michael brown shooting case including allegations and surveillance video of a convenience store robbery. officer identified. police release the name of the six-year veteran who shot michael brown but say he didn't know the teen was a robbery suspect. isis threat. the u.s. fears thousands of new fighters are joining the militants and we're learning of a deadly new isis assault. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." fz. >> let's get right to the breaking news. major new developments in the case capturing world attention. police in ferguson, missouri, dropped a bombshell aging the shooting victim michael brown was a suspect in a convenience store robbery, but hours later they said the officer who shot him now identified as 2-year-old darren wilson didn't know brown was a robbery suspect. all of this has critics accusing police of trying to damage michael brown's character. we're covering all the angles of the breaking news this hour with our reporters and guests.

let's begin with national correspondent jason carrol in ferguson, missouri, of course. jason, let's get the very latest from jason. >> reporter: the new security camera video released by the ferguson police department shows a confrontation with a store clerk inside a convenience store at 11:52:00 a.m. last saturday. according to police, michael brown was inside the convenience store with his friend dorian johnson, committing a so-caused strong armed robbery. police say brown aggressively pulls the clerk in close 0 to him and immediately pushes him back into a display rack. police said he stole a box of $49 cigars. there were norp weapons used. but ferguson police chief thomas jackson said the robbery was not related to the shooting incident that killed michael brown. >> this robbery does not relate to the initial contact between the officer and michael brown.

>> police say they released the video of the convenience store robbery today because the press asked for it. earlier, chief jackson described what happened after the robbery. >> at 11:51, there was a 911 call from a convenience store nearby at 11:52, can dispatch gave a description of a robbery suspect over the radio. at 12:01 p.m., our officer encountered michael brown on canfield drive. at 12:04, a second officer arrived on scene immediately following the shooting. >> reporter: after almost a week of silence, the officer involved in the shooting was identified. darren wilson, a white 2-year-old who has served on the force for six years, and according to the department, has no disciplinary actions taken against him. he was treated for injuries which occurred during the altercation on saturday. >> he had no complaints. he was a gentle quiet man. he was a distinguished officer. >> police say dorian johnson who

was with brown in the convenience store and when brown was shot and killed will not be charged in the store robbery. the dramatic developments follow a night of relative calm streets and peaceful demonstrations to sway the tide of vi leapt altercations, missouri's governor put state highway patrol captain ron johnson in charge of keeping the peace. cnn was with captain johnson as he arrived on the scene. >> i want to go down here and kind of an get an assessment of what the mood is. >> first a reallocation of forces. >> not going to take a chance. i'm going to have you guys turn around and go back to the mcdonald's. i'll call you when i need you. >> then came time to meet the demonstrators. >> appreciate you, sir. >> what do you make of all of these people around you, surrounding you like thissing in this way supporting you? >> i know the people that live in this community. i've lived here 48 years of my

life. i know we've got good people in this community. >> despite the positive influence of captain johnson as details emerge, questions remain, how did that an alleged unarmed convenience store robbery end in a scene like thissing? ing >> do you see anything that would have caused a threat to this police officer? >> and an attorney representing the brown family says the release of that have convenience store video changes can nothing about what they allege which is that a ferguson police officer shot an unarmed man. wolf? >> jamp carroll, thanks very much for that report. let's go to cnn's don lemon also in ferguson for us. don, i understand you had a chance to speak with the police chief, clarify some of these issues. what did he say? >> yeah, absolutely. you and i have been talking about the inconsistencies that have been going on here with the press conferences and especially what's in the incident reports

as well. why did they release the videotape of this alleged robbery on the same day they released the officer's name? i got clarification about that. essentially what he says is it was not an easy decision that he was getting pressured to release the name of the officer and they thought they would get some law sues over that so they figured they may, as well go ahead and release both of them at the same time. when i asked him, i said, but you didn't clarify if the two were related. and it turns out and everyone supered that they were related and rightfully so he said. but he said you know, he should have done a better job. he said it was just no good choice in doing it. he figured if he had to do one, he should do the other. the rest of that interview will air tonight 9:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn when i host a very special edition of "ac 360." i talked to him about other things, as well. there are going to be revelations about this officer. i asked him some questions about this officer and prior work an ensuements that you'll want to

hear. regarding those inconsistencies and rd raing that videotaping released today, the entire community here is upset over that and thinking it's a character assassination on the victim and it's essentially blaming the victim. and you can hear the protests starting to ramp up behind me. the horn horns are honking. we're right across from the police station. protesters with bullhorns are behind us now. a family member of michael brown held an impromptu press conference in front of the police station, as well reiterating what you read earlier and the family statement and said what the attorney told me here on cnn, as well. >> don, it sounds like the family and their lawyers, they're pretty angry that the police released this videotape, the still pictures, the police report of the robbery, the alleged robbery at the convenience store. the video showing what they say is michael brown in effect pushing the clerk, stealing some allegedly stealing some cigars,

this enwalking out. they're angry it was released because it tends obviously to smear, if you will, to make him look pretty bad. we show the picture of him pushing that clerk aside and then threatening him as he walks out the door with the cigars. they're pretty angry this came out today. the question is this, what should we be bracing for tonight? >> well, that is the question. and i can't answer that question now. but when i spoke to the people earlier when we were at the qt where the protests have been emanating from, the base of the protest, most people said that they were going to be -- it was going to be non-violent. you heard ron johnson who is now in charge of this from the missouri highway patrol asking for calm and really promising in as many words that there would not be violence tonight or asking people not to be violent this evening especially after the sun went down. but also you know, when he spoke

to the police chief about releasing it, you know, the videotape, as well the officer's name he said listen, i knew that there was going to be controversy. i knew that there was going to be some uproar about it he said because it was going to be seen as a character assassination and deflection but he said that had no other choice. i had to. there was no good choice. what i had to do so i did it and got it out of the way. >> the lawyers for the family are conceding that the man in the convenience store was in fact michael brown, right? >> yeah. the lawyers are conceding that and point blank i asked the police chief, the perg son police chief that. he says he does believe it is michael brown foo don lemon will be back with us later. thanks very much. let's get more on the investigation. joining us law enforcement analyst tom fuentes and pamela brown. what are you hearing from your sources, pamela, about darren wilson, the police officer who shot and killed michael brown? >> we learned today, wolf, that

