horrific, we've been getting all indications of that. you can talk to us about the investigation and when will that video be released? >> in terms of the state investigation, it seems that they are at a point where they are complete with their investigation. the d.a. said that he was waiting to finish interviews with witnesses, and then they were going to release the video. the big thing that we're all waiting for right now is word on whether or not these officers are going to face charges. there seems to be an effort here to warn people, give people some notice that this video was going to come out to kind of prepare the community. the family has already seen the video. but they really want to prepare the community for what they are about to see. >> what did you hear about the police chief ahead of releasing a video making a statement like that? that is a strong -- >> strong statement in terms of how concerning it was for her to see this video, to see the actions of these officers. the way they treated tyree nichols. and how inhumane, she used the word inhumane. so that is very significant to

hear from her. but now the big -- two things. it is the charges against these officers and this video, when will we finally -- when will the public finally get to see the video. >> and executive director of the local naacp gave us information about the possibility of these officers surrendering themselves. but again, that has not been confirmed. that is according to her and her sources. in the meantime, the community reeling, family members reeling. and this community bracing for what is to come. >> yeah, we had a conversation with the senior pastor at the mississippi boulevard christian church here, that is the church where they will have services for tyree nichols on february 1. so there is real concern. you know, he made no bones about worrying about whether this was going to be explosive, how people are going to on respond once the video is released. but he said that they have been

in talks and he said he saw something that he has never seen before happen in this community, activists had gone to the presser and then they went over and marched to the stdistrict attorney's office and demanded to speak with the district attorney. and they tee demanded charges bt forth. instead of in the past where they would call the sheriff's department and try to remove them, he actually met with them, he said give me ten minutes and met with the community members who had been out and concerned about all of this. and kenned about what has been happening with the police department over years. and they didn't just meet one time. clergy met with them, members of the activist community and the community met with them. and so they feel like they have been allowed to see some transparency here. and that was really, really important he said to try to quell some of the extreme emotions that everyone is expecting. because it video is heinous.

>> we've been on a number of these scenes sadly. i get a feeling though that this is being handled differently, they are being much more careful about the information that they give out, working with the family's attorneys and representatives, working with the family, working with community activists. there is i'm sure, you know, they have seen what has happened in other communities. but this is being handled very differently. there is a better coordination about events and details here. >> and what we heard from some of the community is that you have a new police chief, she's only been here a year and a half or so, you have a new district attorney. and the expectation was this is in some part the after effects of what happened to george floyd and what happened in the minneapolis community. there is work here on the ground and with authorities that people want transparency, they want to know what is going on, they want change. and so some of those conversations have been happening and that is in part why you are seeing a change.

and it is a change by the way that the community members we spoke to like to see. they hate what has happened, but they at least are getting something. >> i don't necessarily think that everything that obviously the police here how they have been handling this is right. i think more information should be -- >> that they are handling it differently. >> but i think what they are doing, they know how bad this is and they are trying to prepare the community almost in a way we've been telling you how bad this is, we've brought the family in, we allow them to view the video, we brought their attorneys in, so almost in a way -- someone described to me they feel that they are desensitizing what they are about to see to prepare them for what they are about to see and just how horrific this is. but the fact is information -- we don't have key details on how everything here went down. so i think that there is still a lot more that we need to know. >> that is what i was going to say, what there needs to be, the video will be released at such

and such a time on such and such a day and everyone will get it at the same time. that is what needs to happen next. but i think the next thing that will happen will be the charges. >> that is why we're outside the courthouse, we're waiting on word on whether or not this will happen today. >> thank you both. and later this hour we'll talk to memphis city council chairman, so we'll be standing by, and we'll get more information. >> really important conversation. we'll be back to you in a minute. this morning the first witness expected to take the stand in the trial of alex murdaugh, disbarred attorney from a prominent family is accused of murdering his wife and youngest son in 2021. randi kaye is following all of this. quite the opening statements yesterday too. >> reporter: absolutely. and we're getting new details about what investigators learned at that crime scene and some were quite disturbing. all the while alex murdaugh

