Range was expected, now were waiting to hear the reaction from various parties including from the floyd family themselves because Derek Chauvin did speak today. Well give you the details of that. First to Matt Finn In Minneapolis that has been chronicling the case from the beginning and how things are going now. Matt . Hi, neil. Right now peaceful in the streets. Theres a semi large crowd outside the courthouse. People were chanting black lives matter no protests or any riots in minneapolis that weve seen. Moments before, judge cahill handed Derek Chauvin a 22 1 2 year sentence. The judge said that he did not make his ruling on emotions or on public demand. He said instead he based it on the rule of law. Hes releasing a 22page memo that will explain how he arrived at his sentencing. The big question is whether Derek Chauvin was doing to speak. In fact, he did for the firstime since George Floyds death. He never gave an interview and did not speak during the time and he did not testify.
so now here s what we know. the balloon is about 200 feet high, the pay load, which you saw suspended beneath it to gather intelligence was about the size of a jetliner. that debris, which is expected to include glass solar panels was spread out over the size of 15 football fields. may have included battery material, explosives that would detonate that vehicle. the pieces now on their way, some of them, to the fbi lab at quantico for analysis. so there s a lot of discussion about how this thing was brought down and whether or not it maximized our ability to understand what it was and what was in it. as i mentioned, we re watching the white house. the press briefing is john going. we re waiting for fresh answers about what happened up there, new reaction. china says there might be a further response merited for the united states from our taking this out of the sky over the weekend. today fox news spoke with the gentleman who disclosed that this was up there in the sky without
blast partially destroys russia s prized crimea bridge. also ahead, after months of legal sparring, the clock ticks for elon musk to close the deal on twitter. and a toddler miraculously rescued after his parents car is stolen with him trapped inside. you re in the cnn newsroom. a prized achievement of vladimir putin, an apparently target of his ukrainian tormenters. this right here is the exact moment the russian president suffered his latest blow in his war on ukraine, the blast from an apparent truck bomb knocking out three of the four lanes of the bridge that links russia to crimea, its annexed territory in the south. now a huge bottleneck chokes a critical supply route for putin s war in ukraine. ukraine hand sn t claimed responsibility, but it is celebrating it. ukraine will issue this commemorative postal stamp with a nod to the titanic. one senior ukrainian official couldn t ignore that the explosion came just hours after putin s 70th birthday. happy birthday
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