so they're trying to deescalate some of the actions as well. >> stand by.se are live pictures we're looking at back in new york? yes? we're looking at live pictures that appear to be out of control tonight. this is from our affiliate wjz. i want to bring in miguel marquez who is at the scene of a fire at the senior center. >> this is pastor dante hickman, if i could chat with you for just a moment. this is your facility here. what have you lost here tonight? >> 60 units of senior housing apartments affordable housing, as well as a transformation center which a myriad of human and health services such as workforce development, life coaching and behavioral counselling and mortgage lending services. it sounds to me like this is exactly what baltimore needs in many places. why would they burn this? >> i have no idea. i think the reason that they burned it is exactly the reason why we needed it. we were seeking to restore people while we rebuilt properties. we wanted to effect change in the human community as well as rebuild properties with affordable housing an

. >> for officers to be masters of deescalation. and that process is called verbal judo to calm that situation down. >> to be a negotiator. >> exactly. >> when you're thrusted into one of those heated moments, one of the worst things you can say to somebody is calm down. >> a positive interaction with a suspect or another type of citizen, could lead to another positive interaction later on in life. >> nbc 10 news. >> the use of deadly force is an issue that philadelphia police department is tackling right now. last month, the department of justice completed its review of the city's 400 officer-involved shootings since 2007. it said philadelphia police have the mistaken belief that fearing for their lives alone justifies deadly force. the report says philadelphia officers need more reality-based training to teach them how to deescalate violence. >>> in camden county tonight, survivors a deadly college fire share the most frightening moments of their lives all to help keep future college freshmen safe. seniors from overbrook got a les

council this summer. >> the downtown berkeley association says there's a new training effort to deescalate disturbances. >>> an especially coldhearted killing in the south bay. a woman was shot to death in a car and then her killer pushed her body out into the street. it happened on south bascomb avenue near stokes street just before 10:00 last night. police say the 33-year-old victim was from sacramento and that her suspect knew her. the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. no arrests yet. >>> flushing out water guzzlers. major new rules for household appliances and how they will help your wallet. >> reports of death threats against a wrestling >>> emergency action on the drought today. toilets and faucets will have to meted new standards on january 1. julie watts reports. >> reporter: california energy commission set new standards today for the toilets, urinals and sinks sold in the state. they won't be allowed to sell any of the remaining less efficient models after january 1. now, the cec says the new standards will save about 100 billion gallons of water a year equivalent to three

we have to defuse and deescalate this as soon as possible and need the subject matter expertise to make it happen happen. obviously, you know, the situation has escalated throughout yesterday into the night and we cannot afford as a city community, country to see that again broadcasted throughout the world. these kids are not just baltimore kids these are american kids. and we have to get to them, we have to make sure the folks causing the unproductive rioting make sure we provide the right enforcement and again i will continue to stress i do not condone it it's illegal and we have to go after it but we have to calm the situation as quickly as possible because the longer we allow it to go on the more destruction that could happen and the further the chasm between the criminal justice system police and community will continue to grow. this is an issue that's going to take time to heal and nothing that's going to happen overnight but we have to deescalate the situation as quickly as possible. >> well said. nick mossby stand by. we will speak with a leader of the community, congressman eli

>> this is not way to deescalate the conflict. >> and russia will have to respond? >> and russia will have to respond. the thing about putin he's his own boss. there's no really checks and balances out there. if he decides to pretend he's deescalating despite united states efforts to escalate, he's going to play that card. or he can respond in military terms, it's up to him. >> does this situation take the pressure off him whether it comes to the economy in russia? >> it is, but the four-hour question show that it didn't, that's why he so pointedly said, sanctions are not to be lifted any time soon but economy is going to pick up, in two years we're going to pick up, it's going to be great ukraine is probably going to continue but it's not our fault it's somebody else's fault. >> give an idea of this situation, has it changed in the last year? >> we as russian he always want a great nation. actually the fighting has gotten a little too far i think russians feel for about six months now. they don't really care. russia is a great nation but their own wallet and their

