breaking overnight, the senate approves a $1.1 trillion budget bill to keep the government running. now it's now waiting for president obama's signature. we'll talk about that. >> plus, it's not over yet. thousands from around the country gather in washington to protest the death of unarmed men killed by police and today the five are echoing in thousands of churches. >> this is happening as we get new details into what the grand jury in ferguson heard and why they decided not to indict darren wilson in the shooting death of michael brown. >> you're up early on sunday.

we're glad you're keeping us company. >> 6:00 here on the east coast. i have to correct something. it wasn't a budget bill. congress doesn't pass budgets anymore. this is a continuing resolution to keep things going. >> we need to keep going this morning. >> yes. >> in a lot of ways. listen, we get breaking news overnight. we talk about how the senate got it done. the key is for now. >> yes, for now. this is after they approved the spending bill. the bill is now headed to president obama's desk. cnn's erin mcpike is live in washington. do we know when the president will sign this? >> president obama likely will sign it either today, possibly tomorrow morning. but you may remember that yesterday or really late last night president obama did sign that short term extension that

funded the government through this coming wednesday. and then after the senate passed that last night, they took up the entire spending bill. they had a procedural vote and allowed ted cruz a small vote on his amendment. about defunding this little measure that would strip funding from president obama's executive order on immigration. that failed. i want to play for you what ted cruz said on the senate floor last night. >> tonight we'll see if they can stand with president to define the million voters or americans that want a safe and legal immigration fim system. this point of order is

specifically to the funding that will be spent unconstitutionally. if you believe president obama's amnesty is unconstitutional, vote yes. >> now that particular vote failed. then they went ahead with final passage. listen to harry reid talks about cruz after that vote. >> he raised a point of order pending the legislation on the grounds that the president has acted unconstitutionally. the junior senator from texas is wrong, wrong, wrong on several accounts. most importantly for thus evening is an attack on this bill because it's not an appropriate place to beat the constitutionality of any branch action. >> and because they appeased ted cruz by giving him this vote,

they were able to hold the vote on the bigger bill that will fund the government through september 30th. they got that all done last night. >> no what does this battle tell us about the incoming battle for mitch mcconnell? >> he is certainly going to have some problems on the far right with both ted cruz and mike lee, the republican senator from utah, also a junior senator who objected on friday night and sent this legislation into this procedural mess all weekend long. we did hear from a number of senate republicans yesterday. really republicans are throughout washington who are very fed up with ted cruz and mike lee for what they say are are antics. they say this is not the way for conservatives to do what they want to do. >> all right. erin mcpike, thank you so much. there is renewed hope this morning that congress will hear

the protesters against police violence and lawmakers will do something about it. >> thousands of demonstrators turned out in cities across the country. ft. lauderdale and boston and san francisco, chicago. let's go to boston first. nearly two dozen demonstrators were arrested when police said they tried to shove past the line of officers. >> but washington is the city where four moms took their voices. the families trayvon martin, michael brown, rice and eric garner. all four boys killed by bullets of police. garner's mother addressed the huge crowd there in washington. >> it's just so overwhelming to see all of you that came to stand with us today. i mean look at the masses. black, white, all races, all

religions. this is just a great moment. this is a history making moment. >> that's right. >> let's go to our reporter in d.c. you heard there garner's mother talked about all of the diverse group and she saw people there of all ages and races. i imagine that's what everybody saw. >> this crowd was peaceful but empassioned. the mood is really one of focus. protesters seemed like they had a task to do and they took that task very seriously. and organizers say they were going for size and symbolism. symbolism in choosing spence avenue, a very iconic street in washington, d.c., to hold this march. and we marched every step if start to finish, nearly a mile, with the protesters. we met people if all over pennsylvania, connecticut, florida, all who had either driven overnight just to be here. and they all had one message for congress. that specifically was that they want to see change.

