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Its making me realize how much i love them all over again. >> all right. >> good stuff. its bonding. >> all right. thank you both very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. and next, its getting personal between trump and desantis with the former president unleashing a wave of new attacks against the florida governor. plus, first on "outfront," its called sky cop. thats the overhead cameras that captured the key moments of tyre nichols brutal and deadly arrest. the man who literally installed th...

Cop program from 2010 to 2018 and now works for sky cop, a private company that works with police departments to build the cameras and technology that goes with them. >> so this is a -- this is a utility pole powered by the light. it has a recorder inside. it has blue light. it has a pan tilt zoom camera on it and connection with cellular. so that we can pull this camera up at any time. its always recording. if we need video, we pull it up in the crime center. >> reporter: is it a 360 view or is...

Video, which we have seen so far, which i warn again before i show it was captured without audio. it was caught from above on a sky cop street camera, which gave that aerial view of the officers striking nichols nine time in less than four minutes. ryan young is "outfront" live from memphis. ryan, you actually spoke to the person today who installed the exact camera that captured this crucial footage, without which we wouldnt even have known how this went. what can you tell us? >> yeah, i did. a...

And you can see how someone can control that camera. my photographer jd and i are out here. and you can see the license plate on that clear clearly. you can see us walking. and dispatch can listen to the police officer radio in, turn the camera, and even zoom in to get a little closer and give you that up close detail. so many questions about this video, but it proved crucial in this case. >> joe, whats that camera? >> a memphis police sky cop. >> reporter: its a system used to capture the overh...

Investigation continues. of course that video is hard to watch, but there were so many questions about how that video was captured and how the cameras turn. you can see the cameras here on a pole just like this one created by a company here in memphis, but when you look at a pole like this, sky cop is always above. if an officer hears something over the radio, they can switch this camera, they can see in such clarity what is going on and that is what happened that night when the camera zoomed in...

Now five former police officers charged with second degree murder. this camera captured the crew that will footage of nichols being beaten. >> it is to teeter crime and capture crime and it does what it was supposed do.crime and capture crime and it does what it was supposed do. >> reporter: this former police officer oversaw the program in its early stages and now works for sky cop, a private company that works with police departments to build cameras and technology that goes with them. >> so t...

Similar. there were some body cameras that malfunctioned but there was another camera called the sky cop that caught the view. in other words, when one witness at a scene doesnt see everything, because one witness saw it was a chevy, the next witness says that i saw the license plate, the next witness said i didnt see what kind of car it was or the license plate, but i saw an accident. i dont care what you summarize. we still saw brutality. we saw an offense. and that is something that has been ...

According to his mother and his mother said to me today, i am sure he was actually hoping that i could hear him, and i am devastated as a mother, she said, because i couldnt be there in his time of need to save him. i want to show you what captured all of this, because had it not been for what they call the sky cop, you see the blue light up there, and underneath it, there is the shield, and then mpd, we are hearing from people in the neighborhood, that took the video that we all saw. without it...