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washington, d.c. and welcome to this special edition of "360." anderson is off tonight. i'm jake tapper. >> i'm wolf blitzer. we have a full hour ahead including truly eye opening details about the highly classified secret information that retired general david petraeus gave his mistress. and the raw facts from the report on policing in ferguson, missouri. >> bottom line, protesters with a pattern of racial bias in the nearly all-white police force in fact justified.
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much more coming up later this hour. >> but first though the speech, the most highly anticipated, loudly praised, sharply criticized duration by a visiting foreign leader in recent memory, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu of course on the cusp of an election on the outs with president obama and his country, he believes, on the brink of an existential nuclear threat from iran. he went before a joint meeting in congress today. people have been talking about it since michelle kosinski begins our coverage. michelle? >> reporter: before this very eager u.s. congress, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu proceeded to absolutely blast the prospect of a nuclear deal with iran that he called the enemy. >> that deal would not prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons. it would all be guarantee iran
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gets those weapons, lots of them. that's why this deal is so bad. it does not block the path to the bomb but it paves the path to the bomb. >> reporter: he got a huge reception here. the white house not impressed. president obama didn't even watch the speech, but he did use nearly 15 minutes responding to it. >> the prime minister didn't offer viable alternatives. if it's no deal, in which case, iran will immediately begin pursuing the nuclear programs, accelerate the nuclear program without us having any insight into what they're doing. >> it would not require iran to demolish any nuclear facility. thousands of centerfuges, how long it would take a nuclear
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bomb if it decided to with a possible ten year time frame. more facilities would be able to document the progress towards a weapon, but wouldn't be able to stop it. >> demand that iran do three things. first, stop its aggression against its neighbors in the middle east. second. stop supporting terrorism around the world and third, stop threatening to annihilate israel. >> reporter: boycotted by some 50 democrats but the white house trying to stay above all the emotion. >> what i'm focused on right now is solving this problem. i'm not focused on the politics of it. i'm not focused on the theater of it. it's that members of congress stay similarly focused. >> michelle kosinski joining us live from the white house. obviously, all of this is moot
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if there's no deal. can a deal be reached? >> reporter: the administration has been trying to take a somewhat optimistic tone saying this is the first time in a long time that they have come to the table and seriously negotiating. we have heard some optimism out of the talks so surprised to hear the president saying it's more likely than not even at this point that iran rejectis this deal, jake. >> michelle kosinski at the white house. thank you. >> let's get to the object of this contention. chief national security correspondent jim sciutto has been monitoring what's going on. joining us from switzerland near geneva. what exactly is going on and what's been the impact? do you believe based on everything you're hearing, jim, of netanyahu's speech on
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negotiations? >> reporter: well, the impact today, zero, really. you can see that in the pace of talks today. more two hour long meetings face to face with john kerry, the iranian foreign minister, jahva sareef. told us secretary kerry and others in the team didn't watch the talks, they were right. they said they were too busy negotiating here, continuing on the negotiations. that the israeli prime minister was protesting. the biggest fear had been that the prime minister would reveal some of the details of these talks that hadn't been out in public before. that didn't happen. i did ask the iranian foreign minister if the talks had any effect. he said the israel i prime minister was trying to inject conflict and tension in the takes but he as well didn't watch the speech. he was sitting across the table
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from john kerry. >> they have three weeks or so before the deadline of reaching the framework? >> reporter: that's right. three weeks to get to a big picture agreement. but boy, do they have a lot of work in those three weeks and i think as michelle was saying, you hear that in the president's comments and that's just based on what we know to be the issues that are still with a great distance between the sides. sanctions, how quickly will they be lifted? iranians want them lifted right away. that's a non-starter. making sure the iranians abide by the deal. the iranians a year and a half into the agreement not the past attempts to weaponize. that's a major issue. ieia complaining about it yesterday but the multiple restrictions on placed on iran's nuclear program, a rubix cube of restrictions as it's been described to me and so many have not been settled. the exact number of centrifuges are that the iranians are
