Incident marks a fierce escalation in the violence thats rocked the city since june with protests being held with even more frequency and force. A fire has been set here. Riot police are pushing past, trying to flush protesters out. Their routine is well established. The demonstrators are pushed back, first by tear gas and water cannons, and now, it seems, by bullets. Lee cheukyan is a former prodemocracy legislator. We are not fearful and we will continue to fight for our rights, and i think thats a very Important Message for the world to listen that hong kong people will continue to fight. Reporter these protests have now plunged hong kong into a depth of chaos. The city really has never seen. The government is now labeling protesters rioters, and thats important because this automatically extends any possible prison term and prodemocracy activists are now warning that all of this could be pushing hong kong one step closer to martial law. Norah. Ramy, thank you for your incredible re
Police forming a human chain trying to save this family trapped in a sinking car. The apparent kidnapping on the doorstep. The role this doorbell video played in finding that woman. Plus, the wild finish overnight as the Major League Playoffs get under way. And from the woman facing off with this lion at the zoo, to the woman jumped by this deer at the gas station, to the mouse wreaking havoc at the white house. All the wild video on this wednesday morning. Good wednesday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We begin with new evidence against a former Dallas Police officer who is now a convicted killer. A jury has found amber guyger guilty of murdering her neighbor. Guyger entered claims she entered the wrong apartment by accident and shot botham jean thinking he was an intruder. Now as jurors consider guygers punishment, prosecutors have revealed what they say are racist and violent Text Messages including one where guyger jokes about the death of Martin Luther king jr. Report
The urgent meeting expected today. Good morning from the studio nsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york, im Wendy Gillette in for annemarie green. Testimony in the sentencing phase of Amber Guygers murder trial resumes today. Yesterday guyger, a white expolice officer in dallas, was convicted of murdering an unarmed black man inside his own apartment. Guyger now faces possible life in prison. Laura podesta is in new york. Laura, is guyger expected to appeal this verdict . Reporter wendy, it has not formally been announced, but its likely she will appeal this murder conviction. Legal experts say a defense that could be used in that appeal is the Castle Doctrine. Similar to stand your ground, the Castle Doctrine says a person is justified in using deadly force if someone enters their home or their castle. But this would be an unprecedented use of the Castle Doctrine because it was not guygers home. She thought it was, but it turned out to be her neighbors. 31yearold amber guyger spen
An eyepopping new trailer for the flick birds of prey. Meanwhile, 2020 candidate Kamala Harris has called on twitter to suspend trumps account because it is intimidating tweets to the whistleblower trump took that and was like, you can take away my presidency but youll never take away my twitter with that, early today starts right now good morning im phillip mena and im rens rivera we begin with breaking news. Only hours after going to new talks with the United States, it appears that north korea has conducted another Ballistic Missile test japanese Officials Say that one of the missiles made it into the waters of their exclusive Economic Zones nbcs Janis Mackey Frayer is following this from hong kong. Janis, what are you learning about this latest launch reporter well, this is actually the 11th launch by north korea since may. But in the other cases it was a test of shortrange Ballistic Missiles this time officials believe they are dealing with one that came from the sea, and that wou
Thanks. Were tracking developing news in napa county. A fire is burning in American Canyon. Firefighters are calling this thamicfi. They say its about contained. 500 acres. The fire started around 3 00 yesterday afternoon west of interstate 80. People quickly jumped into action to protect their homes. One neighbor shared this video with us. Nobody was hurt. One outbuilding was destrod. Evacuation advisory which has since been lifted. Another firing happening now is closing one of the entrances to yosemite. Youre seeing what firefighters saw as this brush fire forced them block off one of the west entrances. This is mariposa county. At last check this is burning 45 acres,nment. Ai 5co nt the u. S. Is pulling troops out of Northern Syria setting the stage for turkey to invade the country. This is new video of u. S. Military vehicles leaving syria today. The white house announced withdrawal last night. Youre looking at video of syrian troops removing defense barriers last month. Kurdish f