tonight, as the u.s. nears the 100,000 mark in lives lost, the flash points. the images of the giant crowds. the questions. and are some americans putting each other at risk? and the other developing story as we come on tonight. the death of an unarmed black man, under arrest, telling the officer, i can t breathe. the growing outrage tonight over the deeply disturbing death of a black man arrested and handcuffed by police in minneapolis. the officer seen with his knee on the man s neck. and the man can be heard pleading on that video, i can t breathe. the video playing out for nearly ten minutes. bystanders demanding police check his pulse. authorities say he died a short time later. tonight, four officers fired. and what the mayor is now saying about the officer. meantime, as america approaches that chilling milestone, the unsettling images. packed beaches and parks. huge crowds at parties. no sorocial distancing. hundreds from one of those parties already told to self-quarantine for 14 days. tonight, at least 14 states reporting a rise in cases of coronavirus, as new york city tonight marks a turning point. the war of words breaking out late today between president trump and joe biden. trump taking aim at biden for wearing a mask with his wife as they marked memorial day. tonight, biden just now responding, saying the president is, quote, an absolute fool to talk that way. the horror unfolding inside brazil. and a new white house travel ban on brazil going into effect just hours from now. the images tonight of mass graves. hospitals overwhelmed. back in this country, the urgent manhunt across state lines in the northeast. the student considered armed and dangerous, wanted for the murders of two people, allegedly kidnapping another. the woman who tells an african-american man in central park she is calling police on him after he tells her to put her dog on a leash. tonight, her words in that video and the swift action now. and diane sawyer is here tonight. 12 weeks of reporting. our new realy. how did we america get here? and the remarkable story tonight of what caretakers were willing to do to save lives, and it worked. good evening. i hope you had a safe and happy memorial day weekend with family and loved ones. we have a lot to get to tonight. the u.s. nearing that difficult milestone with coronavirus. but we re going to begin this evening with tension building in minneapolis after an unarmed black man died after being arrested and pinned to the ground by an officer. he can be heard saying i can t breathe on the video. tonight, four police officers have been fired. a witness recording the horrific incident. the handcuffed man on the ground, an officer s knee on his neck. the man can be heard repeating over and over, he could not breathe. the video lasting about ten minutes. he was unresponsive when an ambulance arrived. tonight, members of the community have begun to gather at a makeshift memorial. protesters now gathering. the mayor outraged, saying the officer failed in the most basic human sense. alex perez has the story, and we warn you, the video is very difficult to watch. please. please, i can t breathe. please, man. please, somebody help me. reporter: tonight, the black man in this horrifying video on the ground and in handcuffs is dead. the white officer with his knee on his neck along with three other officers all fired. and the fbi is investigating. he s not resisting arrest or nothing. reporter: the roughly ten-minute video begins after police have the man identified by a lawyer for family members as george floyd, on the ground monday night. police say floyd was unarmed, suspected of trying to pass a forged check at a convenience store. and also appeared to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs. his nose is bleeding. he s about to pass out. reporter: about five minutes into the video floyd appears to lose consciousness. bystanders urging police to check his pulse. let me see a pulse. reporter: but the officer does not get up. more than seven minutes into the video emts arrive on the scene and check his pulse, the officer s knee still on floyd s neck. floyd had worked as a security guard at a minneapolis restaurant for more than five years. police say he died at a nearby hospital. the statement last night said he resisted officers. they handcuffed him and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress. being black in america should not be a death sentence. this officer failed in the most basic human sense. i can t breathe. reporter: those words, i can t breathe, reminiscent of the eric garner case. i can t breathe. reporter: in 2014 he said those same words. he died after a controversial arrest in new york city that set off nationwide protests. because we have the video, we know the truth. we can see with our own eyes what happened. let s get to alex in minneapolis tonight. we know the fbi is now investigating. we can see the crowd gathering behind you. and you ve learned the officers were wearing body cameras? reporter: david, first i wanted to show you the crowd behind me. massive turnout for the protest here tonight. yes, the officers were wearing body cameras. federal investigators are working to determine if they violated floyd s rights, and whether they should face federal charges. alex, thank you. and that awful scene playing out against the backdrop of this pandemic. crowds outside in many parts of the country over the weekend. many americans eager to get outside and see people again. but there are images that troubled many. leading to the questions, how close is too close? are some americans putting people at risk? and the american lives lost, now nearly 99,000. the boardwalk in ocean city, maryland. crowded pool parties in the lake of the ozarks. health officials have asked hundreds to self-quarantine for 14 days. it is a reopening that comes with risks, we all know that. and turning points as well, as we witnessed in new york city today. here again, tom llamas. reporter: today, for the first time in months, wall street opened to the new normal. lines for temperature checks to get on the floor of the new york stock exchange. the governor ringing the bell and reopening the floor. traders wearing masks and socially distanced. the market today surging despite that grim milestone looming. nearly 100,000 american lives lost to the virus. the president insisting the toll could have been much higher. if we didn t act quickly and smartly, we would ve had, in my opinion and in the opinion of others, anywhere from 10 to 20 and maybe even 25 times the number of deaths. reporter: but tonight renewed concern after scenes like these over the weekend. social distancing is absolutely critical. and if you can t social distance and you re outside, you must wear a mask. reporter: from beaches to pool parties like this one in houston. to this crowded bar in arizona. many americans close together and many without masks. if you re worried about it, stay home. if you don t want to catch it, stay home. reporter: after back to back pool parties at missouri s lake of the ozarks, health officials urging anyone there to self-quarantine for 14 days. it seems like the younger generation doesn t have any fear here. reporter: tonight, cases of the virus still rising across 14 states, including in alabama. the mayor of montgomery telling our marcus moore they re low on icu beds. is it too soon to open alabama and this city? absolutely. i think it s too soon. we have to make sure that we are being guided by the data and not the dollars. reporter: but tonight, signs of progress in new york state. in the suburb of new rochelle, where we saw the first containment zone after a cluster of cases, today, a slow reopening. kamesha salmon opening her store for the first time in nearly two months. i understand the pandemic, but you also have to understand i have two children. they got to eat. we still have bills, and nothing changed. tom, i know you were in new rochelle tonight. things are starting to open up, and some positive signs. but restrictions in new york city still in place. reporter: that s right, david. and no date has been set to reopen, that has frustrated some new yorkers. but the governor and mayor have both said it s still not safe to reopen new york city. it will likely reopen in phases during the first two weeks of june. but an exact date has not been set. there is still major concern about minority communities in the city. tom, thank you. amid all of words erupting between president trump and joe biden. president trump taking aim at biden for wearing a mask on memorial day. biden responding, saying the president is an absolute fool to talk that way. here s mary bruce. reporter: tonight, two images reflect the split screen this campaign has become. president trump in a factory without a mask, surrounded by people who are all wearing them. and his rival joe biden, out for the first time publicly since march. his own face, covered. he was standing outside with his wife, perfect conditions. perfect weather. they are inside, they don t wear masks and so i thought it was very unusual that he had one on. reporter: biden tonight firing right back. he s a fool. an absolute fool to talk that way. i mean, every leading doc in the world is saying we should wear a mask when you re in a crowd. this macho stuff for a guy, well, i shouldn t get going. but it just has cost people s lives. do you think wearing a mask projects strength or weakness? leadership. what it projects is leadership. reporter: the two candidates in stark contrast. president trump pushing to reopen, and is now threatening to rip the republican convention away from north carolina unless the state will allow a packed house. but today governor roy cooper, unmoved. i will say that it s okay for political conventions to be political. but pandemic response cannot be. reporter: the president is blaming the governor, not the virus, for why the convention might not go on as planned. we have a governor who doesn t want to open up the state. reporter: but the governor says his decision will be guided by health and safety concerns. noting that other large organizations like nascar have put together a plan to reopen safely and now it s the rnc s turn. and now the republican governors of florida and georgia are raising their hands to host the convention instead. while democrats are taking the opposite approach. they re already planning to massively scale back their convention. possibly holding much of it virtually. mary, thank you. we will turn next to the horror unfolding in brazil. second only to the u.s. in number of cases. hospitals there overwhelmed. they re digging mass graves. the white house with a travel ban that begins just hours from now. ian pannell tonight. reporter: tonight, the countdown to a midnight ban as travelers in brazil scramble. the country is the world s new hot spot, second only to the u.s. in confirmewhe house now p through the travel ban two days ahead of schedule, though u.s. citizens are exempt. more than 23,000 have now died in brazil from covid-19. the daily death