it s the most they ve been in agreement since deciding stephe colbert was not funny. i m glad we are finally talking about black on black crime. of course it involves cops. you know the line if it bleeds if it bleeds it leads. it may be great white shark spirit it helps that they are white. but these five officers aren t. and they still be racist? it s hard to say because the victim is blackbeard it present a quandary to the left who hate cops and doesn t want to put black criminals in jail. so what do you do next, just this once. when weld their brutality finally lead to some form from the ground up because clearly i doesn t matter if it is a white policeman or a black policeman, it is a problem in the police the policing itself. greg: so no race doesn t matter. but if it didn t matter before. you just thought it did because that is all the media focused o it now perhaps all the city did wa that by eliminating race as a variable and you see the root causes that has g
faces four counts of first-degree murder after his arrest in pennsylvania on friday. kohberger drove across the country in a white hyundai ilan extra from idaho and arrived in pennsylvania at his parents s house right around christmas. while law enforcement was tracking him every step of the way. there are lots of new developments in the case, including how authorities identified and arrested the suspect. let s get right to jean casarez. jean, you just spoke with the suspect s attorney. what are you learning? that s right. this is the chief public defender for monroe county, jay salabar. his client is not going to fight going back to idaho. he s not going to fight extradition. she s shocked a little bit. he s calm right now. he is very intelligent. in my hour conversation with him, that comes off. i can tell that. and he understands where we are right now. i have spoken to his family last night. i spoke to them for approximately 15 to 20 minutes. they re also very shocked
to earth cam, thousands of revellers are expecting a soggy countdown. we ll go live to the big apple later in the show. gillian: first to our top story this hour, the world is now mourning of loss of a historical religious figure. the vatican is announcing death of pope emeritus benedict xvi. and charles has more on his long lasting legacy. what a story he had. pope benedict xvi had an impact on catholics across the world in a position he never imagined himself in. for decades cardinal joseph ratsinger had been a key advisor to pope john paul ii, as a staunch conservative. and took the cardinals just two days to give the job to a german, scholarly man who didn t appear to want it. as pope benedict xvi, he rattled relativism, what might be true for someone, might not be true for someone else. and he will be remembered not only for his birthday celebration in the white house, a stop at ground zero and a mass in yankee stadium, but also, by the way in which he addressed the ca
times. cleotha abston was 16 when he began a prison term. brooke singman has breaking details on this case. brooke. brooke: good morning, human remains have been confirmed to be those of missing heiress and mother of two, eliza fletcher. memphis police department discovered remains of a body, further forensic investigation by the mpd positively identified the body was in fact eliza fletcher. fletcher s body was located in an abandoned home seven miles from where she was kidnapped and one mile away from where cleotha abston was seen cleaning the floors of his suv. her family is demanding justice saying we are heartbroken and devastated by this senseless loss, we are grateful to law enforcement for tireless efforts to bring justice to the personal responsible for this horrible crime. cleotha abston is charged with first degree murder, aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence. surveillace video captured video of a man running toward fletcher while out on a early m
poisoning. cleaned out the bank account. are you trying to accuse me of something? have a brother determined to find a killer. how dare anybody do that to my little brother? it wasn t supposed to happen like this. a toxic mystery and an emotional trial. is the jury being out long a bad thing or a good thing? it was a mystery from day one. from that time, right around the end of the hockey season. it made sense of what was happening to matthew podolak, met the hockey amateur, met the hunter, the fish are, the athlete. it would make sense from the very first day that matthew podolak woke up with the pain in his back. and after what happened in the hospital a couple of months later, nothing made sense after that. [noise] the, god knows there were accusations. well yes, plenty of those. and a brother, mark, from whom the stories, the mystery became a kind of obsession. it s had quite an effect on me over the past seven years. the story of what happened to matt