their son died. his mother wanted to ask a question that dr. baden nor any of the lawyers could answer. what else do we need to give them to arrest the killer of my child? good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we are hearing more today about the private autopsy performed an michael brown commissioned by the family on the unarmed teen shot over a week ago by a police officer in ferguson, missouri. the medical examiner says brown was shot six times, including twice in the head. this is the private medical examiner. the former medical examiner of new york city. as dr. baden met with the mother, she had the lingering question as any mother would have. was my child in pain? and the doctor shared with her his opinion. he did not suffer. we ll be hearing from one of the medical examiners who assisted with that privacy autopsy in just a moment. first, to the latest with the violence overnight. the protests that continue. the national guard is now being called in to hel
in a couple minutes here. thanks to you for joining us this hour. there s a lot going on in the news right now, in domestic news, we re going to have the latest in a live report from ferguson missouri, in a moment. we re hoping to be speaking with another journalist who appears to be arrested for unknown reasons by the local police in the middle of protests there. the upset and the protests continue in ferguson tonight over the police shooting in that city this weekend, what s happening tonight includes, aparentally just a massive, massive over the top apparent police response to demonstrations tonight, we have some pretty incredible footage and live interviews from there, that s coming up in a moment. some of that stuff we re getting fed in and still producing, the white house today sent up some signal 234r5irs suggesting that president obama may be about to take a really controversial, really big step. as they say, the president plans to return early to washington from his
there is never an excuse for violence against police. there s also no excuse for police to use excessive force against peaceful protests or to throw protesters in jail for lawfully exercising their first amendment rights. the president added that police should not be bullying or arresting journalists for doing their job. calling for an open and transparent investigation the president met with eric holder today and ordered a justice department probe into the killing of michael brown. holder also issued a statement saying that going forward the justice department will be assisting local authorities with crowd control. back in ferguson, just hours ago police chief thomas jackson said a meeting with the brown family set for this morning had been postponed to be rescheduled later today. at that same press conference, jackson defended his department s actions, but said police tactics are under review. there is gun fire. there are firebombs being thrown at the police, and i un
joins the cnn team and he ll share his insight into how president obama is handling this extraordinarily tough decision. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com just four hours from now, president obama will make it clear to the american people that the united states once again is going to war on this, the eve of the 9/11 anniversary and he ll outline a strategy to destroy isis, the terror group that s brutally seized vast stretches of territory in iraq and syria and slaughtering thousands of people and beheading two americans 13 years after al qaeda struck devastating blows on u.s. soil. the president is likely to make the case that isis poses a greater threat, it s bigger, better armed and more savage than many hundreds of foreign fighters that can rush to this country on their own passports. we ll give you a full preview of what he intends to do. our correspondents and guests are standing by with full coverage. let s begin wi
good morning, i m carol costello. thank you for so much for joining me. we begin in geneva, switzerland where the shooting of unarmed missouri teen ager michael brown has taken center stage after brown s parents made an emotional plea for the united nations to intervene. u.s. delegation is appearing before the u.n. committee against torture which fights cruel or degrading treatment by government authorities. the u.s. group says michael brown s death as well as police actions during the subsequent protest violate that u.n. committee s convention. cnn s erin mclaughlin is in geneva with more. reporter: carol, the u.s. delegation is expected to answer tough questions today, some of which were ferguson specific. the panel of eight independent experts asked them yesterday about the steps taken to review police practices following the events in ferguson. they also asked him about the distribution of military equipment to local forces, perhaps a reference to the police response to