Condition. When we checked in with her son, he told us simply pray for her. A few hours later, things changed. We checked in with her son and heres the statement. She spoke to me this morning and said she missed carrie. Shes with carrie now. This comes a day after we reported Carrie Fishers death. She was on the way from l. A. To london went she fwhent to cardiac arrest and died Tuesday Morning which has really seen an outpouring of support from fans now and family. Debbie reynolds step daughter saying some of the magic people have left the tribe. For the moment im inconsolable. We have seen other hollywood celebrities tweeting and reaching out to the family. On the star, Debbie Reynolds star we are seeing flowers and candles of what im sure will be a growing memorial for the legend. Rosemary, cyril . Joining us for more on that is michael muster, new york columnist. A lot of major artists passed away in 2016, david bowie, george michael, leonard cohen, Debbie Reynolds was known as a t
You are watching cnns special live coverage here from our nations capitol. Im brooke baldwin. Thank you for being with me. In a couple hours from now, republicans and democrats will come together to play baseball despite the vicious attack on so many republicans here just yesterday morning, including the number three republican in the house, Congress Steve scalise, who actually just under went his third surgery. But were going to pull away from that story in a moment. Were about to be briefed by doctors in cincinnati, ohio, taking care of american man otto warmier. Lets listen in. Dr. Jordan bonovo with the Neuroscience Institute, uc associate professor and director of the Uc Department of emergency Medicines Division of critical care. And dr. Brandon foreman, neurointensive Care Specialist with the uc garden Neuroscience Institute and uc professor of neurology and rehabilitation medicine. Before we begin, we want to make clear that the comments will focus on what we know today regardi
penny said that he feared for himself and others and their safety and put a chokehold on him. we will get some perspective from attorney areeva martin. thank you for sharing some of your afternoon with us. and the second degree manslaughter charges, and what is the significance there? we knew that the charge were coming, and after jordan neely was put in that chokehold on that subway, and there were massive protests in manhattan around the district attorney s office initial unwillingness to arrest daniel perry, and the indictment has been issued and second-te gree manslaughter is the reckless causing of another person on that subway, but he was not aggressive against any one individual or threat epp any one individual. so it is going to be interesting how the defendant in the case
for you there. appreciate i. and now to discuss is civil rights attorney, areeva martin. now, where we are at this moment, the defense is starting the closing argument, and the prosecution s went on for four hours yesterday after the site visit to the site of the murders. i wonder, if this isn t good for defense this morning to be starting with this fresh jury after what was likely a long day yesterday. yeah, jurors, erica, they are real people, and they get tired and fatigued and a four-hour closing argument by all standards is a very long closing argument, and i know that the prosecution felt that they had to point out at the point of him being a liar and they needed to go through the evidence to establish a time line, but you have to be sensitive to people s attention span. you don t want to lose their attention span, and you want to
went out for that jog that day. i guess he would have if he knew he would be murdered. reporter: and just really hard to listen to ahmaud arbery s parents and sister during the impact statements, requesting that the judge give that maximum sentence of life without parole. now we ve also listened to the attorneys for each of the three defendants, victor. they are asking for leniency, and they are asking for the option of parole after they have served 30 years, of course the parole board wove to grant that. but that this would be giving them the option. the attorneys have argued it does not appear that we re going to hear from the defendants at this point as the judge said that he will be giving his sentence within after this break which we re expected to take about ten to 15 minutes. diane, thank you so much. let s bring in now cnn legal analyst and attorney reeva martin and criminal defense