floyd s neck as floyd begged for his life. moments ago, george floyd s family, including his young daughter, gianna, arrived at the white house. they are currently meeting with president biden and vice president kamala harris. this morning, they met with several lawmakers, including house speaker nancy pelosi, as congress, of course, also missed the president s deadline, which headset he had set for today to pass legislation. we want to begin with joe johns who s in minneapolis at this hour. how is george floyd s life and legacy being honored today? reporter: well, i heard you just talking a moment ago about the governor of minnesota. we are expecting to hear from him as well as the mayor of minneapolis in just a little while. but i can also tell you that there is a food truck festival here. you can hear the music behind me. and the fact of the matter is, though, having spent a couple days in this city, it s very clear that the seriousness of the moment is not lost on the
it s the job of a police officer to run into danger but shouldn t we make the world safer for them? to that point, we re learning more about red flags in the alleged shooter s background and when and how he armed himself and also witnessing a community in mourning in about an hour, a candle light vigil begins and we ll bring you moments from when it does. also tonight, revolutions about the january 6th insurrection and evidence of coordination before the fact between the so-called oath keepers and so-called proud boys. and later, new developments in democratic efforts to get a voting rights bill through the senate including a new threat from republican leader mitch mcconnell of a nuclear winter if democrats end the filibuster. a busy night ahead. first, the latest from boulder and cnn s kyung law. reporter: investigators continue to collect evidence at king sooper s grocery store and search for a possible motive. from his online activity a law enforcement official tells cnn
good afternoon, everyone. a very windy and dusty day at the hhs facility here in texas. joined today for coverage of president biden s first news coverage by my special friend and co-anchor washington correspondent halie jackson. thank you for letting me crash the show. a big afternoon here with the president just wrapping up a short time ago. he got a lot of questions on everything from immigration to filibuster in north korea and even 2024. he got animated when he talked about voting rights legislation. are you worried that if you don t manage to pass voting rights legislation that your party is going to lose seats and possibly lose control of the house and senate in 2022? i m worried about how un-american this whole initiative is. it s sick. it s sick. deciding that you cannot bring water to people that are standing in line waiting to vote. republican voters i know find this despicable. republican voters. the president faced multiple questions about the migrant sur
hearing that someone went from sick to gone in a flash. i have heard these stories every day for about a year. and not just on tv. this is not about tv for me. it is taking too much from people i care about. one of my close friends just lost her mother. never would have happened without covid. just as we think things are getting better, it was the worst for her and her family. one of the sweetest, most caring people i know. now left with doubts and pain that i have echoing through my head from people all over this country. how did this happen? i couldn t help. i couldn t be there. what do we say in those moments? nothing. right? but what do we do? we pay attention. we show respect. we certainly know better than to ignore their pain. but then you look at what we ve done altogether, and that is what we ve done, haven t we? half a million are gone. and many were not inevitable. these deaths came because of how we denied the reality in this country. the reality is we have more co
we have more of this in number than the populations of miami, kansas city, new orleans, tampa, and it s not a secret. it is something most of you have dealt with directly or close to it. the answer is we have more of people who have died from covid than anywhere else. anywhere else. you likely know the shock of hearing that someone went from sick to gone in a flash. i have heard these stories every day for about a year. and not just on tv. this is not about tv for me. it is taking too much from people i care about. one of my close friends just lost her mother. never would have happened without covid. just as we think things are getting better, it was the worst for her and her family. one of the sweetest, most caring people i know. now left with doubts and pain that i have echoing through my head from people all over this country. how did this happen? i couldn t help. i couldn t be there. what do we say in those moments? nothing. right? but what do we do? we pay attention. we