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the physician, his physician talked about how president biden had throat clearing, he was often clearing his throat, possibly due to reflux, that hay had issues with his walk. in part he said due to arthritis. also a precancerous lesion was removed during a colonoscopy. now you might remember back in 2020 then-president trump said that he had taken a cognitive test, a cognitive assessment. physicians do at an annual visit for an older person, do an assessment to detect cognitive impairment. we will find out if this is mentioned in the report that's supposed to come out later this afternoon, if president biden had that. i want to take advantage of the president's physical to talk about colon cancer screening since we know that he had it back in 2021. let's take a look at when all of us are supposed to be getting screened for colon cancer. younger than 45, start if you're younger than 45 if you have a family history of colon cancer,
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crohn's disease, et cetera. start at 45 to 76 for most people. get screened with a colonoscopy or there are other tests, ages 76 to 85, talk about whether you should be getting screened. >> all right. some good advice and guidance. thank you. it is the top of the o'hare on "cnn newsroom." i'm bianna golodryga. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you. president biden has finally addressed the national security mystery tens of thousands of feet in the skies. the three unidentified flying objects american fighter jets shot down last weekend. a move never seen before from the u.s. military. he spoke after days of bipartisan calls that he should share more with the american people about the concerns. >> the president says his experts do not think the aerial objects are chinese spy balloons like the one brought down off the coast of south carolina. he added the best guess since no
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debris has yet been recovered is that the mystery objects are tied to private research. >> i want to be clear, we don't have any evidence that there has been a sudden increase in the number of objects in the sky. we're now just seeing more of them partially because the steps we've taken to increase our radar. i've directed my team to comcome back to me with sharper rules for how we will deal with these unidentified objects moving forward, distinguishing between those that are likely to pose safety and security risks that necessitate action and those that do not. >> phil mattingly is at the white house, and oren liebermann is at the pentagon. phil, beginning with you, there's been a lot of criticism from republicans and some democrats that this president hasn't been transparent enough about these objects. do you think that he did his job in alleviating some of that criticism? >> reporter: i think part of the reason the president hadn't spoken up to this point is really there's a couple levels to it.
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first is they didn't have a lot of information, they still don't have a lot of information in terms of what those three objects that were shot down over the course of three days actually were. they're waiting to get a better sense of things. yesterday they announced the intelligence community had a theory, a leading theory, that they were benign. i think that gave them comfort in terms of the ability to speak with some authority about what had been shot down. i think they also wanted to let kind of the fury and the spiral of events ease up a little bit so the president could deliver a sober, steadfast message about where things stood, what was going to happen next, and what the process had been in the lead up to the shoot-downs and what the process will be in the wake of that. you heard that today. that is what aides pretty much wanted him to communicate. i would say the other critical element and probably the most critical was what the president was saying in relation to china, in relation to how the u.s. addressed the chinese spy balloon that was shot down, but also that relationship going forward. probably the most important geopolitical relationship at this moment in time. the president saying he plans to speak with chinese leader xi jinping soon. we don't know exactly when that
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will be or if it's officially on the books yet. also making clear that despite what was very clearly something that u.s. officials weren't expecting and were displeased by is not having a massively negative impact on the relationship and they want to continue the open lines of communication that are so critical. that was a message that wasn't just to the american public, to some degree to chinese officials, as well. >> the president said experts do not believe the objects are related to china's spy balloons. how can the pentagon be certain or confident considering there's so much of the debris that has not been recovered? >> reporter: that's an excellent point. there is no absolute certainty on this one because the administration and the pentagon have made clear they only will have certainty if and when they recover these three objects. one off the northern coast of alaska, one in the yukon territory, northwest canada, and one possibly now at the book of lake huron. now easier to get just because it's in the continental united states. they pointed on the recovery as
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the way of getting definitive answers. yet, the administration has raised the possibility that they may not be able to recover these objects for final answers. and yet there is some information. first of all, from the radar tracks that allowed the u.s. to follow them at the very beginning, and then the fighter jets that were able to see these even though they were flying by them at tremendous speeds, especially compared to the movement of the objects. there were fighter pilots who had eyes on it, there were the sensors that were detecting this before the shoot-down. there is some information. whether we're get a look at that is an entirely different question. there is at least some information to base this off of. if you look back at how president joe biden worded his statement, he built in some of that uncertainty. he said nothing right now suggests they were related to china's spy program. the intelligence community's current assessment is that the three objects were most likely balloons. there is still some uncertainty, and it's an open question how much of that can they close because without recovering the objects there's no way to definitively answer the questions now. >> on, revenue lieberman at the
