>> thank you. >> amy cooper has apologized but was fired from her job. joining me now is christian cooper. we contacted amy cooper, by the way, last night and she was invited on this show. she's invited on this show at any time. christian, thank you so much. i appreciate you joining us. >> thanks for having me, don. >> this whole situation must be surreal to you, for you. how are you dealing with this tonight? talk to me. >> i'm just trying to stay calm and levelheaded. what's really sort of surprising is how it sort of exploded. but that's the age we live in i guess. in a covid world there's not a lot going on so something like this becomes maybe way more bigger news than it would otherwise be. >> what made you turn your camera? why did you start filming it? why did you start taping? >> because the situation was obviously one of conflict and stress and unfortunately it's an ongoing thing in the protected areas of central park like the ramble for years now where there has been no enforcement or very little enforcement of the rules about dogs having to be

please come immediately. >> reporter: within 24 hours of the video, amy cooper apologized, returned theo a rescue center and lost her her employer, franklin templeton, stated in a tweet, "we do not tolerate racism of any kind at franklin templeton." christian cooper, an avid bird watcher spoke out for the first time today. >> we need to start treating each other as us rather than as other. >> reporter: well, amy cooper said she was scared because she was alone here in central park. new york city mayor bill de blasio called the video racist, "pure and simple," saying in a tweet that "ms. cooper called the police on mr. cooper even though she was the one breaking the rules," according the mayor, adding, "that type of hatred has no place in new york city." norah? >> o'donnell: or anywhere. mola, thank you. up next, one nation, one song. tens of thousands playing as one. happen every day. people are surprising themselves the moment they realize they can du more with less asthma. thanks to dupixent, the add-on treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma. dupixent isn't for sudd

juan: the incident involving amy coopoper and christian cooper. when the police arrived on the scene, they arrested no onone ad issued no summons. , ibram kendi? >> first and foremost, it is critical f for us to recognize , whatftentimes, too often amy cocooper did is typypicallye beginning of racist terror. and d what happened [indiscernible] in other words, of a white woman weaponizing her white womanhood. instead of seeking to resolve a dispute with another person and actually follow the rules and leash her dog, instead she projects herself as the victim and then calls the cops through that projection so they can come in and protect her. and oftentimes, those cops actually believe that this whihe woman is being threatened by the so-called super predator of an african-american male and oftentimimes or too often n it s to that unarmed victim [indiscernible] ultimately becoming harmed or even killed. the fact we arere talking about these two storieies on the same [indiscernible] obviously -- he is say. too often it leads to people being harmed. i d

it started because amy cooper his dog was not on the leash. the man asked her to put her dog on a leash. ms. cooper has since apologized for this incident. >>> governor newsom is giving 47 california counties permission to allow hairstylists and barbers to reopen. solano, napa and sonoma counties are the only one that can start up soon. sonoma is going to hold off after what it calls a large increase in the number of new coronavirus cases in the last week. in san francisco city leaders working on a plan that with that restaurants begin outdoor sitdown service sometime next month. one of the peninsula's largest shopping centers is now open. san mateo county is allowing stores inside the centers to reopen for curbside pickup. even businesses that don't have direct access to the curb, about 30 of the 120 stores at hillsdale shopping center are open yesterday and that includes nordstrom, macy's, old navy and the lego store. >>> i am really happy that we can finally get everything rolling again. i'm really worried people won't take the right health

. >> the investment firm fired amy cooper after this confrontation in central park there in new york city. cooper was walking her dog off leash in an area of the park where that's not allowed in terms of the leash part. that's when a birdwatcher, christian cooper, not related, asked her to put the dog on a leash. but she claims he was harassing her when he offered the dog a treat. she called the police while he recorded the entire episode until that dog was put on a leash. amy cooper has since apologized but says she felt threatened. >>> a strange side effect of the pandemic could be looming in the form of aggressive rats. it's a real warning from the centers for disease control. researchers warn the mass closing of restaurants means there's less trash thrown out. therefore, less food for rats, making them bold and desperate. experts recommend sealing all access to homes and businesses and keeping garbage in tightly sealed bins. if you own pets, don't leave any food outside. >>> the nba and nhl could be making a comeback but without the warriors and the sharks. we'll explain next. th

