then he became part of the reconstruction element, with the grand marshall of the celebration in new orleans by the new york times so they didn't mention him but they mentioned the celebration so i was able to get a lot of color from that then is started out like a poet he had this beautiful handwriting and everyone, the units would say he gave spontaneous. how can you resist if you are a writer? somebody who stands up at a meeting like that? it was wonderful. he was politically active and named his children after writers. her child was named homer, i think it was homer but they were named after writers. it was really fun to follow him. >> the accompanying his own literary awareness about the fact that he was present for so many historical events and so deeply involved in the economy that made him think i could bring you all the rest. >> he was the go to guy. also when he them, his precise about the way he would take the minute. he would number them and then he would get a conference speech and you could see what would come up in the minutes but it was very clear to read and also anything im

when i was 10 or 11, he played new orleans music and i played in danny parker's baptist church, a newrleans band. jazz was difficult for a person might age figure out what it was because it was not a part of the american mythology. the black community had competitions in classes so you could get a track record on your resume. when i was 14, i won a competition to play the trumpet with the new orleans philharmonic but i was playing jazz the whole time. i played on a wednesday. david: the only person to win a grammy in classical and jazz the same year, you. mr. marsalis: my father went to the grammys. he wasn't into those kind of things and he was like, wow, this is impressive. at the end of the show, i won. i was back in the hotel with him and my mother. i was like, yeah. my daddy looked at me and was wondering, he said, i am glad you won the grammy. i am glad you won. don't get me wrong. you don't think this means you can play, do you? i started laughing because i was, like, 22 and i knew what he was saying because i had a long way to go to learn how to play. david: what do people say

you know, in my case, i was inundated with growing up in new orleans. sometimes when you don't have the language or toolkit or framework to push back against it, there can be a sort of psychological and emotional paralysis where you know what you are hearing is wrong but you don't necessarily know how to say it or how to say why it's wrong and explain it. when people are telling you these sorts of things, the sorts of things that the son's confederate veterans and united daughters of the confederacy literally created after the civil war in the late 19th century in order to distort and confuse an entire society so that we don't really know what to believe. because the goal of the lost because the goal of the lost cause is not to make everybody a white supremacist. it is a sort of orwellian project to make everything so cloudy and foggy and be like, maybe the civil war was not fought over slavery. it makes things so murky that it's difficult for us to have an epistemological consensus. and to the operation -- into the operating from the same basis of trut

in new orleans, marching band is a culture.g marching band. >> alfonsi: st. aug, as its known, is one of the few predominantly black, all-boys catholic high schools in the country. it sits in new orleans' seventh ward, seven blocks from the mississippi river-- not the part of the city usually found on postcards. the school is surrounded by reminders of a city forever rebuilding. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ray johnson: don't rush! >> alfonsi: in here, ray johnson is rebuilding too. >> ray johnson: accent! >> alfonsi: the "best band in the land" is more of a mission statement these days. >> ray johnson: you got wrong notes coming from over here. >> alfonsi: since hurricane katrina flooded the school in 2005, it's been a long haul. the music library is still a temporary trailer on the blacktop. >> ray johnson: school didn't come back the same. and instruments-- we didn't have enough. and the uniforms were damaged. so, we had to rebuild everything. and just now, we were beginning to see the fruits of our labor, and then here comes covid. >> alfonsi:

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i know this from having been a black child growing up in new orleans. that there are a lot of folks internalize. the the falsehoods and the pathology that we're inundated with, you know in my case that was i was inundated with growing up in new orleans and sometimes when you don't have the language or the toolkit or the framework was which to push back against it. there can be a sort of psychological and emotional paralysis where you know, which with your hearing is wrong, but you don't necessarily know how to say it or how to say why is wrong and explain it. and so when people are telling you these sorts of things the sorts of things that the sun's confederate veterans in the united dogs will confederacy literally created in the after the civil war in the late 19th century. in order to distort and confuse an entire society so that we don't really know what to believe in because the goal of the lost cause is not to make everybody a white supremacist. it's a sort of orwellian project that is meant to make everything so cloudy and foggy that you're like w