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pentagon -- on, revenue lieberman at the pentagon, thank you. donald trump's campaign is doubling down on the statement that the former president did absolutely nothing wrong after excerpts were released from a georgia special grand jury report today. it was looking into the attempts by trump and his allies to overturn the results of georgia's 2020 election. much of the report was redacted. >> but the jurors did recommend prosecutors file charges of perjury. 75 witnesses testified including georgia's governor, top election officials, as well as some of trump's most ardent followers who pushed the election myth that his victory was stolen from him. cnn's sara murray has details. do you know who these jurors say should face perjury charges? no names were listed, but i guess that opens the door to speculation. >> reporter: yeah, i mean if only we knew. i think what we are getting today is a small glimpse of the special grand jury's work. but we are not getting any names. we're not getting whatever they decided their recommendations
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were on who if anyone should face criminal charges. we are getting some of these lines about there are concerns that people lied under oath. it says the majority of the jurors believe that perjury may have been committed by one or more witnesses. they say the district attorney should pursue indictments if she finds there is compelling evidence to underlie these concerns about perjury. they also said that -- they came to unanimous agreement after talking to witnesses, georgia officials, after talking to poll workers that there was no evidence of widespread fraud in the two 2020 election. they heard from witnesses that were making that claim but they unanimously agreed there was no there there. we are still hearing from the former president that he believes the call that set this all in motion, the call from former president donald trump to georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger asking him to find the votes, trump still believes that was a perfect call. here's a portion of what a trump spokesperson had to say today. the long-awaited section that
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don't mention president trump's name had nothing to do with the president because president trump did absolutely nothing wrong. the president participated in two perfect phone calls regarding election integrity in georgia. now of course, as we pointed out, the excerpts of this report don't mention anyone by name. the judge is very clear. he thinks it's premature to do that. so far no one has faced charges in this case. it's going to be up to the district tonight to decide if she's going to bring charges against trump or any of his associates. >> sara, any indication as to when her decision will be made? >> reporter: we would love to know. she said last month that these decisions are imminent, and as i was talking to someone about there they say, yeah, imminent in like a legal timeframe not in like a we're going to get coffee imminently timeframe. could be weeks, could be months, we're waiting to see. >> all right, sara murray, thank you. joining us now is alberto gonzalez, he served as attorney general under president george w. bush. good to see you again. let's start with this report,
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obviously. not a wealth of information from the fine report from this special grand jury, but i wonder what you found to be most revealing. >> well, we have to remember, victor, of course, as you indicated that there's not much information here, and the information that typically comes from the grand jury is one sided. so i wouldn't get too terribly excited about what's in here. obviously i found interesting the conclusion about the evidence -- lack of evidence with respect to fraud that might have made a difference in the election. again, there's this -- because of the importance of protecting the anonymity of individuals that are called before the grand jury and that may ultimately not be charged, obviously the judge is going to be careful about the amount of information that is released. and so again, you know, it's interesting, but i think we still -- we still have a ways to go to have a full picture of what the situation looks like in
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the mind of the prosecutors here. >> you highlighted that line, and i'm going to read it, we find a anonymous vote that no -- unanimous vote that no fraud took place in the 2020 georgia election that could result in overturning that election. ambassador norm icitsen said th is another nail in the coffin. is this line potent enough to suggest any more than 24 hours ago that this investigation's going to lead to or this special grand jury's going to lead to charges against the former president? >> it may, it may, but again, as i said, that conclusion is based upon information presented by one side. the other side did not have a chance to rebut the information. it may have made a difference in the minds of the members of the grand jury if they had this additional information. so again, i -- it's very interesting, of course, and obviously it does -- it does
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indicate that's probably, you know, a trail that the prosecutors are going to go down and explore. but i -- i would just be cautious about getting overly excited about that statement. >> all right. let's thissist to jack smith's -- shift to jack smith's investigation, the special counsel investigating former president trump. he's now subpoenaed the former vice president, vice president pence, has said he will fight this all the way to the supreme court. and his argument is not executive privilege, although president trump's lawyers say that they will follow that line. what vice president pence is saying is that based on the protections provided under the speech and debate clause from the constitution, that he is protected from certain legal law enforcement. of course that protects legislative duties for members of congress. what do you think about this approach that because he was as vice president president of the senate that he has those speech and debate clause protections? >> i would agree that he does
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have those protections, but it would be fairly -- for example, if he's having conversations about his authority to certify the election, is it more than ministerial, you know, what's the scope of his authority? as a member of the senate, then yes, i would argue that that probably is protected by privilege. but if it relates to simply what's going on with respect to the january 6th riots, with respect to what actions the president should take or shouldn't take, what conversations related to that, i'm not sure that privilege is going to get very far, quite frankly, because again, it is fairly -- it is intended to protect the actions, the words, the communications when he's acting in that capacity and that capacity only. >> you believe that he has the protections as a member of the senate, although he was elected nationally as the vice president and, of course, has that role as the president of the senate.
