. >> in a city like minneapolis we were talking that is a state like montana but i guess i'm wondering if you can kind of unpack that a little bit as well and where you are minneapolis how you see some of that manifestation in terms of the way the barriers played out today today and what you are doing to keep that from happening in minneapolis. >> sure. one of the things i'm really thrilled about just two weeks ago i attended a press conference and executive order by the governor from the state of minnesota affirming minnesota as a welcoming state for transgender and nonconforming people who have been banned from access to healthcare in other states. prior to that, about a month prior to that myself along with the mayor of minneapolis signed an executive order making minneapolis a safe and welcoming city for people seeking gender affirming healthcare without fear of being expedited from their states or being criminally charged for just trying to live their lives and so i think that is the importance of representation to be in these spaces where walls and ordinances are being made. just

one reason he was in minneapolis was he had left his hometown of houston to move to minneapolis to get into a rehab program. despite his willingness to uproot his life, try for a better shot at life, changes pathway, we saw a police officer snuff that life out before he had the opportunity to remake his life. >> we will take calls during the segment, as well. we want to get the numbers up on the screen. if you want to send a text message to our guest, you can send it to this number (202) 748-8903. please include your first name and your city. at what point did you and your co-author decide to take the approach you did and was it one of those casual conversations? >> this book grew out of a series that rented the washington post. it was myself, robert and several other reporters who each took on a different part of george floyd's american experience. there was a reporter who wrote about his experience with the housing system. the criminal justice system. i wrote about his family history. robert wrote about his experience in the american health care system. we have a lot of different pie

of minneapolis.ell first of all, thanks for having us, uh the what i meant by that was that these 2017 incidents, which involved other officers and john's case. up to, you know, a dozen other officers at given points in time. sure that the there's the problems with the minneapolis police are cultural and systemic and that the. show and felt very comfortable doing what he was doing, which is clearly criminal and unconstitutional. in the presence of these officers who didn't do anything. they didn't . they didn't intervene. it didn't report him. they didn't do anything. and that was true in all three incidents and i think shouldn't make the citizens of minneapolis i think that the you know what few bad apples theory is, is, uh, it is not really the case. it's just it's a systemic cultural thing within the department that is insidious and has been for years. mr bennett and mr pope. thank you so much for coming on and explaining your story. and i'm sorry for what you went through mr pope appreciate it. j

the city of minneapolis has settled to excessive force lawsuits against former minneapolis police officer and convicted murderer derek chauvin for more than $8.8 million. chauvin is currently in prison for killing george floyd after putting his knee on floyd's neck from more than nine minutes years before that murder. two other citizens in minneapolis complaints showing had used the same kind of force when he detained them. they survived and sued the city. i spoke with one of those citizens zoya code in 2021. my name's oia close. and i'm all i've got and you will not take my life like that. i told you they will not take my life. she said. she complained with police and they didn't do anything. cnn's natasha chen has more details on this case and settlement. natasha what can you tell us? yes. sarah. the minneapolis city council yesterday voted unanimously to settle these two lawsuits. ultimately awarding john pope $7.5 million and zoya code $1.375 million. these two incidents happened in 2017 after the settlement yesterday, the two people through their attorney decided to release body came

and minneapolis becomes the first major us city to allow broadcast of the muslim call to prayer over speakers five times a day, all year round. hello. i'm helena humphrey. good to have you with us. we start in sudan, where heavy fighting between two rival factions of the military has left at least 27 people dead, including three un staff. earlier, gunfire and explosions rocked the capital, khartoum. the sudanese military has ordered citizens to remain inside amid clashes at the presidential palace and the city's airport. what you're seeing here was recorded earlier at khartoum international airport, where at least two people were reportedly killed. footage there shows large plumes of smoke and fighter jets flying low overhead. and there was this video from inside the khartoum airport, showing passengers taking cover on the floor. major airlines have reportedly suspended flights. this is the skyline across khartoum. exact death tolls are yet to be confirmed. a journalist from the washington post newspaper reported 30 people dead and nearly 400 injured, citing the united nations. victi

