up. he said you ll be hearing from the chief of minneapolis police and which you will hear the behavior of defendant derek chauvin was not consistent with training policy of the minneapolis department. what was most striking to me about the defense argument as they went and presented their argument they said, the evidence will show the contrast that the bureau of criminal apprehension investigator the department s training and policies. he said you will learn about force, excited delirium, techniques and the like, and he said he will learn the use is not attractive, but here it was necessary. these are in the words of defense counsel therefore defendant derek chauvin. he said he will learn by applying common sense and reason that the events of those, that day, derek chauvin acted with the cord and therefore did not act outside of the law nor outside of department policy on that day. let s flip back to the prosecution. i want to take a listen to this sound bite, what they st
before the january 6 committee. talks set to start in hours over ukraine. unvaccinated superstar djokovic about to plead the case why he should be allowed out of confinement to the court in australia. plus when a florida democrat con fronted florida govern desantis about covid tests in the state she was met with ridicule and dismissal but she was right all along. we want to begin with the breaking news from new york city. at least 63 people are hurt in a brox apartment fire. officials calling it the worst in more than 60 years. it s.t.a.r.t. started in a 19-story building. 63 people so far injured. 32 had to be taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. a warning went out in the area close windows and to stay inside. who s a resident who escaped said it was like i went upstairs to fix breakfast and noticed smoke coming inside the door and then i heard people screaming help, help, help. she was down stairs and i told her it s a fire. we just hovered in the b
0k, we re going to take you straight to colorado where a press conference is being held regarding those wildfires that have ripped through the state. we wildfires that have ripped through the state. ~ . , , . the state. we are fully expecting this to be 500 the state. we are fully expecting this to be 500 or the state. we are fully expecting this to be 500 or more the state. we are fully expecting this to be 500 or more homes i the state. we are fully expecting l this to be 500 or more homes that have this to be 500 or more homes that have been this to be 500 or more homes that have been lost. the fire burnt in an interesting have been lost. the fire burnt in an interesting dynamic with mosaics. you can interesting dynamic with mosaics. you can see interesting dynamic with mosaics. you can see how the wind and topography drove the fire in certain directions. topography drove the fire in certain directions, devastated some neighbourhoods and blocks and left som
with some countries carrying on with their parties despite concerns about the pandemic. good evening. the pressure on the nhs has been brought into sharp focus by the latest official figures on staff absences related to covid. those absences in acute nhs trusts in england increased up by more than 40% during christmas week. an average of more than 25,000 health workers were off sick or isolating every day. the rapid spread of the 0micron variant is underlined by the latest estimates from the office for national statistics, which suggest that one in 30 people in the uk tested positive for covid in the period before christmas. 0ur health correspondent katherine da costa reports. most nhs staff will be glad to see the back of 2021. nearly two years into this pandemic, many are exhausted. a spike in covid cases is driving a rise in staff sickness. in england, london is worst affected with about 4% of staff in acute trusts absent for covid related reasons in the week before christ
west of superior out towards marshall and the springs area, we saw dozens of burned-out homes. the south side of lewisville suffered from pretty catastrophic losses as well, dozens of homes. damage assessment is continuing today. we won t have final numbers until late tonight or tomorrow, but we re fully expecting this to be 500 or more homes that were lost. the fire burnt in an interesting dynamic with mosaics. you can see how the wind and the topography devastated some neighborhoods and blocks and left some neighborhoods standing intact. i know residents want to get back to their homes as soon as possible to assess damage. in many of those neighborhoods that are currently blocked off, it s still it a downing rouse to return, we saw active for you and we saw downed power lines. as soon residents are able to mitigate we will let them back. we don t want to keep people out of their neighborhoods or hopes. last night there was a boil water announced for the town of lewisville,