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you say the question comes down to what, indeed, the conversations and potential documents that are also included cover, not the position it will undermine it -- >> no. the position matters because the position's going to dictate what is within the scope of the privilege that's going to be assertsed and the scope of the privilege that's going to be respected. clearly he's a member of the executive branch. i suspect that when he -- if he can't argue that privilege with respect to being a member of the senate, he's going to argue executive privilege. my own view is looking at the case law, because we're talking about an investigation by an executive branch agency, that that privilege is not going to hold up. i think that privilege would be -- is going to be pierced. and so i think at the end of the day he's going to be compelled to provide some information related to what happened that day. >> how about mark meadows, former chief of staff? we know that he has asserted executive privilege certainly with the january 6th committee
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that was in the last congress. do you think that holds up if he fights the subpoena from jack smith? >> no. his situation would be similar to the vice president. obviously it would be a weaker privilege because he only can assert executive privilege, and as i said looking at the case law, i think because this is an investigation within the executive branch that privilege will not be respected. particularly if the information is of a great public interest and there's no other way to get that information, and if that information relates to an ongoing criminal investigation. i think there's a pretty good chance that the courts are going to say, you know, we're not going to recognize the privilege under these circumstances. >> go ahead -- >> no question about it, this -- this is a very unusual situation. and you know, the courts may go a different way.
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that's how i see it based upon current case law. >> we're talking about the trees, let me ask about the forest. we have subpoenas coming. we know the former national security adviser, roberts o'brien, who was subpoenaed, he was before the -- before the special counsel's grand jury today. there are also these eight secret cases that are being argued, many of them under seal. what does this tell you about the pace, the progress, the status if anything of these investigations? >> well, i can't speak to the pace. i know there's been a lot of frustration about the pace. the fact that the vice president's being called and the -- and that the chief of staff is being called, typically you don't bring -- these are people that are obviously the next level as president of the united states. so it tells me that they're getting to the point where they're going to be making some decisions relatively soon about
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whether or not there should be charges against former president trump. when i say relatively soon, you know, again, the special prosecutor's going to make his decision when he's ready to make his decision. when asked, well, when's that going to be, my response has got to be he'll do it when he's ready. again, this call is going to have tremendous political implications. and you want to be sure -- you want to get this right obviously. so we'll have to wait and see. >> all right, former attorney general and current dean of the belmont university college of law, alberto gonzalez. always good to have you, sir. thank you so much. >> thanks. the shreveport police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man is now charged with negligent homicide. we're live in louisiana ahead. we're also following a big recall for hundreds of thousands of teslas. we'll tell you why next. and we know 80% of coupleses sleep too hot or too cold.