st. louis county detectives have interviewed darren wilson. that officer involved in the shooting twice since the shooting occurred. one right after the shooting and then a second more thorough longer interview shortly after the shooting was in the next 48 hours after. so the initial interview was very brief. we've learned it was obviously a very chaotic time and traumatic fort officer. that was more of a brief interview and the longer interview. the officials i've been speaking won't share what the officer said but we know from what the police chief said earlier this week that the officer's account is that there was a confrontation between him and brown and they were tustling over the gun. so of course, that's what weigh learned just from what the police chief said. what investigators will be focused on and what tom can attest to, they're going to be looking at did the officer batesed on what he's telling investigation take reasonable action considering the circumstances, did he fear for his life. >> what do you make of the

videotape released from the convenience store showing this alleged robbery and if you will, some sort of pushback or assault on the clerk? >> well, i think the fact that they're conceding it was michael brown, the family's conceding it it does indicate that he's not an angel, that he would be capable of some violent act at some level pushing the clerk as he does in that store and that maybe he could you know also push or gheet an altercation with a police officer. so i think from that standpoint but the big thing we wanted to know early what did officer wilson know about those two individuals walking down the street? was he aware that they were suspects in a robbery that had just occurred. >> the police chief says no. >> now we know what wasn't in officer wilson's mind but now it adds, what's in michael brown's mind? if he knows he's had this altercation and he knows he did what he did at the convenience

store, that could change how he perceives, he might assume that officer wilson knows he has just committed that robbery and that maybe he's going to get arrested. maybe there's going to be more to it. it's not just two guys being told get up off sidewalk and off the street. >> it's very important what's in the mind of officer wilson at the beginning of the incident and what's in the mind of michael brown when this thing starts. >> we'll never know what's in the mind of michael brown because he's dead. his friend dorian was there with him. he's already been questioned. i interviewed him earlier in the week. he told me exactly what he recalls happened. he never told me what was going on in the convenience store a few minutes earlier but presumably he'll have an explanation of what's going on there. >> yes. i would expect so. >> he's one of the eyewitnesss. the question is will he be telling the truth if in fact the police officer is charged with homicide if you will.

the argument being, you just heard the lawyers make the argument that let's say they did get into a fight in the car for whatever reason. let's say michael brown was in fact trying to reach in for the police officer's weapon and he was shot in the car but then he runs away and then he gets his hands up and he gives up. if the police officer then with his hands up in the air goes ahead and fires some more rounds, what does that mean? >> that means if they can prove that that officer is probably going to prison. because when a suspect even if they're armed, even if michael brown had a gun and shot at the police, if he throws the gun down and throws his hands in the air, if that turns out to be true, in this case he didn't have a gun, but if he did even, once the suspect surrenders, it's over. the police officer can no longer be justified in deadly force. that will be the issue here. you have two issues. the altercation at the police car where the first shot is fired but now down further down the street where officer wilson

now goes to where brown is and fires additional shots into him when witnesses say he was possibly surrendering. that's the important thing for investigators, can they prove or disprove that he was in fact surrendering. >> because there are at least two witnesses who say they saw him raise his hands to surrender and then he was shot afterwards. but forensically, how do you problem that? let's say you don't believe these two witnesses? >> that's going to be difficult to prove. >> there's no video we know of. there's no audio of that altercation we know of. you'll have an indication of the first shot because there would be a shot in close proximity at the police car door would leave powder burns. he would be burnt from the powder and the flame that comes out of the barrel of the gun. down the street, it will be harder to tell whether or not the police officer was real close to him and secondly, the autopsy will show whether the additional bullets started as shots to the back. they'll be able to determine

entry wounds if it was to the back first and then after brown turns around and supposedly tries to surrender, they'll be able to see entry wounds into his chest as the witnesses say. >> tom, thanks very much. pamela brown, thanks to you, as well. much more on the breaking news. the new allegation in the michael brown was a robbery suspect. does that really change anything? our legal experts are standing by. we'll discuss. will there be more protests. more on what people are saying there about these dramatic new developments in the case.

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we're toing breaking news. a series of bottom shell revelations in the michael brown shooting including allegations by police that the teenager was a robbery suspect. but they say the officer who shot and killed him didn't know that. the officer's been identified as 2-year-old darren wilson, a six-year veteran of the ferguson police department. let's dig deeper with our guests, the criminal defense attorney mark o'mara, criminal defense attorney mawali davis and ronald hosko, be director of the fbi's investigative division. ron, what do you make of the fact that the family has now acknowledged that the individual in that alleged robbery in the convenience store was in fact michael brown? what does sa that i about this case? >> i think it's significant in a number of ways, not the least of which and tom just mentioned it, it's relevant what's in the mind of the officer who fired his

weapon at mr. brown. it's also very relevant what's in the mr. brown's mind. >> the officer didn't know that the man he shot and killed had been in that alleged robbery in the convenience store. >> so that's important here. why was the officer pulling up on mr. brown? why did the encounter start is relevant to the bigger picture in whether he did wrong or not. >> the police chief in ferguson says he was pulled over. this is the account of the police chief because brown and his friend were walking down the middle of the street blocking traffic. so he pulled him over. >> assuming that's correct, that is a potential violation of law. and it doesn't mean he doesn't have the right to pull him over or try to move him out of traffic or being a threat. it is significant if he didn't hear the transmissions about the strong arm robbery and wasn't responding to it. >> mark, what do you think about these latest developments that the police officer who shot and killed ron, he didn't know about the alleged robbery at the

convenience store but brown obviously would know about the alleged robbery. that would be in his mind if he's being pulled over by cops. >> exactly because michael brown may have reacted thinking he was being butted over because of the robbery even if the officer wasn't aware of it. so how michael brown is going to react is very significant. whether or not they had any information as to why he pulled him over if michael brown is going to react in some way thinking he's being pulled over for a robbery and the officer has no idea what's going on, it's going to be that miscommunication and it's going to be even more concern between the two of them when the first interaction starts. >> mawali, what's your sense of what happened? >> my concern is that this already does not change anything fundamentally when you deal with someone being stopped for jaywalking and then being fired upon. so what mr. brown was doing prior to being stoppeded by the officer i think really it doesn't play that much of a

factor in the shooting itself. that's what we should stay focused on. >> what if the account by the police officer supposedly he's arguing when he pulled him over, that michael brown went for his gun and tried to resist. that's when the gun was fired. what about that argument that apparently the police officer in question here is making? >> well, i think -- >> that may allow. >> go ahead, mawuli. >> i think the problem with that is when they initially engage, if the -- if mr. brown is no longer a threat, then he should not have fired his weapon. if he puts his hands up, he's no longer a threat. the weapon should not have been fired. that's the analysis that i think is it important. while we can look at what happened leading up to the fatal shot, i think we still have to look at what happens when his hands are up. if his hands are up and he's shot, he's no longer a threat and that officer should not have fired. >> ron, you agree with that.