he wasn't playing new orleans jazz. but, at a certain time, when i was maybe 10 or 11, he started to play new orleans music, and i also played in danny barker's fairview baptist church band, which was a new orleans traditional band. jazz was difficult at that time, jazz was difficult at that time for a person my age and my generation to figure out what it was because it was not a part of the american mythology. whereas, with classical music, you had competitions and classes you could go to, so you could get a track record on your resume. like if you say, what did i do? it would say when i was 14, i was 14, i won a competition to -- it would say when i was 14, i won a competition to play the haydn trumpet concerto with the new orleans philharmonic. but i was playing jazz the whole time. what could i say that i did? i played in a club on a wednesday. david: but in one year, you won a grammy, the only person to win a grammy in jazz and classical music in the same year. wynton: it's a funny story about my father. he went to

this is meant and known in new orleans as a community space.pens to be where the confederacy built most of its monuments to slave owners and traders. so, for us, that is the film. what does it mean to have the common space for everyone also cupy to groups called the white league. >> sreenivasan: so, what's in a name? what's in a monument? even if a street name gets changed, even if a monument is taken down by a city, how do we change attitudes of the citizens that live there? >> i think it's not about attitudes. i think the way that we talk about race is always about how do we change attitudes? how do we get people to change their hearts to be less racist? i think monuments are helpful because they make race concrete. they're a map of power. if you have a 60 foot tall pedestal to someone who was an enslaver, and it's the highest place of honor in your city, that's just a map of what power looks like in that city. so, it's not that the success is in getting the monument down, it's that the monument allows us to see things and call things out lou

and then i realized that one, i think i wanted to go to places i saw in new orleans. two, i realize it needed more room to breathe than a poem would allow for. three, realize it could be only in my own extended meditations on my experiences at these places. it had to be in conversation with the experience of other people there. like, et cetera the voices of the guides. had to have the voice of the public historians, the voices of the of the people i was encountering on these journeys. the chapter write about angola is largely shaped around a guy named morris anderson who was incarcerated for almost 30 years and it was on this tour with me. i think i could've tried to write the chapter without speaking to norse or being there alongside noris bot like when he and i are on this bus that's moving through fields where people his once incarcerated with our literally picking crops and is looking down at his hands and use the calluses on his hand and is taught by how he used to work for seven cents an hour in fields that he said himself i -- my ancestors might've been enslave

cnbc's andrea day spoke with three entrepreneurs in new orleans about how they're adapting during thethe one word that best described the past year is hell. >> for me, it's aspirational >> for me, it's patience >> this is new orleans, louisiana, where three small businesses are making a comeback >> we were banking on tourism. >> but when covid hit, everything loretta harrison was banking on to fund her restaurant and candy business disappeared. >> we flatlined. there was no business. >> to bring it back to life, she started cooking for an organization that provides food for people in need >> it helped us to stay afloat >> a lifeline for loretta, until this >> good morning. >> a post on tiktok that went viral. >> it was a customer who came in, and she said, i heard all this talk about loretta's praline beignets >> you saw us on tiktok. it turned into a lot of sales. lines out the door my advice to others, small business owners, don't quit. >> from downtown up, to new orleans' first black-owned yoga studio, magnolia >> when i couldn't see my community, i felt like i was melting. >> with

along the way, the ports of baton rouge, new orleans, and south louisiana rm the greatest trading hubwestn hemisphere. steven hathorn is president of the new leans-baton rouge steamship pilots association. >> i believe the economic effect is around $730 billion per year. one out of every six jobs in louisiana is from the mississippi river. i like to say it's one of our greatest-- probably our greatest natural resource. >> reporter: hathorn has navigated large ships up and down the channel for decades. >> our area is one of the most treacherous pilotage areas in the world-- very congested, with tens of thousands of barges, hundreds of tow boats. we have i think seven bridges in between new orleans and baton rouge to navigate through. it can be very trying on a person. >> reporter: even in normal conditions, navigating the mississippi is so challenging that a specially-trained local pilot must steer every international freighter safely to port. but the unpredictable high water season is making that job tougher. 2019's flooding was record- setting for both its duration and volume. >> we'

