fredericka witfield. we begin this hour with a murder investigation in dallas, texas, where police say a woman was shot and killed by her boyfriend over an abortion. 26-year-old gabriella gonzalez was shot in the head the day after she returned from colorado, where she went for an abortion. let s go straight to isabel rosales. what more do we know about this investigation? alex, police are piecing this together, looking through surveillance video that captured the shooting and also they re speaking with witnesses, including the victim s own sister who heard the shooting unfolding. this all happened on wednesday. dallas police got a 911 call. they rushed to a parking lot. there on the ground they found 26-year-old gabriella gonzalez shot and killed. court documents indicate that through surveillance video they saw the suspect harold thompson walking with gonzalez. they had been dating. all of this right before the fatal shooting. thompson in the video, the court documents de
Tone coming from the white house. Vice president mike pence saying at the first Coronavirus Task force briefing in two months that the u. S. Is opening safely and responsibly. Weve all seen the encouraging news as we open up america again. More than 3 million jobs created in the last jobs report, retail sales are rolling. Of course, the extraordinary progress in new york, new jersey, connecticut and new orleans, areas that just a matter of a month ago were struggling under the weight of this pandemic. We have a team of reporters covering the cases in hot spots emerging now around the country. Lets begin in florida with those staggering new case numbers. Cnns randi kaye is in riviera beach. Randi, how is the governoring explaining this almost daily recordbreaking spike of new cases . Reporter yeah, fred, we are now seeing 643 more cases today than we saw yesterday, more than 9,500 cases in all today as you said. The governor is explaining it away as basically calling it a test dump. He
Sprawled out on the street. And that was just afternoon time a week ago today. Well, today, tensions remain high amid more protests and calls for peace. Residents cleaning up today after another night of unrest. This is the latest in the dramatic week of protests. But it was the release yesterday of these images, this is the Surveillance Video. Almost allegedly showing Michael Brown engaging in a strong arm robbery shortly before the shooting. Last night, there was break away protesters who turned to looting at at least two stores last night. Members of the Community Stepped in to help prevent that from happening. Thats what youre seeing there. Young men who came out to block some of those looters and not let them in. This is an important part and an important image to give you the full picture of whats happening in ferguson. Well, in response to some of that looting, police did throw at least one can of tear gas. Then backed off for the most part. There were no arrests last night. Rev
Encountered brown and a companion on the street. One shoved the officer into the cruiser and assaulted him. There was a struggle over the Office Officers weapon. There was one shot fired within the car. It spilled out on the street where brown, unarmed, according to police, was shot multiple times. The officer who hasnt been identified is on paid leave. This person saw the final shots from the apartment balcony. He towards the body this way. Hand in the air. Being compliant he gave a shot. While the reaction has been furious browns family wants justice peacefully. There should be no violence coming from this. Mike wouldnt want it and dont allow it to happen. His mother said her son didnt deserve to die. Youre not god. You dont decide when youre going to take somebody from her. That was mine. That belongs to me. As the young mans sudden violent death generates a powerful mix of grief and anger. That was john yang reporting. We want to turn to major new developments in iraq. In just the
Prosecutors said he used a false identity linked to travel and a safe house in the paris attack that i mentioned and nbc news confirmed that the other two seen on Surveillance Video are brothers. Two men you see there, dressed in that darker clothing. That is what we know, that theyre related as protesters and that in 2010 one of them was actually sentenced to nine years in prison for a shooting involving a shooting at police with a kalashnikov rifle during a during the police. The other was arrested in a carjacking. The Police Believe both died. Jack rice is who we want to go to first. A cia agent and prosecutor. Jack, you look at this situation, you have the updates we have been covering throughout the morning. Broadening out, a conversation in the United States about profiling, about immigration, about how do you respond to all this and the president returning from his cuba trip. So a lot to process. What is your view of how a big picture the United States respond some what differen