they want to see a change in the law. and they do want to see hearings in the new year. here is a bit from one conversation i had. >> black lives matter. one day i'm going to have a black child. i want him to be safe in the united states. >> what do you think being out here will accomplish? >> i think it's showing everyone that everyone is coming together to take a stand. racism can no longer be a thing. >> you're marching to capitol hill. what is your message to congress? >> our message to congress is to take black lives seriously and make changes so we all can live in america and see the land of the free. >> it is emotional for you to be out here today? >> to me this is the most beautiful thing to see so many different people of ages and races coming to take a stand together to, yes, it's very emotional. >> i was most struck by the feeling that protesters had this is a moment in history, hashgenning to the same sorts of marches that happened here in d.c. during the 1960s. one woman i spoke to said in a her father marched in the civil rights marches of the '60s.

she called him. and he said i'm very proud of you. so really that sends, especially from the majority of young people here in the group that there is a sense that they're picking up the baton from previous generation who started this march. and that march really does continue. >> all right. we appreciate it. thank you. this morning thousands of churches across the country are hosting black lives matter sunday to remind the nation how important the lives of african-americans are. >> the majority of protesters and the protests across the country were peaceful. but in new york overnight, meese say protesters attacked two officers on the brooklyn bridge as they were trying to arrest a man who threw a garbage can into the street. according to police, the group attempted to steal their portable radios and tear away their police identification jackets. listen. >> this is where we have to draw the line. we want to facilitate the protesters. people have a right to protest.

we also have to balance their right to protest with the rights of the other 8 1/2 million new yorkers. if our cops are assaulted, that's where we have to drop the line. that's when arrests are being made. when there is property damage, we'll make arrests. >> she's individuals are not interested in lawful, orderly protest. they have their own agenda. part of that aagenda why that is demonstrated is to create physical violent conflicts in some cases with police officers and commit acts of property damage. >> this morning the two injured officers are recovering in the hospital. >> also breaking overnight, in oakland, california, at least 45 people were arrested. and there were several reports of vandalism including broken windows, small fires. easterly i didn't rememberer protest that's included around 3,000 people were peaceful though. police say a crowd of about 500 remained for protests hatlater the day. >> people in california are mopping up after that powerful

storm pummelled the drought stricken state. there were mudslides, power outages and a tornado in southern los angeles. more rain may be on the way. karen mcguinness joins us now. karen, they've had enough. more storms coming. >> that is ironic that they would be tired of the rainfall so quickly because the entire year they've been in severe or extreme drought. but this is much needed winter moisture. farmers and growers really rely on it. across the south in the united states at that same storm system is going to inject out of the interior west pulling to the south central plains and produce scattered or isolated thunderstorms. mostly what we're looking at are are some high winds and the possibility of hail. you can't rule out the potential for isolated tornado. we get that returned flow from the gulf of mexico and into texas. it's going to be fairly breezy over the next 24 hours or so.

so watch that one weather system pull away. the next one moves on shore to california. how much rainfall are we expecting from this next system? it's not going to be just the one system. there is another one that lies right behind this. in northern california, he could see one to four inches of rainfall. potential for flooding and localized mudslides. back to you. >> wour. karen, thank you so much. a man from texas, he makes his way to north korea illegally and then holds a news conference there and said some -- i guess it would be fair to say -- not so flattering things about the u.s. plus, high drama from a low speed car chase. this woman is trying to evade police while driving with her six kids in the car. alright, so this tylenol arthritis lasts 8 hours but aleve can last 12 hours. and aleve is proven to

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the senate passed a massive spending man included in the $1.1 trillion bill are changes to banking regulations. the critics say they will allow banks to make risky trades with customer's money and put taxpayers back on the hope for potential bailouts. the winner of the 2014 heisman memorial trophy is marcus mariota of the university of oregon. >> there he is. quarterback marcus mariota won college football's most prestigious award last night. he is a junior and the first player from the university of oregon and first native of hawaii to win the heisman on january 1st. congratulations to him. a man who says he's from el paso, texas, says he illegally crossed into north korea n a

news conference this morning, he bad mouthed the united states, to say it plainly, political and economic system in the u.s. martinez said he first tried to get into north korea by crossing a river along the south korean border but failed. he was successful when trying again from a river in china. they also explained why he chose north korea. [ inaudible ] >> all right, that was a little difficult to hear. hopefully we get the words up on the screen. will rippley joins me with more on the story. will, we have to mention that there are questions about his meantal state. why did he choose north korea and these mental concerns.

