. >>> mistrial declared in the michael slager case. the jury was unable to come to a yunanimous decision by the jury. let's get the latest from nick valencia. >> reporter: after more than five weeks and days of deliberation, it was monday afternoon that the jurors said they were unable to reach unanimous verdict on whether or not to convict michael slager of first-degree murder. for those in support of the scott family, this was a surprise. however, some expected a mistrial. we got indication there was one lone juror who said under good conscience, he could not convict slager of first-degree murder. today, we learned a majority of the jurors were still undecided. there was enough reasonable doubt cast by the slager defense in the case of the state for the jury pool to be deadlocked. it was the makeup of the jury pool. 11 of the jurors were white. six white men. five white women. one african-american. the foreman in the jury pool. on monday afternoon, at a press conference, the scott family did not focus on that. choosing to take a reli

officer michael slager, caught on cell phone video shooting a fleeing scott in the back. the shocking images producing angry protests at the time. today the jury came in and out of the courtroom multiple times, telling the judge they were deadlocked. we get late details from nbc's gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: tonight jurors in the murder trial of former north charleston police officer michael slager, say they are hopelessly deadlocked. a lone juror sending this judge note to the judge late today. >> i still cannot without a reasonable doubt convict the defend. at the same time, my heart does not want to have to tell the scott family that the man that killed their son, brother, and father, is innocent. >> reporter: despite the impasse, the jurors are telling the court, they want to keep deliberating. slager charged in the death of walter scott, who was shot in the back as he ran from a traffic stop last year. >> shots fired. subject is down. he grabbed my taser. >> reporter: in emotional testimony, slager had told the jury of 11 whites and one black man about the moments n

they could try officer slager again. is it likely that they will? >> we've spoken to several prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys in south carolina. all said that if the mistrial occurred, which looked likely as of friday given those jury notes that we've reported on, that they would expect at least one attempt at a retrial, especially if, as the foreperson suggested, the majority of the jurors, at least at a certain point in time, were looking to convict. the holdout juror's notes said he didn't think he could convict in, quote, unquote, good conscience. once that was written down and released to the judge, it was hard to imagine that individual reversing. so prosecutors legally can start with a clean slate and retry. the officer, any defendant, is presumed innocent as we all know, but they can start fresh because this is not a not guilty verdict. quite to the contrary, as i've been explaining on our air here today, steve, because it was close to potentially a conviction on murder or manslaughter, michael slager's attorneys were already seeki

the other jury did not have good conscious to conflict slager. and four person sent a follow note that jurors had an issue. that's highly unusual. we covered many trials before. while the trial is still ongoing, but on a separate point, this trial in many ways in charleston around the country was never just about michael slager. this is the latest trial where it brought the issue of race and police tactics and under scrutiny and it may show the difficulty of getting a conviction and charges filed and just recently covering the shooting death of scott and eric garner and also in long island. this is a case that has been watched across the country as ari mentioned. there is still federal secivil rights case. so this case is not over yet. in the long run, it is now of course, the judge think it is a mistrial. the question is will the prosecutor retrial the case. >> all right, gabe gutierrez is following all of this for us. thank you very much, we'll be right back after this quick break. ♪ is it a force of nature? or a sales event? the season of au

scott was shot repeatedly as he ran away from slager. a witness captured those moments on cell phone video. the prosecutor and scott's family say their fight for justice is not over. cnn's nick valencia is live in charleston, south carolina, with more. so where does this leave them, nick? >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. it was a week-long trial, days of deliberation. it was on monday afternoon that the jurors handed a note to the judge saying they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict. the case that captured the nation's attention was declared a mistrial. >> we are unable to come to a unanimous decision -- >> reporter: a mistrial declared in the case of michael slager, the white police officer who killed an unarmed black man. video of the incident sparking outrage nationwide. former patrolman slager charged with murder of 50-year-old walter scott after firing eight gunshots as he ran away from him during a traffic stop last april. >> god is my strength, and i know without a doubt that he is a just god. >> reporter: the south caroli