even if there had been an ater indication, some contested fight within the vehicle itself and even if a shot had been fired in the vehicle, once he leaves and throws his hands up in the air, he should not be shot again? >> generally that's exactly true. however, there is a lot of ifs in your statement and mawuli's. that's the point of an investigation. what did happen? not if, if, if. we need to find out what did happen. and if there were rounds fired or a gunshot that was fired in close proximity, there's going to be an indication of that. if mr. brown's hands were on the officer's gun, there could we'll be an indication of that. his fingerprints could still be on the gun. how far he got away, the distance of the shell casings is going to be relevant to prove distance. all those factors are going to be brought to bear to give us a full picture of what happened. >> that's why your former colleagues at the fbi are involved in this investigation

right now. mark, there are eyewitness accounts who say they did see the michael brown raise his hands after he left the vehicle. he was shot once or twice in the vehicle. after he left, he did put his hands up. i guess the point is, you're going to believe those eyewitnesss? >> witnesses can get things wrong and hear other witnesses' testimony and decide to bring that into their own. here is what is very important. the forensics will be very, very important. here's why for an example. one witness said that the officer was within three feet of michael brown when he shot and the hands are up. if that fact is true, then there's going to be stippling on michael brown's arms and it's going to be on the arms as they would be up. that could be very significant evidence that he did have his hands up if the stippling is on with his hands down or another location, that shows something exactly different. we need to wait. we don't know what's going on. i think it was a huge mistake for the cops to release this

information piecemeal the way it does. it allows for speculation. wait till the investigation is over. let the fbi and other agencies do what they want because we need to do this transparently. but that doesn't mean let it out every moment you get it. it means the agencies that are involved should be talking and the families' representatives should be involved and let's do it right the first time. >> very quickly, mawuli, right now, what do you want to hear? >> i want to know the distance of the shooting because the 12i7alling typically is a foot and a half to three feet away. if there's no stippling, if this officer is seven or eight feet away and mr. brown is unarmed, how was he a threat? that's what we need to determine. there needs to be more evaluation of the evidence so that we can have a clearer picture. but with hands up, that's not a threat. not at all. >> mawuli davis, mark o'mara, ron davis, thanks very much. more on breaking news coming up. the man now in charge of ferguson. ferguson reveals how he defused

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we're following breaking news sources now telling cnn the officer who shot and killed michael brown has been interviewed twice by detectives and now been identified as 28-year-old darren wilson, a

six-year veteran of the ferguson police department. cnn's jake tapper, host of the lead" is in ferguson for us. what's the latest over there? >> well, it has been a more quiet period since captain ron johnson of the missouri state highway patrol was appointed to be in charge of security here. and in fact, he has been walking with people. he has been talking to people at a press conference earlier today, he invited community members to come up and sit among the reporters and ask him and the governor questions. and in fact, there was one interesting moment. i asked him about today, from yesterday, when he saw some people who looked young men who looked kind of angry to put it lightly and he directly approached them. take a listen. >> well, walking behind them i could hear their anger. and you know, i kind of went over to talk to them and have some discussion with them and to give us a chance and let them know i've got a son that just

like them. many talked they had tattoos and things like that. i told them my son's just like you and i said give us a chance. i said there's a new day coming. there's going to be some honest interaction with you. i said i just didn't want to walk past him. i walked over to them because i wanted to hear what they had to say. >> captain johnson trying to directly talk to some young men who looked angry to say the least. but his approach seems to have worked at least for now. last night, however, boisterous it was, and you can hear the horns honking people showing their support here as people get off work in st. louis and ferguson, showing their support but doing so in a completely peaceful way. interesting also, wolf, this sight here of the quick trip convenience store that was burned down over the weekend with some of the protests turned violent. people have taken to writing in chalk messages about their

feelings about what this week has come to mean to them and among the chance, no justice, no peace, that is people have written down and hands up don't shoot, all right, one rather poignant statement right here on the ground, black men do matter. it says right here. it's a message that for a lot of members of the community is really what the protests have been all about. mike brown and other young men in the african-american community here in ferguson and across the country want the united states' power structure to acknowledge we do matter. wolf? >> yesterday at this time, they were beginning to gather for what turned out to be very peaceful protests. are we seeing something similar now? >> yes, it's exactly the same people are boisterous, they are effusive with what they're trying to say. but so far completely peaceful demonstrations. i should note when i say

peaceful, i mean nonviolent. i don't mean it's quiet here. it is certainly not quiet here as anybody watching coverage last night can attest. it is a rather boisterous crowd. so far so good. captain ron johnson and his message of talking to people and listening to them really seems to have assuaged many members of the community that there is somebody here now listening to them. also the fact there aren't any more mine resistant trucks it, rubber bullets and tear gas being fired helps too. >> let's get more with antonio french sitting on the st. louis board of aldermen. thanks very much for joining us. what do you make of today's developments, specifically the police chief jackson in ferguson announcing at his news conference that michael brown was actually stopped by that police officer for blocking traffic, not for robbing a convenience store for a box of cigars? >> yeah, i think what we saw today was another example of how

the local ferguson officials are in over their head. while people were expecting and were demanding the name of the officer who killed michael brown, that the police chief chose to release other information at the same time just shows he really doesn't have a handle on how tense things are out there. i'm really happy that captain johnson is now on the ground and taking charge. what we did learn though is that the if ferguson police chief didn't consult with the captain johnson before he decided to release that information at the same time. so you know, i think it kind of took away a little bit of the good momentum we had from last night. i remain hopeful we'll have another peaceful night here in ferguson. >> i hope, as well. alderman, they obviously released the name of the police officer officer who shot and killed michael brown. do you think they reesed the other information, the videotape, pictures, police reports of the alleged robbery at the convenience store? they released simultaneously to help that police officer?

