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Before it can deliver any doses. david? >> whit johnson on the virus tonight. thank you, and we'll see you and linsey here this weekend. in the meantime we turn next to the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on george floyd taking the stand today, and what he revealed about floyd's death. alex perez in minneapolis again tonight. >> reporter: today the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on george floyd testifying floyd had very severe underlying heart disease at the time he struggled with the officers and came under...

His system played a role in mr. floyd's death? >> in my opinion, yes. >> reporter: the prosecution quick to follow up. >> those other contributing conditions are not conditions that you consider direct causes. is that true? >> they are not direct causes of mr. floyd's death, that's true. they're contributing causes. >> and in terms of manner of death, you found then, and do you stand by today, that the manner of death for mr. floyd was, as you would call it, homicide? >> yes, i would still classify it as a homicide today. >> reporter: baker did not use the word "asphyxia" in his official repor...

Medical examiner who performed George Floyd's autopsy says Chauvin's knee would NOT cut off his oxygen and claims he died because having his neck compressed was 'just more than he could take,' given underlying heart disease Hennepin County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker took the stand Friday in the tenth day of Derek Chauvin's murder trial  Dr. Baker, one of the state's most significant witnesses, did not echo the testimonies of other state experts  Asked if, in his opinion, the positioning of Chauvin's knee would cut off Floyd's oxygen supply, Dr. Baker said, 'In my opinion it wou...

>> we got all four! >> reporter: the autopsy commissioned by floyd's family found it was a homicide, and that the other officers seen in this video restraining floyd may have contributed to his death. >> the weight of the other two police officers on his back, who not only prevented blood flow into his brain, but also air flow into his lungs. >> reporter: the official medical examiner's autopsy also found it was a homicide, but pointing to cardiopulmonary arrest that was complicated by law enforcement restraint and neck compression. but family experts say it wasn't his heart, it was the pressu...

Or paramedic. the pulse. talking a little bit as if conscious. >> he wasn't conscious. he was already gone. to me, i felt like at that moment was already gone. touched the stomach and didn't move. >> didn't move at all. >> where was your partner? >> we talked, his stomach was moving. >> the final cause of death was homicide as a result of neck compression and chest compression. >> chest compression. how did he get that? because somebody applied pressure. >> jonathan, in terms of where this goes now, obviously, the federal government is now investigating. is that where your focus is? i assume t...