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viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world, i'm bianca nobilo. >> i'm max foster joining you live on cnn. just ahead on "cnn newsroom." >> they wind up stopping innocent people and they wind up using brute force to do it. >> this incident was heinous, reckless and inhumane. helping ukraine defend, protect ukrainian land. >> they do, however, pose a significant event to forces inside ukraine illegally. the fbi searching the home of a sitting president. >> the justice department was not fully comfortable with joe biden's team doing the search on its own. >> reporter: live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. it's thursday, january 26th. 9 a.m. here in london, 3 a.m. in memphis, tennessee, where any day now we could see the police body camera footage of the

arrest of tyrei nichols who was stopped taken into police custody. >> the family of the 29-year-old black man is demanding answers. the preliminary autopsy says nichols suffered extensive bleeding by severe beating. he had been pulled over for allegedly driving recklessly. >> all five police officers have been fired, so have two members of the city's fire department. the police chief says they're conducting a transparent investigation. >> this is not just a professional failure, this is a failing of basic humanity toward another individual. this incident was heinous, reckless and inhumane. i expect you to feel what the nichols family feels. i expocket you to feel outrage in the disregard of basic human rights. as our police officers have taken an oath to do the opposite of what transpired on the video.

>> we're also waiting to see what charges are brought against the officers. the family's attorney says the best, murder charges. >> from what we saw, that in the time that tyre was in the custody, who's in the control, in the custody of these officers for about a three to three and a half minute time period, he was severely beaten. and as i've said, our independent medical examiner said that his injuries are consistent with a severe beating, and that's what happened for those three, three and a half minutes. his bleeding was so deep, the hemorrhaging was deep that it's only consistent with that type of physical contact that those officers made. >> cnn's shimon procupez has

more. >> reporter: there are a lot of questions over what happened there, exactly how everything occurred in terms of the first encounter with tyre nichols, finding him again, it seems he had disappeared again at one point and then they found him again and another chase. what happened during all of that time. the other thing that's important that we don't really know about is the aid, what kind of medical aid did he get? what kind of medical aid did they render as he lay there and what steps did they take after that? was he brought to the hospital when he was brought to the hospital? there were questions of the time line, what police did, actions they took and all of those moments. we still don't have the very basic answers to all of that. and hopefully in the coming days

someone from here in memphis and the city officials will be able to talk about it. >> meanwhile, nichols family wants people to know more about him. he left his mother, father, 4-year-old son. the president of the naacp in memphis says his death is so shocking. >> mr. nichols was only feet away from his home. he cried out for his mother three times when he died. he was a good person, a goodson and a good mother. he stated there was no criminal background. he was not out there doing things that he shouldn't be doing. he was going to work at fed ex and he was living his life. he was a skateboarder, nonthreatening, and for this to have happened to her son, she was just devastated. >> meantime, memphis officials already preparing for protests once the arrest is released. one memphis city council member

said they're taking steps to ensure incidents like this don't happen again. >> we're looking at what we can do to prevent this from ever happening again. we are drafting legislation to require more transparency so that we can have information on any officer associated with offensive use of language. in addition to that, we won't be stopping protests. they should be angry. we want them as peacefully as possible. >> the hearing is set for next wednesday. reverend al sharpton is expected to deliver the eulogy. now to a cnn exclusive. multiple sources say the dozen or so classified documents found at mike pence's home last week included briefing memos for foreign trips. one person said the materials were nothing unusual and

described the classification markings as lower level. jamie kendyl has more. >> reporter: according to sources, among the 12 documents are materials described as background briefing memos that were prepared for then vice president pence's foreign trips. we're told that some of the classified documents were likely used to prepare pence for foreign meetings and that they actually may have been overlooked during the packing process because they were found tucked into old trip binders. interspersed with other papers. perhaps they would not have been visible unless the packers went through these binders page by page. just for context, it's not unusual for presidents and vice presidents to be given these travel briefing binders that include background memos on people they're meeting with in foreign countries. our sources say that sometimes they just include basic