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allowed with more, how much is shipped out of the country to where how it's brought back to the country, that's on the table. that's why they spend six hours today, many more over the last 24 hours. these talks continuing into tomorrow, wolf. >> the clock is clearly ticking. jim sciutto in switzerland for us. thank you very much. >> wolf, because nuclear controversies tend to create political fallout, we are now joined by vermont senator sanders. thank you for being here. you did not attend the speech. you watched it from your office and did not attend. why not? >> because i think speaker boehner created a political issue where there should not have been one. as you know under our constitution, it is the president of the united states who leads us in foreign policy and the idea that speaker boehner would invite netanyahu to a joint session of congress without consulting the president
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of the united states is completely unacceptable and second of all, as you also know, netanyahu is now involved in a very difficult campaign in israel whether his party wins or not, we don't know. but i find it insulting that the congress of the united states is used as a prop for netanyahu's reelection efforts. that's why. >> the elections two weeks from today, senator. what do you think of the substance of what he said? the concerns not only for israel's safety and security but for its very existence if iran were to get a nuclear bomb? >> wolf, here's the point. i think, a, the president has made it very clear, i believe, i think virtually all members of congress believe that iran cannot get a nuclear weapon, period. the question and the debate is about how do you prevent that from happening? my fear is that if these negotiations do not succeed, if
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the five nations that are current currently -- what does netanyahu have to say about plan b? it is easy to give a tough speech about how terrible, awful, demonic that iran is, but if you break off negotiations, iran is on its way to build a nuclear weapon. and that is something we don't want and then what do you do? what do you do? you know what you do? you go to war and i will tell you as somebody who strongly opposed going to war in iraq and i think history will record my position as being the right position, we see all the fallout that has taken place with the war in iraq, what do you think will happen if god forbid we are in a war with iran, what will that mean? i suspect it will mean perpetual warfare for the united states in the mideast and that is a nightmarish situation. >> let's pause it.
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what you just said is correct, what does middle east look like if iran gets a nuclear weapon, is there a, not an existential threat to israel and other rival countries of iran and b, suddenly a nuclear arms race with turkey, saudi arabia, egypt trying to catch up with iran. >> that's the point. the goal, as the president indicated, we will not allow that to happen but i think it makes a lot more sense, sometimes negotiations with, in this case, a country that has some really terrible hard liners, people who hate the u.s., people who hate israel, that's not easy stuff and if you want sanctions to succeed or to be maintained, you've got to deal with russia and china and the u.k. and france and germany. that's tough stuff. it's easier to say they are terrible awful people and we're going to get our way but what is the quiet point that netanyahu did not talk about? what happens if negotiations fail and what happens if the united states and israel say you're not going to have a
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nuclear weapon in iran, what happens? you have a war. >> what he basically said is there's a step in between a failure of these negotiations and a war. in other words, an israeli or u.s. joint military strike. there's increased pressure, if you have more sanctions, more economic trade embargoes, that the iranians would especially given the lower price of oil right now feel greater pressure, they would rush back to the negotiating table. that was the point. >> that was the point, maybe i would say most people think that is not accurate. >> why? >> because this is a strong country that does not want to be humiliated in front of the entire world, does not simply want to be pushed around and may reach a point where they say no thank you. we're going our way. >> netanyahu once referred to the iranian regime as an apocalyptic death cult. do you think the people ruling iran are rational actors? >> let's not go there.
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once we -- let me back up and tell you this. netanyahu testified, i believe, six months before he went to war in iraq and after demonizing the iraqi government, made it very clear he strongly supported the united states going to war in iraq. once we get jake in this business of telling people around the world people are not rational, what does that lead you to? it's the movement towards war going into iraq which has left the region much more stable. cost 67 00 lives, trillions of dollars. our job is to make sure iran does not have nuclear weapon but if at all possible, let's not go to war. let's not say these people are not rational. are we the only rational people in the world? i went to that war. i'm a former chairman of the veterans committee. i have seen the cost of war. and i will tell you something else. if god forbid we get into war, we spend more and more in the
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military. what else is going to happen? congress wants to cut social security, medicare, medicaid because we're spending so much on war. that's an america i feel uncomfortable about. >> vermont independent senator bernie sanders, we always appreciate your views. a quick reminder, set your dvr to watch "360" whenever you like. our panel of experts weigh in on the controversy surrounding it and reaction to the u.s. justice report on racial bias in the ferguson police department. to your store, ivert a container ship delivered it to that truck. here in san diego, we're building the first one ever to run on natural gas. ships this big, running this clean, will be much better for the environment. we're proud to be a part of that.