when officers did respond, neither amy cooper or christian cooper were there. n who was in the park who said he was bird walking said he wanted her to put her dog on a leash and was very calm. amy said she is not a racist and wants to publicly apologize to everyone. asked if he would accept her apology, christian told cnn, quote, if it's genuine and if she plans on keeping her dog on a leash going forward. amy cooper has been placed on leave by her employer following this incident and she surrendered the dog to the animal shelter she adopted him from while the dispute is being investigated. that's something. and the repercussions are something. it shows the power of video. just to be clear, this is in a part of the park where it is clear that dogs are supposed to be on leashes. this guy says he's a bird watchers and bird watchers care a lot about this, because the dogs, when they're not on leashes, they go after the birds and it's a real issue. >> i know you speak for bird watchers everywhere, but based on that voob with he looks totally reasonable and rational

amy cooper knows there's no respect for black citizenship.he phone and she can say an african-american man who's innocent. it will visited upon him. and visited upon us for generations. here in new york, this is an illustration of why george floyd is not an isolated incident. here in new york, when self-quarantine started, shelter in place began regrettably, the mayor of the city made a decision to allow police to monitor social distancing. in the first few weeks, 500 new yorkers either received summons or arrested for violating social distancing. no shock to us in the african-american community, 93% of those individuals were of color. 93%. whereas in white communities, they were seen handing out masks to those who were in violation. you had a guest on earlier representing the trump administration, about bad apples in the police force, we have heard that term a long time. in e gage of reform. this is not about bad apples, this is about systematic and the devaluation of one group of citizens. >> pierre thomas, one of the questions now, what is

so that confrontation began early on monday morning when christian cooper said he noticed amy cooper had let her dog off its leash against park rules and when he began recording she called police claiming he was threatening her life well amy cooper has been placed on leave by her employer and voluntarily surrendered dog who these are saying by the time they responded both had gone and left the party. much more information on not story on our website al jazeera dot com. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera this hour is growing resistance to lock downs across latin america where the w.h.o. says the pandemic is still excel orating protesters in chile and ecuador say poor people are receiving little government supports many venezuelan migrants stranded in neighboring countries are now desperate to return home they say they're struggling to survive as corona virus infections rise rapidly in their host countries the death toll from the pandemic in the u.s. now stands at more than 98000 with over 1600000 confirmed cases. the traders have returned to the floor of the new york stock exchan

actually justified that we see happening across the country. >> and, you know, do you think that the amy cooper versus, you know, the bird watcher, also named cooper, michael cooper, in new york city. do you think that that has added to the anger? the potential of what could have happened to him, what did happen in minneapolis, is this a compound reaction that we're seeing in the screen beside you? >> of course it is. christian cooper could have been, god forbid, the next hashtag. and so if we miss the interconnectivity between what amy cooper did and what we're seeing in these other cases, then we're missing the forest through the trees. and so we can expect that people are going to express their anger. what we've seen in new york city, i do want to make plain, is something that we're seeing across the nation on a whole host of issues, and we knew that this was going to happen. there is only but so much that people can take. i do want to make a few things clear how i think we can move forward in new york city. one, of course, address the pain that we're feeling, but also there is something whe

the argument started because amy cooper's dog was not on a leash, and the man asked her to put the leash on her dog. ms. cooper has apologized, but has been fired. >>> governor newsom gives 47 california counties permission to allow hair salons and barbershops to reopen. solano and sonoma county can start up, but sonoma says they are going to hold off after what they call a large increase in coronavirus cases in the past week. in san francisco, city leaders work on a plan that would let restaurants start sitdown service next month. the largest shopping center is now open, san mateo county is allowing stores inside the mall to reopen for curbside pickup, even businesses that do not have direct access, 30 of the 120 stores at hillsdale shopping center opened yesterday including nordstrom, macy's said, and the lego store. >>> i am really happy that we can get everything rolling again. i am very worried that people will not take the correct health precautions, but i am happy to get the ball rolling. >> people talk to each other, we have done a social media push letting everyone know that thi

>> this is a statement of amy cooper, i think i was just scared. she wanted to publicly apologize to everyone. i'm not a racist and didn't mean any p harm to that man or to the african-american community. do you accept her apology? >> i think her apology is sincere. i'm not sure if she recognizes that while she may not consider herself racist that act was definitely racist and the fact that was her resource in that moment granted it was a sudden situation maybe a moment that was spectacular when they swent there and had this racist act as she did. >> she understood the power to call the police as a white woman on a scary black man, she had the wherewithall to understand that. >> exactly. her -- her -- she -- she was looking for some way to get an edge in the situation and that's where she went and that ultimately did not help her. so, you know, is she a racist, can't answer that. only she can answer that and i would submit the only way she could answer that is going forward how she conducted herself and how she chooses to reflect on the situation a

