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CNNW CNN Newsroom April 11, 2015

Your time with us here. 10 00 in the east. Im christi paul. Im victor blackwell. Good to have you with us. First this morning a week to the day after he was fatally shot in the back by a Police Officer. Walter scott as we just said about an hour from now, going to be laid to rest. His family is gathering at a funeral and burial in summerville, South Carolina. His burial is taking place as new details are coming out about another man who was in scotts car in the passenger seat just before that fateful encounter with police. Cnns Martin Savidge joins us now. First, tell us about the funeral. We understand that they do not want cameras inside but over to the open to the public. Good morning, victor christi. I should point out that her that carries the casket arrived a few moments ago. Interesting to point out it did have a Police Escort two motorcycle officers in front of the hearst as it pulled into the christian plinstrys where the Funeral Service is taking place. It is clear already that looks like the number of people who want to attend this funeral is going to be larger than the number of seats or space inside to be able to handle all of them. Those people right now are still outside and they are watching as things take place there. It is open to the public. Anyone is allowed to attend but regards to the media, it has been requested that there be no cameras inside and there will be no cameras inside. And at this particular point theres no broadcast that will come from this service. This is at the specific request of the family. They wanted to keep at least this part of it very sacred and, of course, its very important to them victor. Martin there is new individual dash cam video of the passenger in scotts car. What more have we learned about this passenger . You know this passenger is basically described as the mystery passenger or the mystery rider that was with walter scott. Has not been identified. We do know that that persons name is known to authorities and yesterday the state Law Enforcement division that has been overseeing this investigation, did hold an interview, they said. They wouldnt talk about what that passenger had to say, but they also specifically said the passenger wants to remain anonymous. We tried to track this person down its a him, all over and have had no luck in that. One suggestion was maybe he worked with walter scott. We went to where walter scott worked talked to two supervisors there and they say that passenger was not an employee of the company. Of course crucial because hes seated next to scott just before he runs and that person would likely have whats going through scotts mind why is he fearful at that time victor . All right. And you also i understand have new information about the officer whos been charged in this case officer or former officer now slager . Correct. Yes. Hes being held at the county correction or detention center. And hes been put into isolation. Its not a surprise. Usually any time a Law Enforcement finds themselves on the opposite side of the law they are put in isolation because theres concerns about the retribution that may be coming from people he put in jail. So that is the way hes being housed. The sheriff said not on a suicide watch but they are carefully monitoring his Mental Health and the guards would rotate past his cell far more frequently and he did have visitors yesterday, at least via television link. Thats the way visitation conducted at this visitation center. We are told it was his wife and mother that was able to communicate. Again, communicate through i should say this tell phonic link or visual link set up and that is in modern jails often the way visitation is conducted. Only the attorney is allowed to meet face to face. Martin savidge in summerville, Funeral Services scheduled to start at the top of the next hour thank you. Youre welcome. Meanwhile, the recovery effort is beginning across the midwest. Killer tornados struck multiple states on thursday and survey teams are on the ground there this morning trying to assess the amount of damage obviously, but the tornado was an ef4 the second most powerful. Cnns nick valencia is in fairdale illinois whats interesting here is nick the one survivor who lost her home and she got help from facebook. I mean if you have any doubt about how good people can be this story is going to change that right . Yeah. Even in tragedy theres always seemingly somebody willing to help. It was just that case for lauren hin chi. She lost everything. Her house was destroyed because of that ef4 tornado that ripped through this community. So she took to facebook to vent her frustrations and really ask for help. Thats exactly what she got. We have a friends camper coming in. Reporter a day after her home was destroyed, lauren hinchi found help. Family friends. Im a schoolteacher, a lot of School Teachers came out for us today. Reporter on friday morning, word quickly spread on social media that her home in illinois was one of the dozens leveled by an ef4 tornado. I put it on on facebook and said hey, were fine but this is what we need. You know people just came out this morning. Reporter one by one neighbors, family and friends, all showed up. Will be here to help pick up. Its a wonderful thing all these people came to help. Reporter some with gifts. I had a portapotty here before i knew it. I had containers and trailers. Reporter others to help her pick up priceless possessions. Oh, i know. My heart wreath. I saw it in the garage. Im like please be okay. Please be okay. I know. Between that and my running shoes. Thats what i was worried about. Reporter everyone seemed it to show up with something. Tons of food donated. If youre hungry stop and get something. Reporter her small farm house may be uninhabitable for now but she has plans to rebuild. Its probably okay for now because obviously its still the roof is still theres something over the top of it. Reporter she wasnt home at the time of the tornado but her husband was. How long have you guys been here . About 17 years. 