rate exceeding that of the u.s. for the first time as hospitals become overwhelmed. and across the country, mass graves are dug to handle the surge. president bolsonaro, who called covid-19 a little flu, still defying social distancing and, at times, not wearing a mask just feet away from supporters. and here in mexico, cases also steadily rise with more than 71,000 confirmed cases and more than 7,600 deaths. but a new study of the data by a civic watchdog group claims that the number of deaths could be much higher. all of this as health professionals on both sides of the border are increasingly concerned over new plans to open up popular tourism sites in mexico like cancun next week. just turning back to brazil, have a look at this video of president bolsonaro amid the crowd of supporters and hugging a small child. accused of flouting social distancing rules, attending rallies as brazilians are dying in unprecedented numbers. david? ian, thank you. and back here at home tonight, there is a desperate manhunt under way for a college senior suspected in two murders. police tracking him from connecticut to new jersey, now to pennsylvania. releasing new images tonight. erielle reshef is in pennsylvania. reporter: tonight, the urgent multistate manhunt intensifying for suspected killer peter mandfredonia. the fbi and local law enforcement combing monroe county, pennsylvania, after the university of connecticut senior was last spotted walking near train tracks in east strousburg. police now say he got to those tracks by taking an uber to a nearby walmart. a 2012 hyundai santa fe stolen from the area. peter has struggled with mental health issues over the past several years. reporter: the 23-year-old a fugitive since friday when police say he brutally assaulted two men in willington, connecticut, killing 62-year-old ted demers. sunday morning, manfredonia allegedly breaking into a home in willington, stealing food, firearms, and a truck. and nearby, authorities discovering the suspect s childhood acquaintance nick eisle dead. i heard a loud bang. i heard a girl scream. and then i heard two people kind of arguing. reporter: manfredonia allegedly abducting an unidentified person from that home. the victim later found unharmed in new jersey near the pennsylvania border. peter, i want you to know we re continuing our investigation. the one thing we are missing right now is you. reporter: the fbi saying they want this to end peacefully. in the meantime, they say if you see the suspect, do not approach him and call 911 immediately. david? erielle, thank you. we turn next to diane sawyer and her new reporting on our new reality. diane has been reporting for 2 1/2 months, witnessing new yorkers cheering for health care workers, reporting on how this virus has changed america. we ve seen the terrible toll on nursing homes, accounting for a third of u.s. deaths. tonight, diane reports on a group of caregivers in ohio and what they did to protect their adopted family, and it worked. reporter: i ve covered over the decades so many challenges and seen how we transform them into strength. a group of dedicated ohio caregivers saying good-bye to their own families, not sure when they would see them again. i ve converted my office into my bedroom. reporter: these administrators, nurses, aides at two assisted living facilities, sharonbrooke and chapel grove, decided if the enemy was heading to their doors, they d go inside, lock that door, and fight to keep it out. we knew that once it reached our facility, it would be too late. reporter: the weeks go by. in private, these workers admit it s not easy. my son is a senior this year so he s not only missing his mom at home, he s missing prom and possibly graduation. reporter: they make sure the residents see only smiling faces. after all, these lives were in their hands. people who had been architects, accountants, paramedics, people once so vital and so young. over these months, birthdays were celebrated, even a high school graduation for an aide. and then last week, after 65 days, these caregivers finally began to go home, knowing that not one of the 200 residents got covid. now there will be new protective testing for any caregiver who goes in and out. but what they did, in this moment, is going to last gn app facilities saying it all. heroes work here. love lives here. 65 days they moved in with their extended family. just an incredible effort in ohio. and this is just part of an incredible body of work. 12 weeks of reporting. diane with her report at 9:00 p.m. eastern, right here. thank you, diane. when we come back, the moment in central park going viral. the woman, what she tells an african-american man after he tells her to put her dog on a leash. her words in the video, and what has now happened to her, in a moment. people are surprising themselves the moment they realize they can du more with less asthma. thanks to dupixent, the add-on treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma. dupixent isn t for sudden breathing problems. it can improve lung function for better breathing in as little as 2 weeks and help prevent severe asthma attacks. it s not a steroid but can help reduce or eliminate oral steroids. don t use if allergic to dupixent. serious allergic reactions can occur, including anaphylaxis, which is severe. tell your doctor right away about signs of inflamed blood vessels, such as rash, shortness of breath, chest pain, tingling or numbness in your limbs. tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection and before stopping any asthma medicines, including oral steroids. du more with less asthma. talk to your doctor about dupixent. to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you don t. 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kind of right up in their faces. she was arrested a few minutes ago and taken away in handcuffs. what you want to see is folks keeping their distance and standing, facing the police, that is great. you don t want to see anyone go up to them on purpose to provoke action. police have ben really stoic in not reacting to whatever things are being said at them. if things are being thrown and we ve seen some of that going onme onment. i don t know if we decided what that was, but it was basically to say keep away, a little poof something, protecting the perimeter or the no man s land between the police and the protesters. we haven t gotten confirmation on exactly what it is, but we can understand your tactic and philosophy and approach, which is to say, hey, keep your distance, don t come any closer. we re good with you being there exercising your first amendment rights. you can say what you want, but don t throw things at us or come up to our faces and threaten us. even with this escalated tension in the last 30 minutes or so play out, you know, compared to what we ve seen around the country, we hope this will be able to take a turn towards tamping down tensions and knno hostility between the two. there was one person who had a scuffle with an officer and was arrested. dan noyes is in downtown san jose. dan, what have you been seeing and hearing? i m at the corner of seventh and santa clara streets. there s standoffs happening right now. police have come on the intercom to say that they have declared this an unlawful assembly. there s a standoff here. the crowd, 150 people, are not bundle. they aren t going anyplace. now, the police officers fired a couple of rubber bullets, i believe, in response to some people throwing things at them. i heard the shot of what looked like a riot gun. they might have fired a rubber bullet. i m looking at it right now. i m not definite, but that s what i assume it was. they warned, they tested a low-frequency audio device, which is basically crowd control. if it gets too crazy, too tense, they ll actually fire off this audio device and it really does incapacitate can you make out what people are saying, dan? as you re hearing now, they re ordering people to disperse. they re ordering people to disperse. as i was saying, that audio device will send out a signal that makes it just painful to stay in the area. they have tested that device and people are, of course, getting concerned. but overall, you know, this is by no way it is oh, i see what looks like a scuffle over there. looks like police a are responding to someone. there we go. there s tear gas going on. and some rubber bullets fired. i see the projectiles going into the crowd. i m turning away my eyes so i wouldn t be hit. i mean, i ve done stories on those projectiles, and they can blind you if they hit you in the eye. they are plastic projectiles, but they re full of metal pellets, so they do hurt. the crowd is going back. there are some okay. there are some people who are staying. and they are standing up to the police. as the standoff goes on a woman just told me it was a peaceful protest until the police showed up. the police are trying to take some control. these protesters blocked this intersection, took it over. and there s a standoff right now. as i said, the police did fire projectiles into the crowd. they did fire off some tear gas. but this was quite windy out here, so the tear gas quickly dispersed. i actually see someone who has the unless that s something else. anyway, the people are not backing down. some of the crowd is coming back towards the police officers. this is not a good scene. no. the police have shown their force. they told the protesters to leave. more police look like they re moving in. dan, keep us updated there and stay safe, obviously. this is what we re worried about as things escalated today, as tensions rise. most of the protesters have been peaceful, but some have seemed to agitate the police or at least try to provoke the police. now police seem to be responding. dan, what are you seeing now? the police are giving another warning. they are repeating this is an unlawful assembly. you have to disperse. they re holding their signs, some are cursing back at the police officers. kind of an ebb and flow. the police will have their show of force, the protesters leave. the show of force stops it is protesters come back. so it is a very tense situation right now. dan, is there the sense that it s building towards something? because we saw a line of police on the move in usefulnenison. and then we saw a huge collection of police motorcycles suddenly arriving at the same scene. what do you think? is it building towards one area? is it just what we re seeing here is where it s all happening in terms of this confrontation? oh. sorry. what is that? what happened here was that someone someone threw a bottle at the police officers. and they responded with those that riot gun, that gun that shots t shoots the projectiles. you always have some cover, so i m positioned behind a tree that i can look out, see what s happening, and then if there s something kicking off, i can take my cover. very smart. the police are moving now. they are pushing forward. the police are pushing forward. you have some officers on motorcycles. you have other officers in riot gear. they