my temperature shot way up and they thought, at that, point they re going to lose me. but they caught it early and they treated it and so it was pretty miraculous. as the mourners listened to eulogies, and the douglass s favorite. him a multistate man hunt was on for the shooting suspect and steven hatch. leslie and folks were kept together in the same hospital room under 24 hour police card. where frightened that they would come back and try to kill ? absolutely. obviously some things and the police in the family. it wasn t just the douglass children who are frightened. it transfixed oklahoma. respite kasky was an anchor i cagey our h tulsa. and this terrible thing has happened. there is a man hunt that s going on and there is a lot of
another area relentless wave of storms in the southern plains has sent the arkansas river into record territory. in some spots the river could top out more than four feet above the previous high. catastrophic floods are possible, this morning the entire state, that s right, the entire state of oklahoma remains under a state of emergency. cnn s ed lavandera is in sand springs west of uls at thtulsa. what area is at risk of flooding right now? reporter: if you are sitting along the arkansas river you kind of basically have a helpless feeling at this point. you can just essentially just wade out and see what happens here as these floodwaters continue to rise. we are in a neighborhood just west of tulsa. we are about a mile away from the bank of the arkansas river in this particular neighborhood. this is floodwaters that have been released from the keystone dam there, everything is making its way downstream and we have spoken with residents here in
oklahoma who shot and killed unarmed motorist, terence crutcher, during a traffic stop. two different cases, two unarmed black americans dead. joining me now from tulsa, oklahoma, dr. tiffany crutcher, the twin sister of terrence, and the family of simmons, and civil rights attorney, benjamin crump, who is the attorney for the clark family. let me start with this with you, attorney crump. i got the call from the grandmother of stephon clark yesterday when this announcement was made, and she couldn t join you today, because she is now hospitalized yes, sir. and it s so unfortunate, reverend al, because in her backyard is where he was executed. and when the d.a. rendered the verdict her decision, it was
anniversary of its iconic, bloody sunday today. and later in the show, i talk to congressman john lewis about the difference between then and now. because even with selma, there was a hopeful trajectory out of it. one that ultimately led to government action in defense of black voting rights. but tonight i can say the government has failed spectacularly in two cases. whether human rights of unarmed black people went thoroughly undefended, terence crutcher, shot and killed in 2016 during a traffic incident in tulsa, oklahoma. the justice department announced friday that no civil rights charges will be filed against the police officer that killed him on camera. and stephon clark, shot numerous times in march of last year in his grandmother s backyard in
here. i m talking to dr. crutcher, the sister. absolutely. absolutely. and it s definitely a concern. and i m with you. i m going to be at the national action network convention, asking the presidential candidates, is this a priority for you, because we re in a state of emergency right now as it relates to our black men being slaughtered on the streets. and i m so thankful to the legal defense fund who will be in tulsa this week helping us hold the city of tulsa accountable and demanding that certain reforms are implemented within tulsa s police department, who has a history of racially biased policing. so we have a lot of work to do, and, you know we must continue to work. attorney crump, one of the things that in california is the state attorney general is supposed to be looking in. yeah. do you have any confidence in his investigation? the democratic attorney general has been very dogmatic