Approaching storm system that will bring us showers and then much colder air arrives. Good evening. Im jan jeffcoat. And im debra alfarone. Eloquent, unwavering is how many will remember former three term new york governor mario cuomo who died at age 82 tonight. Reporter he was new yorks liberal lion, the states longest serving democratic governor in modern history, but mario cuomo came from humble beginnings, the son of poor italian immigrants. He had hopes of a baseball career but gave it up after one season in the minor leagues. He headed instead to st. Johns law school where he graduated at the top of his class. He and his wife matilda had five children before he launched his political career losing to ed koch in new yorks 1997 mayoral primary. And i will faithfully perform the duties of office. Reporter he was elected governor in 1983 and served three terms balancing 12 consecutive budgets and leading new york through two recessions. Cuomo emerged on the National Stage in 1984 at
Another sobering record set overnight, more than 3,700 american lives lost to coronavirus the second day in a row. Weve said thats the same scale as 9 11 each day, which is really hard to wrap your mind around. Heres a sense of whats ahead. This chart of cases looks bad. Looks terrible. That was the spring. Zoom out for a chilling view of the viruss escalation, bad now, and getting worse as we head into the colder indoor months. The u. S. Toll far outpacing other countries, the cdc now projects up to 434,000 deaths in this country by january 23rd. Thats 4,000 americans every single day. The vaccine rollout still behind expectations. Officials now admit it has been too slow. Medical experts are concerned about longer term strategy now. Its over promising in the first place. Its also not having a National Strategy but instead throwing up our hands and basically saying now the federal government has done their job, its just with the production and initially distribution with the states, r
Eight times by police. His family demanding answers. In the shooting death of alten steriling in louisiana. A graphic disturbing body camera video laced with profanity was just released. It shows an officer threatening to shoot sterlings within seconds of arriving at the scene. His family now begging for a National Conversation on black men dying at the hands of Law Enforcement. And cnn has team coverage. Ryan young, live from sacramento. Caylee hartung live from baton rouge. And well be joined by Charles Ramsey to break all of this down. But up first, lets check in with ryan young from sacramento. Ryan, another day of protests expected. Tell us what its like there. Well, we are preparing for another protest to start here. You look behind me. Theres a stage thats getting ready to be set. This could be the protest over the last few days. Of course protesters making news here in the city because for several times they blocked the entrance to the nba games here. That has stopped over the
We had a conversation. The emotions of course running high after that new information about where Stephon Clark was shot. So many people have said, hearing about him being hit six times in the back. The family is saying he was shot after he got in the side and then turned and then got hit several times in the back. This rally is ongoing right now, but one of the most powerful bits of information that we have so far is the fact that someone who knew Stephon Clark very well was just up on the stage, i wanted to make sure you guys had a chance to hear from someone who loved stephon. You were up there giving powerful testimony about stephons life. Could you share with everyone at home what kind of man and father stephon was . He was a wonderful father. You know, these boys in this community dont have a whole lot of examples sometimes. And he came to live with us. Him and my son are best friends. And my husband was very, very close to him. And all he wanted to be was a good father. He read
An informal Trump Campaign adviser as he landed in bostons Logan Airport after arriving from an international flight. They greeted ted, who was once a candidate for u. S. Ambassador to the eu. Now, hes scheduled to appear before muellers grand jury. Kevin perez is on this breaking story. Evan, who is this man and what does mueller want from him . This is pretty aggressive tactics used by Robert Muellers investigators. Ted was stopped as he entered the United States in boston airport coming in from a flight from london. According to him, he says the fbi took his phone, took his Electronic Devices and did a search then sat him down for an hour and talked to an mpi agent who tried to get information out of him. They asked him about his connections to roger stone who recollects is a supporter of the president , vocal supporter of the president as well as wikileaks and asked if he had been to where the founder of wikileaks has been living. We dont know exactly what they believe he has, what