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we turn now to tesla's massive recall of nearly 363,000 cars that are equipped with the full-serve driving feature. the company is citing concerns of a possible crash risk. >> cnn's gabe cohen is following the developments here. been watching the tesla stock price slide since this announcement. what more are we learning about there recall? >> reporter: included in these nearly 363,000 teslas being recalled are a portion of all four of their models. it's because of this software, this full self-driving beta software that's on board many of their cars. so these are the cars in question, it includes certain model s, model x, model 3, and model y vehicles spanning all the way back to 2016 in some cases. and this recall notice that we're getting from the national highway traffic safety administration really lays out what the agency says is the danger here. the nhtsa, the federal agency, claims this self-driving software could allow the tesla
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vehicle to really act unsafe around intersections to start. like traveling straight through an intersection from a turn-only lane or entering a stop sign-controlled intersection without coming to a complete stop, or proceeding into an intersection during a steady yellow traffic signal without due caution. plus, it could respond insufficiently to changes in posted speed limits, or it may not adequately account for the driver's change in speed when that exceeds speed limits. so again, there are a lot of concerns there. and this report really makes it clear that tesla did not agree with the agency's analysis about their software, but ultimately the company decided to issue this recall where they'll be releasing a free over-the-air software update. the question now is how is the software update going to fix the problem, or to what extent will it fix the problem. remember, this technology has been under the microscope for years now. and this recall is coming less than a week after we saw an attack ad, a pretty expensive
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attack ad during the super bowl that was created by the dawn project that showed teslas smashing into mannequins of children claiming that the vehicles are using unsafe self-driving software. now according to this recall notice, tesla has identified 18 incidents that are related to this software issue, but no reports of any injuries or deaths. nhtsa has identified at least 273 crashes involving tesla's self-driver assist systems. so again we're waiting to learn more. tesla has not put out a formal response here. elon musk is already tweeting about it saying, quote, the word recall for an over-the-air software update is an activity innic and just flat wrong. elon musk clearly does not like the word "recall" being used in this situation. but the headline from that federal safety administration is that 363,000 teslas are being recalled in this case. >> yeah. it looks like it is a definitive
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recall regardless of what luc is saying. thank you. longtime major league baseball broadcaster and player tim mccarver has died of heart failure. >> mccarver was a catcher for 21 seasons and made his major league debut in 1959 with the st. louis cardinals where he was a two-time world series champion. he also played for the philadelphia phillies, expos, and boston red sox before retiring in 1980. he then moved to the broadcast boost and calmed a then record 23 world series and 20 all-time games. he was 81 years old. there is anger and fear in east palestine, ohio, after the chemical leak from that train derailment that has questions for lots of resigns. they're asking if their water is safe, if the air is safe. we'll take you there live. no. he's making real-time money moves with merrill. so no matter what the market's d doing, he's ready. and that's... how you collect coins.
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today the head of the environmental protection agency met with families of east palestine, ohio. he said it's his mission to assure people there that it's safe to return to their homes after this month's massive train derailment. >> the train was carrying potentially deadly chemicals prompting a controlled explosion which burned for days. frustrated residents said the air smells like burning plastic. some have been telling reporters they've experienced difficulty
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breathing and rashes. michael regan is asking them to trust science. >> based on the air quality analysis, based on advanced technology and based on the work that the state has done to kept the water, the air and the water are safe for those residents that we have deemed been safe and to come back in. if the water or the air has not been tested, i am asking the residents to please seek out that testing from both the epa and the state of ohio. for those who are experiencing some sort of adverse health reaction, we ask that they please seek medical attention. also we ask that they contact the local and state health agencies because we want that information. we want to hear from people. we also, though, have done the testing in specific areas, water and air, and for those areas that we have deemed safe, we believe that because the science and the data proves that. >> cnn's chief climate
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correspondent bill weir with us now. the people in east palestine, they're angry, and we understand why. you have some new information about the company behind this crash, some previous wrecks, what do you know? >> reporter: the ceo recently said of norfolk southern we will be judged by our actions and how they take care of these folks now. well, what they're promising now, $1 million charitable fund, financial aid to families, some air purifiers and monitoring services, really kind of a pittance given this is a company with $13 billion in revenues, and if we judge their actions back in 2005 when they wrecked a train in graniteville, south carolina, that chlorine gas actually killed nine people. it sent 72 people to the hospital, 851 were treated. like 5,000 people evacuated, sorry similar to -- railroad similar to what we're seeing in ohio. they fought this until settling five years later for $4 million in fines. part of that was that they'd killed a bunch of fish. lawyers may have settled, the
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families of families may have settled for more. there seems to be a cost benefit analysis and that's borne out on the brakes of these trains. it was almost two miles long with brakes from the civil war, from 1860s that brake from front to back. for nears there's been an improved system that's electronic that brakes all the cars at one. norfolk southern and many in the industry naught adaptation -- fought this adaptation for flannelable cars, and it was rolled back by the trump administration. >> and the biden administration is saying that norfolk southern will be held accountable for this incident, as well. what can you tell us about the chemicals specifically that were on this train? >> reporter: this is the sort of witch's brew of a bunch of different chemicals together, vinyl chloride is the one that got all the attention. that was the one that they intentionally burned off days after the crash. it's what you find in pvc pipes. during the wildfires in paradise, california, years ago, their water system was contaminated by the melting pvc that contains that vinyl
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chloride. benzene is also a health risk, as well. long-term carcinogen. a lot of the studies around the health hazards of these are for people who work around this stuff for years. there's not a lot of data on short-term exposure. some of the other chemicals that even residents didn't learn about, the fda warns them about, it's bad for aquatic life and causes respiratory ailments at least in the near term. what all the officials are saying now is that the air managed to disperse enough for the gas, the water has diluted fluff of what got into -- enough of what got into the ohio river, that it's not a current threat. it's not like a pipeline spewing contaminants constantly that they have to stop on top of it. looks like a lot of it has gone down the ohio river. they're containing and cleaning it as they come. but what is left in the dirt remains a big question. looks like the mitigation company didn't take that with them. a lot of experts say that's vital because that dirt holds chemicals, if it rains again it could create problems. we'll have to keep on top of it
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and see if commissioner regan is write that they'll stay on it. >> a lot of anxious residents and 5,000 people living in east palestine. bill, thank you. dr. joseph allen is a professor at harvard school of public health. he co-wrote the book "healthy buildings: how indoor spaces can make you sick or keep you well." great to see you again. it's been a while. i'm just looking at what you recently tweeted about this issue, and you responded to a governor dewine's spokesperson saying that people who are reporting nausea or rashes, extremely unlikely that this is linked to this incident. you say you disagree with the assessment. how so? >> that's right. so it's good to see you again. i think that assessment is premature. i think it dismisses the symptoms and experiences of the people in and around the train derailment. we know the vinyl chloride can cause and attacks the central nervous system. we know the symptoms people are reporting are consistent with vinyl chloride exposure.