biographical information on foreign leaders, government officials but sometimes they also include more sensitive information. now to a major boost for ukraine on the battlefield as u.s. president joe biden announces plans to send dozens of highly sophisticated tanks to the war zone. a move mr. biden says will help enhance ukraine's ability to defend its territory. >> these tanks are the most capable tanks in the world. they're extremely complex to operate and maintain. we're giving ukraine the parts and equipment necessary to effectively -- >> did germany force you to change your mind? >> germany didn't force me to change my mind but make sure we're going to do it altogether and that's what we're doing. >> mr. biden says they will be sending 31 abrams tank and germany will be providing 14

leopard 2 tanks. oren liebermann has more. >> reporter: the announcement that the u.s. is connected to sending 31 m 1 abrams tanks to ukraine is a significant milestone. one the ukrainians have been asking for for months. one volodymyr zelenskyy says they need tanks to take back territory in terms of the number of forces. it's important to note that the u.s. made abrams tank and advance complex system will not arrive in a matter of weeks. this is a time line of many months we're looking at. that's because first the u.s. needs to prepare the tanks but then be it also needs to train and -- the operations, the maintenance and the logistics of providing these tanks to ukraine. this is a time line that will take quite a number of months. however, the white house has said training could begin sooner such that when the tanks are ready, the ukrainians will will be -- already know how to use them. the u.s. announcement of tanks

from president biden also coincides with germany announcing they're sending 14 leopard 2 tanks but will also approve other countries in europe sending leopard tanks. it's not just the u.s. acting here, it's much of nato acting in unison to make sure ukrainian forces have this very new powerful capability on the battlefield. this is the most powerful direct offensive weapon we have seen the west provide to ukraine. up until now it was largely attacking from a distance. himars, howitzers. tanks, however, are right on the front line designed for direct face-to-face clashes with russians as ukraine prepares to try to take back more of its territory that was seized by russia over the past year or so in this conflict. it will take time for them to train up on the u.s. tanks and the german and u.k. tanks as well as all of the other new systems, but that's part of the ongoing long-term commitment

from the u.s. and the west to ukraine. oren liebermann, cnn, am pentagon. salma is here monitoring this and a wave of strikes in ukraine. >> that's right. one power company had to cut off power supplies to residents, to families, because of these missile attacks that were happening. we have information one person wounded and two others killed in kyiv. there were attacks on the eastern parts of the country, the front lines. ukraine is going to see this potentially as a response maybe to the tank announcement, the announcement that the united states, germany, other european partners are going to provide just over 100 tanks to ukraine, a major announcement, but also let's put aside the details of

the actual weaponry. a really huge shift. the message behind this announcement i think from the united states and its partners is we are stepping up our support for ukraine and we are much less threatened by russia. the i mean, it was unimaginable a year ago that western allies will provide these tanks to ukraine. now they see moscow as much less of a threat. this is a weakened country in the eyes of the west. it comes at a very p critical time. ukraine is preparing for the spring counteroffensive. take a look at how john kirby described the strategy here. >> as the weather conditions improve, you can expect that the russians are going to pick up the tempo. we have to be ready for that. i know the ukrainians feel they have to be ready for that. the so it's about helping ukraine defend itself. also as you heard the president say, helping ukraine be able to go on the offense when the weather conditions and the

operational conditions are permissive. >> now i am going to give a bit of a reality check here. as i said, 100 plus tanks, 31 of them abrams, over 80 of them potentially leopard 2 coming from multiple countries. there's going to be a lag between the promise of tanks and the tanks being delivered. leopard tanks should be on the ground in two to three months. months more for training and this is not all the weapons that president zelenskyy needs. it's not even all the tanks he needs. he wants a lot more. we do have to take a bit of caution when we think about the impact on the battlefield. there's a lot more to come. >> when he tends to get something he wants, he immediately moves onto the next thing he wants which is where he's been so successful, isn't it? salma, thank you. former u.s. president donald trump may soon be back on facebook and instagram. facebook's parent meta says it will restore his accounts more than two years after he was

banned for allegedly inciting violence when his supporters stormed the capitol on january 6th. >> the decision comes on the heels of a similar move by twitter where he has 87 million followers. cnn's donnie o'sullivan explains this decision. >> reporter: meta announcing the most politically consequential decision in its history certainly here in the united states announcing on wednesday it was going to let former president donald trump back on its platforms, which is facebook and instagram. trump was kicked off the platforms in the days after the attack on the u.s. capitol. facebook at the time saying it was too dangerous for trump to be able to have that megaphone that he might incite further violence. two years later, facebook, meta has says it has reassessed its ban. the it has determined there isn't as great a risk of imminent violence or harm posed by trump and that they are going to allow him back on the platform in the coming weeks.

