last dance. a very vided nation comes together for a celebration of democracy. and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. we are and forever will be the united states of america. we re live on the national mall, good evening, everyone, i m anderson cooper. the lead band leading off the parade is going to be from grambling state university louisiana. they lead off our coverage, take it away, guys. [ cheers and applause ] we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer here on the national mall in washington, d.c.. we re going to be hearing from the grambling state university marching band all hour. this is a very special hour. and it s been an historic day already here in the nation s capit capitol. president barack obama officially beginning his second term after a private swearing-in just hours from now a crowd of some 800,000 people maybe more, they will gather right here for the public ceremony
they killed milton hall. his family says he was mentally ill. reporter: a joint investigation is under way. amateur details what happened during the final moments. the video is graphic. this amateur video purchased by cnn and not made public until now captured the confrontation between six saginaw police officers and milton hall, a 49-year-old man who suffered serious mental health issues. hall had just had a run in with a convenient store clerk. he was in a stand off with police and holding some sort of knife. a female officer is heard shouting. put the knife down. put the knife down. reporter: if you listen carefully hall is heard continuing to yell at police. call 911. reporter: hall seems agitated but not intimidated by a police dog. heard on the tape, a witness describes what he sees. in a karate stance about to go ham on them. reporter: everything comes to a head. local media report 46 shots were fired. cnn counted the sounds of 30 shots on the video tap
officers filed 30 bullets when they killed milton hall. his family says he was mentally ill. reporter: a joint investigation is under way. amateur details what happened during the final moments. the video is graphic. this amateur video purchased by cnn and not made public until now captured the confrontation between six saginaw police officers and milton hall, a 49-year-old man who suffered serious mental health issues. hall had just had a run in with a convenient store clerk. he was in a stand off with police and holding some sort of knife. a female officer is heard shouting. put the knife down. put the knife down. reporter: if you listen carefully hall is heard continuing to yell at police. call 911. reporter: hall seems agitated but not intimidated by a police dog. heard on the tape, a witness describes what he sees. in a karate stance about to go ham on them. reporter: everything comes to a head. local media report 46 shots were fired. cnn counted the soun
if you ve been through a hurricane, you get the advice, fill up your bathtub and a lot of that is so you can use that water to restore water pressure to a toilet if you have lost your electricity. we have some numbers from west virginia. about a third of the state gets their water and people are reporting water service loss, low pressure. they are getting boil water advisories because when they have that low pressure the water sits in the pipe. bacteria can get in. brian todd is seeing a lot of folks storing water for dripging water and daily use. about 20% of the state sulati population isn t connected to water service. they use wells. these are the problems people are facing several days into the power outages as well as the heat that you ve been talking about because you think first about the lights and then people start to think about water. you can go without right, but you can t go without water. you can go as well, for the most part, without fan or ac but that can al
efforts to save children. i m really looking forward to this piece tonight. thanks so much. a reminder to our viewers that your special runs tonight. it s cnn presents cruise to disaster. 8:00 eastern time. some exclusive new images and details. make sure you tune in. top of the hour now. i m ashleigh banfield. i m standing in for brooke baldwin. this is one of the hottest 4th of julys on record. it is steaming out there. extreme heat paralyzing much of the midwest and all the way up to the dakotas too. the heat index racing up into the 115s. the death toll from the heat and related storms now reaching 20. the virginias, in particular, having a terrible time. in some cases police are having to hand out ice. hundreds of thousands of people who have not had power since friday since a wave of violent storms hit pretty much at their wits end. lizzie has been following this story. there s a critical problem. west virginia hit the worst and they are talking about water now. wat