good friday morning to you. so solemn day of news today, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. today the nation will see exactly what happened to 29-year-old tyre nichols during a violent encounter with police in memphis, tennessee. the injuries he sustained during that traffic stop ultimately leading to his death, and some of those videos, including those from police body cameras, have been described as appalling, horrific and inhumane. right now five memphis police officers have been fired, charged with several felonies, including second-degree murder. this morning a remarkable one on cnn, cnn s don lemon spoke exclusively with memphis police chief c.j. davis revealing extensive new details about what you are going to see in the videos that will be released later today. the two meticulously walking through what led up to the traffic stop and remaining questions about that, the beating and the arrest of tyre nichols. also the ongoing investigations into the officers respo
hello, everyone. welcome to cnn newsroom. victor is off today. the family of tyre nichols is urging piece today after the video of his beating death is released to the public. five officers have been charged. they ve all been released on roughly $250,000 bond. this afternoon, his mother had this message for them. i just want to ask for prayer for my family, for this whole community. and i want to say to the five police officers that murdered my son, you also disgraced your own families when you did this. but you know what? i m going to pray for you and your families. nicoles was pulled over on january 7th allegedly for reckless driving. but the memphis police chief says she does not see evidence of that yet. a warning now, this picture is graphic. the chief also does not yet know what sparked this brutal beating of nicoles that followed the police chase and caught on several cameras. she says she could not bear to watch the video but did see the aftermath of what her so
classified document baggage as the investigations continue. those investigations appear to be going nowhere. welcome. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. indeed, a busy day to wrap up a busy news week. let s get more on the political fall-out from all of this with peter doocy at the white house. hi, peter. neil, we still don t have a clear answer yet about whether or not any of president biden s other residences have been searched by the fbi for documents. so we checked. on these documents, have any more classified document been located in any other places associated with president biden? i ll refer you to the white house. joe manchin was asked and said would have had classified document in the same general area? that doesn t make sense. a reporter from cnn asked him. so it does cast a cloud over it, you think. he said it costs a cloud over the whole process. chances to put questions to president biden himself about this are few and far in between. it s tough, part
this situation. we re awaiting that. we ll hear the president s plan, we re told, of action. china today claims that balloon is just a civilian air ship used for research and that it got blown off course. all the way to montana? it just so happens that it was very close to a sensitive site in that state. 1 of 3 in the nation with nuclear weapon silos. it also houses ballistic missiles. montana in red on the map for a reason this hour. deafening reaction so far, bipartisan lawmakers biden allowing on-demand access to our u.s. airspace is dangerous. it is not okay. some republicans, including 2024 hopeful nikki haley, calling on president biden to shoot it down. congressman andy biggs calling biden a affectless commander in chief. secretary of state antony blink en was scheduled to travel to beijing but now the trip is postponed indefinitely. senator tom cotton says biden must answer as to why he hasn t secured u.s. airspace. the president walking away from questions moments ag
you can see the piece on the bottom of it. that is the piece that gathers the intelligence for this what loan. we ve known about this being in the skies over our country illegally for several days at least. some say going back months. so far, we have not done anything to impede this balloon from collecting surveillance over the country even though it s of clear violation of u.s. airspace. no word from the president of the united states at 3:00 eastern time. we ve known about this since last night really. twice now he has avoided shouted questions. watch this. mr. president, when will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? [question inaudible] are you worried about the balloon? martha: apparently not worried about the balloon as he walks across the lawn there. we know that it launched this instrument from china. you can see on that quick animation. maybe we can play it again from mainland china. now it has hovered over montana, h