slager charged in the death of walter scott, traffic stop last year. >> shots fired. subject is down. he grabbed my taser. >> reporter: in emotional testimony, slager had told the jury of 11 whites and one black man about the moments not recorded on video. after he pulled scoot over for a broken tail light. scott bolted from his car, and after a footis cha, slager has scott grabbed his stun gun during a struggle. has scott broke away, slager said he was in total fear for his >> i fired until the threat was stopped, like i'm trained to do. >> reporter: jurors have deliberated for three days, weighing slager was not guilty, guilty of murder or guilty of manslaughter. >> one of the things in this case is what's not on the camera. and there have been weeks of testimony about what is not on that camera. >> reporter: within the last few minutes, the jury just came back and asked the judge to return on no matter the outcome of this case, michael slager still faces federal civil rights charges. if convicted, he could spend life in prison. >>> there's late word about president

shows scott getting shot five times as he ran away from slager. during the trial, slager testified he feared for his life. >> i'm on flight on the ground. mr. scott was coming after me. >> reporter: a mistrial after a juror sent the judge a letter saying, quote, in good conscious, he could thought >> i'm not angry with the juror. i'm disappointed in the juror that he was sworn and took an oath that he would make a decision. >> reporter: the jury deliberated for almost 22 hours. the county prosecutor said that she will try the case again and slager faces a federal civil rights trial next year. justin bamberg represents walter scott's family. >> i don't think questions of fact were issues with this jury. i think there were issues with their interpretation of the law. >> reporter: slager's defense attorney has not commented on the mistrial. don champion, cbs news, charleston, south carolina. >>> a north carolina man arrested as he attempted to investigate a conspiracy theory known as pizza gate is due back in court. he was arrested after firing one r

that was michael slager. the 50-year-old scott was unarmed and fleeing when slager shot him in the back last april after a traffic stop in charleston. a bystander recorded video of the incident sparking national outrage and two indictments from local as well as federal authorities. we want to advise you, the video we're about to show is very graphic in nature. [ gunfire ] >> the video, which was shown in the trial, showed not only that key moment of the shooting where scott doesn't look like he poses the kind of threat legally required to justify deadly force. it also showed the key moments after the shooting where slager handcuffed scott's dead body and appears to drop an object near it and he was accused of staging a fight over a taser that never happened. you can see some of that here, according to that citizen-produced video. the prosecutor told the jury that action was revealing because it showed slager's, quote, first instinct after killing scott was to stage the scene. the jury heard that evidence in t

during the month-long trial, slager told the court, he was in total fear for his life and shot scott in self-defense. slager said scott ran from a traffic stop and grabbed his stun gun during a struggle. >> i don't care how it looks. >> reporter: scott's family, who had already won a $6.5 million civil settlement from the city, says, this is only round one. >> we're firm, and we believe that at the end of the day officer slager is going to pay for what he did to walter scott. >> reporter: friday, a sign this was coming in an extremely rare move, a dissenting juror sent this letter to the judge. >> i still cannot, without a reasonable doubt, convict the defendant. >> reporter: in a follow-up note, the >> that juror needs to leave, he's having issues. >> they're had a practice run, they've gotten a sense of what arguments might work, and they both come to the battlefield with that experience. >> reporter: slager's defense team declined to comment tonight, but local prosecutors say they'll retry this case and slager also faces a federal civil rights trial next year. lester? >> gabe guti

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video from april 2015 shows slager shooting walter scott multiple times in the back. slager claims he was in total fear of his life and he shot in self-defense. >>> the georgia father convicted of murdering his son by leaving him in a hot car has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. last month a jury found 35-year-old justin ross harris intentionally left his 22-month-old son cooper in his car for hours while he went to work. the prosecution argued harris left his son to die to free himself from parental responsibility. >>> and a spokesman for the prime minister of japan says shinzo abe will not apologize for the attack on pearl harbor when he visits the hawaii naval base later this month. abe will become the first sitting japanese prime minister to visit pearl harbor coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the attacks that brought the u.s. into world war ii. now you'll remember president obama became the first sitting president to visit the hiroshima memorial earlier this yearmarking the 1945 nuclear bombing that resulted in japan's surrender. he also did

now left in limbo after a mistrial declared in the trial of michael slager. prosecutors say they are going to try this case again and federal charges pending but what will be different if anything the next time around? we're live in charleston, next. ♪ glad forceflex. extra strong to avoid rips and tears. be happy, it's glad. >>> starting development in the trial of waltmichael slager cha with killing walter scott in 2015, declaring a mistrial after the jury reported they were hopelessly deadlocked and a routine traffic stop. the video you see now shows scott running away, it brought national attention to the case. slager claimed that the video did not show the whole story and he was in fear of his life when he shot scott and jury started deliberations last wednesday. gabe gutierrez outside of the courthouse in charleston. what's the reaction been there like, gabe? >> reporter: the walter scott family obviously disappointed but now gearing up for two other trials. local prosecutor here said she'll retry this case and also, former officer michael slager was

