amber walker, thank you so much. meanwhile, the former san francisco fire department commissioner was allegedly beaten with a metal pipe by a homeless man is now being accused of initiating the altercation. the public defender s is the former commissioner attacked the man first with bear spray. cnn s veronica miracle has the story. first, a warning, some of the video you re going to see is disturbing. a violent attack with a metal rod caught on camera. he was bleeding from his. head the victims, former san francisco fire commissioner don carmignani. the suspect, a homeless man. donny could die. in a neighborhood where some locals are fed up with the problem, it seemed like a clear-cut assault case, until it arrived in court. and the public defender for the suspect, garrett doty, released this video, saying it shows the ex fire official walking up to daunte, pulling out a can of bear spray, and spraying the
across the country. look at these images of the people on the streets. hundreds of lawyers demonstrated in front of tel aviv courts on sunday. joining the bar association s protest of netanyahu s planned reforms. on thursday netanyahu doubled down on his plans in a fiery address that was given hours after his government passed a law making it more difficult to declare a prime minister unfit for office. opposition leaders described it as a way to protect illegally embattled netanyahu. but sunday was the real spark that caused the months long protest over judiciary changes to boil over. when netanyahu abruptly fired his defense minister who had just called for a pause to this judicial overhaul. so for that reason, tens of thousands of people poured into the streets in major cities across the country to tell their leader, no, you cannot corrupt the courts for your advantage, no, you cannot fire official who s speak against your plan, no. protesters in tel aviv chanted, the country is on f
judicial overhaul. so for that reason, tens of thousands of people poured into the streets in major cities across the country to tell their leader, no, you cannot corrupt the courts for your advantage, no, you cannot fire official who s speak against your plan, no. protesters in tel aviv chanted, the country is on fire, as they lit bonfires on the main highway. police opened water cannons on protesters to clear them out. they demonstrated in front of netanyahu s house. yesterday workers in so many industries went on strike that the country was essentially paralyzed. departing flights from bengurion airport were closed. preschools and universities were shuttered. health, transit, banking workers went on strike in solidarity with the country s largest trade union. finally, netanyahu agreed to pause his judicial overhaul for at least a few weeks until the next parliamentary session begins. he acknowledged that the country
reporter: well, first of all, jake, we should tell you that a fire official told us this should be getting under way in about two minutes. so, we ll see if that happens. basically, the governor put it this way, he said, jake, that there are no easy choices here, given what they re up against. we are here at the command center where they gave us a rundown of how this controlled release and controlled burn is supposed to work. basically what s going to happen is once it gets under way, experts are going to be going over to their derailed train cars, going to be planting small explosive devices on each of the five cars. once there s an explosion, some of that toxic material will then ooze out and will go into a trench where it will burn and if all those as planned, it will then burn itself off. a short while ago, one of the experts from the train company, a representative from the train company, also an expert in hazardous materials, weighed in on this and gave us more of a