants to buy a firearm. this would delay law-abiding sit stens for months and perhaps years and create a gun registry with buyers personal information made public. >> the measure is designed to guarantee that people will not have the means to protect themselves and to docks anybody who attempts to comply with the permit process. >> the measure caps magazines at ten rounds and makes gun owners with guns being able to do more -- party leaders didn't endorse it because it would lead to mass incarceration of racial

dan springer with the story from seattle. hi, dan. >> hi, martha. it got heated self times.s on the attack all night long blaming patty murray and her party for inflation, high gas prices and rising crime. murray held a campaign rally over the weekend to boost enthusiasm. senate democrat elizabeth warren joined her but the crowd was small. murray has focused on abortion and january 6. >> i will fight every day to make sure that we never allow those people that continue the big lie and including my opponent on her website before she changed it in july to question that election. that sows mistrust in our country for democracy. >> i want to ask, do you believe that me and my family are a threat to democracy, senator murray? tell everyone here today either that or disavow your campaign's dangerous rhetoric that has spent millions of dollars to attack and paint me as someone that i am not. >> smiley very emotional there. she's a veteran's advocate whose husband lost his eyesight in a suicide bombing while fighting for the country. smiley blames democrats pushing lacks drug laws a

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correspondent dan springer has that story from our northwest bureau. >> as violent crime so soars incontrol groups are pushing the most restrictive gun law in the u.s. oregon measure 114 would require a permit to purchase any gun and a live fire safety class approved by the state police and run by local law enforcement. >> it is gobble for us to do what they are asking us to do. >> the oregon state sheriff's association opposes the measure saying no agency has the resources to permit every would be gun buyer. delaying law-abiding citizens months, if not years. >> the measure is designed to actually guarantee that people will not have the means to protect themselves. >> of the ballot measure is getting national attention from gun control groups and politicians trying to build on the passage early this year of the safer communities act which promoted red flag laws. >> if we win, help us keep the nra on the run. >> but 114 doesn't have the endorsement of the oregon democratic party. it caps magazines at 10 rounds and makes gun owners prove weapons capable of holding more were bought bef