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>> look, let me give you the latest fbi stats. i know you cant see it. but on this side you will see that the murder rate for the national murder rate across the united states is 5.3. mcallen, where the president is going to be at today, the murder rate is 4.8. so its lower than the national crime rate. the murder rate in washington, d.c. is 16.7. let me just finish, 16.7 murder. >> sandra: we have a lot of breaking news this hour, congressman. i have to wrap you there. >> thank you so much. >> ...

The threat of drones endangering aircraft safety. security minister ben wallace did not offer specifics about the system but signaled military resources are being used to stop the growing number of drones in civilian airspace. gatwick airport, uks second largest, was brought to a standstill for 36 hours last week after numerous drones were sighted close to its runways. lets check "cnn business." global stocks rebounding from a christmas day route. the nikkei closed up nearly 1%. the shanghai c...

Higher. markets reopen today after closing christmas. stocks on pace for their worst december since the great depression. the dow is now down 15.6% this month. the s&p 500 down a little bit more than that. the nasdaq down 16.7%. everything negative on the year. and the s&p 500 is now near a bear market. its the thought that counts, of course, but what if you really dont want another reindeer sweater with jingle bells? according to the national retail federation, 17% of consumers will go to ret...

Muslim ban. theyre telling you how theyve been directly impacted by it. >> and i have to remember, when president obama took office, the unemployment rate among african-americans was almost at 17%, 16.7%, and by the time he left, it was at 7%. the low sevens. and now its at 6.8. >> those numbers are difficult, because -- everyone uses the unemployment rate, which is not really accurate because its only, like, q-1 and -- >> its a snapshot -- but listen. >> it only counts people who are seeking wo...

Ban. theyre telling you how theyve been directly impacted by it. >> and i have to remember, when president obama took office, the unemployment rate among african-americans was almost at 17%, 16.7%, and by the time he left, it was at 7%. the low sevens. and now its at 6.8. >> those numbers are difficult, because -- everyone uses the unemployment rate, which is not really accurate because its only, like, q-1 and -- >> its a snapshot -- but listen. >> it only counts people who are seeking work at t...

Making sure the insurance exchanges work better, which is what we need to do, because weve got folks that are paying too much out-of-pocket in the private exchange, and people all across the country paying too much for prescription drugs, and so i want to tackle that. youve got legislation to tackle those things, and thats where you get bipartisan support to work together is actually bringing down costs, not take away medical care for people to pay for another tax cut. >> i know youring looking ...

So nationally trump didnt really do that much better than romney among counties broadly across the country. if you look in the industrial midwest, for example, you can see that trumps margin over what romney got four years ago was 16.7 percentage points in the counties with highest amount of drug and opioid use and counties with the lowest amount it was smaller. even in new england, which you dont think of as having a huge drug problem, it does in rural new hampshire and rural maine and so on. t...

I dont think voters will going to vote on that basis that politicians are clever on the stump. >> i want to talk to you about this regarding florida only. trump at 34 points. ahead by 16.7% and thats how many points cruz has. 17.3%. excuse me, rubio has a 16.7%, so, trump, 34. cruz, 17.3 and then rubio, 16.2 and bush at 10.3. carson, 9.3. so, question to you, is can rubio pull off florida? >> he has to. if he cant win his home state, which is a winner take all-state, by the way, then hes in real...

Cnn, theyre also cracking down, seizing 16.7 ftons of smuggled ivory in the last three years and introducing a more sophisticated tracking system to better regulate the sale of legal ivory. but one local lawmaker wants to shut down ivory sales altogether. while we can stop the buy, we can stop the killing, too. >> activists fear the largest living mammal to walk the earth could be extinct within a sen generation. a. >> if we dont stop it fast enough or soon enough, what will happen is you and me...

In detroit it is the government opting to cut off water to thousands of its residents who were delinquent on their bills. in october the situation garnered enough media attention from representatives of united nations to visit detroit. it called it a violation of human rights and last year more than 33,000 customers had their water shut off due to an unpaid bill. and while the detroit water department suspended its shutoff campaign during the winter months, its set to return any day now. about 8...