healthcare bill for low income immigrants who are 26 years and younger. it would include illegal immigrants age 50 and younger beginning in may. carley: memorial fund is releasing 2021 law enforcement officers fatality reports and the findings are harrowing. 55% increase in law enforcement officer deaths in 2021 over the previous year. joining me with more on that report, ceo of national law enforcement officers memorial fund, marsha foronto. tragic news here, tell us more about this report, what you found and why fatalities have risen so much in 2021. yes, good morning. thank you for having us on. i m hoping today s release of the preliminary fatality report will really get the attention of
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By my count, there were 12 NEW collections ADDED this past week, per the list above. There are now 32,942 collections available as of 12 March, an increase of 12 from last week.
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running water, no electricity. you re only going to be more harm than help at this point. despite that, we have seen people coming back really stunned sometimes looks on their faces, trying to pick through the wreckage, see what they can recover from this devastating storm. we ve also seen a very slow search and rescue operation begin. there s about 1,000 people across the state who are involved in that. from what we see though with the conditions here, with no power, no phone service, no nothing, it s really been just volunteer firemen on foot sometimes with axes knocking down doors, trying to see if anyone inside is hurt or dead. we are beginning to get the first fatality reports, at least one person dead here now in rockport. that s the first confirmed. but as these search and rescue operations continue, that number could rise. back to you in new york. laura: all right. steve harrigan, incredible pictures in that house right behind you. i mean, it looks like the side of a dollhouse.
we re continuing to follow tropical storm harvey as it churns over south texas, drenching parts of the state right now. texas governor greg abbott has declared a disaster in 50 counties. and he says as of yet there are still no fatalities. overall that update, the latest update we brought you at the top of the show was one fatality now in rockport. so as officials get out on the ground they are now getting a better sense of what s happening in their individual jurisdictions. and we may start to see additional damage reports. and hopefully not, but we could still see more fatality reports coming in as the evening draws on. here is some sound from an eyewitness who was on the ground during harvey as it was a hurricane when it first made landfall. this is like 2:30 this morning and i just heard a loud