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Them safe. fascinating. thank you for giving us that. i will put it up across our social media. our website so people can access it. you are from seattle. it was a great segue leading cops in that area. this gets personal for some police officers. portland police with a scary warning last week because they want to do the job but here is their reality. the department tweeted this, due to the critical incidents and staffing shortages now officers are only responding to priority calls and warning, some response times would be delayed. salt lake city another example of a struggle with emergency re...

Due to critical incidents and staffing shortages officers were only responding to priority calls. warning response times will be delayed for certain calls. i am reading they are hours long. it comes as the city has hit a grim milestone, congresswoman. 80 murders so far this year surpassing the city's all time high of 67 killings for the entire year and that was way back in 1987. last year the department lost 84 police officers. they either retired or quit when the portland city council cut the budget by $15 million. the council is now scrambleling to fix the problem. 5.2 million was restored t...

The victims have been identified as his wife, child, and mother-in-law. >> sandra: police departments nationwide face during staggering a shortage of police officers, that some emergency calls are going unanswered. please say about the shortage is so dire that they were delayed in getting to more than 6,000 top priority calls for help in just the last year. >> they tell fox news that since the year 2000, there has been a shortage of 150,000 officers nationwide. here in minneapolis, the situation really has become critical. the police chief here is asking for 400 new officers by 2025 to keep up...

And joining us is the inspector joe car daro. in 2011, 535 murders in chicago in 2012, the wrong trajectory. it would seem you'd want to be answering the phone calls. >> they're shifting high priority calls and not handling or dispatching police officers to low priority calls and the theory is that the resources you save you can dedicate to fighting crime and patrolling hot spots. that's not a new strategy. that's been in use. >> tucker: in chicago they're saying they're not sending police officers for car theft. that's had a major crime, isn't it? >> it is, but i think they qualify if the sus...

good morning. we begin with lingering misery caused by hurricane irene. you're looking at live pictures now from patterson, new jersey, where crews are actually going door-to-door rescuing people from their homes. that water, by the way, coming from the passaic river is supposed to crest today at its highest level since 1903. a pretty eye-catching image of how massive the storm was. this is coming to us from nasa. it's an animated satellite of irene as it's churning up the eastern seaboard like a buzz saw. at last check, 5 million people are still without power. throughout the mornin...