michael martin, deputy director of real estate and development. i have been serving as acting director while elaine forbes continues to do important work for the city's covid-19 experience starting from tomorrow i'll step away for family leave and we will have an acting executive director role. and over to katie. today's report has two items. first is an update on the city's covid-19 response. significant progress has been made at the seawall lot 344 backlands, trailer r.v. site that we discussed with you at your last meeting. i want to extend great thanks to all of the hard work put in on the infrastructure which was managed by the maintenance and engineering divisions in collaboration with our city agency partners. port staff has negotiated final terms of an m.o.u. that incorporates the results of last week's discussion or two weeks' ago discussion. and we expected that document will be executed and residents will take occupancy later this week. and community outreach has begonbegunand they will work wif with interested neighbors and members of

michael martin, deputy director of real estate and development.e been serving as acting director while elaine forbes continues to do important work for the city's covid-19 experience starting from tomorrow i'll step away for family leave and we will have an acting executive director role. and over to katie. today's report has two items. first is an update on the city's covid-19 response. significant progress has been made at the seawall lot 344 backlands, trailer r.v. site that we discussed with you at your last meeting. i want to extend great thanks to all of the hard work put in on the infrastructure which was managed by the maintenance and engineering divisions in collaboration with our city agency partners. port staff has negotiated final terms of an m.o.u. that incorporates the results of last week's discussion or two weeks' ago discussion. and we expected that document will be executed and residents will take occupancy later this week. and community outreach has begonbegunand they will work wif with interested neighbors and members of the po

i'd like to thank michael martin and rona stanler and dimitri maura to help me to craft and prepare the data for this presentation. i will be providing an informational presentation on considerations for extended rent deferral and further tenant release. next slide, please. my presentation will cover the following -- background information to date, the april revenue that we have collected. the proposed program. our analysis of that program. and discussion with you, the commissioners. next slide, please. the following key events of covid-19 have led us up to this point in time. the mayor's emergency declaration on february 26th, and the initial shelter-november-place order on march 16th. and the moratorium on march 17th. and the state-wide shelter-in-place order, and the departmental orders on the 27th. many of these orders have been extended or modified during shelter-in-place to adapt to the fast-changing conditions of covid-19. next slide, please. as of today, the port has implemented the following relief efforts. we have launched a broad-based rent deferral program on march 27th. whi

. >> good afternoon, commissioners, michael martin. i'll keep my items very brief, and then i'll hand it over (indescernable) for the revenue projection. i just wanted to say thank you. the first thank you is to all of the port staff that have been serving as service workers, including our executive director elaine forbes. we've had 46 additional staff in addition to executive director forbes, answer the call for the city, and we've been involved in doing whatever we can to help respond to this crisis. it just makes me real proud to be a board employee, and being able to pitch in, as we have. and the second group i want to thank is the rest of port staff, who helped me greatly as i've stepped into this role as acting director. there is a lot going on, and i certainly couldn't do it without their help. i wanted to extend that thanks. with that, i'll hand it over to katie move ahead with the revenue updates. >> good afternoon, everybody! >> good afternoon. can you hear me? >> yes. >> good. i'm so pleased to be with you all this afternoon

michael martin, deputy director of real estate and development. i have been serving as acting director while elaine forbes continues to do important work for the city's covid-19 experience starting from tomorrow i'll step away for family leave and we will have an acting executive director role. and over to katie. today's report has two items. first is an update on the city's covid-19 response. significant progress has been made at the seawall lot 344 backlands, trailer r.v. site that we discussed with you at your last meeting. i want to extend great thanks to all of the hard work put in on the infrastructure which was managed by the maintenance and engineering divisions in collaboration with our city agency partners. port staff has negotiated final terms of an m.o.u. that incorporates the results of last week's discussion or two weeks' ago discussion. and we expected that document will be executed and residents will take occupancy later this week. and community outreach has begonbegunand they will work wif with interested neighbors and members of