is it that what you're suggesting? >> well, recent i don't know what the intention was but i know what the result was. the result was that they angered people again. and that's not something we really want to see right now. it bed no positive constructive purpose to release that information especially at the same time as you were releasing the information that we were asking for. and in fact, what it really does is help sully the reputation of a dead young man who should be living and going to college right now. >> when you look at the video, i'm sure you've seen it, we've seen it several times and the family and the family's lawyers have now confirmed that is in fact michael brown. he's going in there and allegedly taking cigars not paying for the cigars, walking out and pushing the clerk, 0 throwing the clerk to the side, coming back in and threatening him a bit before leaving once again, it obviously does not speak well of michael brown. >> well, this really isn't new

information. i posted a video on youtube and on twitter a couple of days ago where a young man in his kitchen is shooting this video and explaining what he saw. he describes mike brown and a friend had just stolen cigarettes or cigars from a local place and were walking home. in the video he says he didn't think the police were after them and just walking casually home when they encounter this had officer. it's not really new information. even after the second press conference under questioning the chief admitted it was unrelated that the officer didn't stop him because of anything having to do with this incident. >> yeah. the police chief in ferguson said he was stopped because he was blocking traffic. if you will, jaywalking. allerman french, thanks for joining us. we'll have much more on what's going on in ferguson right now. we're standing by to see how the demonstrations develop, what's going to happen in the next few hours. also, michael brown's family is

calling for calm even as they denouchbsed the police more releasing video pictures showing brown allegedly robbing a convenience store. there's other disturbing news we're following in "the situation room" breaking in iraq. we're getting word of a new isis massacre.

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about a dozen miles or so from mount sinjar in northern iraq. pentagon correspondent barbara starr has more on the new threat. >> wolf, a short time ago, the u.s. central command announced did carry out air strikes in that region after receiving reports that an villagers were under attack by isis. isis now at unprecedented strength and for the u.s. intelligence community, can the crucial question, how far will the group go. >> this video appears to show iraqi police taking down an isis flag defiant against the brutal islamic militants the u.s. intelligence community now calls a credible alternative to al qaeda. after days of u.s. air strikes, isis fighters in iraq may be in hiding in some places, the u.s. says. its leader al baghdadi may have fled back to syria. but more than 1 million iraqis now on the run from isis

according to the u.n. it's still grabbing territory and bolstering its ranks across northern iraq and in next door syria. >> it's now increased to well over 10,000 fighters. so it does appear to have increased in numbers. it appears to be wealthier. >> the u.s. intelligence community now doing a new assessment. trying to calculate how many fighters isis has including foreign fighters mainly in syria. and how many may be americans. the worry for the u.s., westerners trained by isis could return home and plot attacks. >> we're concerned about those, this type of organization which is very dangerous and probably wants to try to prove itself in one way or another. could go further along in its efforts to attack our homeland. >> u.s. intelligence agencies worry the momentum has brought

isis thousands of new fighters now armed with heavy weapons from abandoned iraqi military bases. but isis is not unstoppable at least in iraq. >> isis is not ten feet tall. it's vulnerable in part because its ideology does not appear to be well supported among iraq's even sunni population. >> an even bigger problem isis, 80s place in the jihad movement. so far many of al qaeda's strongest affiliate organizations in yemen, north africa and somalia have not sworn their an legion jns. many u.s. experts believe isis and al qaeda will some day fight it out for the leadership of the global jihad movement. the feeling is let them fight it out between themselves. langs they're fighting, this he won't be attacking the homeland. >> so how much should the united states be involved in combating

the threat still posed by isis? with us now national security analyst, former cia operative bob baer. i know you're working to try to bring some iraqi sunnis to the united states to make their case. i guess against isis right now. but how much of a threat does isis represent? >> well, if it holds on top anbar province which includes mosul, establishes flows of income, really sets up an army, continues to grab more equipment, and take more land and hold onto the mosul dam, it's a threat we've never seen before against this country of the west. it's much more potent than al qaeda. it's the replacement for al qaeda. so the longer this goes on, the longer it stands top continue, to exist. i mean, we really have to get serious about it with the new selection of the prime minister

abbandy. now it's a question of bringing the sunnis who stand against isis and get them to start fighting, as well. this is going to be a long-term battle. there is no choice at this point. >> a lot of sunnis in iraq apparently are sympathetic to isis, isis being sunni and fighting the christians, shiites, the kurds, yazidis. how do you beat isis? >> what needs to be done? >> first of all, we have to around the kurds. they have to be able to defend themselves and be able to hit isis all across the north. secondly you set up and start arming sunnis against isis, let them go back in. what you don't want, wolf is a shia are 0 christian army or kurdish army going into the sunni areas. that will alienate the population more. you want to make the sunnis take back their own part of iraq. i think that's doable. we need a reprice of the awakening which in 2007

destroyed al qaeda. it's possible to bring that back right now. >> it's going to take a lot of time. bob baer, thanks very much. coming up, we're watching the latest developments on the streets of ferguson, missouri. michael brown's family now calling for all the people there to remain calm even though it's been a day of serious anger and lots of confusion.

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good evening. our eyes on the breaking news as protesters now gathering in ferguson, missouri. much more of what's going on there is coming up in a few

minutes, right at the top of the hour. ferguson is one of the many crises that's interrupting president obama's vacation. jim acosta is with the president on martha's vineyard. >> even as president obama pedalled off with the first family and teed off on the golf courses of martha's vineyard. it's the kind of vacation that could use a mulligan. the clashes in ferguson, the crisis in iraq. >> yeah, we're looking forward to it. >> even an attack from hillary clinic to be within cnn legal analyst jeffrey toobin summed it up. >> the president of the united states seems to be on the vacation from hell. >> has it been the vacation from hell? >> i don't think i would use that label. but i think the president has been juggling the idea of getting a respite, some breaks,

taking a time down and resting with staying engaged. >> that means staying connected with susan rice and attorney general. >> we broke the isil siege of mount sinjar. >> it's not surprising that the president has to keep putting on a sport coat or a suit and go out in front of the public. >> mr. obama's defenders say consider his predecessor. the president has taken 125 partial or complete days off. still well behind george w. bush's 407. according to cbs white house correspondent, mark no her. . >> i think most americans can give the president a break for going on vacation. it's a tough job, and we may not like what he's doing but he deserves r and r. >> a few unauthorized photos

found the president cutting a rug on the dance floor. >> we have disagreems as any partners and friends. >> the crisis in iraq and ferguson cooling down at least for the moment. who knows, the president might actually start enjoying himself. >> he's had a few rounds of golf. i wouldn't be surprised if he has a few more before he leaves. >> now the white house is still being second tif about what the president will be up to when he returns back to the white house on sunday night for meetings on monday and tuesday before coming back to martha's vineyard on tuesday night. aides are playing down any expectations for major news. that part of guidance is only par for the course when it comes to covering the president. >> thanks very much, jim acosta for that report. coming up, more on the controversial new surveillance video, police say shows michael brown robbing a convenience store. we're going live to ferguson,