18 years i guess. Reporter long enough to form some pretty strong bonds with people who want to help. Pretty neat really. And that family is rebuilding slowly. Just picking up the pieces like everyone else. Back here to this neighborhood that power crew just showed up to restore power to this neighborhood. A lot of the residents havent come back just yet. These are some who have. Folks picking up whats left this debris trying to clean up the structure. Thats one of the most devastated structures weve seen in all of fairdale the ef4 tornado just ripping through here destroying nearly every structure in the small community. All righty. Nick thank you for a good story this morning. We appreciate it. Turn overseas to a story thats getting a lot of attention, a historic moment for u. S. cuba relations. President obama shook hands with cuban president raul castro at a summit in panama and even spoke on the phone earlier in the week. The last time Something Like this happened was back in 1959 when then Vice President nixon and fidel castro shook hands. Rosa flores is live from panama city. This meeting, is it going to lead to a bilateral meeting . Is there something formal planned . You know thats a great question because right now, what we know is that no bilateral meeting has been set between these two heads of state. However, if you think about it this is a summit where these 35 heads of state get to ming until between event mingle in between events on the sidelines. Thats what were expecting to happen. President obama and president castro will probably at some point in time today, meet and greet, have a little coffee or something here in panama and speak about some of the ongoing negotiations. They did have a little icebreaker. We learned both heads of state spoke on wednesday. President obama was in d. C. President castro in havana and they had a chat in preparation for this event. The obvious question is why not just have a bilateral meeting . Both delegations are here. Whats stopping it . I asked the white house that question. Heres what they had to say. I dont want people to kind of overthink this in the sense that a lot of this is just about the fact that well be setting up discussions with other leaders on the margins of the summit tomorrow. At the same time that there are ongoing plannerry discussions. Its not conditional on policy. Its how do we work through the ability for him to have discussions with a variety of different leaders in the context of that summit. Reporter now a handshake is a great symbol but are things actually changing for the cuban people in cuba . You know some say in cuba that things are not changing. Theres still some people worried about human rights violations. However if you just look on the business side a few things are changing. Most recently airbnb announcing they have 1,000 listings in that country. That means that thats actual money in the hands of cubans. Victor . Rosa flores thank you so much. You know its jolting to see this attack on a man running from the law. The beating caught on camera by a news helicopter. Nearly a dozen Sheriff Deputies now under suspicion. The fbi is on the case. Is this worse than the 1991 attack that sell off the l. A. Race riots . The mans lawyer thinks so. As two american teenagers fight for their lives new concerns that more vacationers to the u. S. Virgin islands could get sick after being exposed to a deadly pes sti side. 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Shot him with a taser. New developments look at this here the fbi is now investigating this Bizarre Police chase you can see there as police kick and punch the man as hes down after he got off the horse. This is in california. The pursuit ended with the swarm of deputyies not just them some more coming into the picture here as they kick and punch the suspect. That suspect has a lawyer now and hes calling his clients beating worse than rodney king. Stephanie elam is following developments for us this morning, good morning stephanie. Good morning, victor and chris. The fbi launched an investigation to find out whether or not the man at the center of this video if his civil rights were violated. Heres your pursuit. Reporter a police chase that looks like something out of the wild west. Ive got this guy on a stolen horse. Reporter 30yearold Francis Pusok attempting to yacht run Law Enforcement on the back of a stolen horse in a rural part of san bern dino county. A knbc helicopter was recording as the bizarre chase ends when the horse bucks the suspect. The suspect being tased. Deputies a attempt to tase him. As deputies get closer pusok appears to surrender lying face down on the ground before putting his hands behind his back. That doesnt stop the officers from mobbing around pusok, kicking him in the groin and in the head before kneeing him and landing punch after punch on his body. Its a beating that lasts about two minutes with ten officers involved all of whom are on paid administrative leave. Somebody should go to prison over this. What i saw on the television was thugs beating up my client. Thats what i saw and these questions about what was he doing . What did they do . This is far worse than rodney king. San bern dino sheriff john mcmahon has ordered an immediate internal investigation. The specialized Investigation Detail is also conducting a criminal