re doing their best to try to t thi intersection. looks like they re about to clear that intersection, seventh and santa clara street. dan, where are they pushing people towards? can you tell? is there a direction? where are they heading? they are heading west on santa clara street. looks like they just they are firing into the crowd again and again. i can see the projectiles flying through the air and hitting the protesters. they are keeping the shots at base level. that s really important because, as i said, you can take out an eye easily with those projectiles. loks like what they wanted to do was to retake that intersection. they were not going to give up thatn. intersectio r now they are pushing the st. seventh street and sixth street. moving down the block. dan, are you on the move again walking behind the police now? where are you exactly? well, i m right at the line with the police officers. okay. i am with the i am just to the side of the protesters. i m trying to keep my distance. we re right at horace mann elementary school right now. the officers saying again and again that this is an unlawful assembly and you have to disperse. they are pushing their way down santa clara street to get these people to disperse. but i tell you, dan, i m looking down the street and it looks like there are more people gathering. this is not dispersing. it s getting bigger. we re moving, but it s not dispersing. they re just pushing the group back and more people are gathering behind the police line, sounds like. exactly, exactly. dan, please do be careful. we know you have a lot of experience covering these types of situations, but it looks awfully tense and tre s so many things that could go wrong. so please, please do be careful. i appreciate that, kristen. i have had a lot of experience doing this. on the way here, i got to say that the people, protesters i met and talked to there s another rubber bullet. i ll bring back a souvenir for you. but the protesters i talked to were all perfectly fine with me many knew i was with channel 7. i don t fear any tension or aggression from protesters. but of course i m doing my best to stay out of the action. sure. again, a rubber bullet just theextnterctn sixth streety police officers would you say are in that immediate area versus the protesters? dan, did we lose you? all right, we may have lost dan noyes. dan literally is down there somewhere along that tree line right where the protesters and the police are meeting. police trying to push them down the street trying to get them to disperse, but as he has pointed out, they re really not dispersing. they re just being pushed farther down te street and more protesters are gathering, it seems to him, behind the police line. so police are effectively moving them, but not dispersing them. the point of confrontation is simply moving.but yohtthey re eo we seeerio thi as dan reported, pellet guns and tear gas. at the protesters. earlier, dan, it looked like they were sort of aiming in the empty spots away from people, but as this continues to escalate and officers are on the move, we have seen some pellet guns being fired at people, you know, at the foot level, knee level. which is designed to sort of sting, scare, and intimate. you don t want to get hit in the face with that. but no injure anybody. here we have a little bit more. when you see running, you really start to worry that the situation is deteriorating rapidly. we saw at least one protester who they can t into a scuffle with an officer who was eventually taken down. i hope we don t see a lot more of that situation. but as you said, the protesters are not backing down. there s another man now. flex cuffs being put on him. dan noyes is back on. dan, update us. we re watching a man being arrested. sorry about that, dan. i had to quickly move away. the police just surged in a pretty big way, firing rubber bullets and some tear gas as well. as i say, the tear gas disperses very quickly in the breeze that s out here. but they had a sudden burst where they charged the protesters. that seemed to work. it s definitely scattered them. the thing is, it s scattered them now to a wider area. people backed off the immediate face-off with the police officers, but then they have scattered to different streets along the way. i saw one young man who was hit with a rubber bullet in the leg. it hit him so hard that it took him down. he was in obvious pain. i asked him whether he was okay. i looked at the welt on his leg. that s exactly what i knew it to be. those rubber bullets, they call them projectiles of force, plastic covers with metal inside of them. they hurt. they sting, yeah. would you mind if i okay. i was just handed a projectile from a bystander here. these are not as heavy as some of them i ve felt. can i have this? okay, thank you. so i m hearing there are both projectiles here. here s a new theme, dan. this is something that s happening right now. people are taking a knee. probably 40 people right now taking a knee right in front of the officers. we don t have that shot yet on sky7. yes, now we see it. we ve got it. we see it. so the protesters have decided that tactic that s best is to take a knee and not move. the officers have formed up their line. they are just watching. i m just a couple of feet away from that very front line where you see the protesters. as you can hear probably, dan, they re shouting i can t breathe, i can t breathe. you have probably 30 people across the right in front of the officers. you have another 60 people also taking a knee shouting i can t breathe. which is, of course, a reference to george floyd, the man in minneapolis who died in police custody over the weekend. as you re hearing again, dan. the officers is sending out a warning again. this is an unlawful assembly. they are doing their best to take back this intersection. seems like they just want to keep on pushing the protesters further away to get them to disperse. and i got to say the protesters are resilient. there we go again. they re scattering, firing projectiles. some of the protesters have run away. others are keeping their locations. hey, dan. i m just wondering if you can educate me on the strategy of trying to take over an intersection and to push the protesters back. i m wondering if there is no aggressive action toward the line of officers, why the need to kind of push them back and retake an intersection, intersection by intersection. kristen, in my experience, it would seem that the officers are doing their best to get the crowd in general to disperse. if they can keep on pushing them back, i think they re thinking hopefully they ll be able to tire them out. the problem is, these protesters are resilient. they do move back when there s something firing, when there s tear gas, when there s a projectile. they move but they reform. right now you have that other standoff. but het goes. of just letting them be and stay there? oh. see, what happens is that someone will challenge the officers, get up into their face, and then the individual officer will respond, and the other officers will support him. that s exactly what happened here. there s a young man who i saw earlier who seemed to begh offe. forward to that young man. the other officers also joined in. and they ran just a little bit, chased the young man away. they didn t catch him, but they have now reformed again in that thick line of police with the people kneeling in front of them. so this is very much a standoff right now. you re listening to the chants are going on [ inaudible ] but this wind is really picking up dan, you re a bit garbled at the moment. let s give you a moment, see if the signal improves from your cell phone. try again, dan. i was just going to say [ inaudible ] the wind is right in the face of the officers. okay. the wind is picking up, he said. it s right in the face of the officers, and that the tear gas that they have used in a couple of occasions out there not particularly effective because it s blowing in the wind as dan described. dan is there right on the scene. he s literally almost in the frame from sky7 that you re looking at just to the side in a safe location. he describes he s done this a lot and he knows what to do. he s taking good care of himself but he s bringing us remarkable fir firsthand accounts from street level. his signal got garbled at the end. kristen, for two and a half hours plus roughly, we just saw very peaceful protests, inconvenient searched for people on 101 and streets on san jose who got held up in traffic. but for the last half hour it s turned with a smaller group of protesters. you see that incident where there was a scuffle on the left with police. one man was put to the ground and arrested. dan, i just want to mention that our senator, kamala harris, who, as you know, is mentioned as a potential vice presidential running mate for vice president biden, she has tweeted out a video message saying black blood stains the sidewalks of america. folks are in pain and have been for a long time. floyd should not be dead. and it is seemingly in agreement with her message that s bringing these protesters out here to san jose, the streets of san jose this evening. as you said, a protest that involves starting at city hall, going over to highway 101 and shutting down the freeway. a blockade of traffic eventually resolved when they made their point there and marched off the freeway, but now after a fairly long standoff with police, we are seeing clashes. we are seeing both sides, protesters throwing things, police taking action on them, whether it s arresting someone or here s on the left is video of the man throwing punching frantically with police and police wrestling him to the ground. moments later he was taken off in handcuffs. the picture on the right side of your screen is live. again, there s more direct confrontation with police. police have been trying to maintain kind of a neutral zone of 10 or 15 feet as much as possible, but that has continually broken down. now you see what looks like one protester pushing another back, maybe trying to talk them into, hey, be cool, stay back, you know. don t keep going toward police. obviously they re trying to keep this protester away, the guy in the light blue shirt who will have none of it. he s back in the face of an officer. , dan, you always hope that cooler heads will prevail because anytime you have a large group of protests other any issue, you have a mix. most people just out there to make a statement and be heard and exercise their first amendment, you know, freedom of speech rights. a lot of people just regular citizens. and then you have a few that get mixed in there that are more inclined to make trouble and kind of distract and detract from the main message that the peaceful protesters are trying to make. so we hope that it is the peaceful protesters who will pr prevail here with their message of solidarity for george floyd. some do deliberately try to antagonize the police and then accuse the police of responding. it s difficult on both sides. here you see, again, more