another suspect in the brutal beating of deandre harris. he has been arrested. why has it taken so long when the beating was caught on film? we will speak with the reporter who interviewed deandre. >> there was all of this chaos going around. i felt myself getting hit. every time i got up, i lost consciousness and fell. and tooks picked me up me over ththere so i can g get . amamy: all that and more, comimg up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in texas, tropical storm harvey made a seconond landfall wednesy near the border with louisiana, bringing more rain and catastrophic flooding to the gulf coast as the death toll from the unprecedented storm rose to at least 38. on thursday, the city of port arthur, texas, which is 100 miles east of houston was completely under water. flooding even forced the city to evacuate one of its own shelters set up for people who had fled their homes. port arthur is home to the largest oil refinery in the united states. meanwhile, a mandatory evacuation was also ordered this morni

to please come forward and that includes information about an attack on this counterprotester, deandre harrises to look at. the video is disturbing. >> yo, get the [ bleep ] out of here! >> let me him go! >> the high school special ed assistant was marching with friends when he was savagely beaten over the weekend with poles and sticks, and so with me now is vaughns long, deandre harris's friend, and saw a little bit of what happened there this weekend. thank you so much for being with me, and can you just first tell me, deandre, he's out of the hospital? how's he doing? >> he's doing a lot better right now. he's actually awake with his family right now. >> okay. can you just take me back a couple days or even a couple weeks, you tell me, you all had heard about this neonazi rally taking place in your town of charlottesville. why go? >> say that again? >> you had heard about this white supremacists rally happening in your city of charlottesville. why did you want to go? >> just to stand up for our community. we live here. i've been living here 23 years and just to stand up against the neo-naz

. >> reporter: graphic images like this showing 20-year-old deandre harris being beaten with sticks goingal. >> we were walking down. they bum-rushed us and they just beat me with the poles. >> reporter: just before noon virginia governor terry mcauliffe declares a state of emergency. >> hey! >> reporter: then that terrible moment. [ screams ] when the driver of this gray dodge mows down a group of marchers who were protesting the rally. he rams into one group, then puts his car in reverse and accelerates, running over several more before fleeing the scene. >> the car just plowed through hundreds of people, downtown charlottesville. >> hit like two or three other cars and pinned people between the cars. smashed into people. >> reporter: the driver is identified as 20-year-old james alex field from maumee, ohio. just before the attack fields was caught by our abc cameras chanting a message of white power. 19 people were injured. 32-year-old heather heyer was killed. heather's mother told us her daughter was there protesting white supremacy. >> i'm extremely proud that she to stood for what

deandre harris was beaten by a mob in a parking garage on the day of the deadly rally, alex ramos agreedo be extradited to virginia during a hearing yesterday. charges in that attack. another man was arrested in ohio on friday. >>> a defamation lawsuit filed by sarah palin against the new york times has been dismissed. a federal judge ruled that palin failed to show that false statements in a times editorial were made maliciously and pointed out that the inaccuracies were quickly corrected. the editorial drew from an ad by palin's political action committee in a mass shooting in arizona that injured then congresswoman gabby giffords. >>> former white house press secretary sean spicer can now say he has met pope francis. you may remember he was left off the list of officials who received an audience with the pope when president trump visited the vatican in may. spicer was one of about 250 people greeted personally by the pontiff. you see the photo there. he was at the vatican as part of the annual meeting of the international catholic legislators, just a couple days ago. it's so sad that

the charlottesville clashes. 18-year-old daniel borden, from ohio, is charged in the assault of deandre harris, a 20-year-old black man whose beating in a parking garage was captured on video. 52-year-old richard preston, a ku klux klan leader from maryland...is charged with illegally discharging a firearm. he was captured on video firing a gun into the ground near a black counter-protester in charlottesville. a medical study published today offers a potential new drug treatment for people with heart disease. instead of relying on statins to reduce the risk of heart attacks by cutting cholesterol levels. the new drug, called canakinumab, has been shown to lower risks by curbing chronic heart inflammation. it's given by injection every three months. according to one researcher, about 15 million americans have the kind of heart disease studied in the trial. the drug-maker "novartis" sponsored the study published in the "new england journal of medicine" and in "lancet." later this year, novartis plans to ask the food and drug administration to approve sales of the drug. >> finally, the white hous