fox news mark meredith in minneapolis with the story. mark? reporter: liz, good evening to you.dent biden's visit here to minnesota was brief, but he says he's focused on the long term about bringing more manufacturing jobs here to the heartland. given the news we heard from opec over the weekend that is planning to cut oil exports, that could impact inflation, it'll also likely fuel the president's critics that his economic energy strategy is simply falling short. now, the president had a chance to tour a manufacturing facility in minnesota, highlighting the 2022 inflation reduction act which he says encourages manufacturing of clean and renewable energy products. he toured a facility owned by company called cummins, so that they can manufacture more low to zero carbon emission engines. the president says these kind of investments are crucial to improving both the environment and the u.s. economy. >> these are the machines that make clean hydrogen, a renewable energy used to power our economy from clean cars to trucks to steel to cement manufacturing but now, thanks to the infl

christine romans, the city of minneapolis has settled to excessive force lawsuits against former minneapolisolice officer and convicted murderer derek chauvin for more than $8.8 million in prison for killing george floyd. you remember he put his knee on floyd's neck for more than nine minutes, well, three years before that to other people in minneapolis, complained that covid had used the same kind of force when he had detained them. cnn's natasha chen brings us the details. camera and victor. the minneapolis city council on thursday unanimously voted to approve these two settlements for john popedi pope $7.5 millid code $1.375 million. now, these two incidents happened both in 2017 and the two people through their attorney decided to release the body camera footage . we're going to show you some of it and have to warn you that it's very difficult to watch. we're going to start with the video of what happened with john pope. he was 14 years old at the time, and you're going to see police arrive on scene for domestic disturbance call. here's what happened in your stomach now what i say, go pl

the city of minneapolis changed its noise ordnance now allowing the islamic word of prayer to be castspeakers year round, five times a day. it is a first for a major u.s. city. ♪ >> reporter: the muslim call to prayer recited in here, heard out there. >> it is a very simple message to share the greatness of god and to call people to success. >> reporter: five times a day, muslims gathered to pray at mosque, but the prayers weren't allowed in minneapolis until now. the city eliminated time constraints from the part of its noise ordnance related to worship. that means the call could go out as early as 3:30 a.m. and as late as 11:00 p.m. >> you can not wake up and come to. now it's clear like crystal. you hear and you'll be happy to come and prayer and join. >> leaders say only a couple of mosques broadcast the call to prayer at all, but more may now start. >> we built america on this basic principal, freedom of religion, so today, it's a victory for our constitution, because it's for all americans. >> repor h he would encourage mosques in neighborhoods where people are not muslim to ref

the minneapolis city council on thursday unanimously voted to approve these two settlements for john pope and zoya code awarding pope $7.5 million and code $1.375 million. these two incidents happened both in 2017 and the two people through their attorney decided to release the body camera footage. we're going to show you some of it and have to warn you that it's very difficult to watch. we're going to start with the video of what happened with john pope. he was 14 years old at the time, and you're going to see police arrive on scene for domestic disturbance call. here's what happened. your stomach now. what i said, go playing to y'all kill my son, please. and i feel myself. and now you're seeing officer chauvin with his knee on pope's neck there, according to the lawsuit. this lasted for more than 15 minutes. very difficult to watch. and you definitely saw in that earlier clip chauvin hitting pope with a middle flashlight. attorneys in these cases say that this incidents with pope and code are strikingly similar, and that chauvin used his quote signature pose with the knee on the ne

