gunshots ring out in a quiet neighborhood in edmond, oklahoma, a wealthy suburb of oklahoma city. >> 911. >> my son's been shot out in the front yard, he's got no pulse. >> reporter: 45-year-old paul howell gunned down, victim of a carjacki carjacking, his suburban a hot commodity for car thieves. >> the victim's sister was the only eyewitness. >> megan tobey described the shooter as a young black man wearing a red bandana, a white shirt, and a stocking cap or skullcap. she was not able to identify the shooter's face because it was covered. >> two days after the howell murder, the police stumbled upon the suburban parked at a grocery store. >> reporter: the store was blocks away from a chop shop where police learned a young man by the name of lidle king had offered to sale suburban. >> you mention ladell, i think "car thefts." he was involved in car thefts around the metro area. >> ladell was interviewed by lead detectives in this case. he told police on the night of the crime, a guy named chris jordan comes to his apartment. a few minutes later, according to ladell king, julius jone

oklahoma city northwest of oklahoma city and the county seat is -- this is the land of the plains people. the land where grew up had been taken away from thee southern cheyenne. they arere still there but the land was allotted in the late 19th century where they have a small tribal headquarters but they qaeda look comanche -- kiowa comanche in the area where i grew up. i never went to tulsa and didn't even know it existed when i was growing up. it's very provincial in oklahoma by sections of the state, central, southeast, southwest, northwest, northeast and people don't get much out of their counties much less several counties away. i went to tulsa for the first time and only since i moved to california. it was a much more beautiful city than oklahoma city and it was so much more eastern city settled by a lot of entrepreneurs so it's a very different place than where i grew up which was more southern, southern baptist and more like the south. even though it's the plains and it gets out into the plains. so i didn't know anything and i had no knowledge or lower from thatt time. only what i

where i grew up canadian county which is west of oklahoma city, slightly northwest of oklahoma city and the county seat is lb now, this is the land of the planes people, the land where i grew up had been taken away from the southern cheyenne nation. they are still there, but with-- the land was allotted in the late 19th century so they have only very small travel headquarters, but the comanches, southern cheyenne are the people in the area i grew up. i never even went to tulsa or osage country or even knew it existed when i was growing up. it's very provincial in oklahoma by sections of the state, central southeast, southwest, you know northeast and people don't get much out of their counties much less to you know several counties away, so i went to tulsa for the first time only since i moved to california. i finally visited tulsa seemed like beautiful cities and oklahoma city much more eastern kind of city that was settled by a lot of the entre nous are from the east so it's a very different place than where i grew up it was more southern, southern baptist and more like the south,

although jones escaped death row, other inmate's attendants to diana, oklahoma and around the country have not. are you can see your volley for us has more on the recent rise in execution, including the last 48 hours. thanks for joining us, molly. on this? yes. hi scott. so yes, you mentioned 41 year old julius jones. he was scheduled to die today by lethal injection just this afternoon. but like you said, hours before his execution, oklahoma governor kevin still commuted that sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole. now jones was convicted in 1099 for the shooting death of paul how these always maintained his innocence. and in fact, the attorneys that offer him as well as his family, said that there was just a lot that was wrong with the evidence that was presented to jurors. families or his family activist celebrities. they've all fought for his freedom questions over the case and even says that he wasn't even there that night that he was home with his family. and of course prosecutor say that's just nothing to live. but basically questions over that did lead th

spokes person for oklahoma's governor tells the oklahoma newspaper tonight that governor stitt maintains his position that the governors, of chief, are all members of the national guard while they are on title 32 status. meanwhile they are not actively deployed on a federal mission or training. so neither side is backing down. we called the oklahoma national guard today to see with this will actually mean for their members, they say as far as they know, their orders still come from the governor and have not changed. as far as the pentagon and federal government are concerned, people are going to get kicked out of the national guard if they don't have the national vaccine requirement. national guard participates in all of these things. president biden. thursday's deadline for air national guard members, oklahoma national guard members told us they will not speculate for members of the oklahoma air national guard who remain unvaccinated. they instead directed us to the governor's office. like i said, this is turning into a standoff. one that is has a shoot yourself in the foot quality. par

