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our victor blackwell has a closer look. ♪ the moment i wake up before i put on my make-up i say a littleyou ♪ >> dionne warwick is a global music superstar. but her impact extends far beyond music. warwick's singing career started at her grandfather's church in new jersey. her talent and drive propelled her from the church choir to the most famous stages around the world. but when she started touring in the south, warwick encountered a level of bigotry that she had not seen growing up in the north. her response was clear -- >> blacks were on this side, whites were on this side. the stage was straight ahead, and i remember sam saying, dionne, do not turn your back on the white folk. first thing i did when i went out there i walked straight to the band and turned my back and played to the ones that looked like me. >> reporter: when the hiv aids crisis struck in the '80s warwick was quick to act. >> i became very, very vocal and very public with the aids issue based on the fact that we were losing so many people. something got to be done. >> dionne was definitely a hero of mine and a hero t

i'm victor blackwell and welcome to cnn newsroom. five former officers have been charged in the death of tyre nichols. the 29-year-old was killed more than two weeks ago after an encounter with the memphis police. the court records show that the ex-officers have been charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault and kidnapped. they were fired less than a week ago after an internal investigation. the courthouse says that they will be charged with criminal charges. a warning that the images that you will see is disturbing. this is how nichols looked before his encounter with police, and then he was pulled over, and the nichols family said they saw the beating of their son, and they described it as savage. don lemon is in memphis, and don, what are the sources telling you about the release of the video? >> well, they are telling us that it is going to be tomorrow, and that is the plan as of now, victor, they will release it sometime tomorrow, and they are still coordinating and still meeting, and this is the plan as of now, and

. >> i'm victor blackwell. moments ago attorney general merrick garland appointed a special counsel to oversee the investigation into president pieden's classified documents that were found. >> on january 5th, 2023, mr. laush briefed me and advised me that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. earlier today i signed an order appointing robert hur as special counsel for the matter i just described. the document authorizes him to investigate whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with this matter. the special counsel will not be subject to the day-to-day supervision of any official of the department. >> earlier president biden confirmed that more classified documents from his time as vice president were discovered in a second location at his wilmington, delaware, home. the president said the materials were in his locked garage. >> his lawyers said another document was found in a room in the house. just days ago the white house revealed the first case. the president's attor

in the meantime, i'll send it back to my colleague in new york, victor blackwell. we have continuing coverage here in memphis, tennessee. that video going to be released tomorrow after 6:00 which is surprising to many people on a friday evening, that it would be released, and now we're getting an official word from the district attorney on the charges of these officers. they could face more, and also the two emts from the fire department, who are they? >> yeah. >> what were their actions or inaction in this situation? so there's a lot more to come. >> don, thank you for that coverage there in memphis. >>> in just a moment, we'll talk with some city officials and try to get answers to those questions now that these five memphis officers or former officers have been charged in the death of tyre nichols. i'll speak to the memphis city council president and vice chair about the charges and the decision to release this video after dark on a friday night. this video, so many people have been waiting for. our coverage continues after the break. anand effortlessly responds

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i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm allison camerotta. president biden cannot escape the fallout from the classified documents found on the propertys that are part of a special counsel investigation. president biden dodged questions about it today in an oval office photo-op. [ inaudible ] moments ago the white house press secretary repeated that the president will cooperate with special counsel robert hur and failed to explain why the public was not told about the classified documents when they were first discovered in november. >> is it the policy of the white house that that should share that information not just with the national archives but the american people? >> i'll say this. we have been transparent. there's an ongoing process and spoken when it is appropriate. >> we are learning more about the investigation. the justice department interviewed biden's former executive team on the team that packed up the office. one document was a memo from vice president to president obama. it's unclear how much of this is still sensitive. let's

. >>> hey, i'm victor blackwell, welcome. >>> airline passengers frustrated after more airline chaos. the faa grounded all u.s. flights for about 90 minutes because of an outage of a system that sends critical safety messages to pilots. >> there are now more than 1,200 cancellations, 7900 flight delays. it's been less than two weeks since southwest's meltdown. flights have been gradually taking off. at this hour, it's not known what caused the system's failure according to transportation secretary pete buttigieg. he says there's no sign it was terror related. >> there was an issue with irre irregularities with the messages. we have to figure out why it happened. why it wasn't stopped from being disrupted and the original source of the errors. when there's an issue in the faa that needs looked at, we'll own it. same as we ask airlines to own their companies and operations. >> we're at the world's largest airport, atlanta's hartsfield-jackson. what's the situation at this hour? >> reporter: flight operations have resumed as normal for the most part. as you imagine, the airlines have to