amazing to me that you don't hear a single officer asking my client to put down the gun, to try and deescalate the situation, to call in a crisis response team. >> that police chief is defending his officer and says it made him a threat to people and other officers. >> protests akrauz the country and the message, black lives matter. they were marching initially on market street and then through the mission. it was also very loud at city hall. this was earlier today before the marches. they took over san francisco city hall. they were also drawing attention to income inequality. and our chopper on site there. they marched near franko plaza. and at one point they shut down highway 880. >>> roberts bates claims he mistook his gun for his taser when he shot and killed a man earlier this month. he was acting as back up on a sting operation. in the video, bates is heard saying, i shot him, i'm sorry. he's a volunteer with the tulsa county sheriff's office. >>> and uber one of the largest employers in the bay area. they said more than 20,000 drivers and with plans to build. >> reporter: they have pla

it looked like the mayor in trying to talk about deescalation and best practices, was trying to explain a situation that they hoped would work, and just failed miserably. now at this point, it looks like faith leaders of the community are trying to come in and ease tensions, get these kids back in their homes and off the streets. something police have been unable to do during this long evening. >> nbc's brian mooar on the ground in baltimore. thank you very much. to reset what is happening, this is live pictures from baltimore, where in the wake of the unrest caused by the death of a 25-year-old man in police custody, the mayor has just announced a 10:00 p.m. curfew. the maryland governor declared a state of emergency and activated the national guard. we expect to hear from him within the hour. we are awaiting that press conference. this all after chaos broke out today in baltimore as a group made of largely of teenagers and young people looted and damaged businesses include thing cvs pharmacy, which was set on fire. a number of businesses, including a cell phone business and a bar, num

world and end with and everyone who is listening to this with george stephanopoulus, that is a deescalation. >> iran is an existential threat to the entire universe as well as your viewers. >> a small group of washington policy wonks and elderly viewers too weak to change the channel from the sunday morning (bleep) show. >> so conservative republicans don't think it is a good deal. what should the deal have been? >> is the current deal on the table tough enough? >> iran should not have any uranium enrichment capability at all. >> the deal with the devil. >> they need to immediately destroy any nuclear materials that they have. >> america caved. >> we look impo tempt. >> we look weak. >> it is time for american leadership, not surrender. >> you don't negotiate with bullies. >> you punch them in the face. >> why are we even sitting at the table? >> i think it is time to bomb iran. >> well, that went south real (bleep) fast. >> correspondent hasan minhaj has more thoughts. >> obviously, these iranians nuclear negotiations are very complicated. >> so you have been talking to people, how would r

the police are really deescalating their presence down here and they are hoping for another peaceful night in the hours leading up to that 10:00 curfew. in baltimore, brad bell, abc 7 news. maureen: thank you, brad. a first hand look at what a store owner saw the night that looters destroyed his business. still ahead in our continuing coverage, what the store owner says upset him the most as he watched hundreds pillage his store. during the rioting earlier this week, one baltimore man protected his workplace with a machete. brian woodyard lives a few blocks from a bar where he works as a bouncer. as the situation deteriorated on monday woodyard grabbed a machete, put on a mask and helped his boss fend off looters. vince then neighbors have been calling him the baltimore batman. >> i mean but a lot of us did defend our homes, defend our storefronts, defend our bars and i mean, we did our best. maureen: while some looters made their way inside woodyard was able to keep a large number out. an ex-convict, woodyard said he wanted to stand up for the people who gave him a second chance. a

a police source told me that what they've tried to do now is deescalate, put away that riot gear, reduce the number of officers on the streets so people can start to feel as though life is a little more normal although under a state of emergency with a 10:00 curfew. and if officers are needed they can be called back in a matter of seconds. leon, a lot better than when you and i were here together last night. back to you. alison: all right. brad, thank you very much for that. as we mentioned, the baltimore orioles are making history. but not in the way they imagined. right now they are playing the first game in major league history in front of no fans. as we first told you yesterday, the orioles announced this game would be closed to the public. and horace holmes is live at camden yards right now. so horace are there people outside the park tonight since they can't go in? horace: absolutely alison. they're just around the corner from us. we're here on ewtah street. even though the fans are locked out of this game they feel this is the first sign that normalcy is returning to the city base

with someone with a serious mental illness you have to deescalate the situation. crisis intervention training teaches that and that's where the focus should be. >> reporter: pete early, an add indicate for the mentally ill, said the -- advocate for the mentally ill, said the jail employee who read him the incident reports was afraid the information would not get out. >> when you don't trust county officials to do the right thing, you'll have whistleblowers. >> reporter: fairfax police picked up mckenna on an outstanding warrant for assaulting an alexandria police officer. sheriff kincaid said getting her back to alexandria was the only way to get her help. is that in order for us to get her the help -- >> in order for us to get her the help she needed we were told she had to go back to alexandria because she did not have an attorney in fairfax county. that attorney has to petition the court in order to get her committed into a hospital. >> reporter: why was mckenna even in jail is the bigger question says ron honberg of the national alliance on mental illness. >>

