hello, everyone. thank you for joining me this sunday. i m fredicka whitfield. a dramatic takedown and now a race to recover pieces of that suspected chinese supply balloon. the u.s. military shooting it out of the sky on saturday just off the coast of south carolina. you watched it with us live. president biden on wednesday ordering the balloon to be destroyed as soon as possible. his top military brass advising the president to wait until it was safely over the ocean. efforts are now under way to collect the fallen debris which will be taken to the fbi lab in quantico for analysis. the balloon had made its way across the country after first being spotted in montana on wednesday. its appearance over the u.s. and the military operation to take it down complicating the already tenuous relationship between the u.s. and china. beijing accusing the u.s. of overreacting and expressing strong dissatisfaction over the balloon s destruction. we have reporters around the world coverin
hello, everyone, i m kate bolduan. at this hour, we re going to be starting in memphis. that city and far beyond that city, are now just hours from waiting for and receiving the release of around an hour s worth of videos that capture the police beating of tyre nichols. what has been described by every person who has seen it so far as a brutal attack that prosecutors say led to his death three days later. all five of, and we ll show you these now fired officers, are now charged with murder. and other serious crimes. in an exclusive interview with cnn, the memphis police chief said the video is perhaps worse than the police beating of rodney king decades ago. nichol s mother described the injuries that her son suffered at the hands of police. they had beat him to a pulp. he had bruises all over him. his head was swollen like a watermelon. it is horrific. and the humanity of it all. where was the humanity? they beat my son like a pinata. tyre nichols s mother there was ta
a former president and current presidential candidate puts ou democracy in uncharted territory. trump is already lashing out attacking the investigators, them integrating our justice system, and calling on his supporters to protest. that s all without making an of the pleas for peace w normally expect from someone seeking to lead our nation and republicans, for the mos part, have rallied around him, echoing his claims that th legal system has bee weaponized for those of us with lon memories, no trump has littl regard for the rule of law he did not care about du process when he was calling fo the central park five to b executed before the had thei day in court he did not care about politica witch hunts when he campaigned on lock up, locking up his opponent hillary clinton, with chance of lock her up. and now it appears as if trump s refusal to live by the same rules as the rest of us may finally be catching up wit him. and if it does, the paybac will be richly deserved. it s a
Of water until the water ran out. And after spending their day like this in 90degree temperatures, many were turned away from the Distribution Event at hawkins airfield. The director of the state Emergency Management says seven Distribution Sites will be set up by thursday. In the meantime, people turned to stores where the shelves are nearly bare. Its very frustrating. Its very frustrating to have to fight for some water, you know what im saying. You got to mess around and buy five cases of water just to stay hyd hydrated. Reporter its just kind of scary. We dont know when anythings going to get done. You come in the store and its empty. Water were talking about. Lets back up and talk about how we got here. Moderate flooding in jackson, mississippi, crippled the citys largest Water Facility. National guard troops trained for the devastation of hurricanes, theyve been deployed, but this is not a disaster, some once in a lifetime storm. American citizens in 2022 struggling for the most
it was expected to be a huge success if it only slowed the orbit by about ten minutes. but it actually slowed it by 32 minutes. dr. lori glaze and the dark team will explain more about how we confirmed that. now, this is a watershed moment for planetary defense, and a watershed moment for humanity. reporter: so that is an image right there that nasa just released at this press conference, brand new, taken by the huble space telescope on saturday. what you re see thing is the aftermath of this impact, which was more than two weeks ago. you re seeing the bright spot, that s essentially the point of impact on this astroid. and then this tail that stretches for about 6,000 miles. so victor, this definitely proves that if a potential killer astroid were headed towards earth, this is the type of technique that nasa would try to deploy. the only catch is, you would have to deploy it many, many years in advance in order for it to work, victor. now at least we have proof of conc