what our research showed, even the police chief who ran the minnesota police department, minneapolis police department, would tell you by the time a complaint came to their desk, it was likely the police officer could say i don't know what happened. because the system was so labyrinthine, it is not a justifiable excuse. when doing the reporting, we were not looking for solutions about this. we were looking to be able to highlight a world in which we all live and empower people with enough information to question those systems and be able to empower themselves to make good decisions for themselves. >> just to add to that and to speak briefly about the present system in addition to the policing system, george floyd spent a decent amount of time in prison, mostly for nonviolent drug crimes during the war on drugs in this era of mass incarceration that started around the time he was born and kicked into gear when he was a teenager and a young adolescent. one of the things we found was the prison system is supposed to be about rehabilitation, most people going to prison are going to come

molar virginia and one in minneapolis. now it is time to — virginia and one in minneapolis.ater this month is a final. the game against the leaders is their next one in the league and it follows their matches against bayern munich in the champions league and then an fa cup semi final. guardiola's team are now three points beind arsenal after two more goals from erling haaland helped them to a 3—1win over leicester. haaland now has 32 league goals, equalling mo salah's scoring record for a 38—game season. leicester remain second bottom. it normally happens when you make a lot of substitutions. we should avoid it, but sometimes it happens, and it is important that we start really well. after the champions league it is always difficult, we make substitutions to give the players rest, to put energy into the last 20 minutes, and we lose a little control, but in general it was a good picture. arsenal have responded well to manchester city's pressure. although two dropped points at liverpool last week has tightened things at the top of the table. they're playing west ham later. the

from oakland to minneapolis, they're declaring war on potholes in some cities, the mayors themselves even helping. >> we heard the community. they said they wanted their potholes filled. >> reporter: in el cajon, california, an all-out blitz this week. the city enlisting everyone from the parks department to accounting, with shovels, fill and smooth over the city's potholes. >> let's go out and blitz this let's make this a true customer service effort. >> reporter: this week alone they filled more than 550, but these road warriors have an uphill battle with the record pace of potholes making it harder to just pave over the problem. >> so are you satisfied with seeing the results >> yes, i am so when i go down this street next time, i won't go boom. >> reporter: niala charles, nbc news, el cajon, california. >>> when we come back, there's good news tonight. the marathon runner lifting all of us. ♪♪ >>> there's good news tonight about big surprises and dreams coming true. there were cheers celebrating 8-year-old noah thompson here's his victory lap at advent health in orlando. [ bell r

replacing the roof at the minneapolis-st.aul international airport so it's cooler in the summer and you can heat it in the winter. in duluth and the great lakes region, we've committed $1 billion to clean up reservoirs and water ways. [applause] and already, nearly 200,000 minnesota families now have affordable high speed internet they didn't have two years ago because of the infrastructure. -- the infrastructure law. your moms and dads who didn't have that internet available to you, next time your kid has to do homework online, you don't have to pull up to a mcdonald's and work off their power. i'm not joking. all these investments mean that now if you grow up in minnesota or you go to a school in minnesota, you can stay in minnesota. the midwest is coming back streaming. good jobs you can raise a family on. you don't have to hear your son or daughter say, i love it here but there's no work for me, i've got to leave. none of this is happening by accident. it's not just happening in minnesota. it's all part of my agenda to in

. >> the city of minneapolis was largely credited with magnifying the defund movement in 2020.e surged there and the police department shrank so fast minneapolis began recruiting officers from other cities. minneapolis police union tells fox pulling in officers is hard as the profession has been demonized. pre-floyd the department sat at 878. today it's down to 542 officers roughly only 260 of them assigned to 911 a patrol for the entire city jonathan. >> thank you matt and where there are fewer police officers there is usually obviously more crime. residents suffer businesses suffer so let's talk to a business owner who sees on a daily basis the effects of the crime crisis the owner of lobos boxing gym. eddie is here. your gym is in a hip neighborhood that people love to go shopping and doing things like going to the gym but what is this crime crisis in l.a. done for your area? >> it's made people not want to come at all. i remember when i opened the dad i told my dad i had a gym on mel rogues. three years later it's embarrassing. it's change a lot. >> who do you blame for the