to bird watch because he knows dogs are not allowed off leach and won't bother the birds until amy cooper, who is white, came by with her dogs off the leash and christian cooper began recording. wash >> i'm going to ask you to stop recording. >> please do not come close. please call the cops. >> i'm going to tell them there's an african-american man threatening my life. >> please tell them whatever you like! >> she did call saying the man was threatening her when she was clearly not an throughout the call she appears to be a choking her dog, you can even hear the dog yelped. then she says this the police. watch. >> i'm sorry. i'm being threatened by a man in the ramble is! please send the cops immediate immediately! i'm in central park! >> thank you. >> you can see he was a ways away from her. amy cooper was quickly vilified and now says her life is being destroyed but she has since apologized saying she's not racist but says her behavior was inexcusable and indefensible. even had to surrender her dog until the matter is resolved and as you said, sean, she has been fired from her financia

amy cooper, citizen, christian cooper subject so she feels she has a power to make him tell her, to -- for her to, you know, she has to decide what he can do. he can't have his own decision. she makes those decisions. she can use the police to enforce her rule over him. in the subject of mr. floyd, he was not treated as a citizen. you wonder if there was a white person and 911 call they passed a $20 bill, would that person be dead? likely not. if the police showed up on mr. cooper, he would be in great risk, we'll put it that way. we've seen this over and over and over again whether it's trayvon martin, ahmaud arbery, i can act as the police and pursue you and chase you and say you're the one whose dangerous and i can say i have a right to kill you and do it and do whatever i want to you. the breanna taylor situation, you can be in your bed. you're a subject, not a citizen. that is how black people feel right now we're being treated as subjeb subjects and not as citizens and the same thing with armed white men that can get armed up and walk into a state capitol and that's okay. the po

amy cooper is her name she threatened at first to call police on christian cooper, who by the way is harvard-educated african-american birdwatcher who incorrectly told her that she was in violation by not putting your dog on a leash in that what's known as the ramble section of central park that too was on monday and now there are calls for the city's human rights advocate of 4 amy cooper, be criminally charged and so far any cooper. >>has been fired from her financial executive position. but still city leaders and local activists are calling for stronger measures against her but christian cooper said this about the desired outcome. >>it leads to people understanding that it's really important to keep dogs on a leash and protected areas, then it's good. >>the nypd issued a statement in response to criticisms leveled against the department it said we do not have a complaint on record from either party in this case we have been in the process of reviewing the incident we will go where the evidence leads. still ahead tonight, tom hanks is giving back with a special sort of donation afte

they both are the argument started because amy cooper's dog wasn't on a leash. the video has been seen more than 25 million times on social media. cooper has since been fired and has also apologized for the incident. >>> still ahead tonight, back to business for a bay area mall. the changes in place. >>> fighting flareups at a massive fire on san francisco's waterfront. >>> leader in sports of the national hockey league's plan to call off the season and go straight to the playoffs. mark has a look at how that would work and how it would affect the san jose sharks. plus- >>> he's a fool. an actual fool to talk that way. >> joe biden firing back after the president criticized him for wearing a mask. one expert tells us politicizing masks could backfire. it's always gooder what you'to have 'em.or, and when it comes to your internet, xfinity gives you the ones you need. on a budget? there's a speed for that. not ready to commit? try a plan with no annual contract. wanna save even more? just add xfinity mobile, and save big on your wireless bill. it's internet with th

describes himself as an avid bird watcher tells sister station wnbc he was in the park when he asked amy cooperno relations, to put her dog on a leash. >> if the habitat is destroyed, we won't be able there to see birds, enjoy the plants. >> reporter: cooper said she refused and he then offered her dog a treat. >> at some point she decided oh, i'm going to play the race card, i guess. >> reporter: and that's when he says he began recording the incident. >> please shut your phone off. >> don't come close to me. >> shut your phone off. >> reporter: whethn he refused stop taping her, it shows amy grabbing her dog's collar and dialing 911. >> please call the cops. >> please, tell them whatever you like. >> there's an african-american man, he is recording me and threatening myself and my dog 6789 i'm sorry, i can't hear you. i'm being threatened by a man in the ramble. please call the cops immediately! i'm in central park. >> reporter: overnight amy cooper apologizing, also speaking exclusively to wnbc. >> it was unacceptable. >> reporter: saying she overreacted and regrets calling the police. >> wh