now this is a boon in trump's campaign effort for 2024. he has announced he is running for president. again, we have seen in the past the trump campaign really effectively use and spend hundreds of millions of dollars of advertising on facebook. it is a very effective way, they have found, of targeting voters but also fundraising. as you can imagine, a lot of people on both sides of the political spectrum here speaking out for and against this decision. of course, many people saying it's important to be able to hear from a former president and candidate for president. that's including the aclu, who at this statement they said this is the right call. like it or not, president trump is one of the country's leading political figures and the public has a strong interest in hearing its speech. indeed some of the most offensive posts were evidence against him.

that's a very important part of all of this, of course, the aclu saying there although we might not like trump, we believe what he is saying should be able to be seen by voters and citizens in the united states and people around the world had being bad or ugly. back to you. >> it's interesting, isn't it, he has been allowed back on twitter. he's been allowed on to twitter but he hasn't gone on there and the same, too, for facebook, true social -- truth social. if he comes off there, that's the whole attraction of truth social. the value would collapse. now a virginia teacher allegedly shot by her student plans to file a lawsuit. just ahead attorneys plan how school officials responded to multiple warnings about a 6-year-old. then police chase a stolen car after a woman napping in the back seat wakes up and calls for

help. millions in the u.s. under winter weather alert. meteorologist britley ritz has all the details. while many have been under achieved with snowfall totals from the plains to the ohio valley, more snow is on the way. i'll let you know when after this break.

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the attorney for a virginia teacher allegedly shot by a 6-year-old student says the school was repeatedly warned about the child having a gun. >> now the school's superintendent is out of a job and the teacher is planning to file a lawsuit as well. cnn's brian todd reports. >> this should have never happened. it was preventible and thank god abby is alive. >> reporter: the attorney for abby zwerner, the teacher shot and wounded by a 6-year-old student in her class, says she will file a lawsuit against the newport news school district. >> had the school administrators acted in the interest of their teachers and their students, abby would not have sustained a gunshot wound to the chest. a bullet that remains dangerously inside her body. >> reporter: attorney diane

toscano alleging a dramatic time line of warnings. the first coming around 11:15 a.m. when zwerner warned an straighter the 6-year-old threatened to beat up another stu student. >> they didn't call the classroom. >> later another teacher searched the backpack suggesting he brought the gun to school. >> the administrator downplayed the report from the teacher and the possibility of a gun saying, and i quote, well, he has little pockets. this is outrageous. >> reporter: around 1 p.m. a third teacher told administrators a distressed student confessed to seeing the gun at recess. >> did administrators call the police? no. did administrators lock down the school? no. >> diane toscano said another teacher was denied permission to search the child. >> he was told to wait the situation out because the school

day was almost over. >> reporter: cnn reached out to the school district which declined to comment. >> i move that we approve the separation agreement and severance with the superintendent. >> at a special meeting wednesday night the school board voted to approve a separation agreement with the superintendent and appointed an interim superintendent. >> effective february 1st, 2023, dr. parker will be relieved of his duties as superintendent. >> reporter: a move parents like mark garcia are calling for. >> different principal, different administration. >> thomas britton's son is in the same class and wasn't in school. >> i told my wife as we saw it, i'll leave the expletives out, but i can't believe someone could be so blaise or callous with the safety. like what is their job? >> the latest allegations, likely little comfort for the students and parents getting their first chance since the shooting to return to the school on wednesday afternoon, not for

classes but for a short reorientation, an effort to give students and staff what may feel like a far off sense of normalcy. >> my son is still scared. he was crying about three nights ago about this. you know, he wants to go back to school but he wants to know he's going to be safe. >> james ellinson responded with an email to cnn saying that the family continues to pray for abby zwerner. the family attorney had earlier told cnn that the gun the child accessed had been secured with a trigger lock and kept on the top shelf of the mother's bedroom closet. brian todd, cnn, newport news, virginia. millions of people are under winter weather alerts across the northeastern u.s. today. the winter weather is moving east after unleashing heavy snow in the upper midwest. in detroit, michigan, authorities closed part of the interstate 94 on wednesday after a tanker truck crashed into the median and caused a second crash. >> more on this now.

