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Said this was one of about a dozen synagogues in the area . I would say roughly in the Squirrel Hill area, i dont know the exact number today but i would say it is close to that. Okay. Im sure the Pittsburgh Police and the Allegheny County police are on that part of the case. Howard feynman thank you for that. For awful you, welcome i am alex witt live at msnbc headquarters in new york. It is high noon on the east coast. If you are just joining us we want to bring you up to date on the breaking ...

Jews in the new york area. governor andrew cuomo says he wants to classify hate crime attacks against religious groups as domestic terrorism. >> i want this to be the first state to have a domestic terrorism law. to express how ignorant this is, how intolerant it is, and how criminal it is. and ill be proposing that law for this state. >> reporter: now, while thomas family points to a history of mental illness, authorities have not released details on a motive. we know thovmas is being held righ...

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The plane on landing. frontier airlines says they cannot comment on the specific claims. sexual assault aboard passenger planes is a growing concern, according to the fbi. the number of reported cases increased at an alarming rate in 2018. anti-semitism rears its ugly head again. the nypd is investigating at least three possible hate crime attacks on jewish people in just the last 72 hours. in one of them, a man from miami is accused of punching and kicking a 65-year-old manhattan man on monda...

Significant uptick not only in hate crime attacks but also just the overt racism weve seen go viral lately, white people calling the police on minorities for living their lives, for having barbecues, going to stores, i did a story on a guy who was called for baby sitting kids. just going to vote. what do you attribute all of that to? surely, thats been going on since before president trump came into power. >> absolutely. weve, you know, had an issue with white supremacy since our nations foundin...

And what i heard his call with white nationalism and saying im behind you. since then, weve seen four tragedies occur and the pipe bombings, the tragedy in pittsburgh at the synagogue in lieu wee villouisville and the g in florida was actually committed by somebody who was far right leaning with white supremacist ideals whos part of the involuntary sell bat movement. this is going to continue and people need to be held accountable for their words. >> that last one at a yoga studio and were still...

Come back again with all these hate crime attacks in the last few years, and this sort of crackpot conspiracy theories that take hold. i mean these things take hold in otherwise normal people. i mean, can you imagine people believing -- i have had people tell me this, you know, in the street, that they think hillary clinton murdered people. they think about -- they think there is a pedophile ring beneath a pizza parlor. this stuff is so crackpot yet people get fed a steady drip, a steady drip of...

Good morning, new york city. live look down at new york city right now, you can see some rain there, not going to warm up very much today for memorial day weekend, only getting up to the mid-50s or so in new york today. well, also in new york, there has been a disturbing and stunning rise in hate crimes this year against gay men. its happening in a city that has one of the largest gay populations in the country. you might know this name, mark carson, a 32-year-old. he was shot to death last week...