two trains crashing into one another, killing 36 people. we have the latest developments. for the first time in more than 30 years, chicago sitting mayor has lost re-election in a race that was dominate bid rising crime. is it a warning sign for other big city democrats? you re talking about a potential leak. the fbi providing his first public confirmation on their assessment about covid originally leaking from a chinese lab. we ll have more on the comments ahead. all that ahead, first, to our breaking news. a devastating train crash in greece killed more than 36 people. dozens are injured. a passenger train carrying hundreds of people collided head on with a freight train. multiple cars derailed. several catching fire. this happened north of athens. state broadcasters reporting that both trains were traveling on the same track for several miles before this collision. first responders still working, trying to find survivors in the twisted melted wreckage. hospital offic
knowing the origin helps us figure out what went wrong. it s less likely to happen again. so let s dig into the debate around the origins of covid. here s what we know. the buyers first reported in humans in wuhan china traced to a seafood wet market that is close to a virology lab. here s another piece of relevant information. accidental lab leaks happen. a lot. don t take my word for it. here is the former fda commissioner. these kinds of lab leaks happen all the time, actually, even here in the united states. we ve had mishaps. and in china, the last six known outbreaks of sarsi are out of labs. so given that, you might think that the outset all theories would have been considered equally open to investigation. but that s not quite what happened. february 19th, 2020, weeks before lockdowns in the usa, a letter signed by 27 scientists appeared in the british medical journal that read in part, we
except, they didn t write n-word, they wrote the full word. and it s that tough for you to hear if that is tough for you to hear, if you are offended by that, well you should be. there is another text message between mcmichael and a friend from march 2 march 16, 2019, discussing his new job, and why he liked that he didn t work with black people. and i quote, again. they ruin everything. that s why i love what i do. not an n-word in sight in your head. didn t say n word. wasn t that cute. casual racism. right out there in the open. and then, there is the whatsapp message between william roddy bryan and a friend after bryan discovered his daughter was dating a black man. that is a no-no, right? this message is dated february 19th. 2020. february 19th, 2020, just four days before ahmaud arbery was murdered. quote, yeah she has her n-word now. i have been calling that for a while now.
how disgusting they may be. a set of whatsapp messages uncovered by investigators discuss roddy bryan discovering that his daughter was dating a black man. a message between bryan and a friend dated february 19th, 2020, four days before the shooting of ahmaud arbery quoted brian as saying, yeah, she has her n-word now. i have been calling that for a while now. not surprised. how should a jury weigh information like that, especially that it was sent four days before arbery was killed? you know, i think they need to to weigh it and put it into context, and think it about it in the totality of the circumstance. what is interesting, this case is not about whether or not there was a murder. there was. this is simply a case about what the motivation for the murder was, and so if you think back to the state case, the defendants almost created their own defense now talking about, well, we didn t do it because it was a young-black man running in our neighborhood. we did it because we were
right out there in the open. and then there s the whatsapp message between william roddie ryan and a friend after discovering they were dating a black man, this message dated february 19th, 2020, just four days before ahmaud arbery was murdered. quote, yeah, she has her n-word now. i ve been calling that for a while now. not surprised. casual racism. ahmaud arbery s family didn t want a plead for his killers in the hate crime trial. and with all the, you can certainly understand why. what i thought all along was true , that travis killed ahmaud not because of ahmaud committed a crime, it s because he was black and because travis was truly a racist. it s just really a shame that they got that much hate in them out there for people.