. >> the woman in that video is amy cooper. she worked at franklin templeton. that is an investment company based out of san mateo. the video posted yesterday shows the woman calling police on christian cooper. no relation to the woman. during that confrontation central park. they both say the dispute began because amy cooper's dog was not on a leash . please tell tmz that officers thought they were responding to a possible assault. >> it is insane that she is acting, lying to the police, dramatically lying that he was assaulting her. >> the video now has more than 25 million views on social media. the woman has since apologized for the incident. >> a 20 tradition continuing today in oakland. the traits that students received today along with their masks and backpacks. and the fight for the right to cast a ballot by mail in this year's election continues to escalate. why some people say the push for mail in voting only is a power grab. >>> for the first time, president trump's tweets have been red flagged with a fact check label. the two tweets falsely claimed

after the video went viral, the woman, amy cooper, publicly apologized for the incident but denies --tian cooper, the man spoke to cnn's done lemon. >> i'm not sure if an apology she recognizes that, while she may not be or consider herself a racist, that particular act was definitely racist. she was looking for some way to get an edge in the situation. that's where she went. that ultimately did not help her. so, you know, is she a racist? i can't answer that. only she can answer that. >> well, amy cooper's employer thinks she is. they fired her because, quote, they do not tolerate racism of any kind. >>> meanwhile, president trump has threatened to relocate the republican convention over a fight with north carolina's democratic governor. what does that the lieutenant governor have to say about this? >> thank you. does it worry me? absolutely. new sensodyne sensitivity & gum gives us the dual action effect that really takes care of both our teeth sensitivity as well as our gum issues. there's no question it's something that i would recommend. truly transformative sleep. so, no more to

that woman, her name is amy cooper. she apologized but was fired from her job today after the video sparked outrage. and the fact is all too often encounters like this have spiraled out of control with tragic results, but this man, his name is christian cooper. no relation. says he didn't want to see anyone's life ruined. i'm going to talk to him tonight as well on the show. i want you to take a look at this tweet. it's from bernice king. bernice king is the daughter of dr. martin luther king jr. see those side-by-side photos? minneapolis police officer with his knee on george floyd's neck. there's colin kaepernick taking a knee to protest racial injustice. her quote is, "if you are unbothered or mildly bothered by the first knee," that would be the one on the left but outraged by the second knee, that would be the one on the right, colin kaepernick, then my father's words, you're more devoted to order and justice and more passionate about an anthem that supposedly symbolizes freedom than you are about a black man's fre

. >> reporter: amy cooper filed a false report with police with that outlandish claim, a move that cost, we do not tolerate racism of any kind. monday here in central park, amy had just crossed paths with a stranger, chris cooper. >> i'm being threatened by a man, please send the cops immediately! >> reporter: that never happened. mayor de blasio was calling her antics racism plain and simple. >> my thinking was, i can sort of capitulate to this racial intimidation, or i can just do what i'm doing and continue recording. >> reporter: chris was bird watching and spotted amy's dog off leash running in the plants. signs clearly say that's not allowed. chris says she refused to put the leash on her pet, so he tried to use dog treats to lure the dog away from the plants. >> she didn't like that at all. >> reporter: while she was on the phone with 911, chris had one thought. >> i can end up the next ahmaud arbery, a young man in georgia shot dead because he dared to go jogging in the wrong neighborhood. >> reporter: police did show up but didn't make any arrests or issue summons. amy, who use

amy cooper says the black man behind the camera was trying to feed treats to her dog.she has since apologized. >> if you live in a society where you have been told to fear black folks and have contempt for black and brown bodies, even if you're a decent person 99.9% of the time, you are still conditioned to act in that way. >> reporter: wise hopes during these troubled times more americans can learn empathy. >> the next time a person of color is telling us what their experience is like, maybe we'll actually be able to hear them, because we'll be abe to go back to this moment, when we, too, were having to second guess our safety every where we went. >> reporter: mike young and his wife pray for the continued safety of their son ej. he's sick and tired of being sick and tired, so he's going to try to help change the system by joining the police force. >> i feel like if, if the law doesn't change and who is involved in it, then nothing else is going to change. >> reporter: their message to america, please don't criminalize blackness. >> i hope that i have a long, very adv

