♪ >> it's not the answer. it's about trying to find a solution. >> the eyes of the world on cleveland tonight for a huge basketball game and even lebron james is urging calm. new overnight protests and cleveland after a police officer is found not guilty in the shooting deaths of two unarmed people. new this morning, a firefighter dies during a water rescue. this is during flash flooding in oklahoma and evacuations are under way as more heavy rain and severe storms are expected to just pelt the region.

in iraq, security forces continue their counterattack against isis near ramadi. the dole to push the terror group away from a key military base and baghdad. >> good morning. thank you so much for spending some time with us this morning. >> i'm joe johns. i'm in for victor blackwell and you're christi paul. >> thank you. i miss that part of it. it's a little early for all of us here, i guess! glad to have you with us, joe. cleveland's mayor is urging the people of the city to show the world that peaceful demonstrations and dialogue is, indeed the way forward. protesters you see them here walking through the streets overnight after a judge acquitted a police officer in the shooting deaths of timothy russell and melissa williams. most were peaceful but some

scuffles and 15 people were taken into custody. erin mclaughlin is in cleveland. the nba playoffs continue there tonight with lebron james and himself calling for calm in the city. what is the mood like there right on now? >> reporter: right now, it does seem calm and quiet here on the streets of cleveland as this community comes to terms with the tragedy and the verdict. the city's mayor says that this is a defining moment for cleveland. protests in downtown cleveland following the acquittal of a police officer in a 2012 shooting death of two unarmed people. police in riot gear pushed back protests arresting at least a dozen. three people were charged after an object was thrown into a restaurant. >> the man picked.

the sign up off the sidewalk and just threw it straight at me. >> reporter: protesters took to the streets immediately after a judge acquitted officer michael brehe low on involuntary manslaughter and felonious assault. he was accused of firing missiles after a 22-mile police chase. authorities say brelow stood on the hood of the car and fired 15 shots into the windshield. a total 137 rounds at the car, no one else was charged. a noise officer mistakenly thought was caused by gunshots. >> because he caused severe harm to the victim to end an objectively reasonable perception, that he and the others present were threatened by russell and williams with eminent seriously bodily harm.

>> reporter: relatives of the victims had harsh words for the police and the victim. >> help my cousin. we have no justice! >> i know that those officers were upset. adrenaline was flowing. by the time they reached up, caught up to tim and melissa in that parking lot, they simply let them have it. >> reporter: the verdict comes on the heels of several high profile national cases involving police. ferguson, new york, baltimore. and another case in cleveland. the death of 12-year-old tamir rice ruled a homicide after he was shot by police while holding an air gun. but as the city prepares for tonight's nba playoffs, hometown basketball star lebron james is urging his cleveland cavalier fans to stay calm and focus on the game. >> you just feel a certain way about rooting for a team that you love, and it can get your mind off some of the hardships that may be going on throughout your life or in that particular time of period. it just does that.

>> reporter: the department of justice has said it will review evidence and testimony from the brelow trial and determine what, if any, additional steps are necessary. >> so one of the big questions i think a lot of people are wondering this morning is what happens to officer michael brelow now? do we have any insight into that, erin? >> reporter: well, we know that he currently is on unpaid suspension pending an internal police department investigation, but we have yet to hear from brelow following the verdict. >> i know you mentioned the protests over the death of 12-year-old tamir rice, that is still, of course, ongoing. protesters were demanding action in that case. wondering where that case stands. we had heard yesterday that the officer who shot tamir rice had not been interviewed yet and that has been how many months?

six? >> reporter: yeah, six months. there was a small protest at a separate part of cleveland yesterday marking the six months from his death. it was separate to -- that protest rather was organized before the brelow verdict was to be announced. we know it's still being investigated but as you say, no charges filed in that case. >> erin mclaughlin, thank you so much for the update. we appreciate it. want to get some insight on the case from walter madison who is plugged into the cleveland attorney and actually the attorney of tamir rice who was spotted with a belt gun. and also joining us is joey jackson and tom fuentes. walter, we do anticipate a decision soon in the tamir rice case. how does the judge's verdict in this case in cleveland yesterday affect your thinking about what

is going to happen with the tamir rice case? >> it's discouraging. you heard the county prosecutor argue to the judge the training, the behavior of this officer are the reasons why they felt he should have been convict of a crime. what we have on video, a complete deviation from training protocol and anything reason to drive upon a suspect that they believe to have had a gun. listening to their own words. and if we have yet to have an arrest and yet for them to conclude this investigation after six long months, then i don't believe there's much hope. >> now, this case that was decided yesterday, in fact, there are five other police supervisors who have been charged with dereliction of duty. there is a chance for more legal exposure involving the cleveland police and the case yesterday. >> but those are low level charges. those are nowhere as significant as what mr. brelow was facing.

