Taylor was shot to death during a Police Raid at her louisville home. Also tonight, sources tell cnn that President Biden is set to announce new Cdc Guidance Tomorrow on outdoor mask wearing for people who are fully vaccinated against covid19. Lots of news going on today. First, lets go to cnns brian todd. Brian, Browns Family did not get the transparency they certainly had hoped for. Whats the latest . Whats happening there tonight . Reporter wolf, some protesters gathering behind us. They just started chanting at some officers watching them from the roof. Tensions here are escalating a little Bit Tonight because the brown family and its represents feel like theyve been railroaded by this process. They feel that the County Attorney who oversaw them viewing this footage didnt allow them to see enough of it, only allowed them to see 20 seconds of Police Body Cam footage and, quote, disrespected them throughout this process. They are demanding answers they are still not getting. We do no
trial of derek chauvin. the prosecution bringing back the image of chauvin s knee on floyd s neck to drill down the point that this was not something that chauvin was trained to do. in addition to the class room tr training do you teach chauvin how to do these neck restraints? yes, sir. is this an mpd trained neck restraint? no, sir. had it ever been? not in minneapolis training neck restraint and never has been. chauvin s defense tried to pivot the conversation away from what he was not trained to do and instead to raise questions again. can you see in this photograph what appears to be the knee of the officer. would you agree that the knee was placed in the center between mr. floyd s shoulder blades? it appears to be between the shoulder blades. let s go to omar jimenez to begin our coverage tonight. omar, when you take a look at this trial you now have yet another member of the minneapolis police department condemning chauvin s actions today. reporter
fierce pushback from republicans. those nominees include deb holland, biden s pick to lead the interior department, neera tanden his nominee to head the office of budget and van ita gupta. in each case it is said republicans are trying to paint these women as extreme or a threat to the country, senator scott calling tanneden a radica liberal. i am troubled by many of representative holland s views, that many in my home state of wyoming would consider as radical. biden promised unity but this is a dangerous appointee at a dangerous time. dangerous they argue. former democratic senator from holland s home state of new mexico, they took issue with the radical label on holland writing in usa today this. that her record is in line with main stream conservation priorities thus the exceptional criticism of representative holland and the threatened holds on her nomination must be motivated by something other than her record. whatever the reason, there is plenty of opposition
week we ve heard damning testimony about chauvin s actions, but tooday the defense in this case eliciting some note worthy concessions by witnesses. one by one veteran members of the minneapolis police department took the stand. each part of the department s training force. today s testimony added to the chorus of police department witnesses, including the chief, who have said derek chauvin s use of a knee on george floyd s neck was not part of their training. would it be appropriate and within training to hold a subject in that prone restrained position with the knee on the neck and a knee on the back for an extended period of time after the subject has stopped offering any resistance? no, sir. the or has lost their pulse? no, sir. if you don t have a pulse on a person, you ll immediately start cpr. but the defense pushed back with this image. this is a specific kind of photograph that demonstrates the placement of a knee as it applies to prone handcuffing, cor
under 4 million doses of the johnson & johnson single-dose vaccine available initially. meantime the w.h.o. noting for the first time in seven weeks a rise in new cases as they call alarming but not surprising. public health measures still need to be in place for this virus. the first johnson & johnson vaccines could be in arms tomorrow. it s very good news. now we have three important tools in our armament of capabilities against the virus. reporter: the advantages of this latest tool? just one shot and no need for special freezers. this really eases the capacity to get the vaccine where it s needed. reporter: 3.9 million doses to start. that was the entire j&j inventory. reporter: with promises of 20 million by the end of the month. the vart jost going to state and local health departments and pharmacies, 4% for community health centers. j&j testing a booster for variants and hoping to expand the trials this summer. we are working to accelerate that as soon as