Highcrime neighborhoods. That mass shooting outside of brooklyn house party has some people calling for police to do more in the 75th precinct. The iteam took a look at the numbers and found that cops are actually taking far fewer guns off the street than they used to, and that is renewing the debate over stop and frisk. The iteams Chris Glorioso is in brooklyn with the details. Reporter sibilia, two years ago, a federal judge said the nypds stop and Frisk Program was unconstitutional, and under commissioner bratton, stops have fallen off a cliff. But after the bloodshed this weekend here in East New York, some neighbors are calling for more stops, not fewer. Stop and frisk. I mean, theres more shootings, theres more killing. Reporter East New Yorks Francisca Hillman has become a reluctant supporter of stop and frisk. She says shes noticed as officers stopped fewer people, violence has gone up around the pink houses where she works with senior citizens. Do you think that they ought to
Potentially deadly disease. Melissa russo is here with the latest. Reporter city officials stopped short of calling the legionnaires outbreak over, but they are calling it contained at this point. Take a look at the latest numbers. A total of 121 people have now been diagnosed in this legionnaires outbreak. Thats two new cases identified since yesterday. The death toll remains at 12, where its been since monday. And to the citys knowledge, there have been no cases of anyone getting sick, as in developing symptoms since august 3rd. No new contaminated buildings or cooling towers the today. The mayor was in the legionnaires impact zone this afternoon at lincoln hospital, thanking Health Care Staff for their work during this outbreak. And downtown at city hall, the city council was voting on a bill regulating cooling towers. The bill passed unanimously by a vote of 420. The centers for Disease Control called the citys response at this afternoons News Conference to the outbreak swift, dili
Welcome to power lunch. Weve got the s p and the nasdaq just above the flat line here in the green. The dow is down by. 1 of a percent. Brent crude back above 50 bucks a barrel. Wti crude up close to 11 over the past week. Both are in bull market territory right now. Take a look at oil stock, a fresh 2016 high. Heres what else is happening at this hour. Twitter suspending 235,000 terrorlinked accounts since february. Twitter says daily suspensions are up 80 since last year. Shares are down over 4 right now. Walmart beating expectations last quarter, thanks in part to groceries. Walmart shares also higher at this hour. Team usa continues to lead the medal count to the rio games. 94 in total. And 31 of those gold. Welcome, everybody. Theres a lot to get to today. We begin with the big breaking news on americas jails. The Justice Department planning to stop using private prisons. That is sending stocks lower, down more than 40 . Scott cohn joining us now by phone. Scott, what do you make
To say that. But it rang true in the most recent quarter. The Worlds Largest retailer reported its biggest samestore sales ga in four years and topped both earnings and revenue expectations. It also did something many retailers are struggling to do. It attracted more shoppers to its stores. The company lifted its profit outlook, saying things are looking up for the rest of the year as well. Shares rose 2 , making it the bestperforming dow stock today. Courtney reagan looks at whats going right for walmart. Reporter like target, walmart did beat on earnings. But thats where the comparisons end. Walmarts comparable sales were the strongest in three years in the seventh straight quarter of growing traffic. Targets sales fell for the first time in two years on the lowest traffic level in a year and a half. Walmart raises its full youre forecast while target lowers guidance. Whats t reason for the divergence . Theyve got traffic. If you look at the traffic walmart got, it was very impressiv
To say that. But it rang true in the most recent quarter. The Worlds Largest retailer reported its biggest samestore sales ga in four years and topped both earnings and revenue expectations. It also did something many retailers are struggling to do. It attracted more shoppers to its stores. The company lifted its profit outlook, saying things are looking up for the rest of the year as well. Shares rose 2 , making it the bestperforming dow stock today. Courtney reagan looks at whats going right for walmart. Reporter like target, walmart did beat on earnings. But thats where the comparisons end. Walmarts comparable sales were the strongest in three years in the seventh straight quarter of growing traffic. Targets sales fell for the first time in two years on the lowest traffic level in a year and a half. Walmart raises its full youre forecast while target lowers guidance. Whats t reason for the divergence . Theyve got traffic. If you look at the traffic walmart got, it was very impressiv