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acknowledging the charges. this exclusive video shows the couple taken into custody early this morning after an hours long search. it was a tip that led police to a detroit warehouse after the crumbleys failed to turn themselves in on friday. their attorney says it was simply a misunderstanding. >> last night, and throughout the day, we were in contact with our clients. they were scared. they were terrified. they were not at home. they were figuring out what to do, getting finances in order. but our clients were absolutely going to turn themselves in. it was just a matter of logistics. and all the prosecution had to do was communicate with me about it. >> the couple's son, 15-year-old ethan, was arrested tuesday and faces multiple charges, including first degree murder. four students were killed in the oxford high school shooting, and seven were injured. want to talk more about this now with oakland county sheriff micha michael bouchard. you mentioned earlier in your press conference, nobody is sleeping right now on your team. we appreciate you giving us a few moments here. i want to start with what we heard from the defense attorneys, you were engaged throughout yesterday and the evening, they say the couple wasn't fleeing, they were hiding out of fear for their safety. based on your experience do you put any stock into that claim? >> i find it pretty difficult to believe. fear for their safety from who? i mean, obviously if they were in communication with them and they knew they were at a secure location they could have divulged that, we would have sent deputies there. but instead we didn't get that, and so, you know, in any serious case where there's felony charges that have been levied we don't wait and tap on the front desk for them to come in the front door. we begin a very active fugitive investigation and look and find them to take them into custody, and that's exactly what happened here. and big kudos to our partners, detroit police, they did an amazing job. and then everybody that was there, whether it was u.s. marshal, or border patrol, state police, that joined our fugitive apprehension team there to get this done in a timely fashion. >> can i ask, in watching everything play out yesterday, i believe the prosecutor at one point said they'd been under surveillance, how is it possible for them to be able to disappear for several hours in the first place? >> yeah, there was a bit of disconnect between some of the lead prosecutors and some of the lead investigators. they actually weren't under surveillance. you know, we can't go into the full surveillance mode with some of the technology and tools we have without a warrant. be it a search warrant, or be it an arrest warrant. so we had begun to put together a packet to begin to look for them if the case came to that. we couldn't find them physically after the last time we had seen them, which was when we executed a search warrant on tuesday. so we began the process of looking for them without some of that augmented activity we can use once a warrant is obtained. we actually were able to locate one of the other family vehicles at a hotel in oakland county. but they were not around and the car was kind of a dead end. so that's when the -- ultimate the warrant was issued for their arrest and it allowed us to trigger a full scale fugitive apprehension effort. >> i want to talk -- there's a person of interest. you're talking -- you mentioned in the news conference earlier that appeared to have helped the parents in the detroit warehouse. cnn has got some reporting that it might be some surveillance footage. what more can you tell us about that individual? >> we believe that, you know, obviously, from what we have obtained so far, more to follow, we've got detectives it as we speak, that there was help to get them to that location to get them into that secure location. and it was after obviously a warrant had been issued. so the totality of that, how it happened, how it played out, who assisted them, is being actively investigated. we'll give that to our prosecutor to make any potential charging decisions in the near future. >> now, mr. crumbley and both his parents are being housed in the same jail. all three are in isolation. any concern that they may be a danger to themselves? >> we always have a process when anyone's admitted to our jail. they see a counselor and a classification person that goes through that process and one of the things on the checklist is, are you feeling depressed or suicidal? all of them have said no. but out of an abundance of caution, i have instructed our folks to treat them as if they're on suicide watch. and that's exactly what's happening. they're getting regular observational checks. >> you said something in the press conference that struck me today. you know, there have been a lot of questions about the school's role in this, there was a video out where a school official says there was nothing they should have done differently. paraphrasing. but you made the point if it was concerning enough for the parents to have been called we would have liked to have been called in. there's so many occasions like this where there are red flags that are missed in advance of one of these horrific events. is there culpability here? what's your read in terms of what transpired in the 24 hours leading up to the shooting and who kind of holds some responsibility right now? >> well, you're exactly right, we have a process if there's behavior or threat when we're looped in, we have a very specific protocol. we make a determination of what's going on, if the school is safe and clear at that moment, if the child is safe and clear at that moment, if it rises to the level of serious concern, which i believe this would have, then there's a follow-on. we remove them, or request the school to remove them until a formal and more complete investigation occurs. and that typically includes us going to the home where the person lives, checking to see access to weapons, and sometimes for safekeeping purposes working with the parents to take those weapons into safekeeping until there's a determination that it's safe. that did not