beating. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage this hour with the expected release of the tyre nichols arrest video. cnn is on the ground in memphis covering this developing story from every angle. our don lemon has been speaking to local officials and family members including the chief of police there. but first, our senior national correspondent sara sidner is joining us with the very latest developments. what should we anticipate today, sarah? reporter: well, we know there is going to be a prayer vigil tonight. a gathering. beyond that, it is been prayerful and peace this whole time throughout these announcements from police, throughout the firing and charges that we now know five officers charged with second-degree murder among other very serious charges. but there is a concern, there is always a concern that once this video comes out, video that has been descri
Morning starts now. Good morning, good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. Im vc egg tore blackwell. Im amara walker. Thanks for being with us. Were going to begin this morning with dangerous Weather Conditions caused by now posttropical cyclone lee. The storm is packing hurricaneforce winds, heavy rain, and dangerous storm surges as it swipes the new england coast. Now, while lee is not expected to make landfall in the u. S. , the outer bands of the powerful storm are already hitting the east coast, packing winds of 60 miles an hour and bringing storm surges that could cause flooding along the new england coast. Tropical Storm Warnings through nantucket and maine, and authorities are telling people to prepare to stay where you are as the storm pushes north through the day. Lees also expected to cause dangerous rip currents along the Atlantic Coast with a lot of states warning people to stay out of the ocean this weekend because of the dangerous surge conditions. Of course, were cove
to intervene, which police departments are across the country policy and train on is if an officer does lose it and goes too far and someone stops it before more harm could be committed. one of the things that i want to look for tonight, and i know those five were involved in beating tyre, but were there other officers there? were they just standing around watching? i mean, what was going on. those are the kinds of things that you have to look for. it is just unacceptable. we ll know in about an hour or so exactly what it looks like because we ve have seen the video. but this is way outside of policy and there is no training, or anything else that will correct these these guys are just conducting a criminal act. period. period indeed. ben crump just told me the murder charges for the five fired police officers of memphis were the result of analyzing the
this with an open mind and to treat each of these officers as individuals. don t care what color of police officer, but by them being black, it hurt the black community. they have brought shame to their own families. they brought shame to the black community. reporter: and we know that tyre nichols s mother said that at the end of the video, there she hasn t seen it, her husband has. his father has, you hear over and over again tyre screaming mom. . and she beliefs he was screaming that because he was about 80 yards from the house hoping that she could hear him to help him. she said she cannot get over the idea that she wasn t there in her son s greatest need. now i will also mention that there is a huge consternation on the part of the family and their attorneys about this scorpion unit that we have heard a lot about. they were involved in this
would say, hey, everybody, this kid isn t a criminal. he s calm, let us be calm. let s just de-escalate. let s just everybody calm down. but that never happened the entire video. will the video shed light on others at the scene, beyond the police officers? i m talking about the paramedics who failed to provide proper care. anyone else who could potentially face charges? yeah, wolf, regrettably, you know, after they brutalized tyre and he s handcuff and they set him up against a police car and his body falls to the right and then they pick him up after a minute and they his body falls to the left and then another time and his body falls again and he s moaning. and it is clear that he s in