slow start, putting it bluntly, quote, welcome to the seinfeld congress. it is a show about nothing. the vote on congresswoman omar is one of the political squabbles unfolding while the nation ticks a day closer to defaulting on its debts. house speaker kevin mccarthy met with president biden yesterday, but there doesn t appear to have been any progress on the debt limit. the president did strike this optimistic tone while speaking this morning. start treating each other with respect. that s what kevin and i are going to do. not a joke. but a good meeting yesterday. we ll get latest ahead. also this morning, day four of that deadly ice storm across the south. cars are spinning out of control on highways. thousands of flights delayed and canceled. and in texas, nearly half a million people are facing the bone chilling cold without power. it is scary. definitely scary. i can say that. it is very slippery out here. probably one of the worst. we ll get an update from
information about the potential contender whose home is about to be searched for classified material according to people familiar with the matter. frozen power lines, fallen trees, the misery in texas where ice storms have led to power outages for more than 400,000 people. how long before they get it back? but we begin with the demands for police reform, proclaimed loudly from the pulpit at the mississippi boulevard christian church, and yet, seeming to fall on deaf ears in the halls of congress. later this afternoon, the congressional black caucus is set to meet with president biden demanding new laws to address police brutality hoping that the horrific death of tyre nichols might unlock the political will to do something this time. but senator tim scott is now saying that discussions about bringing back the george floyd justice in policing act that failed 16 months ago are a nonstarter. and so once again, the cycle of outrage, grief, and frustration. as the reverend turne
the cussing pastor on facebook, he actually first posted a photo of this report. a spokesperson for the shelby county district attorney then told our colleague priscilla thompson that the details in that unofficial can copy matched the account of the official report they had in their possession. and there are just major discrepancies between the unofficial report that we have seen and the video we have seen from that night. i m going to quote from the unofficial copy of the report, because i think it is important to hear some of the wording that they used and viewers can think back to the video that they have likely already seen a number of times. but this report, it says that tyre nichols refused a lawful detention and, quote, he started to fight with detectives. it says detectives gave verbal commands to stop resisting and then the suspect tyre nichols grabbed for detective martin s gun. none of that happened, based on the video evidence that we have seen. officers yanked him out of
with what we saw in the video. what does it tell us? does it shed any more light on the officers frame of mind surrounding what happened or just what happened? reporter: i mean, there are just so many glaring discrepancies, i think a lot of people would point to them and say blatant lies in this police report compared to what we have seen from the numerous videos of that night, the body camera footage at that first stop, the body camera footage and the street camera footage at that second interaction. this report actually first came to pretty much everyone s attention because a local member of this community who is known on facebook. he s a long-time memphis resident, a talk show host. he s known on facebook as the cussing pastor. he obtained a copy, a photo of this police report. posted it on facebook, our colleague priscilla thompson was then able to verify the account in that unofficial report with a