i'm victor blackwell, and welcome to cnn newsroom. >> i'm rodriga, and alison is off today. now, we are looking into the first move the blockbuster anti-trust game against a u.s. company google. >> now, some sources say that the attorney turned over the classified record to the fbi, and the fbi and the justice department's national security division have now launched a review of the documents and how they ended up in pence's carmel indiana's home. and we will begin a look at how this happened with pence, and tell us more about what you know about the discovery. >> what happened in light of the biden documents and of course, the trump documents, we are told that the former vice president mike pence asked his personal lawyer to go back and triple-check that there were no classified documents, and he went through four boxes and he found roughly 12 documents with classified markings, and they informed the archives immediately, and the archives informed the justice department and last week, january 19th at 9:30 p.m., the fbi showed up at the pence home in indiana and picked up th

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i'm victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. president biden is facing renewed criticism and new questions today after the discovery of more classified documents at his home in wilmington, delaware. this weekend the president's attorneys announced they five five additional pages of material on thursday evening. they found them t that the justice department announced a counsel to investigate the other material found at that home and in an office in washington, d.c. the white house said there are no logs of visitors to biden's home. james comer asked for those documents and answers from the white house. evan perez is following this for us. tell us more about these five pages. >> the white house says the five pages were turned over or discovered when the white house made arrangements and the president's personal lawyers made arrangements for the justice department to come and retrieve a one-page document they say they found in an office adjacent to a garage at the wilmington home that they previously told us about. this timeline, t

. >> i'm victor blackwell. any moment now, solomon pena will appear in court, the new mexico election denier is accused of orchestrating shootings at the homes of local democratic officials. solomon pena faces a slew of charges including conspiracy, attempted aggravated battery for the attempted attacks. >> he lost by a margin of more than 50%. police say he visited the homes of at least three of the officials before the shootings. some of those visits were caught on doorbell cameras. cnn's josh campbell joins us now. what do we expect at the hearing? >> reporter: this hearing is starting just minutes from now there in new mexico. this will be the suspects a first appearance in court since he was arrested by albuquerque s.w.a.t. officers on monday. look it a these charges. they're obviously very serious. he's been charged with felony possession of a firearm, aggravated attempt with a deadly weapon, as well as conspiracy. we've reached out to pena's attorney, but what police allege he was the ringleader in this

. >> i'm victor blackwell. we're waiting for a news conference from monterey park, california. that's where ten people were killed. at least ten others hurt in this massacre inside a dance hall saturday night. now this is the deadliest mass shooting in the u.s. since the uvalde massacre last may, and 1 of 36 mass shootings in the u.s. this year. police say the shooter is a 72-year-old man who had visited the ballroom before. >> after the rampage, police say the gunman headed to another dance hall about ten minutes away north where he was confronted by brandon tsay. that's the hero who fought off the gunman and he told gm"good morning america," he did not know the shooter. >> i lunged at him with both my hands, grabbed the weapon, and we had a struggle. we struggled into the lobby, trying to get this gun away from each other. he was hitting me across the face, bashing the back of my head. i was trying to use my elbows to separate the gun away from him, creating some distance. >> police said the gunman later shot himself in his van in torrance, california. >> just into the news r

. >> i'm victor blackwell. it's great to be with you. we are following a major development in a criminal case against donald trump and his allies. the special grand jury in georgia investigating possible illegal interference in the 2020 election is now done. this is the panel set up by fulton county's district attorney after trump lost the election and made this call to georgia's secretary of state. >> all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have. >> well, since its inception nearly a year ago, the special grand jury has interviewed some of trump's closest allies. a new court filing reveals the panel is now dissolved and that its investigation is complete. cnn's correspondent nick valencia joins us now. this kind of grand jury we now understand, does not issue indictments. so now what? >> reporter: their work of may of 2022, this grand jury did not have the power or authority to issue indictments. instead, their goal they set out was to issue a final report and make recommendations based on th

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. >> i'm victor blackwell. a sixth officer has been let go. they won't say if preston hemphill will face charges. that footage was released with the other video. >> we have a warning because the body cam clip we are about to show is disturbing. in this video from hemphill's camera he is seen unufiring a t. >> they found him. >> martin and all them are over there chasing him. i hope they stomp his ass. i hope they stomp his ass. smith is calling for other cars. >> his lawyer says hemphill was on scene and they say he was a member of the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit. the five former memphis officers charged with second degree murder also belong to that anti-crime unit. over the weekend it was deactivated permanently. >>> with us is john miller, chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst. so, the sixth officer now has been relieved of duty. do we expect more charges to come? >> well, he was relieved of duty, we understand, at the same time all the others were. the difference with detective hemphill as opposed to everybody else, he wasn't charged cri

