is the appropriate sentence. today former mams police officer zerk derek chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for the nurd r murder last may of george floyd. he s been the prison since april when a jury found him guilty of several charges all for him holding his knee on george floyd s neck until mr. floyd was deemed up conscious and he died on a minneapolis street corner. he was going to receive a theoretical maximum sentence but the theoretical maximum associated with any particularly crime is put up against state-based snepsing guidelines. considering the fact that mr. chauvin had no criminal history, the minnesota state guidelines for a sneps in this case actually recommended a sort of presumptive sentence of about 12 1/2 years. judges can depart from those sentencing guidelines and in particularly they can depart upward if there are aggravating faeblgts that make the crime worse than that source of base level offense. the judge in this case had ruled that there
Thats a tall order to hit 70 in the next two weeks since Vaccination Rates have slowed considerably. And a highly contagious variant called covid19 on steroids is spreading rapidly. The socalled Delta Variant started in india and overwhelmed that nation to the point of horror. Its now so dominant in the u. K. They had to delay their plan of reopening. Here in america, its put young but healthy people who have not been vaccinated in the icu. Come fall, experts say there will be another surge and your level of danger will likely come down to where you live. Some states show a high rate of infection and it comes down to immunity. States with high levels of vaccination will not. So take a look at the disparity. In the top five, most vaccinated states, anywhere from 77 to 84 of people have at least one dose. Thats good news. Thats well past the president s goal. And most of the top vaccinated states are in the northeast. Its a far different story across the south, though. Just 45 of people
Give Gift Subscriptions to your friends and Family Members when it comes time to give somebody a present. Tell them i sent you. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again on monday. Now its time for the Last Word where Ali Velshi is in for lawrence tonight. Good evening, ali. Im glad you said that, rachel, because you and i think about the big problems in media and this issue of news that isnt accurate, news that isnt real. And a bulwark of local news across this country is what pushes back on that. Because youve got local reporters who are often not influenced by the powers that influence national media. And when we see that erode theres just less of a check and a balance for news that spreads like wildfire on Social Media because thats where people go to. So im deeply appreciative you put that message out to get out there and support local news any way you can. Rachel, have yourself a great weekend. Thanks for telling us about that. Thank you so much, ali. Thank you. See you mon
News live. Im eric sean. Hi, arthel. Arthel hello, im arthel neville. Gaza Health Officials say over of 40 palestinians were killed in the latest israeli strikes, including 16 women and 10 children. Hamas says it has fired nearly 3,000 rockets into israel. The biden administration calling for Swift Deescalation but israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Military Campaign will continue in full force for as long as necessary. Thousands of rockets and missiles on our cities and i think any country has to defend itself and has a natural right of defense. Arthel lets go to Tracee Tret live on the israel, gaza border. Trey. Reporter good afternoon. Heavy Israeli Air strikes overnight as the factions fired on Israels Second largest city. The israeli Security Cabinet did meet today. Reports indicate that israel is not interested in a Cease Fire at this time. Were getting new images out of gaza that show immense damage to much of the strip with the Death Toll rising there. There are
Correspondent Jonathan Serrie following it all just outside of atlanta. Good evening, jonathan. Good evening to you, bret. Hackers behind the Ransomware Attack on Colonial Pipeline have claimed responsibility for similar attacks against three other companies according to reuters. Meanwhile sources tell the Washington Post that Colonial Pipeline has no intention of paying the ransom and instead is working with a private Security Firm to restore files based on backups. Now, colonial announced that it at 5 00 eastern this afternoon, it initiated Restart Operations on its Pipeline System and that may be what inspired some optimistic comments from President Biden earlier today. I think youre going to hear some good news in the next 24 hours. And i think well be getting that under control. President biden tried to reassure americans nervous about long lines at the pumps. Crazy. Motorists in search of gas are drawing comparisons to the 1970s and last years run on pandemic supplies. This is To