perhaps no one reacted as badly as the city of new orleans did after they placed third.ng bee in miss bolden's honor but the city denied the permit. one newspaper account says the mayor withheld it for fear of sparking a race riot. he even told the police department to prevent the event from happening. but it gets worse. the school board in new orleans pulled all of its white teachers out of black public schools. it replaced them with black teachers. and it passed a resolution censuring the superintendent, warren easton, for the whole fiasco. people blamed him for letting white students compete against a black child. think about that. this is not just about racism. it's about entitlement. the new orleans city leaders felt so entitled, so above any negro students who might be on another team, that when their squad lost to one, they could not even let black residents celebrate. who knew they would be so -- what's the word -- umm -- that's it! so querimonious. thankfully the state of louisiana has come a long way since then. its governor, john bel edwards, congratulated mis

alliance last year local officials estimated new orleans lost about $125 million per week in tourismlocal economy is bouncing back. cnbc's andrea day spoke with three entrepreneurs in new orleans about how they're adapting during the pandemic and making an american comeback. >> the one word that best describes the past year is hell. >> for me it's aspirational. >> for me it's patience. >> reporter: this is new orleans, louisiana, where three small businesses are making a comeback >> we were banking on tourism. >> reporter: but when covid hit everything loreta harrison was pabanking onto fund a restaurant and candy business disappeared >> we flat lined there was no business. >> reporter: to bring it back to life she started tooking for an organization that provides food for people in need >> it helped us to stay afloat >> reporter: a lifeline for loretta until this a post on tiktok that went viral. >> it was a customer who came in, and she said i heard all this talk about loreta's >> you saw us on tiktok. >> it turned into a lot of sales, lines out the door. my advice to other small b

invented in the early part of the 20th century in new orleans, jazz has become synonymous with american music, not just in the united states but around the world. america has produced incredible jazz legends like dizzy gillespie, louis armstrong, and duke ellington. but today, at the top of the jazz world is wynton marsalis, the founder and director of jazz at lincoln center. he is a performer, and educator, a composer and he lives jazz 24 hours a day. you get tired of people calling you a jazz legend? >> yeah, i don't like the word legend. david: let's talk about your family for a moment. sadly your father paid -- your father passed away in april at the age of 85 because of covid. it must've been a very sad loss because you were very close to him. wynton: for all of us, mia my brothers. he was our father. he was such a kind man with a large worldview and also a nice person. he didn't do small things. he was very philosophical. he was not a touchy-feely type of person. but underneath, there was a lot of resolve and seriousness and just deep love, not just for us but he had many students

cheering we're going to send this to monday and let �*em now how we do it in new orleans! yeah!—minute lesson, this happened. bbc travel here. london, england, y'all! well, i've got to say, rajan didn't do a bad job there — or perhaps the crowd werejust being kind. laughs ok, up next, we're off to denmark — a country that's famous for its annual roskilde music festival, where over 100 bands usually take to the stage every year. now, unfortunately, the festival has been cancelled this year due to the pandemic. but to keep you going, why not submerge yourself in this film from denmark with christa, back in 2018? butjust a word of warning, please don't try this one at a home without a snorkel. ethereal singing this is the group between music. their latest show is the first in a 4—part series called aquasonic, which aims to explore who we are human beings. and it begins with our time in the womb. we are so often divided between you and me, them and us, different religions, different cultures. but here is something that i think we can all know something about. we have our first in ni

i don't lead new orleans today. am not in charge of the crime-fighting effort today, but i do believe that the approach that we took in the 1990's was the most successful approach of any city in that era to bring down violent crime as well as to reduce brutality and corruption, and all that occurred. this is not a democratic or republican issue. this is an issue of what is smart, what is effective, what works when it comes to fighting crime. simply flooding communities with more police officers did not work in the past. it won't work now. just arresting people and filling up the jails didn't work in the past, and it isn't going to work now. and i think that is what people need to understand. one thing louisiana could do is pass some laws that make it more difficult for people to get guns . the legislature just yesterday or the day before failed to override -- i mean, in a good move, didn't override the government's veto on one of these absurd bills where everyone can carry a gun anywhere without a permit. it is the

miami-dade mayor as well as new orleans mayor.ow better than anyone, miami-dade, broward and fort lauderdale admitted the most covid patients to hospitals of any counties in the country this past week. just how bad is the situation, mayor cava, where you are? >> it is really bad, wolf. we're over 11% positivity. we got down below 3%. and, so, this is really shocking for us. our hospitals are getting overwhelmed. and this despite the fact that we have a 75% plus vaccination rate for those over 12. >> mayor, how is this awful delta variant, the surge in the delta variant impacting new orleans? >> well, the city of new orleans is the most vaccinated in the state of louisiana at 65%. however, or leans parish, our hospitalizations are much lower than the state. but the state hospitalizations have doubled more than what they are in orleans. so that means that the transfers are coming to orleans parish. they're coming to the city. >> kids are preparing to go back to school in florida. but your governor just signed an executive order bloc