the minneapolis police tells a boxer pulling in officers is hard as the profession has been demonizedn their city. pre-flood department set it 878. today it is down to 542 officers, roughly over only 260 of them are assigned to 911 patrol for the entire city. neil: met defendant thank you my friend but let's go to howard safir former police commissioner. i look at the statistics in major cities and you look at this crime situation in a variety of ways. a lot of the big city mayors say crime is still a problem some of the serious crimes the one that you see in a video and all the rest the shooting incident the transit incidents, to a major city they are down. they like to point out the serious stuff is going our way we are still paying attention to the other stuff. but argent they jumping too soon on a month or two worth of data? >> a month is not a trend. and it is down far enough. certainly up from pre-pandemic issues. the fact is we have mayors and district attorneys who are progressive who think they can socialize their way out of crime when trained police officers on the street. n

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minneapolis mayorjacob frey apologised to all the victims.istoric address to the irish parliament. it came on the third full day of his visit to northern ireland and the republic. our north america editor sarah smith reports. applause. president biden says repeatedly that he feels truly at home in ireland. to be invited to address the irish parliament, well, this isjoe biden was my idea of a really good time. well, mom... laughter. you said it would happen. he talked of the history, values and ideals that ireland shares with america, and of how international cooperation can support peace in northern ireland. he talked of the history, values and ideals that ireland shares with america, and of how international cooperation can support peace in northern ireland. on that, he seems to think the uk could do more. i think that the united kingdom should be working closer with ireland in this endeavour. political violence must never again be allowed to take hold in this island. applause. the assembled politicians did hear rishi sunak say yesterday he

east was, it was say something like a 20 degree drop in 2 days for minneapolis by sunday, snow setting in here. so you really will notice that change hard to know what to drag out of the wardrobe when the weather's quite as changeable as that white weather all the way down across the appalachians, down towards a se, brightest gauze, coming in across much of the u. s. the central place certainly looking a good to try and brighter. we have got some wet weather answer, winter weather up towards the pacific northwest into western parts of canada. having said that, now for the caribbean, it's lottie. fine and dry, lovely blue skies for the most part, i think it will cloud over across northern parts of the region as we go through the next couple of days and a wet and wendy for cuba. ah, [000:00:00;00] i lou. ah ah, are they watching out his era that's remind you of our top stories this hour. a major prisoner swap between humans, warring signs is underway. about $300.00 detainees were released on friday, and many more will be exchanged in the coming days. it's seen as an important step toward

brooklyn center is right outside of minneapolis, about a ten-minute drive.stration and one of these. it's a car freshener. it was hanging from the rearview mirror. meanwhile, the officer, as you mentioned at the top of this hour, don, thought she pulled her taser instead she pulled her gun shooting and killing dante wright. potter, who had 26 years of experience as a police officer, will be released -- she's expected to be released to day from prison. her attorney tells me she will not return to minnesota. don? >> thank you, adrian. >>> also this morning, new polling shows that americans don't want president biden or former president trump to run in 2024. so what do voters want? we'll talk about that next. >>> and if you have 190,000 lying around, you could be the next owner of this remote scottish island. bar loco island is 25 acres and is completely uninhabited. the nearest town is six miles away. no buildings, no development, no traffic. just lush green grass and silence. >> sounds amazing. >> see you guys later. i'm headed there. can you imagine? that so

