> happening now, breaking news. five former memphis police office facing charges due to the death of tyre nichols. law enforcement agencies across the country bracing for reaction to footage a top tennessee official called sickening. this hour i ll discuss all the latest developments with the executive director of the memphis naacp. welcome to viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. get right to the breaking news out of memphis. five officers charged with murder of tyre nichols. the moments before the encounter playing out on dispatch audio obtained by cnn. we got one male running. pull over. one running on foot. running. running we got one fighting at this time. let s get trright to our correspondent walk us through charges those officers are now facing. reporter: right. and, wolf, serious, significant charges here coming from the memphis d.a. just a short
weinstein sequel. the disgraced movie mogul returns to los angeles, facing a new sex crimes trial. and later, carly simon s sorrow. the singer pays tribute to her two sisters, both women dying from cancer one day apart. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from new york with jericka duncan. good evening and thanks for joining us on this sunday. we begin tonight with the fast-approaching midterm elections. both parties are pressing hard to show why they deserve your vote. democrats focused on their legislative accomplishments, republicans on the economy and crime. at stake, both houses of congress. votes are already being cast in many states across the country in person and by mail. cbs s christina ruffini leads us off tonight from the white house. christina, good evening. reporter: good evening, jericka. well, after a quiet weekend at home in delaware, president biden will head to pennsylvania this week and florida the next as we come into the home stretch of thi
militants in gaza just actually fired some rockets into southern israel. no injuries reported and the palestinian authority took the drastic step to cut off security cooperation with the israelis. some in the u.s. state department said it s not the right step especially as israel on the west bank are awaiting the arrival of antony blinken coming for a visit this week. separately, hadas, you were granted access to the largest ever joint military exercise between the united states and israel. tell us about that. reporter: yeah, this joint week-long exercise dubbed juniper oak is unprecedented in its scale and size and among its target audiences is iran for the messaging. cnn granted exclusive access to the danger zone on the super carrier uss george h.w. bush to see the largest american and israeli joint military exercises covering all aspects of warfare
well, today a senior u.s. government official rejected a new claim by russia s defense minister. he claimed that ukraine is preparing to detonate a radioactive dirty bomb with western help on its own territory. well, bombs did in fact target ukraine today. they were russian. this aftermath in the southern city of mykolaiv. right now the united states has about 100,000 troops in europe. cbs s charlie d agata is with some of them along romania s border with ukraine. reporter: u.s. f-18 fighter jets take flight off the deck of the uss george h.w. bush in the adriatic sea, taking the lead in nato exercises dubbed neptune strike in support of european allies. nato released this footage of american f-22 fighter jets in formation with italian euro fighters and polish f-16s, even mig-29s over the skies of poland.