i think it's going to be the deescalation of bipartisanship on this. >> everyone is saying i want tohe details before i jump to any conclusions. we also saw on easter sunday the pope come out and really praise the framework of this deal with iran. outside of israel is this deal gaining some momentum on a global scale? >> i think after 40 years of not having this sort of communication and these sorts of frameworks, people are ready to give it a shot. and i think that the pope that's a very valuable endorsement for the six parties that have come together for the deal and it says let's give it a shot. at the end of the day it's going to make it or break it how the deal continues over the next sort of five or ten years. >> like they say the devil is in the details. thanks so much. we appreciate you joining us. just ahead we'll go live to the white house for a beloved easter tradition. i will take beauty into my own hands...where it belongs. olay regenerist. it regenerates surface cells. new skin is revealed in only 5 days. without drastic measures. stunningly youthful. award-winning skin

and we worked very hard to keep that balance and to put ourselves in the best position to deescalate. that's what you saw this evening. >> so that was baltimore mayor saturday on the city's plans to respond to escalating protests over the death of freddie gray. the mayor is now accusing the media and other critics of taking that line about giving those who wish to destroy space to do that out of context. this is what she said on two different occasions yesterday. >> we balance a very fine line between giving protesters peaceful protesters space to protest. what i said is in doing so people can hijack that and use that space for bad. i did not say that we were accepting of it. i did not say that we were passive to it. i was just explaining how property damage can happen during a peaceful protest. it is very unfortunate that members of your industry decided to mischaracterize my words and use it a way to say we're inciting violence. i'm going to protect people's right to protest. the fact people exploited that does not mean that i do not have an obligation to protect people's right to p

>> to allow people to have a peaceful protest. >> for the deescalation strategy? >> that's best practice. any other questions? >> what's the plan now that night has fallen? >> so as i mentioned, we have the juvenile curfew for 14 and under at 9:00 p.m. we will be enforcing it. 14 to 17 is 10:00 p.m. tomorrow will thereby a city-wide curfew 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. in the morning. let me be clear, what that means is if you don't have if you are on the streets, it will be for two reasons, medical emergency or you're going to work. that's it. >> we know seven were injured, one was unconscious -- >> do you have? >> okay go ahead. >> so unfortunately, at this point, 15 police officers were injured. of the 15 two are still being hospitalized at this moment. the others have been released minor injuries at this point. >> do you know how those officers were injured? >> what we know right now preliminary is that objects, bricks bottles, i'm not sure specifically but flying debris caused the injuries. >> did they have helmets on? did it get them in the head? >> some did, some

says the officer offered no warning and that there was no attempt at engaging in a conversation to deescalate the situation. she claims her client was in distress and can be seen pointing the gun at his head and addd that he was no danger to the public. >> i find it ludicrous to say that we're saving this man's life who is suicidal by almost killing him 78 i mean, he could have died. it's miraculous that he didn't die given how hard he was hit. >> he comes around the corner. he knows several things. you know, the guy is not obeying commands, the guy has a high powered rifle the guy has already cranked off one round and the guy is now very near to a heavily populated businesses and i can't let him get -- >> reporter: now again his attorney added there her client made some suicidal statements but that video shows him firing that weapon and that he had stolen from wal-mart and again the chief said the use of the car to take down the suspect was safer than the officer firing a weapon. no charges have been filed against that officer just yet. but a lost controversy surrounding -- a lot of controve

now, valencia's lawyer says there was no warning no attempt at engaging in a conversation to deescalatetuation then her client was in distress and in no danger to the public. >> i find it ludicrous to say that we're saving this man's life who is suicidal by almost killing him. i mean, he could have died. it's miraculous that he didn't die given how hard he was hit. >> he comes around the corner. he knows several things. you know, that the guy is not obeying commands, the guy has a high powered rifle the guy has already cranked off one round and the guy is very near to a heavily populated businesses. >> reporter: and again, this video does show him firing that weapon and again the chief said although unconstitution vince in the use of the car to take down that suspect was safer than the officer firing a weapon. no charges have been filed against that officer yet. a lot of controversy surrounding this video and certainly very graphic to z tam, back to you. >> geez, okay, thank you erin. >>> the other recent officer take down prompted several protests. this is video from new york city wher

