on paid or unpaid leave, when the decision was put into effect. the police chief has disbanded the scorpian unit in respond to demand from the civil rights community. more charges could be coming for those involved and other who is responded to the scene and did not intervene. joining me now, elson barber in memphis. what can you tell us about the sixth officer, about the growing concerns about why nichols was even stopped by police? reporter: yeah, there are still so many questions about that night. the moments that led up to this incident, but the biggest news is that the sixth officer who was there that night has been relieved of his duties. you said his name and his officer, preston hemple. according to a spokesperson, we re getting this information in slowly right now, but a speks person for the department is telling nbc news this offer was relieved of duty with the other
millions of people have no power because of energy strikes. the world health organization says the plummeting temperatures and shortening days are creating what they re calling a life threatening situation. joining me now from kyiv is elson barber. what is it like there? reporter: you just think of all those numbers that you mentioned. ten million ukrainians without power right now. the world health organization in their warning today said not only is this going to be a life threaten situation for many ukrainians, they say between two and three million ukrainians will likely leave home this winter to seek safety and warmth either in other places within the country or outside of the country and that s in addition to the 6.5 million people who are currently internally displaced in this country. that number according to the
that reads in part this. i came at the behest of the president, because more than allies, we are friends and when a friend is hurting, other friends show up to try to ease the burden and share the sense of loss and that s what we tried to do today. the united states is sending another $400 million in weapons and security systems to ukraine. the department of defense announced this new package on friday. it includes four rocket systems. three tactical vehicles to recover equipment. counter battery systems. and artillery ammunition. since the war began in late february the united states has committed more than $7 billion in aid to ukraine. the violence in the war-torn country continued over the weekend, including a deadly attack on an apartment block in the eastern part of the country. nbc news correspondent elson barber joins us now from dnipro west of where those strikes occurred. ellison, thanks for joining us. tell us more about that attack.
ref. but numbers of people coming, it is growing exponentially by the minute, and realistically there s not enough help. jonathan. emotional scenes there on the border and real human faces to what is happening there because of this conflict. elson barber, thank you very much. cal perry, we ll be looking for president zelenskyy s speech later on, too. thank you as well. russia announced it has followed through on vladimir putinin s orders and its nuclear forces are now on high alert. when asked yesterday if americans should be worried about a nuclear war, president biden simply said no. the pentagon called putin s move unnecessary and excla try and said nothing has changed with the defensive posture of the united states. russia s ambassador to the u.n. defended the move yesterday saying, quote, nuclear deterrence is the kind of deterrence that works. here s reaction from ukraine s u.n. ambassador.