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things like headaches, irritation, nausea vomiting. and i think it was too quick to dismiss. we have information from other train derailments where vinyl chloride was leaked, and we know that the concentrations near the derailment can be high for people within the first, say, quarter mile or mile of where the derailment happens. so i think that assessment was premature. it feels falsely reassuring. i don't think -- i think we can talk about the changes that have happened since the first derailment. but it felt premature to me. >> was it premature to tell residents that they were safe to come home? >> there i feel like it is the case that the area is most likely okay, and i'll give a couple reasons why and also what i'd like to see from the epa. first, we know that vinyl chloride and these chemicals are highly volatile. the first hour or so or couple hours you're going to have high concentrations or plumes near the site of the derailment that should disperse relatively quickly. on top of that they burned it. after a couple of days, really the air quality should be okay.
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epa has said they are monitoring this and have monitored people's homes and are not detecting anything at a level of concern. what i don't hear from the epa and would like to see more transparency around are what are the target levels they think represent no concern, and where are the actual data, i have not seen this presented. honestly, can't make an assessment other than we know it volatilizes and evaporates quickly. i'd feel comfortable going back in, trust the administrator that the level's okay, but i want to see the data. >> the white house says it will be sending staff from the human health -- health and human services including people from the cdc, as well. is that the right call here? >> i think it is. i think it's reassuring to people. most of the exposure likely happened early on. i think a lot of the effects, i would believe people reporting these, i wouldn't be as dismerrill lynch as the governor was -- disney mifb as the governor was. i think they should reheat the air quality data and results on what we see in terms of water. it should disperse and dilute. in that case the drinking water
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would be fine. also the levels in the soil and remediate that. if they do all of that, we actually see the data, we can be sure, yes, it's okay to go back in, yes, drink the drinking water, you don't have to have bottled water. we'd learn about the measurements made in the first day or two. epa made measurements within a couple hours. and i haven't seen those data. >> so you want to see the data. you have the epa administrator saying trust the science, that he would drink the water, he would give his children the water to drink, the governor said the water is safe to drink, as well. what is your take? are you waiting to see the specific data, or do you take them at their word? >> i have no reason to doubts them. it makes sense that air quality would be okay at this point. i also think drinking water should be fine based on what we've seen out of the data. that said, you always want to see the raw data and see what they're talking about. i want to see what they declare as a level of no concern and be sure that the measurements we're seeing are below that. now, importantly that's very different from what happened
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early on. so the people who had those health concerns or experiencing health effects, the conditions early on would be different from right now. for right now i would expect the air quality to be okay and actually expect the water quality to be okay. still, i would like to see the underlying data. >> yeah, of course a concern there is what are the longer term implications from this, as well. and we'll of course continue to follow this. dr. joseph allen, always good to see you. thank you. new numbers out show the job market is still hot despite some companies' recent layoffs. we'll explain next. all across the country,
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a police officer in louisiana is now in custody following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man earlier this month. alexander tyler is charged with negligent homicide. the officer shot and killed alonzo bagley while responding to a domestic disturbance call. >> cnn's ryan young is in shreveport where bagley's family just spoke with reporters after viewing the body camera video. what are they saying? >> reporter: victor, this is very tough for the family. we actually talked to them earlier this afternoon, as well, because after they saw the video they talked to us about what they say. they are very upset, obviously. they believe this officer was chasing behind their loved one and did not need to fire the weapon. we've watched the video ourselves. the reason we're not showing the video now is we're trying to go through and put some blurring over parts of the video because it's so difficult to watch.