we're going to our meteorologist britley ritz. >> yes. most of these areas actually under achieved their snowfall, but some picked up over a foot, like in arkansas where mount magazine park hit 16 inches and parts of missouri nearing a foot of snow. yes, still under some weather alerts. we have winter storm warnings in effect for the entire state of maine back into parts of new hampshire and vermont and upstate new york where we have lake effect snow winter weather advisories now in effect. so we still had that heavy snow with the first system moving through, hence, why we still have the winter storm warnings in effect. the rain pushing off the coast line now so finally start to dry out a bit or the mid-atlantic coast but you notice that wave of moisture pushing across the ohio valley and the great lakes. that's our next wave and we'll bring in a few inches of snow with that system already from

the last system picking up nearly a foot across parts of the ohio valley and the great lakes, roughly about four to six inches. now we're going to add more to it, not just from the system we're dealing with today but another one rolling in on friday and into saturday. so we'll pick up quite a bit of snow especially along lake erie's eastern side south of buffalo, typically where we get heavy snow anyway. nearly a foot of snow fly widespread 4 to 6. there it is. the next system we're watching coming down from canada. we call this a clipper. it's usually quick moving and can drop quite a bit of snow in a short amount of time. round one out of here. the next one rolling in friday into saturday bringing in quite a bit of snow with it across the great lakes once again. with that, not only snowfall but, yes, we dealt with quite a bit of severe weather especially along the gulf coast where we had 20 reports of tornadoes and

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm max foster. if you are just joining us, let me bring you up to date with our top stories. officials in memphis will soon release the police body cam footage of tyre nichols who died several days after a traffic stop. his family is demanding answers after seeing the footage. preliminary autopsy reports say nichols allegedly died from excessive bleeding from a severe beating. president biden has announced plans to send 31 abraham tanks to ukraine against russia's invasion. members of the senate intelligence committee say they're frustrated by the lack of access to classified documents found in the possession of donald trump and joe biden. democratic chairman mark warner says all things will be on the table to ensure the committee

can carry out its oversight responsibilities, but republican tom cotton took aim directly at the biden administration. >> congress has an absolute right to review these documents to form our own judgment and to make our own assessment of any potential risk to our national security. no one in congress has received these documents, and whether it's blocking nominees or withholding budgetary fines, congress will impose pain on the administration until they provide these documents, and that is -- that is coming from both parties. >> this comes as we're learning the fbi was prepared to seek a warrant to search president biden's home if he didn't consent. cnn's paula reid reports. >> reporter: this was unprecedented. the fbi searching the home of a sitting president. now biden's team has stressed they were cooperative. they wanted the search to happen. we've learned federal

investigators were also prepared to seek a warrant if they did not get consent to search the wilmington property. they never had to raise the issue because they were given access and allowed to search the entire premises. the justice department is aware they need to treat this same case the same way they treat the trump investigation. the facts are clearly different at this point, but as we heard the attorney general say this week, they're going to treat everyone equally. look, there have been some officials inside the justice department who have been frustrated with certain decisions the biden administration made weeks after the justice department told the biden team they would be reviewing the case. they searched the home and didn't tell the justice department and did so only after they found documents. we've heard concerns how the white house was not fully forthcoming. when the public first learned of the story, they confirmed from

the penn biden center and they failed to confirm some were found in wilmington. more searches are possible. paula reid, cnn, washington. new cnn poll shows a vast majority of americans support the appointment of a special counsel to investigate president biden's handling of classified documents. 84% say they approve. 16% disapprove. more people are suspicious with how donald trump handled classified documents. 52% say they think he's done something illegal compared to 37% for biden. new day is bringing new scrutiny of republican congressman george santos. we've reported extensively on his false claims of his education, career, heritage, many other topics. now he's facing new questions about how he financed his

