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which is also under a state civil rights investigation overnight, hundreds gathered one day after the mayor was not as much to protest as to booed for not committing to abolishing the police. pray >> i want to thank you for the the majority of the city council life of -- >> reporter: and to honor george floyd on the high school vowed to disban the department football field where he became a star, though ultimately it >> we're not talking about wasn't his athleticism but his untimely passing at the hands of hitting the eject on the police tomorrow we're talking about engaging a plan to create a public safety minneapolis police that would define his legacy. system that works for everyone. >> this is a blessing, and this >> reporter: a lawyer for is bigger than george right now. >> reporter: earlier, overflow another officer involved said crowds paying their respects floyd was resisting arrest he didn't do anything wrong, he was a police officer trying to during a public viewing at the do his job church where floyd's private earl gray represents ex-officer funeral will take place in just hours. thomas lane, who had only been a pulled here by a common fear and pain. >> when i looked at him, i saw cop for four days. lane is now in solitary my brothers. i saw my boyfriend confinement, accused of aiding i saw my future black son. and abetting second degree so it was very just really sad and heartbreaking to see because murder. >> how is it possible that your that could be any one of us. client stood by and watched for >> others drawn to the church nearly nine minutes. >> he did not stand by and they say because they feel a watch. he was holding the legs because strength in being together. >> so important for all people

the guy was resisting at first now, when he's holding his legs to be together as a unit so we he says, shall we roll him over can actually make a change. >> reporter: change endorsed by because he says he can't joe biden as he visits with breathe. derek chauvin says no. >> lane's attorney said he plans family and by tens of thousands across the country in the two weeks since his death. to subpoena the unreleased body cam video. >> reporter: chauvin's attorney now, following today's service, would not say whether his client floyd will be laid to rest in a plans to post bail family plot next to his mother he's due back in court later this month. those who have been marching since his death say they won't nearly 1,200 miles away in rest until they see overall changes to police policies and houston thousands of mourners actions nationwide gathered to pay their respects frances. >> jay, thank you. to george floyd. joe fryer was there. >> reporter: behind me a we will have live coverage candlelight vigil was taking of george floyd's funeral hosted place where george floyd by lester holt beginning at noon graduated in 1993, a public eastern on nbc and nbc news now. visitation attended by >> it's going to be an emotional thousands. day in houston a long line wrapped around the that man's death sparked a much church like outstretched arms needed movement i've never seen in my lifetime. welcoming george floyd home one >> culminating in days of last time. >> our messaging is really to protests and memorials provide hope and help and to >> lester holt will be there.

help people begin to heal. a scene we've been seeing around the u.s >> reporter: despite a heat three british police officers index of 100 degrees and the decided to take a knee with need to social distance and protesters thousands were gathering as a wearing masks, a massive crowd wider anti-racism demonstration and the officers took a knee came to his viewings. beside them holding up a sign >> we're here to support the supporting the black lives movement and the family. matter thanks for joini ung >> reporter: floyd's family met ♪ family, singing in the kitchen ♪ privately with joe biden ♪ family, running through the yard ♪ floyd was born in north carolina, grew up in houston's ♪ family, all four seasons ♪ family, well bless your heart ♪ inner city third world neighborhood ♪ family, all in this together ♪ >> this is where he started from. >> reporter: in high school, ♪ family, we're taking a chance ♪ floyd was a 6'6" star athlete ♪ family, like birds of a feather ♪ making it to the football championship and earning a ♪ family, kick off your shoes and dance ♪ college basketball scholarship ♪ family, like birds of a feather ♪ your first alley oop was to ♪ family, kick off your shoes and dance ♪ george. >> my first was to george floyd. his heart was like gold man, the perfect guy, men perfect guy on our team. >> reporter: he's still remembered by a second grade teacher. she recently dug up one of floyd's old assignments from