. >> the woman, amy cooper followed through and called 911 and she later apologized and returned theog to a rescue center, but the investment firm where she is the vice president fired her. >>> take a live look at the kennedy space center in florida where the countdown is on to a whole new era in space travel, a little over 18 hours from now astronauts bob banking and doug hurley will take off for the international space station in the spacex crew dragon, this will be the first commercially billed craft to carry americans into orbit. tomorrow's launch scheduled for 1:33 our time. >>> you can watch it live right here on kpix 5 and we will have continuing coverage on air, online, and on cbsn bay area. >>> here's a live look at the san francisco skyline from our treasure island cam, the city was one of the cool spots today, only pushing 80 degrees. our chief meteorologist on when we can expect some relief for the rest of the bay area. >> it's going to happen bit by bit, some relief more so on the coast and then the release makes it to the bay on thursday and then further inland on frida

. >> and, you know, do you think that the amy cooper versus -- you know, the bird-watcher also named cooper, michael cooper in new york city -- do you think that has added to the anger, the potential of what could have happened to him, what did happen in minneapolis, is this a compound reaction that we're seeing in the screen outside you? >> of course it is. christian cooper could have been the next hashtag. so if we miss the interconnectivity between what amy cooper did and what we're seeing in these other cases, then we're missing the forest for the trees. so we can expect that people are going to express their anger. what we're seeing in new york city, i do want to make plain, is something that we're seeing across the nation on a whole host of issues, and we knew that this was going to happen. there is only but so much that people can take. i do want to make a few things clear how i think we can move forward in new york city. one, of course, address the pain that we're feeling. but also there's something when i was there at barclays, the amount of police presence before even any p

tell me that confrontation began early on monday morning when christine cooper said he noticed amy cooper had left her dog off its leash against park rules when he began recording she called police claiming he was threatening her life amy cooper has now been placed on leave by her employer and voluntarily surrendered the dog police say by the time they responded both had left the park. and a controversial method of survey islands that was 1st developed for use by american soldiers in iraq is being deployed on home soil the city of baltimore has long struggled with crime and its murder rate in particular on now police are taking to the skies in a trial which could change crime fighting across the country how to call hayne has more. when many people think of the us city of baltimore they picture this block after block of rundown homes litter crime. this is the city with the 2nd highest murder rate in the country just last year 348 people were murdered on the streets good afternoon everybody community activist joyce jones is talking to a local radio station to sell people what she sees as a

. >> the woman in the central park video, amy cooper, later apologized and returned the dog to rescueenter. >> reporter: police arrest a man accused of beating a man to death in the glen park neighborhood. peter attacked the 94-year-old man with a stick on oak street. the man was taken to the hospital where he died from his injuries. he was later found by the officers and taken into the custody. >>> a thick plume of black smoke could be seen for miles as a fire tore through 100 plastic tomato crates in stockton. the fire broke out at 5:00 burning 1.5 acres plpallets. crews work on protecting other structures in the area. it is not clear what started the fire. no one was hurt but a firefighter was taken to the hospital with heat exhaustion. >>> a two alarm brush fire broke out in oakland this morning behind the east bay mud maintenance property. crews responded, 3.5 acres burned. the cause under investigation. >>> more weather, families try to stay cool at crown beach in alameda. it is clear a lot of people have the same idea over a holiday weekend, we spotted plenty of trash left behi

. >> amy cooper calling the police. claiming the man was threatening her life. chris cooper, no relation, obviously, was birdwatching. and said he only asked her to follow the rules. no one was arrested. she later apologized, but she's now fired and has returned the dog to the animal rescue. >>> when we come back, news on america's return to space. the countdown is on tonight to an historic launch. wn is on tonight to an historic launch. for at least eight years. for me, the greatest benefit over the years has been that prevagen seems to help me recall things and also think more clearly. and i enthusiastically recommend prevagen. it has helped me an awful lot. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. leading armies to battle?, was that your great-aunt, keeping armies alive? drafting the plans. taking the pictures. was it your family members? who flew. who fixed. who fought. who rose to the occasion. when the world needed them most. (♪) find and honor your ancestors who servered in world war ii. their stories live on at ancestry. i am totally blind. and non-24 can

the incident cost amy cooper her job with an investment firm. >>> an illinois ballet instructor wentgency room complaining of severe stomach pains, thinking she might have a kidney stone. but it turns out lizzie quah was pregnant, that's right, pregnant, and she gave birth to a full-term baby girl named winnie. quah said she had no idea saying she had her period every month. doctors determined she was in the midst of an extremely high-risk pregnancy. today mom, lizzie, and baby winnie are healthy and happy. >> winnie was supposed to be here, let me just say that first. >> yes. >> winnie is here. healthy, happy. so is mom. >> she made her arrival. now, i know life comes at you fast. but i had a thousand follow-up questions. so i did some digging. and my first question, naturally, was, how did you not notice that your stomach was sticking out a little bit? and she basically said that she noticed that she was gaining a little bit of weight. which is weird. but just a little bit. but she said she thought it was because she was eating unhealthy. i still have 19,000 other questions, so i'm