campaign. cnn's eva mckend has details. >> why did you a moend your -- >> reporter: new questions surrounding george santos's campaign finance reports. >> i don't amend anything. i don't touch any of my fec stuff so don't be disingenuous that i did. the you know every campaign hires fiduciaries. >> reporter: trying to dodge reporters after his campaign filed updated finance reports with federal regulators late tuesday. the new york republican previously claimed he lent his campaign more than $00,000 from his funds. those revisions would appear to indicate most of that loan didn't come from him after all but he is still listed as a source of the loans elsewhere in his filings deepening the confusion about the source of the substantial sum. >> what was the source of your funds, sir? >> reporter: in two of the filings, one related to that loan, $500,000 and one for

125,000, boxes previously checked indicated they had come from personal funds. were now left unchecked confounding campaign finance experts. >> either this is incredibly sloppy bookkeeping or he's saying this really wasn't his money. in that case, there's a legal question of whether this is an illegal pass through contribution, an illegal corporate contribution? there are other ways he could have pushed money that was not his to the campaign but they aren't legal. >> reporter: while it's not unusual to uptate a campaign finance report, santos has repeatedly updated his multiple times. >> this week in one very short period he amended ten filings from -- i believe they were the last ten filings his campaign made. the filings date back to i believe april of 2021 so something clicked and they went back and redid everything.

>> other pressing questions remain about the dozens of disbursements, just under $200. one penny below the threshold above which campaigns are required to obtain receipts. just how santos acquired so much wealth in such a short amount of time remains a mystery. >> it's the equity of my hard working self. i've invested inside of me. >> federal officials have launched an investigation into his finances. >> if there's anyone whose books needed to be audited, probably george santos. >> reporter: in new findings they listed thomas datweiler as the treasurer of the committees. they tell cnn he declined the role and did not authorize the filings made by santos's team. this treasurer they listed on documents says he isn't the treasurer. eva mckend, cnn, washington. fwrus some details are

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can this congress do anything? >> they absolutely can. they have the power to. the can they do something? yes. should they do something? yes. will they do something? that is where we all must speak up and speak to our elected representatives about what we have a right to expect that they will do for the -- in the interest of the safety, security, well-being of people like those whose lives were ended here and people around our country. >> u.s. vice president chairs calling on congress to do more about gun safety to protect all-americans.

she was in california on wednesday to lay flowers at the site of last weekend's mass shootings. >> she says they've been unable to find a connection between the suspects and victims. 11 killed and 9 more wounded after the suspected gunman opened fire at a dance studio. he wasn't romantically tied and hadn't been there for five years. meanwhile, the suspected gunman accused of a shooting has been charged with seven counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. the 66-year-old suspect appeared in court on wednesday. his arraignment was postponed until february 16th. >> zhao was expected to enter his plea at that time. the district attorney is sure they were not copy cat events. the murder trial of disgraced former attorney alec mourdock.

it's underway in south carolina with opening statements by both sides. cnn's randi kaye has the details. >> the evidence is going to show that neither paul nor maggie had any defensive wounds. neither one of them had any defensive wounds as if they didn't see a threat coming from their attacker. >> reporter: that attacker, says creighton waters, was alec mourdock as he layed out what were the facts in the case in his opening statement, he described the brutal slays of paul and maggie mourdock. >> picked up that 300 blackout rifle and opened fire on his wife maggie, pow, pow. two shots that took her down and after that there were additional shots, including two shots to the head that, again, did catastrophic damage and killed

her instantly. >> the prosecutor also makes an attempt early on to convince the jury alec was at the scene when paul and maggie were killed despite him saying he wasn't. >> at 8:44:55 paul recorded the video. you'll see that video and you'll hear from witnesses that identify paul's voice, maggie's voice and his son's voice. he told everybody he wasn't there. 8:44:55 there's video. the evidence will show he was there. >> murdaugh's attorney started with this. stand up. this is alec murdaugh. he was the loving father of paul and the loving husband of

