Range was expected, now were waiting to hear the reaction from various parties including from the floyd family themselves because Derek Chauvin did speak today. Well give you the details of that. First to Matt Finn In Minneapolis that has been chronicling the case from the beginning and how things are going now. Matt . Hi, neil. Right now peaceful in the streets. Theres a semi large crowd outside the courthouse. People were chanting black lives matter no protests or any riots in minneapolis that weve seen. Moments before, judge cahill handed Derek Chauvin a 22 1 2 year sentence. The judge said that he did not make his ruling on emotions or on public demand. He said instead he based it on the rule of law. Hes releasing a 22page memo that will explain how he arrived at his sentencing. The big question is whether Derek Chauvin was doing to speak. In fact, he did for the firstime since George Floyds death. He never gave an interview and did not speak during the time and he did not testify.
First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this Currents Iteration of the border crisis. You can see Border Patrol footage from april. Shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. The smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. John critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. The white house says el paso was a perfect case study. The Vice Presi
Designed to basically to find out what was going on and republicans stopped it even if their own lives are at risk. The house will establish a select committee on the January 6th Insurrection. The timeline will be as long as it takes for them and they need to do the investigation of the causes o f this. Speaker pelosi fleching on Mitch Mcconnell for blocking an independent commission into people that wanted to kill them all . It is imperative that we establish the truth of that day and ensure the attack of that kind cant happen and we root out the causes of it all. It is clear that republicans are afraid of the truth. This committee will have Subpoena Power so they can hold any witnesses with questions of who knew what and when and focusing on trumps role. The Department Of Justice released new body camera video. I want to warn you this video is disturbing. 500 have been charged in federal court in connection of the terror attack. A guilty plea for conspiracy and construction. Joining
Designed to basically to find out what was going on and republicans stopped it even if their own lives are at risk. The house will establish a select committee on the January 6th Insurrection. The timeline will be as long as it takes for them and they need to do the investigation of the causes o f this. Speaker pelosi fleching on Mitch Mcconnell for blocking an independent commission into people that wanted to kill them all . It is imperative that we establish the truth of that day and ensure the attack of that kind cant happen and we root out the causes of it all. It is clear that republicans are afraid of the truth. This committee will have Subpoena Power so they can hold any witnesses with questions of who knew what and when and focusing on trumps role. The Department Of Justice released new body camera video. I want to warn you this video is disturbing. 500 have been charged in federal court in connection of the terror attack. A guilty plea for conspiracy and construction. Joining
Thanksgiving. I believe we are going to have to make many of those same arrangements into the christmas holidays. Why dont we go to the first slide . Ok. Today, we have 1684 new cases. That brings us really to a startling yearly 100,000 cases statewide. 97,095 total cases. Today, we have an additional 28 deaths. That brings our total to 1568 total deaths statewide. This is really the grimmest part of these updates for everyone on the state of new mexico team and i know for all new mexicans, i gave personal condolences to some families who shared their information with me this morning in this incredibly painful, of course, these are unnecessary deaths and we all must do better. I do want to alert folks that in the details of the emails we send out about the new mexicans we lose to covid, we lost two individuals in their 30s with no underlying conditions. And i dont report this, and we dont put it in our daily updates that go out via email or on our websites and in the media, to provide