listening to that. he did have some support in court, his brothers were there and also his only surviving son buster was there. but again, very disturbing details. here is some of what we heard in court. >> the evidence will 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 the prosecutor was alex murdaugh, as he laid out what he says are the facts of the case in his opening statement, he described the brutal slaying of both paul and maggie murdaugh on the night of june 7, 2021. >> he picked up that rifle and opened fire on his wife maggie, pow, pow, two shots, abdomen and leg. and took her down. and after that, there were

additional shots including two shots to the head again that did catastrophic damage and killed her instantly. >> reporter: the prosecutor also makes an attempt early on to convince the jury alex 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 will see that video and you will hear from witnesses that i had guy identify paul's voice, maggie's voice, and alex's voice. to he told anyone who would listen that he was never there. at 8:44:55, there is a video and evidence will show he was there. >> reporter: the defense attorney opened with this. >> this is alex murdaugh.

alex 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 sledgehammer. all that was left was the front of his face. everything else was gone. his brain exploded out of his head, hit the ceiling in 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 alex killed his son. he also pointed out that whoever shot paul would have been covered in blood given the violent nature of the shooting. alex murdaugh was not. >> his head exploded. he would be covered in blood from head to foot. >> reporter: still the

prosecutor did his best to try to place the murder weapon in alex murdaugh's hand. he said maggie was killed with a shotgun alex had purchased, a gun that has gone missing. >> you are going to hear forensic evidence that the cases found in that flower bed and the cases found across the street at that range were ejected out of the same weapon that fired all the cases that were around maggie's dead body that killed her. it was a family weapon that killed maggie murdaugh. >> reporter: alex murdaugh has always said he came upon the boyds, called 911 at 10:07 p.m. but as you heard the prosecutor talking about this 8:44 p.m. audio that is on paul murdaugh's cellphone, we never knew what was on that audio that was recorded on his phone, but for the first time yesterday, the defense old us in court he said they were just talking about it was paul murdaugh and alex

murdaugh talking about a dog killing a chicken, there was nothing nefarious about it, nothing threatening about it. paul went on to text a girl after that and ask her to go to the movies about ten minutes later. but this is the first time we're hearing what is actually on that audio. and it does put alex murdaugh at the scene long before he called 911. >> very good point. thank you for the reporting on this. and in a vaalexei navalny i back in solitary confinement, he will remain there for eight days. the dimensions are marked on the studio floor. it is the 11th time he has been moved there totaling 113 days in isolation that is according to his team. in a court appearance on wednesday, navalny called out his captors saying they are treating him this way because of his political activism and that they introduced censorship, they keep me in confinement, they put

a psycho in front of me who yells, they don't let lawyers in, they put up these bars in the room where he meets with lawyers. these confinement cells are used as punishment or to separate the most dangerous offenders in the system. and here is a reminder for you, navalny was sentenced to nine years on fraud charges that he has claimed weren ju unjust and politically motivated. and he survived an assassination attempt that he says the russian go government was behind. russian security services deny that they played any role in florida valunavalny's poisoning. and russia launched more than 30 missiles at the capital of ukraine. [ sirens ] that is an air raid alert that remains in place over the city before moscow's latest attack has forced many residents to seek shelter in the underground

metro system. i remember those images from the beginning of the war. a spokesperson says around 20 of the missiles were enter repre intercepted and destroyed. and this is after the announcement that battle tanks will be sent to ukraine. >> the decision you saw today by both germany and the united states was several weeks in the making through many, many discussions with the germans and allies and partners. it is about coordination, it is about the unity here and the resolve that we all have together to help support ukraine. >> russian embassy says that it is extremely dangerous decision, it takes the conflict to a new level of confrontation and contradicts the statements of german politicians about their unwillingness to have germany be drawn into it. fareed zakaria is with me. great to have you. so what do you think big picture here, yes, a dramatic shift for

germany, but in terms of what it tells us about whether the west really fears putin at all anymore. >> i think this is one of those cases where the official line actually is accurate, that it really is about the unity and resolve of the western powers. it really is extraordinary if you think about it, if you compare this war with something like iraq which half of europe was in violent opposition to the united states' strategy, here you have basically the entire western world plus a lot of nonwestern countries that have banded together, and they are ratcheting up as the russians ratchet up. because putin has fundamentally decided he can't beat the ukrainian army, so he will try to defeat the ukrainian nation. those air raid sirens, this is indiscriminate bombing into a civilian parts of the city. kyiv, i was there in september, it is not a military city. it doesn't have huge military

