the effort in los angeles too remove progressive district attorney, george gascon. and a president biden then the seemingly defensive as gay trie their reporter over a question about economists who are forecasting a recession. the president said it that has people talking tonight. plus, thousands of flights canceled over father s day we can embed staffing shortages. why some are worried that this could be a bad sign for the summer travel season. we begin that with another violent and deadly weekend across the country. matt has the latest in tonight see crime reports. good evening. at five major us cities are on track right now to surpass their record homicide totals up from year. los angeles, baltimore, atlanta milwaukee and washington dc. over the weekend in dc, here is a horrifying moment caught on video when multiple people were shot. there they go. it looked. now they re shooting. it four people were shot on an unpermitted juneteenth music festival to adults if a poli
democrats on inflation. gasoline prices are driving inflation. they re impacting the cost of everything we are buying. all goods and services across this country. the very beginning of turning this economy around is to end the war on energy. the federal reserve has already initiated it s largest interest rate hike since the previous midterm election year. officials say they will continu increasing rates to try to pull right back inflation try to do so without significant damage t the broader economy. that would be a trick. it live in dc thank you gop congressman jim jordan and rodd dave as it s a letter tonight t the us capitol police chief at demanding information on last week s incident at the capitol where seven staffers of the cbs late show with a stephen colber were arrested after they allegedly illegally entered a house of representatives office
detect weapons beep regularly as house lawmakers enter and exit the chamber, serving as a regular reminder of the attack. adding to this stress, threats of violence have risen against members of both parties in the house and senate. in fact, the u.s. capitol police chief expects the agency will have handled more than 9,000 threats in 2021. that is more than double, double the number of threats they handled just four years ago. quote, so far, the bitter fighting this year hasn t turned physical, and it is important to note here the journal s use of the word so far. if anything, the next congressional elections look poised to make the atmosphere in the halls of congress even worse. here is the lead in the washington post. quote. the defiant far-right acolytes of former president donald trump in the house republican caucus have embarked on a targeted campaign ahead of the midterm elections to expand their ranks and extend their power on capitol hill. the effort backed by trump and gui
insurrection, u.s. capitol police chief tom manger addressed the current state of his embattled department. the united states capitol police, as an organization, is stronger and better prepared to carry out its mission today than it was before january 6th of last year. reporter: a report last month by the inspector general michael bolton found that only about a quarter of the 104 recommended changes to the u.s. capitol police following the january 6th riot have been implemented. but today, manger said 60 other reforms are in progress. there was no question in my mind looking at all the recommendations, that intelligence, operational planning and getting our civil disturbance unit up to where it needs to be were the three biggest issues and those were the ones we worked on first and frankly are largely completed. reporter: still the department faces daunting
with trauma from that day. when i returned to the capitol on november 3rd, i hesitated before going in, to be ho honest. i thought it was going to be gut wrenching to even take the first step out of my car. reporter: manger says he s aware of several events planned for thursday but there s no intelligence that indicates there will be any problems. now the department of homeland security chief also said today he is not aware of any specific credible threats on the anniversary of the insurrection. jake? paula reid, thanks so much. let s discuss with former fbi senior intelligence adviser phil mudd and terrence gainer, former chief of the u.s. capitol police chief. let me start with you. the current capitol police chief says the force is tronger and better prepared today than it was before the attack a year ago. do you agree? absolutely, i agree. i know tom very well. i know the work he s been doing.