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think again. when we get down that road, we'll face a much more dangerous iran, a middle east littered with nuclear bombs and a countdown to a potential nuclear nightmare. >> the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu laying out his case against the deal now being negotiated in switzerland. i'm wolf blitzer along with jake tapper. >> joining us right now is mike durant, senior and senior national security advisor townsend serving on the dhs external advisory boards and danny, former israeli ambassador to the united states. if i could start with you, what did you make of the prime minister's speech? i picked up on what seemed like a veiled threat at the end. prime minister said even if israel passed a stand alone, it will defend itself. do you think the prime minister is prepared to preemptively
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strike iranian nuclear targets? >> i don't think it was very veiled. i think we must expect israel will act in its own interest much like we would if they were facing an existential threat. the question is how effective that would be. is israel capable of launching a strike that would delay the iranian program? they are. and israel is not going to be held hostage, if you will, either to iran's program or to the u.s. or for their ability to act. they're going to make that their own decision. i thought the prime minister made a pretty excelling case today. best been much sniping back and forth about who will issue the invitation and what coordination there was but the real point here is you divorce what this is kind of this snide back fighting about who knew and when did they invitation and why from the sub ta stance of this.
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president once said. netanyahu was invited to come and make his case against the ongoing negotiations and i think he did a good job of that. >> i heard the same sort of little veiled threat from the prime minister at the end of his remarks. if there is a deal and israel feels its existence is at stake, unilateral strike against iran is something he would not necessarily. president said all options would be on the table in order to prevent iran from getting a nuclear bomb. but how realistic would an israeli military strike be? i asked the question because we know the israeli destroyed an iraqi reactor and a syrian nuclear reactor in more recent years. >> personally, i think the chance of an israeli unilateral attack is not great? there are many people who know israel as well or better than i do who don't agree with that but i was in the white house in 2006 during the lebanon war and it's
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easy for an israeli prime minister to get into a war without the u.s. but can't get out of it without america. they need the united states to translate their military victory into lasting political benefits for them and i think he'd be hesitant to do that. however, i think it's going to be a very dangerous world if this deal is signed. i totally agree with him. i think what he's trying to signal is that there are numerous bad things that will happen as a result of this deal. and it won't just be from israel. one of the amazing things here is that he was speaking for our arab allies as well. it was an incredible con gruns from israel. >> what prime minister benjamin netanyahu seems to want that west makes virtually no concessions to want. the iranian program essentially shut down forever. argues that deal is pie in the sky. they can't get france, germany,
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england to sign off on it. the u.k. to sign off on it much less iran. >> jake, this is the case. this is a very grim situation because if we tell to ourselves and to iran that we cannot really prevent them, that it's a preor da preordained, they'll become nuclear and no match to the international community, certainly not to the pf plus 1 and the economy might and military power. the only times we know the iranians voluntarily stopped in reaching and stopped their illegal nuclear activity was when they really assessed that they face a credible threat. it was one time in 2003 and the second time was in 2013 when the sanctions were really in effect. so right now, i think, to let the iranians believe that only negotiations is the way, then we walk the same line as we had in the '90s with north korea and i
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believe this is the prime minister, not just him in israel but we are together on the right side of history to quote the president together with the major allies of the united states in the region where it's egypt or jordan or bahrain or saudi arabia. so i think there should be some reckoning here in washington and work together with their allies and not against them. >> fran, if there's a deal with iran, let's say there's a deal with iran on its nuclear program. you believe there's any reason to believe the iranians will curb their support for hezbollah or other supporters of terrorist organizations? >> absolutely not. it has not been part of the framework for negotiation. the administration to get to the negotiating table conceded a whole lot, right ? this is a circumscribed negotiation. they're only talking about the nuclear program. so we haven't even begun to
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broach with the iranians they're the single state sponsor of terror in the world. we've got to anticipate if negotiations fall apart and the iranians don't get what they want. they may use that terror capability as they have in the past, asymmetrically around the world in retaliation. >> fran townsend, thank you so much. danny and to you as well. more breaking news, the u.s. justice department investigation launched after michael brown's killing confirms what many in ferguson have long been maintaining that the city's police department have been in a widespread pattern of racial bias. the report is rather scathing. we'll have details and reaction ahead. the garden is the story of told and retold. it's as old as our time on earth. and as new as tomorrow.