. >> reporter: deandre harris says a group of white nationalists armed with shields and helmets beat him with poles. >> just called me the "n" word. told me to die. they were definitely trying to kill me. >> graphic scenes out there. stephanie ramos now from the scene of the car ramming. virginia governor has asked that the white nationalists go home and stay out of here. are they listening to him? >> reporter: it seems arizona they are, tom. we have ent seen anything organized groups here in charlottesville. for the moment, people are heeding the warning from the governor. so many people coming here to where the car rammed into the people. this is where there is a growing makeshift memorial. people stopping by, singing to honor those who lost their lives. tom? >> we just saw someone put flowers behind you. thanks so much. >>> let's turn now to the president facing backlash for his response to all the violence, refusing to specifically condemn the hatred unleashed by the white supremacists. instead chasing many, many sides. and a white house official clarifying the president's statem

you were at the rally with friends and one of your friends is deandre harris who ended up being badly beaten in a parking garage and just like your photo, this is video of what happened to deandre. it captured the core of what went down in charlottesville. tell me about that. did you see the footage? >> yes, sir, i seen the footage. it was just outrages about that footage. i'm not going to get too much into that but it was just outrageous. >> how is deandre doing? >> he doing pretty good. >> and how are you doing after all of this? >> just trying to heal. i'm healing but with everything going on, i've been receiving a whole lot of death threats and a whole bunch of hate as well. >> what would you like to hear from the president if anything? >> if anything i would like to hear an apology for allowing them to come down here and allowing -- and for not allowing the cops to intervene on what was going on down there. >> did you attend the memorial last night? >> yes, sir. >> for heather heyer? >> i was only there for briefly, yes, sir. i had other things to do as well. >> thank you so much

weeks after video surfaced showed him and several other white men attacking 20-year-old deandre harris in charlottesville parking ga garage. >>> and pretty good night for local kid at the u.s. open. college park transis tfo took nearly took out roger federror in the first round. he won the first and fourth sets before federror close today out in the fifth. the 19-year-old said federror won by the skin of his teeth. federror said his opponent has a great career ahead of him. that's exciting because we talked about that on good day before because someone tweeted us francis would play and steve said wouldn't it be great if he upset federror in the first round. >> congrats. >> they say he's future american men's u.s. tennis. >> it's interesting his upbringing and how he got where he s congrats more things to come from him and from michael thomas right now, too. >> you did good with the weather degree he. >> i tried. not nowhere near as good as him. coordinating to national weren't service cameron in louisiana what you see there on satellite and radar. here south of lake charles you can see

what about deandre harris? beaten by five people in a tunnel in charlottesville who we interviewed.e were about it on facebook. the president didn't call him. the president isn't concerned about him. we're not talking about bigots, we're not talking about i don't want them in my school or my neighborhood. we're not talking about white supremacists. we're talking about white nationalists. that's different. these are people say this country is only for christian white people. and we want the removal of all of they will. that's when it becomes problematic. to the degree that anybody in this administration doesn't realize. isis will kill white people, jews, catholics, they will kill anybody they need to kill until they accomplish their goal. >> heidi, you're a straight reporter and you're looking at the scenes. who are the aggressors? >> we're not there for every single skirmish. there may have been instances where the people who they were trying on incite were successfully incited and they charged first. but the goal of this entire episode was to incite. >> i heard that. people were ye

charged with malicious wounding for allegedly attacking african american anti-racist protester deandre harris during the white supremacist rally in charlottesville, virginia, earlier this month. photos and video show at least six white supremacists punching, kicking, and beating harris with large metal poles. police have issued an arrest warrant for another man, alex michael ramos, in connection to harris' attack. the police have faced criticism for failing to quickly investigate and arrest harris' attackers. president trump has also faced widespread condemnation, including from the united nations, for failing to quickly condemn the white supremacist violence. on sunday, secretary of state rex tillerson said trump speaks only for himself. this is tillerson speaking with fox news' chris wallace. >> when the president gets in the the controversy he does in the u.n. committee responds the way it does, it seems to say they began to doubt whether we're living those values. >> i don't believe anyone doubts the americans people's values or the commitment of the american government or the government

supremacist were captured in a photo and also video beating 20-year-old african-american protester deandre harriswho is a hip-hop artist and assistant special education teacher at an area high school. harris later described the atattack to the "los angngeles times." ande was all standing here then we was walkining down as ty were w walking down him andnd ti ththink we got likike right herd they just rushed us. we were in this open weieights. >> so right in front of the police statation >> i keep hearing all of this chaos going around the and i feel myself getting hit, so i'm trying to get up and run but i can't. every time i got up, i just lose consciousness and fall back out ununtil the last time i got to open my eyes and i see all my friends. they haven't take me over there so i can getet help. i had a a gash in the head, broe my ribibs, chipped mymy tooth, busted my lip, got a bunch of all over my knees and elbows. i got eight staples in my head. amy: he was being a v very badl. they were hitting him, smashing him with sticks. there's been a lot of criticism of the charlotottesville pololie de

