william la jeunesse has more from los angeles. good morning, william. >> good morning.ne a day, 331 officers were shot last year. 64 died. that's a 21% increase over the average in the last decade. here in california, two deputies from the same department died in the last two weeks, a suspect shot one on friday unprovoked during a child custody call. a week prior a career criminal shot another officers during a traffic stop. a third strike and should be been if prison but twice the judge lowered his bail for release. >> my heart is broken for that family and the community. the two officers in two weeks is just -- >> so why is it happening? following the death of george floyd and blm protests many denigrated all cops. from calls for prison reform to no cash bail, police say there is no accountability in the system and when there are no consequences for crime there is no respect for the rule of law. >> we have a culture of lawlessness that gripped the country fueled by an open border, activity theist judges, rogue das and a society that tells people you are no longer acco

william la jeunesse live in l.a. who knows the topic as well as anyone. he has a closer look today. america as you alluded to. if drugs are being sold, they're responsible. we use that term cartel loosely. what do i mean by that? basically a drug cartel is a criminal organization, right? and like any business there is a structure, a chain of command. each cartel controls its own supply chain, manufacturing, smuggling, transport, enforcement, accounting and distribution. >> the drug cartels king pins rely on that to make them their money. so they are pushing the drugs up here. the street gangs are selling the drugs, making the profits to send back to mexico. >> so at the top of the cartel is a box or drug lord. mexico's first was in the 70s. next came the gulf cartel that built routes into south texas, the new generation cartel moved from southern mexico north. the -- the chapo moved from cocaine to meth and fentanyl that don't need a growing season. each cartel is a multi-billion business employing thousands and police say nothing illegally crosses the border without u.s. cartel app

william la jeunesse has been following this very closely in california. about, william. >> reporter: neil, supporters say reparations are payments for decades of discrimination, rooted in slavery but perpetuated by government. why should today's whites latinos, asians pay for the sins of slave owners? their reply, generations profited from the legacy of slavery. >> i'm offering no apologies. this is for black evanston residents. >> reporter: a handful of liberal cities growing support for reparations for african-americans. >> reparations is charity, not a gift. something that is owed. it's a debt, it's a debt for 400 years of slavery. >> reporter: how much money who pays is unresolved but in san francisco some task force members want to give black residents descended from slavery or affected by the war on drugs up to five million dollars each. >> this is not black trying to get something from white people in terms of begging, borrowing. >> reporter: the group says reparations address a racial wealth gap perpetrated by city policy. >> locally this is not a

william la jeunesse. meanwhile, awaiting what could be a couple of hours away now, a few hours away, that body cam footage showing police stop that ultimately led to the death of tyre nichols. steve harrigan in memphis, tennessee with that. steve? >> neil, this city is bracing itself for potential violence with the release of that police body cam video about three hours from now. i'm steve harrigan in memphis. that story ahead. all across the country, people are working hard to build a better future. so we're hard at work helping them achieve financial freedom. we're proud to serve people everywhere, in investing for the retirement they envision. from the plains to the coasts, we help americans invest for their future. and help communities thrive. (vo) with verizon, you can now get a private 5g network. so you can do more than connect your business, you can make it even smarter. now ports can know where every piece of cargo is. and where it's going. (dock worker) right on time. (vo) robots can predict bre

william la jeunesse. >> dana: experts warn the great resignation is not over yet.hreatening the labor force. jeff flock is here to tell us more. >> still working. my grand parents used to complain nobody wants to work anymore. there is a huge disparity between the number of job openings and people wanting to work. 10 1/2 million or so job openings at last report from the bls and only 6 million people looking for work. if everybody got a job we would still be short. if you look at the graph of job openings, they jumped after the pandemic and now still high. can't find workers. some people like the co-founder of home depot to say nobody wants to work anymore. the quote just give it to me, signed me money, i don't want to work. i'm to fat or stupid. people weren't quite as -- >> you need to work. you need to wake up at 4:00 in the morning, make your lunch in the house and be responsible for your life. >> i have think the issue is skilled labor. it seems like in general there are jobs open but not the right people to fill a lot of them. >> there are a lot of people get

william la jeunesse on that part of the story, the violent part. william. >> well, neil, in many ways for years or decades cartel violence was largely relegated to mexico. that's no longer the case and when we say cartel, here is what we mean. a drug cartel is a criminal organization. there's a structure, a chain of command and each cartel controls its own supply chain, manufacturing, smuggling, transport, enforcement, accounting and distribution. >> but there is definitely a path that we can follow from the kingpins through the wholesalers and through the mid level distributors into the hands of the people selling the drugs on the street corners. >> now, today, roughly five cartels compete for trafficking drugs and migrants. among the first was the gulf cartel which built routes into south texas. the zetas and new generation to the north and tijuana cartel is fighting for west coast corridor control with the sinaloa cartel. each is a multi-billion dollar business employing thousands. nothing illegal crosses the border without their approval. rangin