but the problem has always been in these cases, and you think back to trayvon martin, michael gardner, michael brown, amadou diallo, sean bell, any of these high profile killings, it's very difficult for the justice department to get a conviction. you have to prove that the officer academy inappropriately, and that he knew what he was doing was wrong. that's where these cases often go south. we always thought, lester, the state would go first. they just have many more statutes at their disposal than the federal government does. >> all right, pete, thanks. we should note that we are wait to go hear from president trump. he had previously scheduled a news conference for around this time. we expect to go there. we would expect he will make comments on these latest developments in minneapolis as he has tweeted about them and made other comments. white house correspondent kristen welker has been following some of the president's response. kristen, some of his comments have been characterized as not helpful in the community of minneapolis right now. lester. this is a real leadership test fo

yeah i mean i covered the trayvon martin story on the michael brown story but the trayvon martin story really does have echoes of what happened here because george zimmerman the self-appointed neighborhood watch captain used something called stand your ground law to defend himself and he was ultimately found innocent of gunning down 17 year old trayvon martin and these 2 men are using a similar lower in georgia a citizen's arrest law but in order for that law to work they have to have witnessed someone committing a crime that didn't happen allegedly in this case but i'm no doubt that they will use that as a defense but it's clearly something that has really sparked interest across this country of course after the those 2 other killings we were talking about the black lives of movement was really born and you're seeing protests now all across the country and really outrage that the prosecutors in this state didn't take action it took the video to come out to people like joe biden and the governor of georgia getting involved and even president trump saying this is a very sad case and he

spectrum concerns over a more killing and the hundley of the case a growing the deaths of michael brown and trayvon martin led to the black lives matter movement both were unarmed when they were shot and killed when trayvon martin was killed by a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain here in florida 8 years ago the case gained global attention the unarmed teenager was pursued by george zimmerman his lawyers use this state's stand your ground. law as a defense and he was found innocent race played a major role in that case and many see parallels with this latest death of an unarmed black man investigators say more arrests may follow and looking into who shot the video and what role they may have played activists say this is another example of racism there are 2 justice systems in america one for black america white america and 2 we come together as the united states of america we see this is going to continue to happen and the tragedy is it is our children who are being killed a more arborist family have welcomed the arrests but neither man can be charged with a hate crime georgia is one of 4 states th

michael brown. think to trayvon martin. think to michael garner, amadou diallo, shawn bell. many times when the federal government has looked at these cases and brought charges and cannot get a conviction because it is so hard to win a conviction on these very limited federal statutes that say you have to prove that the officer did something, used excessive force, and knew it was wrong and kept doing it anyway. it is that state of mind element that is so hard to prove. so the government may ultimately bring charges here, but the plan was always for the state to go first because they have so many more criminal statutes at their disposal. >> pete williams. thank you, sir. much appreciated. let me go over to the white house. hans nichols is on the beat there for us. and hans, the president after deciding when tv cameras were rolling not to take any questions likely would have been about minneapolis a couple of hours ago has since addressed the issue in minnesota and what can you tell us about it? what did he say? >> well, the president topped off his remarks in the east room wi

this kind of racial tension but as you point out it's happened in state after state trayvon martin in florida michael brown in missouri and in in the state of illinois there was the shooting of mcdonald who was holding and i. but walking away from police was shot 16 times in the back and that case is the exception in that case the police officer jason van dyke was serving is now serving a prison term for murder because of that that's a rare instance of a police officer going to prison and having covered that trial i will tell you that it was calm in chicago after that happened there were some protests beforehand but the crowds did respond afterwards whether that will happen here we simply don't know and of course we don't know if those are those who dede will be charged that's a great point you make john bad there were a lot of protests about that as the investigation progress as people are trying to get information out there there was a lot of resistance on the part of the mayor and the police unions but you have to wonder perhaps there was a guilty verdict because they people and chicago protesters