. >>> to minneapolis now, the timberwolves avoided a sweep they staved off elimination with a 114-104e control until then they'll go back to colorado for a game tomorrow. >>> the boston celtics pushed the hawks to the brink of elimination. brown and tatum each scored 29 points the celtics will try to fin tish job at home in game five tomorrow night let's do that, folks, an get some rest. >>> new york city, the knicks are hopping for the first time in a decade. going up three games to one with a 102-93 win over the cleveland cavaliers yesterday. the series shifts back to northeast ohio for game five on wednesday. the cavs are in trouble. >>> let's turn to the nhl and the ongoing quest for lord stanley's cup. we begin in los angeles where the oilers erased a three-goal deficit in the first period and beat the l.a. kings 5-4 in the third overtime thriller thoof series the kings could have put this thing away it was up 3-1. now it's 2-2 now to minneapolis two goals scored by tyler seguin helped the stars get even against the wild dallas wins, game four to florida b, they scored. there gre

she joins me now on skype from minneapolis. i mean, i'm sure you're watching these pictures as we all are. and i'm wondering how do you see this? is this a moment of triumph for the supremacy of law for the principle that everyone is equal before the law? no matter how powerful you are, you can be brought to justice. or is this a case of how politicized the law has become in america? right. well, lest anyone thought that american politics was getting boring, we give you today. and i, you know, i don't, i don't know that it's a triumph. and i'm very sorry. i mean, i apologize. i have to, i have to take us to gabriel, where we understand that the motorcade is pulling up to where you are. gabriel. here we go. this is donald trump with this is donald trump se motorcade arriving here at the courthouse. he's in one of these vehicles. i think he was just in that 3rd vehicle there under heavy security. a historic moment to former president of the united states, donald trump, being escorted into the back insurance in a motorcade to the

as a 2018 minneapolis not hot minneapolis because we go from those some light temperatures cooling off to around 12 degrees that full sat sty. and would you believe the snow sat said for some day ah ah ah.

they were conducting a traffic stop when there was an exchange of gun fire 95 miles northeast of minneapolisthe suspect later died in the hospital. >>> today in alabama another derailment of a norfolk southern trail. 11 cars and a locke mote i came off the praks. two crew members in the locomotive were trapped but rescued. >>> now to augusta, georgia, after a soggy weekend that interrupted play, there's a new winner at the masters. >> reporter: jon rahm, the 28-year-old from spain won the 87th masters. first hole on thursday a double bogey. he said thank goodness it was the first hole. he shot a 3 under par 69 today to win the tournament. interestingly enough the two golfers that tied for second, brooks keoepka and phil mickelson, 3 of the top 6 finishers play on the liv tour. tiger woods withdrew. the cold and wet conditions too much for his body. jericka? >> jim axelrod at the maxers, thank you. >>> to the french alps now where four hikers were killed in an av avalanche. crews were able to resume or will resume the search efforts for two missing hikers starting tomorrow morning. >>> in the

degree drop in temperature is that for new york temperatures falling away quite sharply in mia minneapolis as well as his wet weather pushes in across the plains through the mid west. and will continue to drive its way farther east was it was say something like a 20 degree drop in 2 days for minneapolis by sunday, snow setting in hair say you really will notice that change hard to know what to drag out of the water when the weather's watch is changeable as that white weather all the way down, across the appalachians, down towards a se, brightest gauze, coming in across much of the u. s. c. central place. certainly looking a get to try and brighter. we have got some wet weather and some winter weather up towards the pacific northwest into western parts of canada. having said that, not for the caribbean, it's lottie. fine and dry, lovely blue skies, for the most part, i think it will cloud. i recall northern parts of the region as we go through the next couple of days at a wet and wendy for cuba. ah, ah, a major prisoner exchange dealing yemen raises high. there's an end to more than.

amna: the minneapolis police department remains under a separate federal investigation.s is now expected to be discharged tomorrow from the rome hospital where he's been treated for bronchitis. the vatican said today that the pontiff will also be in st. peter's square for palm sunday mass. francis is 86 years old. he was hospitalized on wednesday with breathing problems. in ukraine today marked one year , since the liberation of bucha the town near kyiv where , hundreds of bodies and mass graves were found. today, president volodymyr zelenskyy honored those killed during bucha's month-long occupation. and, with other european leaders joining him, he called out moscow. >> on the streets of bucha, the world has seen russian people. the people unmasked. -- russi evil. the evil unmask. for more than 400 days, ukrainian people completely cused on resisting a genocidal full-scale aggression of russia. ukraine is being helped by our friends and they are here today, and we are grateful. amna: also today, the president of neighboring belarus, alexander lukashenko, said his countr