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more breaking news this evening. a justice department investigation has found a sweeping pattern of racial bias within the ferguson missouri police department. the civil rights probe you may recall was ordered by attorney general eric holder after that fatal shooting of michael brown but officer darren wilson. ultimately found not guilty by a grand jury. the full report expected to be made public. the first look is rather sobering, shedding light on the
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tensions that erupted after brown's death. found ferguson police routinely violated the rights of african-americans by using excessive force and making unjustified traffic stops and officers found to have made racist jokes on their city e-mail accounts. the report found racial bias in the city's municipal courts. cnn's ed lavandera joins me now live from ferguson. ed, thanks for joining us. the findings of this report to be released publicly tomorrow. what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, these findings, the reaction, it has been the kind of thing many ferguson residents have been talking about and saying, we told you so. this is what the disruption here was all about the past few months. let's point out some of the details. this was taken from documents over a two year period and showed that 93% of all arrests by the ferguson department involved african-americans. 90% of police citations were issued to african-americans.
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85% of all vehicle stops involved african-americans. and any time a ferguson police officer used force, 88% of those times involved african-americans and these are exactly the things we heard by residents in ferguson. they said they were fed up with, had taken a toll after years and years, jake. >> we should point out the population of ferguson missouri is about 67% african-american. those numbers much higher than that. ed, legally, what's next for the ferguson police department? >> reporter: right now, they're still cooperating, we're told, with the justice department. it looks that right now they're going down a path where essentially there would be court supervision over the city of ferguson, the police department and the court system to ensure they change their practices and comply with better standards. and that's a process that is ongoing and will take some time to unravel, but we're told by
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justice department officials that the city of ferguson is cooperating. >> ed lavandera in ferguson, missouri, thank you very much. >> let's get more perspective. i want to bring in our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and cnn political commentator van jones. the only shocking thing about it is how not shocking it is. explain. >> for those of us who were there on the ground in ferguson before, during, and after, the only thing shocking about this is that it's not shocking at all. this is exactly what people who live in ferguson were saying. i don't mean just young people and protesters. i mean church going elderly people. they feel there was a campaign to fill the hole in the budget by stacking up citations. i talked to a business owner who literal lly moved out of fergus because he was having to leave his home early to allow for the fact he was going to be pulled over all too often. this was going on.