. >>> hello, i'm victor blackwell and welcome to cnn newsroom. >> i'm alisyn camerota. today, president biden is going to meet with leaders at the white house. doj signaled that it is going to fight republicans over the committee probes into biden's past. >> we have a team covering developments. we have phil mattingly at the white house, and manu raja at capitol hill. give us the latest on what the justice department is telling house republicans? >> well, we didn't expect that the justice department would hand over evidence into the series of ongoing criminal investigations, but in this letter to house chairman jim jordan, the department of justice says that they are not going to comply with a broad request of a broad number of matters, but they believe that oversight is important, and they want to cooperate, but they want to balance it with the ongoing need of ongoing investigations. but jordan made it clear, he wants to find out how they are handling a series of investigations into former president trump and current president joe biden and the possible mishandling of

. >> i'm victor blackwell. the department of justice just delivered a major blow to the new gop-controlled house. in a letter to chairman jim jordan, the department signaled it may not fulfill house requests for information on ongoing investigations. >> as you know, there are now special counsel investigations into how president joe biden and former president trump handled classified material. cnn's sara murray and jessica dean join me now. what does the letter from the justice department say? >> reporter: jim jordan has asked doj for all kinds of things, all kinds of documents and staff briefings and in this letter, they're saying, thank you so much for your interest, but here are the guidelines around what we're going to be able to give you and most importantly, it's not a lot when it comes to ongoing criminal investigation. here's a portion of that letter. it says, consistent with longstanding policy and practice, any oversight requests must be weighed against the interest and protecting the integrity of its

. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you. more than 8,000 flights have been delayed just today after the faa made a rare move in the ground of safety. they grounded flights to work out major flights in a messaging system. pilots use this system to learn about safety hazards in realtime. >> somewhere overnight, there was an issue with irregularities in the messages that were going out that reflected a bigger systems issue, and this morning at about 7:00, there were still problems validating that the messages were going out. so for safety reasons to make sure that every aircraft that took off was doing so safely, faa implemented a ground stop. >> secretary buttigieg said it's still not clear what caused this system failure, but it does not appear to be a cyberattack. what is clear is the ripple effect for thousands of passengers so let's bring in cnn's adrienne broaddus. what are passengers telling you, adrienne? >> reporter: alisyn, they say they have had to do some juggling this morning. we met one family who was supposed to

i'm victor blackwell. today the country honors the civil rights champion dr. martin luther king jr. at an event in the nation's capitol, president biden highlighted what his administration has done to try to bring americans together and ensure racial equality, but his call for unity comes as he faces growing questions about the classified documents that were found at his home and his washington office. this weekend, the white house announced five additional pages of classified material that were found at president biden's house in delaware. that brings the number of classified documents in total found at his home and private office to about 20. let's bring in cnn's legal affairs correspondent paula reid. let's talk more about these five pages, what the president's attorneys are saying. >> well, victor, these five pages were among previously disclosed material located at the president's wilmington residence. initially his attorneys said this was one single page and it was found in what was described as an adjacent room. now they are saying this is six pages and it comprises multiple

i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm allison camerotta.iden cannot escape the fallout from the classified documents found on the propertys that are part of a special

. >> i'm victor blackwell. >> two presidents accused of mishandling classified documents and two special counsel investigations. there were no answers at today's white house briefing about why the biden team delayed for months to tell you why documents were found. >> we are learning that the documents from biden's team included briefing memos about foreign leaders. the justice department is still questioning if he has any of his files on his properties. the fbi got more than 300 from trump's possession after he resisted requests to return those. we're joined by phil mattingly and cnn's senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn pol polantz. phil, did we learn more today? >> reporter: we learned that if you have any questions, you should refer them to the white house counsel's office and the justice department or the special counsel at this point in time, and i say that somewhat in jest, but i think that's the reality right now at this moment. the white house from the podium with careen jean pierre, the white house press secretary has made a very clear decision that so long as this invest

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i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm alisyn camerota. the family of the cinematographer killed on the set of "rust," said they support the criminal charges that will soon be filed against actor alec baldwin. today the district attorney in santa fe announced that baldwin and the armorer, hannah gutierrez reed will each get two counts of involuntary manslaughter. >> in october, 2021, baldwin was holding a prop gun when it fired a live round hitting and killing 42-year-old halyna hutchins. a prosecutor says baldwin is being charged for pulling the trigger, and as a producer of the film. >> i think it was the totality of the circumstances that this was a really fast and loose set, and that -- that nobody was doing their job. there were three people that if they had done their job that day, this tragedy wouldn't have happened. that's david halls, hannah gutierrez reed, and alec baldwin. if they had done their basic duties, we wouldn't be here. >> josh campbell and chloe malas is here. josh, you spoke with that district attorney. fantastic int