>> yeah, victor. we spoke with his mother and i listened to that full statement that he gave to a packed room in pyongyang. and his mother in el paso tells us that he has a history of mental instability. he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder is and off his medication when on the second attempt to cross into north korea by way of beijing, a successful attempt in november, just days after the american diplomat james plaquer went in and retrieved matthew miller. this 29-year-old shows up in pyongyang and says he wants to give them information about the united states and he went on essentially a long rant calling the united states essentially a large scale mafia, accusing billionaires of controlling the political system in the u.s. and trying to take over the world. victor, he also talked about ufo sightings and devices being implanted in people's heads to give them voices in their heads. but, of course, north korea, they have an american citizen in their capital city and they

broadcast this message to their country to them they say this is proof that the united states is the bad guy and that north korea is innocent of the growing course of allegations internationally this country has engaged in widespread human rights abuses of tens of thousands of people. >> he appears to have their full attention. what is his status now? he's not a prisoner. he is free to leave the country? >> according to what he said, he thanked the government for pardonening him of his crime of illegally entering the country and giving him a lavish reception, essentially. he wore a suit and tie. he also said that he plans to seek asylum in venezuela after he leaves the country. when i reached out to my north korea government source who tipped us off about this and helped cnn break the story, i asked if he was free to go or still under criminal investigation. a source told me no comment. we have to wait and see what happens. >> all right. will rippley sorting this out.

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we're learning an auburn university football player was shot and killed early this morning. this lapphappened at an apartme complex. >> police are searching for the suspect in the 18-year-old's death. the freshman from alabama was expectsed to be in the running for a starting spot next season at the halfback and the tight end position. so we'll continue to follow that. >> meanwhile, tens of thousands of people gathered yesterday across the country. protesting police violence against african-american men. demonstrations largely were peaceful. now there were a few pockets of violence. in new york, police say two officers were attacked by demonstrators. and in oakland, 40 protesters were arrested. >> the prosecutor in ferguson, missouri, has released hundreds of peevously secret documents from the grand jury's inquiry into michael brown's death. the probe includes the transcript that would interview that doran johnson, the friend with brown when killed by an

officer, that one said he had with the fbi days after the shooting. now that interview is consistent with others johnson did including testifying before the grand jury. in them, johnson says officer darren wilson grabbed michael brown. brown was shot while running away from wilson, and that brown's hands were up when he was shot. but while johnson's story has been consistent, that's not always the case with other eyewitnesses. >> they were joined by the rest of the receiving corps. >> the now universal sign of the ferguson protests, rams players igniting a firestorm of their own on national television. >> hands up, don't shoot! >> the grand jury ultimately rejkted this motion saying it lacked probable cause that an unarmed michael brown had his hands up in surrender. but how is it in the seconds after michael brown was shot that witnesses recording or

recorded from three different angles testified to the grand jury wildly differing accounts of that critical moment from this recording, audio from a man saying he saw bran moving towards the officer. then there's this video, this contractor throws his hands up moments after the shooting and others also testified brown did not run towards the officer. >> he turns around and faces the officer and puts his hands up. the officer continues to shoot him until he goes down to the ground. >> who is telling the truth? maybe everyone, or at least they believe they are. >> just because someone tells you something with a lot of detail. just because they say it with confidence, just because they express it with emotion, it doesn't mean that it really happened that way. over and over again eyewitnesses

