forest service officials say he disappeared sometime thursday but his body wasn t found until friday morning. the modoc wildfire is one 2306 burning in california. 23. yesterday governor jerry brown di clard a state of emergency, many fires were started by lightning strike and there are more threats of thunderstorms and lightning throughout this weekend. athletes training for the 2016 olympic games are still swimming in the waters of rio de janeiro despite government warnings that the water is contaminated and unsafe. rio s environmental agencies says the waters have have been deemed unfit 10 times. more than 150 athletes will compete in a triathlon later today. a private tune ran is being held in a church near atlanta for bobbi kristina brown. she died earlier this week at the age of 22. six months ago she was found unresponsive in a bathtub. cincinnati today continues to mourn the death of an unarmed black man shot and killed by a
stepping down. he ll stay on the job another week to help with the transition. we have more on what led to the police chief s resignation. listen. reporter: this is what protesters have asked for, for nearly seven months now, for the police chief to step down. he has resigned. he will leave march 19th. they finally got what they want. but how did we get here? after months of resisting calls for his resignation, police chief thomas jackson said he s stepping down. jackson came under fire almost immediately after darren wilson a white ferguson police officer, shot and killed michael brown, a black teenager after a scuffle between the two. the anger began on the first day when brown s body wasn t removed for four hours. the community perceived that as less than humanity. reporter: that initial anger grew when jackson refused to reveal the name of the police officer who shot and killed
to fined out what exactly has happened. and the reaction from the police is something too, that we need to keep an eye on. this all follows news of the ferguson police chief stepping down a week after that scathing report issued by the justice department with the racist e-mails and targeting african-americans. yes, essentially it was systemic problems within the city s police department and the municipal court system. sara sidner has more now on the months of turmoil that have led up to this. we just need you to resign. reporter: after calls for his resignation, the chief says he s stepping down. jackson came under fire almost immediately after darren wilson a white ferguson police officer, shot and killed michael brown, an unarmed black teenager after a scuffle between the two. the anger began on the first day when brown s body wasn t removed for hours.
today. so thank you for your time. reporter: thank you. st. louis police chief addressing reporters outside the hospital where two officers who were shot are recovering new information. there were shots fired suspected to be from the protesting crowd, he said no. it was fired north-northwest of the police department. two officers were hit in their upper torso, a 44-year-old officer shot in the shoulder and a 32-year-old officer shot in the face. he did say, though both officers are expected to survive. there are a number of police officers from close by jurisdiction who are helping out, continuing security there at the scene. he went back inside but made the point that other than for this shooting the demonstration outside the police department wasn t remarkable. wasn t anything different or worse than what they ve seen before. last year in the wake of the
safety not to generate revenue. and we are just seeing the beginning of a predatory court system being dismantled. and ferguson is the beginning of that. and the department of justice report is what started us on the road to reform. and people on the streets will gradually understand these changes. but it s going to be gradual. but it starts now. so then help us circle this square then chris. if people are wanting to see the type of change that s happening. they understand it will take some time they they were relieved and to some degree to see the department of justice do what it said it would do and get to the bottom of what was really the problem in ferguson. if everybody s happy as far as that s concerned, what would provoke someone who early indication was wasn t part of this protesting group to try and set things off at such a volatile time i remember during the time of the protests of michael brown it was alleged that outside pro vok tours were