see, the outrage comes from the fact that we've had a long, in the last decade, from trayvon martin to michael brown, to sandra bland, to tamir rice, to eric garner where there has been zero accountability for those officers that violated the constitutional rights of black men and women in america. and this is it. this justice system has got to respond in this case, and as a nation, we have got to reform the police culture across the land, or this situation will happen again. look, i don't -- you can't just mouth that you abhor violence without trying to get a sense of what's driving, particularly our young people, to this notion that they've got to do something dramatic in order to catch the attention of the people in power in this country. >> yeah. >> and while i abhor it, we have to understand that this has been building for years. it's compounded by the policies of the trump administration. it's compounded by the fact that we have ahmaud arbery and briana taylor happen in such a close time frame. >> yeah, i don't want to justify any of the violence or any of what's going on, but the messag

the deaths of michael brown and trayvon martin led to the black lives matter movement.re unarmed when they were shot and killed. when trayvon martin was killed by a self-reported neighborhood watch captain here in florida eight years ago, the case gained global attention. the unarmed teenager was pursued by george zimmerman. his lawyers used the state's stand your ground law as a defense,, and he was found innocent. race played a major role in that case, and many see parallels with this latest death of an unarmed black man. investigators say more arrests may follow, and they are looking into who shot the video and what role they may have played. activists say this is another example of racism. >> there are two justice systems in america. one for black america and one for white america. and until we come together as the united states of america, we see this is going to continue to happen. and the tragedy is it isis our children who are being killed. cocorrespondent:t: ahmaud arbe's family have welcomed the arrest, but neither man can be charged with a hate crime. georgia

i guess i would like to know -- brian: the other presidents that michael gerhardt writes about, martin van buren, millard fillmore, franklin pierce, chester arthur, grover cleveland, jimmy carter, benjamin harrison, how about this whole business of being tremendously good and decent? >> we had this -- if you studied history, you probably in high school went from jackson to lincoln, right? there are other guys in between, several of whom he mentioned. there is a period of the presidency -- i do not know that historians would only say that, but it is pretty much that congress ruled. we had great congressman. even if you did not agree with jefferson davis or john calhoun's politics, they were prominent men. of course, henry clay and daniel webster. so, i wonder if they were fellows well met. and not made for the presidency. made for the presidency as we view it now as a roosevelt or a reagan or somebody like that. >> it is a great question. i think that residents do not have to be good, but they have to recognize good in other people. they have to achieve something good. that is a commona

spectrum concerns over a more killing and the hundley of the case a growing the deaths of michael brown and trayvon martin led to the black lives matter movement both were unarmed when they were shot and killed when trayvon martin was killed by a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain here in florida 8 years ago the case gained global attention the unarmed teenager was pursued by george zimmerman his lawyers use this state's stand your ground law. as a defense and he was found innocent race played a major role in that case and many see parallels with this latest death of an unarmed black man investigators say more arrests may follow and looking into who shot the video and what role they may have played activists say this is another example of racism there are 2 justice systems in america one for black america the white america and 2 we come together as the united states of america we see this is going to continue to happen and the tragedy is it is our children who are being you a moat arborist family have welcomed the arrests but neither man can be charged with a hate crime georgia is one of 4 states b

trayvon martin killed 2012. michael brown killed in 2014 for walking in middle of the road.n sterling killed in 2016 for selling cds. eric gardner choked in 2017 for selling sgrents. botham jean killed in 2018 sitting in his own apartment, and that's just a few. ask yourself this question -- how can we keep allowing this injustice to happen? joining me now, msnbc's legal analyst and university professor at the news school maya wiley and former board chair of the qui and alliance mark claxton also with us. welcome to you both. thank you for being here. talk about the law a second. there are states that have things called stand your ground laws meaning somebody invades your house, comes on to your property and threatens you, you can shoot them. georgia citizens arrest laws actually pursuing someone who you believe comitted a crime say you have to see somebody committing a crime, can't just chase people like these guys did saying he looked like he had comitted a crime. more importantly, video came out some time ago that showed these two guys get in a truck and chase this guy. s