are often wrong. the trayvon martin case, one witness saw a black man with a hoodie on top of a white man. another witness recalls a man with a white shirt on top of another. the 2002 d.c. sniper shootings, multiple witnesses described a white van or box truck. police shut down freeways to frisk scores of van drivers. but the real car used, a blue chevy four door sedan. the 1995 oklahoma city bombing, a key eyewitness rented timothy mcveigh and john doe number two the ryder truck that used the bombs carried in the attack. but there was no john doe number two. that witness was not intentionally lying. a memory is flawed and affected by stress. the major cause of wrongful convictions is faulty eyewitness testimony. that's the major cause. and it's responsible and maybe about three quarters of the

cases. >> now while a lot of witnesses obviously do their best to tell the ferguson grand jury what they remembered, it does appear that there were also some who may have simply lied. there is a story this morning on cnn.com that looks at specific parts of the testimony. we're overseeing a team sifting through the thousands of pages of the documents so far. what are you finding? >> some of these people actually got up there and said, yeah, i lied. or part way through the testimony said okay, i was lying to you before this. as we've been piecing through this, we're putting together a series of stories that we'll release. i can tell you right now, the first one is out this morning. it's on cnn.com right now. what we're looking at is a series of people who were brought forward to the ferguson grand jury only so that it could be proven that they had no credibility. either because they were lying straight up or because their credibility was so severely damaged in other ways, the ferguson grand jury sat through hours of testimony that was not

helpful in trying to figure out what may or may not have happened. let me give you a couple examples. we'll start with witness number 35 who gave the dramatic descriptions. these are people on both sides. this is someone very much on pro michael brown contingent. so he gave the dramatic descriptions. then a grand jurors asks him at one point, the juror says, are you telling us that the only things that true about all of your statements before this is that you saw that police officer shoot him at point blank range? and he says, yes. he acknowledges everything he said up to that point was totally false. here's someone on other side, someone very pro officer wilson. he created a group to support him. gets all the fantastic descriptions and then starts to fall apart. the prosecutor asks her is it possible that you just dreamed that you dreamed about this after it happened and it feels real to you? that you were up there. she says, i never dreamed about it. she's an example of someone that has no credibility. by the time they got to that point in her testimony, they established she is running a pro

wilson group she posted a racist rant on the day that it happened. but there is no sign that her car was even ever there. she is on medication and has memory problems. so what we found is a series of witnesses, not majority, but people who were brought forward and factually were not helpful to any grand jurors in trying to figure out what could have happened. >> why were some of these people brought into the grand jury? was it just so the grand jury could say we covered all our bases? >> that is possible. i've been asking the legal teams about this. why would you take hours of time for the people when it's clearly not helpful testimony in that respect? you have the two contingents. you have an analyst that feels they wanted to give a big jumbled confusing case because if they did that, then there's a good chance that wilson would be exonerated. but then there is another contingent that said they knew there would be a federal investigation. there is all the scrutiny afterwards. and they want to be able to say we tossed everything at the

grand jury, everything we heard, anything from everyone we put it all out there. there are the two different theories as to why it happened. but what is not in doubt is that a lot of people, a series of people, were brought in here that were lying or just completely not believable. >> wow. all right. again, you can see all of that on cnn.com. thank you so much. >> you got it. marching for answers. the protesters joined the family of a teenager who was found hanged in north carolina. local authorities ruled that he killed himself but now the fbi is looking into the case. we got that story next.

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17-year-old. he was found hanging from a trailer park swing set in august. the state authorities ruled he killed himself but his mother and brother say that's absurd. they say he was found wearing shoes that were not his and that belts around his neck did not belong to him. i sat down and talked with his mother and brother. >> his size, stature does not add up to him being capable of, i mean, just constructing all of this alone in the dark. >> that's all i ask for what is due rightfully to my familiar i had. justice. prove to me what happened to my child. >> the naacp says the north carolina state bureau of investigation dz not follow basic guidelines. it also says the state chief medical examiner didn't have all the information about the death scene before she ruled lacy's death a suicide. >> there are too many questions and it very well could be a