i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm alisyn camerota. we now know the first police report written after tyre nichols' arrest does not line up with the brutal and ultimately fatal beating that we see on body cam video. cnn has confirmed multiple contradictions, including claims that nichols grabbed an officer's gun which was heard in one of the body camera recordings released last week by one of the officers talking about it, but it's not visible on the video. >> you were going for my gun too, so i'm, like -- >> he grabbed my gun. look. got him out the car and i was, like, hey, bro. you good? he swung and hit me. he reached for my gun and slammed into the car. >> so far, ten city employees have faced consequences in the wake of nichols' killing. of the latest, two emts and a fire department lieutenant have now been fired. that's three in the fire department and a seventh memphis officer has been relieved of duty last week. five of those seven officers were charged with second-degree murder and assault for nichols' death. cnn's ryan young

." >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you.ht now dangerous storms are battering california with relentless rain, deadly flooding. there have been dozens of water rescues, and thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes. 34 million people are under flood watches as the storm pushes south. at least 16 people across the state have died in this recent outbreak of storms. in central california a 5-year-old is missing after being swept away in flood waters. a crew suspended the search when the weather became unsafe for the rescue teams. >> heavy rainfall led to this rock slide in fresno. boulders and debris forced highways across the state to close. firefighters in ventura county rescued a 70-year-old man after rising flood waters trapped him inside his suv. the onslaught of rain is turning streets and creeks into these raging rivers that you see on your screen with some seeing more than a month's worth of rain in a day. ellen degeneres described the scene near her home. >> we're having unprecedented rain. this creek n

i'm victor blackwell. welcome to "cnn newsroom." >> and i'm alisyn camerota.resident biden is in mexico city and will try to tackle one of the biggest challenges dogging his administration, the surge of migrants at the southern border. in a few hours he and the first lady will be welcomed at an official ceremony from mexico's president, kicking off this north american leaders summit. the talks also include canada's prime minister justin trudeau. >> the president is facing bipartisan criticism for not taking a closer look at the migrant dilemma during a visit to el paso, ex-text yesterday. his first trip to the border as president. now, he did not see nor did he meet with any migrants while there. for weeks cnn has been covering the crisis in el paso. thousands have been arriving, waiting for the potential easing of a policy that restricted migrants' entry. cnn's m.j. lee is in mexico city. m.j., let's start with a preview of the summit. >> reporter: yeah, you know, the action is really going to be right behind us tonight at the national palace, where president

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i'm victor blackwell. welcome to "early start." >> i'm allison cam rata.e're learning more about the victims of the latest mass shooting in america. again, a celebration destroyed by gun violence. this time a hero managed to grab the gun and prevent even more carnage by the shooter. police say this man, 72-year-old right here on your screen, he obtained a gun somehow and he opened fire at the star ballroom dance studio in california during a lunar new year event. he killed ten people, and wounded at least ten others. >> that was in monterey park. and then the shooter went on to another dance hall where he was confronted by brandon say. say's family owns that dance hall. he told "good morning america" he had never seen the shooter before. he first noticed the gunman after hearing what he described as metal clinking. >> that's when i turn around and saw that there was an asian man holding a gun. my first thoughts was i was going to die here. this was it. something came over me. i realized i needed to get the weapon away from him. i needed to take this weapon

i'm victor blackwell. welcome to "cnn newsroom." >> and i'm alisyn camerota.ixth officer is now off the memphis police force in connection with the beating death of tyre nichols. preston hemphill was relieved of duty, and his lawyer confirms he was wearing a body camera on january 7th. the footage from it was released friday along with the other videos that show nichols ultimately fatal encounter with police. we have a warning for you. what we're about to play is disturbing. >> footage from the multiple cameras shows nichols getting kicked and punched and pepper sprayed and beaten with a baton. and when the assault stopped, no one gave nichols any medical attention for at least 25 minutes. now, five of the officers seen in the video have been fired and charged with second-degree murder and their unit to fight street crimes and guns known as scorpion, that's now gone. it's been disbanded. happened over the weekend. cnn correspondent nick valencia is with us now. so what are you learning about this sixth officer, preston hemphill now being relieved of duty? >> y

i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm alisyn camerota. merrick garland appointed a special counsel to investigate classified documents found on mr. biden's property. merrick garland said an initial investigation determined this move is necessary. the special counsel is named robert hur. hur served as a u.s. attorney for maryland and was appointed by former president trump. >> i strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity, but under the regulations, the extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. this appointment underscores for the public, the department's commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters, and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. >> now earlier, president biden confirmed that more classified documents from his time as vice president were discovered. this time at his wilmiwilmingto delaware home. they were locked in his garage. >> another docu