maggie. >> reporter: then he moved to describe in gruesome terms how paul murdaugh died. >> literally exploded his head like a watermelon hit with a sledge hammer. all that was left was the front of his face. everything else was gone. his brain exploded out of his head, hit the ceiling and the shed and dropped to his feet. horrendous, horrible. >> reporter: the defense said an hour before paul was killed he and his father were having a good time riding around the property together. he told the jury it doesn't make sense that alec killed his son. he also pointed out that whoever shot paul would have been covered in blood given the violent nature of the shooting. alec murdaugh was not. >> his head exploded. he would be covered in blood from head to foot. >> still, the prosecutor did his best to try to place the murder weapon in alec murdau fw h's

happened. maggie was killed with a shotgun he had purchased and the gun was never found. >> the cases that were found in the flower bed and the range were ejected infrom the same gu that killed her. it was a family weapon that killed maggie murdaugh. >> randi kaye, cln, walter borrow, south carolina. a dash cam was rolling as police stopped a stolen n vehic and got the woman out safely. ♪ let's be more than our allergigies! zeize the day. with zyrtec.

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a woman in wisconsin who fell asleep in the family car wound up on a very scary ride when her husband stopped at a gas station and stepped out of the vehicle. another man jumped in and drove off before realizing he was not alone. michelle beck from our affiliate shows us how the police chase and rescue unfolded. >> reporter: shown from three different cameras, this is the 4

a.m. chase to find the driver later identified as kyle wagner. he's accused of driving away on january 14th in someone else's car. in the back seat was a woman who woke up to the high speed ride. this is her call for help. >> i was at a gas station. my husband just got out from the car. >> reporter: the victim told dispatch she doesn't know where she is. hearing her talking with wagner. >> no, no, i'm not telling anything because i'm really scared, you know? you should get back. please. no. no, you are not. no, you are not running around. >> reporter: according to a criminal complaint, the victim said wagner told her he was a truck driver and there was a conspiracy people wanted to kill them so he was saving her. >> why you take the car from the gas station? >> they're following us. >> who's following us? >> your husband. >> my husband. of course, it's my car.

>> the deputy behind the squad car footage is cited in court documents. he details how wagner drove at about 90 miles an hour and on the wrong side of traffic, that is until a state patrol car used a chase tactic to cause the car to crash into a guardrail. watch as the car lifted into the air and airbags exploded. the victim came out first from the back seat crying. >> i was scared. who this guy? >> officers then took the 51-year-old man from new york into custody after admitted he used fentanyl and meth within 24 hours. wagner now faces multiple felony charges. >> cnn's national security analyst weighed in on the attempted stolen car. she says crimes like this are becoming more common and precaution should be taken. >> we're home more and a lot of these people don't want to encounter people, they just want

the property for resale or find out what's in the car. car jackings are increasing and this fluke or coincidence that she's actually in the car, she did exactly -- she kept her calm relatively. she called for help and tried to get out of that situation in the best way she could. le this is actually a national phenomenon with a twist that we're showing here, which is, of course, someone was in the car. it is a reminder that when we look at this kind of crime, locked doors, windows up and not leaving people in cars. it's like so fundamentally obvious but nonetheless something that should be reminded. >> scientists say the inner core of our planet, meanwhile, could be shifting into reverse, so to speak. the core is a massive rotating ball of iron and nichol. >> researchers in china say it has stopped in recent years and may actually switch directions.

they believe that's something that happens once every several decades but some independent scientists say whatever is happening, no calamity is in the making. nice to say that on the news. >> stop going the other way around. japanese telescope capturing something strange in the skies over hawaii. if you look closely to the left of your screen, you see what appears to be a spinning blue spiral. a number of experts have weighed in saying it's actually the product of a spacex launch. >> it can happen when part of the satellite dumps fuel, generates a trail of exhaust while it's rotating. similar events have been spotted after other spacex launches. >> doesn't look real, does it? >> no. in the nba the milwaukee bucks held off the denver nuggets. janis led the scoring and the

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