lynching or staged lynching. we don't know. but what we do know is there has to be a serious and full investigation of these matters. and that is now what is happening. the fbi is now looking into this case. we'll have much more on this next hour. >> also want to get you the other stories making headlines. we start in georgia. two young children have died in a house fire. firefighters say they found five kids alone inside that house. no adults at home at the time. a 10-year-old is in critical condition and two children were able to escape. turning overseas to japan, elections are under way. media exit polls are predicting a land slide victory for the prime min stister shinzo abe. he called snap elections to boost support for the economic reform measures. the world's third largest economy slipped back into recession late last year. secretary of state john kerry due to meet today with russian foreign minister sur guy

labrov in rome. now ukraine, syria, and current initiatives at the u.n. are are also on that docket. a merry christmas from prince george. britain's royal toddler celebrating the season in his new christmas portrait. if you look closely there, can you see royal guards knitted on to the sweater vest. the photos were taken last month at his home. >> that's my favorite. >> i know. isn't that great? >> i heard a rumor that they released these to thank the paparazzi for leaving them alone most of the year. isn't that enough? >> he is a cutie. >> all right. >> yeah, that's the best. >> a weekend of violence in afghanistan. some u.s. soldiers are among the casualties. and the taliban is claiming responsibility for several of the attacks. so is afghanistan now turning in the direction of iraq? we'll ask our military experts to weigh in.

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in afghanistan, two american soldiers and 19 afghans have been killed in multiple attacks this weekend. the attacks all took place in eastern afghanistan. here's what we know. in the latest, a bomb exploded hitting a convoy of nato-led troops that included two u.s. soldiers. separately, 12 afghan civilians were attacked while clearing mines. also unknown gunmen shot to death an afghan judicial official. a suicide bomber targeted a bus killing six afghan soldiers. the taliban claimed responsibility for some of the attacks. we want to bring in cnn's global affair analyst james reese.

colonel, thank you for being with us. we're going to get to afghanistan in a minute. you're in fallujah, iraq right now. how are iraqis reacting to the cia torture report that came out this week? >> yeah, good morning and good afternoon. i've been talking to iraqis all week long, folks i know very well and just folks on the street about that same issue. and it's very interesting. economists say it's in god's hands. it's an american problem. and, you know, a lot of them said, hey, we've done the same thing. so from the man on street perspective, there is one perspective. then you have the political perspective that folks try to use this against the americans not being moral and high character as we are. >> okay. i want to switch it -- thank you for that. i want to switch to the afghanistan situation. what do you think is the cause of the sudden flare-up that we're talking about this morning? >> well, unfortunately, it's not a sudden flare-up.

it's just with the u.s. drawdown going on and the reactions to what we're watching with the political aspects and the new leadership in afghanistan, it's just a new spotlight back in afghanistan. what we as the u.s. and, you know, the department of defense has to take a lot of cautious with as we start moving out we start smelling the barn and we got to be very careful as we're redeploying soldiers out of there. you have to be careful. we have to provide for protection and keep them safe. afghanistan is a very, very dangerous situation. >> do you think the taliban has the capacity and resources to turn afghanistan into what we're seeing happening in iraq with isis? >> i do. the taliban is a strong organization. they have good leadership. they can move around very quickly. but again at the end of the day, this has to be an afghan problem solving issue. we need to stay. we just cannot bail out of them. we have to stay. those force that's are staying

have got to continue to help, advise, help and assist and support and make sure they're doing this. so we're going to be there a long time. it's not something we need to pull out and waste all the hast 13 years. >> do you have any indication of how prepared afghan forces are are to take on that task themselves? >> you know, it's hit or miss at times. afghans have a absolutely outstanding special operations force. but just like the american force, it's small. it's finite. it can't be used everywhere. so the afghans have to put that national army together. they have a pretty good national police force. but one of the things we have got to do as americans, we can't go in there and try to put our values on top of them, advising and training their folks. we have to figure out what values motivate the afghans and do that. that becomes one of the sticking points we have and one of our issues is to try to put american values on. it doesn't work most of the

time. >> so, colonel, lastly, because you're in fallujah, wondering what you're seeing there in iraq in terms of iraqi forces and their ability and capabilities right now. >> well, the iraqi forces the last couple weeks, especially up north, have started to pick up some ground. there are some of the shia militia up in somara and they're slugging it out with isis right now and there have been posting some pictures that are gruesome. out west, it continues to go back and forth. just over my right shoulder here, there was multiple explosions about 30 minutes ago. you can see the black smoke flying up from there. again, it's going to be a long one. the iraqis are committed to doing this. baghdad is very well secure. but you see the iraqi forces moving around and it's good to see after spending all these years here in the past.