en el rÍo mississippi desde minneapolis a , se espera que se alcancen los niveles mÁs elevados de inundacionestormentas. >>> sabemos que hay 59 millones de personas que estÁn bajo alerta por inundaciones. gracias por la informaciÓn. ♪(mÚsica)♪ >>> ya vimos cÓmo estÁn las cosas en buena parte del paÍs, vamos con el pronÓstico para saber quÉ nos depera el fin de semana. cuÉntanos gabriela. >>> buenas tardes. pudiÉsemos ver mÁs imagenes de tornados y granizo y en el este del paÍs, desde florida al este, donde vemos riesgos de tornados, pero en un nivel mÁs bajo. nuestra atenciÓn estÁ en texas donde pudieron ver a dallas, austin bajo este escenario con fuertes tornados y granizo de mÁs de dos pulgadas de diÁmetro. para maÑana estamos observando un sistema que entrarÁ en florida, talaja hasi y orlando con vientos fuertes y granizos. un peligro de inundaciones que se mantiene el fin de semana desde nevada vemos hacia california y el rÍo mississippi tenemos un peligro elevado, al oeste del paÍs tenemos un derritimiento de la nieve, tenemos temperaturas elevadas por encima de lo normal y esa nieve se

in the following years, crime surged in a city and the police department shrank so rapidly minneapolis. and this evening the minneapolis police union tells fox pulling in officers is hard as their profession has been demonized. pre-floyd that department sat at 878. tonight it's down to 542 officers and roughly only 260 of them are assigned to 911 pal two for that entire city. bret? >> bret: matt finn live in los angeles. matt, thank you. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle say the truth is out there. and they are taking another look at the ufo issue. a rare public hearing on the matter today on capitol hill. on a subject that has gone from the fringe to the mainstream in recent years. correspondent griff jenkins has the story. >> unidentified objects in any domain pose potential risk to safety and security. >> it was just the second hearing of its kind in more than 50 years. lawmakers discussing ufos, also known as an identified anomalous phenomena or uaps spanning from chinese spy balloons to the unexplained. >> that range spans adversary breakthrough technology on one hand, known

. -- southeast of minneapolis. the search is ramping up as law enforcement teams plan to begin targeted searches with new leads coming in. the move though follows days of community searches. police say on friday about 1900 people volunteered to search for kingsbury, and just yesterday another 700 people searched. these numbers represent those who are eager for answers. listen. >> if it was my child or anyone in my family, i would want the entire world looking for her or them. so just an obligation, i think, between winona county and all the volunteers. >> reporter: detectives say on march 31st kingsbury and her children's father dropped the kids off at daycare around 8 a.m.. the the police chief says kingsbury then came home around 8:15 a.m. but then never showed up for work. investors said the father of her children told officers he left kingsbury's home add at around 10 a.m. in her 2014 dark blue chrysler town and country minivan, and when he got back to the house, kingsbury was gone. police say right now there a

. >> when a sheriff's deputy asked to see some id during a traffic stop outside minneapolis recently, he was not expecting to be handed a monopoly card. the driver handed him that little pink. get out of jail free card along with his driver's license. the driver, he did get a verbal warning to watch your speed. so i guess this work. officials later posted on facebook. they said while the state does not recognize this as a valid document, they did admired the effort and the humor. >> got to get one of my i appreciate the effort and the number that is a good idea. appreciate you being with us for kron. 4 news at 5. that wraps up this hour. i will be joining a can of 6 o'clock. he's here with a preview. all right. happy friday. thanks, grant, catherine. here's what's coming up at 6. >> tonight at 6, a san jose police officers association executive was in court today after being accused of running a fentanyl trafficking scheme. how a local legal expert weighs in and we'll get that person sox. plus, former president donald trump expected to appear in court next week as the first president

