heyer. her mother made beautiful comments. we feel the pain of the family, pray for them. what more have we learned about heather? heather heyer, yeah. 32 years old. paralegal. she was with friends when she was mowed down. they called her a gentle soul. her mother displayed remarkable composure when she described her daughter, her now deceased daughter. i m extremely proud of my daughter. i m extremely proud that she stood for what she believed in, that she not only gave mouth to it but gave heart to it. she gave soul to it and now she s given her life to it. meanwhile, the city of charlottesville is vehemently denied that it pulled back on aggressive policing which might have nipped this rioting in the bud. a statement from the mayor s office said no stand down was ever given on saturday. back to you, harris.
one fatality by name. you can be sured we re going to take the most vigorous action to protect the rights of people like heather heyer to protest against racism and bigotry. we re going to protect the rights to assemble and march and protect everybody to the fullest extent of the law. the fbi has teams on the ground in charlottesville. they re not commenting, but it s standard in this case to look at the electronic trail, which is often vital and standard practice to review the suspect s electronics to answer the questions, harris. harris: there s the tough about the definition of terrorism and how the attorney general said that what happened is in fact that. harris, based on the evidence, the attorney general said the attack meets the definition of domestic terrorism, which is an act of violence to intimidate or promote a political end.
a long-time charlottesville attorney by the name of charles weber. bond not set, a second hearing is set for him august 25. in a sign, harris, of how small this town is and typical of the legal system in small towns across america, turns out his new attorney, charles weber, is a plaintiff in the removal of the lee statue that was the subject of the rallies. mr. fields is a deeply troubled man, he s been accused of beating his money and described as a loner and booted out of the army and had a fascination with adolph hitler and national socialism. it was clear he loved hitler and he loved the nazi movement.
harris: on this day in 2003, a major outage knocked out electricity across the northeast. it hit eight states about parts of canada. about 50 million people lost power. the outage left people stranded at airports, train stations and subways. some people got their payer back in two hours. some took up to two days. there was an economic toll of $6 billion. investigators say they found out that some overgrown trees had come in contact with power lines. that happened 14 years ago today. breaking news. as we learn more of the police chief in charlottesville, virginia is now set to update us on the investigation into the weekend s racist violence there. he s holding a news conference
11 latin american countries and canada have signed a resolution calling the venezuelan government illegitimate. separately we should note that the miami herald is now reporting that venezuelan lawmaker cabello did order to have republican senator marco rubio assassinated. the florida senator is getting beefed up security now. harris: before i let you go, i know the vice president faced questions about michael flynn and the russia investigation. yeah. the vice president reit rated that during his experience on the campaign, he never once witnessed any evidence of collusion. vice president mike pence said this. we ll fully cooperate. and are cooperating with special counsel. we ll provide them with all the