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this tuesday night cnn will introduce some extraordinary people who have done extraordinary things in 2014. >> you're one of them. a state highway patrol captain who worked to restore peace in ferguson, missouri. here is don lemon with a preview. >> it seemed like something out of the '60s. >> with ferguson cops at the middle of the controversy -- the governor turned to the highway patrol. >> today i'm announcing that the highway patrol under the supervision of ron johnson who grew up in this area will be directing the team that provides security. >> when i became a policeman, it was amazing. >> and this community never needed him more than in this moment. >> whether the governor called you, you were probably telling everybody, i don't think so. but did you know?

>> i don't think i wanted to know because of the magnitude was so large. not flowing if was strong enough to face it. >> you didn't think you could do it? >> no. >> johnson took action immediately. >> we have the approach that we're in this together. >> i love the press conference. i knew he was a march that was going to occur and the pastor and i was in charge of that. i knew her. and so i asked her if i could march with the group. >> johnson overcame the pastor's objections and started the healing by joining the marchers. >> she looked at me. she said, i want you to march in fropt with me. i tell people that was a changing point. >> don't miss captain johnson on the cnn special "extraordinary people" this tuesday night at 9:00 eastern.

it didn't come easy. the deal is done in d.c. in an extraordinary saturday night session, the senate ok'd that controversial budget bill. so now president obama has to sign the dotted line. can the anger and frustration now be turned into action? tens of thousands rally across the nation demanding an end to deadly force by police against unarmed black men. >> and bill cosby has a message for the media. what the comedian is saying after weeks of silence now. >> all right. you made it to sunday. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to have you with us. let's get to this breaking news. this is big. the senate got it done. and now the threat of another government shutdown is off the table. of course, at least for a while.

>> that's after a bipartisan group of lawmakers approved a controversial $1.1 trillion spending bill. that bill, of course, now headed to president obama's desk. >> erin mcpike is live in washington with the latest. erin? >> you said it. it was bipartisan. it passed 56-40. here's who voted against it, liberal democrats and conservative republicans. 21 democrats, 18 republicans, and one independent voted against it. now the reason they were able to get it done is they struck this deal with ted cruz, that junior republican senator from texas. very high profile. >> they allowed him to have a point of order vote, essentially just making the point that he wants to make, that president obama's executive order on immigration is unconstitutional. listen here to him make that point last night.

>> tonight democrats and republicans will have the opportunity to show america whether they stand with the president who is defying the will of the voters or with the millions of americans who want a safe and legal immigration system. this point of order is targeted not to the entire omnibus but specifically to the dhs funding that pez has announced will be spent unconstitutionally. if you believe president obama's amnesty is unconstitutional, vote yes. if you believe president obama's amnesty is consistent with the constitution, then vote no. >> but that march vote failed, of course, and, in fact, even 20 republicans voted against it. but on both sides of the aisle, there was a lot of theory about this and listen here to the majority leader harry reid discuss that. >> junior senator from texas raised a point of order attacking the pending legislation on the grounds that the president has acted

unconstitutionally. the junior senator from texas is wrong, wrong, wrong on several counts. most importantly, for us, this evening is an attack on this bill because it's not an appropriate place to bring the constitutionality of any branch of action. but it wasn't just harry reid or democrats. republicans from susan collins, a moderate in maine, all the way to jeff blake, a conservative in arizona were pretty mad at ted cruz for holding up the weekend. >> all right. erin mcpike, we appreciate the report. thank you. we have our senior correspondent for cnn politics on the phone. talk about the sabotage and the fighting and finger pointing that we saw in the past week or so. the budget battle is open for now. when we heard from senator elizabeth warren and ted cruz and are these just warning shots because i think maybe most people knew that this was going