back to you. >> trace: william la jeunesse live for us in dana point.h the vote hours away, let's get some insight from the political panel. democratic strategists kevin walling and "washington examiner" reporter sarah westwood. thank you both for coming on. sarah, you heard william. that big endorsement came from florida governor ron desantis today, endorsing harmeet dhillon. do you expect ronna mcdaniel to enact this, or might there be a surprise? >> i think there is a reason why more credible challengers didn't jump into the race against mcdaniel. lee zeldin publicly weighed getting into the race and decided not to after losing the governor's race in new york. i think that's because mcdaniel still has a really strong hold on members of the rnc. i think what we heard desantis say, echoing his rationale for potentially running for president, new blood, getting out of d.c. he is sort of aligning himself with this insurgent wing of the party that's ready to challenge the establishment. you see a lot of the same energy that was behind the speakership race

senior national correspondent william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with more. ecause of how the murder happened and now the question is who wanted him dead and why? about a year ago near jacksonville 33-year-old jared bridegan was driving home when someone placed a tire in the middle of a narrow road. when he got out he was shot multiple times at close range. why? his job as microsoft or his personal life? he was in a custody battle with his ex, shanna who admitted asking a tattoo artist if he knew anyone who would shut up her exhusband. she denied having any development in his death. police are he leased video of a blue ford pickup spotted by security cameras at the time. $55,000 reward out there. police sources say it could come as early as tomorrow. >> i have a lot of faith in the detectives working this. it is frustrating that things take time, that this is not a tv show. things don't get involved in 60 minutes. >> bridegan remarried and his new wife has given numerous interviews saying she hopes to keep the case in front of the public. she is upset because

william la jeunesse has the update. >> the actor suffered chest and leg injuries and went through two surgeries on monday and remains in intensive care but is stable. injury not sustained by a snowblower but a snow cat. tahoe got hit by four feet of snow over the weekend. he was clearing a path on the driveway on sunday when the accident occurred. the vehicle rolled over his legs. a ski resort driver speculated that renner may have failed to fully engage the emergency brake. others think the vehicle mal functioned around 9:00 a.m. a doctor tied a tourniquet on his leg but lost a lot of blood by the time he was airlifted to arena owe hospital. his type of snow cat is no longer sold but similar models on second hand sites are considered vintage. renner is 51, he is in the avenger series. he has a 9-year-old daughter he shares with an ex wife. both are with him now. the local sheriff impounded the snow cat and is treating renner's home as a crime scene. >> bill: thank you in l.a. we'll follow it. >> dana: congressional reports finds the fda broke protocols to approve a new ailsheimer's m

william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with details this morning. , william. >> these commissioners don't call reparations are distraction but response to discrimination. i asked them why should whites, asians or latinos pay for the sins of a few slave owners. >> i'm offering no apologies. this is for black residents. >> a handful of liberal cities growing support for reparations for black americans. >> it isn't charity, not a gift. it is something that is owed. it is a debt. a debt for 400 years of slavery. >> how much money and who pays is unresolved. in san francisco, some task force members want to give black residents descended from slavery or affected by the war on drugs up to $5 million each. >> this is not black trying to get something from white in terms of begging and borrowing. >> they group says reparations address a racial wealth gap perpetrated by city policy. >> locally this is not about slavery at all but discrimination, housing, other forms of discrimination around labor and jobs. >> a massive distraction from the failure of democrat

william la jeunesse joins us live with more. >> we expected the charges this hour.dwin as we both know claims that he's 1000% not responsible for the death of hutchins and he will get a chance to prove it. he's accused of shooting the gun and reed for loading it with live rounds. the third defendant, an assistant director that handed the gun to baldwin has plead out to a misdemeanor. if convicted of simple negligence, baldwin and reed each face up to 18 months in jail. however, if they're not not just negligent, that jumps to 6.5 years. baldwin has denied responsibility saying he cocked the revolver but never pulled the trigger. he blameded reed for saying the revolver was safe when it was. reed said she has no idea who inserted the real bullets. the producer and actor showed a pattern of criminal disregard. >> mr. baldwin had a duty at the base level to never hold a gun and point it at a person while pulling the trigger. he also had a duty as an actor and producer to have the bullets checked or to check them himself to make sure that they weren't live. >> so baldwi