i guess i would like -- >> robert strauss the other presidents that michael gerhardt writes about, martin van buren, franklin pierce, chester arthur, grover cleveland, calvin coolidge, jim my carter, benjamin harrison, this whole business about being tremendously good and decent. >> well, you know, we had this sort of -- if you studied history, you probably went, in high school, right from jackson to lincoln, right? all those other guys in between several of whom you've mentioned. so there's a period of the presidency -- i don't know if historians would always say that, but it's pretty much that congress ruled. we had great congressmen. even if you didn't agree with jefferson davis or john calhoun's politics, they were great men. they were prominent men. of course, henry clay, daniel webster. so i wonder if they were sort of fellows well met and not made for the presidency, not made, or at least made for the presidency as we view it now as a strong man, a roosevelt or a reagan or somebody like that. >> mr. gerhardt? >> well, it's a great question. i think the presidents don't necessarily

he's also defended the families of michael brown and trayvon martin.name. now people are angry and frustrated about what's happened. what is the family's conversation about what has happened to george floyd and what they want to see happen now? >> gayle, it is all too familiar, and tragically, this family, another black family in turmoil and just heart broken after witnessing with their very eyes a young man who they have known all their life. his brothers and sisters talk about when they were little children, they reflect now knowing that george is gone. and the fact that the district attorney yesterday came out and made the report that there is not enough evidence, probable cause to make an arrest today, that they have to continue to investigate was an insult on top of injury. the fact that you see on the video, gayle, the police have their knee on their neck, on his neck, not for one minute, not for two minutes, not for three or four minutes or five minutes in. not for six or seven minutes but over eight minutes, and that's what we cannot unsee and

theme of impatience in anger because it keeps happening it happened to michael brown in ferguson missouri it happened to trayvon martin in florida it happens in city after city i can't tell you how many of these events i have covered where police have killed an unarmed black man and once again here in this case there is some satisfaction that one officer has been charged but they want all 4 officers to be charged and more is more than that aaron but they really want is for these incidents to stop and that's why the group black white lives matter formed and that's why we're still are seeing these kinds of protests all across the country today there's just a sense that people are fed up. and you are talking about the governor calling for the national guard to be mobilized fully for the 1st time in the state's history so what sort of police presence and security force presence are you seeing on the streets and is that likely to make the situation even worse. i don't know if you can see them because we've we've had obviously had to go away they've been firing at us but. there are hundreds of police that presence is very s

michael brown case. really starting with trayvon martin, going to baltimore. this feels like a never-ending story. it different now, if it is different in your view? >> you know, i don't think so much that it's different in any way. i don't think we have gained much progress. the anguish and grief and exhaustion and the weight has only gotten heavier. i think about the last couple of weeks when you think about what happened with ahmaud arbery, when you think of briana taylor with the knockless warrants and with george floyd, taking his last breath with a police officer's knee on his neck and then after that to see that sign in minneapolis on the rooftop when it says can you hear us now and to see the buildings burning and see those masses of young people out there yelling and angry and many of them grief stricken, i don't think we have come too far. these are young people, they came up in 2012 with trayvon martin and then to -- the freddie gray and mike brown and eric garner and here we are again. but we should never forget this kind of violence and anguish and grief is baked into america. it's ne

the last decade, we had trayvon martin, no accountability. we had michael brown, no accountability.ice, no accountability. over and over again and just in the last week and a half, we have had the arbery case, the video come out. the incident in louisville with brianna taylor and now this and in every instance it is -- it has been clear that there was wrongdoing. so they angered, you see -- so the anger you see, the concern, the hurt, the pain is a build-up that people will not be a police officer will not be held accountable. a vigilante, whether it's a george zimmerman or the two men down in georgia will not be held accountable for killing an unarmed black man who did not deserve to die. and this is a justice moment in this nation when the criminal justice system and the system of police has to come to a reckoning that substantial reform is in order and that we're going to work and demand it now. >> okay. so let's talk a little bit about what that reckoning might look like. what do you want to see happen because the challenge in this country as you very well know as you're dealing