, central oklahoma. men mother was 15 and my father was 17. only kids that she had been through a lot. she was a great mother to all of us. i was the youngest i was sickly and asthmatic. but she did start drinking. her father was irish and was an alcoholic. she loved her father i never knew him but my older brothers and sisters adored him but it can be very generational. but i thinkhe she actually got it from her irish father from the alcoholism. host: professor, let's hear from some of our viewers. carl from washington dc. please go ahead. >>caller: thank you professor for your enlightening work. with that critical race theory with that true history of america to be denied that white kids are being so hurt by the critical race theory but they had no problem teaching about little black sambo or scalping people or native americans powwow so that they don't know how they tried to hide the racial massacre and in the native american massacred. host: we got the idea. professorea? >> a very good question. i ne

but basically questions over that did lead the oklahoma pardon and parole board to recommend that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison with possibly for all without possibly i should say. and finally, kind of basically acted on their recommendation. he's been sitting on that recommendation for some time and again, it was sort of a last minute decision. but until that's and it was commuted. jones was set to be the latest death row inmate the face execution in recent weeks, oklahoma, just last month, october 28th executed, convicted murderer john marian grant by lethal injection. and his execution was actually oklahoma's 1st since january of 2015. much like mississippi, which you mentioned earlier, who also executed in may yesterday. that was their 1st execution in 9 years about 2012. and the reason is the same for oklahoma states are having difficulty finding all the drugs that they use in the lethal cocktail for lethal injections pharmacies are not selling it to them even ones that based in europe. and so they're having difficulty in oklahoma particular there were some gru

of the oklahoma national guard. they instead directed us once again to the governor's office. this is once again turning into a standoff, one that has a shoot yourself in the foot quality, particularly for members of the oklahoma international guard and national guard who may be following state guidance here that's going to end their military careers regardless of whatever the governor says. i told you this was going to go badly. it's going badly. watch this space. y. it's going badly watch this space don't just put on a light show—be the light show. make your nights anything but silent. and ride in a sleigh that really slays. because in a cadillac, tradition is yours to define. so visit a cadillac showroom, and start celebrating today. ♪ ♪ >>> that is going to do it for us tonight. i have run into the last words real estate, which means i owe them one. i'll see you tomorrow. "way too early" is up next. >>> the third thing i'm going to be putting forward in detailed strategy with how to deal with this new vari

oklahoma's african-american experience is truly unique. we came as slaves, -- we also came as citizens. those three migration patterns are how african-americans settled in oklahoma. those that were involved in slavery and their children received 40 acres of land. that is something that is still historically as unique to oklahoma. it is unique for the united states, that these former slaves did receive something other than just land ownership. that was the true social avenue of progress. if you owned the land that you worked, you would truly make a better way for your family. a lot of the black towns that make oklahoma unique, over 30 some odd settlements in the state. relatives would pull their resources together then say, ok we have a community now, we have a church, school, now let's incorporate and form a black town, an all-black town. the uniqueness of oklahoma, the all-black town experience. land ownership. keep in mind, mississippi, alabama, parts of texas, arkansas, louisiana, georgia, could not own land. a lot of times that was the

on the new guy's first day, the person who the oklahoma governor has newly appointed to head up the oklahoma national guard after he fired the old guy, on his first day of the job, he made it his first act on the job to send out a memo saying that members of the oklahoma national guard don't have to get vaccinated. quote, i hereby order no oklahoma guardsman be required to take the covid vaccine, notwithstanding any federal requirement, notwithstanding is doing a lot of work. in that sentence. president biden is commander in chief of the united states military. he has ordered that all members of the united states military need to be vaccinated. for covid-19. just as they need to be vaccinated for all sorts of things. the members of the oklahoma national guard and the national guard and all the states the members of the u.s. military. that applies to them. saying we're in oklahoma so we don't believe it applies to us. that doesn't work in federal law and civilian life. it really doesn't work in the united states military. well, today the department of defense did not mince words about how the