intense interaction with protesters trying to hold back a protester, it looks like. if you notice, kristen, the police are slowly inching forward subtly here, just pushing them back slowly. even as this continues. try, as dan noyes who s on the ground there describes, trying to get them to disperse or at least take them out of certain interactions so they no longer control the interactions, the protesters, that is. but they re slowly pushing them, pushing them back inch by inch. but the protester are not, as dan pointed out on the scene, not backing down. when we get dan back, i d be curious to ask him what are some of the words that he had heard of that were hurled in both drerksz. directions. one of the things he talked about as the protesters took a knee a la colin kaepernick many years ago, they started shouting i can t breathe which is, of course, a direct reference to s he couldn t breathe. larry beil is watching this as well. larry? yeah. i just wanted to note the symbolism involved here with the colin kaepernick protest of several years ago. protesting exactly what we just saw a few days ago in minneapolis. there was a lot of confusion at this time because he initially sat down and then after talking with some friends in the military, decided taking a knee was the more appropriate act. and this is exactly the kind of situation that kaepernick was trying to bring into focus. and put a spotlighted on. so there s a great deal of symbolism with protesters now doing what kaep did. he p he s been very active on social media as well throughout the years but more so in the past few days trying to make the point once again that this is what i was protesting about. you can make the case that we have not made a lot of progress in the years that have passed. good point, larry. thank you. let s turn our attention now to mike lowe from the santa clara police department. mike, are you there? mike, can you hear us? yes, can you hear me? yes, mike. thanks for coming on. mike, as you watch what s transpiring, tell me what you re ragy is by san jose police as they trying to move these protesters around. actually, i m with the sheriff s office. my apologies. no worries. we got a call from highway patrol when the protesters were gathering on highway 101. so we mobilized our resources and have dispatched our deputies out on patrol to assist the san jose police department and the california highway patrol. so our main focus right now is just making sure everyone stays say we understand people are frustrated. we do want people to exercise their first amendment rights, but to do so peacefully. and ultimately we want everyone to be safe. based on what you ve seen, sergeant lowe, are the protesters in that very front line in that direct standoff with officers doing what you consider safe actio? i am not in a position right now to be right therefrt line ho do know that it s a very fluid and rappid situation. we have our deputies deployed to numerous locations across san jose permanent near t san jose, primarily near san jose. this is a difficult situation for police to keep order but at the same time allow people to express themselves and their anger and fruchgs ovstration ov happened in minneapolis. what is the challenge for the police officers on these lines to keep control and yet not escalate this situation? very difficult, is it not? very difficult, very challenging. and i think as law enforcement officers part of our job is to show that tremendous restraint who must these types of situations where things are very tense, very action packed right now with a lot of things going on. but we have to remain calm and do with a we can to just make sure everyone remains safe. we do have our crowd control unit mobilized what is the special training for crowd control unit. what is that unit surprised of? that s interesting. the unit is comprised of deputies, sergeants and staff within the sheriff s office. they train specifically to handle large crowds, whether it s at a ball game or sporting event or any sort of large event like this. but any time you have something like this, we want to make sure people stay safe and remain peaceful. i have one question about the motorcycles that we see. is that a modern-day, you know, for a long time crowd control, police departmts ud officers on horseback, because it s intimidating and well above the crowd. is this a modern-day version of that? we do have motor have motor. i m not sure if our sheriff s office are on steed right now. they re much easier to get around if they need to access an area where a vehicle or standard patrol car couldn t get to. our motorcycles are able to access a location much quicker. just a line right in front, behind the first line of police officers on foot. we re looking at a line of motorcycle officers right behind them. very interesting to see that tactic. sergeant low,e. i m wondering about your training. i m imagining it s similar to police on the front line. at what level do they respond. with rubber bullets. tell me about the actions and reactions that is deemed appropriate as you ve been taught? i think like any law enforcement agency, we have our use of force policies and use of force continuum. however, in times like this, i
novartis thanks the heroic healthcare workers fighting covid-19. tonight, as we come on the air in the west, the tens of thousands in the streets. from new york city to washington, d.c., to los angeles, and in so many communities across this nation. here in new york city, thousands on the march. many believed to be headed to gracie mansion, the mayor s residence. it comes after the city imposed that new 8:00 p.m. curfew starting tonight, for the rest of the week. from chicago, to los angeles, where at this hour tens of thousands are in the streets there, part of multiple marches. ndrcr e ite house. no is believed, they are and again today, most of the protests have been peaceful. but authorities are prepared for what could come after nightfall. growing concern now on the eighth day of protests after widespread destruction in new york city overnight. stores destroyed. the famed macy s, damage at rockefeller center. tonight, curfews in place across many major cities. hundreds of arrests. and this evening, authorities now investigating video in new york city showing a car slamming into a police officer. in the last 24 hours, at least five officers shot across the country, including one in las vegas in critical condition. also tonight, president trump and the backlash. protesters of all backgrounds lining the streets in washington as his motorcade passed by today. tonight, the outrage 24 hours after peaceful demonstrators were hit with flashbangs to clear the way for th president s walk from the white house to the historic st. john s church, holding a bible in a photo op. asked if the bible was his, he said it s a bible. tonight, church leaders expressing outrage. leaders in both parties outraged too. and what former president george w. bush said late today. the massive crowds gathering in houston tonight, george floyd s hometown. thousands gathering to honor him. the mother of his 6-year-old daughter speaking out. and there is news tonight on the murder investigation. will other officers be charged? if so, when? what authorities are now saying. a tale of two images. the president, and the former vice president who wants to replace him. tonight, joe biden and his speech today. and his promise to americans amid so much pain. and the developing headline from atlanta as we come on. six officers now facing charges accused of excessive force on two students pulled from their car. good evening. it s great to have you with us on a tuesday night. as we come on the air tonight, another extraordinary scene unfolding in cities across the country. protests under way. this is the eighth night of protests. demonstrators demanding justice and change in the country after the death of george floyd. the protests peaceful today, but there is concern with nightfall apprch thousands in the streets in new york city. several marches, one massive group, it s believed, headed to the mayor s residence. and the 8:00 p.m. curfew in place. it s quickly approaching after last night s 11:00 p.m. curfew was hardly effective. it s believed tens of thousands are on the march in los angeles. several different locations. in washington, d.c., it s believed thousands are headed towards the lincoln memorial. and a massive rally in houston, george floyd s hometown. and all of this comes as authorities brace for the night ahead. in new york city last night, the storefronts and landmarks destroyed. the famed macy s department store. the curfew, as i mentioned, moved up. six police officers shot last night. and tensions high in washington, d.c., after park police cleared the peaceful protesters with flashbangs. one striking a cameraman from australian tv, the image fed live back to australia. broadcasters there stunned. minutes after that scene, the president walking through the park to st. john s church to hold up a bible. asked if it was his, he said it s a bible. tonight, the fallout from that moment. and the competing images. the peaceful protests across the country, and the concerns about what was seen after the sun went down. here s stephanie ramos. reporter: today, the images of protest from across the country just hours before new curfews go into effect. from san francisco, to orlando, to new york city, thousands marching in protest with a message of peace. we are not looking to agitate, or to loot, or destroy anything. we are trying to make the community unified and by doing that, it s not unifying the community, it s breaking it apart. reporter: the city now moving up its curfew to 8:00 p.m. tonight after a fourth night of looting. peaceful demonstration by day replaced with a vicious cycle of violence overnight. windows smashed, stores ransacked, from the macy s flagship store to rockefeller center. the sun has gone down here in new york clearly different groups that are out here facing off with police, shattering windows on fifth avenue. the governor today blasting the mayor and police department. and the police in new york city were not effective at doing their job last night. period. reporter: hundreds of arrests, most after curfew. police investigating this video showing a car slamming into an officer in a hit and run in the bronx. that officer in serious condition. it appears to be quite purposeful. that is unacceptable. reporter: overnight, officers shot during violent protests. in las vegas, one in grave condition. another four officers were shot in st. louis. thank god they re alive, they re alive. can we make some sense out of this? reporter: across the country police tactics under scrutiny. l.a. s police chief sparking outrage after suggesting looters were as responsible for george floyd s death as those fired police officers. we didn t have people mourning the death of this man, george floyd. we had people capitalizing. his death is on their hands as much as it is those officers. reporter: the chief later