michael flynn news. the question i have, apparently martin savidge reports that police have this videotape that shows arberyg. they can see it with their own eyes. they've had the tape for two months. it wasn't until it was publicly released that there was enough pressure to press these charges. what does that tell you? >> well, i mean, the question is whether they cared enough about the murder of a black man, apparently by two white people until there was public pressure, until there was a horrific video. i mean, the racial animus, the racial backdrop to this case is so strong and so disturbing and yes, it is good that this case has been brought, but the fact that it wasn't brought until there was public pressure and outrage is a cause for concern. if it's a successful prosecution, perhaps all's well that ends well. but the delay is certainly very troubling in light of how completely outrageous the video appears to be. >> we have now seen this video. he appears to be unarmed and out jogging. he's shot and killed. now there was an early suggestion in some of the correspondence by law enforcement that maybe

michael jackson. john f. kennedy, martin luther king. archie bunker and eddie canter.and just his intersections of lives was tremendous, so his life was revel a tory of the times in which he lived. and i think that's what you always look for. >> semi davis junior in terms of intellectual challenge, he was one of the most challenging subjects i've ever came across. he was contradictory and he was just someone i really had to wrestle with to try to figure out how to characterize him, the way you do it in the film by giving him these different categories, activist, entertainer. >> singer, impressionist, hipster. we did try to categorize the chronology of his life in the guys it is that he took on or felt that he had to take on or society thrust upon him in his life. and i think entertainment is like sports but i don't, you are still if you are an entertainer you are choosing with songs you're singing or what plays you are going to act in and those have tremendous external circumstances, you either hit the ball out of the bark park i guess, or you don't. so again you are l

past that frustration because these events cheap happening you have a vents trayvon martin in florida you know michael brown in ferguson is very you had advance in new york chicago l.a. and that's why those cities are also rising up right now there's this sense that there's an impunity with which white police officers often treat african-american young men and. the message here is that they want to stop that message hasn't really been heard the growth of the group black lives matter if it happened because of this that group is spread across the country but we keep seeing these incidents what they want is a kind of systematic change in who you talk to depends on what answer you get a lot of people say they just want new rules for the police they want you laws that make these acts harder to carry out but i talked to a young woman just a little bit ago who said nothing short of a revolution will stop this and she says they're going to keep fighting for them all right so join hands on that live for us in minneapolis john thank you let's cross over now to new york and talk together bill elizondo gabe we've

i talked to michael burgess, martin, patrick leahy, chuck schumer. i wrote barack obama 20 letters. i wrote that the trump and everybody in his early administration. defense secretary mattis, general jeff flake clark -- general jeffrey clark, anita burrell,h cdc, greg hundreds of hospitals, the hospital risk managers association. the hospital risk managers association, i told them the mask supply was going to collapse, this was a risk. nobody listened. texas governor rick perry. state texas rep bills adler. by the way, bill zedler got it. dozens of reporters. i have done this for 13 years. nobody listened. my conscience is clean. amnave been working on this d issue for 13 years, nobody listened. i am not going to take any of this what you are trying to do. rep. guthrie: i don't know what i am trying to do, i am just trying to figure out who you talked with. we do need to figure out the strategic move forward. a lot of stuff comes from china, a lot of pharmaceuticals. this is something the committee needs to dig in moving forward. i am not sure what you are accusing me of trying to d

michael bay who makes a fleeting cameo appearance. it is carnage. you didn't shoot anybody? come on, cap, you know i shot some people. will smith and martinecessarily wiser — one longing for retirement, the other out for revenge. it's a one—note gag that didn't tickle my funny bone although, in the interests of editorial honesty, i must confess that the rest of audience in the packed cinema i saw it in injanuary appeared to enjoy it enormously. whether it will get the same kind of response in front rooms around the country remains to be seen. you can own it on dvd and blu—ray from monday. personally, i'd give the hollywood blockbusters a miss and check out something more adventurous like the orphanage which anna smith recommended here on the film review last week and is now available on mooby. the tale of a teenage boy's life in soviet—occupied afghanistan, this beautifully empathetic film has something of the true grit of a coming—of—age story that does not shy away from the grim realities of its central character's circumstances. but the use of bollywood—inspired fantasy sequences is a masterstroke, expressing the inner life of these do

