Good morning welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with yoe kernen and mike santoli. Andrew is off today. Well start things off with the stock futures after some positive vaccine news drove the dow and s p 500 to record highs. Dow giving back some of that ground, down by about 100 point, but remember how far they have marched for the last three weeks. S p is indicated down by about 14 points and then the nasdaq is indicated up by about 12 points. We do have some breaking news from amazon and better that coocoo Bertha Coombs ohas that story they are launching a full Online Pharmacy building on its acquisition of pill pack the new pharmacy is innetwork with major insurers and medicare and patients can pay for their prescription copays with funds from their Health Savings accounts just like they were at any pharmacy and they can confer with pharmacists online or over the phone about their prescriptions. Prime members get free two day shipping, patients who needs meds right away with
A Global Climate strike sent thousands of young people into the streets to ask for a stop to global warming. Heres more on that story from tran 24. Reporter organizers say that a 10,000 people. From Elementary School to high school and beyond mob the streets today. Many of them saying that they are genuinely worried about their future. Thousands of demonstrators took over the streets of San Francisco to make a statement about Climate Change. We missed a school because we thought it was important a lot of adults arent taking it seriously. Many the participants said that they were pleasantly surprised that the crowds were so large. At the powerful experience and were glad to see it so big. Were very charged to be here. We are 10 years behind in the action that we need to take to stop Climate Change. One day of disruption for the entire planet isnt even close to the risk and price that we should be paying for all of our actions and the contributions that we havent made towards ending it.
on january 7th. the city of memphis reacting today to the big announcement that the police scorpion unit the, one that is involved in the deadly beating, would be disbanded. here s what shelby county district attorney stephen mulroy told me in the last hour. i have heard that a number of citizens making complaints about the scorpion unit. i know that units of that kind sometimes can both in memphis and around the country sometimes breed a culture of over aggressiveness. i think it s probably a healthy thing of the units that disbanded. also new today. city officials cleaning up the discrepancy between the number of officers on the scene of the meeting. and the number body camera videos released. officials telling abc news some police body cameras were turned off during the beating and nichols. that when police first of nicholas, one of the three officers involved did not activate his camera. another turned it on but the camera fell off immediately. only two officers
nichols. here is the memphis da a short time ago right here on msnbc. i have heard that a number of citizens making complaints about the scorpion unit. i know that units of that kind sometimes can both in memphis and around the country can sometimes breed a culture of over aggressiveness. i think it s probably a healthy thing that the units been stunt. while this happened as the committee prepared for the funeral of the 29 year old whose life ended at the hands of those officers in a moment. i m going to talk to reverend al sharpton who s going to give the eulogy for nichols. also this hour, a disturbing story out of oregon. a man on the loose for torturing a woman using dating apps to find even more victims. and then some breaking political news that we are following. kevin mccarthy confirming a wednesday meeting with president biden on the debt ceiling. all of that plus former president donald trump talking about the georgia da s investigation that could lead to crimi
good afternoon. i am back. a little bit later on, i m gonna tell you why you have not seen me for a couple of weeks. we want to start this hour with calls for action. protests in memphis in around the country today. this comes after the release of the shocking video of the police beating that led to death of tyre nichols. we re gonna show you some videos with a warning. it is really disturbing. we are showing it not to sensationalize it, but because watching it is the only way to really understand the extreme nature of what happened. from the moment we see tyre nichols, the assault began. they use pepper spray and a taser on him. even before he ran. police caught up with him and beat him. watch this. give me your hands. watch out. give me your hands. hit him. watch out. give me your hands. [screaming] give us your hands! [screaming] in the end, nichols was left with just one simple plea as a grown man. that plea was for his mother. watch out, watch out. mom! m