bases. he is just killing civilians. and so in order to do something to break what is, you know, what appears to be a somewhat congealed stalemate on the frontlines, rest of the country is asking themselves how can they move forward. i think it is a remarkable display of the fact that you have with all the problems created by putin's invasion, oil rises, energy crisis, the west is united. >> you just interviewed volodymyr zelenskyy in davos. and i thought it was interesting he just told sky news he is not interested in meeting with putin and that putin is a nobody. that reflects the sentiment you got as well. >> and he is reflecting the sentiment in ukraine. i've noticed an interesting change with zelenskyy. at the start of the war when i would ask about whether or not there was room for negotiation, his answer was always yes. his answer was look, there is a

way around this, there are formulas we can come up with, we can describe the areas that russia occupies as frozen. we will never accept their legitimacy, but we move on. and then came the brutality of the offensive, attacks on civilians, the war crimes, all of that. and i think that it has turned the country, it has turned ukraine, one thing it has done, it really created a sense of ukrainian nationalism far stronger than anything i've seen. but it is also created an absolute determination that they are not going to surrender, they will see it through to the end. >> it is just so fascinating, isn't it, to see the evolution of his leadership, that so many questioned when he got elected, right, and look what he has become. >> the guy was a comic and producer. and it turned out that we never know this about leaders, that when confronted with a crisis, he had the one thing that perhaps you need above all else

in a great leader which is courage. if he had not had the courage that first day to say i don't need a ride, i need ammo, the whole history of this war would be completely different. >> i loved your op-ed, your takeaway from the world economic forum in davos as it pertains to sort of what will lead the world. and it is not just the united states. you say there are encouraging signs that we are actually witnessing a new kind of order built on unity and cooperation of the world's three nations. and that just got accelerated, did it not, with the u.s. and germany coming together in this move this week. >> i'm so glad you noticed that, because what does this latest tank business show us. the germans were very concerned about not wanting to be out in front on this kind of thing. and we should all be very grateful that the germans are concerned about not seeming too

militar militaristic. so they said to the americans if you want us to do this, you have to be in lock step with us. and so the americans really largely simply to as cede to that german request. and so a case of genuine democratic leadership. this is not iraq, this is not the united states saying it is my way or the highway. people are being forced along. it is really consensus building, which is what we have to hope is going to happen in the future because the u.s. ain't going to bear the burden alone anymore. and it does seem like there is a kind of new democratic leadership coming about. >> i was happy to read about your optimism after being with all of those leaders. thank you very much and of course we'll be watching as we always do on sunday. thank you. and some teachers in florida are very afraid they could actually face criminal charges if the books in their classrooms and libraries are not approved by the state. >> anytime you redisstrict acce

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third degree felony. leyla santiago is live for us in miami. what in the world is going on here? >> reporter: this is related to a law that took effect in july of last year, but as recently as just a few weeks ago, the florida department of education was still putting out guidance. and as i've been watching the school board meetings, you hear from parents that will tell you this is about transparency. this is about parents' rights. but i've also talked to parents and teachers that are using some of those words you just used, they are saying that they are describing this as angst, fear and confusion. behind the covered wall of paper in this manatee county classroom, books. the teacher told us he covered the book shelves out of concern for a new state law that requires all books in classroom libraries to be approved or vetted by a media specialist or librarian that is trained by the

state. >> we were instructed last week that we essentially had three choices as far as our personal libraries in our classrooms, we could remove them completely, box them up, we could cover them up with paper of some sort or something, or they could be entered into a database where the school district has all of the library books and all the other kinds of books and if the book was in the system, then it could remain on your shelf open. >> reporter: and he is part of a lawsuit against governor desantis says it has caused him and other teachers much fear and angst, but the district says it never instructed teachers to shut down classroom libraries. according to the school district volunteers will be helping to catalog books in classroom libraries. if the book already has the green light, it can go right back on the shelf.