further steps to ease its transfer under michael says places of worship museums and children's playground is being reopened under certain conditions. hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us in the u.s. state of michigan hundreds of demonstrators crowded inside the capitol building on thursday to protest a government's the governor's coronavirus lockdown order some demonstrators carried rifles and attempted to enter the legislative chamber but were held back by police . for the 2nd time in 2 weeks protesters gathered outside the state capital in michigan to demand an end to stay at home or does business restrictions but this time they didn't stop that. hundreds of demonstrators stormed the capitol building to condemn a plan by the democratic state governor to extend imagine say powis for another. some of them with rifles i signed an executive order this morning governor gretchen whitman has already issued an executive order to extend a state of emergency and protesters say that's a violation of their rights viruses here it's going to be here so we need to get out and live our lives we quit taking our economy deep into socialism. it's time to let peop

michael eric dyson to talk about this. he's discussing this as a wound in the soul of america. he quoted martin luther king jr., talking about the appalling silence of good people. it is the duty of every american to grapple with the issues that are being raised by this moment. micha michael, what did you think in. >> this is leadership. identifying the insight and deepen empathy. i just spoke to the floyd's family. have the president of the united states of america reached out to that family of emotional terms to embrace them his empathy or sympathy for the loss of their beloved family. this is american leadership promise to address this specific incident of justice but draw back and look at the broader sweep of america's history and to assign words and balance to black people who have been dehumanized in this culture and redouble so that they will no longer cloud our democratic possibility. this is america. this is not a black versus white issue. this is a right versus wrong issue. in all americans of conscience must be galvanized by the recent events in minneapolis but more broadly, what hap

the question has to do with the case of vincent martin's parole but he was convicted killing richmond police officer michael connors back in 1979. parole board some weeks ago determined he was eligible for parole and granted his parole of 40 years serving his sentence. fast-forward to today and i believe parole board has determined to put that case on hold for his release on hold. we have a new chair of the parole board and there have been a number of concerns raised by the connors family in the richmond police department and by local commonwealth attorney and because of those, i believe, there has now been an independent investigation begun and as reported by a local television station last week parole board became aware of it and in light of an independent investigation into the process by which the parole board made that determination they have determined to put it on hold temporarily and this will allow the removal of the cloud that has formed over this parole decision and there been a number of allegations made and independent review will allow the parole board in mr. martin and in the family and in th

zimmerman who killed trayvon martin an african american teenager that spawned the black lives matter movement since then countless others have died. eighteen year old michael brown was fatally shot in two thousand and fourteen in fergususon missourii and t temir rice twelve we shop b by two polilice officers in cleveland after leaving plastic gun. do that fifteen freddie gray i felt a coma in a police van and never woke up malik traffic's's bebeen too than n it takes in tn headley for l. casteel shot a car in front of his girlfriend to her doctor. and derelict was killed in a can. bruce yes there is in minneapolis are hoping this time the officers involved will be charged and found guilty. we as president is meanwhile adddd fuel to o the fire threatening to go take action to bring the city over minneapopolis under control taking to twititter in trump righght that when the leasining. she stars. please at flanking what not to say it violates the rules over glorifying violence falsely falls coming at like explains. after three consecutive nights of civil unrest over the police killing of george floyd tensions in america what will receive hi. when the us presi

martin in los angeles, appreciate it. thank you so much. >> thank you, michael. >> and our coverage of the protests across america continues after the break. you're watching cnn. feel the cool rush of new claritin cool mint chewables. powerful 24-hour, non-drowsy, allergy relief plus an immediate cooling sensation for your throat. feel the clarity and live claritin clear. this is hal's heart. it's been broken. and put back together. this is also hal's heart. and his relief, knowing he's covered by blue cross blue shield. and this is our promise, with over 80 years of healthcare expertise: to be here for you now. and always. this is medicare from blue cross blue shield. this is the benefit of blue. this is medicare from blue cross blue shield. ♪ this isn't a show. or a movie. there are no magic potions. ♪ or fairy tale endings. ♪ and the good guys don't always win that easy. no, this isn't a movie. but there are heroes. ♪ knights in shining armor. masked crusaders fighting every day. and their bravery, courage and sacrifice are making the most heroic story we know... the one that's being written right now. ♪ if you have a g