happen. but it happens regularly. we do that, sadly, a lot. and matter of fact, the day after the shooting we did it in a different school system in a different neighborhood with a different child, also 15 years old, after getting threats. followed on with that protocol, and he has now, actually, been formally arrested, and will be charged and there was a follow-on visit to the home. thankfully the parents have been super cooperative. >> always seems to be missed signs. glad others are making those phone calls. sheriff michael bouchard, i appreciate you and your team are dealing with their own mental concerns now in the wake of those who worked the scene, the hours you guys have been working. i appreciate your time over the course of the last several days. >> thank you, sir. >> all right. four young lives taken. the life of their accused killer now hangs in limbo. the attack has become, sadly, and so uniquely, american. now the family of 17-year-old madison baldwin was supposed to watch her graduate high school this coming spring. she'd already been accepted to multiple colleges. some with full scholarships. we're told she was an artist who loved to read, she loved to write. she leaves behind three younger siblings. tate meyer was a star football player on the school's varsity football team. he helped his team make it to the playoffs this year. >> man, it feels awesome. i mean, it feels great. in the rain, this is where we live, rain is just like oxford football, tough, muddy, everything about us is tough. >> just a few days prior to the shooting he tweeted a picture of himself on a recruiting visit to the university of toledo for football. just last month his family watched him play in what we now know was his final football game. tate was just 16 years old. fellow student hannah was just 14 years old. she was on the school's basketball team. her teammates described her as ki kind and silly. she was set to play in her first high school game. justin shilling was incredibly smart and hard working, part of the school district's bprogram,a letterman at the school. a crowd kept individual it outside the hospital. kept on life support since the shooting. his single life, now saving multiple others. justin was 17. those names, their stories, they matter. a lot. the white house confirms that president biden will hold a video call with russian president vladimir putin next week to discuss the military build-up along the ukraine border. the u.s. army chief of staff says russia has planted about 100,000 troops there and that number could balloon. cnn's matthew chance reports. >> reporter: russia is planning an imminent invasion of ukraine. diplomacy is being urgently stepped up with the u.s. and russian leaders agreeing to direct talks via the link. the kremlin says a virtual summit between president biden and vladimir putin will take place on tuesday evening, moscow time. russia, which u.s. and ukraine officials say has deployed tens of thousands of troops, is demanding new security guarantees from the u.s. to stop any further expansion of nato to the east. president putin told incoming ambassadors to russia he would press his u.s. counterpart for a written legally binding commitment. take a listen. >> translator: we propose to start meaningful talks. i would underline that we need legal guarantees as our western colleagues didn't fulfill the verbal promises they gave, in particular it is well-known that nato promised on words not to expand to the east but did the opposite. russia's legitimate worries were ignored and are still being ignored. >> reporter: amid further u.s. intelligence reports of more russian military deployments near the ukrainian border. one report estimates russian troop levels could reach 175,000 before any 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is indicating no one who handled the gun on set has been cleared, despite alec baldwin claiming in a recent interview he's been told it was unlikely he'll face charges. natasha chen is following this from the live los angeles bureau. what are we hearing here from the da? >> phil, after baldwin spoke to abc's george stephanopoulos, the district attorney in santa fe told cnn that there is no timeline here, but that charges are not imminent. she also released a statement saying that everyone on that set had a duty to behave in a way that protected the safety of others, and that certain actions, or inactions, led to this outcome. she sat down with abc. here's what she said on that issue. >> this was clearly an accident, but perhaps a criminal accident, just because something is an accident doesn't mean a criminal act didn't occur. >> and this follows baldwin saying in his interview that in speaking to people, he feels are in the know, he does not feel it's likely that he will be criminally charged, but he is named in a couple of civil lawsuits right now that have been filed by members of the crew of "rust," phil. >> natasha, you mentioned that interview. what's the reaction been to that very high profile interview from alec baldwin? >> some of the strong reaction, phil, has actually been from the attorneys representing those who are filing those lawsuits, including attorney gloria allred who's representing the script supervisor mamie mitchell who was the one dialing 911 that day. in response to baldwin saying that, you know, someone is responsible for this, but it's not me. allred said, you know, he needs to lick in the mirror and see at least one of the people responsible here, she feels that he should have taken more responsibility for what occurred, you know, in response to his statement that he never pulled the trigger, and that he feels, as far as actors checking the guns, before a scene, that that's not the actor's required duty, that that is the duty of the 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under a bit of pressure over the last couple of days certainly from some well-known people in tennis in general have asked the question, that was kind of a poor effort from them, the statement that they made. it was kind of a statement without making a statement. so i think the mtp has a little bit of questions, we need answers from them about being a little