insurrection at the capitol. what s new signs, the next possible terminal indictment for trump is in georgia. we are going in-depth on it all coming up. and later, like a war zone, a parkland parent who walked the school turned crime scene for the first time since 2018 massacre joins us live to talk about the traumatic visit. all of these stories and much more is ahead. and good saturday morning to you, i am katie phang. we start today show with millions of americans reaching their boiling point over the brutal heat baking much of the country for yet another day. 84 million americans are under heat alerts stretching from the pacific northwest all the way to right here in miami, florida through tuesday. that is more than 3200 miles of people just sweating it out and trying to stay cool anyway that they can. the valley of the sun is definitely living up to its name. phoenix is sizzling and temperatures topping 110 degrees, for a 15th straight day. but that is nothing, com
need to restructure, we need to reconfigure the way in which we police. here we are still waiting for real reform to the way policing is conducted in this country. laura: actually the reform and al sharpton and others are pining for already happened necessity memphis. that police department already revised its policies following the murder of george floyd. the effort was called re-imagine policing in memphis. now, it was called reimagining policing but what was re-imagined? it was re-imagined with awful consequences. in addition to addressing excessive force the department also loosened its hiring standards. in fact, two of the five officers involved in the killing of nichols were hired during this period. so when folks like cory booker or al sharpton blame this this shows the overwhelming need for what they call police reform, i agree. we need to reform their reforms. like memphis, chicago lowered its hiring standards for police in 2022. they were following the likes of
in colorado with my boy. mlk weekend, the last run they challenge mom to the bottom and i ve course i took the bait good i won the race to the hospital your spirit wasn t even on callr that day but dr. gerald lee with the clinic told me the badad n s as i suspect i blew out the knee. two ligaments, the acl, pcl, it was pretty heartbroken. abou t my friend one of the best orthopedic sports doctors in the united states told me, don two worry, come to l.a. he would operate and get one ofb the best rehab folks and boy,. did he. my family rallied here and my brother jimmy, my sister stephanie. thank you, milliken of the incredible elitep pt group in re il.a.at she is amazing. thanks to trisha and the entire family. do and there therapy dogs. to the entire team working with the doctor, it is going to be ae long road ahead of rehab.
team has lost two out of the first nine group matches. there was also a defeat for britain s men earlier on, they lost to the usa. the most emotional scenes today was in the snowboarding men s half pipe. it was won by ayumu hirano ofjapan. but perhaps the biggest cheer was for the great shaun white, competing for the usa in his final event before retiring. for many people, he is the greatest snowboarder there has ever been, he has won three olympic titles. today he finished in fourth place. you can see what competing heremeant to him, the end of what has been quite a glittering careerfor shaun white. well, andy mentioned the gold medallist ayumu hirano there and he took the title with the last run of the final, landing the ultra difficult triple cork move. and it s being described as the best halfpipe run in history. success at last for hirano, who took silver at the last two games. joe marchant will start at outside centre for england against italy on sunday, in one of six changes t
this. here s what s at stake here. when we were doing the last run. we are down on the border talking to a border patrol guy saying here s the problem, america is the beacon. it draws people here. how do we deal with that, did we want to turn out the beacon. jeff sessions and trump have set out on a specific particular intentional way to shut the beacon off. that s what is at stake here. it s not just the lives of these children that are obviously attic sta. but that s what this fight is about, is america still the beacon or is it not the beacon. that s the war we have to win. as soon as we shut the beacon off ear not the same country as we were before. and our children are at risk. and all those children down there. after the break, so much love for dictators. what gives? once again we will go inside donald trump s head and try to understand his attraction to autocratic leaders. alice is living with metastatic breast cancer,