treatment. nagin led new orleans through its worst disaster in modern history, 2005 s hurricane katrina. the deadly storm left a massive trail of destruction that told in the billions of dollars. ray nagin must report to prison september 8th. and exactly how hot did it get inside of that suv where that 22-month-old toddler died after being left there by his own father? take a look at this video. because this is video of police trying to figure out exactly how this could have happened. how hot it could have gotten. replicating the conditions of that very day in june, three weeks ago. this local atlanta tv affiliate, waga, was there, cameras rolling as investigators conducted these tests, wired this car up, thermometers, to back up the testimony that the temperature did, indeed, soar well above that 100-degree mark inside of this very car. all of this this is the back drop taking place in the home
a local atlanta tv station, waga, was rolling with their cameras as police drive justin ross harris car into his workplace, that home depot parking lot, to replicate the conditions inside that suv back in june. the last time this car was parked in this spot, it was on another 90-degree day. but prosecutors claim the temperature inside the car soared well above 100 degrees. joining me now, hln s jane velez-mitchell is following the story very, very closely. so jane, it s incredible to see these pictures, first of all, these investigators conducting these tests. how important will this heat testing be in making a case against this father? well, it s absolutely crucial, brooke. this child, prosecutors want to show, died a brutal death. this car became a torture chamber. they can t just say that, though. they have to back it up with scientific facts. so they take the actual car back
i hope we don t shut down this conversation about race. too often it gets hot and conversations get shut down and we are literally having children die because we can t bridge this racial divide gap. we should keep talking about it and we will certainly on the lead here. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. coming up, he was once on the witness list to testify against the notorious crime boss and then surprise, surprise, he s gone. this is no hollywood script. it might just be the latest turn in the trial of james whitey bulger. and it new york city ready to forgive eliot spitzer? i will ask him about his bid for redemption live when the lead continues. in cities like charlotte,ing. atlanta, and chicago, we re revving people up to take a lap around the legendary nascar race track with drivers from the coca-cola racing family. coca-coca family track walks give thousands of race fans
increase in these shootings since this law has been in effect. there was a comment by president jimmy carter when he was asked in a local atlanta tv interview about the zimmerman case. i want to play what he had to say when asked specifically about the zimmerman verdict. i think that the jury made the right decision based on the evidence presented because the prosecution inadvertently set the standard so high that the jury had to be convinced that it was a deliberate act by zimmerman, that he was not at all defending himself and so forth. it s not a moral question, it was a legal question. reverend jackson, i imagine that you consider president carter an ally on a lot of these issues. allies can reasonably disagree. i think the prosecution tried to avoid the issue of race, three white male prosecutors, an
anticipate that, sir. a local atlanta paper felt compelled to point out that mr. johnson as far as they could tell was not making an april fool s joke. we talked about the island of guam capsizing from the weight of all the new people there. but he kind of was making a joke there. he did not really think that guam was going to tip over. he was using metaphor as a commentary on the size of the u.s. military presence on the island and he was just being incredibly dead pan about it while he used that metaphor. turns out that congressman dead pan hank johnson is a very funny congressman. but he s so dead pan about it, he does not betray he s making a joke that other members of congress do not laugh when he s making jokes. his dead pan humor does not play in the room because the people with him do not get it. he s setting them up in a way that s just over their heads. here s the latest from congressman hank johnson on the subject of helium.