hi, everyone. thanks so much for joining me in washington, d.c. i m jessica dean in for fredricka whitfield today. a city and nation in shock. hours after memphis police released videos of the brutal killing of tyre nichols. the full videos released last night show five former memphis police officers repeatedly beating the 29-year-old. and i want to warn you. what we re about to show you is extremely graphic. the videos document nichols being pulled over earlier this month for alleged reckless driving. place are seen yanking him from the car, chasing, kicking him, using pepper spray and batons. nichols, who is unarmed, crying for miss his mother at one poin. he died from his injuries three days later in the hospital. those videos are sparking largely peaceful protests across the country overnight and into today. earlier this week the five officers were charged with second-degree murder and now after this video has come out, two officers from a different department who were al
around this country we have new reaction today from people demanding change. . five police officers. it doesn t matter. if not even one of them said no, this is not. right there is really no words to describe. it i was sick to my stomach. i had to walk away a few times. it just breaks your. heart you have to stand up and be reminded that this isn t just a mentor thing or a sacramento or california thing. this is a national thing. unfortunately, he is right. we have reporters and analysts joining us with reactions of what to expect next in this case. we are going to go first to nbc s tom brock, standing by in memphis for us. sam, good day to you. what can you tell us about this scene just after 11 am central time where you are there? the morning after that video was released? hey alex. good afternoon to. you good morning here. it is calm right now. it is going to be really interesting to see what some of the protesters are saying today alex azar s a 3 pm protest loca
events here in the uk and across the world mark holocaust memorial day on the anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz birkenau nazi death camp. and the actress sylvia syms, best known for her roles in the films ice cold in alex and the queen, has died at the age of 89. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the chancellor, jeremy hunt, has been defending the government s record on economic growth. in a speech, he said there s too much gloom about the economy, and that the uk can be the next silicon valley with a network of investment zones, and brexit a catalyst for growth. but his speech follows recent warnings that thousands of british businesses face bankruptcy and news this week of a slump in the uk car manufacturing industry. this report from our economics correspondent, andy verity. uncertainty has made it really difficult to attract investment into the uk, and that is the number one thing we need to address. there are absolutely decisions available to british
the fear is the toxic chemicals being released into the air, the ground water prompting urgent evacuation orders. and newly released body cam video from the mass shooting at a louisville bank showing the moments police officers put an end to a gunman s reign of terror i think i got him down. i think he s down! plus, new details about how police say the shooter was able to legally purchase an ar-15 style rifle just case before his rampage. and a highly anticipated vote in memphis in just hours now over whether to reinstate the second black tennessee lawmaker ousted from his seat for protesting gun violence. will justin pearson join his colleague who made his triumphant return to the capitol days after their dramatic expulsion. just in on the u.s. economy, inflation dropping to the lowest level in nearly two years, but are any of us feeling it yet first, the breaking news unfolding in indiana at this hour, take a lack at this, that plume of black smoke from this massi
mason temple in memphis was hacked. memphis was a city in mourning, grappling with unrest over the deaths of two black employees of a memphis department of public work. employees that were crushed to death while taking cover from severe weather. today marks the 55th anniversary of their deaths. today, under the slogan i am a man, more than 1000 black appointees were on strike, and tensions were rising. despite a bad thunderstorm that april 9th, the room was filled. there was one man that the crowd wanted to hear from. martin luther king junior, who visited memphis twice before. he was trying to help the black workers get a living wage, and decent working conditions. that night, he was back. he was delivering what would be his final speech, the night before he was assassinated. dr. king began his famous mountaintop speech by saying that something is happening in memphis, something is happening in our world. we have been forced to a point where we are going to have to struggl