we just heard from brown family moments ago, and live in elizabeth city north carolina, with the latest. chris. that s right arthel good afternoon. we re at a church here in elizabeth city where we had an emotional passionate press conference from all of andrew brown s children. we re here along with the mother of those children. the state leader of the naacp local tank county naacp leader and attorney representing the family harry daniels, and they are calling on the sheriff tommy wooten here to resign. they re demanding that the body camera video worn by deputies during shooting death of brown be released and they want the law in north carolina changed so they can be more readily be made available to the public. here s a little bit of what attorney harry daniels had to say at this press conference. take a listen. everybody told you that mr. brown was shot unarmed in the back by multiple officers. that we know it was a weapon located at the scene. plus he was unarm
from the white house, mark, good morning. benjamin, good morning to you. the white house is not disputing that the president wants to raise taxes, but the plan to target wealthy americans, but there s plans starting to grow against tax increases and the president wants to use money funding the american families plan. 1.5 trillion in spending to go out and call on congress to use the money to fund a number of different projects out there, including child care, education and social programs. the president is not talking about this proposal yet. he did not speak to reporters as he left for delaware this morning, but on friday, the white house press secretary previewed who is going to be impacted by this proposal. what i can say, it will only affect people making more than $1 million a year. that s .3% of taxpayers, or three out of every 1,000 taxpayers, that s even at the top 1% saw their net worth rise by four trillion in the middle of a historic pandemic. republicans are
wooten release body cam video worn by deputies during this shooting death of andrew brown jr. you can see them gathering here outside of the american legend they re having a cookout this follows press conference few hours ago where the naacp president locally here in the county name is keith rivers he s calling for the resignation of sheriff houten. listen. sheriff wooten, for today if you want to release these tapes as sheriff or not the sheriff. on behalf of the county branch, we today are calling for his resignation. and jon, they also would like the north carolina law about releasing body cams named for andrew brown, it is a different process in the state of north carolina body cam video has to be released pursuant to court order to the public. now, we do have an update that is that sheriff tommy wooten took to facebook with a message a few hours ago saying that he intends to try to facilitate release possibly as soon as monday here s a little bit of what sheriff woot
s of now brian laundrie is not charged with a crime and is not named as a suspect in petito s death. legal analyst joe jackson says laundrie s behavior is raising suspicions. the bottom line here is you look at everything there. you look and assess his conduct. and what you find when you have the conduct is a lot of circumstantial evidence. a critical fact in this case is the fact that he ran. why? it evidences consciousness of guilt. you could explain the hitch hiking. he went somewhere. he was gone for a brief period of time. you could explain he was hiking alone, at least he said to miss baker. they separated for a little while. he was hiking alone. what you can t explain is where the guy is, why did he run, and why did he really feel that he needed to evade authorities. those are going to be questions in the event he s brought back safely that everyone is going to want to know. if there is an innocent explanation, you stay and explain. you don t run and hide. and s
doing more harm than good. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. all right, we begin this hour with that breaking news we were just talking about as we follow the developments after a devastating series of tornados that ripped across six states in the south and midwest. in kentucky alone a federal emergency has been declared there as search and rescue operations continue. tragically as many as 100 people are feared dead at this hour. initial reports suggesting one of the dozens of twisters that touched down could be the longest recorded in u.s. history. earlier this evening president biden expressed his condolences for those affected by this storm. i pray and i sincerely mean this pray for those who lost loved ones and for those uncertain of the fate of their loved ones. and the debris that you see scattered all over the hurricane s path. they lost their homes. they lost their businesses. it s a tragedy. and its a tragedy. and we still don t know how many lives were los