Whether he and his brother had accomplices who may still be out there. Plus its looking pretty apocolyptic in the midwest right now. Baseball size hail ten reported tornadoes, a woman swept away by flood waters and killed in her car and now the entire chicago metro area is under tornado watch. Good afternoon. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Lets get right to our National Lead. New information about what we did not see on that shocking video out of South Carolina that shows a Police Officer shooting a man in the back as he attempted to run away. The witness who captured this horrific scene is now speaking out, not only about why he took the video but what happened in the moments leading up to the deadly confrontation. Listen to what he had to say to Nbcs Matt Lauer on the today show. I saw that he was trying to get away from the taser, and his reaction was just you know to get away of the taser. Was there a struggle over the taser that you saw . Were they fighting over it . No. He
Outbreak in western africa. Three weeks ago on this program when we last covered the spreading Ebola Outbreak we already knew it was the worst ever since we learned about the virus in 1976. Now, the cases are spreading and the death tolls are mounting. Heres where we standed. As of friday, the centers for Disease Control report 1,093 medical cases 786 confirmed as o ebola infections. We learned this morning that a senior liberian doctor has also died. The first in that country. The eebola virus, according to the cdc spreads mainly through direct contact with blood and other bodily fluid and indirect contact with objects such as needles. It includes headaches, fever, joint and muscle aches, weakness, vomiting and profuse bleeding. There is no cure. There is no vaccine. Ebola kills up to 90 of its victims and quickly. And in western africa, the current outbreak is spreading. We learned this week that the virus reached nigeria, the african conttinents most populous nation. The World Healt
Coming. Again, it overheated. Over the course of the few hours despite the best efforts of the community, state police, and with help of the National Guard 31 arrested and two shot. It did not involve police. Police had to fire tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowd after they say they were being targeted with rocks, bottles, and even molotov cocktails. George was reporting from the beginning. He was there last night. George, what do we know . So, chris, the other night they tried something different. They lifted the curfew to allow for peaceful protest. What is a peaceful protest. Means some people yell in police, get in the face of police. Nothing violent. Protests are fine as long as theyre peaceful. Look, police are trying different tactics. They tried a different tactic last night but got the same result. Peaceful protests undermined by a few people that wanted to cause problems. Chaos on the streets of ferguson yet again. In what was one of the most tense nights yet, po
News out of the San Francisco area. More than 50,000 people are out of power right now after an earthquake with a 6. 0 magnitude over the bay area this morning. The epicenter five miles north of napa county. There have been gas line breaks and water main breaks and reports of fires and a Medical Center reports many medical injuries. Stay with msnbc for the latest. Now to the latest in ferguson, missouri. Tomorrow, Michael Browns parents will bury their child. It will have been more than two weeks since he was killed by a Ferguson Police officer. Tomorrow, Michael Brown will be remembered as a son, a grandson, as a cousin, as a big brother and as a friend. He will likely be remembered as someone who was quiet and gentle with a sharp sense of humor, who loved music, particularly hiphop, and who planned to own his own business. The man child who was 64, but had a baby face. A kid who had struggled, but still managed to graduate from High School Just a week before his death. Catching up on
Media shows one of the many demonstrations nationwide just within the last 24 hours after that Staten Island grand jury did not indict the Police Officer accused in the july death of eric garner. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. 11 times you hear eric garner saying i cant breathe. As these officers surrounded him, restrained him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes, which was illegal. The 43yearold father of six died en route to the hospital according to police and now that Police Officer, daniel pantaleo, will not be charged but will he be fired . New York Police Say they plan to investigate that internal investigation which was on hold awaiting the grand jurys decision. Were watching and waiting for the mayor of new york, mayor bill de blasio to speak. Lets go to Deborah Feyerick for more. Deborah, what do we expect to hear from the mayor . Reporter what we expect to hear from the mayor and the Police Commissioner is that nypd, all 22,000 officers, wi