but if it is not pre-approved, it must be vetted before a student can have access to it. >> we'll make sure that parents have a seat at the table and that we protect their rights because nobody is more invested in the proper well-being of kids than the parents themselves. >> reporter: according to florida's department of education, slebs ofselection of library materials must be free of pornography and material prohibited under state statute, student to student needs and their ability to comprehend behind the material presented, appropriate for the age level for which they are made available. violations can result in a third degree felony. >> this is us protecting the teachers, not saying we're banning books. >> reporter: in the school board meeting this week, school officials acknowledged they don't know how long it will take to verify all the books but in the meantime students have access to books in the main library. but the process has sparked

confusion and high emotion. >> i would not suggest banning books. it is a slippery slope. this is good literature with value. please do not ban books. >> reporter: during the school board meeting, school officials confirmed that they are working to align policies with state requirements. school officials say a group of library media specialists reviewed 94 book titles over the summer. >> and they did recommend ten to be weeded out of the collections or moved to the adult only resource library. >> there is appropriateness and there iss inappropriateness. we have to keep the minors in mind. you cannot substitute adult supervision. you just cannot. adult 1supervision, parents, guardian, grand parent, have to

be aware. >> reporter: and others worry it is a slippery slope. >> anytime you restrict access to information, to knowledge, it is censorship. there is -- i don't think there is any other way to characterize it. >> reporter: so let's go back to that pinellas county school board meeting. the school officials there made it clear that there could be additional titles that are removed as they continue through this process. and they are going to continue they say to err on the side of caution. another challenge brought up by wofrnts school board members, the definition of age appropriate, how do you define what is age appropriate in this vetting process. i reached out to the governor's office as well as the department of education with that very question and we have not received a response. >> leyla, thank you. poppy, this is bizarre. >> i know.

>> what are we doing here? i feel like we're going back -- i feel like i'm watching a bad version of like pleasantville where you are -- i don't get what is happening. feels like the 1950s all over again with book banning. this is cancel culture from people who are -- i guess they just want our kids to be ignorant and to control the teachers. it is -- this is outrageous. i really don't even know how to explain what is going on here. it is ridiculous. >> or another country. leyla, you are a new parent. i have kids just starting to read. and when i read this in your reporting that teach can face a felony if they knowingly distribute anything not approved by these trained brprofessional that is stunning. books are covered with paper? that is happening in american classrooms. >> and i should add in pinellas

county, one of the things that came out in that school board meeting was recent removal of a book just within the last month, that book was by tony morrison. and that became part of that debate that there is a noble peace prize on there whose book was being pulled. but over the side parents say i'm not comfortable with some of that material, i should know what is in my classroom and is this a book that deserves in their opinion further scrutiny. >> and just to be clear, i do think that parents need a voice in this. i'm a parent who wants a voice in education. but i also think that there is a lot of -- >> this is not about a voice in education. i think that is a red herring. i understand what you are saying. i think that is a red herring because there are a lot of uncomfortable topics that are in books. naziism, "mein kampf." >> i was just going to say, but i want my kids to read things that are uncomfortable to talk

about and have these hard conversations at home and in the classroom. >> that is how we learn about -- that is how we learn, things are uncomfortable. history is uncomfortably. even the present is uncomf uncomfortable. being here in memphis and discussing a man being beaten by police and five officers turning themselves in and who could possibly face charges, that is uncomfortable. not everything is happy, happy, joy, joy. and in order to grow as human beings, and as a country, as a democracy, we have got to be able to face these things that are in our past. tony morrison is one of the most decorated authors in the history of this country. in the world. it is outrageous. ron desantis, stop it. you are not helping. you are hurting. thank you, leyla. poppy, you're right as a parent, i agree, but these things get me riled up and everybody should be

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just look around. this digital age we're living in, it's pretty unbelievable. problem is, not everyone's fully living in it. nobody should have to take a class or fill out a medical form on public wifi with a screen the size of your hand. home internet shouldn't be a luxury. everyone should have it and now a lot more people can. so let's go. the digital age is waiting.

you see that picture now of tyree nichols up on your screen. the city of memphis bracing for the release any day now of the police body cam video in the death of tyree nichols. it is said to show the police beating him nonstop for three minutes. he later died at the hospital. here in memphis, there is anger, there is concern at his death as we saw this week in a city council meeting. watch this .

