Brewster and mary moriarty, hennepin countys chief public defender. I turn to you first. Another night of public protest and arrests and the officer being charged. What can you tell us . Steph, good morning. 24 protests overnight after the fourth night in a row of demonstrations right here in front of the Brooklyn Center Police department. We know the numbers grew over a couple hundred before 10 00, when the curfew was in effect. And we had hundreds of Police And State patrol officers converge on the scene. We did not see the Tear Gas used last night as in prior nights. I think its important to note the mayor of Brooklyn Center had gone on record saying he did not believe it was a main way to treat protesters. As a result of a small demonstrations we had seen. And as far as Kim Potter goes, yesterday she turned herself in on the charges of second Degree Manslaughter. The maximum fine is ten years. We already from the family of Daunte Wright in response to this. They say this was not go
20yearold victim. Look at him and say, oh, he needs to die. You took my Brothers Life for nothing. For nothing at all. Im Halle Jackson in washington This Morning. Here to start us off, gabe gutierrez, morgan chess ski, former prosecutor and civil Rights Attorney David Henderson and brittany cunningham, black Lives Matter and msnbc contributor. Let me start with you. We are minutes away now from the defense getting ready for the final day here. What do you have about what the defense has planned . Reporter thats right, halle, we dont have the exact witness list, but we expect the defense to call another expert This Morning. Then the Big Question will be, will Derek Chauvin, himself, testify . Many legal experts say it is highly unlikely. Then again, this is a highly unusual case. There are pros and cons to testifying. If he does, that opposite him up to Cross Examination and that could be something prosecutors would be looking forward to. On the other hand, we havent heard his side of
through space, the rover, called perseverance, survived a perilous high speed plunge through the martian atmosphere and made it safely onto the surface of the red planet confirming its arrival an hour ago with a tweet. these the first images it sent back, within moments. it s the most advanced rover ever sent to another world one that hopes to eventually return samples to earth. and its mission is to search for ancient life that may have existed billions of years ago. tonight s landing is all the more impressive, given how much could have gone wrong. here s our science correspondent rebecca morelle. and a warning her report contains some flashing images. perseverance is going about one per second. a nerve racking wait at mission control. it s landed safely, on the surface of mars! cheering. and then celebrations as a signal is received from mars. it s touchdown for nasa s perseverance rover. and these are its first images, a view of its landing sites before it starts to
tonight the department of homeland security warning about the threat of possible violence by domestic extremists emboldened by the attack on the capitol. and meanwhile the biden administration moving to battle the climate crisis vowing to create clean energy jobs to the stimulate economic recovery. and with a few days still to go, january s already the deadliest month for covid-19 since the pandemic began, nearly 80,000 deaths so far. good evening to both of you. john, you first. today we saw the first coronavirus briefing in months and sweeping plans to combat climate change and create jobs. it seems like science is driving the biden agenda. there s no question about it. and, look, the reliance on science and data and evidence and reason is one of the key dividing lines between democrats and republicans now. and that was the message that the biden team was trying to showcase today. there was some audio glitches. it was a little technical and wonky at times, but they re mak
sent them to the capitol. this morning we bring you new video that could be used at the trial showing how trump s rabid supporters followed his cues during the siege. you don t concede when there s theft involved. we already voted, and what have they done? they stole it! we want our country back! much more on that in just a moment. we begin with the effort to speed up vaccine delivery. joining us now, dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, you were listening as the president said by next week they ll increase the amount of vaccine shipped by 16%, that this summer by this summer, they want to purchase 200 million more doses of vaccine. what s important here when you look at this and see what the administration is doing? what s your most important takeaway? i think the most important thing is we, obviously have to have enough vaccine, but the pace at which these vaccines actually get to administered, meaning shots going into arms, i think is really critically important. i guess we