he is the best player on the planet again. novak djokovic tying the all-time men s record for grand slam titles with 22 wins. he called australian open with the biggest victory of his life capping off an emotional journey. one year ago would novak djokovic to write for the open and was told his visa was canceled because he was not exempt from the vaccination against covid. the dispute became an international incident and ended with the deportation from australia. above identifying the impact of the coronavirus restrictions in our reduction. jason chaffetz as a sports analysis, tennis fan, what is your reaction. jason: i love tennis to win ten times australia is amazing the way the government treated the premier athlete in all of sports this guy is the goat of tennis. he is unbelievable, to deny him and kick him out of the country and what we did in the united states did not allow him to come in and for the way the aussies, i love australia i lived in australia for a year wi
just hours after the release of the body cam footage of paul pelosi s attack, his alleged assailant now speaking out in a jailhouse phone call his chilling message back on the trail. president trump campaigning in two early vote states today. why these campaign stops are so different than his previous ones. and high tech at high altitude the new way the air force is training pilots. our reporter takes off for the new frontier of digital dog fights. this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening it is another day of protests in cities across the country in the wake of the police beating and death of tyre nichols, a black man stopped for an alleged traffic violation in memphis the demonstrations are overwhelmingly peaceful, but that does not betray the anger so many are feeling after watching the videos released overnight of five police officers attacking nichols all five are now charged with murder tonight we re going to begin with the videos taken fr
nichols. demonstrators took to the streets demanding accountability from law enforcement and systemic change. after george floyd said never again, yet here we are. i will ask what he and his colleagues plan to do next time. and if there is will, what is the way to fix this country s broken system. this is american voices. we begin this hour with new action from the memphis police department following the deadly police beating of tyre nichols. memphis pd eight now deactivating the departments scorpion unit which was launched in 2021 to fight the city s rising murder rate. nbc news confirms all five officers charged with second degree murder in nichols death were members of the scorpion unit. this also raises new questions. why would a unit focused on violent crime take their time to enforce traffic violations? this beating all started with a traffic stop, officers at the time said the 29 year old was driving recklessly. the department has since said no video evidence backs o
following new details about that chinese spy balloon traveling across the country. new video into the cnn newsroom showing the balloon now hovering over asheville, and charlotte, north carolina in the last hour. and it could make it out to sea at any moment. the balloon was first spotted over montana on wednesday. china claims it s a civilian research vessel that blew offcourse, but the u.s. isn t buying that, calling the balloon s flight over u.s. soil an irresponsible act. secretary of state antony blinken postponing a planned trip to beijing in response. cnn s oren liebermann is at pentagon for us. oren, officials say the balloon doesn t currently seem to present a threat, but why is the pentagon also preceding with caution on it? reporter: so the pentagon has said for now that it will not be shooting this down, because of the risks from two different perspectives, first there s the risk to what s below, blow something up at 60,000 feet and that could be scattered over q
this week that their recommendation to president biden was not to shoot this down because of risk to people and property below. so this balloon made its way across a good chunk to have united states, from montana on tuesday and wednesday to where it is now over essentially north carolina where it s reaching the coast and open water beyond that where you no longer have the risk to people and property below. therefore, the question then becomes, does the military change its recommendation and recommend to president joe biden if you go ahead and follow the we ll take care of it, that will be the time and the place to shoot this down. it is worth noting, i ve been watching flight tracking websites pretty much all morning. there we ve seen some note worthy flight activity. a couple refuelling tankers right off the coast of myrtle beach essentially flying in a holding pattern. why is that note worthy? because fighters that could be used to shoot this down might need to refuel as th