welcome to our viewers in the u.s., canada and all around the world. ahead on cnn, newsroom. calls for justice and cities across the u.s. after the brutal beating of nichols. the controversial police unit linked to his death has been dismantled. palestinian tensions soaring, now israel s minister is outlining a new plan. new zealand s most populous city begins to recover after devastating and deadly flooding. alive from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with layla. the memphis police department announced the permanent and to a special anticrime unit known as scorpion. the move comes one day after the city released police videos of five officers beating nichols on generate 27. police have confirmed all of the officers were with the special unit. some of the images you are about to see maybe disturbing. scorpion was created over a year ago in response to rising homicides and violent crime. why the officers targeted nichols that night is unclear. nichols was unarmed and
on allies to send missiles? the request for the missiles, as ukraine is anticipating a spring offensive by russia. let s hear what the ukrainian president had to say when requesting these long-range missiles. it would be possible to stop the russian terror if we can provide our military with relevant missile power so terrorists do not feel impunity. ukraine needs long-range missiles to remove this option for invaders to destroy ukrainian cities using missile launchers deployed far from the front line. you know these long-range missiles have 4 times the capability of any of the missiles ukraine is using now. washington saying they are worried this could allow ukraine to shoot into russian
home to washington. jimmy carter had bad luck. because of the blowback from watergate and vietnam, it is recognized that jimmy carter inherited a situation that was not manageable. a few moments ago on air force one i received word officially for the first time that the aircraft carrying the 52 american hostages had cleared iranian airspace on the first leg of a journey home and that every one of the 52 hostages was alive, well and free.
pie so to speak. maybe she would have gotten there s wendi deng, four years older than her stepson. like a 40-year agaggap. she s four years older than his stepson. got married in 1999. lucky he married a younger woman because he had someone to save him. she sprang into action, his infamous ego saying, nope, i have no blame to shoulder here. he continues on, that s for sure. look what happened as well to news corp. stock price during murdoch s testimony, it kept ticking higher. at the end of the day shares rose more than 5%. the company restored more than $2.5 billion. that s a fraction of the $8 billion lost since the scandal first broke. and now here at home to washington where president obama says that it s time to talk turkey now that a debt deal is in sight. as that august 2nd deadline looms. it is getting closer and closer. days away now. wall street though liked the progress. the dow jones jumped more than
tracking awlaki but between the cloud cover and confusion in the air awlaki managed to switch vehicles. when the u.s.s. finally did hit the original truck, after three failed missile strikes, two of his operatives were killed but awlaki disappeared. still the number one tart. martha raddatz, abc news, washington. some lighter news now, an amazing sight in an east los angeles neighborhood. a stolen car slammed into a fire hydrant, shearing it off and sending a geyser of water more than 100 feet into the air yesterday. look at that. it took crews more than two hours totoinally shut off all that water. two homes had to be evacuated. the driverer actually suffered some head injuries. he was taken to the hospital and then as you can imagine was arrested. a lot of wasted water there. at least they kept cool. probably some places in the country would have appreciated a cool-down like that. the hunt for casey anthony shows no signs of slowing down. where is she? many people are wonde