they'll wake up to a foot of snow on april 1st in minneapolis and on the other side all severe weather from ohio to kentucky down to tennessee and mississippi, makes you take hewhat we expect heading in ch. into the weekend, cool, somewhat breezy especially for the second half of the weekend. there is a chance of showers for the north bay and along the coast tomorrow. the rest of us might see a couple sprinkles out of passing clouds. a similar pattern into early next week, the best chance of showers north of the golden gate right along the coast. let's check out futurecast. it does show more clouds in the north bay to begin the day tomorrow and a chance of showers trying to move in. this forecast model kind of fizzles that as it moves inland. others are a little more enthusiastic about developing additional shower activity. be flexible with outdoor plans in the north bay and along the coast tomorrow, but i don't think you need to cancel anything. we'll see a similar pattern playing out sunday, some passing clouds, cooler temperatures, but the best chance of showers is north of the gold

turning now to minneapolis. city has settled to excessive force lawsuits against former police officer derek chauvin. he's the man who killed george floyd. the lawsuits filed by two black residents at chauvin had used the same deadly tactic of kneeling on their necks. cnn's natasha chen is joining us on the stories of natasha arrest at the center of these lawsuits were actually captured by body camera videos, right yeah, i'll be at the two people in these lawsuits decided after the settlement yesterday to release this footage through their attorney, and we're going to show you clips of them. we have to warn you. it's very disturbing to watch. we're going to start with one of them. john pope, who in this video in 2017 when this incident happened he was 14 years old. you're going to see police come to his house for a domestic disturbance call here it is. don't give your stomach now. would i say, go playing to y'all kill my son, please? i feel myself. and now you are seeing video there of chauvin with his knee on p

well, the city of minneapolis will play will pay nearly 9 million dollars to settle 2 lawsuits involvingicer derek chauvin who was convicted in the murder of george floyd. john pope and soya code claimed that chauvin pressed his knee into their necks in separate incidents last year because before the same tactic was used in the death of floyd in 2020 minneapolis police chief brian o'hara called chauvin a, quote, national embarrassment and a quote cancer to the whole department. chauvin is currently serving a sentence of more than 20 years in prison for floyd's murder. >> it's a 51 and former president donald trump answered questions for nearly 7 hours in a deposition as part of a business fraud case against him. the lawsuit against mister trump also includes 3 of his children and the whole trump organization. new york attorney general letitia james says that trump and his family gave false financial information to banks and business associates about his net worth and about the value of assets. the case is set for trial in october. collectively. the trumps have denied any wrongdoing. >> t

police officer i have never even been to minneapolis, you may think to yourself and why is some politician telling me i'm required to be upset about it those are all good questions >> it's not an actual threat of violence from christians that's inspiring some trans people to buy ar-15s it's got to be more fundamental than that, and it is the trans movement is the mirror image of christianity, and therefore, its natural enemy >> along the way, he became the kremlin's favorite tv show >> it might be worth asking yourselves as this is getting pretty serious, what is this really about, why do i hate putin so much? has putin ever called me a racist, has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him? has he shipped every job in my town to russia these are fair questions and the answer to all of them is no. vladimir putin didn't do any of that why does washington hate him so much if jow been watching the news, you know putin is having a border dispute with ukraine. >> and he peddled that stuff for years. he was rewarded for it by his 3 million nightly viewers and, and by the executives a

