just ahead, russia targets ukraine s power grid across several regions leaving the new care power plant completely off- line. we will have a report just ahead. the senate republican leaders hospitalized after a for wednesday night. we will break on the results of the justice department probe into the louisville police force. developing this hour, the u.s. senate republican leader is recovering in the hospital after a fall. his spokesperson says he tripped at a hotel in washington during a private dinner wednesday night. there is no word on his condition. he has fallen at least once before in his home in 2019 when he fractured his shoulder. the 81-year-old is the senate s longest serving republican leader. more on this story as it develops. we looking now at ukraine were a new wave of russian attacks have targeted energy facilities in at least seven regions. at least three people have been wounded in key and power has been knocked out to around 15 percent of the city a
instant horror of where is she what had happened to baby savanna? the answer would come decades later and astonish the world. it happened so fast, couldn t fathom what was going on imagine, your mother fugitive. your father stranger. your home, your name your past was any of it real? the first thing i felt, jus a pit in my stomach. i jus felt like it was my fault. a mother s crime. a father pain what kinds of emotions di it stir up when you would se that crib? it would just make me cry a daughter forced to face the shattering truth i was shocked and i was jus terrified. hello and welcome t dateline a father left childless and daughter left questioning he very identity. it was a case that started as custody battle, but turned int an international mystery tha spanned two decades and took investigators nearly 10,00 miles around the world all driven by a determined dad searching for answers and hi daughter here s andrea canning with finding savanna. in
with the hunter biden investigation. john: andy mccarthy has a brand-new op-ed and writes of course biden officials are interfering. why else has hunter skated? we talk to andy mccarthy new at 2:00 and whether or not the whistleblower will turn up the heat on biden s doj. sandra: welcome back as america reports heads into a second hour on this friday afternoon, it s been a heck of a week, john. john: continues to be a heck of an afternoon. john roberts in washington. also this hour, deflate-gate hits boston again. dozens of folks waking up to find the tires on their suvs slashed and ominous notes from a group calling itself the tire extinguishers. sandra: patting themselves on the back, a do-it-yourself movement. taking aim at suvs in the name of environmental justice. john: and in the next few minutes, the president will unveil his own environmental justice plan at the white house. we expect he will take aim at republicans. here is a little bit of a preview from
some of what we are about to show you is graphic. body cam video showing officer ace preaching with hitter firearms, yanking nichols out of his car. he breaks free from the officers and runs towards his parents home. a struggle ensues after a chase. police then using pepper spray, batons, their fists, their feet to beatnik cols. at one point, he cries out for his mother. mom! mom! mom! video from a pole camera showing the full extent. you see nichols there, who is unarmed, kicked in the face, struck at least nine times in a few minutes. at that point, bloodied and propped up onto a squad car. officers are then seen just standing around, not providing nichols with any potentially lifesaving aid. five former memphis police officers now facing several charges including second-degree murder and kidnapping. and after the release of this video, two shelby county deputies who were also there on the scene have now been put on leave pending an investigation into their conduct.
run. plus, more than 12 million people are facing ice storm warnings as the deep south gets hit with a deep freeze. hundreds of flights cancelled, roads covered with ice. it s made traveling dangerous and it s contributed to at least six deaths. but we begin in memphis where starting an hour from now, the funeral for tyre nichols will attempt to take the focus away from the horrific images of his brutal death, and instead honor his life and the man his mother called a quote, beautiful soul. mourners have begun to arrive right now at mississippi boulevard christian church, less than 20 miles from where the 29-year-old lived and died. his death, the latest rallying cry for a nation sickened by watching the same images play out on police body cameras again and again. the fact that george floyd s brother and breonna taylor s mother will attend today s funeral, underscoring the sad truth that past calls for change have gone unfulfilled. reverend al sharpton was asked earlier t