joining me now is a man you saw at the end of that video, memphis city council chairman martavis jones. thank you very much for joining us. i wish we could have met under better circumstances. but here we are in front of the police station to try to -- they will try to figure out what charges will be brought if and when the officers turn themselves in. but this community is angry, sir. are you concerned? >> very concerned, don. based upon how -- if the footage is as bad as indications say that they are, if a man who opposed no threat, no harm, you think about it, he was 6'3", i weigh 160 pounds, this man was 6'3" and weighed 150 pounds. so he was a very slight man. so to think that he was so brutally attacked by police officers, the reaction, i just -- i'm hoping for the best

but preparing for what could be. >> an indication of just how horrific this video might be, the police chief speaking out last night, i want to play that and then i'll get your reaction. here it is. >> this incident was heinous, reckless, and inhumane. and in transparency, when the video is released in the coming day, you will see this for yourselves. i expect you to feel outrage in the disregard of basic human rights as our police officers have taken an oath do the opposite of what transpired on the video. i expect our citizens to exercise their first amendment right to protest, to demand action and results. but we need to ensure our community is safe in this process. >> the police chief there warning people of what is to come, trying to get them prepared, but also saying that

there needs to be safety. what do you think will happen when this video is released? >> i'm hopeful for peaceful protests such as what took place, it was vocal, but still peaceful that took place at the city council meeting. i'm hoping that the police chief, the mayor and also council will -- the council is willing and able to try to quell things as much as we can to hope for peace and really just provide more messaging, talk about this. i think when the video is released, i'm hopeful that the district attorney will come out with charges and so that the public will see that swift justice is being executed in this situation. >> the fact that all of these officers are black, does it speak to anything about the racial dynamics of this or to the training for officers? >> it speaks to the blue.

the blue, the color of blue, the color of law, whether these officers were black or white. more often than not, the victims that we see at the other end of this happen to be black. so it is the training that the officers receive whether they are black or white. to me that lends to this or programs the psychological evaluation that does not take place when you are hiring and evaluating the people to become police officers that results in actions like this. >> martavis jones, thank you very much. we appreciate you joining us. and so just in, we have news to tell you about on the economy. major new on the economy. we'll break that down, how much it grew, that is next.

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economic growth for the year. that is not recessionary. i was joking with matt, if this is what a recession feels like, bartender pour me another. and the latest weekly jobless claims, only 186,000. what it means is layoffs are low. and every day we tell you layoffs are historically low. in tech not so much because we spent too much, hired too much, they are unraveling. but overall a strong end to the year. >> and i think this is supportive of the great interview you did yesterday with the chief economist at goldman sachs. let's listen to what he told you. >> we don't expect a recession. our expectation is that we'll see still positive gdp numbers, we're saying estimating a 35% probability that it will be a

recession. >> 35% probability there will be a recession, meaning that they are betting on no recession. they think that there will be a soft landing. and i think that today's numbers totally support that idea. we've heard so much gloom and doom the past, i don't know, year or so, and yet the most powerful bank on wall street is kind of saying let's chill out with the recession talk, let's tap the brakes on that, because inflation is cooling off, the jobs market remains really strong as christine just mentioned. jobless claims are lower today than they were a year ago. think about how incredible that is despite these layoffs that we keep hearing about. a lot of employers don't want to let go of the workers that they have. >> unless we decide to tank ourselves. >> and yesterday in that interview about the debt ceiling, gold man sax economist warned about messing around with the debt ceiling even getting too close could be catastrophic for the u.s. economy. and yesterday you heard from three important voices, aarp

that is main street. you heard from the largest federal employee union, that is washington. and you heard from goldman sachs and many others on wall street who say don't tie big spending initiatives, spending moves, to the debt ceiling. clean debt ceiling is the best thing for american people, for seniors, for investors, for just about everybody who talks about kitchen sink economies. so three warnings yesterday about tying spending cuts to the debt ceiling. >> and the reason why we're even talking about the debt ceiling is what we saw earlier this month, the messy election of the house speaker, the historic level of dysfunction has raised concern in corporate america and i think in washington that maybe there will be a mistake done here. we know the debt ceiling has already been hit, this $31 trillion borrowing limit. and this is what the chief economist told me, treasuries are the safest assets in the world. and so anything that you do to question sort of whether or not they still are that safe, it

could set off a lot of mayhem in the markets. and not to mention this would hurt people on main street. >> i love the last line of yellen's letter to speaker mccarthy, essentially please do your job. please did o your job. and you can read more about the interview with goldman sachs top economist on cnn.com. and there is an interview with the ceo of united as well. and new research suggests the earth's inner core may have stopped turning and could start spinning in reverse. i'll learn next along with you what that actually means. we'll be joined by the world renowned theoretical physicist next. (children yelling) (children laughing) what if i can't see homes in person? (tablet beeping) hi. hey. are you readady for your virtual tour? yeah, i'd lolove to see it. (upbeat music continues) ♪

