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Tradition of warm us. So i look forward to really getting into those three areas with you, love for a was interested in hearing from you a little bit about your background and how you have gotten into this topic, how did you arrive at this topic. Happy to be here. I think your sense about the way the book encounters occurred conversation is accurate. My background and this is there are two influences. I grew up in rural gun culture, which was black and culture. So everyone that i knew, all of the, you know, good people of the community, my grandfather and father were both ministers, both those...

Chicago has the highest rate of youth homicide in the country. 36 killings in the last school year alone. 36 reasons latiger supports the handgun ban. >> reporter: so why have the ban in place if people are going to get them anyway. >> i'd rather something be in place than nothing be in place. >> reporter: that ban is now being challenged in a case that's made its way to the supreme court. a case brought by another chicago community activist, 76-year-old otis mcdonald. >> we wouldn't want to go down to the right here. >> reporter: why is that? >> because that's a hot area. >> reporter: hot mea...

message. have you been affected by the unemployment benefits? 877-742-5760. keep your comment to 30 seconds or less. we appreciate it. thanks for joining us, everyone. see you back here tomorrow. brooke baldwin in for tony harris. >> thank you. today is the 2nd of march and here are the faces of the stories driving today's headlines. first we're talking about linda calvin out of jobless benefits and squeezed by her own senator, talking about kentucky republican jim bunning balking at emergency spending. and otis macdonald's lawyers in front of the supreme court right now asking t...

Why have the ban in place if people will get them anyway? >> i would rather something be in place than nothing be in place. >> reporter: the ban is being challenged in a case that's made it to the supreme court. a case brought by 76-year-old otis macdonald. >> we wouldn't want to go down to the right here. >> reporter: why's that? >> that's a hot area. >> reporter: hot meaning dangerous. >> where they are drug dealing and stuff. >> reporter: mcdonald says he, too, fears for the safety of the community but argues it's his constitutional right to protect himself and his family from the violence....

sheriff's office, is responding to this possible hazardous material threat at this irs building. jeanne meserve and i were talking about this a while ago and i was curious why this person was being taken out in a gurney, and taken out in that situation. you might see people being walked to, perhaps, a fire resc rescue, but to be taken out. wolf blitzer will be all over this. you can expect it on "the situation room." rick, thanks. also happening now, scrounging for food, digging for survivors and counting the dead. the people of chile try to claw their way out of a new earthquake...