President hanging a Mission Accomplished banner when theres so much more work to be done. There is is new day weeken with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Its dark and early here in atlanta, but we are so grateful of to your company as always. Im christi paul, good morning. Im Victor Blackwell. Good to be with you. A lot of Climate Change and calls for it change and calls for it echoing across the nation for the 11th straight night now. Thousands of protesters are out there. Were not just talking in the United States. Were talking about protesters around the world. And much of this focus is on Police Brutality and Law Enforcement here in america. Some elements of the Law Enforcement culture are in question over the last few days. Weve seen Police Fire Teargas and rubber bullets in some cases at nonviolent protesters. Theres an investigation right now after a 75yearold man was allegedly shoved to the ground. Hours from now, there are thousands of people expected at a memorial for the
Your time with us here. 10 00 in the east. Im christi paul. Im victor blackwell. Good to have you with us. First this morning a week to the day after he was fatally shot in the back by a Police Officer. Walter scott as we just said about an hour from now, going to be laid to rest. His family is gathering at a funeral and burial in summerville, South Carolina. His burial is taking place as new details are coming out about another man who was in scotts car in the passenger seat just before that fateful encounter with police. Cnns Martin Savidge joins us now. First, tell us about the funeral. We understand that they do not want cameras inside but over to the open to the public. Good morning, victor christi. I should point out that her that carries the casket arrived a few moments ago. Interesting to point out it did have a Police Escort two motorcycle officers in front of the hearst as it pulled into the christian plinstrys where the Funeral Service is taking place. It is clear already th
Attorney. Im christi paul. And im joe johns. Youre in the cnn news room. New this morning, strong storms affecting major portions of texas and even up into the midwest states send people at a circus running towards the exits. Eye witness video shows the moments inside the tent. Water is seen pouring from the top of it. A trapeze performance artist comes to a screeching halt. We have the details on this one. Good morning this is not the way you want to get your weekend started off. A few folks out there going out for a friday evening performance. 30 minutes into the show theyre sent running for the exits there are some of the moments before water started to pour into the tent itself. The footage actually captures some of the tense moments inside the tent. I want you to listen as people started realizing that just something wasnt right. Stop crying, dont cry. So again, several nervous folks inside the tent and they will nowhere to go many of the folks trying to evacuate the tent. You can
The question i wanted to ask, were you as floored by the rest of the country about those charges having been brought yesterday . Absolutely. Everything about yesterdays announcement was surprising. Theres become an expectation that these kinds of cases that takes months very deliberately gather the evidence and can take up to three months. The Police Department has said in an aggressive timetable, two weeks. Some said it was an artificial timetable. Some of the even the preliminary work wouldnt be done by this if states attorney herself said im not going to be bound by the police timetable and yet on the same day that police said they were going to wrap their investigation, she announced charges against all six officers which in and of itself is something we have not seen before in these type of cases. She did not allege it was a deliberate rough ride. Theres still a lot unknownallegations are. We dont know how mr. Gray died, what caused it. Shes saying that the negligence of the offic
They have rapidly gained control of key areas. Those thats where isis is in control in the red area. And iraqs neighbors, the Iraqi Government says thousands of volunteers have stepped up to defend their homeland. Even irans president said it will consider helping if iraq requests it. A u. S. Official sells a top iranian general has been in iraq this week. Were covering this story from multiple angles. And cnns arwa damon is in the Northern Iraqi city of erbil. And cnns jones in the white house. Arwa, tell us how far isis has advanced. The question is, will they make it to baghdad . Will they take over the city . Where are they now . Right now in diyala province just to the north of baghdad, theyre about 60 kilometers away from the capital, battling with Iraqi Security forces, who in one town in that area made a gruesome discovery, saying they found the bodies of 12 Police Officers who had been shot and then burned. Those bodies were found in an orchard. They suspect that isis was behi