so there maybe charged but i don't think that is going get much attention or be of any consequence. >> tom fuentes, you're a former beat cop who hob in high-speed chase s. can you take us into the mind of officer brealow? he said he feared for his life but a lot of people wonder if you fear for on your life why do you jump on top of a car and start firing at close range? >> well, in this situation, joe, if you're in fear of not just of your own, but your fellow officers' lives, you know, he may -- by the way, training would tell you that if you shoot at the windshield of a car, the bullet will ricochet, most likely, upward if you're at street level. so, in other words, the windshield tilts across like this. if you're shooting directly into it from the street, the bullet mike ricochet away or sideways. if you get up above it like on the hood of the car, then at a

90-degree angle, your shots might penetrate and then go through the windshield and that might be what he was thinking in terms of getting up on top of the hood. but, you know, what the judge is basically saying is that given the high-speed chase, given that a couple of police officers cars were rammed during the pursuit, that the officer had a reasonable belief that it wasn't over and that that car -- you know, when they say unarmed, frankly, they were armed. they were armed with a car. and when you have 4,000 pounds of steel facing you and forcing you to drive over a hundred miles an hour and 23 miles i believe it was, that itself endangers the public and endangers the officers. i think at that point, you know, this is what the judge is basically ruling is that it was not unreasonable for brelow and -- well, i'll take that back, he hasn't ruled on the other officers. in brelow's case since he is the

only one on trial he had a reason to shoot, it was reasonable for him to be in fear. >> thanks, tom. now, joey, the justice department has announced it's going to review officer brelow's case and said in part this review is different than the 2014 investigation which found that cleveland police had engaged in a pattern of excessive force and violated civil rights of people for years. what do you think this investigation is going to try to do as it relates to officer brelow? >> sure, joe, good morning. before moving back before moving forward it's particularly to understand, particularlily the views, the judge was finding as the finder of fact and concluder of law. he had to make factual determinations. they could have been ruled differently if it were a different judge or a different jury. this particular judge decided to discredit some expert testimony and there is a lot within the

opinion, although it's well reasoned. what i've learned about the law you can reach whatever conclusion you deem to be most appropriate so this is what the judge deemed to be most appropriate but we should understand that certainly a different judge could have been a different outcome and a jury could have been a different outcome. in any event moving forward from that to the federal investigation. the pattern and practice investigation and the conclusions of that investigation be that encompassed the cleveland police department and, of course, those findings are very disturbing in terms of them tasing people who had already been handcuffed and shooting bullets unnecessarily, you know, beating and abusing people who didn't need to be, that is separate and apart from the inquiry that will be focused on brelo. did brelo, himself, it is isolated to his conduct. the standard is very high. you have to establish in the event that they move forward in the prosecution were not there

yet, they simply are undertaking a review of the factual circumstances and the transcrip transcripts. in the event they decide to move forward you have to say it is a willful right. what right? the right not to have excessive force used against you and you have to establish that the person, the participant, the actor, if this case, brelo, acted with ill will, with spite and with malice. if they establish that you will see a civil rights prosecution moving forward in the event they feel the transcript and record does not establish that there should be no such prosecution, joe. >> thanks to all three of you. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. for days, isis fighters have been making major advances in iraq. and now security forces have launched a counterattack against the terror group but can they keep isis away from that key base, the one that is housing some u.s. military advisers? breaking news this morning. flash flooding has already killed a firefighter.

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breaking news out of oklahoma. the latest video from tulsa here of the flooding there in that area. in fact, i was reading on some of the local media sites that cars are stranded, that some of them are just floating down the road because they have gotten 5 1/2 inches of rain the last 24 hours. on top of this, a firefighter has been killed. he was trying to rescue people who were trapped by that rising water. that happened just outside

tulsa. >> this morning, people in several areas are actually being urged to evacuate to safer ground. let's bring in cnn meteorologist ivan cabrera. ivan, contiorsen because we are adding water to a saturated round of rivers that are overflowing their banks in a lot of areas here. some areas have picked up over a foot of rainfall. in fact, a foot and a half in some areas over the last month. there you see the torrential downpours. if you're watching us from texas and driving on i-35 from austin to san antonio, be very careful. in fact, on i-35, there are some areas here of the highway that are completely blocked off because of major flooding. when we talk about major flooding on an interstate highway you know you have a problem here and that is going to continue. austin with heavy rainfall as it continues to move up towards the north. we are in trouble here because of all rainfall we have already had. take a look at this. over the last seven days, some areas picking up upwards of 6 to

