A quick reminder, you can always check out any interviews on this show at cnn. Com brooke. And now wolf blitzer in washington. Hey, wolf. Brooke, thank you very much. Dramatic new developments in the accelerating debate on guns and gun control. Gabrielle giffords and nra are making their voices heard in new ways. Also, egypts new president joins me to talk about Tahrir Square. A onetime symbol of hope is now dirty and oppressive. Plus, a mystery that started with a winning Lottery Ticket and ended with a deadly poisoning. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with this afternoons announcement that the National Rifle association is joining the white house in the discussion of gun violence in america. A representative will meet with Vice President biden this week. What will they be doing . Lisa sylvester is walking into the situation room right now. Youve been doing some reporting, lisa. What is the very latest . Wolf, leaders from both the private and public sectors are
But never seat belted and he may have needed help when he was detained. And on the other hand this might not come as a surprise to the proposer the protesters taking to the streets and promise to shut down the streets tomorrow. And there have been other serious and fatal cases over the years. And so the question was this negligence or police misconduct. First miguel joins us with the police developments. Reporter the picture at the top of the show was taken right here on press bury street and the camera that it was taken from on the edge of that building. There are dozen of cameras in the neighborhood and 600 across the city. The person taking that video, with a cell phone, was from right here. The arrest of freddie gray was right in this area here next to this railing. He was dragged about 20 feet up there. A lot of information in this press conference but not likely to satisfy the concerns of this neighborhood. In the strongest language yet, the Baltimore Police talking about possibl
Police commissioner was kept out of the loop by the prosecutor. Learning about murder and manslaughter charges against six of his officers. Only minutes before they were announced on national television. In his first interview since freddie grays death, Police Commissioner anthony bats told our evan perez that the charges caught him completely by surprise. I found out that the state attorney was going on and what she was going to present probably about ten minutes before she went on. She gave me a phone call and told me what she was about to do and that she was going on live. She told me what the charges were. What were your first words out of your mouth when you heard that . I dont want to get into that so much. I could say that i was probably surprised, you know by the information that i heard. Batts also admitted his officers were unprepared for the protests and riots that engulfed baltimore. Evan is out front now. An exclusive interview and major, major news there. Finding out just
Others strong emotions tonight on the streets, including disbelief, mistrust and obviously a lot of anger. Were going to speak in a moment with baltimores mayor and with our panel of experts about all the Unanswered Questions surrounding freddie grays death. But first, lets go to Miguel Marquez with the protesters in the city of baltimore. Whats the latest . Whats happening . Well its not entirely clear what is happening. They were just here at the West District Police Office where mr. Gray was meant to be brought. The protesters have now moved to actually moving to the intersection here and its not clear why. Theres several hundred protesters out here at this point, throughout the afternoon, though, the numbers were as big as 2,000 people out here in these protests. They have been mainly peaceful but moments of great, great anger as we saw earlier. Not directed at us. I mean i think theyre happy that the press is out here covering this something that they say weve neglected too long b
The DNA, coupled with cellphone records connecting Rex A. Heuermann to the women around the times they disappeared and the similarities in the way the bodies were disposed of, is the type of evidence that the prosecution is expected to make central to their case, law enforcement and legal experts told Newsday.