against park rules when he began recording she called police claiming he was threatening her life amy cooper has not been placed on leave by her employer and voluntarily surrendered had told police say by the time they responded they were both called. now the coronavirus has said the u.s. economy but it had a much needed morale boost with the reopening of the new york stock exchange but like the rest of the country reopening it did not mean it was business as usual as capable as on the explains. a sign of the times a past governor of new york arrives for the reopening of the stock exchange trading floor nearly 2 months after coronavirus shut it down for the 1st time in its more than 100 year history thanks andrew cuomo ringing the opening bell to cheers from traders also wearing masks all quarter have been allowed back the rest continue to work remotely making for a sparsely populated and unusually sedate trading floor traders were forbidden from using public transport to get to work and also needed to take a temperature test upon entering the building i feel very safe and very couple coming

amy cooper later apologized. dog a rescue shelter while the matter success addressed. a candidate running to be manhattan district attorney said it's a good thing christian cooper recorded the incident. she's tried cases where the d.a.'s office uses a hysterical 911 call as categorical evidence of guilt. she said she will tell the police there's an african-american man threatening her life and intentionally raise her voice to concoct the sense of danger. throughout american history there's examples of african-americans put in prison or lynched. >>> once again i say thank goodness that there's videotape. you know, i think as the daughter of a black man and the mother of a black man this is really too much for me today. i'm still rattled by that last story and she's practically strangling her dog, practically strangling her dog to make these false accusations against another black man. i'm still so upset, i'm sorry. i'm so upset with that last story where the man is handcuffed underneath a car where people are plea

we have these interactions, whether or not amy cooper with the murder in new york. or whether as bad as george floyd as minnesota, we have to make sure that every night while families are just sitting -- or just hugging your kids and say good night, we have to pray that our kids come back home safely. >> bakari sellers, james galeano, we so appreciate both of your voices here. thank you so much. >> thank you both. >>> listen, a black person dies at the hands of police. and we have listed off the names this morning. why does this keep happening? when will this end? when will this be more than just a conversation of what needs to happen and things actually changing? don lemon is leading an important conversation "i can't breathe: black men living and dieing in america." that's tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. right here on cnn. >>> there's some tense moments with secret service clashes with protesters from the white house. the clash between the agents and protesters who are demanding justice. we'll tell you more. stay close. where will you go first? will it be familiar streets?

. >> and, you know, do you think that the amy cooper verses, you know, thees bird watcher also named cooper michael cooper in new york city, do you think that's added to the anger? the potential that could have happened to him, what did happen in minneapolis, is this a compound reaction that we're seeing on the screen beside you? >> of course it is. christian cooper could have been definitely the next hash tag. and so if we missed the interconnectivity between what amy cooper did and what happened in these other cases, then we're missing the forest for the trees. so we can expect that people are going tore express their anger. what we've seen in new york city, i do want to make plain, is something that we're seeing across the nationha on a whole host of issues. and we knew that this was going to happen. there is only but so much that people can take. i dope want to make a few thing clear how i think we can move forward in new york city. one, of course, address the pain that we're feeling. there's something when i was there at barclays. the amount of police presence, before any protest

i'm in central park. >> overnight amy cooper apologizing, also speaking exclusively to wnbc. >> it'sing she overreacted and regrets calling the police. >> when i think about the police, i think of them as a protection agency. unfortunately, this has caused me to realize there's so many people in this country that don't have that luxury. >> late sunday her employer franklin templeton put her on administrative leave tweeting, we take these matters very seriously, and we do not condone racism of any kind. >> that is such a disturbing story. morgan cooper, he also spoke out a little bit further about why he decided to record that. what did he say? >> reporter: yeah, hoda, he basically said he did not want to be intimidated. he stopped recording as soon as the woman put her dog back on a leash. he told our station, wnbc in the age of ahmaud arbery, this was about protection he didn't want to participate in anything where people who looked like him were being harmed or worse simply based on assumption hoda. >> all right morgan radford morgan, thank you. savannah, over to you. >>> all right