apologizing, calling his own words terribly offensive. today l.a. officers kneeling with protesters at a faith-based march. in new york, the police chief also taking a knee. let new york show the country how this is done. reporter: at times police torn between patrol and protest. this officer in d.c. seen trying to kneel only to be repeedly pulled to his feet by his fellow officers. in detroit, 16-year-old organizer stefan perez has been he safe.s fellow demonstrators. they don t got rubber bullets. they don t got tear gas. they re not dead. reporter: the mayor calling to thank him. i saw your leadership. i have tears in my eyes. you are everything that is special about the city of detroit. we re going to fight this injustice because of people like you. that young protester telling others to go home. stephanie, we see the large crowd behind you. we also know the curfew goes into effect a short time from now, 8:00 p.m. but a lot of protesters said they re not concerned about that. reporter: that s absolutely right. thousands are marching across the streets of new york city. you can see them here. it will be very difficult to enforce the new curfew. this group, we ve been following them for several blocks. they just got started a little while ago. stephanie, thank you. now to the fallout from the president s visit to st. john s episcopal church just after we were on the air last night. the police firing flashbangs, smoke canisters, pepper balls at peaceful demonstrators, apparently to clear the way for the president. we ve learned it was attorney general william barr who gave the order. tonight, church leaders are expressing outrage, as well as leaders in both parties. here s jonathan karl. reporter: as president trump rode through washington today, citizens, including families with homemade signs, jeered the presidential limousine. [ booing ] we were in the motorcade watching the people. their signs, withering. are you a moral monster? i can t breathe. today, outrage is growing over the forceful removal of peaceful protesters to clear the way for the president to hold a photo op at st. john s church. it all began shortly after 6:00 p.m., the hour before washington s curfew took effect. the protesters had gathered just a block from the white house gate. as the president prepared to speak in the rose garden, our camera spotted attorney general bill barr surveying the scene. abc news has learned the attorney general then gave the order to remove the protesters using force. and so it began, continuing even as the president was saying these words. i am your president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters. reporter: you could hear the explosions from the rose garden. the police using flashbang, smoke canisters, and pepper balls to force the protesters away. among those roughed up, an australian tv crew. the photographer hit in the face. his colleague hit with a baton as she tried to flee. after he was done speaking, the president, accompanied by top advisers, walked to st. john church, crossing the street where the protesters had gathered less than an hour earlier. in front of the church, the president held up a bible. is that your bible? it s a bible. reporter: he summoned his advisers to pose for a photo before heading back to the white house. among the first to express outrage, the bishop of washington. the spiritual leader of episcopalians in the nation s capital, including the parishioners at st. john s. he is not entitled to use the spiritual symbolism of our sacred spaces and our sacred texts to promote or to justify a completely entire an entirely different message. reporter: the condemnation stretched across the political spectrum, including prominent republicans. if your question is, should you use tear gas to clear a path so the president can go have a photo op, the answer is no. reporter: republican senator ben sasse said, quote, i m against clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op that treats the word of god as a political prop. reporter: even pat robertson, prominent televangelist and an ardent supporter of president trump, had harsh words for the president. it seems like now is the time to say, i understand your pain. i want to comfort you, i think it s time we love each other. but the president took a different course. reporter: robertson lambasted the president for threatening to move military troops into american cities unless the nation s governors control the violence. as a matter of fact he spoke of them as being jerks. you just don t do that, mr. president. it isn t cool. jon, i know you were in the motorcade witnessing the protesters and their signs. the president, though, unwavering on this tonight. and a former president now weighing in? reporter: former president george w. bush with a powerful statement that condemns the brutal suffocation of it says many doubt the justice of our country, and with good reason. he does not mention president trump by name, but he does express support for the protesters. saying, those who set out to silence those voices do not understand the meaning of america, or how it becomes a better place. that s president george w. bush tonight. david? jon, thanks. there are massive gatherings tonight in houston as well. tens of thousands there. george floyd died in his adopted city of minneapolis, but he grew up in houston. among those gathering today, the mayor and chief of police. marcus moore is there tonight. reporter: in houston, a sea of humanity. a wave of emotion. i can t breathe! reporter: hope that the healing can begin. we want justice for floyd. and i m a black mother and i heard his cry and it hurt me to my heart. reporter: tens of thousands marching across the city in memory of george floyd. i just feel like there s something powerful going on right now. something that should have been done a long time ago. the crowd has doubled in size at least, since i last talked to you. reporter: the march, supported by city officials and organized with help from local rappers bun b and trae tha truth. truth, a longtime friend of floyd. it s a beautiful moment. we re making george proud. this is george s family here, we re making them proud to show how many people love george. reporter: this scene coming a day after floyd s brother terrence visited the minneapolis intersection where george floyd took his last breath. i need you and pops to watch over me. reporter: floyd died may 25th. he d worked in minnesota as a security guard. but he was a child of houston s third ward, where a new mural now bears his image and reads, forever breathing in our hearts. he was a star tight end on the yates high school football team. and he was a father to 6-year-old gianna. i want justice for him because he was good. and this is the proof that he was a good man. reporter: there are services this week in minneapolis and north carolina. floyd s funeral is set for tuesday here in houston. the family s attorney says vice president joe biden is expected to attend. david? marcus, thank you. joe biden, they re saying, expected to attend. no formal confirmation of that yet. but the former vice president speaking out today about president trump, the scene in front of st. john s church. and biden s own promise to americans in this time. here s mary bruce. reporter: tonight, the tale of two leaders. the president and the man who wants to replace him. president trump holding that bible. joe biden visiting a church. tonight, biden taking on the president. the country is crying out for leadership. leadership that can recognize pain and deep grief of communities that have had a knee on their neck for a long time. reporter: biden calling on leaders to confront systemic racism. and blasting trump for that bible photo op. i just wish he opened it once in a while instead of brandishing it. if he opened it, he could have learned something. reporter: biden speaking of his own loss, a parent losing a son. i know what it means to have that black hole in your chest where your grief is being sucked into it. reporter: tonight, biden is calling on congress to ban choke holds and vowing to establish a national police oversight commission. donald trump has turned this country into a battlefield driven by old resentments and fresh fears. he thinks division helps him. his narcissism has become more important than the nation s well-being that he leads. reporter: and biden s promise, less than six months from the election. i promise you this, i won t traffic in fear and division. i won t fan the flames of hate. i ll seek to heal the racial wounds that have long plagued our country, not use them for political gain. reporter: this was biden s first public address in months. but as the country opens up, we can expect to see more of biden out on the trail. especially as he looks to draw the sharp contrast with president trump. his campaign is defending the decision to lay low the past few weeks. they say just look at the poll numbers, showing biden on the rise. mary, thank you. we re also following a developing headline out of atlanta tonight. six atlanta police officers have been charged for using excessive force against two college students. you will remember the video showing officers dragging them from their car and using tasers on them. the mayor in atlanta, outraged. here s steve osunsami. reporter: the six officers accused of using excessive force have until friday to turn themselves in. in the middle of the chaos that was tearing through downtown atlanta saturday night. okay, okay, okay! reporter: and in pictures now viewed across the world, the officers are seen shooting a stun gun at two coll and dragging them out of a car. messiah young and taniah pilgrim were out after the new curfew, explaining that they were just getting something to eat when they got stuck in traffic during a protest. i actually thought both me and messiah were going to die, like, the way everything happened so fast, there was no telling what could happen in the next moment. this just needs to cease. reporter: young was initially charged with trying to elude police officers, charges that were dropped by the mayor. two officers have already been fired. david? 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well, dan and ama, we are still awaiting, trying to find out their condition this evening. i do want to zoom out a bit so you can see this is the command center. we are on lion road. this is technically unincorporated fairfield. it is close to the vacaville border. then you go off into the distance. you re looking on that hillside.
