visit choose.va.gov. >> chicago mayor gronk suggesting students are being kept away from classrooms.in chicago, we've seen 50% or higher of the people we are arresting are juveniles and i'll be frank and say, in chicago, there was a correlation we believe between remote learning and the rise in car jacking. >> todd: car jackings in the windy city tripled since 2019. video capturing a gunman opening fire in brooklyn last week, suspect seen crossing an intersection and pulling a gun and firing a few rounds. a man was shot multiple times, he told police he did not know the shooter. new data shows 72 out of 77 police precincts in new york city saw crime rises, one precinct reporting 142% increase over last year. >> ashley: business owners are left feeling helpless in the wake of a major crime wave because police are handcuffed by new soft on crime laws. >> it gronk exhausting having had this happen the third time. >> wish there was nor -- >> joining us is president of frat ternal order of police in seattle and the owner of the seattle shirt company. thank you for being with us. jay, star

. >> and gronk himself. >>> good morning, america.rey getting a chance to hang out at the nfl honors with gronk and his girlfriend camille kostek, amongst other nfl stars. she's been doing a great job. >> she has been doing a great job, and you, my friend, have a busy weekend. a little something going on in your world. >> super bowl. you know who's playing? >> yes, i read that this morning. >> who? >> cincinnati and l.a. rams, thank you very much. also they had -- >> you've been educating her the last couple years. >> i just had to throw it out there. check on her. >> reporting from the sidelines. >>> we'll begin with the fallout over that stunning inflation number. prices up 7.5% compared to one year ago rising at the fastest rate in four decades. mary bruce has the latest. good morning, mary. >> reporter: good morning, george. yeah, these rising prices are touching nearly every corner of american life from cars to groceries, furniture and gas and not just services rising. in addition to goods, you're see rent rising as well, prices

what is next to gronk?ng back to fox sports or partnering with joe burrow to win another super bowl. >> i'm just chilling. reporter: waiting for breaking news. >> i will be taking my time. reporter: as you can see gronk is excited. has not made a decision yet. tune in later for the interview. he talks about what veterans mean for this country. he honoring those vets, he and micah parsons. i had a great time with him yesterday. send it bake to you guys in new york. will: thank you, lawrence. really cool. >> thank you, lawrence. pete: he is covering the big game everyone will be watching later tonight. there was a big game that happened yesterday, rachel. rachel: there was? pete: contest for the "fox & friends" trophy. currently in will's office. he won the last competition. will: i can't even remember it was a long time ago. rachel: something you beat pete at, that is all that matters, right? [laughter] pete: this is what happened yesterday, rachel. it was an obstacle course into a football throwing competit

>> is what ad coming walt >> no gronk this year. >> no gronk? >> no.tv all the time doing, like, five or six different commercials now! it all started with t-mobile don't forget that. >> exclusivity fallen in your eyes might avoid him if you see him in the hallway mike, see you. >> see ya. >>> meta down more than 20% now. julia boorstin dives into the numbers once again for us. julia? >> yes those meta shares are plummeting on lower than expected first quarter guidance as well as some evidence of user struggles for facebook the core app facebook's daily active users declined overall with decline of 1 million u.s. and canada between the third and fourth quarter. u.s./canada the most region in terms user by far. europe and asian-pacific regions adding 1 million daily active users in the quarter look at some other social stocks as well. those stocks plummeting after hours on concerns about user engagement as well as slowing revenue growth snap shares down 19% pinterest off 10%. both stocks report earnings after the bell tomorrow. twitter innings next week

although, sadly, it means now gronk has to be put down. let's go out blind the barn, gronk! we're going to take you someplace special. >> you know what i respect about tom brady for the most part, man, is he kept his scandals on the field, you know, deflategate with the ball and whether it was a tuck thumb rule. he had his logger, it was the biggest, oh, we don't know about brady, no drug, no arrest, no drama getting arrested, none of that, not murder his wife. his wife is very unmurdered. >> trevor: all right, let's move on to the hottest fad on the internet right now and, no, not talking about hard core pornography, i'm talking about wordle, the online puzzle game. worked is especially interesting because of where it came from. it was invented by one guy in brooklyn who made it as a gift for his girlfriend, which is really sweet or a really subtle way to tell her that she doesn't know how to spell. i need you to brush up on your five-letter words. you're really embarrassing me at parties. his vision in wordle was to be simple -- free, no ads, no app and not addictive, just

right after the announcement, tom brady took gronk outside, told him he was free and stood there justrom his eye as gronk bounded into the woods. [ laughter ] brady's now in his mid-40s. he's jobless, has no real traditional work experience. he's going to fit right in, in florida. [ laughter ] >>> yep. tom brady is officially retiring from the nfl. the 44-year-old legend gary quarterback made the announcement on social media yesterday. the morning after he had said on his podcast he was still going through the process of the decision. in part of a lengthy statement written on instagram, brady posted this, i have always believed the sport of football is an all in proposition. it's a 100% competitive commitment isn't there, you won't succeed and success is what i love so much about the game. this is difficult for me to write but here it goes. i am not going to make that competitive commitment anymore. i have loved my nfl career and now it is time to focus my time and energy on other things that require my attention. he wrote about his family too. the seven-time super bowl champion retir

