let s pretend for a second that you didn t let down your entire family. what would that reality look like? well i guess i would ve gotten us xfinity. and we d have a better view. do you need mulch? what, we have a ton of mulch. this morning a police raid on a small kansas newspaper is leading to a huge backlash. more than 30 news and press freedom organizations including cnn are condemning the marion county police department for raiding a local paper and also raiding the home of its owner. the marion county records publisher says officers confiscated computers, file servers, phones, what you re looking at is a picture of the aftermath of the raid. you can see where reporters computer tower used to sit
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investigators warn that determining a cause of this deadly explosion could take months, if not years. for reference, last year there was another house explosion and officials say they re still looking into the cause of that one. so a long road ahead, ana. incredible. so sad, a 12-year-old boy. emilie ikeda, thank you so much. now to kansas where a local police department is becoming engulfed in a nationwide controversy over first amendment rights. the department raided the offices of a local newspaper and the home of its publisher and owner. they seized computers, phone, server, even the personal cell phones of the staff. according to the paper s co-owner, the situation was so stressful for the other co-owner, his 98-year-old mother, she collapsed and died the day after the raid. joining us is nbc news correspondent stephanie gosk. stephanie, do we know what prompted this raid? the accusation, ana, is that someone at the paper is guilty of identity theft when it comes
stunning and disturbing allegations in kansas today where a newspaper publisher says a police raid on their offices contributed to the death of his 98-year-old mother. nbc s stephanie gosk has the story. reporter: this morning, national attention on a small kansas town after police raided the offices of a local newspaper seizing reporters computers and phones. the raid captured here on surveillance video obtained by nbc news has made headlines nationwide, stirring a debate over freedom of the press. this gestapo like tactics, this is what they do in the third world. eric meyer, the paper s co-owner and publisher says his 98-year-old mother joan, the paper s other co-owner, collapsed and died one day after the raid. she became so upset about this, that she wouldn t eat that day. she wouldn t sleep that night. reporter: at issue, myers says is a tip one of his
to the owner of a small business. by the way, this is a really small town, about 2,000 people. the police had a search warrant. the question is, did they have the probable cause to execute the search that they did? the paper s owner says they did not. in fact, he s questioning whether the search should have taken place at all. this morning national attention on a small kansas town after police raided the offices of a local newspaper, seizing reporters computers and phones. the raid captured here on surveillance video obtained by nbc news has made headlines nationwide, stirring a debate over freedom of the press. running guess stap toe-like tactic, stalinist-like tactic. eric meyer says his 98-year-old mother, the co-owner, collapsed and died a day after the raid. she became so upset about