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country. velshi starts now. good morning to you. it is sunday, january the 28. i m ali velshi. demonstrators in major cities around the country took to the streets again yesterday after the memphis police department released footage of the brutal beating of tyre nichols by five members of its own police force. in the continuing aftermath, memphis pd announced yesterday that it has permanently deactivated its scorpion unit. scorpion what the departments anti violence group which has been under scrutiny in recent days after it became public that all five of the police officers who were fired, arrested, and charged with second degree murder in nichols death where members of the unit. joining me now from memphis, tennessee, is nbc s antonia hylton who have been covering the story from the beginning. antonia. welcome tell us a bit about this new development with the scorpion unit, of which all five of these police officers were members. ali, i was actually with protester ....
airport. the suspect arrested by the fbi. what we re learning about the device that was found hidden in his luggage. also, university of georgia football player who turned himself in on charges related to a deadly car crash that killed a teammate and staff member after the team s national championship victory. also, u.s. intelligence with a new report on what is known as havana syndrome. for years american diplomats and spies around the world have been complaining of mysterious symptoms. they re oftentimes debilitating. what s a foreign adversary to blame? we have the answer. lot to get to. we ll begin with this. the tsa intercepting a suitcase packed with an explosive device before loaded ton a plane. it happened at the airport in it allentown, pennsylvania. the bomb squad rushing into the scene there. and the fbi later arresting this man seen on surveillance video. here s the breakdown of what happened. the fbi saying the suspect arrived at the airport monday mo ....
His Home State Governor is now urging the democrat to resign from the u. S. Senate. This as menendez has already been forced to step down at least for now as the chairman of the Senate ForeignRelations Committee. First lets go to cnns kara scannell. Shes outside the courthouse in new york where the charges were announced. Kara, the new jersey governor isnt the only one calling for menendez to resign. Reporter theres a growing chorus of lawmakers frommage new jersey calling for Senator Menendez to step down. Thats after federal prosecutors announced this allegedly brazen bribery scheme. They detailed how an fbi search of the senators home turned up the proceeds of this alleged crime. Some of the cash was stuffed in the senators jacket pockets. Reporter i ....
outside the courthouse in wilmington, delaware, and haven t used spoke with juror number ten. tell us what he told you that s right. jake, juror number ten, who we spoke to with without showing his face. he was concerned about his safety. one of the things he told us was that very quickly, very, very very early in the case. he had a pretty good idea of where this case was going, but he said he wasn t 100% sure on tv, heard all of the evidence, listen to what he said was with the crucial part of the prosecution s case when you look at the form, are are you a drug addict? are you an unlawful user of drugs and he said no clearly he lie jake? there was five days of prosecution evidence, mountains of evidence, overwhelming these jurors trying, to drive home the point that he was addicted to drugs and the defense really tried to focus on the days around when he bought this gun in october 20, 2008 ten and it s clearly that did not really make an impact for these jurors. ....