It's Monday, March 29th. I'm Hila Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Rezek and this is what a day officially predicting that this summer is about to be a wad boy summer.

Yeah, you know, it's up to you guys to decide what that means so we don't even know.

One thing I do know I'm selling t shirts for $20.

On today's show, COVID cases tick up again in the US than some headlines.

But first, the latest, the twin cities are on edge preparing for a trial that the world will be watching.

X officer Derek Chauvin faces charges of second degree murder, man slaughter and third degree murder after kneeling on the neck of George Floyd for nearly nine minutes.

That's right. So today opening statements begin in the trial against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

We have been following this for a while now, but given that we are entering a new phase here, Gideon remind us what we actually need to know.

Yeah, so at the moment, Chauvin is charged with a number of counts that we heard there for the killing of George Floyd last May. The trial is expected to last several weeks at least.

There will be a dozen people on the jury with two alternates and they actually won't be shown on the video feed of the trial to protect their anonymity.

Just kind of a crazy detail about all of this.

But what do we know based on a compilation of different reports so far about half of the jurors or white and more than half or under 40 years old?

Yeah, and Gideon, what do we know about how the prosecution and the defense will be trying to make their cases?

Yeah, so as of Sunday, we were still learning about what those jurors are actually going to hear.

But we did learn from the Washington Post that the judge is going to allow Chauvin's attorney to show body cam footage of a 2019 incident where Floyd was pulled over by Minneapolis police.

A separate thing that is not what the trial is directly about officers reportedly pulled him over and arrested him after which Floyd said that he was addicted to painkillers and swallowed percussed.

Now Floyd was never charged in that case, but it basically seems like the defense wants to use this to make the argument that it was actually health issues and drug use that led to Floyd's death.

Now prosecutors reportedly are angry rightfully that this would even get introduced because it could impact the jury's view of Floyd who again is not on trial here.

So we'll see how that part of this develops.

Yeah, it's a little insane. It's like I get killed by the police.

They were like, oh, you're drunk a year ago.

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