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happening now, breaking news, new video evidence and confusion in the death of the missouri teenager. police linked michael brown to a convenience store robbery and then reveal that's not why he was stopped by the officer who shot him. >> this is the universal code for i sur rend are. and i can hear my cousin's voice right now as i speak saying, don't shoot. >> michael brown's relatives say they're beyond outraged. they just spoke out about the stunning new developments and

they're accusing ferguson police of blaming the victim. will the new information reignite tensions between protesters and police just hours after state troopers took over security and restored calm? our correspondents are on the streets of ferguson right now. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." let's get right to the breaking news. there are new bombshells in the shooting death that sparked massive protests in ferguson, missouri. michael brown's family members just spoke out about this newly released surveillance video. police say it shows the 18-year-old brown was the suspect in a convenience store robbery shortly before the officer shot and killed him. but the police chief later said that he wasn't stopped for the alleged robbery. listen to what brown's cousin said just a little while ago. >> whatever that took place

there had nothing to do with an individual getting down on his hands and knees, raising his hands in the air and saying, don't shoot. this is the universal code for i surrender. and i can hear my cousin's voice right now as i speak saying, don't shoot. yet still the officer stepped to him and shot him is what we heard and that is wrong. we want the truth to come out and we're sure that it will as the day goes on. >> these new developments are fueling anger and confusion among protesters even after they got one of the answers they wanted. the officer who shot brown was finally identified as 28-year-old darren wilson. we're standing by to see if the new calm in ferguson will in fact hold in the coming hours. the state highway patrol captain who took over security is promising to keep the peace tonight. we're covering all of the breaking news in missouri and indeed around the world. let's begin request cnn's don

lemon. he's in ferguson tonight. what is the very latest? >> reporter: the information that you said, wolf. family members just held a press conference, at least one of them wondering why police would release the information of the name and also release the information about the videotape and the alleged robbery on the same day. open then again the police chief saying that the officer who did roll up on michael brown, on that street, noticed after he asked him to get out of the middle of the street, noticed that he had the sig sig rel los in his hand. that he's how the confrontation started. but the man who is in charge and who is calling for peace tonight, ron johnson, is here and he's joining us live. also joining us is dick gregory who is activist and the president of the southern christian leadership conference. first we're going to talk to ron johnson. wolf blitzer is asking about

calm and peace. do you believe that will be the case? >> i think everybody out here is stressing peace. this isn't about ron johnson. they actually policed themselves last night. ron johnson got to sit up on top of the hill and watch tv an stand with pride while i watched them police themselves and smile and talk and wave and hug. so they did it themselves. >> reporter: in light of the new information, and i spoke to the police chief, the ferguson police chief just moments ago and he said he really had no alternative he believes regardless of how he released the information, it was not going to be a good thing. do you agree with that? >> i talked with the police chief after i left the meeting this morning and we talked about that i wish he had of called me this morning or last night and i think we could have maybe had some different alternatives for the video. i told him from here forward that i want to be talked to and spoken to about information such as that. and that i also told him that i think both of those being released today was not needed

and was not the way that we needed to go. today is about taking care of this incident here, getting to those facts that are there, and michael brown and his family. >> reporter: go ahead. wolf blitzer has a question. >> i want you to ask the captain if he could -- there's a report in the "st. louis dispatch" that the police chief is quoted as saying that the officer who stopped michael brown when he was walking in the middle of the street blocking traffic didn't know about the alleged robbery at the convenience store. but once he saw the cigars, all of the sudden he knew there had been alleged robbery, he began to think about that. jackson told the post dispatch that the officer darren wilson saw cigars in brown's hands and realized he might be the robber. i wonder if the captain has any comment on that, knows about that. >> reporter: wolf, i'll ask him. but the interview i told you that i did with tom jackson, he did talk about that and that is

indeed the case, exactly what the post dispatch is writing. we got that confirmed no more than about 15 or 20 minutes ago. we'll ask the captain about that, about the report, about not knowing the officer not knowing about the alleged robbery and then all of the sudden seeing the cigars in the hand of michael brown and that started the confrontation with police. >> that's what the chief told me when i had the meeting. this morning when i watched the news conference it was a little bit different. but it was later. so i asked him about that. but yes, the same thing you repeated is what the chief told me. >> reporter: wolf i want to bring in dick gregory. you've been traveling here and you came here intentionally. >> yes. >> why not? >> to say thanks to the white press. before it happened to the press, it was business as usual. and we see this all the time. you know, this was where the mistake was made in 1968,

slapped up the press. >> reporter: you know, he brings up a good point that the entire world will be watching and they believe that's systematic around the country. do you think that the entire world will be watching and this will be a reflection on this city and also will be an indication of other police departments of how to proceed forward? >> i think this will create change throughout or nation and country. i think we've got a chance to change that. and i think ferguson right now, this is all over the world. and i think police chiefs are watching deciding what they need to do, what they need to do better. i think governors and mayors are talking to their police chief. and i guarantee there's a police chief saying we need to get some diversity training because this could be us next. >> reporter: what's going to happen today? >> we're going to enjoy ourselves. >> yes, we are. >> reporter: all right. vi to get back to wolf blitzer. thank you so much. sorry i didn't get to chance to talking to you.