. >> on july 4, in my hometown of new orleans, aside from fireworks and crawfish boils and good musicay, was largest amphibious attack ever attempted, the plan to take allied troops to nazi occupied france over the english channel. it would require up to 5,000 ships, moving vehicles, tanks, and more than 150,000 men on to normandy's beaches. >> allies had a challenge, how do deliver, large numbers of troops and equipment to beaches, that were shall loews. -- shall loy. >> they turned on andrew jackson higgens a boat manufacturer in new orleans, he had an idea for shallow draft boats used to navigate the swamps of louisiana, higgens, was certain his swamp boats could play a critical role in the war. the military, initially resisted his overtures, nevertheless, in a sign of his confidence, higgens purchased a crop of philippine's mahogany, one of the last shipments before the war ended trade there an inspired purchase, particularly since the marines relented. and higgens put his landing craft into production for military use, he would open 7 plants in new orleans, employee tens of thous

she is from new orleans, which i'm going to stick with saying new orleans, because i try to say "new orleans" and she was like, that's not it at all. and she's so humble but so much to brag about. she has three guinness world records under her belt for like dribbling, basketball-related things and obviously won the spelling bee, and now she was personally invited by anthony mackie, who is the host of the espys, and she had a seat front and center. he did not disappoint. and she got to see naomi osaka. >> that is incredible. congratulations to her. >>> coming up, what we're learning about last night's amazon outage. >> plus, the terrifying moments over the weekend at a carnival in michigan. how some two dozen bystanders rushed to a malfunctioning ride to avert disaster. >>> and later, cool be down and fueling up in the summer sun. the handy gadgets for your outdoor fun. you're watching "world news now." >>> we're back, with this >>> we're back with this horrifying scene in hiram, georgia, several people were injured after a driver plowed his truck into a restaurant, and then opened fir

well, as the u.s. came in, one of the first cries coming out owhite new orleans was to strip the blackitia, disband the black militia. well, the governor, william claiborne at the time, you know, at first he's like, "yesyou know, asking for more arms, because we have all of these free blacks, and we've got these black folks wi arms," and so he's asking for more arms fromhe federal government. but th he startsoticing how effective this black militia is, anso he tries to square the circle -- white fear and the sense that the black milia is t only real effective fighting force there given all of the challenges that are happening in that territory at the time. and so what he comes up with is to remove the black officer class from this black militia and put in white offers, thinking that that wilbe enou for whites in new orleans who want the black militia disbanded. but then there is a massive, massive slave revolt coming from charles deslondes. and this massive slave revt that incded somewhere between 150 to 500 people, headed to new orleans heed to at they lieved was freedom, st sent terr

this comes four years after new orleans removed four confederate monuments. , a new documentary by roy wood, jr., and c.j. hunt, that delivers a compelling history on white supremacy and explains why it continues to hold so much power in america. and joining me now are roy wood, jr., and c.j. hunt. gentlemen, thank you both for coming to "the sunday show." congratulations on an incredible documentary. i watched it from beginning to end. >> thank you. >> it is serious, but it is also, in parts, funny. c.j., the conversation between you and your dad towards the beginning is hilarious. but, roy, i'll start with you. why was it important to do this documentary? >> i think at the daily show, c.j. and i have known each other for a couple years. he's been my field producer on a lot of the things i go out on. the things we edit, we only have enough time on the daily show to show the causation of an issue and the solution to an issue. the neutral ground is able to accomplish both of those. put it all into what burrito. also explore why people feel the way they feel and

thank you. >>> tonight, a remarkable achievement at the scripps na >>> a teenager from new orleans is. >> she just became the first african-american to win the scripps national spelling bee. >> murraya . >> that is correct. >> brilliant. look how excited. the 14-year-old correctly spelling a word that many of us don't even recognize. she conquered it and took him the scripps cup along with $50,000. >> also, some hometown pride. the runner-up, a 12-year-old from san francisco. >> that is huge. >> yeah, that is awesome. we will be right it's the lowest prices of the season on the sleep number 360 smart bed. it's the most comfortable, dually-adjustable, foot-warming, temperature-balancing q to learn more, go to sleepnumber.com. when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. watch cbs in ba