10 inches of rainfall. we have an additional 3 to 6 inches potentially falling today over the same area. so we are just going to exacerbate the situation here. 18 inches in oklahoma city a month and you normally get 3 inches in the entire month of may and we are not done with may and it will continue the next several hours because the pattern is stuck. the area of low pressure toward the west is pumping all of this tropical moisture from the gulf of mexico. sometimes you get these tropical depressions or storms stall over an area but this time it's not a tropical depression or a storm but moisture from the south with the southerly flow that is continuing and it's relentless and it will continue for today so we will watch that very closely. look at this pockets of 6 to 10 inches of rainfall. we will have to see that. then the threat of tornadoes continues for today. i think the big threat is the flooding that continues here but we can't rule out a tornado threat. i wanted to show you a graph here real quick before i let you go. the hydra draft of a river in

texas. we were doing okay. then, all of a sudden, in 24 hours, we went from no stage as far as flooding, to record stage. they have never seen this kind of flooding. we are now at record 41.5 feet is what we are talking about here and that just occurred in 24 hours going from nothing to 41 feet! that is amazing stuff! and that is why we have had so many people getting in trouble, obviously, the firefighter there that lost his life trying to save someone. >> an incredible amount of rain there. wow. thanks, ivan. we have a different problem out on the west coast. beautiful southern california beaches could be empty on memorial day. that's because of an oil spill that has contaminated nearly nine miles of coastline. an update on the cleanup coming up. they are called white helmets. a medical and rescue team responding to the injured during

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i want to bring in kim jackson right now as we talk about all of this flooding in oklahoma. she is an anchor for ktul in tulsa. kim, thank you so much for getting up so early for us this morning. can you, first of all, tell us more about what you know regarding this firefighter who died? >> all right. we can tell you that there was a situation where there was a duplex and people were needing to be rescued so he was one of

dozen of emergency workers who showed up to help, and he was, you know, swept into, you know, a storm drain and very unfortunate, as he was one of the people there to help everyone. >> give us some sense of the area where all of this water is causing problems. you've got clairemore, and does it go as far as out as oklahoma city? some idea of the size of this problem. >> absolutely. it goes even west of oklahoma city. i can't begin to name all of the communities that are just seeing so much rain that has left us in these conditions where everyone is just in a state of shock basically. we even had -- here in tulsa, we had a teenager who was driving his truck when the rain first starred. he hydroplaned and crossed the center line and this morning his family is grieving because he was killed in that accident. so every minute, we are getting phone calls here at the station

from something that is happening from just roads being closed to accidents. last night from 9:00 until 11:00, our emergency responders responded to about 55 different incidents and some were rescues of people stalled in their cars because we are telling our viewers with just 6 inches of water is enough to knock an adult over, you know? and possibly be swept away. a foot of water is enough to jeopardize them in their car. so with situations like that, you had cars on main roads. i'm talking roads that the malls are on so people are out. it's saturday night. no one really expected it. so it was quite a scene in many parts of our town. >> what does it look like there right now? is the water still flowing? is it raining? >> it is. the water is still flowing. it's still drizzling at this point in tulsa. that isn't to say what is happening somewhere else close by, but we do have a gentle rain that is falling but any rain

right now is too much because our grounds are simply saturated from days and days of water that we received, you know, beforehand. so it's not going to stop. today, we are expecting more rain. >> it's pretty clear that these are conditions that have just never been seen before in oklahoma. so it's not as if people really could have prepared for a flood season. entirely unexpected? >> not quite. because in 1984, we had a historical flood here. after that happened, tulsa really took a proactive approach and spent tens of millions of dollars, billions i'm told, to build flood planes and prepare for this so it's quite amazing to see take all in action right now, because all of the mechanisms, the drains, you know, there is just water flowing, flowing, flowing, and going where -- going the right

way and looking back so many years ago, 14 people died. looking at where we are now, although it's a tragic situation here, it could have been worse and we heard that more than once overnight here, that it could have been worse, it could have been worse. so we have done things to prevent this from getting worse. >> wow. thanks so much for that, ktul anchor kim jackson. we appreciate everything you do. stay safe out there. >> hey, thank you all so much. >> thank you, kim. yeah, take good care you and the crew there. we want to tell you about protesters outraged in cleveland and, overnight, they made it known. this was all regarding the acquittal of a police officer in the shooting deaths of two unarmed people. ahead we are talking to a young demonstrator who met with the obama administration about to you to improve community communications. take using to the front

