memphis, the chief has disbanded the special s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. policing unit which the five exofficers charged with second degree murder were a part of, and they are investigating every special unit, but there s a lot more work to be done with tyre s mother saying she wants to do everything she can to stop tragedies like this from happening. the thing that bothers me the most, it s just so many children that s being brutalized and killed by the police. hopefully we can help another kid and another family not go through something like this. but how do you change the culture surrounding policing? we ll talk about that ahead. plus, moving forward after a tragedy, the virginia school where a sixth grade student shot a teacher is back open for the first time in two weeks. what parents are saying this morning. also, is it too early to talk 2024, we re just about a year out from the presidential primaries. already donald trump is taking aim at one potential rival who hasn t e
newsroom. i m jim acosta. outrage and calls for action following the release of video showing the deadly police beating of tyre nichols. that s where weigh start. the images we are going to show you right about now are graphic and disturbing but critical to understanding what happened to this 29-year-old man. here is what we know at this hour. nichols was pulled over by memphis police on january 7th, allegedly for reckless driving. in a shocking development, the police chief says the department has not been able to find anything to substantiate that blame. this video shows the moment police catch up to nichols when he runs away. again, if you haven t seen it yet, need to warn you, it is incredibly graphic. no! no! give me your [ bleep ] hands! hey! give me your hands! give me your hands! hey! ooh! watch out, watch out! mom! you can hear nichols crying out for his mother who just blocks i way. officers continue to hit and spray nichols struggling with him on
happening now, joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy can just wrapped up their first high-stakes talks on raising the nation s debt limit. mccarthy telling reporters moments ago that he thinks he and the president can find some common ground. also tonight, mourning in memphis, as tyre nichols is laid to rest three weeks after he was brutally beaten by police. we ll take you inside the emotional funeral and the urgent outcry for police reform. and cnn is in the trenches with ukrainian soldiers on the eastern front, as officials in kyiv warn that russia is gearing up for maximum escalation of the war. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. stories. important developments in the debt limit showdown right now. joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy just wrapped up a very high stakes meeting at the white house. their first face-to-face since mccarthy won the gavel. our reporter is on c
i m kasie hunt here in washington. a dangerous ice storm now crippling parts of the american south. in texas, reports of hundreds of accidents, some deadly, as roads turn into ice rinks. right now 40 million americans are under storm threat, freezing rain is raising fears of falling trees and power outages, and air travel is a mess, too. we have seen ground stops, about 1,500 flights cancelled so far, and more than 2,500 delays. we have seems tracking all of it. first, let s start with ed lavendara in dallas. ed, dicey, dangerous, deadly and, quite frankly, it is only going to get worse. what are you seeing out there? reporter: it has been an ugly morning and the rain and sleet and freezing rain is all kind of coming down sporadically. but expressway, highway 75 coming out of downtown dallas, we re on the far northern end of the city here. you can see just how little traffic there is some people driving other people driving rather slowly. it is very treacherous out th
they seem to have figured out a way to do this with everything happening in speedos. watching the trailer for the new stormy daniels show, i learned the word, himbo. it s a noun. it s like bimbo but him. i had no idea. probably everybody knew this but me. i learned this today and find it helpful. himbos and here s some. anyway, so miss stormy daniels appears to be doing great and happy for that and happy to say it. today the reason it made sense to check in on that is because today in the new york times we finally got answers on the political financial legal moral public corruption scandal that started spiraling out from stormy daniels, i mean, depending on when you start counting, five, six, maybe as long as eight years ago. finally we have started to get close to the end. finally we have started to get answers. so first things first, her real name is stephanie clifford but changed it to stormy daniels and did that for a reason. she prefers to be called by the name she cho