we have this case of officer michael slager or former officer michael slager being that bad apple. what the video shows is not an example of somebody who has an immediate threat of lethal force being applied to them. what you have instead is a man who is 18 feet away when he's actually shot. and yes, i do believe that the justice system is supposed to work in a way we require unanimity from jurors. nothing less would be -- we have one holdout and flec11 in favor conviction. reasonable doubt requires you be reasonable. >> here's a police officer testifying that he felt total fear because walter scott was resisting arrest. >> i just -- >> in my mind, fear, i was scared. with everything leading up to this from the run, to not cooperating to the final -- mr. scott, coming after us while we were on the ground, the chest area, then us breaking apart, as i was standing up and coming at me again. total fear that mr. scott didn't stop. continued towards me. >> so jeffrey, looking at the cell phone video, walter scott, this is a freeze frame of it. i think that you should only show this vide

yesterday we will try michael slager again. given this mistrial, do you believe that the prosecution, the state arguing this case, should try it differently a second time around? >> i think miss wilson did a phenomenal job. i think the judge was phenomenal. you know, sometimes, and i've tried a lot of cases with a jury, sometimes you have a person that can just not listen to what's going on or the evidence, they make a decision based on their personal feelings and hold a verdict back. i mean, it happens. that's why we're upbeat. people are saying we would never get a verdict because there were so many white people on the jury. well, you see that only one person stopped the jury. doesn't matter what color you are. people saw what happened. >> all right. obviously there is also the federal civil rights case that begins in january. a lot to get to. we'll continue to follow this. chris stewart, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >>> still to come, as protesters prepare for a white supremacist to speak at a major a

we got indication of one lone juror who could not convict slager of first-degree murder. on monday, we learned that a majority of the jurors were undecided. there was enough reasonable doubt cast in the case by the state for the jury pool to be deadlocked. it is the makeup of the jury pool that considered by some to take exception. 11 of the jurors were white. six of them white men. five white women. one african-american. the foreman in the jury pool. it was on monday afternoon at a press conference that the scott family did not focus on that. choosing instead to take a religious tone and focus on being optimistic that in a retrial some time later next year, they could get conviction. >> absolutely. justice hasn't been served yet. we have more chances. we are coming back. >> reporter: we should mention michael slager is scheduled to face federal civil rights charges some time in early 2017. john, alison. >>> nick, thank you. aleppo on the verge of falling. russian forces teaming with syrian troops to win back the city from rebel fighters. now they are trying to win the he

next year, there is a federal civil rights trial that michael slager will face. no matter what happens in this case, the story definitely is not over. right now, we are monitoring the courtroom to see if the jury might not be able to reach a consensus and that would be a hung jury, the jury is made up of 11 whites and one black man. they'll need to find any of those guilty or voluntary manslaughter or not guilty. it has to be new hampshiunamino a missed trial. >> we are reporting this the first time, this jury is saying no consensus that they cannot reach a consensus on a guilty verdict of any kind or acquit l acquittal. that means there are people in that jury room delivering this for several days, they are telling the judge that's not nothing. that's them telling a judge that we cannot agree one way or another. that's not the end of the line, we are not reporting anything yet like a hung jury because the judge has options in instructing them to keep on deliberating. here is walter scott being shot in the back and there he is, we know the deceased as michael sla

slager testified that he used his taser first, but scott slager opened fire. he faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted. in charlotte-- four people wind up in handcuffs following protests around the city. they're angry over the decision not to charge a charlotte police officer in the death of a man in september. a north carolina district attorney says keith lamont scott was armed when police shot and killed him. scott's family insisted he did not have a gun, saying he was sitting in his car, reading a book while waiting for one of his children to come home protesters of the dakota access pipeline are planning to rally outside the wells fargo bank in downtown milwaukee today. this is video from a similar protest held last month. the demonstration is planned for 4-30 this afternoon. they're speaking out against the bank's investment in the pipeline construction. then at five, protesters will march to the federal court house, and demand president obama and the army corps of engineers withdraw their eviction order for the forecast from fox6 chief meteorologist

