so we can focus on this little guy. singers: safelite repair, safelite replace. hey there. i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. and i m alisyn camerota. a sixth officer is now off the memphis police force in connection with the beating death of tyre nichols. preston hemphill was relieved of duty, and his lawyer confirms he was wearing a body camera on january 7th. the footage from it was released friday along with the other videos that show nichols ultimately fatal encounter with police. we have a warning for you. what we re about to play is disturbing. footage from the multiple cameras shows nichols getting kicked and punched and pepper sprayed and beaten with a baton. and when the assault stopped, no one gave nichols any medical attention for at least 25 minutes. now, five of the officers seen in the video have been fired and charged with second-degree murder and their unit to fight street crimes and guns known as scorpion, that s now gone. it s been
morning, lindsey reiser picks up the coverage right now it s 10:00 a.m. in new york, i m lindsey reiser right now the tensions that have been simmering in tennessee for the last week or even longer are boiling over this morning. protests are gaining steam inside and outside the state house despite the rain against republican efforts to do something that s only been done three times in that state since the civil war expel some of their fellow members specifically these three democrats are under fire for participating in fiery gun reform protests on the house floor last week. today they ll have a chance to defend themselves, but with a republican super majority can they survive the vote. we re live where that high stakes session is getting underway. major escalations in the mounting legal battles faceing former president trump former vice president mike pence saying he will not fight an order to testify in the federal probe. sources say the new york judge in the hush mone
reid wiseman added we can see the artemis 2 mission take off late next year that does it this hour, our coverage continues with alex witt right now very good to be with all of you. i m alex witt in for katy tur. we begin this hour in tennessee where any minute now the state s republican-led house will hold a vote to remove three democratic lawmakers from office. those lawmakers are currently making their opening statements. you see one of them right there doing so state representatives gloria johnson, justin jones, and justin pierson participated in a protest on the house floor where they held signs, led chants demanding stricter gun laws. the protest was in response to last month s shooting at a nashville school that left six dead, including three 9-year-old students those three democrats were stripped of their committee assignments, they were hit with three separate filings for their exp expulsion. it is a step that the tennessee state house has only taken twice since t
health leaders in the uk are warning that there will be a struggle to clear backlogs and improve emergency care unless industrial action by thousands of staff is brought to an end. hello and welcome. china has tried to calm tensions after two chinese spy balloons were spotted over the united states and latin america. the chinese foreign ministry has spoken to the us secretary of state, antony blinken, after he cancelled his trip to china this weekend. beijing says the matter must be dealt with in a cool headed and prudent manner. our north america correspondent barbara plett usher reports from beijing. americans are looking up to spot the spy balloon in the sky. it s actually a weather balloon that blew off course, the chinese said. but the pentagon s convinced it s more than that and that it s not the only one. we re seeing reports of a balloon transiting latin america. we now assess it is another chinese surveillance balloon. the ballon burst plans for america s top d