to pass. >> it was a very unusual vote for the senate to have something like this on the weekend. you're right. it is very interesting that all of the people in the senate could possibly be running for president in 2016 all voted against it. they knew it would pass. they wanted to try to innuns and take advantage of it as a messaging tool or to get the word out that there were things in this bill that they would not like in the end here. we're going to vote against it probably the whole time. but the government is funded until the entire fiscal year. so we're not going to see a fight like this again until about next halloween. >> obviously, a billing fight in the senate. but the typical narrative is that the house has this back and forth. boehner can't reign in or bring in the tea party. did one chamber or party come out looking better than other? >> i think that's a tough thing

to say especially this is kind of the swan song of this congress. they're going to end at the end of next week. it was a tough slog of a congress not very much got done. they really have gone out with a bang. a lot -- as erin said, anger on both sides. the challenge next year for president obama and for congress is republicans are not only embolden in the senate, of course, not only embolden in the house but they won the senate. so it's going to be a lot more difficult for democrats to get their way. this is why it's so interesting because when senator cruz and senator lee forced the votes here over the weekend, democrats are are arguing that gave them an opportunity to vote on a number of controversial nominations that president obama wanted passed. they might not have been able to pass so easily had they done the votes next year. republicans take over the

senate. >> yeah. more than a dozen folks have taken -- and we thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. also this morning, protesters across the country are hoping that congress is going to hear their pleas for justice against police violence. thousands of demonstrators turned out in cities across the country from ft. lauderdale and boston and chicago yesterday. >> washington is the city where four moms took their voices. the families of trayvon martin, michael brown, rice and garner all unarmed black men and boys killed by either bullets or police. moms joined the tens of thousands of demonstrators in the nation's capital. zbh most of yesterday's protests were peaceful. however in, new york, two police officers are recovering in the hospital after officials say protesters attacked them on the brook heroin bridge last night. and in oakland, california, at least 45 people were arrested after a night of protests there.

>> demonstrators calling yesterday's big march in washington, they're calling it a history making moment as thousands marched to the u.s. capitol demanding change. nick valencia has more. >> reporter: they came by the hundreds for a justice march in the nation's capital. some were bussed in by organizers from nearby states. others walked a few minutes to get here. >> i'm from d.c. >> reporter: power in numbers from across the united states. this man says he showed up with his familiar i had to show his infant son that his future can be better than his present. >> i want a future for them to actually be able to do what they want to be, be what they want to be. they say this is the land of opportunity and land of freedom. let them live life. let them choose the direction and which way they want to go. >> reporter: 11-year-old wallace is one of the youngest demonstrators wlachlt does that shirt say? >> i can't breathe.

>> reporter: why are you wearing it? >> to show that, like, it's unfair what happened to eric garner. >> reporter: garner's family spoke to the crowd, so did relatives of others that lost their sons at the hands of police, including mike brown, the unarmed teen killed in ferguson, missouri. their message -- >> we'll get justice for our children. >> reporter: also in the crowd, washington, d.c.'s police chief who said she showed up to stand in solidarity with the community. >> for many, many years there's been a feeling that the justice system doesn't treat everybody equally. when i was coming up through school and studying law enforcement, the justice system has to treat everybody equally. black, white, rich, poor, and that's always been an issue. this is not a new issue. it's just an issue that is very emotional and wrong. >> reporter: addressed here in washington, d.c., and beyond. and demonstrators i spoke to say it this is the first step in a

very long road ahead. they say they want change and while the groups that were marching yesterday, they want change for different ways. they see that differently. everyone is in agreement that this fight this march, they will continue until they get their spotlight shined on the deaths of unarmed civilians killed by the hands of police. >> voices are are going up in churches, too, for blacks matter sunday. thank you so much. >> you beat. the st. louis prosecutors office is apologizing this weekend after failed to make public all of the documents that the grand jury inquiry into michael brown's death. hundreds of previously secret documents have now been released including the transcript of an interview that doran johnson, the friend with michael brown when he was killed by an officer had with the fbi days after the shooting. that interview is consistent with others johnson did including his testimony before the grand jury. now in them, johnson says officer darren wilson grabbed

