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Yamiche, thank you. Im going to hand over to my colleague Lawrence Odonnell for the last word tonight. Lawrence . Thanks, rachel. Were continuing our breaking News Coverage from charlotte, north carolina. A second night of protests following the Fatal Shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by a Police Officer. Those protests turned violent tonight. Police are using tear gas to disperse the protesters. Some protesters were arrested. Charlotte police chief carr partney confirmed one person has died. The v...

In charlotte. You had an experience with a smashbang grenade, the kind of blinding concussion grenade that are used in situations like this where police need to get the upper hand. Whash you seeing right now . The protest crowd disperses and then it picks up. Right now weve got a line of riot police who have been holding this line since we got out here at least two hours theyve been holding this line. In the last 15 minutes, brian, as we mentioned, some of the protesters have lined up about a fo...

Lean jen lenient for manafort and argued for lots of aggravating factors that should cause the judge to be harsher and advised the judge on friday night in manaforts case in virginia they would not object to a 19. 5year to 24. 5year prison sentence for Paul Manafort. Plus fines and restitution that ranged from millions of dollars to tens of millions of dollars. Now keep in mind, though, that sentencing recommendation friday night was just for the one judge. Just for the one judge whose hearing t...

Charlotte's Epicenter is back in the headlines. A new developer has some changes in mind for the 300,000-square-foot entertainment area, as well as a rebranding. For more on what the move means for uptown, WFAE's Woody Cain speaks to Tony Mecia of the Charlotte Ledger business newsletter for our segment BizWorthy.

A 40-year-old London man was sentenced to eight years behind bars after being found guilty of sexual assault involving a minor.

Ever fill in a vote for mark harris? and the witness said, no, it was basically the down ballot and local races that were left blank, that they filled in for republicans. so the harris campaign is trying to draw a distinction and say, well, even if that happened, it still couldnt affect the outcome, because it was republicans, but in the down ballot local races. so that was a point of contention day. >> fascinating. ely portillo, charlotte observer, politics and government reporter. i know being...

Openly about the unlawful activity that this scheme represents. so why is this not being decided in a courtroom right now with prosecutors and a jury? why is this still just an election board matter? joining us now from raleigh, north carolina, is eli portillo, politics reporter for the charlotte observer. he was at the hearing today. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> so today was the long first day of hearings. as i understand it, theres going to be further proceedings as the s...