Well, to be sure, their pain is real, and to be sure, it does reverberate the world over. And to be sure, the issues raised by floyds alleged murder were note buried with him. Were not sure about that. Lets talk about it. Lets bring in police chief art acevedo. Thank you for being here. Great to be with you. What do you take of the emotion, the outrage, the events that led to what culminated in your city today in the burial of george floyd . I think that what we all take from there is a resolve, a resolve to forge ahead as a community in houston, and across texas and the nation to take this death, this unjust death that should not have happened. And to take harness the energy that has thats been created by his death to actually effect change across the national landscape. You had the officer who had his knee on the throat of george floyd. Then you have three other officers charged. A lawyer for one of them last night, the officer four days on the job, holding down the legs of george fl
Down the statue of a slave trader. Meanwhile, mr. Floyds family continues to grieve their loss. Yesterday, they celebrated his life in a Worship Service in his hometown in north carolina, and there will be another viewing tomorrow in houston. Where george floyd grew up. The funeral is on tuesday. We expect joe biden will head to houston tomorrow. The Presumptive Democratic nominee will meet with the family. We begin with bill de blasio lifting the cure few a night early. And he is going to redirect some funds away from the nypd, we are joined live from brooklyn, how are folks reacting to the decisions from the mayor . There were thousands of folks below 42nd street, the police cordened off times square. We saw thousands of folks there and we made our way to grand army plaza, which is where we are now. The crowd has dispersed over the last couple of nights, you see very little arrests from the nypd, that is why the mayor is saying, no more curfew, when the curfew came at 8 00 p. M. , th
Time. The search well underway. But for now these two still very much on the run. Were also getting a sense of why a prison worker may have felt compelled to help the dangerous convicts escape. It turns out that the relationship between Joyce Mitchell and one convict had drawn complaints before. The question now is will prosecutors charge her and if so, when . Good morning alexandra. Reporter the focus of course is on finding those fujgitivesfugitives. We have now heard from the Clinton County district attorney. He says it is his intention to charge Joyce Mitchell at the conclusion of the investigation. She could face charges ranging from accessory to escape to promoting prison contraband. Right now she is working with authorities. She is not represented by an attorney. Authorities say it was her plan to drive the escape car, but she backed out at the last minute. A Law Enforcement official also says that her cell phone was used to contact some of Richard Matts associates. Were now lea
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Odonnell good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im norah odonnell. And this is our western edition. President obama is calling the latest revelations in the v. A. Scandal extremely troubling. A report today from the internal watchdogs in the department of Veterans Affairs says more than 1,000 vets seeking care at a v. A. Hospital in phoenix were waiting for appointments they might never get because they were never even put on a list. In addition, records were manipulated to show that veterans who got appointments waited an average of 24 days. The actual wait time was 115 days. And its not just in phoenix. The report says the problems are widespread. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill and has more. Nancy. Reporter norah, investigators say they have already interviewed dozens of v. A. Schedulers, and some of them say they were encouraged by their managers to fudge appointment wait times, leaving some veterans in a kind
Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with a race against time to find a trace of Malaysia Flight 370. Here are the latest developments. As a new day begins in the south indian ocean, ships and planes are ready to head back into the search zone after violent seas and galeforce winds caused precious hours lost. Due to arrive in australia shortly, a pinger will help searchers listen for signals. But the batteries powering those signals are running down and it will take days to get the device into the socalled search zone. Our reporters and analysts are standing by around the world as well as here in washington with the kind of coverage that only cnn can deliver. Lets begin with pamela brown. Whats the latest . Wolf, officials are scrambling to defend their controversial conclusion that the plane went down in the southern indian ocean. This is as new revelations are just beginning and pressure mounts from passenger Family Members. With anguished Family Members demanding h