bit stronger. they have a tremendous amount of tennis events in china. the ball as you said at the start is really in their court to stand beside us in solidarity with the wta, and with the women's tennis association. see if they step up to the plate in the next couple of days. >> so i have a pretty good idea of the answer to this question but you actually understand the dynamics because i.v. lived them and within them. for your career. what are the consequences of the atp deciding to pull out of tournaments from china? what were the consequences the wta taking their stand? >> well, i mean, money, let's face it, that's what it comes down to. obviously the wta now has to find a tremendous amount of money in sponsors to be able to put on events at that time of the year. obviously, look, we hope that the chinese government does what we have asked, which is to do an investigation into the allegations that she's made. certainly we want to hear from her, and know she's safe, that she's not -- this is not the stuff that we see from state media, we want to see her actually living free, and she's fine and safe. and until then, the wta have suspended all their tournaments in china. the atp really should step up to the plate as well. if that is the case, and we do pull out from china completely, then we need to find cities and sponsors that want to put on those events that we will be pulling out of in china, and we have up to 10 or 11 events in china. the men have a tremendous amount of events in china as well. they're going to have to find cities and sponsors and places to put those events on the calendar. >> you mentioned the money issue, obviously the logistical issues as well. players are always concerned about that. to broaden it out a little bit there's also been a lot of pressure on the international olympic committee to say something to a certain degree. the olympics are quite literally in the country in the next couple months. is money their reason behind this? >> i think the ioc has a lot of questions to answer, really, because i think they sort of became a bit of a propaganda when they put out that video of her, it was like, okay, she's doing a video, but really what's -- is she under duress? where is this video taken? absolutely the ioc has big questions to answer as well. but of course it comes down to money. this is what it's about, really. beijing is only, what, a month away for the winter olympics. so they're definitely going to be asked this question. aud nauseam over the next few weeks and we definitely want to hear -- they need to be more powerful unit as well. i'm so proud of of the wta in so many ways. they've really been the big girls in the room when it comes to this situation. >> there's no question about it. the wta's stand, i think i was taken aback to some degree, you don't see stuff like that anymore. can i ask you, from a player perspective, how difficult is it for a player to stand up and say something here? the organization giving cover is a big deal. for an individual player, it's difficult for individual players to say something here, and some have, many have. >> absolutely. i think a lot of of the players that have stood up and tweeted things along the lines of serena williams and naomi osaka, and djokovic, the biggest stars have really stood up for this. and we're really concerned about her as well. when it comes to the players i'm also very concerned for the chinese players that are on tour. i worry about where they're going to be put in this situation and how tough it's going to be for them to go back to china and be able to be let out of the country to play in tournaments. there's a lot of concern, not only for pung -- but the players that play for china as well. there's a lot of concern around, you know, players outside of the chinese association. they can play throughout the year. they have no problems playing further on. there's concern, no doubt, from my perspective for the players playing under the chinese flag as well now, and what they're going to have to face going forward. >> yeah, there's so many different dynamics here. renee stubs, i appreciate your tame and talking about this story. it's very important. >> thank you, i appreciate you guys keeping the light on this story, it's very important. >> that's going to continue. thank you very much. the supreme court is considering a major abortion case, and there's concern that roe versus wade could be overturned. we'll talk about that with a woman who operates clinics that provide abortions, coming up next. y this robitussin honey. the real honey you love... plus 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that will probably go into place, and it will become immediately illegal in oklahoma. in kansas, right now, we do have a state constitutional protection, but that is up for a vote here in august of 2022. and so while we would be able to continue to provide services in kansas, it would be for only a certain amount of time. and we would have to wait to see what would happen with that ballot measure in august. for our patients, it is incredibly difficult. already, because of texas's senate bill 8, we have changed our clinics to majority out of state patients. we are seeing hundreds of people from texas, struggling to access this care. struggling to access a constitutionally protected health care procedure. and there are many who are doing without, and we are well aware of that. >> rebecca, you wrote an op-ed this summer, quote, to treat choice as a flexible value rather than a foundation of individual and social freedom would be for us an abdication of the responsibility of care, we owe it to the communities we serve. it would open the door to even more kinds of restrictions we've seen decimate the reproductive health care field over the past 50 years since roe v. wade, our values are not situational. i guess the question to that is, what do you say to those on the other side of this debate, or even somebody like justice amy coney barrett who during the oral arguments suggested burdens of parenting is exactly the reason or one of the reasons it's not an issue anymore because babies can be put up for adoption. adoption exists to some degree, to