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police are saying were multiple arrests. demonstrators filling the street chanting no justice, no peace after a judge acquitted a police officer in the shooting deaths of two unarmed people, timothy russell and melissa williams died in a hail of gunfire following a high speed police chase. they say brelo climbed on the hood and fired shots through their windshield. downtown restaurants closed after one diner was injured when some sort of object went through its window during protests. you can see there, there is a show of support for police in cleveland this morning. >> we want to bring in mala davis, an organizer with the ohio student organization and an

advocatesy group. following this verdict, malia, thank you for being with us. you have so many conversations about what to do. what are some of the solutions that you all have come up with in regard to trying to bring together community and police? >> so really what we have been talking about for the past maybe, like, nine months, we worked closely with the justice for john crawford and we have been saying that we want a fundamental shift between the power of law enforcement and the community. we are not really sure what it would look like, but we know that shift needs to happen. >> i know that your group, the ohio students, protested outside the prosecutor's house, timothy mckenty. what message were you trying to send to him, first of all, and did you hear back from him? >> we haven't heard back from

him yet but yesterday marked exactly six months after tamir rice was killed. and we aren't any much closer to justice than we were november 23rd. in going downtown to his office and his workplace for the past six months hasn't been working, so we decided to take it to his house just to show him the urgency in moving swiftly in this case to bring justice tota mir and his family. >> do you feel like you're being heard by anybody there in cleveland? >> the past six months, honestly, no. but yesterday, i feel like we were heard. absolutely yet. i don't think cleveland has ever had an action to be taken to an elected official's house or neighborhood so that really, you know, opened up a lot of ears and eyes to what we were saying and what we were demanding. >> so even if he didn't come out

and give you a statement or a reaction, obviously, you are getting somewhere else. thank you. it's good to have young voices in this and you bring fresh perspective and we so appreciate it. >> thank you. >> of course. take good care. joe? >> you too. a firefighter killed in making a water rescue in oklahoma. several inches of rain causing evacuations there, but texas and oklahoma are still not out of the woods. a new round of severe weather is on the way. plus, hundreds of thousands have been killed during civil war the last few years but there are some real heroes and dr. sanjay gupta is going to introduce us to the white helmets coming up next. he has a special talent. one which has led musical superstar ying ying to pick him

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war has left syria as one of the most dangerous places to live. as many as 300,000 people have been killed. >> that situation, of course, means there are survivors under the constant threat of attacks, but amid that tragedy, you know what? there is heroism. the white elements who serve as first responders and dr. sanjay gupta has this exclusive look for us. >> reporter: you're watching an extraordinary rescue in lipo, syria. for 12 hours, these men have been digging and drilling. they are about to save the life of a 2-week-old baby. the baby's savior is only known by the protective gear they wear on their heads. in an area of the world bursting

in too many men in black hats, they are the cavalry. the white helmets. >> they have all chosen to risk their lives to save others and that makes every single one of them a hero. >> reporter: james lameasurer is the architect of the organization. >> in syria, there is, there is no 911 system, there is nobody that you can call. you can't pick up a phone and call the fire service. you can't call a local police department. they don't exist. >> reporter: so this group of ordinary syriian men and a few women have organized themselves to fill that video. zu was once a blacksmith and birmingham abraham was a barber. this one is supposed to get married next week but for the time being, they have left their previous jobs and their previous lives and now volunteer to run

toward, when everyone else is running from. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: we are traveling along the border between turkey and syria and we are with the white helmets. they have just gotten a call and we wanted to see exactly what they do. this is all part of an intense training to become even better, even faster. all of a sudden, this area filled with smoke. there is concern there may be another bomb or another attack coming on so they have asked for all of the lights to be turned off. they don't want to be a target themselves but you can see just how challenging that makes their job. the concern is that. the white helmets tell us this video is of a barrel bomb being hurdled from a chopper by the syrian government. as you see, they could be wildly inaccurate. as you hear, they are incredibly vicious. >> a barrel bomb dropping on your house is like a 7.6 order

of magnitude earthquake 50 times a day. >> reporter: these bombs are so malignant, full of explosives, rebar, wire, nails, anything else that can brutally maim and kill. but now the white helmets are concerned about a newer enemy, chlorine gas. they were able to save these children but believe chlorine gas led to the death of a family of six. it gets even worse. >> helicopters normally caring two barrel bomb and they drop the first barrel bomb, which then explodes. the pilot then remains in the sky circling where the explosion took place, waiting for a crowd to gather and waiting for rescuers to come to the scene. when a crowd gathers, they release the second bomb.

