The News Roundup For January 27, 2023
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🗓️ 27 January 2023
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Summary
Five former Memphis police officers were indicted on murder charges in the death of Tyree Nichols on Thursday. Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn "CJ" Davis fired the five Black officers for violating department policy after Nichols' arrest earlier this month.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that the U.S. will send 31 M-1 Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine for its fight against Russia. This was a U-turn by the federal government after months of saying it would not send tanks.
And some 80 percent of China's population has supposedly contracted COVID-19, that's according to a prominent Chinese government scientist. For context, that's more than one billion people. Last weekend there were 13,000 COVID deaths in less than a week, in addition to the 60,000 deaths that have been reported since December.
We cover all this and more during this week's News Roundup.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Jen. Just a quick heads up before we start the show. |
| 0:03.8 | The news is rapidly developing and things may have changed by the time you hear this episode. |
| 0:09.0 | For the latest news tune into your public radio station and follow updates at npr.org. |
| 0:22.5 | You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm David Gurra, |
| 0:25.1 | the InfraGen White, and it's the news round up. Let's get into it. Memphis is bracing for |
| 0:30.4 | protests tonight after the expected release of body cam footage from a brutal arrest. |
| 0:35.2 | 29-year-old Tyree Nichols died three days after a violent confrontation with five now former |
| 0:40.7 | Memphis police officers during a traffic stop. His mother is asking for peaceful demonstrations. |
| 0:46.0 | We'll have the latest, but first, what more do we know about the mass shootings that left 18 |
| 0:50.0 | people dead in California over the span of just three days? And with President Biden calling on |
| 0:55.6 | Congress to act, what's next for our very divided government? Todd Zwillick is the host |
| 1:00.3 | of VICE's Breaking the Vote series. Mary Harris is the host of Slate's Daily News Podcast, |
| 1:04.8 | what's next? And Josh Meyer is the domestic security correspondent for USA Today. Welcome to |
| 1:09.2 | all of you. Thanks for being here. Todd, let me start with you and we'll go to California first |
| 1:12.6 | here, a state that is still reeling after these mass shootings, two that happened over 72 hours, |
| 1:17.5 | the governor of that state calling this tragedy upon tragedy. On Saturday, 10 people were killed at |
| 1:22.4 | a moderate park dance hall. An 11th victim died later in a hospital. Then on Monday, seven people |
| 1:27.7 | were killed at and around a farm in Half Moon Bay. Both shootings coming less than a week after six |
| 1:32.8 | people were killed at a home in the central valley in California. The victims, they are including a |
| 1:36.8 | teenage mother and her baby. Todd, let's start a moderate park. What if we learned since the attack |
| 1:41.7 | about what motivated it and about the victims? Very little as far as I know, the motive of the |
| 1:50.0 | attacker as far as I know remains a mystery. And in Half Moon Bay seems to have been targeted at |
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