tonight, new reporting on tonight, breaking news as we come on the air in the west. we have images as a man opens fire on a california police station. a deputy shot in the face. and new reporting at this hour on the former police officer, derek chauvin, charged in the murder of george floyd. prosecutors confirming chauvin was negotiating a guilty plea to local and federal charges, so, what changed? as george floyd s brother appears before congress today, his emotional plea, saying his brother did not deserve to die over $20. and what he said when asked if he believed his brother s killing was premeditated. also tonight, as we come on the air, the urgent manhunt for a gunman who open fird on a police station. a deputy wounded, shot in the face. a second person found shot to death nearby. investigators do believe the shootings are connected. residents ordered to shelter in place. and what authorities have just revealed tonight. after military leaders said the time has come to discuss changing names of u.s. military bases named after confederate leaders, tonight, president trump saying this will not happen, saying they are part of a great american heritage. and nascar late today revealing they are now banning the confederate flag. the coronavirus here in the u.s. alarming news tonight involving the spike in cases right now across more than 20 states. some hospitals told to enact emergency plans. and some authorities now talking about a potential for a stay at home order again. and the race for a vaccine tonight. tens of thousands of americans now volunteering to be injected with experimental vaccines. so, what could this mean about timing for a vaccine here in the u.s.? the voting chaos in georgia overnight. voters in lines well after sundown. some in line for six hours or more. what caused this and what does it mean with the presidential election just five months away? and there is breaking news tonight in the case of those two missing siblings. the discovery on that property and what their heartbroken grandparents are now saying. and we pay tribute tonight to a renowned debate coach, eight decades at texas southern university. tonight, right here, his students on what he would expect from them in this moment. good evening and it s great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. we are back from houston tonight, where thousands came from all over to pay their respects to george floyd, his family. remembering him as a gentle man, a loving father, an imperfect man, but saying his name will now stand for the push for change, for justice. and tonight, what we did not know about the officer with his knee to floyd s neck, charged with murder now. how close was he to a plea deal, and why did it fall apart? and on capitol hill today, one of george floyd s brothers telling lawmakers, enough is enough. pleading with them to stop the pain of police brutality. breaking down, asking, what was his brother s life worth? we have learned prosecutors and that former officer, derek chauvin, were closing in on a deal on state murder and federal civil rights charges until the day before his arrest. chauvin now faces up to 40 years behind bars if convicted on all charges. and tonight, as we come on the air, an urgent hunt now for a man who opened fire on a police station. a deputy wounded, shot in the face. another person found shot dead nearby. and we have it all covered for you. we re going to begin with abc s alex perez in minneapolis again tonight. reporter: tonight, the stunning revelation. as prosecutors mulled charges against fired minneapolis police officer derek chauvin, he was angling for a deal to plead guilty on federal civil rights charges and to murdering george floyd. as prosecutors were walking up to the podium on may 28th, the deal had just fallen apart. we thought we would have another development that i could tell you about. unfortunately, we don t at this point. reporter: chauvin charged with third degree murder the next day, upgraded to second degree the following week. mr. floyd, what do you hope to tell the committee today? justice for george. reporter: word of those negotiations coming as george floyd s brother emotionally testified before lawmakers on capitol hill. you don t do that to a human being. you don t even do that to an animal. his life mattered. all our lives matter. black lives matter. i just wish wish i could get him back. those officers, they get to live. for him to do something like that, it had to be premeditated and he wanted to do that. and intentional? yes, sir. reporter: and tonight, those chants on the streets turning into demands for reform. minneapolis police chief medaria arradondo, faced with the possibility his department could be disbanded, unveiling his own plans for change today, revealing the department will no longer negotiate their current contract with the police union and new, real-time technology to track cops accused of misconduct and intervene. chauvin had 18 complaints against him, but was only disciplined twice. under these new rules, what would have happened to someone like chauvin, who had all these complaints? we could have intervened much earlier. if there were problematic behaviors brought to our attention right away, we could have made those appropriate measures. reporter: back on capitol hill, george floyd s brother demanding more accountability for officers before anyone else is killed. george wasn t hurting anyone that day. he didn t deserve to die over $20. i m asking you, is that what a black man is worth? $20? this is 2020. enough is enough. powerful testimony. we hear the demonstrators behind you there in minneapolis tonight, alex. and we also know there s late word that one of the other officers who was charged in this case, thomas lane, we remember, he was on his fourth shift as an officer that night, a rookie, there s news on him this evening? reporter: well, david, according to jail records, former officer thomas lane was released from jail just a short time ago, late this afternoon. he posted $750,000 bail and has been released. you ll remember that s the officer who in court shifted blame towards the veteran officer on the scene that night, derek chauvin. now, as for the changes here at the minneapolis police department, the chief tells me, today was just the beginning. he expects to make several announcements in the weeks ahead. david? all right, alex perez leading us off again tonight. alex, thank you. and as i mentioned at the top tonight, there is an urgent hunt at this hour for a gunman who fired on a police station in paso robles, california, shooting a deputy in the face. and then, a body found a mile away, someone shot dead. authorities do believe it s related. that community put on lockdown. and abc s will carr is in california. reporter: tonight, police are on the hunt for an active shooter wanted for attacking a police station in california. shots northeast of the building. reporter: authorities say this is the shooter, with that long, curly hair and dark beard. we feel that this was an ambush, that he planned it. reporter: the gunfire erupted early this morning, around 3:15, in downtown paso robles. the pd is advising they can hear gunfire coming from the east side of their station. reporter: the gunman shot and wounded a sheriff s deputy in front of the station. taking gunfire. at the dmv! copy. taking gunfire on ninth street at the dmv. keeps shooting at us! gunfire is coming from a southerly direction north of the dmv. reporter: that deputy is in serious but stable condition. later, around 7:00 a.m., police discovered the body of a man near an amtrak station less than a mile away from the police department. the victim was shot in the head from close range and investigators believe this homicide is connected to the shooting this morning. within the past couple of minutes, authorities released a picture of the gunman. they say, without a doubt, he set out to kill police officers and this is the third time that members of law enforcement have been ambushed here in california in just the past couple of weeks. david? the scene playing out in paso robles, california, tonight. will, thank you. we have been reporting here on the growing pressure across this country from demonstrators and supporters to take down confederate symbols, and tonight, late word nascar is taking action, banning the confederate flag at all nascar events. driver bubba wallace wearing a t-shirt, saying, i can t breathe, black lives matter in recent days. u.s. military leaders have expressed a willingness to discuss renaming bases named after confederate generals. but tonight, president trump says that won t happen, saying they are part of a great american heritage. here s our chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. reporter: president trump today firmly shot down the idea of changing the names of military bases named after confederate generals, tweeting, quote, my administration will not even consider the renaming of these magnificent and fabled military installations. in case anybody missed his tweets, he dispatched his press secretary to read his words aloud. these monumental and very powerful bases have become part of a great american heritage and a history of winning, victory and freedom. reporter: it comes just after the army announced, the secretary of defense and the secretary of the army are open to a bipartisan discussion on the topic. around the country, signs of the confederacy are coming down. now nascar is announcing a ban on confederate flags at all events. tonight, racing star bubba wallace s car will bear the words black lives matter. there are ten u.s. army bases named after confederate soldiers. among those calling for that to change is retired general david petraeus, who wrote in the atlantic of the, quote, irony of training at bases named for those who took up arms against the united states and for the right to enslave others. he added, we do not live in a country to which braxton bragg, henry l. benning or robert e. lee can serve as an inspiration. acknowledging this fact is imperative. today, the president wouldn t answer questions on his decision. while the white house makes an impassioned defense of bases named for pro-slavery confederate soldiers, the president has yet to propose any specific reforms of police practices in the wake of george floyd s death. on capitol hill, republicans have tasked the only african-american republican senator to take the lead in coming up with a plan. we should all want to follow the lead as it relates, to, a, making sure we get something accomplished, and not just having pieces of legislation they are for show. reporter: the white house press secretary said today the president is working, quote, quietly and diligently, to come up with a plan to address the concerns of the protesters, but we have heard nothing specific. so far, all we have heard is what he opposes. we are told the president opposes the idea of limiting the immunity now enjoyed by most police officers. that s an idea that democrats and some republicans say would make it easier to hold the police accountable for their actions. david? jon karl live at the white house. jon, thank you. i want to get right to abc s martha raddatz tonight, because martha, the army had said the defense secretary was, in fact, open to discussing renaming military bases named after confederate generals, but you heard what the president said today, essentially saying this won t happen. so, where does it stand tonight? reporter: well, david, the decision is technically up to an assistant secretary of the army, but given what trump has