and legacy later in this hour. meanwhile, so much of the nation s attention is focused on walter mondale s home state of minnesota where there is great tension tonight, now that the fate of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin is in the hands of the jur y. almost a year ago, it forced the country to and protestored started gathering in minneapolis. the 12 majors spent about hour hours deliberating. they sequestered. they will resume in the morning. city and state law enforcement in place. they are joined by members of the national guard which tonight is also activated in d.c. derek chauvin is charged with second degree untingsal murder, third degree murder, second degree manslaughter. after 14 days of testimony, the prosecution and defense made their statement to the jury. this is not a prosecution of the police. it s a prosecution of the defendant. what the defendant did was not policing. what the defendant did was an assault. believe your eyes, what you saw
walter mondale, who died this evening at the age of 93. we will have much more on his life and legacy later in this hour. meanwhile, so much of the nations attention is focused squarely on mondale s home state of minnesota where there is great tension tonight now that the fate of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin is in the hands of the jury. almost a year ago, that video of george floyd s killing ignited worldwide protests and forced our country to confront issues of police use of force and racial justice. deliberations got underway late this afternoon as protesters started gathering at the courthouse in minneapolis and march through parts of the city. the 12 jurors spent about four hours deliberating and they are now sequestered. they will resume their deliberations in the morning. minneapolis has increased security in advance of the expected verdict and law enforcement now in place they are joined by members of the national guard, which tonight is also been ac
heavy rain around, some disruptive went out there, some met office weather warnings for the weekend so please look at those, online, especially if you are travelling. this area of low pressure will form, moving across us and deepen as icy does so with a swathes of heavy rain tomorrow from wales across england, reaching eastern scotland, the wind is picking up, windiest on sunday in northern scotland but by then icy is sunshine and showers. pretty much what we have at the moment, one of the brighter days out there, some showers to be had, but many places are dry and sunny this afternoon. sprinkling of showers working across east anglia and the south east, some of them coming into north west england, more especially for northern ireland and western scotland, some heavy downpours and gusty winds, as high as 60mph in north west scotland. cooler day here, feeling warmer in the sunshine in eastern england. overnight night tonight the blustery winds continue pushing the showers towa
vaccinated. celebrating the start of black history month, we talk to the photographer and film maker simon frederik later on. the metropolitan police has been laying out measures to try to reassure the public, in the wake of the murder of sarah everard by a serving officer. the force says it will no longer deploy plain clothes officers on their own, and has urged anyone stopped by one to ask to check their credentials. but critics say the onus should not be on women to change their actions. it s also emerged that wayne couzens, who was handed a whole life term yesterday for kidnapping and murdering sarah everard, was believed to be in a whatsapp group with other officers, who are now being investigated after allegedly sharing discriminatory messages. this report from megan patterson. officers with a duty to serve and an expectation to protect. the actions of one man questioning those principles and the trust the public can place in met police. this man has brought shame on th
gonna be watching with bated breath and hurricane spacecraft is hours away from trying to land on the moon. something the us hasn t done in more than 50 years, why it s just as hard to pull off now as it was back in the 60s and 70s class, we use our phones well all the time, every day, every hour, but for hundreds of thousands of people that was not possible earlier today, while we know about today s outage and what it says about how fragile some of these systems actually are. and a deep fake sex tape created by ai is spreading online, targeting the podcast or bobby all top. what it says about the explosion of computer generated synthetic media with fears it could play a dangerous role in the the upcoming presidential election. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central welcome to new central. we re glad to have you this afternoon. i m boris sanchez as alongside jessica dean in washington, dc, and soon w