The pursuit ended with the swarm of deputyies not just them some more coming into the picture here as they kick and punch the suspect. that suspect has a lawyer now and he s calling his clients beating worse than rodney king. stephanie elam is following developments for us this morning, good morning stephanie. good morning, victor and chris. the fbi launched an investigation to find out whether or not the man at the center of this video if his civil rights were violated. here s your pursuit. reporter: a police chase that looks like something out of the wild west. i ve got this guy on a stolen horse. reporter: 30-year-old francis pusok attempting to yacht run law enforcement on the back of a stolen horse in a rural part of san bern dino county. a knbc helicopter was recording as the bizarre chase ends when the horse bucks the suspect. the suspect being tased. deputies a attempt to tase him. as deputies get closer pusok
Security check point. nbc stephanie gosk is in new york with all the details. good morning stephanie. reporter: hey there. the airport is back up and running. but that was not the scene last night. it was just a normal friday. people getting ready for their weekend when they heard the gunfire. one of the witnesses described it as bam, bam, bam. and then complete chaos. people running for cover. they say they saw richard white with a machete in his hand over his head swinging at the tsa officers. a female tsa officer confronted him and shot him. that tsa officer is injured and in the hospital this morning as is white. this was a terrifying scene. it really could have been a lot worse. terrifying moments overnight noticed louie armstrong international airport. the panic erupted just before 8:00 local time. when police say richard white, armed with cans of wasp spray and a machete, tried to get past
Los angeles on charges in the 2000 murder of his friend susan berman. nbc s stephanie gosk has been following these developments and joins us from new orleans. good morning stephanie. reporter: good morning, jose. well overnight robert durst was moved to that facility a move that his defense team argued against saying they needed him here in new orleans. the facility is about 60 mile outside of the city an hour to get there. said they needed to be close to prepare their case for the hearing on monday. they also said he does not have any acute medical or mental condition, but it s interesting, because the day before in court, what they told the judge is that he does actually need a physical exam from a doctor and that he needs pain medication and was recovering from some kind of neurosurgery they didn t specify. a little bit of conflicting information from his defense team on his health at this point. obviously, they re anxious to get to california. said it a number of times, to fight
well, i was on shore. i was fielding media much like this. there was a big feeling of elation. it was a victory for the technology in terms of us that are very interested in terms of exploration. we can discover things in the ocean that we haven t been able to do before. it was a huge success. thank you so much. i appreciate your being this morning. you are very well come. still to come, a bus filled with students looking to tour a california university ends in tragedy. good morning stephanie. reporter: very tragic, tragic turn of events here and we are going to tell you why there are several high schools in los angeles that are upset by this event here in northern california.
Flooding concerns, the east coast is so saturated it s going to do little. there is a tornado watch for virginia beach. that s in effect until 11:00 this morning. we have seen a few tornado warnings. no major danger. we re going to have more on the path of the storm later on. thank you for that. good morning stephanie. long beach, new york is bracesing for what could be a direct hit? reporter: it could be. you have the forward motion of the hurricane coming in. you get that push and then the winds are coming from the south to the north. so you get that double push from the south to the north opposed on the west side of the storm the sorm s going north, but the winds are going south like that, you see how that works, that s why we could see significant