hello, everyone. thank you for joining me this sunday. i m fredicka whitfield. a dramatic takedown and now a race to recover pieces of that suspected chinese supply balloon. the u.s. military shooting it out of the sky on saturday just off the coast of south carolina. you watched it with us live. president biden on wednesday ordering the balloon to be destroyed as soon as possible. his top military brass advising the president to wait until it was safely over the ocean. efforts are now under way to collect the fallen debris which will be taken to the fbi lab in quantico for analysis. the balloon had made its way across the country after first being spotted in montana on wednesday. its appearance over the u.s. and the military operation to take it down complicating the already tenuous relationship between the u.s. and china. beijing accusing the u.s. of overreacting and expressing strong dissatisfaction over the balloon s destruction. we have reporters around the world coverin
not alone. at least 50 officers shot and killed in the line of duty so far this year. ashley strohmier has more on it, ashley. please have the suspect in custody with a shooting in north carolina yesterday. five people lost their lives including an off-duty police officer. a k-9 officer was hurt but luckily he was released from the hospital. authority said another victim is still fighting for their life. the police officer is a brother or a sister so when you lose one of our own comic things are tragic, heartbreaking day for all of us. the mayor of raleigh said a man started shooting on greenway, which is a walking trail around 5:00 p.m. and shortly after, officers blocked off streets and surrounded the entire neighborhood in an hour long manhood telling them to shelter. they took him into custody 10:00 p.m. but gave no other details on his age. here is the mayor speaking on that tragedy. we pray that something like this will never happen here. it did. we have to end
make major question going into the weekend is this violent protest happening across the country. good morning everybody you ve almost made it it s almost the weekend. thank you so much for sit staying yesterday. i got the best way to end my week was with you. you become inc. you for having me. you made a good choice. this is america s newsroom violent outside lawmakers were evacuated from the basement of the building in the capital was put on lockdown it is all of that just a taste of what s to come? pro-palestinian group posting a map of new york city targets, fanning the flames of anti-semitism burning since hamas lobsters attacks on th the dash that they are saying this threatening businesses and organization are referring to them as the enemy is exactly the kind of hateful rhetoric that seeks to divide new yorkers but it will work and quote. live in midtown manhattan is with us now is our corres correspondent. good morning the remove social media posts calli
the aclu did research and found out black non-hispanics in miami-dade county make up about 17% of the county, but are about 40% of the arrests in this county. the criticism is, if you really wanted to connect with black community members, listen to their cries, their demands, especially since the death of george floyd. we also know that back in 2020 and in 2019 that that same black police officers group filed a complaint against the police department alleging racism within its ranks. so unfortunately, fred, this isn t the only police department that s dealing with this controversy. we re also seeing the same thing in columbus, ohio, unveiling a wrapped car as well to signify their support for black history. local activists, community groups are saying there s real things you can do, and this isn t one of them. all right.
of the last few years. it is outrageous. it is about inflation. it is about the cost of living and it is about the crime rate. and we are at a 25 year conundrum interstate because of the democrats passing. todd: it is a latino district as well but what are the voters telling you about why they are potentially voting republican this year as opposed to previous years when the expectation and the assumption was they would vote democrat? you know, that is the problem. there was this assumption. when i go to the door and talking to folks are out in the neighborhoods are going to festivals or reading or things of that nature, it is the same for everybody, latino, hispanics, non-hispanics. the concern is the cost of living and struggling to make intimate. mortgages are going up and they are worried about 401(k)s and they are bored quite frankly if they have a job the next couple of months. those are their biggest