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district attorney. voters blaming boudin for a rise in crime. the mayor will appoint his replacement. >> bill: san francisco, one of the many democrat-run cities where crime is running rampant up 35% this year. in chicago 40%. in new york and voters are taking notice. >> dana: the recall is sending a message to soft on crime prosecutors across the country including los angeles d.a. george gascon. he is facing his second recall attempt in two years. >> bill: easy to see why. the city has been plagued by smash and grab robberies. staffers looked on helplessly. >> dana: people are aroun...

There was a stabbing, a shooting. it is getting really, really bad. we have someone who just broke onto an elementary school campus. police couldn't get there for some 30 minutes. there is some back end stuff behind that. the 911 call wasn't as clear as it should have been. where adequately staffed, someone gets to a school will be there immediately. they couldn't get that done. >> bill: total violent crime up 23%. no numbers are good. homicide 54 1/2, robbery 22, aggravated assault 26. city wide shootings and shots fired up 82%. it is like quality of life issues, right, like san francisco. th...

Young people in this country. the current unemployment rate for people 16 to 24 is a whopping 16.2% that is more than double people 25 years of age and over. that is just the tip of the iceberg. peter doocy is live in washington. peter, why is it so much harder for young people it find jobs than anybody else? >> reporter: we asked some recent college graduates who are still without work. one 23-year-old named evan mccann who graduated from iowa state with a degree in finance four months ago, said he only received replys from a handful of 135 or so applications he submitted on linkedin. but emp...

up support for today, and essentially it would raise the debt ceiling and also save some $917 billion in spending over the course of the next decade, so we're keeping an eye on that as always, but first let's get to that developing story for you out of texas. an awol muslim-american soldier has been arrested near ft. hood with what the fbi is saying is a large amount of bomb-making materials. private first class naser abdo is now in custody after a sales clerk at a gun shop alerted police about this suspicious purchase. fbi agents then went on to abdo's hotel room where they found th...

>> frankly people have spent a whole lifetime planning to operate under a certain system and they ought to have that opportunity. >> so is there somebody today that's 55 years old that's looking forward to medicare? i bet there's a lot of people -- >> at 55 they'll be fine. >> 54 1/2. they're looking forward to medicare. they're going to get a check that says go out and try to find an insurance company when you're 75 years old. >> what's not going to work is what we'd have now. >> fair enough. t i'd like to see the democrats propose something. >> here's senior adviser david plouffe, who's a po...