burnett. out front tonight, president biden throwing a hail-mary pass. the president ordering the release of 50 million barrels of oil from america s strategic petroleum reserve. biden desperate to ease rising gas prices for america. touting a deal with five other countries to do the same thing and open up their oil reserve. now, look, it is good biden is working with other countries to relieve pressure on prices but context matters and the reality is that this is essentially america alone. india releasing just 5 million barrels. 1.5 million for the uk. south korea, china, and japan, no number at all just quote/unquote working on a plan. still, biden insists the move will pay off. our combined action will not solve the problem of high gas prices overnight, it will make a difference. it will take time but before long, you should see price of gas drop. okay. well, i hope he is right. but again, context really matters. so, americans used more than 20 million barrels of oil a
i m john berman, in for anderson. we will get to the men charged for killing ahmaud arbery in a moment but we begin with breaking news on a pair of legal cases that involve a violent right wing extremism in this country s recent history. first, in charlottesville, virginia, where a partial verdict was announced just hours ago in a civil case brought against some of those involved with that 2017 unite the right rally that left one woman, heather heyer, dead. in a moment, we ll hear reaction from her mother. first, though, cnn s elle reeve joins us now. elle, what can you tell us about the verdict? reporter: well, the jury was hung on the question of federal conspiracy charges relating to a law passed in the 1870s to fight the kkk but they did find these guys liable under a virginia conspiracy law. and that s really interesting because they the other defendants took great pains to say they never had any contact with james alex fields, who is convicted of first-degree murder
The mission is to test whether a spacecraft can actually successfully change an asteroid s orbit. if all goes well, the golf cart-sized craft, whiis going t intentionally slam into a 525 foot wide harmless asteroid. just think about that speed. it s incredible. it s known as a moonlit. nasa hopes the collision will change the asteroid s orbit, which is of course the stuff of mov movies. shifting an asteroid s path to save planet earth. thanks so much for joinings you. ac 360 starts now. good evening. the jury in the cases of the three white men charged in the killing of an unarmed black man, ahmaud arbery, just wrapped up its first day of deliberation. it s one of three cases we re focused on this evening. all have captured the attention of americans across the political spectrum. and delve into issues of either race or far-right extremism. and also, importantly, whether we re too divided as a nation to agree on an appropriate definition of the word justice.