. >>> the former police officer who shot and killed dante wright in suburban minneapolis out of prison released earlier this morning. she served about 16 months of her two-year sentence. a jury convicted potter of manslaughter in december of 2021. potter said she accidentally grabbed her gun instead of her taser when she shot wright, a black motorist, two years ago. he was pulled over for having expired tags and for hanging an air freshener. during that stop, officers learned that he had an outstanding warrant and attempted to arrest him, but wright pulled away, tried to drive off, a warning, this may be difficult to watch. >> tafser, taser, taser! >> the shooting happened nearly a year after george floyd's death and led to days of protests in brooklyn center, a suburb of minneapolis. >>> president biden finalizing plans to announce his 2024 presidential re-election bid, but new polling shows that voters do not want a trump/biden rematch. we'll dive into those numbers. >>> the welsh soccer team owned by actor ryan reynolds just got a well-earned promotion. hug it out, guys, hug it out.

one reason he was in minneapolis was he had left his hometown of houston to move to minneapolis to get into a rehab program. despite his willingness to uproot his life, try for a better shot at life, changes pathway, we saw a police officer snuff that life out before he had the opportunity to remake his life. >> we will take calls during the segment, as well. we want to get the numbers up on the screen. if you want to send a text message to our guest, you can send it to this number (202) 748-8903. please include your first name and your city. at what point did you and your co-author decide to take the approach you did and was it one of those casual conversations? >> this book grew out of a series that rented the washington post. it was myself, robert and several other reporters who each took on a different part of george floyd's american experience. there was a reporter who wrote about his experience with the housing system. the criminal justice system. i wrote about his family history. robert wrote about his experience in the american health care system. we have a lot of different pie

here at home, minneapolis will become the first major u.s.y to allow broadcasts of muslim calls to prayer, day and night. the city council has voted to amend a noise ordinance, so the calls will now be heard on loud speakers five times a day. minneapolis has had a growing number of east african immigrants for decades, and mosques are now common. on wall street, stocks fell after a federal reserve board member said inflation is still much too high. the dow jones industrial average gave up 143 points to close at 33,886. the nasdaq fell 42 points. the s&p 500 was down eight. a spanish mountain climber emerged today from a cave where she spent 500 days in a social isolation experiment beatriz flamini greeted family and friends after living more than 200 feet underground since late 2021. cameras recorded her daily life, and she says she lost track of the outside world. >> i'm still anchored in november 2021. i don't know what has happened in the world, i don't know. i've come out of the cave. for me it is still november 21, 2021, and seeing you al

in 2021, miami, washington, houston, minneapolis, oakland, chicago, atlanta, milwaukee, philadelphia, detroit, and st. louis had more reported homicides than san francisco. some say more still needs to be done. >> statistics don't matter when someone we love has lost their life in an incident in san francisco. dan: we have made interactive neighborhood safety tracker available for you. see how your city fares when it comes to crime and compare not just homicides but other crimes. our tracker shows san francisco, san jose and oh and are -- and oakland and we are working to expand it. find the tracker on the front page of our website abc7news.com . ama: governor newsom is escalating his feud with ron desantis. newsom visited the state as part of several red states. he visited a library to focus on the banning of books. this has been part of the said tests'-- ron desantis' so-called stop woke campaign. he visited a college church in mississippi, and toured a museum on the history of slavery in alabama. he is funding the trip with money left over from his reelection campaign. our abc 7 i

that storm will move east later this week, bringing a blizzard to the northern plains north of minneapolis and a severe weather outbreak from the great lakes to the gulf coast. i want to show you tuesday's severe weather outlook, lemoine chicago little rock, st louis, a bullseye of severe weather, including tornadoes back to you, ryan and andrew. kevin thank you will do some catch up now because april fool's day fell inconveniently on a saturday, at least for our purposes. you know, we would have had fun on this. yes of course. we had to wait two years. this is our first chance to show you the fake rollout of chuck e cheese wedding packages it included. having the real chuck e cheese as the wedding celebrate, which is why the tagline was you're gonna love this, andrew, where a mouse can make you a spouse. i would fall for this. i would think you would get married at chuck e cheese three. no, i was just at this is real. well, yeah, i guess i mean, it would be fun pizza video games. let's not to love. all right. next, you tell a tic tacs. they're not real. although plenty of people myself in