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it is a big balloon, about the size of two school buses according to the pentagon. it traveled from china, to the solution islands of alaska late last week, through the northwest canada, until finally being spotted somewhere over montana on wednesday. chinese officials said that the balloon was a civilian air ship used mainly for weather research and that it had just been instantly innocently been blown off course. the pentagon says that they are confident that it is a surveillance bal...

charles. reporter: good morning, guys. for days we were told that the beating of tyre nichols at the hands of memphis police officers would be heinous and savage and unfortunately the videos live up to those descriptions. >> [ yelling ]. reporter: the first video captured on body cam and an officer approached tyre nichols with their gun drawn and aggressively yank him out of his vehicle as nichols tells officers he didnt do anything and officers throw him on the ground and throw laced ...

with you, im griff jenkins. five of the police officers involved in that arrest have been charged with second degree murder and aggravated assault among other crimes. we have fox team coverage on this with alexandria hoff in washington and charles watson in memphis. charles, lets kick things off with you in the brutal body cam footage. >> yeah, hey, good afternoon, griff and molly and in watching that footage, it absolutely appeared that tyre nichols as surprised at the level of aggres...

back in new york city, where he will be facing questions in a $250 million civil suit, separate from his indictment we begin this hour with a major development in the national fight over abortion rights today, widely used abortion pill mifepristone is still available to patients after a federal appeals court put on hold a judges decision to suspend the drugs fda approval while leaving some restrictions in place. here in florida, any moment the legislature is expected to pass one of t...

new statement from the representative desmon, jr., police officers charged in the death of tyri nichols, mills attorney is reaching out to the public and asking them not to pass judgment on his clients involvement in beating. in new statement, quote, we continue to urge caution in judging desmon mills actions, whether he committed the crimes charged will be answered with the resulting no. the statement, of course, comes less than 24 hours after the country got a chance to view horrific...

nick also -- nichols for about three minutes. officers also hit him with a baton and pepper sprayed him as he appeared to show no resistance. nichols also cried out for his mom. his home just 60 yards away. president biden spoke with tyre nichols parents before the videos release expressing his and the first ladys condolences. he and the snuck also -- nichols family called percent protests to be peaceful and most of them were. rich: lucas tomlinson with more on the reaction there, but ...

chris jansing and katie tur. the first time a former u.s. president has been indicted on criminal charges donald trump, the frontrunner for the republican nomination, is in manhattan. we are waiting to learn the all important details of the sealed indictment, what the charges are, believed stemming from hush money paid to stormy daniels to buy her silence before the 2016 election about her claim of a relationship with donald trump hush money payments are not illegal. the issue is, how ...

taylor greene who is known to spread misinformation and hate speech, she stated shes coming to town. while you are in town be on your best behavior. >> okay, then, new york city mayor eric adams -- >> control yourself. >> -- just going right there with that warning ahead of a historic day in manhattan. donald trump, former president, will become the first former president to face criminal charges. we will get a live report from outside the courthouse in just a moment meanwhile, there...

actually exploded and crashed into the sea. that is the very latest we have for you. we have been closely following. although the rocket successfully launched and we can see that again now, it made it into the air, but the booster rocket appeared to fail to separate. so this saw the launch end, there was an explosion when the rocket was quite high up in the atmosphere and spacex have just said that starship is experienced a rapid and spacex havejust said said that starship is experienc...

any safety risks because there was an urgency here. this balloon is not armed, it does not pose some physical threat to the united states, even from an intelligence perspective. the chinese have much more effective ways of picking up intelligence from the satellites and otherwise. the fact that the president said what he said about taking care of it. now we have the physical fact that the balloon is heading towards the atlantic. these airports in north and south carolina are being clo...