situation where i'm not sure that people understand the correlation between what happened with amy cooper in the park of the bird watcher, with the bird watcher and what's watching in minneapolis. let me draw that direct line for you. there was a young lady who once lied on emmitt till and he found himself on the bottom of the mississippi river. those memories are fond in the m -- i'm going to lie on you and call law enforcement and subject you to whatever may happen. you think about that. you think about the danger she put this man in and then you look at what happened when -- in minneapolis when george was complying. you look at the fact and this is why i appreciate our guest this morning because there is no justification for this. we can speak out and what many people, what many americans view as it being on the opposite side. we're really not. we're both on the side of justice. they killed him like a dog. that imagery is sticking out to us all. they put their knee in the back of his head. he was yelling for his mother. a grown black man on the ground. that would not happen. this is a

amy cooper said her life is being destroyed peer she said she is not racist and since apologized but is an disk usable, indefensible and she had to surrender her dog until the matter is resolved. and as you said, sean, she has been fired from her finance will make financial job. the man was asking nicely put your dog on a leash. well met, shocking, sad, pathetic, trace gallagher thank you end up opening tonight john solomon uncovered more damning evidence of indicating barack obama and the abuse power scandal in the nation's history. and now laid out a comprehensive timeline of the mounting evidence tying, yep, president obama to the framing of michael flynn and much more just ahead. but first, acting dni grinnell has declassified more documents including transcripts of calls between flynn and soon-to-be russian counterpart clearing the way before released by newly sworn in dni director john radcliffe. in a letter grinnell is exposing democratic russian hoekstra mark warner for his nonstop politicizing of intelligence and his "cherry picking certain documents for lease. here to react

we all saw amy cooper in central park weaponizing her whiteness to call police officer on a black man was just watching birds in the we actually saw a black man being murdered and assassinated before our eyes and we saw over and over and over and i think it was just so shocking, it's moved everybody to do saturday night and saw the on pitch out there and get them straight in the amish never come out to years in a stray she's in salt lake city. i think people are just disgusted and heartbroken and all the black people i know are just ricocheting between profound grief and live in anger. >>even every black man, i know and i've asked this question in a recent incidents involving deaths of unarmed blacks by police to him and they have all said they have been stopped at gunpoint at some time in their lives here in the bay area. but where do we go from here what is your advice. to protesters to end to police to try to. macomb and somehow and move forward. >>well a couple things i was particularly moved by the fact that bay area police chiefs of police associations universally condemned what

. >> after his video went viral monday, the woman, amy cooper, publicly apologized saying "i am not aist. i did not mean to harm that man or the african-american community. on tuesday, her employer announced it had fired her because, quote, it does not tolerate racism of any kind. last night, christian cooper told cnn he accepted her apology as sincere but still questioned her actions. >> i'm not sure if in that apology she recognizes that while she may not be or consider herself a racist, that particular act was definitely racist. she was looking for some way to get an edge in the situation, and that's where she went, and that ultimately did not help her. so, you know, is she a racist? i can't answer that. only she can answer that. >> christian cooper says that as long as she keeps her dog on a leash in that part of the park, they will have no issues with each other. "early start" continues right now. ♪ >>> as some states move forward with reopening, others are still seeing spikes in coronavirus cases. good morning. this is "early start." i'm laura jarrett. >> and i'm christine roman

>>amy cooper is the woman in the video she says she is not a racist but was scared when she ran into christian cooper, no relation, the 2 had words about her dog being off leash he says he told her quote look if you want to do what you want i want to do what i want but you're not going to like it unquote she says that terrified heard that neu what he meant. he says he was just going to feed treats to the dog which he knows most owners to not like by the time police arrived they were both gone. >>the u.s. department of justice is investigating the fatal shooting of arbery as a hate crime the arbery family attorney says he found out about the d o j investigation last week. gregory mcmichael and his son travis for arrested earlier this month for the february shooting death of arbery a 3rd suspect william roddie bryan was arrested for felony murder after recording the incident on video a spokesperson for the d o j confirmed, the civil rights division was looking into hate crime charges. new at 00:09pm tonight, a local teenager has already raised almost half a million dollars for saint ju

the woman has been identified as amy cooper and calls the police after a black man asked her to follow central park rules by putting a leash on her dog throughout the video she's seen pulling on the dog's collar rather than the leash she got him in the cold that woman says she's being threatened repeatedly identifying the man by his race the incident is being pointed out is another example of white people calling the police on african-americans for mongering of things any cable works for a major financial firm where she has been know she's gone. the un secure general says there's been a horrifying surge in domestic violence and those were imposed around the world the city of chicago has forced a partnership between the public and private sectors to address what was already a challenging housing issue facts you could name as this report. fear boxes in this woman will call more like a cage she's recovering from the trauma of being married to a man who beat her denied her the choice to even leave the house and exploited the fact that she was an immigrant who moved to the states to marry h