a spokesperson for oklahoma's governor tells the oklahoma newspaper tonight that governor stitt maintains his position that the governors, the commander in chief, are all members of the national guard while they are all channel 32 status, meaning they are not actively deployed on a federal mission or training. so neither side is backing down. we called the oklahoma national guard today to see what this will actually mean for their members. they said as far as they know, the orders still come from the governor and have not changed. but as far as the pentagon and federal government are concerned, people are going to get kicked out of the national guard if they don't comply with the vaccine requirement because the national guard participants in all these federal things. it's ultimately commanded by the commander in chief, who is president biden. as for thursday's deadline for air national guard members, oklahoma national guard officials were told they would not speculate what it may mean for members of the air national guard who remain unvaccinated, instead directed us to the governor's offi

., >>> this was oklahoma city last night. this group of protesters stationed themselves outside the governor's mansion in oklahoma city to try and persuade the governor of oklahoma to stop the planned execution of a man named julius jones. his execution was scheduled for 4:00 p.m. local time this afternoon.maut julius jones has been on death row in oklahoma for 19 years for a murder he says he didn't commit.oma there have been questions raised about the fairness of his trial and whether or not he's truly guilty of the crime for which he was sentenced to death. but as his execution date approached, lots and lots and lots of people in oklahoma of ti all different stripes mobilized to try to move the governor to please not kill this man, to please call off the execution.o the pastor of one major oklahoma city church was arrested last night for refusing to clear the street when police asked him to leave. as they arrested him, he said this is what is called civil disobedience. this protest last night was the culmination of what ha

on the new guys first day, the person who the oklahoma governor has newly appointed to head up the oklahoma national guard after he fired the old guy, on his first day on the job he made it his first act on the job to send out a memo saying that members of the oklahoma national guard don't have to get vaccinated. quote. i hereby order no oklahoma guards man be required to take the covid vaccine. no with standing any federal requirement. not with standing is doing a lot of work. in that sentence. president biden is commander in chief of the united states military. he has ordered that all members of the united states military need to be vaccinated. for covid-19. just as they need to be vaccinated for all sorts of things. the members of the oklahoma national guard and the national guard and all the states the members of the u.s. military. that applies to them. saying we're in oklahoma so we don't believe it applies to us. that doesn't work in federal law and civilian life. it really doesn't work in the united states military. today the department of defense didn't mince words about how the vac

and his father was the main person who integrated the carpenters union in oklahoma. it was a completely different setting that i lived there for five years, four years before we moved to california, i got educated but none of this led to understandings, they had big farmland the obvious had been the southern cheyenne reservation at one time. but i did not question any of that. it took quite a while graduate school i think it was because i study latin american history and graduate school that i came to understand u.s. imperialism in the u.s. history classes which i also took because i did my dissertation on the border, i had to do both they never talked about imperialism, they called it -- i learned about the invasion of mexico which i had little knowledge of before, i think that led me on the path in the direction of wanting to understand this further and then i got involved and i had young professor of african americans study through japanese-american film i volunteered to be a teaching assistant it was outside of the university i was asked to be an expert witness i

saying, while we're in oklahoma, so we don't believe it applies to us. that doesn't work in federal law and civilian life, it really doesn't work in the united states military. well today, the department of defense did not mince words about how the -- vaccination status of the whole oklahoma national guardsman is not the states call, pentagon spokesman saying quote, the secretary of defense has the authority to require these vaccines for all members of the force, including the national guard. quote it is a lawful order. so, again, i want to put this on your radar because this may become a big deal and a worrying deal very quickly. how does this get resolved? both sides are armed, right? if both the oklahoma national guard and the defense department refused to back down on this, how does this result? and what happens after that? especially when all the other republican governors around the country decide they are going to do this, and defy lawful u.s. military orders. how does that resolve? do we have any has a history with that in this country? watch thi

