also we re going to be going to run thank you for your live allen in just a. minute coverage rachel i appreciate thank you for your live coverage in just a minute it. we re going to begin tonight. will in brooklyn center, minnesota begin tonight in just a minute where protesters have gathered where protesters have gathered, in the cities near the city s in the city s near the city s police headquarters. police headquarters. we are joined by ron allen who is there at the scene. ron, what is the latest situation there? well, lawrence, we have a low at the moment. where we are here, we re down the street from the police station just a little ways. you can see there in the distance but the crowd is sort of left this area has gone back there standing in front of the police again. standing face to face in the standoff that has been going on for hours now, and they are not leaving. for the last half hour, there was an exchange back and forth with tear gas. the protesters were sett
question this explosion was a deliberate act. welcome to a brand-new hour of america s newsroom, and merry christmas. i m rick leventhal. merry christmas, writ, and everyone at home. i am molly line. we are watching what has just occurred here all through the morning and nashville, quite a scene. it felt miles away, taking place shortly before dawn. police had been responding to reports of shots fired in that area, and alerted the bomb squad about a suspicious recreational vehicle shortly before that blast. we are expecting a press conference. you can see the microphones they are set up right now. we expect to hear from the fbi out of memphis, the atf, and local police seeking more information about what occurred there in nashville. on the ground in washington we have rich edson to bring us what we know from there. rich? good afternoon, molly. it is a major police response in downtown nashville after an rv blew up there at 6:30 this morning. an explosion police say wa
arbery was shot to death while jogging. the defense calling arbery s killing a citizen s arrest that turned tragic. the prosecution accusing the defendant s own words to sum up why arbery was chased down. those words because he was a black man running. let s get right to cnn s ryan young live outside the courthouse and, ryan, this trial has been emotionally charged for weeks. now with deliberations under way what s the mood in brunswick right now? that is an absolute great question. when you think about all the tension involved for over two weeks here with people protesting outside. one of the funny things that stuck out to us today is it was really quiet. yesterday men were walk around the courthouse with long guns and today absolute silence. all the drama really playing out in court today. you think about the prosecution really hammering home the points they have been trying to make over and over again, that this was a situation that never had to happen. there were assump
to avoid a beating. i never did but i have seen it happen. now we like to think that as we get older we outgrow other tortures we really just call them by a different name because isn t it tyrannical leader just another version of a bully? they use the same tools to force you into submission. you can t do or say what you want without being afraid of the consequences. if you tell on them, you end up getting a swirly. jesse: try to talk and you get silenced. sounds pretty similar to communist china. but the only way to defeat a bully is to stand up to them. not everyone is brave enough though. but the special ones are. like the protester, who refuse to move aside for the tanks in tiananmen square or the patriots at the boston tea party who wouldn t give in to king george s demands. or ralphy from a christmas story who had just about enough of scott farcus hey. something has happened. a fuse blew and i had gone out of my skull. jesse: if you do nothing and live in fear y
will get to threats. hurricane idalia is strengthening. 80-mile-an-hour winds with this particular storm, and then looking briefly at the satellite composure, and this thing is becoming more organized as the minutes wear on, and it is a concern, because it is tapping into the warm ocean waters there. is the forecast track from the national hurricane center strengthening to the category 2 by 2:00 p.m. today, and then to category 3 which is the consistent message before landfall with the rapid strengthening and intensification. i wanted to show you this, because we have been showing you how warm the waters have been in the gulf of mexico, because they are running from 2 to upwards to 4 degrees fahrenheit to where they should be above where that he were. this is beyond bathtub water, and more like hot tub water. this is what we are anticipating with the storm making major impacts across the florida big bend region, and you not rul e out areas near here. i will show you near this