Is the appropriate sentence. Today former mams Police Officer zerk Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1 2 years in prison for the Nurd R Murder Last May of george floyd. Hes been the prison since april when a jury found him guilty of several charges all for him holding his knee on George Floyds neck until mr. Floyd was deemed up conscious and he died on a minneapolis Street Corner. He was going to receive a theoretical maximum sentence but the theoretical maximum associated with any particularly crime is put up against statebased snepsing guidelines. Considering the fact that mr. Chauvin had no criminal history, the Minnesota State guidelines for a sneps in this case actually recommended a sort of presumptive sentence of about 12 1 2 years. Judges can depart from those Sentencing Guidelines and in particularly they can depart upward if there are aggravating faeblgts that make the crime worse than that source of base level offense. The judge in this case had ruled that there were four di
Sense. Wel welcome, this is early start. Im christine romans. It is 5 00 a. M. In new york. Laura has the day off. We again with a residential Building Collapse theyre miami beach, dozens of rescue units are on the scene. Were heading there right now, this happened just in the past few hours. We know Something Like 100 units from miami rescue are on the scene there trying to dig through this partial Building Collapse. If you know miami, this is 88th and collins, the village is called surfside. Again, well bring you live details as we get them this morning. Next 24 hours hugely critical to the biden agenda, senators will heat with the president today after shake hands on a bipartisan infrastructure deal, they are also staring at a fast approaching deadline on Police Reform. And democrats under pressure to actafter Voting Rights failed in the senate. Daniella diaz is live for us. What are they doing as the clock ticks down . Reporter it is pretty critical that they actually reached a dea
Are following Breaking News from south florida. It is devastating really. Its deadly. Theres been a highrise building that has collapsed in the city of surf side. This is just north of miami beach for context there. And what youre looking at here are live aerial pictures from the scene. You see that Swimming Pool on the left . This part of the building that has fallen down stretched all the way alongside that Swimming Pool. So were talking about a very large chunk of this building that fell down overnight. There is a huge pile of debris, 12 stories in this apartment building. Balconies that had been sawed in half, and were told that at least one person has died. About 100 units in this building, think of it, 39 years old. The collapse happened before 2 00 a. M. New video shows rescue crews pulling a young boy from the rubble. More than 80 Emergency Teams are on the groundworking to find survivors. We have some sort of before and after video. This is what the building looked like before
And another stain on Rudy Giulianis legacy. The formermayor, turned trump lawyer, has his New York Law License suspended for pushing election lies. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. All right. You are looking at live pictures coming in from surf side, florida, right now. Awful situation that has unfolded. Our correspondent, randi kaye, is son thon the scene for us. Randi, local officials just a few moments audio, they gave us an update on the condo collapse. What is the latest . Update our viewers. Some good news and some bad news, wolf. They are telling us now, that 102 people have been accounted for. Which is very good news for some families. But they are still saying 99 people remain unaccounted for. So those families, certainly, on edge at this hour. But i should emphasize this is, still, a very active searchandrescue operation. They are searching in the Parking Garage b
And another stain on Rudy Giulianis legacy. The formermayor, turned trump lawyer, has his New York Law License suspended for pushing election lies. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. All right. You are looking at live pictures coming in from surf side, florida, right now. Awful situation that has unfolded. Our correspondent, randi kaye, is son thon the scene for us. Randi, local officials just a few moments audio, they gave us an update on the condo collapse. What is the latest . Update our viewers. Some good news and some bad news, wolf. They are telling us now, that 102 people have been accounted for. Which is very good news for some families. But they are still saying 99 people remain unaccounted for. So those families, certainly, on edge at this hour. But i should emphasize this is, still, a very active searchandrescue operation. They are searching in the Parking Garage b