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on april 2 there were seven or 45 cases of coveting a new orleans parish. population three under 91000 roughly. i began to note the date would later prove to us that the health disparities we've always known i ravish the african communities have been decimated and now being revealed to us. were african-americans especially these people the identity of the city of new orleans. there bearing the larger burden of disease. on campus i create a task force with the following options that they consider for the spring 2020 semester bread one option is to continue fixing constructions of the good. the other is taking to campus and sending people home. our admits ration also decide to offer instructed remotely for the 2020 spring semester continue into december. the fall semester returned to mixed modalities in person on campus with special public health considerations. the majority of instruction took place in person. we have hybrid instruction for students to allow them some choices as to the preferred mode of instruction. for academic support the student physical

>> reporter: miguel almaguer tonight, thanks >>> this evening philadelphia and new orleans are the latest cities to now recommend mask wearing indoors even if you are vaccinated this is an issue, as you just heard, also getting new attention from the white house kelly o'donnell has more >> reporter: the delta variant mask debate. tonight president biden says he has talked to his covid experts about mask rules for vaccinated americans, but so far no change is planned >> 25-person group we put together are looking at all the possibilities of what is happening now. >> reporter: the cdc director has a message for the fully vaccinated mask wearing is up to you. >> you may choose to have an extra layer of protection by putting on your mask, and that's a very individual choice. >> reporter: but in covid hot spots, some local officials push for broader mask wearing. authorities in new orleans and philadelphia now recommending masks indoors for the fully vaccinated today atlanta public schools said masks will be mandatory for all students and staff regardless of vaccine status while urging more am

new orleans canceled its fireworks show because of financial problems. but as you can see, the show did go on. this is along the city's mississippi. the city website says today where there's a will, there's a way. thank you. will smith. >> and the fall may have made it more difficult to see. but san francisco did have a firework spectacular last night crop for carry that live. here's a look. after my car accident, i wondered what my case was worth. so i called the barnes firm. when that car hit my motorcycle, insurance wasn't fair. so i called the barnes firm. it was the best call i could've made. at the barnes firm, our injury attorneys work hard to get you the best result possible. call us now and find out what your case could be worth. you might be surprised. ♪ the barnes firm injury attorneys ♪ ♪ call one eight hundred, eight million ♪ ♪ the barnes firm injury attorneys ♪ all of this started when we discovered the benefits of local, raw honey for our family. and then we said "hey, you know what? this is a business right here." we went out and started

houston to new orleans, by far the worst drive in the country. just hit-and-miss showers around atlanta. we'll have hit-and-miss showers in florida, which is pretty typical. maybe about 3 inches. if we're going to get flash flooding, it would be areas near new orleans, baton rouge. the slow moving front will bring in showers and storms this afternoon and again tomorrow, but it's not going to be that bad, not a lot of severe weather. hit-and-miss showers. don't cancel your plans. it hit 110 in glasgow, montana, yesterday. hottest temperature they've seen in 86 years. there's a lot of fires burning in the midwest. most of the smoke will be up through the northern rockies, especially montana and idaho. hazy skies and poor air quality. 92 in d. krft. there will be a few hit-and-miss showers tomorrow in areas of the northeast, but it won't be horrible, jonathan. as we said, temperatures are returning back to normal with the exception of the northern plains. yes, it's been one of those summers in the northeast where everything is green and lush. i thin

goods, hogs, agricultural produce from southern indiana on the ohio river down the mississippi to new orleanson the way he discovers two things. he sees that people who are enslaved do not have the same canonic opportunity to advance their own station. and it is a moral evil. he also sees the importance of transporting goods to markets and having access to those markets no matter where you live. so if you are a rural farmer were ever in the country, you do not have to go through this labyrinth of what was then the interstate system for the nations large rivers to get there. this young man was abraham lincoln. took another trip out of springfield, illinois. 1828 is a really important here though. that is with the erie canal opened. that gave new york city, which became of course with the greatest imports in the world, access to the markets west into the great lakes brit at the time chicago was not even a city it was a swampy trading post a very inaccessible because the only way of getting down to the mississippi river was through an ugly portage called bud lake. even in 1673, two explorers sai

