Any time. What is the u. S. Planning to do about putins main rival. I am erin burnett. Good evening, i am erin burnett. Groups of protests are outside the courthouse. 12 men and 12 women are deliberating at this hour. They are doing that. They are deliberating right now left to decide whether chauvin is guilty of Seconddegree Murder and thirddegree Man Slaughter. One senior White House officials telling cnn the thinking inside the West Wing this is already a tinderbox, it is becoming volatile over the days. Cities in New York and washington To Chicago and Los Angeles are bracing for protests and potential unrest in the wake of the verdict. In minneapolis, stores are boarded up. National guard is there and more than 100 troopers from Ohio And Nebraska is being called to keep the peace when needed. This trial puts a spotlight on policing in the u. S. This case is what you thought when you saw it first. It is exactly that. You can believe your eyes. It is exactly what you believed in and
250 d.c. national guard. this trial is about more than just one police officer s actions or one man s tragic death. which means for many the verdict will be, too. let go to omar jimenez. how is the country reacting now that the jury is deliberating. reporter: we re seeing marks and protests calling for the verdict to be guilty against derek chauvin but the jury is deliberating whether they get to that point. this process is close to a year in the making. they are marching through the streets of parts of minneapolis and when you talk about the preparations in place prior to that, law enforcement presence is stepped up and added fort fa c fort fa case and all this is in anticipation of a verdict and as people on both sides in this trial made their final pitches to jurors today. his name was george floyd, junior. the first words in closing arguments for prosecution were not the man in trial but the man they want jurors to remember. this case is exactly what you thought
holy [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. now there is still much we do not know at this moment. this video shows motionless person on the scene suggesting potential victims, denver station kcnc spoke with the father with family members who were inside. i got the call from my daughter that my grandchildren and my son-in-law walked into the pharmacy for him to get a covid-19 shot and the shooter came in, shot the woman in front of them. they hid, ran upstairs or hiding in a coat close set for the las hour and trying to stay in contact with my daughter. reporter: you were in communication this whole time. through my daughter they were texting hiding in the coat closet, turned the phone off and hiding okay. you know, don t call the phone would ring and give away their position. anyway, they re thank god they re fine. again, we re awaiting to hear from authorities. there is supposed to be a press conference at 7:45 and then told it s been moved to the top of the hour which should
20 minutes ago. we have seen fbi agents walking around interacting with the law enforcement here on the scene. around 2:49 p.m. local time boulder police tweeted a warning for people to avoid the area because of an active shooter. authorities have not provided any information about the suspect or any of the victims. we did see images of a shirtless man who s handcuffed. he had blood running down his leg. he was not wearing any shoes. he was taken away in handcuffs and placed into an ambulance and that ambulance left the scene. we don t know what relationship or what role he played in the shooting that s just the information we have. right now a very heavy police presence. we are still waiting for concrete information from authorities. it has been nearly two hours, more than that since the shooting took place. we don t even know frankly the operation is ongoing or not. we simply have no concrete information. nothing has been confirmed from police. have we heard anything about
i m erin burnett out front this evening. the fbi director takes down trump. today christopher wray testifying before congress driving a stake through the heart of the conspiracy theories that trump and his allies continued to push about the deadly insurrection. conspiracy theory number one, you know, which trump even said that day, it wasn t actually trump supporters who were behind the attack. based on your investigation so far do you have any evidence the capitol attack was organized by, quote, fake trump protesters? we have not seen evidence of that. we have not seen evidence of that. no evidence that there were fake protesters, meaning that what you are about to hear from a sitting u.s. senator from the michigan senate majority leader and from right wing media is all a known lie. a very few didn t share the jovial friendly ernest demeanor of the great majority. some obviously didn t fit in. he describes four different types of people. plain clothes militants, agen