this thank you for coming out. >> don lemon doing an excellent job on the streets of ferguson for us. jason carroll is also on the streets of ferguson. what's the latest you're hearing from your location, jason? >> reporter: well, wolf, here's what i think a lot of people need to understand about what's happening out here today. the overwhelming majority of the people who are out here on the streets, the demonstrators, the protesters, they know about the surveillance tape and the majority of them do not believe it was michael brown on that tape. that's what we're getting from a number of people that we're speaking to. and the few number of people who do believe that it could be him on the tape -- again, wolf, it's a very small number of people. they say it changes nothing about why they're so angry. and the reason they're angry is because what this boils down to is an unarmed man being shot by a ferguson police officer. also this afternoon, wolf, i had an opportunity to speak with one of michael brown's friends. he went to school with him,

known him for quite some time. he was one of the people out here asking for transparency. people wanting more transparency. he says the release of that videotape did nothing but muddy the waters in his eyes. you knew michael brown and you heard about what the allegations are. what are some of your thoughts about what you're hearing? >> it ain't true what they sayin' about him. he ain't robbed nobody. he ain't that kind of person. >> reporter: how can you know that for sure? >> i used to hang with him when we went to school. classmate of mine. he ain't that type of person. >> reporter: what do you think is going on then? >> i don't know. they -- i don't know. he a big kid. they probably got intimidated or something. >> reporter: and again, ferguson police chief basically saying that he released this videotape because the press had asked for it. he felt no compelling reason to keep it beyond this point, to keep it private beyond this

point. a lot of people out here, wolf, basically saying the release of that tape is nothing short of character assassination. that's what many people out here feel. but in terms of the ways that the demonstrations have been going today, they've been peaceful. vol, as you can hear, but peaceful. >> let's hope it stays peaceful as we watch the live pictures down in ferguson. we've seen the dramatic reduction in tension over the past 24 or 48 hours but will be latest developments change that. let's go to jake tapper. he's got more on what's going on. what are you seeing over there? >> reporter: if you would plan a worse rollout of the information vofl michael brown, i can't imagine. first they release this convenience store footage which seems to show brown in a forced confrontation, a robbery of some sort. then the police chief comes out

later and says that the officer who shot brown did not know about that robbery initially. and now we have information the police chief clarifying both with captain ron john and and don lemon and with the st. louis post dispatch that it was during his encounter that he learned about the robbery of the officer, saw the cigars and connected it. last night was a pleasant night, boisterous wu peaceful. everyone wondering if all of that information is going to change that. is tonight also going to be peaceful. last night the temperature in ferguson seemed to drop from its fever pitch. so far this evening the protests have been rather boisterous and yet they've been absolutely peaceful. no violence yet between the police and the protesters. so far it's been people expressing what they want to express. >> i'm so proud. >> reporter: credit for the turn in town was given mostly to captain ron johnson of the missouri state highway patrol

who took over from local police at order of the governor. >> last night was a great night. >> reporter: it was all quite a contrast to the five nights before, the most violence of which featured mall tof cocktails and police dressed in full military gear. the big question today is whether this peace will hold, given the release of two key details by police, the name of the officer who shot and killed michael brown, darren wilson, a six year veteran of the force, and these security images of brown which police say show him robbing unarmed a convenience store before the shooting. johnson says the streets of ferguson will remain peaceful. >> you're going to see a bunch of hugs and smiles. >> reporter: the choice of him to lead the confrontation here was a strategic move and it is

working. he has not hissed a chance to talk directly with the community here in his hometown. >> i'm going to tell you i'll stand here but if the crowd can't hear me i'm going to step out there. i'm sure to make sure they hear what i say. i'm going to step out here. >> reporter: he made sure he was in the mix with the people marching on the streets. >> we do need to do something different and we're doing that. and we are going to do that. and it's -- sometimes you just have to not just listen to people, let people speak and listen. so like i used to tell me kids when they were small, open up your listening ears. so now i have mine on. >> good luck to you subpoe, sir. thank you. >> reporter: it's up to others to answer the questions about still linger about what happened, questions that people here in ferguson and across the nation want answered. this man said he witnessed the shooting. >> he turned around and put his

arms um immediately realizing that he was shot and the officer had his gun raised already and multiple shots to his chest, to his stomach and then more to his head, you know. >> reporter: he had his hands up and he was walking about the officer shot him repeatedly? his body? >> repeatedly in his body. repeatedly. repeatedly. you know what i'm saying? skblr that's horrifying. >> very horrifying. >> reporter: a horrifying reality for the people of ferguson who want to know what happened to mike brown even after the politics and the protests subside. and, wolf, as you saw just a few minutes ago, captain johnson is here among the people of ferguson. so far all seems calm. no sign of any of those militarized presence of the police. everything is calm. be with all of the information coming out in drips and draps and seemingly contradictory.

it would be understandable if people got angry and upset as they have in the past. everyone is hoping for no more violence. >> we see the crowds developing and they're peaceful right now. let's hope it stays that way. let's continue the conversation. joining us now from ferguson, john gas. thanks for much more joining us. what's your bottom line take on the latest developments, the family calling the release of these videotapes, the release of the information involving the alleged robbery of the convenience store, the cigars by michael brown. they're suggesting it was character assassination deliberately done on the name that they released the name of the police officer who shot and killed him. your reaction. >> well, the family certainly has a right and is entitled to feel that way, to release that kind of footage the same day at the same moment that they release the name that the world

has been desperately asking for, is completely -- it has to be some type of strategy for the local law enforcement to somewhat justify. at least it appears that that's what they may be trying to do to justify why this young man was killed. but -- it may be a way to try to side track folks. but we want people to know that the naacp is not sidetracked. i can tell you no one has been sidetracked by the fact that that video has been released. here locally anytime any robbery takes place, the first thing you see on the evening news is the footage of the surveillance camera. if they wanted to release this information so badly, why wasn't that footage released the night that mike brown was killed? why does it have to be a secret for four days? >> do you have confidence in the ferguson police department?

>> well, i'll say this much. the ferguson police department has a lot of evaluating that they need to do as a law enforcement agency here on the ground within a local neighborhood. they've got a lot of work to do internally. and we, as an organization, just like the people, our confidence is at an awe-time low for the leadership within that community, especially within the police department. >> we're told that the police officer who shot and killed mike. brown, darren wilson, 28 years old, he's now been identified, he's on leave with pay. but there are a lot of folks in your community there, whether in st. louis or ferguson or elsewhere who want him to be fired if not arrested right away. what do you think? >> well, the city of ferguson, like i just mentioned to you, wolf, they need to consider evaluating their leadership. when you take the oath of office, you take an oath to

place yourse pledge yourself to the policy and the city, not to one individual employee. they need to evaluate very closely, are they going to stand with one employee or are they going to stand with the neighborhood, the people of this community that are calling for accountability. and that needs to, in light of this terrible incident and in light of the fact, all of the negativity that's being shed on their city, i suggest that they consult with public relations first and obviously with their attorney on this matter immediately. >> but you want a full and thorough investigation of exactly what happened before any major decisions as far as charges being filed against the police officer or anyone else for that matter are completed? >> absolutely. we want to ensure that there is no bias. we've got some concerns here locally about things that are going on. we have confidence with the justice department and the other authorities that are involved. and you've got other organizations here, like that

aclu and the naacp that have their eyes on this. it's my hope that they know we're on the job and we're not messing around with this thing. >> and you have confidence with the state highway patrol, captain ron johnson who has taken control of security there? >> we are very proud of mr. johnson for his family being courageous enough to lend him as an instrument for peace and lend him, lend his leadership and his reputation as a law enforcement officer. i went over there last night. let me tell you, the temperature is quite different. and, you know, it's unfortunate that we have to wait this long to get somebody like mr. johnson involved. but the strategy he's using is something that the naacp has been encouraging all along. >> john gaskin of the naacp. thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. still ahead, members of congress are responding to the