black history month. >> i want to be a supreme court judge. >> reporter: a dreamin' spired by thoroughgood marshall. >> we couldn't imagine the impact this 8-year-old would have on justice. he wanted to work in justice and he has fulfilled history. >> reporter: not in the way anyone would have imagined now floyd's heart broken hometown is saying good-bye. a tough day, isn't it? never be divided. >> two-thirds of the budget is >> it is it is. but there's another side to it there's hope. >> reporter: george floyd's going to policing. private funeral will take place that needs to be going back into the community. later on today and then he'll be right now at 4:30, demands growing in the bay area to take laid to rest next to his mother who passed away a couple years a hard and long look at law enforcement. ago. next, a live report on how some >> we'll have live coverage of cities are responding today. his funeral in houston hosted by world health organization bombshell saying coronavirus lester holt beginning at noon patients without symptoms are eastern. the demands for justice and not behind the spread of the virus. coming up a live report on how

change have grown louder over the world is reacting, plus, the reason behind a spike in south the past few weeks about 50,000 people were bay hospitalizations. "today in the bay"ta estimated to attend this rally in los angeles thousan thousands shut down interstate 84 in portland and in washington d.c. the new fencing around the white house is being put up to use there with demonstrators covering it with posters and signs. the growing push to defund the police is a political flash point. president trump seizing the slogan to label opponents as radical. but joe biden is calling for a more modest approach tracie potts is joining us with the latest the president met with law enforcement officials yesterday, what happened there? . >> reporter: the president met with law enforcement officials and came out pretty clear that he is not for either de-funding or dismantling local police departments around the country

this is now the rallying cry of the george floyd protests that we have seen nationwide. the thought being that too much money is being put into policing communities, as opposed to supporting communities but president trump says pulling money away from police, that's not something he'll back >> there won't be de-funding, dismantling of our police. there's not going to be any disbanding of our police our police have been letting us live in peace and we want to make sure we don't have any bad actors in there. sometimes you'll see horrible things like we witnessed recently, but it -- i say 99. 9 but let's go with 99% of them are great, great people and they've done jobs that are settg >> knelt at the capitol in memory of george floyd they also introduced new legislation to try to deal with

the disconnect going on between police, and specifically african-american and other communities of color, this bill would use funding to track use of force among local police departments and provide funding to investigate those departments. it would ban chokeholds, no-knock warrants and create a national database of police misconduct it would also for the first time make lynching a federal hate crime. there are more than 200 democrats backing this bill but it's not bipartisan, no republicans on board so far. they're working on their own plan back to you. seems nothing is bipartisan these days thank you. president trump meanwhile has reignited a feud with the nfl taking aim at the league's decision to reverse its stance on player protests stephanie gosk has this report. >> reporter: after more than two weeks of nationwide protests, an early sign of change. >> we the national football

league admit we were wrong for not listening to nfl players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest. >> reporter: this from the nfl commissioner who once supported a policy to ban kneeling on the field during the anthem. in 2016, collin kaepernick was one of the first to take a knee protesting racial inequality and injustice. last week stars called on the league to take action. >> we will not be silent. >> we assert our right. >> to peacefully protest. >> reporter: but while the nfl may be reversing its position, no sign that president trump has. tweeting could it even be remotely possible that roger goodell was intimating it was okay to kneel. and took a swipe at drew brees who apologized last week for saying players were

disrespecting the flag when they knelt during the anthem. brees hitting back posting to donald trump through my ongoing conversations with friends, teammates and leaders in the black community, i realize this is not an issue about the american flag. the president has been deeply involved in the nfl feeling controversy from the beginning. >> wouldn't you love to see one of those nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a bitch off the field right now, he's out, fired. >> reporter: today there are players vowing to take a knee in the fall as the league admits things are changing. now let's bring in nbc meteorologist janessa webb who's tracking cristobal, who's moving inland, right? >> good morning, good morning, you two. we are watching cristobal, it's making its way to the north. it's starting to lose a little bit of force but from the beginning cristobal has been a

rain maker that's what we're going to be seeing for the next few days i think it turns into more of an area of low pressure as we step into the next 24 hours but it is going to collide with a storm system in the dakotas that's going to park up severe weather. the movement has increased out of thee temperatures have coole for the upper midwest. the heat, the deep south, through texas into triple digits and lower 90s. we'll continue to talk about cristobal and watching the severe weather >> janessa, thank you. still to come, an international twist in the > d atn.epstein investigio >>anthe challenges facing

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