children's hospital new orleans had four covid patients monday of this week and today they have 20. how sick are they? >> a lot of these kids are very sick with respiratory symptoms, literally starved for oxygen. >> reporter: chuck is a 17-year- old high school football player. we met him here in the emergency room. what are you struggling with? >> breathing, major headaches. and coughing, too. >> reporter: fatina watkins is his mom. it's hard watching someone struggling to breathe. >> it's very hard. if he wouldn't have gotten the first dose of the vaccination, his sickness would be way worse than what it is now. >> reporter: both the mothers in our report is fully vaccinated. jaquez is in the emergency room behind me. nurses say he is doing great. dominick has gone home, treated him with steroids and albuterol and after 36 hours they said he's well enough to leave the hospital. >> o'donnell: david, thank you. about a third of the population is broiling in a heat wave tonight. nearly 110 million americans are under alert from nebraska to georgia. severe storms popping up in marylan

in los angeles, in new orleans and last summer during the riots.hat it was like to be forcibly disarmed by the government when you needed to defend yourself. here's a clip from our documentary. >> in other parts of the city, they aggressively disarmed law-abiding citizens. it may have been the most aggressive gun confiscation scheme in modern american history. >> when the people were most vulnerable they took the guns away from them. when they needed them the most. >> rather than stop looters from ransacking new orleans, police decided to confiscate firearms from people who had broken no laws and presented no threat with no due process. it was illegal, but they did it anyway. >> we are going to take all weapons. >> they went door-to-door. >> they went into people's homes, they took guns. don't think it won't happen. it can happen. >> for the police and the national guardsmen dispatched in new orleans, it was easier to disarm citizens then it was to confront criminals, so that's exactly what they did. >> tucker: and that was 16 years ago. they have

danielle is a former new orleans education reporter and journalism fellow.she also wrote for the boston globe and worked at boston npr station w gbh and she lives in new orleans, louisiana. quote is the author of many books you know and love including the best-selling memoir comfort:a journey through grief and best-selling novels the books that matter most impending circle. kitchen yarn, notes on life, love and food and is also a author of the trojan, she won two prizes and best american spiritual writing award, best american food writing award and best power writing award and lives in providence, rhode island. so super excited to hear from you tonight and i will turn the floor over to you, thanks, everybody, for joining us. >> thank you so much, lila. >> i've afforded square books and i'm pretending i'm there right now because there are places to do a reading. >> i'm having wonderful flashbacks together using because i lived with and 3 miles of border square books from before it was even open years later. i wrote an article about one of the baristas who was

they met at a conference in new orleans ten years ago and it was so overwhelming to see them come together. they are about the same age so they lived through the same eras of history in new orleans with segregation and racial discrimination, but they came together and formed the plessy and ferguson foundation and for ten years we who are the board members and supporters of the foundation have worked in very many different areas of support to continue the thrust to eliminate racial segregation in our country and in our culture. louisiana is a very unique historical state. so many things happened in louisiana ahead of the wave of other -- of racial discrimination cases and lawsuits throughout the country. i happen to be involved in a family that led a lot of the civil rights activities from the 1920s until the 1960s and '70s with my dad and my mom and many other southern blacks and whites and people from the caribbean as well who came from haiti after the haitian revolution, the french, the spanish and all of the europeans that came to the south to build all the wealth and the power and the

but this is every day in detroit, in chicago, los angeles, new orleans, atlanta. we have to apprehend this problem. the only way to do it is to embrace our police, sure, let's create parameters for them so that they respect everybody. at the same time, we need to respect them. so they help do their job. officials have to allow them to do their job and implement these silly policies like you can't pursue anybody except if they engage in a crime. ridiculous. >> emily: that's right. support them and support them publicly in addition to allow them to do their jobs. you mentioned the babies being killed. in chicago, they called it an extension of our children that is happening before our eyes. abby, welcome to the show. so grateful to have you here with us. what are your thoughts? >> first of all, thanks for letting me join. i want to pick up on something that raymond said about the policy. the main reason this is happening is because these criminals think they can get away with crimes like this. they're looking across the other democrat-run cities and they're looking