hello everybody, i m jesse watters. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. the five. the race hustlers are doubling down to defend the poster child, gay stepping down as president of harvard after 50 examples of plagiarism and her congressional testimony on antisemitism. she has expelled students for plagiarism but not if you re copy cat claudine. he has an army of journalists crying racism. check out headlines, how the right toppled harvard president. new conservative weapon against college plagiarism and conservative see gay s resignation as victory and liberal pundits are going to bat for gay. what happened to claudine gay was mob pressure. there is open pressure on black progress black history. claw dean gay is now the latest casualty of that. i don t think it s fair to say all her critics. only added to their theirs to dethrone her. what they didn t mention was the first ivy league head to roll and other president sally cornbluff is fearing for
need to continue to do to keep people safe. martha: her opponent went after that and more. here s a peek. the last four years have been disappointing at best. everything is more expensive, our communities are less safe. martha: so swing over to last night s big debate in wisconsin. there we see incumbent ron johnson facing up against mandela barnes who has had to back-pedal his own information about defunding the police. you have to keep violent criminals in jail. you have to support law enforcement. do you not claim credit for that, for the release of 2,000 to 3,000 people and at the same time attacking me for it? we ve been told nonviolent, people that rehabilitated themselves. this is the hypocrisy. he s attacking me for the same thing that he s doing. that s what debates are for. very interesting to see what is happening as these candidates face off. we have a big one tonight. here s the wisconsin race. 46-52. ron johnson was behind by a lot in wisconsin.
with all on this. sandra: a big line-up, but an economy in crisis. americans are looking for solutions to those surging gas prices and the highest inflation in decades. but it has democrats staring down a red wave in november as more and more voters are coming to the conclusion biden administration is not up to the task. hello, and welcome as we begin a brand-new week. sandra smith in new york. john: great to see you back after a long weekend. john roberts in washington, and this is america reports . the price of gasoline setting a record high the tenth day in a row, an average of $5 a gallon. the cost to fill up the tank up 103% since president biden took office. sandra: and people are certainly taking notice. those numbers putting democrats hopes in jeopardy in november, 83% of the american people in a new abc news poll say the economy is the top issue for them heading into the fall. now desperation setting in at the white house as word comes, president biden might
Cold air as long as the rain is coming down in the Lehigh Valley and delaware. Take a look at that snow potential when i come back, but first Jessica Boyington with your first alert traffic. You can see in terms of traffic not really seeing any problems. But when you car goes by you can actually see theres a good amount of rain on the roads because its kind of spraying out from underneath the cars. On and offramps might be a problem when there starts to be more rainout there. This is between bay view road and port penn road is blocked right now because of that. And theres a disabled vehicle, too. Ill check back in with new jersey, too. A Florida Community comes together to mourn and remember the 17 People Killed in wednesdays deadly high school massacre. Meantime were learning more from investigators on what the suspect told them about the shooting. Authorities are holding that suspect Nicholas Cruz without bond. Cruz confessed to wednesdays attack, bullet his motive remains unclear. A
He shot five people killing three of them. Matt joins us live. Matt, walk us through how it all unfolded and how witnesses are reacting. White a day, tracy. Radee prince is locked up at this hour and he will face a judge in the next few hours for an arraignment. Meantime, witnesses and neighbors are coming off of one chaotic day and a dramatic one at that. The first shooting, as we mentioned here, happened yesterday morning in edgewood, maryland. Police there say the suspect went into a granite warehouse where he worked and shot those five people. Three of them were killed and the manager of that business told us right now hes in disbelief. They were all family. Weve been working together for a long time. And its just a tragic. They have been great support. Everybody has been very helpful. An hour and a half later the shooting in maryland, the violence continued in wilmington at 28th street auto sales here in the city. Radee prince shot bowl in the head and he was still kaunshs and ale