and certainly the pentagon described it as a deescalation of the tensions that we have seen this week. gwen: one of the things, every single day there was a different report coming out of yemen. one day, saudis said we're done. we're done with our air strikes and going to pull back and et next day they began again. the next day part of the ethnic minority trying to overthrow the current government said oh, we're going to step back too and they didn't. it seems like a very confusing situation on the ground. >> to say the least. conflict within conflict within conflict and it's very difficult to get a clear picture. but the latest, i suppose, is thathere's some movement on the diplomatic front with the u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon today appointing a new special envoy for yemen to rainbow these parties back to the negotiating table. but as you said, there hasn't been a cessation of the hostilities. the saudis announced one day they stopped the air strikes a only to begin them hours later. they are still fighting raging in several cities and, of course massive humanitarian disaster

we worked very hard to to keep that balance and to put ourselveses in the best position to deescalate and that's what you saw. >> aides later said she misspoke, but the anger in baltimore is high and the police are on high alert. >> doug thank you. >> we'll be right back with more "happening now" in just a in a moment. rtment? yes...i can put you right through. sales department-this is nate. human resources. technical support. hold please. [announcer]you work hard to grow your business. [man] yes!i can totally do that for you. [announcer]our new online business planning tools will help your business thrive. wells fargo.together we'll go far. (music) boys? stop less. go more. the passat tdi clean diesel with up to 814 hwy miles per tank. just one reason volkswagen is the #1 selling diesel car brand in america. push your enterprise and you can move the world. but to get from the old way to the new, you'll need the right it infrastructure. from a partner who knows how to make your enterprise more agile, borderless and secure. hp helps businesses move on all the possibilities of today. an

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>> what was impressive to me about the staff is they deescalated the situation by calmly talking to him, engaging him in a conversation. >> i'm not going to sit there and be [ bleep ] by inmates and not take it out on the staff. >> gill, listen to me a minute. none of that has been determined. we're going to get through this. >> let's get through this and then we'll deal with that, one step at a time. >> right as they're taking michael gill's blood pressure, the lieutenant starts using humor to calm everything down. >> that's pretty good actually. >> that's pretty good. i wish i carried those numbers. >> i've got karo syrup coursing through my veins. mine ain't anywhere near that good. >> that's some of the finest german chocolate, too. >> four months left and i tell you what, i'll probably end up catching 40 to life. >> no, you won't. maybe 15 to 20, tops. you'll be all right. >> once the tension was alleviated a little bit, they tried to get gill to see the bigger picture. >> in four months, this is all going to be over and done with. just make the best of it. it's four months. >> wha

when she physically pushes past an officer we have little close than to deescalate the situation situation. >> the guzman's say they didn't want police inside the home because they have a dog that bites. >> in san francisco a summit between the vet van's administration and oakland and san jose all have a problem in common, homeless, many that are veterans. as wayne friedman found out solutions may be coming but for just a few people at a time. >> reporter: in san francisco they are impossible to ignore and sometimes just as difficult to help. the chronic homeless. estimated 1 in every 5 of them may be veterans. >> i'm one of the lucky ones no doubt. >> veteran jack hannah lives in city subsidized housing on kearny street. same for harry devinnie. he hit the streets after divorce and alcohol problems. this entire building dedicated to once homeless veterans. >> are there more guys like wlou need this? >> a lot. >> they may get more help after a visit by veterans affairs secretary robert mcdonald who met with oakland, san jose and san francisco with the goal of getting homeless veterans safe

and we worked very hard to keep that balance and put ourselves in the best position to deescalate. and that's what you saw this evening. >> what the hell? >> this is -- >> what the hell? >> tomorrow is the 23rd anniversary of the l.a. up risings and riots. and after 23 years, we have not learned the lessons from that incident and especially how to respond as public officials. to say we gave them space to destroy, that's just remarkable to me. when last week we were saying about this mayor she was out in front ever this by calling in the department of justice to investigate her own police department for a series of be abuses of the citizens. and so this is not -- i have to say, this is not surprising that this happened yesterday. and let's be clear, this is young people. teenagers that feel like they have nothing to lose. >> this is a desperate population in baltimore. over the past few years, this was percolating before the death, murder, killing, however you want to put it of freddie gray. >> and mike barnicle, one of the things that is so damning for this mayor, of course she's a