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also, let's not forget at the state level, the attorney general already put forward statistics that were showing a big disparity here. unfortunately, people say i told you, that type of stuff, there was pain underneath the protests when you had working folks marching day after day. not just michael brown, it was a police department going off the rails. i have never seen a police department showing a more us against them attitude against the taxpayers paying their bills than i saw in ferguson and i grew up in the south. >> jeffrey toobin, let me ask you, what's the next step? the justice department issues this report tomorrow and? >> and then there's a period of negotiation with the ferguson authorities. the usual resolution in a circumstance like this is what's known as a consent decree, an agreement between the police department and the justice department to change their practices. to change their training. to change how they interact with
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the citizens or perhaps some sort of move towards community policing because obviously one of the key problems here is you have an overwhelmingly white police force in a 67% african-american city. all of those things presumably based on what ferguson has said they will agree to. if they don't, the justice department can go to court and get a judge to force changes on the police department. >> quickly, how do they know the race? these are relatively minor infractions. they keep a record if you're african-american, you're caucasi caucasian, asian, do they keep a traffic violation record of that? >> that's surprising about traffic violations. certainly for arrests. >> you're caught speeding, they keep a record like that? >> so it appears because they've talked about, they have the the statistics there and the statistics are indicative of a
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police force that is tougher on blacks than whites, period. >> the consent decree, it could be theoretically disbanding the ferguson police department and have st. louis county take over because that did happen in a neighboring town where i think darren wilson used to be a police officer. >> certainly could. and one of the many complaints about police in this area is that there are too many police forces and they are all using something van mentioned which i think is extremely important, this notion of using the criminal justice system to raise money. and locking people up if they don't have the $100, the $200 to pay off their tickets. this is going to be an issue not just in ferguson, not just in missouri but around the whole country. this use of the criminal justice system to make money and penalize mostly african-americans. >> the st. louis post argued the
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statistics aren't out of line. the demographics. they don't show bias because there are more african-americans going in and out of ferguson on a daily basis than the numbers of the population of ferguson, 67%, would suggest. you buy that? >> i don't at all. it's actually ludicrous because it is in fact true a lot of people shop in ferguson but there's no reason to believe african-americans are shopping there more than anyone else. there's only a very small part of ferguson, west flor son, where you have a concentration of black. the rest of the town just like any other place and a lot of the shopping is happening on a biracial basis. this is a big problem when you have a city father who just don't look at the data. if my kid came home and they got a bad report card from the state, which they did from the attorney general, if they said
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something was wrong with the teachers, my kid would be in time-out. the city fathers do not want to deal with the fact there is something definitely wrong and there's also no response yet for these racist e-mails. you can pretend for some reason every shopper who comes to ferguson is black, which is bizarre, but what about the racist e-mails? that would have been, if i were a leader in that city, i would have focused on that and not trying to make up excuses for stuff that it doesn't make sense. >> van jones, thank you very much. jeffrey toobin thanks to you as well. still ahead on this special edition of "360" a four star fall from grace. the plea deal david petraeus made to stay out of prison. the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day.
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welcome back. once upon a time, people spoke the name david petraeus in the same breath as dwight eisenhower. that's how highly regarded as a soldier statesman and public servant the four star general was. tonight, david petraeus is mentioned in the same breath as a phrase, not a name and the phrase is plea deal. mr. petraeus has agreed while director of central intelligence provided classified information to his biographer/mistress paula broadwell. the fall from grace was
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striking, and what he let her see. joining us with the details, joe johns. joe, what exactly did petraeus plead guilty to doing? >> jake, petraeus is pleading guilty to one count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material which is a pretty dry description of what happened here. the court records lay out a trail of stuff petraeus did to lead to this. 8 black books. in those books he kept highly sensitive classified information, identities of covert officers, strategies and capabilities and even discussions with the president of the united states. the books also contained top secret code word information. so this is very sensitive stuff. and when he left the cia, petraeus was supposed to turn over all the classified information but he didn't. prosecutor say he kept the books and in august of 2011, he dropped these books off at a private residence in washington, d.c. where his biographer, paula