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as you know, there's so much to this, with reverend, but i know you're probably familiar with deandre harris're going to show some of the attacks on him. which, again, when people talk about one side or multiple sides, the account here, you'll see him, he's on the ground and you have multiple individuals, white protesters there. he's in the middle of that melee i'm showing to the audience, repeatedly beaten by people in fatigues, three to four at a time. he's there in the middle, he's trying to get away, blood on his face. this was an account taken by one twitter user, a video posted that we got into our newsroom. do you know anything about his case and does that match what you saw in the, again, group attacks on what looked like peaceful individuals? >> i did not see his particular attack. i did see these neo-nazi groups, these white supremacist groups marching on people aggressively. i did witness them use shields to bust through a line of clergy who were singing "this little light of mine." >> wow. >> i saw them with my own eyes throwing full bottles of water, full cans of soda, and spray

april this is for you, video showing a young african-american man, deandre harris being beaten down by white supremacist. when you see that and you see the president talking about there being people on both sides, what are you thinking? what is he thinking? >> he's thinking about himself and what he actually feels. what he's speaking is from his heart and that's what's in his heart. and the bottom line is, is that this president is saying things to basically allow his base, the david dukes and those like david duke to feel freet to do what they want. don, this started friday, and if he can't see that this is terror, when you have white men braise son enough to carry tiki torches like they did back in the day, but it wouldn't torches, with hoods to scare slaves and other groups, that's intimidation. like strange fruit hanging from the trees and lynching, and talking about negative things about jews in this country. the jewish and black community is hurt by this. and needless to say that that man who rammed that man into the other cars and killed that poor young lady that was murder, it

warrants out for two individuals, one from maryland, one from ohio, who went after and attacked deandre harrisyoung man who was a substitute assistant teacher for special ed children in high school. he was viciously beaten. we are now going to get two and every single individual. you commit a crime of violence, i don't care which side you're on. we're going to come get you. >> let's talk about the confederate monuments. you have called for them to be removed. this is a relatively new position for you. let's listen to what you had to say in 2015. >> sure. >> robert e. lee, jefferson davis, these are parts of our heritage. and the people were in that battle, the civil war, many were in it, obviously, for their own reasons they had for that. but leave the statues and those things alone. >> leave the statues and those things alone. that's you in 2015. >> yeah. >> were you wrong then? >> when i gave that speech is when i had taken executive action and removed the confederate flag from all the license plates in the commonwealth of virginia. it was a very controversial move when i did it because, i s

. >> reporter: deandre harris says a group of white nationalists beat hill with poles. >> just callinge the "n" word, telling me to die. they were definitely trying to kill me. >> reporter: stephanie ramos, abc news, charlottesville, virginia. >> the mayor of lexington, kentucky says he wants two confederate monuments removed after the violence in charlottesville. he said i will ask the city council to the monuments to key confederate figures who fought for the south during the civil war. >>> turning now to the showdown between america and north korea. james mattis and rex tillerson have written a joint op-ed, laying out what they call peaceful pressure to halt the ballistic missile tests. and they're not the only ones trying to soften president trump's message. abc's martha rad aatz has more. >> reporter: the trip has been long planned, but the timing critical, coming as two nuclear nations are trading threats. north korea saying it soon plans to send four missiles off the waters off guam. president trump responding that the u.s. is locked and loaded. despite the tough rhetoric, the a

officers, in addition to the many people who were injured during the melee on august 12, including deandre harrisanswer your question, i thought it was important to stay because many of these individuals within the crowd -- personally, i believe that they deserve the right to be heard. this is a very passionate subject, and people deserve not only our empathy and our sympathy. now, i can't speak for -- as to why some of my other colleagues chose to stay or didn't stay, but i will say, overall, my colleagues and myself, we were in the city council meeting for nearly six hours, and we listened to nearly 150 to 200 people, so i think that is, in a sense, showing our commitment, and i'm looking forward to us all working together and move forward together. >> you see police escorting, arresting some of the citizens there, escorting them outside of the meeting. what do you say to some of the people in there who said, look, the police are escorting us out and not letting our voices be heard, but yet the city will let neo-nazis come and let their voices be heard in the city. what do you say to them >> i

and a black man, deandre harris, needed eight staples in his skull after he was severely beaten in aarking garage. in may, a memo from the fbi and department of homeland security warned of the persistent threat of lethal violence from white supremacists who were responsible for 49 homicides in 26 attacks from 2000 to 2016, more than any other domestic extremist movement. yesterday the president insisted the pictures didn't tell the whole story. >> it looked like they had some rough, bad people, neo-nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them. but you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest. so i only tell you this, there are two sides to a story. >> we've reached out to law enforcement for official estimates of the crowd size, but for comparison, the last white supremacist rally in charlottesville had a few dozen kkk members and approximately a thousand counterprotesters. charlie. >> thanks, paula. cbs news chief washington correspondent and "face the nation" anchor john dickerson is with us from washington. john, good morning. >> good mo