when she physically pushes past an officer we have little close than to deescalate the situation situation. >> the guzman's say they didn't want police inside the home because they have a dog that bites. >> in san francisco a summit between the vet van's administration and oakland and san jose all have a problem in common, homeless, many that are veterans. as wayne friedman found out solutions may be coming but for just a few people at a time. >> reporter: in san francisco they are impossible to ignore and sometimes just as difficult to help. the chronic homeless. estimated 1 in every 5 of them may be veterans. >> i'm one of the lucky ones no doubt. >> veteran jack hannah lives in city subsidized housing on kearny street. same for harry devinnie. he hit the streets after divorce and alcohol problems. this entire building dedicated to once homeless veterans. >> are there more guys like wlou need this? >> a lot. >> they may get more help after a visit by veterans affairs secretary robert mcdonald who met with oakland, san jose and san francisco with the goal of getting homeless veterans safe

direct all of the children to leave the house from the rear which they did safely which very much deescalated the situation. >> police, sent in a robot ape discover the fat's sleep on the floor. they say he was intoxicated when he took them into custody. it is unclear what charges he will face now. what was thought to be a gun was reportedly, a fake gun. >>> okay. did you see that game last night. you know blue devils are the new national champions. >> blah, blah, blah. >> that is how mike feels bit. >> they beat our bo ryan who grew up in chester. >> um-hmm. >> yeah, duke beat wisconsin last night. this is the fifth national championship for coach k, duke's four freshman combined to score all of the teams 37, second half points. how about those freshman coming off the bench. twenty-nine points in the games final 13 minutes. early in the second half duke fell behind wisconsin. they took the lead after 31-31 half time score but blue devils rallied to win it 69- 69-63. >>> and, we told you yesterday, and, allegedly firing a gun during a game. why his lawyer says it was you tell us what you want

able to post the video online they had announced that they had charged the officer and it really deescalated what's going to happen to the officer is over. >> the family presumably knows who shot the provide, right? >> yes. >> did you have to verify the authenticity of this at some point? >> it was a difficult thing for us. so we got this video. it looks really interesting. it's very compelling but how do you know that it's real. we did the best that we could. i'm not going to get into everything but we sent someone to the scene. we sent them the video. someone that worked for us and we said hey, look. take a look around. does this look like what's on the video? how does this matchup? we did that and that longalong with other things we did gave us a certain level of confidence. >> to that degree of the public coming in and being aware of what's going on -- it is a heartening thing that somebody took it upon themselves to shoot the video, but it also tells you something about society. somebody starts shooting thinking something is going to go wrong. >> we see more and more of this particularl

. >> i can escalate dialogue branches, deescalate. he's saying and giving responses. >> drop the gun now! >> reporter: even for a veteran, this is humbling. >> if it hurts my heart and feelings, but i learn from it in the scenario. >> reporter: so tomorrow, thanks to today's technology, he is a better and safer officer. kyung lah, cnn, las vegas. >> i want to talk about training good police officers as well as this allegedly murderous north charleston police officer. former new york harry houck is with me and mark o'mara and sunny hostin, a defense attorney and she's a former federal prosecutor. harry, isn't this another reason why body cameras should be worn? some say it will help with accountability and for training, learning from mistakes and also maybe teach, show the public in some cases how difficult it is, the decisions police officers have to make. >> right, anderson. that's exactly what i was thinking. i'm 100% for police officers wearing these body cams. it will show that officers act correctly out there on the street and it

commission thinks the video shows the ambassadors are ill- equipped to handle the homeless and deescalate situations. the commission approved a resolution ending the ambassador program. the resolution will soon be in front of the city council. but mayor tom butts thinks the program is here to stay. >> the overwhelming majority of the city council supports the ambassador program. >> reporter: the mayor says this was an isolated incident and says the downtown berkeley association fired the fighting ambassador. the resolution to end the program is expected to reach the city council this summer. in berkeley, ryan takeo, kpix 5. >>> san francisco police are calling that next guy the clean- cut bandit. take a look. police believe that this man may be responsible for three recent bank robberies. in each, surveillance photo he is wearing a short-sleeved polo shirt. photos were taken at these three banks in san francisco. the latest robbery happened just yesterday. police are offering a reward for any information that will help them solve the case. >>> late word from sacramento, a new bill that wo

