84-year-old man expected before a judge accused of shooting a black teenager after he mistakenly went to the wrong house and rang on the man s doorbell how the community is rallying around the injured teen. and in texas, a man under arrest accused of shooting two cheerleaders after one in their group mistakenly got into the wrong car. one of the girls being treated in the icu new this morning, a hearing for a massachusetts air national guardsman accused in a massive leak of classified intelligence documents. that hearing delayed but now new details about what those documents reveal it is one of the largest defamation payouts in history. a huge settlement between dominion voting systems and fox news, but fox s legal troubles are not over in florida, governor ron desantis feud with disney heating up today as he faces new criticism from his potential presidential rivals. and we begin this morning with what appears to be yet another tragic incident of gun violence this tim
aggravated kidnapping. we are awaiting an update from the shelby county district attorney that is set to begin soon. we re also awaiting the release of video taken during that traffic stop that ended in a violent confrontation between nichols and the officers. the family of nichols have seen that video and nichols died in the hospital after being beaten for three minutes, he died in the hospital three days later. joining me from memphis is antonia hylton. and the lawyers for the nichols family have compared this body cam footage to the beating of rodney king. what more can you tell us and how tense is it right now in memphis as we await the release of this video? reporter: katy, it has been tense here for days now, and people have been anticipating this. you know, not just in news from local officials, the naacp, from the family, but you know, in whispers among black residents here in the city, that this is going to be horrific, hard to stomach, hard to watch, but the news
about. we begin this morning with the latest signs that the justice department s investigation of donald trump are escalating and shifting to a more a vance s stage. on thursday, nbc news learned that former vice president, mike pence, was subpoenaed by jack smith, the special counsel appointed by attorney general merrick garland to handle this departments investigations of the january six investigation in of donald trump s handling of classified documents. the subpoena follows months of negotiations between pence s legal team and the department of justice. so, it is also the latest indication that smith is taking a hard look at the scheme to submit fake electors to falsely declared trump the winner over the election in states that joe biden actually won. in december, just about a month after he was appointed, smith subpoenaed local officials in swing states that trump s team targeted in its efforts to overturn those 2020 results. if trump had had his way, pence would ve play
am taking the train. kaitlan, thank you very much. we appreciate it. cnn newsroom starts right now, of course, with the breaking news as well. good wednesday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. we are following the breaking news this morning after u.s. flights were grounded, the faa now lifting that ground stop. u.s. flights resuming here. there is, though, as you can imagine a huge mess unfolding at airports across this country and, frankly, around the world. a key faa safety system went down earlier this morning, that led to some scrambling from coast to coast. here is where we stand at this hour, the faa says it is set to resume more flight departures this hour, but in terms of the backlog, the damage that we re seeing, the delays and cancellations, understandably rising by the minute. new york lines are growing, atlanta and chicago delay warnings taking over departure screens. they may be the lucky ones stuck in the airports that are already i
erin burnett: outfront breaking news, former vice president mike pence subpoenaed by the special counsel. we re getting new details into cnn this hour. we have the very latest as this story is breaking. plus, new video into cnn of russian brutality against their own soldiers. we have this video out russians running over their own dead and injured. and new questions tonight about congressman george santos. we have a new report saying he was charged with theft after a series of bad checks were written to dog breeders. a lawyer who has known him since middle school said he asked her to help fight the charges. let s go out front. good evening i m erin burnett. out front, subpoenaed. former mike pence has now been subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. pence, of course, was at the center of trump s efforts to cling to power. trump repeatedly pressured his then vice president who, of course, was the one who wa