michael hayden i think -- no. anyway, you know, but if i had been sleeping -- >> martin dempsey.eeps me up all through the night. but when i told my wife about it, she looked at the clip, she said it's obvious you're reading the ipad. she has seen me at the breakfast table in both poses. the falling asleep pose and the reading pose and the falling asleep pose is more of a head to the side, kind of the drool trailing off. i will say the response has been great. one viewer in utah, larry cooke wrote, i had no idea who you were until you took a nap on the job. well played. so we can file that under all -- >> i like that. >> all news is good news and move on. >> good news. but wait a second, tony, anthony, i thought, oh, my gosh, anthony, if tony is falling asleep while we're on air, we're in big, big trouble. so i wanted to make sure people know that we're not boring, he was reading. >> i was prepping, there it is. >> there you go. >> oh, yeah, my turn now. all right. i'm going to -- twin sisters in milwaukee are doubly excited right now as they get ready for college. ariana and ari

michael. we have not one, but two by area natives who hold a one in 11 chance of winning "american idol." francisco martind with emotion on sunday as he sang for the top 11, and for his family, which includes people on the font lines of this coronavirus pandemic. abc7 news community gist dustin dorsey has the story. >> taking the final spot in your top ten, it is francisco >> oh, my gosh! >> nothing like a little dramatic effect to make a moment even sweeter. after hours of waiting, daly city native francisco martin earned his ticket into the "american idol" top 11. >> that's when my anxiety level kicked in, and i was just scared, and i don't know what's going to happen. i was just praying. and when i heard my name, i freaked out. my heart skipped some beats. thank you to america for voting and for voting me in. i really appreciate that that was awesome. >> should this be a surprise? the "idol" judges tabbed him as one of the top ten from day one. yet the moment of excitement still filled the 19-year-old. >> it could have gone to anyone. and my mind was racing. what is going to happen? i don't know. and t

point, but people tend to think it started around michael brown and other case where is police were involved, but it actually started around trayvon martinaccosted by an armed civilian. these states that essential indemnify gun owners. in this case georgia is a guns everywhere state, guns in church, everywhere you want, you can take them. in a bar. the district attorney here acted on that law, that stand your ground type of law to say that, in his view, he did not see the grounds to arrest any of these three parties. the other sort of connection here similar to the trayvon case is they know this guy. this is a former member of the team, a former fellow member of law enforcement, so it feels like a rehash of so many years ago. your thoughts? >> in that letter we heard the same justification, that somehow ahm. ud attacked the men in the truck, instead of being seen as the self-defense that it was. it's the same rhetoric we have heard throughout the existence of black people in america to nikole's incredible point. it occurred that media outlets spend a lot of time ensuring that they distinguish the black men who are unarmed when they are k

martin. rest in peace, fred. you were always my comic hero. no greater tribute, michael. >> that is right, chris.emorable roles always make you laugh. thank you so much. >> wonderful man. >>> we have a lot more coming up this morning including an emotional meeting between our reporter you see right there, kaley hartung, who recovered from covid-19. she surprised the patient who received her plasma donation. >>> and that blockbuster finale for "the last dance." michael jordan's kids are going to join us live and we'll hear what it was like having the g.o.a.t. as their dad. first let's go back to ginger. >> reporter: good morning, michael. three to six inches of rain just over the weekend surrounding the great lakes. look milwaukee, wisconsin. they've been some of those daily records we're following there. the flash flooding that you have when this type of thing happens, and unfortunately this type of rain and that stuck low with the moisture kind of wrapping from kentucky down through north carolina and virginia, we're going to end up with three to even five inches of rain as this system stalls ou