she talked about deescalating.ed about best practices. >> striking the right balance. >> we saw repeated instances in which the police where were the trouble was and they back away. repeatedly they backed away. these were some pretty violent kids on those streets and they were committing crimes, assaulting police officers. >> that's been represented before. that cannot be true because i listened to that presser from the police. they said at that one mall they didn't want to go after these kids because they were kids. that doesn't explain what we saw throughout the city of baltimore last night. there were 250 arrests, 90% of which were of adults. there were pockets where we saw them setting residential homes ablaze and the cops stood by. it wasn't all 15-year-olds. >> we had a particularly vivid episode where on the street corner where the police were up close and face to face with the protestors. and at the urging of city council members they backed away. they came back later. you kept hearing about how they were -

directed all the children to leave the house from the rear which they did safely which very much deescalated the zig. >> reporter: now according to police the children that were inside seven of them altogether were from ages two to 15. again dhs came here to take two children a 10-year-old an 12-year-old out of the house. police sent a robot a swat team robot into the house and found the man sleeping on the floor. according to police, he was intoxicateed. they did find a weapon near him. it is believed to be replica weapon not a real weapon but had the word beretta on it which is obviously a style of a real weapon police didn't want to take any chances all of the children were removed from the home. they are now in northwest detectives. the suspect is at northwest detectives being spoken to by police again all seven children left the home safely. the suspect in question here the father of those two children the 10 and 12-year-old is now in police custody and at northwest detectives tonight. again all seven children are safe. guys, back to you. >> dave, that's good news. thank you. skyfox ove

they deescalated everything and these officers are helping to protect this business as they start to having someone on the ground who can talk with the community and police officers. >> when we arrived here the kourn until charge of this group of officers from baltimore was closer to the cvs which is behind us where you hear the loud preaching coming from. and he said, we're going to stand down, we're going to back up, back off, we're going to have a much lower approach today and hope that the community responds in a peaceful manner. so that's their intent. that's why these officers, who just an hour ago were in a straight line, in a stiff line, have now relaxed, backed off, and as you said, we have a business here with broken glass being fixed but most of the officers have moved out and they're going to be behind the scenes. >> i just want to point something out, a man preaching on the corner, the fois you hear down the way, he has decided to take over the corner where the protesters were yesterday. he's preaching. but one of the things we have to make a point of, the idea that the

police department officers are now being trained in how to engaged courteously with the public to deescalate situations. >>> historic drought forced california's governor to take unprecedented action mandatory water restrictions are in place for the first time in history. residents and businesses must reduce water use by 25 percent. farmers are exempt. water districts that do not succeed in implementing cut backs could face fines up to $10,000 a day. >>> new from the news room, new hope, in the fight against cancer. you may have recently seen cbs news magazine 60 minutes how they profiled the use of polio in the the fight begins brain cancer. tonight we have an exclusive story of a new jersey patient who is under going the experimental therapy. our health reporter stephanie stahl has more. >> she always says will you cry? i say no. >> reporter: this cape may mother and doubt are have done a lot of crying and laughing, since 28 year-old jenny robinson was diagnosed with a deadly brain cancer, two years ago. >> i was really scared. >> reporter: newlywed jenny, hoist a teachers aid had gotten e

valencia's attorney insists the police could have done more to deescalate the situation without usingorce. >>> aaron hernandez will spend the rest of his life in prison. a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder. marcy gonzalez with reaction to the verdict. >> after the verdict was read. >> guilt of murder in the first degree. >> former new england patriot star aaron hernandez glared at the jury who found him guilty of all counts in odin lloyd's murder appearing to mouth the words, you're wrong. his fiance and mother embracing in tears and his victim's family breaking down. >> i forgive the hands of the people who had a hand in my son's murder. >> lloyd was shot to death execution style nearly two years ago in a massachusetts industrial park. he was hernandez's friend, dating his fiance's sister and prosecutors offered no motive and the murder weapon was never found. the mountain of evidence including video of hernandez with what appeared to be a gun was enough to convince them that he plotted the murder and pulled the trigger. >> we didn't need the murder weapon. now less than t