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broadwell, was staying. it could be source material for his biography was published in 2012. broadwell was also his girlfriend and when petraeus was in front of the fbi about disclosing information, documents said he made a false statement so in april of 2013, finds the books. he could have gotten hit with a lot more. >> i'm trying to imagine what would have happened to david smith, not david petraeus if he brought out that confidential classified information and then lied about it to the fbi. what kind of punishment is general petraeus facing? >> the maximum sentence for this charge is a year in jail, a $100,000 fine, five years of probation. but if the court agrees, he will avoid jail entirely and get two year probation term, $40,000 fine. what is working in his favor, he
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accepted responsibility also, the court papers say none of the classified information got published in the book. >> joe johns, thank you so much. appreciate it. now to moscow where leader boris nemtsov was laid to rest today days after he was assassinated near the kremlin. matthew chance is joining us with more from moscow. what's the latest, matthew? >> reporter: well, it was an impressive turnout for this funeral. thousands to came their respects to boris nemtsov, one of the most prominent opposition leaders but the message was chilling and not lost on anybody in that crowd and it was this. if you oppose the kremlin in modern russia, this is what could happen to you. as his grieving family looked on, mourners patiently filed past. the brutal killing of boris nemtsov has unsettled russia. not for the first time a high profiled critic of the kremlin
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has been ruthlessly cut down. >> this is terrible. this is a political terroristic attack with no explanation and no excuse. this is the attempt to destroy all the people who thinks differently from kremlin. >> reporter: do you believe the killers will be brought to justice? >> no, i don't. >> reporter: boris nemtsov is the latest of the political killings that have beset russia. this time the kremlin vowed to get to the bottom of this and bring those responsible to justice but here at this funeral, there's a great deal of skepticism that this will happen. there's good reason. back in 2006, a journalist and fierce critic was gunned down outside her moscow apartment in an alleged contract kill pg. there have been convictions but the evidence is dubious clearing
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the kremlin and whoever ordered the hit to walk free and then seemingly straight out of a spy novel, the saga of alexander, the former russian agent turned kremlin critic poisoned in london. put in his tea to leave him dying a horrifying drawn out death. the russian government still refuses to extradite the prime suspects. themselves both former russian agents. ever since mr. putin came to power, there's been killings of politicians, of human rights activists. journalists and now of boris nemtsov. and the key thing that all these have in common is that the killings are not cleared off. there's condolences in the kremlin that they don't get found out. >> reporter: as russia bids f e farewell to boris nemtsov, the suspicion that the same thing may happen again this time. >> matthew, what's the latest
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with the investigation? >> reporter: well, wolf, the investigation hasn't made much progress as far as where publicly at least. no arrests have been made. the investigators are pursuing various different strands of motivation, one being the jewish heritage. the business relationships, but it's interesting because in the authorities, no one is talking about the possibility of boris nemtsov having been killed because of his opposition to the kremlin. back to you. >> all right. matthew chance, thanks very much. just ahead, outrage continues tonight over that fatal police shooting of a homeless man in los angeles. the latest on the killing, plus a closer look at l.a. skid row where this happened. e, if you have type 2 diabetes, you know it can be a struggle to keep your a1c down. so imagine ... what if there was a new class of medicine that works differently to lower blood sugar? imagine loving your numbers. introducing once-daily invokana®.
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in los angeles today, d demonstrators marched from skid row to police head quarters to prot protest the fatal shooting of a homeless man on sunday and the killing on skid row is now under investigation. the incident was caught on video, and you can see the police scuffling with a man known as aftrica. he was on the ground when he was shot. they say that he tried to reach for the officer's gun. >> less than an hour before he was killed, the camera showed
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him trying to deal drugs, but there are allegations of police brutality in the city, and now it has focused on this swath of central los angeles which is a refuge of last resort. kyung lah has the report. >> we have learned from the coroner's office that they have positively identified the the man, but they are still trying to reach the relatives, but in the streets of los angeles he is known by one man, africa. he is now known for the way he died, another casualty in what s is known as l.a.'s brutal dumping ground. >> down here, this is where everyone comes, disthe appears. >> reporter: into the despair known as skid row. 49 square blocks of downtown los angeles, american encampment of homeless like no others, and drug dealers working in the open, and the effect on the
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users, stark. mental illness is as rampant as the trash on the street. in the city of angels, few care to retrieve the discarded. >> you doing all right? >> well, as well as i can. >> reporter: and reverend andy bails is one of them. he runs the rescue mission there in the heart of skid row. >> watch your step. this is how i got what i got. >> reporter: what he got is the flesh eating bacteria in the foot contracted while walking through the streets. one personal sign of the rampant disease here unchecked says bails since the 1970s when the city leaders envisioned a central theized hub for the e nknee di, and time evolved into something else. >> they are trying to maintain peace in impossible environment. can you image snin we need a holy embarrassment to cause action. >> reporter: do you believe that the holy embarrassment is coming? >> if it has not come this week, i believe it is coming soon.
