comcast business powering possibilities. and a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we re going to begin with breaking news on that newest strain of the covid-19 virus first reported by south africa. today dramatic and sudden developments with the omicron variant. the uk says it now has two new confirmed cases of omicron and both are linked to south africa. this a real reminder that this pandemic is far from over and it is one thing that everyone can be doing right now, is if they re eligible please take your vaccine, whether it s your first shot, your second shot or your booster. and travel bans are spreading sending passengers like these in cape town airport and prompting complaints from african american nations. they say they re being punished for efficiency in identifying and sharing information about the new strain. also new today, new york is under a state of emergency. governor kath
they re saying stuff to the police. then a couple hours later, the defendants are all down at the glynn county police department also making statements. but here s the thing. you have to ask yourself, were these self-serving statements? think about it. the very first thing we showed you was body cam video. it feels hard. but you have to realize travis mcmichael is right behind dug ginn when he rolled mr. arbery over. that s what greg mcmichael and mr. bryan saw. then you have to think to yourself, okay, what s going on in their heads? there s a dead man in the street. travis mcmichael has just shot him. okay? the police are on the scene. there s now a video of it. so are their statements a couple hours later self-serving? you decide. the investigation starting on may 5th, 2020, followed by the arrest. first off, the credibility of witnesses is for you to determine who you believe and don t believe. what that means is you re the one who decides whether travis mcmichael is tell
ryan young outside the courthouse. ryan, court taking a lunch break right now. the defense will resume closing arguments momentarily. walk us through what we ve heard so far. reporter: you know, i ll get to that in just a second, but ana, sort of the temperature sort of rised, went up today, and in fact as we ve been up here even during the lunch break we ve seen more protesters sort of arrive to this lowies can a. one of the reasons why i m going to bring this up is they are men with long weapons who are outside the court, and they are standing just outside the perimeter of the courthouse steps and when the defense attorneys left for lunch this afternoon, they actually had to walk by these men with the guns, and i can tell you could tell they were nervous about walking by the men with long guns. as you can believe you know the defense attorney has been raising objections to all sorts of things that have been happening outside. peaceful protests that have been going on, pas
here, but i know it seems like every technician in creation has been involved in this case. drone this, footage that. filter this and enhance that. we ve got 20 million frames of every second of the footage in this case, but how in the course of all that work does someone who is practically computer illit maerate figure out that t have this case all wrong? how is that possible? how do you know that? count the gear shifts. the state s theory is that there s three shifts, three changes in direction. that s six gear shifts. they re not audible. we know what happened. and i don t care what travis mcmichael says. i don t care what anybody ils says. i m looking at the video and listening to the changes. you know that when this right here, when mr. arbery turns around and whatever mr. bryan thinks he s doing with the wheel, i don t see much actual movement, okay? i see him at 2 miles an hour and then his foot is off the gas pedal. whatever mr. bryan thinks he did, i don t think it
to him again. all right. so, let s take a look at this, which we have the exhibit number, judge. state s exhibit 300. looking at state s exhibit 300 well, sorry. are you asking him to take a look at it? i m going to go ahead and publish it up there so we can go ahead and see it. okay. are you able to see that on your screen? yes, ma am. so, you have the bryan house, you said you went down to that wooded area, right in here. yes. it s right at the corner of that house or lot right there, the last open area. right here. no, ma am. right there. here? yes. and so you chase him down here, and at this point in time you cut him off. no, ma am. i m alongside him and ask him to stop, i want to talk to him. and then after i said i want to talk to you, hey, hold on a executive order, is when he finally stopped. and, okay, we can talk, see what s going on. then as soon as i said the cops are coming after he didn t respond to me or, you know, talk to me i s