fill that void. what's your response to that argument? >> to take this decision away from the mother, away from the parent, away from the person who would be in physical harm when carrying this pregnancy, is very, very dangerous, and it opens up the door for many, many human rights violations for pregnant people. the number one reason that people come to visit our clinics is because they want to be good parents. abortion is a 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spread of omicron, new cases are confirmed daily. the european cdc warning that it could account for more than half the infections in europe within a few months. simultaneously europe is trying to contain the current surge of delta driven cases. germany is taking aggressive new steps, banning the unvaccinated from all but essential businesses. and a vaccine mandate there could also be on the way for early next year. france is betting on boosters. while austria, slovakia and the netherlands are still in partial lockdowns. i'm fred polleitgen. icus are increasingly filling up. germany's health minister came out on friday and he says he believes the peak of patients requiring treatment in icus won't be reached until christmastime, which means germany is in for a tough december. all this comes as the government in germany has decided a really tough essential lockdown for people who are not vaccinated, banning them from entering any businesses, except the most essential ones like, for instance, pharmacies and supermarkets, germany is also saying it wants to accelerate its vaccination campaign, and is even talking about making vaccinations mandatory. >> reporter: i'm larry -- in johannesburg, south africa where covid-19 cases have quadrupled just in the last four days. believed to be largely driven by the omicron variant. south africa is seeing a positivity rate of 24.3% which is extraordinary. there's not enough data yet on hospitalizations because that is a lagging indicator. south africa's national institute severity of the disease develops over time. these are the early days of the fourth wave of the disease here in africa. so far, about 3 million people have caught the virus at the start of the pandemic, hovering around 90,000. >> reporter: i'm ivan watson in hong kong, authorities in the new south wales have ordered an investigation into the cluster of covid-19 infections, centering on a school in the city of sydney. 13 infections there confirmed, but what's got the authorities particularly concerned is that three of those cases are of the new omicron variant, and the authorities say that they're nervous because that cluster is not tied to any international travel. most of the new cases of omicron that are popping up in one country after another are linked to international travel, linked to travel from the african continent. that suggests that this new cluster in australia is local transmission, so authorities there are taking it very seriously. now, while the u.s. now deals with the omicron as well as the delta variants, there is hope for a new treatment for coronavirus patients. the fda is considering whether to allow use of a pill that may reduce severe covid effects or death by 30%. the capsule would be the first oral antiviral treatment. fda advisers vote bid a slim majority to recommend emergency use authorization. opponents want to know more about potential side effects. emory university scientist george painter began studying its power of other viruses before covid-19. i spoke earlier with dr. mark dennison from vanderbilt university, an infectious disease specialist who's collaborated with painter for years, and shares the inside story of this potential medical marvel. >> our goal in all of our testing was to find a drug against sars, mers, bat viruses at university of north carolina. and so we knew that it would work against any virus with significant confidence, and so when covid came around w, we tested it and demonstrated it, and were able to show rapidly that it would. >> in terms of how it worked, you described this in the past as nails to a car tire to some degree. can you explain that a little bit? >> i like analogies, you know, when we think of things for the spike, there are things that are, i guess, another analogy i might use is a truck driving up to the factory, and going in to try to remake the factory, and the factory is the cell, and the spike is the key to the door, and inside the virus assembles a new assembly line, and this drug targets that assembly line. it basically introduces damage. it's like taking a hammer or something else and hitting that assembly line all along the way so it can no longer make virus particles. it's distinct from monoclonal antibodies and vaccines. it introduces incredible damage so the viruses that come out, not only are there fewer, but they're damaged and can't cause infection as well. >> you saw or saw me spell out the push back from the fda advisers earlier this past week. what would you say to your colleagues in the scientific community that have concerns about this moving forward. >> i'd say we need to do a little better job thinking about the science. some of the things i heard i felt like didn't recognize the potential. for example, this drug does cause more mutations in the virus, so concerns were raised about whether that would cause a virus that was more dangerous, but in fact, it causes so much damage to the virus, and if it makes a tenfold increase in mutations, it makes a ten thousand decrease in how much virus is made. the fact is a person treated with this will have less mutations coming out than a person who doesn't get the drug. so we need to really understand the science and be led by it, and not by concerns that are sort of founded in sort of almost what i would call science fiction. >> now, his life was part of the inspiration for an acclaimed hbo series, and a great book, too, how the last surviving brother of the band of brothers is being remembered tonight. ♪ joy. fully. ♪ ♪ ♪ when the chapstick goes on. it's on. get yours on at chapstick.com (man 1 vo) i'm living with cll and thanks to imbruvica (man 2 vo) i'm living longer. 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