our sara ganham joining us outside that location in a rainy brooklyn. sara what has transpired there? how was the mayor greeted? reporter: well just in the last couple of hours, fred we ve seen lines and lines, dozens of police officers coming to pay their respects to officer wenjian liu. not just nypd. we have seen a lot of nypd. i ve seen patrol cars from other police jurisdictions, other departments who are coming here. we know that jetblue flew in for free more than 1,100 police officers from across the country who wanted to come to the wake today, to the funeral tomorrow to pay their respects to a fellow fallen officer. we re seeing dozens of people go in. that s amongst within them the police commissioner bill bratton, and also the mayor, bill de blasio. we ve seen several, if you just want to take a quick look several lines of officers in the
rain standing here waiting to go inside, pay their respects. and they come out, and all of them are solemn. of course this is a solemn day. much of this scene looks like it did last week for the wake and the funeral of liu s partner, officer rafael ramos. now, what we don t expect to see tomorrow is some of the signs of the tension between the mayor and the nypd. you can see cars going by here patrols going by here on motorcycles, fred. but what we don t expect to see at the funeral tomorrow is some of the signs of the tension, specifically that last week at ramos s funeral, we saw that several nypd actually turned their backs on the mayor as he was speaking at the funeral. what resulted from that were some very powerful pictures. and the police commissioner william bratton, specifically asked, as you mentioned, in a
as he walked into the building police officers did salute him, as did the city s police commissioner bill bratton. bill bratton urging the nypd to pay their respects to the mayor. liu is the second of two officers to be laid to rest. his partner, rafael ramos, was laid to rest last week. it was during that service that some of the officers turned their backs on the mayor. over recent community tensions with police. police commissioner bill bratton issued this internal memo to the force, asking officers to show respect at liu s funeral which will be held tomorrow. bratton saying this specifically. quote, i understand that emotions are high. i issue no mandates and i make no threats of discipline but i remind you that when you don the uniform of this department you are bound by the tradition, honor and decency that go with it, end quote.
missiles programs. this is the first time sanctions have been used to respond to this kind of cyber crime, reflecting a growing concern that potential attackers are more sophisticated and more dangerous. the sony attack shut down three-quarters of the computers and servers at company headquarters. and while some analysts have raised doubts north korea is behind the hack the white house says skeptics didn t see the intelligence the president did. and with the fbi still investigating the sony breach the administration is promising more repercussions to come. in fact the president is looking at plans that could include both public and covert operations against north korea. those plans are also designed to send a message to other potential cyber terrorists. cross a line, and there will be a price to pay. ayman? nbc s chris jansing traveling there with the president, thank you for that. today in torque, a final farewell, mourners gathering in brooklyn for the wake of slain nypd detectiv
you know really what s going on down you know at sea level right now is completely different and i don t think has any impact. we ll leave it right there. doctor, les, thanks so much to both of you gentlemen. appreciate it. thank you. coming up a look outside. the wake of slain nypd officer wenjian lue in a very rainy brooklyn new york. the city s mayor just attending that private service. how was he greeted? that s next.