said, that would likely be professional suicide. but as you know, it was just last week that secretary of defense mark esper spoke out publicly against the president s threat to use active duty military to quell protests and there has also been a growing chorus of retired military officers blasting trump s decision-making, so, you can t rule out the base names changing, but for now, that seems unlikely, david. all right, martha, our thanks to you, as well. now, the news this evening on the coronavirus. the number of cases spiking in several states across this country. and there s news tonight on a potential vaccine. tens of thousands of americans volunteering to get injected with potential vaccines on the horizon. so, what could this mean for any timeline for the rest of the country? here s matt gutman on that. reporter: tonight, the u.s. government saying tens of thousands of volunteers will soon receive injections with one of three of experimental vaccines. those injections are part of third phase of vaccine trials, the stage before possible approval. and dr. anthony fauci now saying there are no guarantees, but he s cautiously optimistic about at least one of them working. we could have a vaccine either by the end of this calendar year or in the first few months of 2021. reporter: moderna beginning phase three trials in july, followed by the university of oxford and astra-zeneca s vaccine in august and johnson & johnson in september. the goal, to test their vaccine s safety and effectiveness. that, as at least 20 states plus puerto rico seeing increases in new cases and eight states reporting rising hospitalizations. in texas, hospitalizations jumped 40% since memorial day. officials there say it s too early to tell if that s because of the reopening, the protests or both. and in arizona, some experts say it might be time for another stay at home order. one doctor telling us they re maxing out of icu beds. reporter: david, the goal of a phase three trial is to determine how well a vaccine works. that s why they re casting an enormously wide net, up to 90,000 volunteers from all walks of life. half of them will be given a placebo, the other half, the actual vaccine. and it will later be determined who came down with coronavirus and how many of them show the presence of antibodies. david? and we know you ll stay on this. matt gutman, our thanks to you again tonight, as well. we re also following that developing headline in the case of two missing siblings from idaho. their step-father was in court today facing charges now after human remains were found on his property. and what the children s heartbroken grandparents said late today. here s marcus moore. reporter: tonight, the grandparents of two idaho children, missing since september, say their bodies have been found. but police not confirming they are the remains of 17-year-old tylee ryan and her brother, 7-year-old j.j. vallow, discovered during a search at chad daybell s home, their mother s new husband. we are aware that those remains are the remains of children. reporter: daybell appearing today before a judge today via zoom, facing two felony counts of destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence. mr. daybell, do you understand the allegations on both counts that have been brought against you? i do. reporter: mom lori vallow already behind bars after refusing to tell police where the kids were. lori? can you tell me where your kids are? reporter: the couple under a cloud of suspicion for months after a string of deaths in the family. marrying in hawaii weeks after daybell s first wife died. vallow s husband killed last summer by her brother, who later died himself. friends and family insisting lori changed after meeting daybell, a religious author. after lori s arrest, daybell telling us the kids were safe. is there anything that you would like to say to people at all who are, number one, concerned about the kids or concerned about you and your wife, anything at all you want to say to them? just grateful for any support. reporter: tonight, j.j. and tylee s family saying, we are filled with unfathomable sadness that these two bright stars were stolen from us, and only hope that they died without pain or suffering. lori vallow has pleaded not guilty to child abandonment. meantime, she and her husband are both being held on $1 million bail and, david, daybell is due back in court in july. marcus, thank you. when we come back tonight, the voting chaos in georgia overnight. what does this mean with the presidential election five months away now? 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i think that dr. freeman, because he has always encouraged us to not only be articulate, but vocalize our plight in a way in which we can have the best outcome for ourselves. meaning that he s always pushed us to do our best. it s in our motto, we all know what we do, we do well, what we don t do well, we don t do it at all. reporter: the faces that you see, black, white, latino, from every race, every background, every story, part of these protests. do you sense it s a turning point? absolutely do. reporter: what s your message to the country right now? that there s always hope. that you can always be better. that you don t have to settle. i think the message would be, there s power in your voice. you should definitely use it. definitely. reporter: well, i would say to your debate team, keep winning. we ll try. thank you. keep winning. vowing to carry the torch. it s about more than winning, he would say, and they have already made dr. freeman proud. thank you for watching here tonight. i m david muir. from all of us here at abc news, have a good evening. good night. a silicon valley lab owner is under arrest. i ll explain. no one can say it won t happen again. it s just not possible. the man in charge of the alameda police department speaks only with abc7 news and our i-team. hear his take on the officers who arrested a black man for dancing in the streets. reporter: restaurants are reimagining opening. it s very upsetting and angering to see people like this individual taking advantage of what is happening in our community. new at 6:00, the first case by the u.s. department of justice related to securities fraud involves a silicon valley lab owner.
tonight, thousands pay tribute as george floyd comes home to houston. joe biden among them. also tonight, the new video just released from new mexico. a knee to the neck and tonight, charges of manslaughter. here in houston, many walking in the stifling heat to line up for hours, then filing past george floyd s casket. mourners wearing masks. george floyd was killed two weeks ago today, an officer with his knee on floyd s neck for 8 minutes, 46 seconds. former vice president joe biden came to houston today. the image of him with george floyd s little girl. paying his respects to the floyd family. and the family speaking just moments ago. also tonight, the former officer now charged with second degree murder, derek chauvin, wearing an orange jumpsuit for his first court appearance today. prosecutors saying he kept his knee on floyd s neck while he went limp and eventually lifeless. and the breaking headline as we come on the air tonight. the new video from new mexico now. the officer with his knee on the neck of a man detained after a traffic stop. that officer tonight now charged with manslaughter. what we ve just learned. the minneapolis city council voting to dismantle the police department. the mayor there shouted down for refusing to support calls to defund the police. growing calls from demonstrators across the country to do the same. joe biden tonight saying he does not support that idea, nor does president trump, who called members of law enforcement to the white house today. the disturbing case in virginia tonight. the charges. the alleged member of the kkk who drove right into a protest. and in seattle, the man who drove into demonstrators there and then allegedly shot someone as he got out of the car. on capitol hill tonight, democratic members of congress taking a knee for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. tonight, what they have now unveiled to try to reform policing. there are also major developments tonight in the coronavirus pandemic. new york city beginning to reopen. but at least 20 states tonight are now seeing increases in cases. and this evening, what researchers have discovered about china and the virus. tonight, right here, you will see the satellite images. do they suggest the virus was spreading far earlier than first thought? and the symptoms people in china were searching for online that matched the virus. those searches as early as october. and good evening tonight from houston, as we begin another week together. and as a community says good-bye to a native son. george floyd, who has become the face of a movement for justice and change in this country. tonight here, we talk with so many parents who brought children, to nurses who are also working in the middle of this pandemic. and still, they thought it was important they come here today. and tonight, as we come on, the new case, the new video released just a short time ago, a knee to the neck and now an officer charged with manslaughter. george floyd s casket escorted y mourrs file, socially distancing. among them, texas governor greg abbott, houston s mayor sylvester turner, the police chief and members of the force and many, many families, parents with small children. diverse ages, diverse backgrounds, waiting outside in the searing heat, well into the 90s here. and former vice president joe biden here in houston to pay his respects, too. the image of him with george floyd s little girl. all of this amid new developments as we come on the air. in minneapolis, former police officer derek chauvin appearing before a judge to face murder charges. and now that new case i mentioned from new mexico, an officer with his knee to a man s neck. tonight, that officer has now been charged in his death. abc s alex perez leads us off from minneapolis. reporter: tonight, fired minneapolis police officer derek chauvin facing murder charges, making his first appearance in court, via video, in an orange jumpsuit and blue face mask. the prosecutor laying out the second degree murder case against chauvin, saying he placed his knee on floyd s neck for nearly nine minutes as he went limp. the judge setting bail at $1.25 million. the three other officers, tou thao, j. alexander keung and thomas lane, all charged with aiding and abetting chauvin. tonight, lane s lawyer placing the blame on chauvin, the veteran officer, saying lane had only been on the job four days. was he afraid of chauvin? your client? he relied on his 20-year he thought that this man knew what he was doing. my client had did exactly what he was supposed to do, follow the experienced officer s advice. get on the ground! reporter: across the country, more officers accused of excessive force facing charges. in new mexico today, a white police officer charged with involuntary manslaughter, after putting his knee on