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you hear a lot of interaction not only between mr. bagley but the officer, as well. you can hear the officer begging for him to stay alive after he is shot. so because of that, we have not gotten to the point where we can show you this video. what i can tell you, there was a domestic disturbance call, and you see the man walking back into his apartment. at some point he decides to run. he jumps from a second-story balcony. the officers give chase. and at some point there is a turning points where the gun is fired. and you can't see where people's hands are. in fact, the lsp says they believe his hands were coming up, but there was nothing in his hands at all. this has been very difficult for this family because obviously they say when someone doesn't have a gun, he had no business being shot. in fact, listen to the -- one of the family members talking about just how painful it was to watch this video. >> it was just -- it was really, really sad to watch, hurtful to
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watch. hard to watch. i'm going to be okay until we know -- i know that justice will be served. charges, that's fine, that's cool and all, but we need to see more action behind that. that's what i'm looking to see. i'm not satisfied until they give a verdict, until i see, okay, now alonzo's death, it was not in vain. alonzo's death stood for something. >> reporter: we've done this so many times before. obviously the officer is white, the man who was shot is black. there's been calls in this community for something to happen. the officer, alexander tyler, was in court this afternoon where he had a bond hearing. i was sitting in that courtroom watching him as he was in orange jumpsuit. he's been a part of the police department for about a year and a half. there's questions about his past. but one of the things that was brought up was that he was running with his weapon out.
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when the shot is fired, he actually turned a little bit so a part of the camera is obstructed. the lsp which has been involved in this investigation say it doesn't show the exact moment where his hands are when that shot is fired, but his hands ended up being up apparently right after that shot is fired. really like right after that shot has happened. so now they're going through this part of handing it over to the da's office to see how this moves forward. we talked to the officer's attorney just after court. listen to what he had to say. >> this investigator and all of us have the benefit. sitting in a room -- benefit of sitting in a room with a cup of coffee to analyze these videos and see what happens. unfortunately, officer tyler from the evidence that was shown here today in court, didn't have that luxury. he had less than a second as the investigator indicated to make a threat assessment on an individual that was coming simultaneously at him. >> reporter: you could hear that officer begging, begging for mr.
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weekly jobless claims unexpectedly fell and that's despite the recent mass layoffs we have seen in tech and media companies. vanessa is here to break down the data. vanessa, hard to make sense of what's happening in the economy. what is this new indication tell us? >> good news for the american worker. bad news for the federal reserve. last week unemployment claims 194,000 people filed for unemployment. that is down from the week prior. we've obviously come a long way since the height of the pandemic. but we are now at historic lows and that is not good for the work that the federal reserve is trying to do. they actually want to see these unemployment claims go up and they want to see the number of jobs added come down. they're not seeing that right now but that will be a good indication once they see the
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actor bruce willis' family shared an update on his health today. on instagram his daughter posted that his initial diagnosis of aphasia has progressed into a form of dementia. >> cnn entertainment reporter chloe melas joins us. i guess the family at least has a diagnosis. >> this has been something that fans of bruce have been following since last year when his family came out and said that he was suffering from a
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medical condition called aphasia. but this is what we do know now. so demi moore, his ex-wife and his wife emma and their daughters coming out and saying their father, their beloved bruce is suffering from a form of dementia called frontal temporal dementia or ftd for short. in this lengthy statement to which demi moore has a link to a landing page about what they know, today there are no treatments for the disease. a reality we hope can change in the years ahead as bruce's condition advances. we hope any media attention can be focused on shining a light on the disease that needs far more awareness and research. you know, according to the mayo clinic this is an umbrella term for a group of brain disorders that primarily affects the temporal locations of the brain generally associated with perso personality, behavior and language. we knew he was out of the spotlight stepping back from all
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the countless movies and all of the front ward-facing projects he was working on to deal with this and his wife emma has been taking to social media posting things over the last year or so. no one could have expected this shocking and shahidi sad -- sad announcement today. >> to see them all rally behind him and around him and clearly -- >> to update us and educate us. >> and give him the privacy that he and the family deserve during this difficult time. chloe, thank you. >> thank you. >> and "the lead with jake tapper" starts right now. "the lead" starts right now. parts of a grand jury report were released. what did they reveal about the actions of trump and others when trump pressured georgia election offi
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