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. >> todd: williamson, gronk and condoleeza rice were in the green room.s party is preachy, judgmental and focused on culture war. jim neil, former sheriff in cincinnati joins me live. jim, apologies on the loss of your bengals, not losing the team, losing the game. great run. is that description part of the reason you left the democratic party? >> i agree with the description. it could have, my situation was in 2020. they stripped me of my endorsement in the primary. since then it's gotten worse. >> todd: why did they strip you of the endorsement? >> two reasons is they lobbied me in the office on a couple of issues that were important to them. one was sanctuary city and isis. i'm a law enforcement officer, i follow the rule of law. the county jail is not a sanct your jail. the new bail reform. the county jail held 1500 offenders who are there for a reason tochlt merely put people out on to the streets to recommit, reoffend, it didn't make sense. >> todd: it doesn't make sense. >> jim: i did what i could, you see offenders being released while their case

gronk you buy these television companies and more. >> the world changed in an instant. we never slowed down. businesses went virtual. we had a new reality. we are built to keep you ahead. >> media com support c-span is a public service along with these other television providers. >> coming up this morning on "washington journal," a look at the pandemics impact on women in the workforce.

him, they were like the 12th most popular farm animal. [ laughter ] the question is what happens to gronkse him into the everglades? [ laughter ] let him live among the gators and snakes for a while? tom brady has a lot of passionate fans but none more than a bright little boy from seekonk, massachusetts, named of a after his idol. we thought it would be nice to check in, see how he's doing. say hello to tommy brady fitzpatrick, everybody. [ applause ] cute little fella, sleepy. hi, tommy. how are you doing? >> oh, judas priest, not you! like this week wasn't hard enough? first we get smacked with a bomb cyclone, and now i got this chubby lesbian on my zoom. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i just wanted to get your thoughts about tom brady retiring. because i know -- >> ha ha ha! please. come on. tom brady is not retiring. it's a hoax, just like that coronavirus. the lib-tard lefty media got it wrong again. tommy terrific spent 22 years faking out defenders on the gridiron, now he faked out you, you turdburglah! sucka! >> jimmy: well, there was some confusion over the weekend. but today, tom himse

i don't know is gronk next then, i guess?ought he had a couple more years, maybe. >> where are you guys trying to go right now >> we're trying to find an open dunkin' donuts [ laughter ] >> can't find them [ rim shot ] >> steve: come on! come on! >> jimmy: that's real. >> steve: oh, my god >> jimmy: we did not do anything to that tape. that is real [ laughter ] tom brady, dunkin' donuts. if they snuck in david ortiz, they would have summoned the ghost of sam adams [ laughter and applause how boston is that fantastic. you might have a problem when you're willing to put on ski goggles just to get a pineapple coolatta [ laughter ] but they weren't the only ones braving the weekend blizzard i saw a couple in rhode island actually got married outside during the storm here's the happy couple there right there. yeah and this is real here's everybody who showed up to the wedding [ laughter ] you know it's cold when your something blue are your guests [ laughter ] and finally, a man who lives on a lake in canada snapped this figure of

>> gronk. >> jimmy: oh, rob gronkowski. >> yes. >> jimmy: did you meet him in a cave or something?> no. >> sal: playing hide-and-seek, you were babysitting him, right? >> yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: all right. hidden in the store behind you are our guests tonight, kristen bell and ike barinholtz. do you know kristen and ike? >> yeah, i know kristen. >> jimmy: okay, all right. well, the other guy, the other person, will be ike. okay? >> okay. >> jimmy: all right. show pictures. yes, okay. >> he does look familiar. >> jimmy: okay, good, great. >> sal: do you want to keep these for reference? forget it -- >> jimmy: hang on no those pictures. your mission is, and we're going to start right now, find kristen and ike as quickly as you can, all right? >> okay. >> jimmy: all right, go get 'em, julia. cousin sal will follow along. i'm going to tell you, julia, that, you know -- we're not -- this is not going to be easy, okay? >> okay. >> jimmy: all right. >> sal: oh-oh, what's this? oh, oh! >> jimmy: see that? that's half a person, that's not even a real person. we tricked you on that one, julia.