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hollywood block buster. scientists say our planet's solid core which is disconnected from the earth's layers may have stopped rotating and could even reverse course. this was published in the journal of geoscience. the authors in beijing took a look at the seismic waves from earthquakes that have passed through our core since the 1960s. that's how they were able to calculate the speed at which the inner core is spinning. are you confused? i am. let's bring in a professor of physics at the city university of new york. good morning. >> good morning. >> at first it sounds like something from a hollywood movie. the core of the earth is spinning backwards? this is worth than having a tsunami or earthquake. the stability of what we walk is at stake. this comes from reputable

scientists at beijing university that analyze echoes. when an earthquake takes place, shock waves reverberate around the inside of the earth. by analyzing these echoes, you can recreate a model of the inside of the earth. sure enough, the core seems to be about to spin backwards. >> okay. i read this happens every 70 years so we don't need to be alarmed? >> that's right. the bad news is we know very little about the core of the earth, what's underneath our feet. the good news is probably there's nothing to worry about in the sense that roughly every 70 years or so, we're not sure, the center of the earth does seem to go backwards. if this is the crust of the earth that we live on, this is the core of the earth. the core can move independently on the crust. that's the key. >> so the part we're on never moves in reverse? >> the core of the earth sits in a pool of like molasses, and it's able to spin independently

of the crust of the earth. so, in other words, don't lose any sleep over this. probably it's a natural cycle. it takes place once every 70 years or so, but we need more data. this is new territory for us. >> why do we need to know? they spend a lot of time. they studied earthquakes back to the '60s. why is it important to know this? what are the implications? >> the implications are potentially enormous. think of continental drift. why are the continents moving away from each other? what is driving it? also, earthquakes, the whole that tour of the stability of the earth itself. we know very little about what's underneath our feet. that's why this information from echoes, computer analyzed is very important. it tells us the future of the earth. >> what questions, professor, does this leave you with? >> it leaves me with the frustration that it's under our

feet. you can almost touch it, but it is thousands of miles distant. we don't know that much about our home. we know more about other planets than we do about the center of the earth. mars, for example, is probably frozen over. not much earthquake activity at all. we know a fair amount about mars. we know very little about the earth. the earth is dynamic. things are moving and churning at the center of the earth. that's why we have earthquakes, why we have continental drift and volcanos. >> volcanos, my son's favorite thing. he likes to make them with baking soda and vinegar in the kitchen. thank you, professor. i now understand it much better. we appreciate it. imagine traveling more than 4,400 miles to watch your favorite basketball player only to find out before tip-off he wasn't in the lineup. do not worry, this story has a happy ending. we'll show you next. nitive healh in older adults. it's one more ststep towards taking charge of your health.

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here is your morning moment. a young boy from argentina traveling more than 4,000 miles to florida to see his favorite player on the court, only to find out miami heat star jimmy butler would not play. he was ruled out an hour before the game due to a back injury just before tip-off. the boy's reaction was all caught on camera. >> sad stuff. jimmy butler not playing tonight. we flew over 4,400 miles to see you play. can we get a photo -- that's when the kid realizes that jimmy butler is not playing. jared greenberg tell jimmy butler to take a photo with this

kid. >> jimmy butler was watching that game at home tuesday when he saw the fan's reaction. he made sure the boy walked away with one of his jerseys. on wednesday, tnt's jamal crawford tweeted this. yesterday this young kid was so hurt, today his life was made. this is what it's truly about along with a photo of the young fan getting to meet -- look at that -- his favorite player. thanks for being with us. we'll see you tomorrow morning. "cnn newsroom" is now. good morning. i'm erica hill. >> i'm jim sciutto. as soon as today police in memphis, tennessee, could release body camera video from the violent january 7th arrest that lead to the death of 29-year-old tyre nichols. an attorney for his family says that video will show that he was beaten, quote, like