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we're following the breaking news out of ferguson, missouri. we're watching to see if the protests remain peaceful tonight. we certainly hope they will after a day of dramatic developments in the shooting death of the unarmed teenager michael brown. violent clashes between police and protesters earlier in the week have led to calls to congress to demilitaryize police across america. brian todd is taking a look at this part of the story. >> tonight top political leaders across the country, democrat and republican are saying enough is enough when it comes time to

giving law enforcement officers whatever machine guns, armored vehicles they want. time to shut down that pipeline from the pentagon to police. many of their armored vehicles and machine guns came from washington. now some of washington's power players want to take them back. in the wake of the shooting death of miking brown in ferguson, republican senator rand paul is calling for the demilita demilitary zags of police. dolling out the equipment to police department has created small armies and is causing a systemic problem with today's law enforcement. paul's sentiments are echoed across the aisle by eric holder, democrat senator of missouri and georgia congressman hang johnson. >> you don't have to police while in an armored vehicle.

it's not con deuciducive to you serving the people. it serves opportunity for you to impose your will on people or to intimidate. >> johnson, paul and mccaskill on on homeland security committees and johnson is pushing a bill to turnt that spig got to police off. he's likely to get strong resistance from police unions and local chiefs chls it's s.w.a.t. teams. that's who's out there, police. we're doing this in blue. >> to me it represents a deep disconnect between the public and the police if the police are looking at the rest of the images that the rest of the country saw. >> according to cnn law enforcement analyst mike brooks, a formal tactical unit officer, police have to be ready for scenes like sandy hook. active shooter situations where

the police could come under fire. >> so what's law enforcement supposed to do, go out there with any helmets or vests, without any kind of armored vehicles? no. if you're being shot at -- police officers aren't paid to get killed. >> the new man in charge of keeping the peace in ferguson has been drawn into this controversy and we'll treading very carley. captain ron johnson said there are times when we have to use our s.w.a.t. teams and times when it's not appropriate. he also said, quote, i don't know about mine resistant trucks. >> all right, brian. thanks very much. let bring in our panel. tom fuentes and trial stoern jay wendell. >> if you check across the country, almost every police department will tell you that crime is down. crime being down, why do you

need the heavy equipment to police the communities. it's far too much at this time. >> you speak to police in a big city like new york or l.a. or chicago, they're worried about another 9/11. they say they need this kind of heavy equipment. >> this equipment didn't come -- really part of it is we're going to hold off al qaeda and isis from invading the heartland. that might be part of the logic. the idea started with the drug cartels, gangsters that have engaged the police. we had this back to the john dill jer days. we just had the stayoff in nevada recently where the bureau of land management members were outgunned. so you have people in this country out there with many huge amount of fire power and there are times when the police absolutely would need this. not all the time and it can be often misused as it might have been in this incident in

ferguson where you need to have that hidden, you know, put it, stage it somewhere where it's not in the face of the demonstrators. >> i guess the argument is the other night in ferguson you saw the police coming out with gas masks, throwing -- and dealing with this looking very militarized, if you will? >> the issue of whether they have it or not is irrelevant. i could care less if thaw have it. it's not about the weapons. it's about sort of how they use it. hats off the captain johnson because she's showing how community policing should work. he's showing how you bring calm and that community is embracing him. look, this community doesn't hate police. they just want that same level of respect of any community. and you see the difference when that respect is given. >> he's obviously sensitive to all of this as well. jay wendell, there seems to be a difference of opinion between captain johnson and the ferguson

police chief, thomas jackson, as to why the ferguson police department released the video of michael brown allegedly robbing this convenience store, stealing some cigars. listen to what ron johnson told our don lemon just a little while ago. >> on their initial contact, it was simply that he was coming from a case, saw two men walking down the street blocking traffic. and he pulled up and asked them to get on to the sidewalk. and as as he passed them, that's when he might have seen the evidence and connected it. but his initial contact was strictly pedestrian. >> reporter: what do you mean seen the evidence? >> there was a broadcast that went out about a stealing and there were cigars stolen, a couple boxes of cigars. >> so that was the police chief of ferguson, thomas jackson, saying that once the police

officer stopped michael brown and he saw some cigars, then he began to think, well, maybe he was involved in that alleged robbery as opposed to earlier. we didn't have the clip there in ron johnson, the captain from this state troopers saying maybe releasing all of that videotape today was not necessarily a good idea. your thoughts? >> it comes from the police officer's play book, the three d's deny, discredit and destroy. this is all a part of it. with regard to what the police officer is saying, first it's a stealing, a robbery, two different charges. a stealing doesn't give the officer authority to arrest anyway because it's a misdemeanor that he did not witness. he didn't even have authority to arrest. if you take everything that the police chief said as true. now that that has occurred, this police officer is alleged to have tried to arrest him within his vehicle, that is he's trying to engage in some type of police

contact which involves fiscal force sitting in the seat of his vehicle. that doesn't make sense. and then for michael brown to have been killed 35 feet away from the police cruiser, his story doesn't make sense. what makes sense the way dorian explained it. the police officer jammed on his break because they did not get out of the street for the police officer's pleasure. >> tom. >> there's so much confusion with this whole incident. and again, what does officer wilson have in his mind? is he aware that there's been a robbery, you know -- >> the ferguson police chief, he sees the cigars and all of the sudden he begins to think, maybe this is the guy that robbed the convenience. >> here's the chief calling it stealing. stealing is shoplifting. it's not robbery. so if officer wilson knows that these two possibly were involved in a felony, this escalates the emotion in his mind as he