there was a mistrial declared in the former officer michael slager's murder trial. he was accused of killing walter scott. you remember the video taken by a kid with a cell phone that shaped everyone's understanding. the prosecutor vows he's going to try again. we're going to speak with the scott family. what's going on in their heads and their hearts after what that judge just had to do. ♪ (laughs..) here it is. ♪ ♪ hey dad! ♪ wishes do come true. the lincoln wish list sales event is on. ♪ get exceptional offers on the lincoln family of luxury vehicles. sign and drive off in a 2016 lincoln mkx with zero down and complementary first month's payment. i'm hall of famer jerry west and my life is basketball. but that doesn't stop my afib from leaving me at a higher risk of stroke. that'd be devastating. i took warfarin for over 15 years until i learned more about once-daily xarelto... a latest generation blood thinner. then i made the switch. xarelto® significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. it has simil

what it has to do with the mistrial declared in the michael slager case. and after the break -- emotional testimony coming from the wife of a n-f-l player who was shot and killed last year. breezy and cold. partly sunny with highs in the upper partly sunny with highs in the upper 20s but feeling like the teens all day. more snow next! a louisiana man is back in police custody...charged in the shooting death of a former n-f-l player. and lawyers for dylann roof want to delay picking a jury in his federal death penalty trial. kim is in the newsroom with more. roof's lawyers want to delay the trial due to the publicity surrounding the mistrial of former charleston police officer michael slager. start today. roof's attorney's say if a u-s district judge goes forward...he at least needs to question the jury pool extensively about their opinions on the custody...charged in the shooting death of a former n-f-l player. and lawyers for dylann roof want to delay picking a jury in his federal death penalty trial. kim is in the newsroom with more. roof's lawyers want

running away from slager. slager claims scott took his taser from him. sot: "and i saw that taser coming at me..coming at me like this." (butted with) "i fired until the threat was stopped, like i'm trained to do." prosecutors say scott was 18 if convicted.. slager could get 30 years in prison. you can feel those brisk temperatures out there... and guess what... even cooler temperatures.... are on the way... let's head over.... to 13 first alert chief meteorologist... bryan scofield... who's tracking it all. bryan... the las vegas valley will be dropping into the upper 30s tonight with some areas into the mid 30s. make sure you protect the bring the pets inside! after the chilly start we keep it cool in the afternoon but similar to last few afternoons with highs into the mid 50s. now... here's a look.... we're following... i'm gina lazara reporting from the strip.....where casears entertainment is just two weeks away before they start charging for parking.....following the roll out of paid parking from mgm properties earlier this year. i spoke with a las

you heard michael slager's testimony. he knew what to say. i kept firing until i thought the danger was over. it's kind of the same story as darryl wilson. what you see are jurors really being unwilling to second-guess police officers, even with a video like this, that once the officer uses a word like threat or fear or danger and slager used all of those words, it's going to be very, very hard to get the jury to overcome what seems to be an instinct, certainly among white jurors, to believe police officers. >> we should be clear, it appears to be the case that there is one holdout here. >> i don't know that that's actually true. last week that appeared to be true. >> on friday. >> yes. but today, what the jurors suggested was that a majority of them could not come to the conclusion. so we don't know anymore whether it was 11-1, whether that was in fact accurate last week, whether they went back and deliberated. it's clear that there were 11 white people on this jury and one african-american man and that's a systemic problem that needs to be

a mistrial was declared in michael slager's trial. he shot and killed water skoal during a traffic stop last year. slager said he let his sense of thought get the best of him. video of the endowner to seems slager shoots him in the back. slager still faces federal civil rights charges. >>> in georgia justin ross harris has been sentenced. he's accuse of leaving his 22-month-old son cooper in the car. the judge handed down the maximum sentence and said the court found harris had intentionally and unnecessarily inflicted severe physical and mental pain on his son. >>> 4:49 right now. donations are pouring in for the family of a woman killed crossing a street in alexandria. on thursday, rosemarie cruz was hit. the driver has been charged with failing to yield. cruz was walking home in the delray neighborhood where she restaurants. they say she gave the best hugs and was well liked. she leaved behind a husband and four children. they're heartbroken. >> what you see is what you get. she's natural, she's generous, and she's a perfect mom. s