our hope is this can deescalate. >> that's the strategy? the strategy is hope. the strategy is according to the state department spokeswoman, we hope that things will just calm down. we have a strategy of hope and our ships, aircraft carrier right there in the region and close to 10,000 united states military personnel and the strategy today as laid out by the state department is hope. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. where is this iranian convoy now? >> well shep we just spoke to u.s. navy officials who tell us that the iranian convoy which consists of nine vessels, seven cargo ships and two iranian navy frijts remains under way off the coast of yemen near the border with oman. it's moving slowly at six knots. and the uss theodore roosevelt continues to trail behind and launching aircraft to provided visual convoys. any reports suggesting the iranian convoy has gone to yemen is false. the egyptians in saudi still control the ports there, shep. the u.n. secretary general condemned them today. the saudis are conducting a press conference right now at the emba

brad: the guard should have deescalated the conflict gotten in his car and called police. deion giles agrees. >> harassment. i'm being harassed. brad: after seeing the video that we had, the owner of the security company actually drove here to the apartment complex to talk to mr. giles in person on the advice of his lawyer mr. giles did not speak with him. and now both the security guards and giles are headed to the courts to file assault charges against each other. we have now learned that the prince george's county police are going to be looking into this incident. hansen creek apartments brad bell, abc 7 news. scott: right now, we are monitoring a developing story out of fairfax county where prosecutors say they'll convene a grand jury in the wrongful death suit against police. the decision comes one day after the board of supervisors announced a settlement with john geer's family. northern virginia bureau chief jeff goldberg is live at fairfax county courthouse to explain. jeff? jeff: well scott i spoke with county attorney prosecutor ray morrow this afternoon who basi

with someone with a serious mental illness you have to deescalate the situation.ining teaches that and that's where the focus should be. >> reporter: pete early, an add indicate for the

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lawyers say the officer offered no warning and there was no attempt at engaging in a conversation to deescalate her client was in distress and can be seen pointing the gun at his head and added that even though he had a gun he was no danger to the public. >> i find it ludicrous to say that we're saving this man's life who is suicidal by almost killing him. i mean, he could have died. it's miraculous that he didn't die given how hard he was hit. >> he comes around the corner. he knows several things, you know, that the guy is not obeying commands, the guy has a high powered rifle the guy has already cranked off one round and the guy is now very near to a heavily populated businesses. >> reporter: valencia's attorney also addd that her client made some suicidal statements but again, the video shows valencia firing that weapon in the air. the police chief standing by his belief that the use of a car to take down the suspect was safer than the officer firing a weapon. no charges have been filed yet against that officer but really matt, these things are so hard because we don't know what's going goi

and in a moment we're actually wrestling with as a nation about training for deescalation tactics, weis guy shooting off his gun. but look at the tape ed. look at the law enforcement folks who have been trained in that video. the knee is on his head. they don't care whether or not he can breathe. allegedly they're unaware of the fact that he's shot at this point in time. the awareness and everything that's going on with this video is absolutely wrong. but we do have to ask the tough questions. can you buy yourself a badge? are you able to purchase your way into a sheriff's office? and if so like mr. henderson is saying what is that sheriff's office's accountability for training this person in an environment where we're demanding greater training for law enforcement so we can stop the killing. >> i mean, this is just an embarrassment to law enforcement in this country. and there's people in oklahoma in law enforcement that are defending this guy. i mean, he cash whips his position and gets into their place and now look what we've got. >> another dead unarmed guy. >> no defense here. ev

aircraft carrier arrived in the waters around yemen, the white house said today it is hoping for a deescalation u.s. and iran. iran has sent a flotilla of nine ships. on shore the bombing in yemen cons, despite an announcement from the saudis yesterday that they would end their month-long air campaign to focus on a political solution. yemen has been a country without a government now for three months. since the saudi coalition began its bombing campaign over three weeks ago, many residents have been living with no electricity no water, and no food. nearly a thousand people have been killed and nearly 150,000 people have been forced from their homes. >>> coming up, john hinckley has spent three decades in a psychiatric hospital. now the man who tried to assassinate president reagan is back in court and could soon be free. that's next. t. tylenol was ok, but it was 6 pills a day. but aleve is just 2 pills all day. and now, i'm back! aleve. ♪ building aircraft, the likes of which the world has never seen. this is what we do. ♪ that's the value of performance. northrop grumman. >>> and now the stor

who are going to turn up at a counter and how you have to master your ego to know how did he say deescalate training in dealing with the mentally ill. that's the equipment we should be giving police officers before sending them into the communities. we don't. we also don't send them out with body-worn cameras so we can monitor what is happening with police officers. and so we're not caught in this he said/she said allegations of pulling the race card that is characterized -- has characterized the issue for decade. it's only now that we have to see on camera the execution of walter scott, that we see these videos that now we're having a broader conversation. there are actions we can take, but the actions begin with our being able to forthrightly confront what lies at the bottom of many of these problems, it's the issue of racial bias. >> thank you as always. thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. >>> and another major story, of course the latest from nepal as the country tries to recover from the most devastating earthquake seen in a lifetime. excellent looking below the surfac