>> reporter: eighty-four white helmets have now been killed and it is why syria is one of the most dangerous places in the world, and why being a white helmet might be the most dangerous job in the world. and, yet, they go on. 2600 have saved the lives of 18,000. how long -- more does it go on, do you think? >> one day at a time. >> reporter: as for the white helmets, another day is another chance to save a life. dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, southern turkey. >> gosh. it takes your breath away, doesn't it? lieutenant general mark hertling is with us here. general, thank you so much. we watch and hear there is no

911 system in a climate that is so volatile. i'm wondering when we talk about syria, we know how witnessing certain events and people helping other people can change our mindset here where we are, but in a country that is as volatile as that is, what do you think the impact is, other than the 18,000 that they have saved? >> it's huge. this organization has become somewhat iconic in all of the realm of the nongovernmental organizations, the ngos. they have as their value system, humanity, solidarity and impartiality. that means they don't care which side the injured are, they will do their best to take care of them. i've worked with ngos in combat before and they usually link up to do the best they can but in syria, there is no one to link up with and as sanjay said,

there is no cell phone towers and no 911 system. these individuals march to the sounds of the gun, if you will, to try and save lives. it's really quite a heroic organization of men and they have quite a few women in this group too which do magnificent things. >> how long do you think they can sustain? >> well, you never underestimate the values of people who are trying to help others. they will continue on as best they can. they are funded through private donations. they have their own website and they will do the best they can, as long as they are suffering. that's what drives them. so they will continue on as long as they are allowed to do so, but in this particular environment, what concerns me about any kind of organization like this, they are always subject to not only the regime but also some of the terrorist activity that may not like to see this kind of humanitarian action. >> so give us a sense of how you

feel about syria and what can be done there in general? i mean, we are not just watching, you know, the beautiful blessings of this group and what they are doing, but as we talked about, isis is taking over a big part of syria. >> well, i think isis, truthfully, have been ignored by both sides in syria. the regime is fighting fatah and alnusra and their number one enemy and isis has been somewhat of a side show. isis action yesterday was more to generate something where people would see them back in the news. both sides, both the insurgents and the government, the regime, has been ignoring isis to a small degree. but they are growing in significance. this is a three-sided war. there is no regime to protect the innocent.

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53 minutes past the hour. take a look at the latest pictures we are getting in from oklahoma where we are following breaking news that a firefighter died while trying to rescue several people in the area. >> several people are urged to vatican to safer ground. let's bring in cnn meteorologist ivan cabrera. >> if you're under a flash flood warning we tell people don't get out there and get in trouble. then the first responders don't have to get themselves into trouble trying to help you. here is what is going on. the rainfall, incredible rains we have picked up upwards of 6 to 18 inches of rainfall this month. as we zoom in a little bit closer i want to focus on what is going on i-35. a serious situation as you make

your way north along i-35 from san antonio. st. marcus. the river snakes to the direction here and it is flooded record stage. we showed you that last hour. that continues here and that is why we have parts of 35 that are closed and the rain continues up to the north. we are not done. it will continue to rain for today. we have pockets of very heavy rainfall that are going to fall 3 to as much as 6 additional inches of rainfall and you can imagine, a drop of water is going to do damage right now. 3 to 6 inches is going to be -- continue to be historic here and some areas have not seen this kind of flooding. there is the flood watches in the deeper green than you see the flash flood warnings highlighted in red. that is a lot of rain coming down in a very short amount of time. the drainage system can't handle it and you get rivers rising dramatically here. here is the stage we have set up here. 18 inches and means oklahoma city has seen six times their

normal monthly rainfall rate here as far as may. so six times. that is incredible. some areas picking up twice their monthly average and that continues for today. very heavy rainfall. you see the rain pushing towards the north and then out ahead of it, still the potential for some severe thunderstorms with tornadic development today as well. i think the main threat will continue to be the heavy rain and the flooding. guys? >> wow. thanks so much for that, ivan cabrera. we will have a report at the top of next hour coming out of texas. >> definitely. also we are going to be taking you to cleveland as well. demonstrators are upset over the acquittal of a police officer charged with the shooting deaths of two unarmed people. it's also a big day there with nba finals and lebron james has something to say about this too. the latest for you next hour.

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♪ breaking news this morning. look at what people in texas and oklahoma are dealing with. one person has already died amid this dangerous flooding. neighborhoods are evacuated and dozens of people need to be rescued and there is more on the way. and we have got demonstrations, arrests, protesters upset over the acquittal of a cleveland police officer and they are taking to the streets. >> it's not the answer. it's about trying to find a solution. for good or for bad. >> there is cleveland's hometown hero lebron james calling for calm. will there be a repeat tonight? plus ben carson making a strong push with some republican voters it seems. the retired neurosurgeon upsetting the gop's field in the southnd