william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with this story and an update. >> there has been several storieshollywood and the comfortable life of star's sons and daughters. not the case with lisa marie presley. suffered through the suicide of a son, four failed marriages, drug addiction and recording career that never approached that of her father whose life she celebrated sunday at the golden globes and two days before his 88th birthday at grace land. >> can you imagine lisa marie being the daughter, the child of maybe the second most famous man in the history of the world next to christ himself. >> elvis died when lisa marie was nine but later she sang in due either alongside his old reportings. a housekeeper found presley unconscious. after cpr noted signs of life but later died at a local hospital. presley married early at age 20 and had two children. that relationship ended after six years. 20 days after that she married singer michael jackson again divorced. her next marriage to actor nicholas cage lasted three months. later had twin daughters but that marriage also ended in divorce. f

first to william la jeunesse live in the rnc meeting in dana point, california. william? >> voting is almost done. they're on virginia. a few more dates to go. that's it. the voting is taking place over my shoulder. each state and territory has three votes. those will be counted and observers to witness, if you will, the counting of the ballots. they're put in three piles like clubs, spades and hearts. bam, bam, bam. the magic number is 85, which is half the number of members here. ronna mcdaniel has been for six years the chair woman of the party. she was expected to win this thing going away. that is not the case. it's going to be closer than anybody expected. harmeet dylan is a trial lawyer from california. she has put on the full court press in about the last month and repealed off of a lot of those voters, as few as a dozen last night separated the two candidates. very different in terms of their strategy going forward. ronna mcdaniel, there was a conference, for members only, a few nights ago where each candidate put forth their agenda for what they were going to do

william la jeunesse live in los angeles with a closer look at how the cartels, which we think of beingxico and on the border also now have a presence right here in america. hi, william. >> martha, you're right. for decades, really, that cartel violence was largely relegated to mexico. it's no longer the case. when we say drug cartel, here's what we mean. these are criminal organizations. also like a business, they have a structure and a chain of command. right? each cartel controlling its own supply chain, manufacturing, smuggling, accounting and distribution. >> there is definitely a path that we can follow from the kingpins and the distributors in to the hands of the people selling the drugs on the street corners. >> martha: so today roughly there's five cartels that compete for trafficking, drugs and migrants. one of the first, the gulf cartel, which built routes in to south texas. other cartels moved from southern mexico to the north and then you have cartels fighting for california and arizona. today each one is a multibillion dollar business employing thousands. nothing illegal c

. >> bill: senior national correspondent william la jeunesse live in l.a. to bring us up to date on what's happening today. hello. >> good morning. we have a slight separation of the bands of rain that i had coming in this morning. the irony is last year was the second driest year on record. this, of course, could be one of the wettest. we have had five atmospheric rivers in the last two weeks. one of those carries, according to the meteorologists, as much water as in the amazon river. simply it is way too much water that this state can handle. now you have 34 million people under a flood watch. 90% of the state. nine rivers are already overflowing. 32 more are at risk right now. basically let's talk about l.a. county where i am. right next to the l.a. river it is near a flood stage as we speak. 51 miles long and basically the san gabriel river watershed and it is getting hammered with rain. last night was as hard as i've ever seen it. go to santa barbara and montecito is under evacuation orders five years ago when they had the big mudslide. they have very

national correspondent william la jeunesse has an update for us. >> the good news is renner is out of the surgery and talking and in good spirits according to a rep. before we tell you what happened i want you to take a look at this image from a 2019 video of renner in his snow cat. there is no way to get into the cab without stepping if we can drop that banner there. he can't get into the cab without stepping on the tracks. imagine the tracks are moving. sunday renner was plowing the driveway when the car they were digging out got stuck. renner stepped out of the snow cat to help. the machine started rolling. when the actor jumped back in to apply the break he got stuck in the tracks and was run over by the seven ton machine. >> the piston bully started to roll. in an effort to stop it he attempts to get back into the driver's seat of the piston bully. it's at this point mr. renner is run over by the piston bully. >> family members called 911, neighbors tried to stem the bleeding. an hour later he underwent surgery for chest and leg injuries. he posted the photo saying thank you all

nenational correspondent william la jeunesse some of the reasons. >> he law enforcement have been treated like crap the better part of a decade. demonized and denigrated and people have less and less respect for law enforcement. >> case in point, october las vegas. >> get out of the car. [gunfire] >> 18 shots, an officer dead. one of 64 killed last year. >> we should let officer ty's death serve as a stark reminder the men and women who wear this uniform every day face. >> criminals shot 334 officers last year. almost one every day. >> i shouldn't be here tonight. having to do this again. >> in california, two deputies from the same department died in the last two weeks. darnell calhoun shot friday responding to a child custody fight. isaiah cardeo shot during a traffic stop. >> my heart is broken for that family. two officers in two weeks. >> why the increase? >> well, following the murder of george floyd, many activists denigrated all cops. >> we need to defund the police. >> yes, i support the defund movement. >> not only do we need to defund but we need to dismantle. >> police say tha