approaches them and deals with them trying to affect an arrest. that's confusion. we've had different stories come out. there was a strong arm robbery. now it's stealing. that's a different crime. >> hold on for a moment. don lemon is with us. don, i guess one of the most frustrating things is we keep getting conflicting accounts really of what happened. you learn one thing and then an hour or two later you learn something else. this is a problem. >> reporter: yeah, it is a problem, wolf. and you're going to keep chasing me all evening because i just did an interview that explains what happened in the convenience store as well. and that also explains more about what the chief said, what went on about the cigars. i just interviewed the attorney of jordan -- i forget his last name -- dorian johnson and he explained what a happened about his client, why his client won't be charge, about the police

seeing the cigars on the street. it's a little bit confusing. but as you know on these stories, we always get this incremental developments. we have to confirm it more. >> what did you learn with the interview from dorian johnson? dorian johnson being a friend of michael brown who was in the convenience store with him and then later he was with him when he was shot and killed, if you will. >> reporter: yeah. so in that videotape that you see from the convenience store, he is the other person there. and according to the attorney again, all of this interview is going to air in its entirety tonight, ac 360. i'll be anchoring it. they were in the store and he calls him big mike. you see mike leaning into the counter and pulling cigarettes. looks like he's talking to somebody behind the counter.

but according to the attorney, big mike goes and he takes some cigars from behind the counter and he puts some in the bag or hands them to door onand dorian says, i don't do that. and then big mike grabs more and puts them in the bag, dorian says i don't steal, i don't do that. he walks out of the store. that's when the clerk try to stop him. but again he is saying, dorian is saying i don't steal. michael brown is not here to defend himself. according to the attorney he says that's what his client says and that's what the videotape shows. and that's probably one reason that dorian johnson has nop been charged is because of that videotape. and he's saying that his client dorian johnson told the fbi investigators this from the very beginning and that he has been telling people that, the media as well, about this convenience store alleged stealing that he calls it. he doesn't call it a robbery.

he calls it a threat. he doesn't like the term strong arm robbery. that is no revelation to him and it should be no revelation to anybody else. >> we're going to watch your special at 9:00 p.m. later tonight. cornell, i's not flattering of michael brown, the video images that were released today, showing him allegedly stealing the cigars and pushing the clerk back >> i hate this because of smacks of politics. this is right from a political play book of what you do to make somebody look sympathetic. they have nothing to do with each other, whether he's a perfect american or imperfect american, he has the same rights. >> certainly if he raised his hands to surrender, he did not deserve to be shot. that's the allegation. much more on the breaks news coming. we're going back live to ferguson, missouri. we're watching the latest dramatic developments of the shooting death of michael brown. we're also watching major breaking news in ukraine.

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there's other breaking news we're follow. this time in ukraine. allegations of a russian incursion into ukraine. the government of kiev says its forces destroyed much of a russian military convoy that crossed from russia into ukraine. our chief national security correspondent jim skew skut to is working the case. >> however, the white house reiterating its concern about repeated russian and russian suspected unkurgss into ukraine. this is something they've watched very closely. while u.s. official wills not confirm this attack. i'm spoken to ukrainian officials and they're adamant. the president of ukraine tweeting earlier, at night much of the armored vehicles he said, which entered ukraine have been destroyed by the ukrainian artillery and we will not tolerate any invasion. they say they're gravely

concerned. the convoy of russian armored carriers had just crossed into ukraine when the ukrainian military struck, shelling the convoy and partially destroying it. moscow insisted that no russian military vehicles crossed the border at all. >> translator: every russian military column is constantly watched. we cannot destroy them on the border. that's why we use the tactics of letting them move deep into our territory and then destroying them there. >> reporter: the military vehicles came in addition to a larger convoy, this long white line of trucks which is russian government insisted delivering only humanitarian aid. but they found many of the trucks largely empty. and visible nearby, large column of russian tanks parked on the

road. part of a massive russian force now deployed within miles of the ukrainian border. today the international red cross told cnn it is negotiating an agreement with moscow to arrange for the aid to be delivered after a thorough inspection. >> they will be driven and unloaded. the trucks turn around and go back. >> that takes away the chance that other things can sneak their way into the country. >> my assumption is that's exactly the reason. >> chuck hagel spoke to his russian counter part earlier today who, goat, guaranteed there are no military personnel in that aid convoy. but the fear is that that convoy was just a diversion. and to be clear this is not the first time the u.s. observed russia sending chevy weapons into ukraine. if it continues, it will bring tighter restrictions from the u.s.

stealth invasion. >> thanks very much. just ahead, we're going back to ferguson, missouri. the stunning turn of events in the michael brown shooting case.

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take a look at these live pictures from ferguson, missouri. don lemon is in the middle of

the crowd. they are gathering for another night of protests. people are gathering there on the day of dramatic developments involving the police shooting of michael brown, the 18-year-old killed on saturday. conflicting accounts of what exactly happened and of course as you know earlier in the day the videotape of an alleged robbery in a store of michael brown pushing the clerk and people are upset that was released. this video released the same day as the name of the police officer who shot and killed michael brown who was released as well. they are saying this is a smear campaign for michael brown's family. right now there's going to be a night of more people gathering friday in ferguson. we're going to have extensive coverage throughout the night.

i'll be back at 8:00 on "ac360." at 9:00, don lemon he has been in the middle of this all day. don lemon will have a special for us at 9:00 p.m. eastern and an "ac360" special. but you can see the crowds beginning to gather and everyone hoping it will be quiet and peaceful. there is a new state trooper who is in charge and brought in by the governor who seems to have the confidence of the local folks who are very, very upset over what happened to that young man, 18 years old and now we're getting information about what he was doing only moments before he was shot and killed by that police officer. lawyers for the family do confirm by the way that was michael brown in the videotape released by the police. the ferguson police department involving that alleged robbery at that convenience store. much more news coming up.

you can always follow us on twitter, tweet me @wolfblitzer. join us monday in "the situation room." watch us live or dvr the show. "outfront" starts now. >> bombshell video released allegedly of michael brown robbing a convenience store. does it explain why a police officer gunned him down? we're live in ferguson, missouri where tensions are high. out today the name of the cop who fired the shot. plus the pope's new pope mobile. we're going to show it to you tonight. let's go "outfront." >> i'm erin burnett. "outfront" breaking news, confusion in