Security officials just steps from the white house. Lots going on. Let s straight to jerusalem to ben wedeman on the scene for us. Ben, there are more calls for a cease fire. What s the latest? reporter: yes. One of those calls for a cease fire came from president biden himself when he had a conversation with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. The situation, however, on the ground remains grave. The death toll, according to the palestinian health ministry in gaza, is 212 with 61 children among them. Direction again in gaza city. Israeli fire power destroying the top floors of this building. The israelis say the targets were militants from hamas. The israeli strike blew out the windows of a health clinic across the street, a key coronavirus testing center according to officials in gaza. The palestinian situation is devastated and in crisis for 15 years. Now that crisis is worse and suffering has increased, says this gaza resident. Meanwhile, just a few miles north, the israeli m
Diplomatic angles to end the conflict. Secretary of state antony blinken sounded uncertain a truce can be had right now. We are ready to lend support if the parties seek a ceasefire. We ll continue to conduct intensive diplomacy to bring this current cycle of violence to an end. In the meantime, hamas rockets still reaching israel s residents. Three civilians injured in ashdod north of gaza. Israel s navy destroying a hamas boat and killing the commander of another militant group. All signs here, the conflict not done. We have thousands of terrorist organizations. We will reach their homes, their underground hideout and weapons depot and their manufacturing factories. Wherever they produce terrorism we will create targets and attack them. If the first week of this conflict is any measure, what s to come will be no less harrowing. And just this evening prime minister benjamin netanyahu who is met with his defense, security and intelligence chiefs and he came out of that meeting saying t
Erupted after the officerinvolved shooting of a young black man. Today is the day that millions of people across england have been be aanticipat. 3, 2, 1, have your first drinks. Please come down. You see it there, the country has entered step 2 as it eases more of the covid19 restrictions. As you can see this group could not wait for daylight and got the party started at a public as the clock struck midnight, and owners and customers, of course, are happy to be back. Knowing how it s going to work out, and we dependant know how it was going to come and it s midnight and freezing cold and everybody came, and there s not a single table people have not arrived at. It s great. Really great. More than anything for businesses to survive through all of this, i think that s the real happiness in getting this place back up and running again. Now in a statement prime minister boris johnson urged everybody in his words to behave responsibly, but he said he is looking forward to a pint in the pub
Reporter: an investigation is underway tonight. The streets are tense in the wake of the shooting. We have new information on how it unfolded, including new police body camera video. We have to warn viewers this piece contains some video which some may find disturbing. On police body camera video an officer in brooklyn center minnesota warns 20yearold dante wright not to try to escape. [ bleep ]. I shot him. Reporter: after wright scrambled back into his vehicle, the officer fired into the car. Then, police say, wright drove off, drove several blocks, then struck another vehicle. Dante right died at the scene on sunday afternoon. The police chief said he was not aware of any weapons in wright s possession. Today the chief said it appears the officer had fired her gun by mistake. It is my belief that the officer had the intention to deploy their taser, but instead shot mr. Wright with a single bullet. This appears to me, from what i viewed and the officer s reaction and distress immedia
expert to testify that neither drugs nor health problems caused floyd s death. and we re also standing by for public remarks from the embattled congressman matt good faith s faith gaetz. let s get to senior national correspondent, sara sidner. she s covering the chauvin trial for us in minneapolis today. we heard important testimony from the medical examiner who conducted george floyd s autopsy. reporter: this is one of the most important witnesses. he s going to testify he was the one who did the autopsy on george floyd. and he was unequivocal in what he said how george floyd died, why george floyd died. no matter whether the prosecution or defense was asking him the questions. one of the most important witnesses in this case for both the prosecution and the defense took the stand today. you conducted the autopsy on mr. george floyd. i did. reporter: unlike the other medical experts, medical examiner andrew baker is the only person to testify that he did an autopsy o