we also got reaction from the attorney of michael slager. he says that there is no joy in a mistrial and he is also saying that -- he's vowing to do better essentially next time in preparing for the next steps in this legal case. this is certainly not over, even though this judge declared a mistrial after four days of jury deliberations. >> nbc's gabe gutierrez, thank you so much. >>> now for more on the potential ram fiction let's talk to executive director of color of change, rashad robinson, joining me now from washington. i'm not sure if you were just listening to that interview my colleague, gabe gutierrez was doing, but given that the witness who shot the video says that he saw a man, officer slager, that was in total control. what is your reaction to the declaration of a mistrial? >> well, this case sends a powerful message about just how hard it is to hold police accountable in our current context. and how easy it is for so many in our country to justify the killing of black people, of unarmed black people. he was shot in his back. i

slager has pleaded not guilty. he has maintained that he did it in self-defense, that he had pulled over walter scott for a traffic stop, but that scott bolted from his car, that he chased him, there was a struggle, and slager claimed that scott grabbed his taser, and when he broke away, that's when that cell phone video was taken, according to slager, so the question will be now will the jury either convict him of murder or possibly voluntary manslaughter? that's another option, too, kate. >> gabe gutierrez is following that in south carolina. gabe, thanks so much, and we will be right back. are you on medicare? do you have the coverage you need? open enrollment ends december 7th. don't put it off 'til later. now's the time to get on a path that could be right for you... with unitedhealthcare medicare solutions. call today to learn out the kinds of coverage we offer, including aarp medicarecomplete plans insured through unitedhealthcare. these medicare advantage plans can combine parts a and b, your hospital and d

cell phone video shows scott running away from slager as he fired the fatal shots. the judge has given jurors the option of convicting slager on a lesser charge of manslaughter. several passengers onboard a united express flight are shaken up, after the plane makes an emergency landing in texas. take a look at this. the plane's front landing gear failed after touching down on the runway. you can see the plane came to a stop on its nose. fortunatley only minor injuries houston to mexico, when the pilot was told he had a landing gear problem. crew members deployed emergency slides and safely evacuated the passengers. time now for weather - morning clouds, afternoon sun - rainy, chilly tuesday (some sleet possible in the morning) - coldest air of the season on the way today: early morning clouds, then partly to mostly sunny. highs: 52-57 winds: sw to nw 5-10 mph tonight: cloudy and co tuesday: rainy and chilly. sleet possible in the morning at the onset. highs: 39-46 ? ? (engine roars) how else do you think he gets around so fast? take the reins this holiday and get th

i think because slager testified in his defense, slager did a very good job with the facts that he had which are generally bad, creating an image of imminent fear of immediate harm in the minds of the jury. he spoke in the present tense. i'm standing there, i'm thinking he's going to turn around. he was well coached and remember police officers are the best testifying witnesses because they do it everyday in court just on the other side. >> let's take five steps back for all of you joining us here. we're getting the latest twist in this murder trial involving a south carolina patrolman, michael slager in regard to the death of walter scott. it was something we covered extensively because of the cell phone that was released because of a passer-by during the shooting. boris seine chazz, let me go to you. if you can, remind us. he was pulled over because of a broken taillight and it evolved into his death. >> right, brooke. and what happened from there is really the most contentious point of this entire trial. the police officer says that there was a scuffle and during that scuffle walter

we should remind our viewers that michael slager is not totally off the hook just yet. he's facing a federal civil rights charge. that case to be presented some time later next year. we were in that courtroom. i was sitting about a row behind his wife, who throughout the whole day was biting her nails, sitting in the same row was scott's family. many of the family members for both sides, slager and scott were present in the courtroom. we saw mrs. scott clapgs her hands in prayer throughout the day. very tense and emotional scene inside that courtroom. now we are hearing in this case a mistrial has been declared by the judge. the jurors unable to reach a unanimous verdict. >> a lot of people watching this trial closely, given just the conversation that we're having around the country regarding use of force, incidents involving police, involving people of color. so, nick valencia, this is a significant development. thank you for joining us and filling us in on that latest information out from the judge. >>> i want to bring in our two legal minds here, joey jackson and joh