here's national correspondent william la jeunesse.gs in. >> in 2019 the u.s. are vowed to fight the mexican cartels. billions of dollars later violence once contained there is here. >> they are here and they are dangerous. >> latest, a family executed cartel style near fresno. >> i can tell you cartels are here they are here for multiple reasons. >> a drug scarttle a criminal organization. like any business there is a chain of command with each cartel controlling its own supply chain. manufacturing, smuggling, transport, enforcement beings accounting and distribution. >> the drug cartels, the kingpins rely on that to make them their money. so they are pushing the drugs up here. it's those street gangs that are selling the drugs, making the profits to send back to mexico. >> today there are five large mexican cartels, the gulf cacialghts, zetas and the jalisco new generation competes for routes into texas while the tijuana and is i low a cartels fight to move sin they is working to get deadly out of our communities. >> today multi bill

. >> bill: william la jeunesse is reporting on this for this don't like us.the snowcat come apparently it's old one, german matching fracture. he said there's an investigation of the cause and a news conference, 3:30 p.m. california time. but they are getting pounded with snow, a big storm coming off the pacific ocean over th there. apparently there was so much heavy snow, they had to get some clearing out in order to get the emergency vehicles there. >> emily: this goes back to that rural aspect, as well as the extreme conditions. it makes every thing so much more difficult and potentially tragic when you are alone out there. >> kennedy: that's why people want to live in nature, because they want to be in it. they want to challenge themselves. he wanted a diy operation. he's got a big house, he's got a ranch. you know, you're from that part of the country. when it snows, anyone ever hear of the donner party? that's what happens. it really can become a life or death situation so quickly. he wanted to be able to plow his land and get things cleared out, becaus

national correspondent william la jeunesse has the latest on extremely controversial subject. >> i'mthis is for black evanston residents. >> in a handful of liberal cities growing support for reparations for black americans. >> reparations isn't charity. it's a debt for 400 years of slavery. >> how much money and who pace is unresolved. but, in san francisco, some task force members want to give black residents descended from slavery or affected by the war on drugs up to $5 million each. >> this is not black trying to get something from white in terms of begging and borrowing. >> the reparations address a racial wealth gap perpetrated by city policy. >> locally, this is about not slavery at all. it's all about discrimination, housing, other forms of discrimination around labor, jobs. >> this is just a massive distraction from the failure of democrats who have run this town for over 60 years. >> democrats also run the state. >> reparations was something promised and something owed. >> owed according to the state task force the descendents of black people in the u.s. prior to 1900. sla

william la jeunesse has more on the fallout from all of this and the reaction to all of this. n los angeles. william. >> reporter: well, neil, for all the success of elvis presley, his daughter lisa marie, she really struggled in life. she suffered through the suicide of a son, four failed marriages, drug addiction and a recording career that never approached that of her father. so tuesday she celebrated the movie "elvis" on the red carpet at the golden globes, and and two days prior what would have been her father's 88th birthday at graceland. >> can you imagine lisa marie being the daughter, the child -- maybe the second most famous man in the history of the world next to christ himself. >> reporter: so elvis died when lisa marie was 9 years old, but later she sang alongside his old recordings in a duet. thursday a housekeeperrer found presley unconscious. pararah meldics noted signs of life after cpr, but she died hours later. so presley married young, at age 20. she had two children, but that relationship ended after six years. twenty days later, she married michael jackson

country and southern gospel music star but first let's turn to senior national correspondent william la jeunesseresley had in his life, lisa marie struggled in hers. these are live pictures from graceland, which she inherited but according to documents obtained by the blast lisa marie lost $100 million fortune and a lavish lifestyle, she reportedly owed the irs a million dollars and carried $92,000 in monthly expenses despite income from graceland, where fans paid their respects last night. fame and wealth did not bring happiness. lisa marie suffered through a suicide of her son, four failed marriages, drug addiction, and a recording career that did not approach her father's. sunday, she celebrated at graceland what would have been his 88th birthday, then tuesday at the golden globes, on that new musical based on his life. >> the downside was just the attention, that i wasn't, you know, just sort of boring with having, and the upside is where i came from, and i am very honored to be part of where i came from. >> elvis died when lisa marie was nine, but later she sang alongside his old recordings