of alleged racial bias in new york city's central park when christian cooper who is black asked amy cooperher dog on a leash. which is required there. >> at some point she decided i'm going to play the race card i guess. that's when he began recording the incident. >> please don't come close to me. >> please call the cops. please call the cops. >> i'm going to tell them an african american man threatened my life. >> she was then fired from her investment banking life. >> she apologized for involving the police. >> captured, police in hagerstown, maryland arrested a college stew dent after a week long manhunt. >> authorities pursued him for five days across four states. >> police tracking his movements via surveillance camera. >> he allegedly killed two people in connecticut. >> you can't be ashamed to get help. >> great britain's prince william spoke out about his late mother princess diana. >> mental health and fatherhood. william describing how feels from his younger days reappeared with the arrival of george, charlotte and lou. >> when you've been through something traumatic in life, lo

it is dependent on people cooperating. amy. >> yeah, it's so complicated. eva, thank you so much. >>> well, dr. jennifer ashton is going to join us now, and dr. ashton, let's start with the headline coming out of washington state saying that nearly half of all new cases are people under the age of 40. what does that tell us and what should we be keeping in mind as we head into the weekend and summer? >> well, amy, it's a reminder that no one is at zero risk from this virus, unclear exactly why it's hitting this age group right now particularly hard. leading theories are it's due to behavior, either socializing or work. but, again, it really underscores how everyone has a role to play in stopping the spread because anyone can get infected. >> it's so important to remember that. there's also a new study that was released about covid-19 and people with cancer. what were the findings, and what can we learn from it? >> yeah, very important study, amy, just out in the journal "lancet," looked at 900 patients with cancer in the united states, canada, spain, and wh

. >> reporter: the woman in the video is identified as amy cooper, no relation. has since been fired from her investment firm, franklin templeton, who said in part they do not tolerate racism of any kind. in comments to cnn, she said, "i'm not a racist. i did not mean to harm that man in any way." >> we saw this, but what about all the cases that we don't see? >> reporter: new york state senator brian benjamin co-sponsored a bill which would make it a hate crime to call 911 on a person of a protected class when there is no emergency. >> this feels like terrorism to me, to be really frank. because it's just something that's so scary. >> sometimes in order to be anti-racist we have to admit those times when we were being racist. >> reporter: ibram x kendi is a professor at american university and a cbs news contributor. he says historic cases like 14-year-old emmett 'til who was lynched in 1955 after being accus accused of offending a white woman should serve as a reminder today. >> mr. cooper could have been the brother who was choked to death in minnesota. he cou

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flight, now about roughly 3 1/2 hours away, if everyone sticks to schedule and mother nature cooperates but amy, thinking of having you on, very honored to have you on by the way, when john kennedy was president, he was talking about landing a man on the moon before the decade was out, we're doing that at a time our space program was almost a joke. it was stumbling badly. vanguard rockets were crashing on the launch pad. but he had an ambitious goal. helping him to fighting the soviet union to beat them. there is no kind of bogeyman, i guess you can talk about china making inroads, russia we're already there, what will keep people galvanized on this? >> that is a big question. a good one. it is definitely true, that you know, competition breeds innovation and, to see, we can't take the apollo program outside of the cold war which really enable spaceflight to enable lunar landings to happen. we will see a lot of ambitious goals but the dates are slipping back, but it is really expensive. the a polo level funding, we vent seen that since. we have to see something like that again to see the contin

: the video shows the woman calling police on christian cooper during a confrontation over a dispute in the park. the dispute started after amie's dog not being on a leash. and it sparked accusations of racism that lead to the woman getting fired. >>> it's hot one out there today. we had temperatures, they were up. the we had a record in napa that was 99 degrees. we'll see potentially more record heat inland. but it will be cooler as we head the to tomorrow, especially in the bay. 79 in san rafeal today, san francisco 81, that's pretty halt. but san francisco tomorrow is going to be in the upper 70s most likely. we are headed for a cool down. that's would i the heat advisory remains where it is. the dark red isulse being the nine bay area counties. you guys are a little bit halter because that seabreeze isn't going to get that far inland. the heat is coming from the southwest. that stuff is going to come up in the desert up over bakerrersal bakersfield and really get things going. julie, we'll see you back here in just a minute. >>> thousands of plastic pallets went up in flames at a tomato processing plant. the fire sent giant