watch out, watch out. watch out. mom, mom, mom. the five officers were fired and charged with second-degree murder among other charges. after watching the horrifying video the sheriff in shelby county, tennessee placed two deputies on administrative leave who would appear at the scene and launched an internal investigation. steve harrigan is alive in memphis tonight outside the police department, steve to you. and molly, more repercussions from this savage event for just learned the police chief has disbanded a scorpion unit all by former police officers accused of second-degree murder were part of that elite anti- crime-fighting unit. as an initiative of the new chief about 40 officers not going to be disbanded for you can see behind me two or 300 protests in front of headquarters despite the rain for there is not meant violence since that tape was released on the internet by the officials here at 7:00 p.m. on friday. a few details from that tape which may be upsetting
breaking later this hour, texas governor greg abbott expected to endorse former president donald trump for the presidential nomination during an event where mr. trump and governor abbott will hand out meals to texas service members. also breaking as the idf expanded its ground operations further into gaza, world health organization officials assess the situation in the hospital after they issued evacuation orders for the remaining 2500 people seeking refuge air. let s go live to northern israel where alex hogan has the latest on escalating tensions between israel and hezbollah. you can see part of the skylight behind me. there is activity taking place on that side of the border. a few minutes ago, we learned about a potential war cabinet meeting being pulled up by the hour. a lot of conversations about the potential hostage negotiations u.s. and israeli officials have said there is no deal yet. we will continue to monitor. this is a major story. could be coming to fruition.
of them injured. that was the first admission by both sides that the israeli military were inside lebanon. so there has been a gradual escalation. and since saturday, the activity on the southern border has increased to quite an extent. with almost twice daily funerals indicating the number of casualties among the hezbollah fighters. and, the cross firing has just increased and increased. now the indications tonight overnight are that hezbollah appears to be if they are a reflection of what the iranian administrations approach is. they appear to be drawing a line under this with the first statement from hezbollah this morning saying, denouncing it and dismissing it almost. using it as almost with disdain. the israelis they say are afraid. they do not have a clear plan.
proxies by far is hezbollah. it is an extremely potent military force. it has around about 150 to 150,000 fighters. maybe more. it spent nearly a decade building up its weapon rei and it certainly feels extremely confident that it could take on or deflect any large scale attempt to attack them. but there have been daily skirmishes. daily cross firing between israel and lebanon on that southern border of lebanon. and that has increased. it has increased in intensity and depth into the region. into lebanon. it is also as we saw a few days ago, the four israeli soldiers actually made their way into lebanon and were blown up by an exploded device with a number