police have permanently disbanded the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit, the unit associated with officers involved in the killing of tyre nichols, the 29-year-old man beaten after a traffic stop. the videos we re about to show you are graphic and disturbing, but of course they are critical to understanding what happened to this 29-year-old man. as you can hear in the video, nichols cries out for his mother, who was just a few blocks away. officers continued to hit and spray nichols, struggling with him on the ground. more footage appears to show inaction by deputies and officers and paramedics on the scene. five officers are facing multiple charges, including second-degree murder and kidnapping. two sheriff s deputies at the scene were placed on leave pending an investigation and cnn s shimon prokupecz is live. we ll talk about the horrific video in just a moment, but we do have new breaking news, information coming in this afternoon, and that is that the memphis police department has
as high as commercial aircraft but lower than surveillance satellites. the size of three buses. two flights were diverted for safety. military leaders considered but ultimately decided against wthe president s decision to shoot it down. but the idea that was under conversation shows how seriously u.s. officials and the president were taking the idea of a chinese spy balloon floating over the u.s. you mentioned what it was flying over. right. montana. the air base, has icbms there. something that china would naturally be interested in taking a closer look at. it happened before? it happened over u.s. territory before. here is something i want to note in terms of surveillance capabilities. this was not a big jump in what china is able to do. why? because china is flying spy satellites over the u.s. after 90 minutes as they orbit the earth and they have at least equal surveillance capabilities. they are highly advanced. in terms of what china could gather from this ballo
hear from her. but now the big two things. it is the charges against these officers and this video, when will we finally when will the public finally get to see the video. and executive director of the local naacp gave us information about the possibility of these officers surrendering themselves. but again, that has not been confirmed. that is according to her and her sources. in the meantime, the community reeling, family members reeling. and this community bracing for what is to come. yeah, we had a conversation with the senior pastor at the mississippi boulevard christian church here, that is the church where they will have services for tyree nichols on february 1. so there is real concern. you know, he made no bones about worrying about whether this was going to be explosive, how people are going to on respond once the video is released. but he said that they have been in talks and he said he saw something that he has never seen before happen in this community, a
according to a preliminary i understand denlt autopsy he suffered extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating. overnight the memphis police chief vowed absolute accountability for those held responsible. i m a mother. i m a caring human being who wants the best for all of us. this is not just a professional failing. this is a failing of basic humanity toward another individual. this incident was heinous, reckless and inhumane. all five of the officers involved in that incident have been fired. the nichols family now calling for them to be charged with murder. cnn s sara sidner is in memphis this morning with the very latest. when we hear from the family, it is absolutely sara. what do we know? the family has said we re going to get justice for tyre, if it s the last breath i breathe. that came from his mother. she talked about never having her son walk through the door again. she said he would always come in and say hello parents. she and his step dad, as you might
reporter: well, wolf, the l.a.x. airport has tweeted within the last 30 minutes that the department of water and power is assessing a power issue impacting some l.a.x. facilities at this time. you see the tweet there. the airfield is operating normally but some terminals traffic lights and systems may not have power. our teams are working on the issue with dwp and follow us for additional updates. it continues to say that due to the power issue, tsa has stopped screening passengers in most terminals. so if you have to fly today, out of l.a.x., they re asking you to allow extra time here. crews are responding as quickly as possible to restore all of the systems. and the airport said that most of the terminals are impacted by the loss of power. that some departing flights may be impacted due to no power, to jet bridges and again to please allow extra time and check flight status as the airport teams learn more. now, in just checking the department of transportation s national