(reporter)"do you think another jury can convict michael slager?" slager?""of course. he dodged it by a hair and he's not dodging it again." again." south carolina governor nikki haley says she expects a re-trial to happen quickly. slager still faces start next year. 3 charges will not be filed against the wauwatosa police officer who shot and killed jay anderson in madison park this summer. summer.the news is upsetting for anderson's family. family. cbs 58's kyle aevermann joins us live from the wauwatosa police department... to tell us what the family is saying. kyle? the anderson family says they were upset after learning the officer will not face any the case has been granted by the department of justice. the family says they've seen better video than what was released by the wauwatosa police department..they don't believe this video police shows what really happened. and they want that other video released as well. 08:55:40 jay anderson sr he was not going for no gun. 08:50: 55 linda anderson he was inebriated, he was sleep and he was going down. not lunging. 08:5

slager has claimed mr. scott took his taser at one point and there was a taser seen in the video, but it's not really clear what role this taser had, whether scott really had it or not. the officer claimed there was a tussle involved, but look, this video shocked just everyone who saw it. this was clearly the officer shooting mr. scott as he ran away several times in the back. you see scott going down. i was down there to cover the shooting at the time. i talked to witnesses who saw it, people in the neighborhood who said this officer was known as a very aggressive police officer in that community, and, you know, you would think again, with all the evidence here, certainly leaned in favor of a possible conviction, but right now it's confusing. one juror seems to be a real issue here in this case. >> laura, the argument that the defense attorneys made is we all say a few seconds of that individual the defense attorneys are saying they were no video of what happened leading up to that moment as he was running

slager accused of gunning down scott, unarmed, during a traffic stop. video of the incident shows the moment slager killed scott as he ran away. the footage garnered national attention. >>> 2016 was the deadliest year for police officers since 2011 nationwide. the report by the memorial fund for police officers reports that 135 officers were killed in 2016. some died in traffic accidents, but half were shot to death. that's a 56% increase in shooting deaths over the previous year. of the 64 officers shot and killed in the line of duty, 21 killed in ambush attacks. >>> a mother/daughter funeral planned for carrie fisher and debbie reynolds. abc news reporting that todd fisher, reynolds' son and fisher's brother, a memorial in the works for the two. at the moment, he says there is no set date or location. the 84-year-old reynolds, died wednesday, one day after fisher passed away at the age of 60. >>> let's get aerial stan early your money. markets get into the last trading day of 2016. dow will not hit the 20,000 mark. that's what i'm guessing. u.s. futur

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sl sl slager slager's, he said he was backing away, scott was coming after him with the tase r. the final moments, scott is running away, slager shoots him multiple times in the back. scott is killed. are you shocked at the outcome here? >> i am shocked. the thing it emphasizes is how much people respect police officers and how hard it is to convict a police officer. and i think this was -- we have this term called "jury nullification" where sometimes the jury just goes against the law and it goes against the facts because they have a gut feeling that the right thing is an acquittal or in this case a hung jury. >> hung jury. on friday you heard nick report one juror was the holdout, said go back and figure it out, figuring that one person could come around. that person convinced other people, we understand there were multiple people, it's truly a hung jury. that is also shockingly unpress dented. >> that is staggering if that happens, because normally if it's down to 11-1, the 11 convinces the one. you know what happen -- that's what always happens, this is going to go down in t

a judge declared a mistrial in the murder case of michael slager. members of the come to a unanimous decision. slager is accused of killing walter scott following a traffic stop in april of 2015. attorneys for scott's family say slager dodged justice by a hair this time, but he wont doge it again. scott's mother says at the end..god will be the ultimate judge. jurors could have picked between manslaughter and jurors could have picked either. slager also faces a federal trial, which is scheduled for next year. this morning, security will be beefed up at los angeles area metro stations after the fbi was informed of a potential terrorist attack planned for today. the threat stems from an anoynmous call made on a public safety line. federal authorities say the caller was very specific, saying the universal city station in los angeles was the target. authorities say they are taking no chances. mayor eric garcetti urged commuters to carry on with their normal security at every commuter rail stop in the region. here in our area, wmata has launched undergro

and aimed it at him, and that is what warranted slager opening fire. they went as far as to say that the investigation itself was colored by the release of that tape, that investigators that were collecting evidence assumed that slager was guilty after that video of him shooting walter scott went viral. they also went on to say there was a media-driven marrive to try to put michael slager in a box with other police officers that have had violent encounters with unarmed african-americans, saying the media created a false narrative around him. the prosecution as you can imagine painting a different picture, telling the jury specifically that everything they need to know in making their decision is on that video. they say it shows the moment walter scott was killed, that he wasn't a threat to michael slager and also, they say the video shows the inconsistencies that were in michael slager's initial reporting to the investigating officers on that scene, that he didn't tell the whole story that saturday morning. they also again show the moments that walter

