surprised by this but homelessness grew a staggering 10% in the city last year and 9% in la county. my office staff is afraid, and it s so sad forthe people that are homeless and it s a tragedy for the community. when i went outside, there were just like families walking around, people walking their dogs. it was completely quiet and safe and boring in a good way. and now i m afraid to go out without my pepper spray. laura: horrific. and in the big apple things are off the chart bad with city shelters busting at the seams filled with illegals. now it s so bad that earlier this month, mayor eric adams even floated the idea of housing the would-be asylumees inside homes. you don t know nothing about those people. what he s doing is not good for the city. he s trying the city. i wouldn t want some stranger, illegal or not illegal, just a stranger in general. so you re saying if this opportunity keim to you you wouldn t take it? i absolutely would not. laura: it
sitting. so she was pretty lucky. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. lower prescription costs, an historic national fight against climate change. senate democrats pass a scaled back version of the landmark legislation they ve chased for more than a year. it tooks months of negotiations and an exhaustive all nighter of whirl wind votes to reach a 50-50 split along party lines. vice president kamala harris then cast the deciding vote. the yeaj are 50. the nays are 50. the senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the bill as amended is passed. [ applause ] cnn s melanie skin oh na is on capitol hill. reporter: if there was going to be any hurdle, it was going to be house moderates in the democratic party. but we have actually already heard this evening from two key house democrats, mikie sherrill, and josh gottheimer, that they are indeed going to support this package even though it doesn t contain s
laura: it s friday and that means it s time for friday follies. and for that we turn to fox news contributor raymond arroyo. all right, ray, the supreme court struck down racial discrimination in college admissions and apparently whoopi s not happy. why do we scare you? who are they? why do we scare you? it just makes a kid, an asian american kid and black kid feel like you don t matter. is this leading to no women in colleges soon. laura sister act like a legal circular but she clearly isn t. this victory has nothing to do with women in colleges and she invoked black kade at harvard, if they had the same grades an asian kid had a 5% chance a black kid had a 44% chance, that s called racial bias and this ruling should make all kids feel better and equal. laura: then today after the high court ruled on religious
kids talk about america, and i talked to lisa about this separately in a conversation they had. they would refer to white americans as americans. they would say americans sometimes are mean to us, americans and it showed even asian american kid, chinese-american kids born in this country see themselves as the outside of being america and seeing themselves as outside of being americans so that means we have a long way to go because these kids are just as american as you and me. that makes me so sad, and that is why your reporting is so important. w. kamau bell, thank you so much. another episode of united shades of america airs on cnn tonight at 10:00. timely, what happened at ufld? here s a preview of a cnn next. more and more officers arrived and no one moved to take out the shooter though some know that officers knew time was of the essence. we need to get there. he keeps shooting. and it s clear police know where the gunman is.
was by leveraging up assets and flipping things. and the burning question i just had to ask about her father. be honest, have you ever had a word with him about his hair? also, only in america, could a 6 3 asian american kid from harvard come off a bench and save a nba team. why everyone in new york has lynn sanity. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. a crisis y country in crisis. police a cinderella story to only happen in america. we begin with presidential politics. rick santorum blasting barack obama on middle eastern policy. imagine a president obama with four years and no one to be accountable to. imagine what he can do. imagine what damage and destruction he can do internationally. to our friend israel. who stands and pleads with us to help. here now to talk about the republican race and the humanitarian crisis in syria, a man that s reported from all over the world. dan rather. welcome back. glad to be back. you have covered many presidentia