his two tours of duty in iraq as a marine likely helped him deal with the situation and try to deescalate what was a very tense situation, because the reality is fred simply one shot could have led to a very different outcome of this story. >> i wanted to be absolutely sure before i used deadly force. >> reporter: new richmond ohio, police officer, jesse kidder knows this confrontation could have taken a deadly turn. >> get your hands up! >> reporter: the man seen running toward him is a suspect is a in a double murder. he was trying to commit suicide by cop. >> kept repeating shoot me. one point, he said shoot me or i'll shoot you. >> get your hands out of your pockets. >> shoot me! >> get your hands out of your pockets now. no man, not gonna do it. >> reporter: despite the man's refusal to comply and with tensions running high kidder doesn't pull the trigger. he put his hands in his pocket there my eyes are watching that hand right now and nothing else. stop! stop right there i don't want to shoot you, man. i'm not going to shoot you. >> reporter: kidder back pedals and eventually loses

trying to deescalate friday. the underlying issue for most of the people, at least i spoke with there are just so many freddie grays. this is just one time part of the encounter was caught on video and yet, there is this sense that because police officers have such rights because of the way this state operates, once again, people feel there's not going to be accountability. >> in terms of bringing charges, i guess i ask you, i'll start with you, ari. how hard sit to get and i know your thoughts on this too. how hard is it to bring charges in a case like this? we are far from that moment at present. but looking at where we are in terms of the investigation and the conflicting narratives i mean where do you, what's the likelihood that there's manslaughter charge and voluntary or voluntary? >> i think in most municipalities and cities there's a structural conflict of interest because every normal day, a d.a. wakes up and works with the police to generate all of their cases and all of their leads. and in situations w

have they tried to deescalate? >> no. they're standing their ground you know what i mean? they stand their ground. that's what they're supposed to do. >> here with me reverend anthony evans, president of the national black church initiative. and joining us from washington democratic maryland state senator katherine pugh whose district includes baltimore city. i want to start with you. i was out there last night at 10:30. you were in the street with congressman elijah cummings telling the folks, the media because it was all media at that point, telling the media there's a large stack of documents going to the state attorney's office. we cannot expect the folks in the office to process those documents quickly. and it seems that there's a legal process that needs to play out before there's a public information release. but that the people in the community didn't really understand that, and some of them believe that either today or tomorrow there would be some sort of public reckoning. do you think there was some sort of political or public relations mistake that led the commu

they have to use their deescalation skills.ave to use less than lethal weapons if the weapon is needed. those kinds of things to make people think, to show whether or not they do exercise good judgment. and if they don't, take the appropriate action. either retraining or perhaps it's just not a business they need to be in. >> is your presidential task force looking at the possibility that there's uneven policing in the country? meaning that the recent incidents we've been focused on -- i'm thinking of ferguson and now i'm thinking of this event -- are not indicative of your major police force in new york l.a. but rather something has gone wrong when the departments are smaller? perhaps they lack the training that you would have in philly. >> i think even the larger departments have to take a look at how they train. more importantly, the relationship that they have with communities. there are some communities in philadelphia in new york. you name the city. where you're going to have tension between police and community. and that

whatever the situation is, you go to where they call you and talk to the kid and kind of deescalate itoesn't go into the whole physical force and stuff like that. >> who do i got? >> okay, what's that? >> i'm the biggest threat to this mother [ bleep ]. >> okay, so we've established that. so what's going on? you don't know until you get here what's going on. i don't know the student. so a lot of it is just like -- i hope we can figure this one out. so you're hungry. >> yeah. >> okay. >> frustrated. this teacher won't let me go to school. >> initially what had happened was the student was upset that he wanted to go speak with the teacher that we have on the unit. >> why would they not want you to go to school? >> i'm supposed to be working on my ged. he said if i go to that school they will not -- and then the white student said, bring him in. >> so he was pulling the race card and was wanting her -- he wanted her attention right then and there and she wasn't able to give him that right then and there and he was wanting to act out. >> so we're hungry and feeling some racial tension. >>