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18-year-old's death. according to reports, mitchell, a freshman from alabama, was expectsed to be in the running for a starting spot next season. again, they are looking for the suspect. we talked about the thousands of marchers across the country out this weekend. het's talk about the hundreds of protesters who gathered in a small town in north carolina. this is bladenbo are. o. they want to know what happened to a 17-year-old high school student. he was a football player at his school. his name is lennon lacy. he was found hanging from a trailer park swing set in august. state authorities ruled his death a suicide. but his mother and his brother say that he was found wearing shoes that were not his, the belts found around his neck did not belong to him, and now the fbi has now opened an investigation into this case. joining me now, joey jackson. good to have you this morning. >> good morning, victor. always good to be with you. >> so his mother and brother,

they say that things here just do not add up. there are too many questions. listen to what the head of the north carolina conference of the naacp told me. >> there are too many questions and it very well could be a lynching or stage lynching. what we do know is there has to be a serious and full investigation of these matters. >> now the department of justice is involved. i want to ask you specifically about the manner in which he was killed and is that possibly why the fbi is involved? we know there is a limited jurisdiction for the department of justice for a federal crime. but a lynching in the south of a black man speaks to a specific history. do you believe that is why they came in? or is it just the questions regardless of race? >> you know what, victor? it's all of that. let's talk about why. whenever you come to take an advantage in any community, there has to be trust.

there has to be respect for the conclusion. the attorney in that small town asked the federal government to come in and, of course, the community welcomes that. the community has been calling for the federal government to come in. apparently the naacp has conducted an investigation of their own. they have information. but there is a disconnect between the local authorities because they feel, victor, that the case was not thoroughly investigated at the outset. why? if you look at the facts of case, there is a major concern. first, a symbolic undertone. august 28th, of course, 1955, you have emmitt till who was murdered. he's the 14-year-old who was murdered for apparently flirting with a white woman. in this case, this death is 59 years later, you know, almost to the day. it happened the day after. that is symbolic. when you add to that the fact that this 17-year-old was apparent i had dating a 31-year-old white woman, it raised concerns and then he goes

out for a midnight jog. he doesn't return. 7:30, the mom gets a call. she goes. she doesn't recognize the belt he is hanging with. he has on shoes that are two sizes too small. his nike shoes are missing. it raises the specter of is this a suicide? and would he have basis to commit suicide when the football season is starting the day after? so i think the family wants to get answers and based upon that the federal government is involved and cooperating and working with local authorities to find out exactly what those answers are. >> quickly, how might this federal investigation appear or in actuality be different than the state investigation, the local investigation? how will they be different? >> you know what happens, victor, they're both somewhat consistent in as much as whether it's federal or the state, you want to get to all the facts. i think the concern on the part of the family is even the medical examiner, victor, when they were examining, you know, they examined the body. they ruled okay, it's a suicide.

but there were no death scene photos they evaluated. the federal government wants to see the death scene photos. and then the family was concerned because apparently the police department did not ask for his cell phone, computer records, look at his room or anything like that. so the community is saying, wait a minute, we want a full, fair and thorough investigation. it may abe suicide. we don't know. but certainly there is an obligation to find out. i think they want to get to the crux of the fact, the crux of the issues so that there is respect for the outcome and there is a confidence by the community in what that outcome is, whatever it is. and that's what will happen here. hopefully with the federal government's participation. >> yeah, that teenager's mother, i spoke with her. she said she can accept that her son committed suicide if it is proven, if it is explained. she says thus far the state investigators have not crossed that threshold. thank you so much. >> always a pleasure. have a great day.

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