investigation as well. I am disturbed and troubled by what i see in the video. It does not appear to be in line with our policies and procedures at least a portion of it. I ask that you allow us to conduct that investigateship and i assure you if theres criminal wrong doing on the part of any of our deputy sheriffs or any policy violations we will take action. Reporter the Sheriffs Department says deputies were attempting to serve pusok with a search warrant related to an Identity Theft investigation when he first fled in a car and then abandoned it and ran into the desert where he stole a horse and took off. In total a chase that went on for some three hours. Im not going to stand here and say hes perfect because who is. Reporter his girlfriend of 13 years believes the officers went too far. They beat the crap out of him and now theyre trying to do everything that they can to avoid them being in any trouble. Reporter in trouble in an era where Police Tactics are under intense public scrutiny. The Sheriffs Department saying the officers were wearing audio recorders but we havent heard the sound from those yet but they will be part of the investigation. Victor and christi. Stephanie elam reporting for us thank you so much. Drastic measures to save one womans life. Get out of the car. Youre going to get hit by a car. Lady your life is in danger. A very dangerous situation here on a california freeway. Youll see how some Good Samaritans rushed in to help. Try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. And zyrtec® is different than claritin®. Because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. Zyrtec®. Muddle no more™. Whether you need a warm up before the big race. Or a healthy start before the big meeting theres a choice hotel thats waiting for you. This spring, choose choice twice, get a night at no price at 1,500 hotels. Book now at choicehotels. Com families are starting to return home now after a train derails in South Carolina. This happened friday night near trenton. According to reports, 39 cars derailed. One of them spilled ammonia nitrate. Thankfully no injuries reported here. Officials will continue to clean up today. The cause of the derailment right now is unknown and under investigation. The u. S. Is lending its voice to an outcry for china to release five womens rights activists. In a statement yesterday secretary of state john kerry told china to, quote, support them not silence them. The women have been held for a month on suspicion of picking florals and provoking trouble. Prosecutors have to decide by monday whether they will be formally arrested. You can take me out to the ball game but please wake me up when its over. You see, last night, we should really say this morning, yankees red sox game lasted 19 innings, taking the game well past 2 00 a. M. Partial power outage in the extra innings didnt help either. Sleepy sox fans were happy that they stayed up. Boston outlasted the new york yankees 65. The teams face off again this afternoon. After a brief nap. Havent they had enough of each other by now. This next video leaves you shaking your head. Several people really counting their blessings today after a dramatic traffic incident on a san diego freeway. This driver abandons her car and then theres this heartstopping ordeal that ends with her in handcuffses. Virginia cha from cnn affiliate kgtv has the story for us. Dont go into the lanes. Dont go into the lanes. Reporter thats the voice of our photo journalist paul pleading with a young woman not to walk into the busy lanes of the northbound 15 in citi heights. It started when paul pulled up what looked like a an abandoned car and the woman teetered over to ask for jumper cables. When she disregarded pauls pleas to stay off the freeway and started to walk back to her car he jumped out of his car. As cars whizzed by she stops to talk to two Good Samaritans who pulled over to help and continues to walk to her car. As the two men try to alert drivers to the danger one of them is almost hit. By a white taurus wagon. The taurus driver told us he is counting his lucky man. Gentleman flagging me and i voided hitting the car and the gentleman i dont know how she escaped but im blessed to be alive and go home. Reporter after the woman got back in her car paul does what he can to get her out of hrms way. You have to get out of the car. You got to get out. Youre going to get hit. Get out of the car. Get out of the car. Get out of the car. Youre going to get hit by a car. Lady your life is in danger. Dont stand in the road. Dont stand in the road. Theyre going to hit you. In fact at least one car almost hit the womans car. When chp officers arrived they arrested her for dui. Its nothing short of a miracle no one was hurt but those are not tears of joy as the woman is put in the back of a cruiser. And thank you very much to our friend virginia cha there. Who did she have to call . I dont think she knew what was happening. Probably not. Yeah. Huge brawl breaksout ina walmart parking lot. Almost sounds like its a joke but its not. It isnt. Its terrible. This is a family they testle with police and its all caught on dash cam individual shots fired here. You want to see this. First, though this weeks ones to watch, profiles Pretty Amazing photographer from france. Take a look. A moving image held still. One flash and a photographer is framed lit and constructed a silent scene. [ speaking Foreign Language ] for over 20 years the french photographer yan batron has been constructing a portrait of the other with his aerial photographs. His book earth from above sold over 4 million copies. [ speaking Foreign Language ] starting to look more like a tissue box. 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