slager also faces trial next year in federal court on charges of depriving scott of his civil rights. and in oakland, california -- 36 people now confirmed dead after a warehouse fire over the weekend. we've also learned that murder charges could be filed in connection to the fire. authorities believe warehouse at the time. the building was a converted warehouse used for an art collection and wasn't designed to host large groups of people. authorities say there are still people unaccounted for ... with fire crews continuing to sift through the rubble. the standing rock sioux chairman now says it's time for dakota access pipeline protesters to leave camps set up along the route. he says the camp's purpose has been served and there's no need for people to stay in the dangerous winter weather. many are vowing to stay though. this comes after the army corps the pipeline to cross under a missouri river reservoir in the area. opponents of the pipeline believe it threatens tribal drinking water and cultural sites. ahead on wakeup -- how you can score free food at chick-fil-a today. plus -- t

scott then fled, pursued by slager. >> michael slager -- >> slager took the stand in his own defense at the trial alleging that scott wrestled the taser from his grasp. >> i pulled my firearm and pulled the trigger. >> there was never a struggle. my brother never had the taser. >> anthony scott is walter scott's brother. >> you're disappointed at the mistrial. >> yes. >> are you angry with that juror? >> i'm disappointed in the juror because he was sworn in and took an oath that he would make a decision and i don't think that's what he did. >> reporter: slager's prosecutor said she will retry him as soon as possible. slager's response was they wanted an acquittal. there is no joy in a mistrial and that that cell phone video shows a compelling but very limited view of what happened between the police officer and walter scott. >> mark, thank you. >>> president-elect trump just made a surprise a neerns front of reporters at trump tower. he was asked about a tweet that he sent this morning when he called for the cancellation of an order with boeing for new air force one jets. mr. trump s

slager said he pulled over scott for a broken taillight. cell phone video shows scott running away and officer slager opening fire, hitting the man in the back, five times. we cannot show you the video but the defense claims it does not tell the entire story. officer slager said walter scott wrestled away his taser and pointed it at him and the officer said he was scared for his life. thors have been deliberating for the days. if he is convicted odd manslaughter he faces two and 30 years pinned behind bauers but this juror is finished. >> reporter: the last we heard there was one holdout, juror, everybody warmthed to vote for con conviction but one individual sent a note to the judge over the weekend, saying that he would not change his mind, that he could not vote to convict, and unless you have a unanimous decision, of course, there's got to be a mistrial declared by the judge, and that appears to be what is happening here. you remember last friday, the judge gave what is called a dynamite or al learn are len charge to the -- al leadershi

scarlet wilson says that officer slager will be tried again. what do you expect the time line for a second trial to be? >> hopefully soon. charleston needs it, and the country needs it, this was a big missed opportunity to heal a lot of the pain in the community. show the community that their lives matter. and show officers out there doing their job, they are not michael slager. it was a total fumble today. >> justice delayed is justice denied, do you believe that? or do you think in the end they will get justice? >> justice delayed. he bought a few more months out of jail. he will end up behind prison bars where he deserves. >> i wonder what it was like to hear officer slager on the stand. what was it like? >> i wasn't there that day. that was the only day out of the whole trial that i missed. and i think it was god's meaning for me not to be there. i did watch it via the computer and just listening to him. his testimony did not match what actually happened. there was just lies there. and you could tell he was lying. nothing was lining up. wha

of former officer michael slager, foreman and lone black juror in that case is speaking out. find out what he says turned the table in the case. he'll join me live. up first though, theovernment in waiting. president-elect donald trump adding more members to his team after what he'll do whiz global business empire. "the new york times" reporting that the real estate mogul is considering handing over his company to his two adult sons but that trump himself intends to keep a stake in the business and not back out completely. also this morning, growing outrage as the transition pumps out more cabinet picks. the latest choices, scott pruitt to the epa. john kelly prepping to head homeland security. democrats already digging in on pruitt, ally of the oil and fossil fuel industry and skeptical of climate change and currently suing the agency in a bid to overturn some of president obama's most ambitious environmental regulations. >> it's a sickening and a saddening choice. >> certainly a four alarm fire. this is really the worst case scenario. >> all in talking about the four alarm