the neck of a hispanic man back in february. prosecutors say it led to his death. in fairfax, virginia no! reporter: a white officer arrested for assault after body camera video showed him using a stun gun on an unarmed black man, putting his knees on the man s back. the man yelling, i can t breathe. all the officers involved placed on administrative leave. now, growing calls to defund or outright abolish police departments. defunding meaning diverting some funds from police to other social programs. the controversial issue coming to a boiling point in minneapolis. the city s mayor confronted by protesters at the site of floyd s killing. i know there needs to be deep-seeded structural reform in terms of how the department operates. the systemic and racist system needs to be revamped. reporter: but the crowd pressing him for more answers. we don t want no more police. is that clear? we don t want people with guns toting around in our community, shooting us down. it is a yes or a no. will you defund the minneapolis police department? i do not support the full abolition of police. reporter: the minneapolis city council announcing it intends to dismantle the police department, calling it beyond reform. just moments ago, the mayor announcing a new coalition to provide more economic inclusion for people of color to help the city move forward. george floyd moved to minneapolis for a fresh start. in honoring his memory and generations of black people who have been victimized before him, we will rebuild as a stronger, more equitable and more inclusive city. reporter: other cities also announcing plans to partially defund the police. new york city shifting nypd funds to youth programs. l.a. cutting $150 million from its police budget. and alex perez joins us again tonight from min yap lus. and alex, we know all four officers charged in floyd s death remain behind bars tonight? reporter: yeah, david, they re all in custody. chauvin faces up to 75 years behind bars. and those three other officers could face up to 50 years in prison. david? alex perez leading us off on a monday night. alex, thank you. meantime, here in houston, the stirring images of so many people coming here to honor george floyd. one mother driving seven hours from oklahoma city with her children. people seen walking in the heat toward the church and arriving by the bus load. among those paying their respects, as we mentioned earlier, former vice president joe biden, who met for more than an hour with floyd s family. abc s marcus moore with us right here at the church tonight. reporter: two weeks after his death at the hands of police, an emotional farewell for george floyd in his hometown of houston. mourners lining up early this morning to pay their respects, braving extreme texas heat. but so many telling us they needed to be here. this man whose death has changed the world he s changed the world. you have to come. you know, you have to. i can t explain it. reporter: inside the church, social distancing, just 15 people at a time in masks and gloves. for hours, thousands of people of all ages and backgrounds streaming past floyd s open casket. many here were strangers to floyd and those next to them in this line, but today, people like quinn richardson and don murray are connected in their grief and hope for progress. but when we see people like mr. don here who said he had to be here, too, it makes me proud to say something we re doing, making a lot of noise, we re showing up and people like him are coming out. reporter: murray remembers arguing with his father about racism back in the 1950s. all of these decades later, an image of barriers broken.weti rd than what you saw when you were younger? oh, yeah. i mean, this you never would have seen when i was younger. never. reporter: the governor of texas vowing to work for change with the floyd family. this is the most horrific tragedy i ve ever personally observed. but george floyd is going to change the arc of the future of the united states. george floyd has not died in vain. reporter: vice president joe biden today meeting privately for more than an hour with floyd s family, seen here with his daughter gianna. a family attorney tweeting, he listened, heard their pain and shared in their woe. that compassion meant the world to this grieving family. george floyd s family grateful for the outpouring of support tonight and proud of the man he was. we all hurting as a family and you know, the george we know, he s a family man, great man. he stands for the definition of a man, because we didn t have no father figure growing up. reporter: in his old hbho, stimby the strokes of an artist s brush, symbolizing floyd s impact on the world and one of houston s sons, who is finally home. david, today, we saw relatives of eric garner, ahmaud arbery and michael brown, among others. a real show of solidarity, as floyd s family gets ready for another emotional day. tomorrow, they will have a private funeral and floyd will be buried next to his mother. david? marcus moore with us here in houston tonight. marcus, thank you. and as you heard from marcus there, we will be carrying the funeral live tomorrow right here on abc. i ll be anchoring with our team here around noon eastern, as george floyd s hometown honors him and this movement for change. but we continue with the news this monday night, and in washington tonight, lawmakers know the pressure to act is growing. democratic members of congress taking a knee for 8 minutes and 46 seconds today before unveiling legislation to reform policing. and the fence put up outside the white house after peaceful protesters were moved out of the way last week for that photo-op, that wall has instead now become a tribute to george floyd and calls for racial justice in the u.s. inside the white house, president trump opposing efforts to defund, dismantle or disband the police. joe biden today opposing defunding the police, as well. here s our chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. reporter: sensing a political opportunity in the growing protests around the country, the prced onctist efund the police. there won t be there won t be dismantling of our police. there s not going to be any disbanding of our police. our police have been letting us live in peace. reporter: the president also said he s considering ideas for police reform, but he didn t mention specifics. we re going to work and we re going to talk about ideas, how we can do it better and how we can do it, if possible, in a much more gentle fashion. reporter: his attorney general today acknowledged african-american distrust of the criminal justice system, but 24 hours ago, bill barr said he does not think there is systemic racism. i think there s racism in the united states still, but i don t think that the law enforcement system is systemically racist. reporter: joe biden has expressed solidarity with the protesters, but today, his campaign made it clear he does not support calls for defunding, either. vice president biden does not believe that police should be defunded, the campaign said in a written statement. house democrats unveiled their own reform plan today, calling for, among other things, a ban on chokeholds, a national registry of police misconduct and limiting immunity protections for police officers. one thing not in the democratic proposal? anything to do with defunding the police. funding of police is a local matter, as you know. from the standpoint of our legislation, we re not going to that place. reporter: republican leaders have said they, too, support reforms, but they have not signed onto this bill. senator mitt romney made a show of support for the protests over the weekend. we need to stand up and say that black lives matter. so, let s get to jon at the white house. and jon, of course, this all comes as a series of new polls show joe biden with a growing lead over president trump. you have sources there at the white house, obviously, they re well aware of these numbers. reporter: oh, they sure are. the president himself says the polls are skewed, designed to dampen the enthusiasm of his supporters. and the campaign, the trump a cof weeks, and they are wi run predicting large crowds despite the continued covid-19 threat, david. jon karl starting another week at the white house for us. jon, thank you. there are also major developments in the coronavirus pandemic tonight. a triumphant moment in new york city today, 100 days after the first case of the coronavirus. as many as 400,000 people returning to work in new york, to construction, manufacturing and limited retail jobs, getting free face masks sanitizer at the subway entrances. governor cuomo seen taking the train to his office, to grand central. but cases are rising in nearly half of the country tonight, even before possible cases among protesters. and tonight, an investigation now revealing that the virus may have struck china months before they let on. tonight, right here, you will see the satellite images and you will also see what the people of china were searching for online as early as october. here s tom llamas. reporter: tonight, signs the threat from the coronavirus is not over. cases on the rise in 20 states. 1,500 new cases, a record, reported in arizona on friday, two weeks after reopening. texas open for more than a month, seeing a steep increase in new patient admissions. now, nearly 2,000 hospitalized. deaths in this country surpassing 110,000. kaiser health news and the guardian reporting nearly 600 of the victims were u.s. health care workers. and now, new evidence the virus may have been sweeping through wuhan nearly three months before chinese health officials told the world. these satellite photos show various wuhan hospitals from october. those red dots, cars packing the parking lots. this is hubei women and children hospital in october 2018. 393 cars. a year later? 714. satellite photos, mirror images. october 2018, october 2019 and you see the number of cars skyrocket. so, much greater and greater than any other sort of time period that we had looked at. reporter: at tongji medical center, 112 cars in 2018, compared to 214 a year later. a 90% increase. more cars to a hospital, the hospital s busier. likely because maybe something s happening in the community, an infection is growing and people have to see a doctor. reporter: researchers say they can t prove this increased activity is due to covid-19, but they also found internet searches in wuhan for the terms diarrhea and cough spiking in october. two symptoms of the coronavirus. abc spoke with multiple infectious disease experts who told us there is almost always a delay in identifying and then reporting an outbreak. china has adamantly maintained they reported the outbreak in a timely fashion. and tonight, new, important guidance from the w.h.o. they re now saying it is rare for asymptomatic patients carrying covid-19 to spread the deadly disease. they say the focus should be on people showing symptoms, to quarantine them and isolate their contacts. david? 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