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washington. we are tracking major fallout in the fatal police beating of 29-year-old tyre nichols. a sixth memphis police officer was just relieved of duty for alleged involvement in the deadly incident. five previously fired officers charged with murder. those five were members of the scorpion unit that was disbanded over the weekend. this comes as new charges could be in play and as congress faces new calls to act on police reform. cnn's nick valencia joins us now. nick, anybody who watched this video can see that at various points that were more than five officers at the scene wh....

Scorpion unit? >> absoluteabsolutely. we heard over the weekend that this unit has been permanently disbanded. scorpion unit, what a moniker to give a police unit. it stands for street crime operations to restore peace in our neighborhoods. they were launched in late 2021 and heralded by city leadership. in january of 2022, the mayor of memphis, jim strickland, praising this unit saying that it led to 566 arrests, 390 of them were felonies. he said just in a matter of a couple of months being active, they had seized about $100,000 in cash. but we were hearing at that even though the police chi...

Administration could have done differently, absoluteabsolutely for me, how better could the state department evacuated americans better as events unraveled quickly. i look forward to hear from the secretary how the department plans to complete the evacuation of the 100 or 200 americans who remain in afghanistan and want to come home, as well as the afghans who worked alongside us in the past 20 years. however, it is important to separate fair criticism from criticism that is not made in good faith, and divorced on the realities on the ground in afghanistan. we have heard some criticize the dec...

I gather there will be another press conference, media availability later this morning. >> later on this morning, i think around 9:00 or 10:00 a.m., we're going to hear again from authorities. we're expecting to hear more information then. then we'll probably start to hear more and more victims. these are going to be jewish funerals. that will be happening in very short order after the death. traditionally, in the next day or two. those names are going to start to come out. we're going to start to hear from the family members. we're going to start to get more information about the people who w...

Day of deliberations about two hours ago. nbc's kevin tibbles has been following this case and he joins us with the latest. kevin, as we mentioned earlier, this could certainly end up in the high court. >> absoluteabsolutely, tamron. as the jury deliberates, this is a case that's being watched very closely by those on both sides of the gun control issue. two police officers, both shot in the face, after stopping a young man for riding a bike on a milwaukee sidewalk in 2009. >> i thought i was going to die. i wanted my family to know that i loved them. >> reporter: now police officer brian norb...