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>> reporter: this week when lapd officers shot and killed an unarm unarmed homeless man in a violent encounter on tape, and a rare skid row death noticed. itp happened across the street from this man who goes by "big rob" and former addict and convict who won't waste time thinking about it, but he thinks about making a buck. >> i don't care, because nobody else care. so i can't care. >> reporter: and the survival is the most important thing out he here? >> survival is only the thing out here. >> reporter: out here, but also inside of the shelter. is this all of your stuff? >> all of my stuff. >> reporter: homeless for months, kim watson and her 12-year-old boy survived neighborhood violence. this is the only shelter in l.a. county would take them is the one in skid row. >> reporter: is it terrifying to look at what is out there on the doorstep? >> not so terrifying, but more sad.
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more sad. >> kyung lah, what is the latest with the investigation? police are makeing the argument that africa was reaching for their gun? >> yeah. they actually had a news conference, jake, are where they were showing the pictures of the gun showing that it was slightly disk discombobulated and that is proof they say of a struggle over the gun. right mou, the lapd appears to be standing behind the officers and the chief saying that there is a full investigation, and part of the investigation is critical to it, jake, two body cameras worn by the officers. jake? >> all right. kyung lah in los angeles, thank you so much. up next, serious change of pace, and you heard the phrase when pigs fly? well, that beats that. it is a bird, it is a weasel,b and it is coming right up after this. to my body. with tempur-pedic the whole bed is comfortable. it's the best thing we ever did for ourselves. it's helping to keep us young. (vo) visit your local retailer and feel the tempur-pedic difference for yourself.
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you have likely heard the term fight or flight, and tonight, we have a rare case of fight and flight all caught on camera. >> it is for some people the photo of the derrick and perhaps the year. it is a weasel riding a woodpecker in flight. the image has the internet in overdrive and of course, here is jeanne moos. >> reporter: a weasel riding a woodpecker as if it is a flying steed. it is the photo that had the whole world laughing. bird experts were blown away. >> e was abslaolutely stunned.
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i could not believe it was real. >> reporter: but jamie became a believer when he saw the blurry photo photos that accompanied the real ones. martin le may, a photographer by hobby was hearing a weasel attack thing a bird as it took off. this is no fantasy kiddie movie like epic. >> this whole bird riding thing is new to me. >> reporter: this was a life and death struggle. the photographer told the various media that it momentarily distract and then the weasel and the woodpecker just various flew up and away. >> it is a ra photographer's dream to capture behavior that nobody has seen it. >> and the photo shopped with a weasel and the cape and madonna and her cape, and shirtless
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vladimire vladimir putin with benjamin t netanyahu and the blue and the black and miley cyrus half dressed. and the two run away llamas showed up. >> reporter: is it feasible for to a weasel to fly on top the of a bird? >> well, it is said that a weasel's head could fit through a wedding ring. >> reporter: well, imagine a woodpecker with this flying around on the back. and then it was threaded with animals riding animals, and then dog on a donkey, and the dog rides dog and the image known as #weaselpecker took off like the space shuttle. jeanne moos, cnn. new york. >> i went to camp with a guy named weasel pecker. >> i love that jeanne moos, and
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she is amazing. >> just to understand that the weasel was trying to kill the woodpecker, and it is not cute, it is devious. >> that is it us for us tonight. thank you for watching. >> cnn starts -- oh, okay. this is cnn tonight, and i'm don lemon. >> the people of ferguson have known it all along and the police department has a race problem and they live it everyday and now a justice department has confirmed it. by no means is anybody suggesting that the every officer is racist, but the numbers don't lie. take a look at this. the justice department says that 85% of the people subjected to traffic stops are african-american. and 9 of 10 receiving the the citations, black. and 93% arrested, black. many in 88% of the cases where force was being used, it was used against, you guessed it, beack people.
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