the ad uses 3d technology to animate peyton manning and gronk. you can watch it sunday just before the halftime show. >> that was cool. >> that is really cool. >>> another sneak peek at the commercial that has a lot of people buzzing. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> that's jim carrey as chip douglas from the comedy "the cable guy." in the movie, carrey is looking to connect in the verizon 5g internet ad. you can see the super bowl commercials when super bowl lvi kicks off tomorrow here on nbc. that is the pop start. >>> joe, >>> still to come on "today." all about the bling. up close and personal and how they changed over the decades. >>> and we will show you what happened when kristen and i hit looking to get back in your type 2 diabetes zone? once-weekly ozempic® can help. ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪ ♪ oh, oh, oh ♪ ozempic® is proven to lower a1c. most people who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. and you may lose weight. adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. in adults also with known heart disease, ozempic® lowers the risk of major cardiovascula

. >> gronk even taught me an old school dance move, the sprinkler. >> there you go. >> i was definitely all week long. looked like you had a lot of fun. now that you accomplished this whole reporting from the super bowl thing, what is next? >> well, you know, i have been getting used to this reporter life. you know, waking up early just like you. getting myself pumped up with a warmup. come on, michael. >> how do you pump yourself up? >> show me. >> ready. go! go! oh, yeah. >> what? hey. i'm pumped and warmed up, everybody. let me tell what you is coming up. our "gma" viewers set up two of these singles for a date. we're going to find out if it was a love match. come on, i'm not done being warmed up. that's dangerous. done being warmed up. that's dangerous. announcer: building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. >> good morning. i'm kumasi aaron. we will get to sue hall with a look at the traffic. sue: happy valentine's day. a second accident for the morning west 237 matilda. five cars involved and lanes are blocked. significant backup as you approa

stuart: let's talk gronk. he followed tom brady to tampa bay and is about to be a free agent.brady and said brady is the only quarterback he wanted to play alongside but he has watched him since college and in the pros, what he calls burroughs swag. he becomes a restricted free agent in march and his comments, may be interested in the former all-pro tight end. heavy suggestions being laid out. stuart: wednesday trivia question. what is the most common sleep position among adult. sitting upright? i don't think so. the answer after this. the potential for rich returns. . . new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. when you sponsor a job, you immediately get your shortlist of quality candidates, whose resumes on indeed match your job criteria. visit indeed.com/hire and get started today. stuart: what is the most common sleep position among adults? ashley do not say sitting up right. ashley: no. i was looking for face down on the lawn after a big night but that wasn't there either. i am going with, going with number two, side. stuart:

gronk you buy these television companies and more. >> the world changed in an instant. we never slowed down. businesses went virtual. we had a new reality. we are built to keep you ahead. >> media com support c-span is a public service along with these other television providers. >> coming up this morning on "washington journal," a look at the pandemics impact on women in the workforce. we talk about president biden's economic policy with jonathan fro -- jonathan bydlak. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: there's no doubt that inflation at its highest point in 40 years is taking its toll on american purchasing power. it is happening in the midst of the biggest wage growth in years, strong retail sales. still a job market. which is it? is the economy tainting or storing. it is friday, february 18th. welcome to "washington journal." we spend the first half-hour asking you if you are optimistic or pessimistic about the economy. we mostly want to hear from you, if you are optimistic about the economy the line is (202) 748-8000, pessimistic, (202) 748-8001, if you are uns

instead of gronk he is throwing it to david beckham and his family on the beach.otball just different sports. >> that's right. both retired. they get to hang out. >> carley: car. >> ainsley: what a dream both so handsome. >> carley: beautiful women, gorgeous families. >> steve: what a life. >> brian: i hope things turn around for him. he finds happiness sooner or later. >> steve: if you are on twitter, some people are the border patrol union in the big bend area down in texas, posted some images that are really an eye opener, why are all these migrants wearing camouflage, huh? apparently so many times we have heard the migrants come across. they look for the border patrol to to surrender themselves so they can get into the system. these people obviously did not want to be picked up. in all, the border patrol in big bend picked up 70 illegallies in 36 hours with the help, they tweeted out. the texas department of public safety. and as you look at those people in camo and wonder why were they trying to hide and then you hear the stories of people who had been wicked

[laughter] will: just another bigtime with "gronk". nascar's kurt busch.et that out of the way. everyone wants to know, will this be your last? >> that video, when i filmed it and did a lot of cool stuff with monster energies actually got to take the nascar car over the bridge into key west, it was kind of like driving into the sunset. i didn't have a contract, and yet the phone kept ringing and here we are. so toyota with monster emergency, mj, michael jordan and denny hamlin are, i'm here for a couple more. will: nice. rachel: are we breaking news? [laughter] pete: so you're staying a couple more years, a couple more times. >> i had to call an old friend if, mark martin, a legend mere in nascar -- here in nascar. i asked mark, what kept you in it? he said, kurt, you're a racer just like me. your heart will tell you, but if the phone keeps ring aringing, you've got to keep going. rachel: i'm known for my very deep and probing sports questions -- [laughter] will: here we development. rachel: so i have one for you. what is your favorite line from days of th