martin was shot dead by a member of a neighborhood watch group the launch of the black lives massive movement of several high profile deaths involving police officers in 2014 including eric goanna michael brown and 12 year olds to mia rice in 2015 for the great died in a police van in baltimore one of the custody of 6 offices in just over a year lays off a lot of castiel was shot and killed during a traffic stop tricia rose is director of the center for the study of race and ethnicity in america of brown university and she explains the groundswell of anger that's been unleashed by the death of george floyd. i think you know it's very important when we're thinking about the response to this incident where mr floyd was killed that we really understand how systematic and pervasive the deep violence that black people face at the hands of police have been all around the country and it's impossible to speak to what the community feels in minneapolis if we only think about what's happened there in isolation it's extremely important that we understand that this is a historical and ongoing factor and a nationwide fact and this is not wanting rogue cops is not want to 2 or 3 rogue cops across ne

michael ferguson and all that a little more than a year later. you're right, some are stepping up to say there's a distinction between protesting as martin luther king wanted and something far from what martin luther king ever envisioned, right? >> yeah, i agree with you. what was different was john conyers, martin luther king and others actually went to the scene of these protests to calm people down. i mean, the agenda should be economic and educational and political opportunities and that is about action and it's a peaceful process and i think what we're seeing here is a deep frustration and hopelessness, along with, of course, the pandemic itself, which has disproportionately affected low income people and communities of color. but again, think about it, the mayor of atlanta spoke on behalf of her city. we have a collection of very powerful african-american national political leaders and i am struck by their absence. this is the time for them to step up and talk about these issues. i mean, make this actually be productive and stop the destruction of our country and by the way, think about what happens to the communities when these protesters lea

michael, shows no crime being committed? on the part of -- [inaudible] >> previously disclosed video, it is critical to the government's case. most will take this case and compare it to the trayvon martin the trayvon martin case did not is have a video of the actual killing. here there is. and that will lock the defendants into a version that really the jury can see for themselves. with the recent video, i actually think it helps the government's case because if these defendants are going to rely on the civilian arrest, well, this video in part at least shows what they would be saying they were arresting him for, and there's no crime committed in that grainy video. and that's the position of the victim and the victim's family. so i think that both videos, both support the government's case. arthel: so, michael, finally, the father and son, they've been charged with murder, aggravated assault. however, because of the coronavirus pandemic, as you well know, georgia cases are -- courts are prohibited from impaneling any grand jury or trial through at least june 2nd. so what should happen to gregory mcmichael and his son travis mcmichael until then? >> my guess is they'll be detained in ja

michael. >> the shortage is being felt. thank you so much, will. we are joined live now by nicholas bertram, president of the giant company, the supermarket chain operating 186 stores under the giant and martino virginia. mr. bertram, thank you so much for joining us this morning. we've seen shortages at supermarkets across the country which were pretty bad a few weeks ago. but what are you seeing right now in your stores? >> good morning, michael. i would say what we're seeing is continued improvement week over week. the entire american food supply chain has been hustling and working very hard to make sure there's more availability. we're starting to see that. we are seeing it on the side counters, in the meat departments, in our fresh meat cases and really across everything. even though there's not the variety that consumers saw pre-covid, it's definitely improving every single week. >> what items are still in short supply, and when do you think those items and the availability will be back to normal? >> some of the classics would be like paper goods and household cleaners. those types of things have not yet fully recovered. you have some things in the baking aisle and spices that have not

statements like trayvon martin and emmett till are the same thing is to be stuck in the past and manifest and inability to get over race come to let it go. such statements that trayvon and michael brown are the same thing were considered incendiary by conservatives and some moderate whites. to remember lynching is to recognize the structure that informs lynching forgetting is premised on the sense of forward making white national time, where black death has no meaning in the present. where with regard to public responsibility. because the place a black bodies and lives in history is marked by the normalization of death, dispossession and containment. to say we are beyond race. memorials like the equal justice institute -- memorials to peace and justice, america's first memorial to victims of lynching, disrupts the notion of america beyond race and the weight draws continuity between historical atrocities such as lynching and slavery and contemporary manifestation of racialized violence such as police police brutality and mass incarceration. this truth telling work has the capacity to produce generative disruptions that move us in the direction of restorative justice, to the pro