what do you want to say to the oklahoma governor tonight? >> yeah. we would hope that governor stitt would look at what the pardon and parole board approved today and grant our wish that he -- what they recommended which is converting his death role with the possibility of life with parole. time is of the essence with the pending november 18th date, so we are urging our governor to take action and take action quickly. >> madeline? >> well, i would like to say we are urging our governor, honorable kevin stitt, to do the right thing. he's a father. he's a -- well, we know leader. he's a god-fearing man, and just doing the right thing, and we would urge him to look at the urgency of it. >> thank you both. thank you so much. i really appreciate it. come back and talk to us. you guys be well. >> yes. we appreciate it, don. thank you for using your platform. we greatly appreciate it. >> thank you very much. thank you for watching, everyone. our coverage continues. (vo) wildfires have reached historic levels. as fires keep raging, the need to replant trees

so they certainly got away with it in this case in oklahoma. but as i said, there are almost 3000 other cases pending in other states, and they are now bound to take a different legal direction. so let's bring in maria glove us as a professor of law at the georgetown university law center. join us live now from washington, dc. marry a good job with us. so how significant then is this decision by the oklahoma supreme court? and why do you think they overturned this judgment against johnson and johnson? so it's, it's certainly significant, especially since it follows on the heels of a decision out of california last week that also rejected claims against johnson and johnson and other manufacturers under public nuisance theory. so if you're thinking about settling with johnson and johnson, those settlement offers look a lot more attractive in the wake of the california decision. and now the oklahoma decision, it's not significant in that it doesn't tell us how other states might come out on the same issue. because public nuisance law varies from s

a final decision, now in the hands of oklahoma's governor. i want to get right to the election day right now. polls opening in just a few hours in virginia. and the closely watched race for governor. the candidates neck and neck tonight. the latest from cnn's jeff zeleny. >> reporter: one final push for votes in virginia. >> do not sleep for 24 hours. let's bring this baby home! >> reporter: democrat terry mcauliffe is seeking a second act as virginia's governor but on election eve, he is locked in a bitter duel with republican businessman glenn youngkin. >> the entire nation is watching this. all eyes are on virginia. >> reporter: a year after president biden won the commonwealth by ten points, republicans are riding a wave of energy. they hope to spark a party resurgence as democrats scramble to keep their party together, and avoid an embarrassing defeat. >> there is not going to be a democrat in any seat anywhere in this nation who is going to think that his or her seat is safe. >> reporter: virginia elects its governors the year after the

this was oklahoma this week. this was oklahoma today. here's direct action of a very different kind, but also going the distance, also getting to the goal. yesterday union workers at john deere finally ratified a new contract, which brings to an end their labor strike. last month more than 10,000 people who work at john deere walked off the line. five states, colorado, georgia, illinois, iowa, kansas, john deere workers have been in the streets for 35 straight days trying to get better working conditions. as a result of their strike, they won. they won a 10% pay increase that goes into effect immediately. they'll also get a signing bonus and better retirement options. that's what they were asking for. here was direct action of yet another kind and yet another place. this was glenn county, georgia, today outside the trial of three white men who are accused of killing an unarmed black man who was jogging in his neighborhood, a man named ahmaud arbery. for days now, the defense attorney for one of the men who's accused of killing mr. arbery

so they've certainly got away with it in this case in oklahoma. but as i said, there are almost 3000 other cases pending in other states and they are now bound to take a different legal direction. dr. eric cycle thing is with us now. and if a jamie ologist and senior fellow at the federation of american scientists on scott from washington, thank you for your time. as always, doctor, i think we can sort of separate this into the case. and then the actual opioid epidemic as far as the case goes, it's important, obviously, but there's a lot more cases. and is there a significance or can i even say a lack of significance that it's happening in oklahoma? why i think this case is just the 1st test trial of the basically the deceptive marketing that johnson johnson had practice that contributed to opium. there's many other cases pending were not oklahoma, the boss of california high west virginia. there's many, many states, all with similar public nuisance cases, and the publications laws in different states are also very different. so just because oklah

um and i also uh i'm glad to hear you from oklahoma. my partners from gore oklahoma and while i've never been in your region of the state, um i know agriculture and beef production is really important there. um i want to talk a little bit about federal and food safety inspectors getting them into some of the smaller facilities, especially since small plants are so often competing with the bigger facilities for the same inspectors. uh do you have any recommendations that would help level the playing field for smaller facilities in this regard? >> yes, i i think the executive order that president biden put in place and cutting the overtime requirements for these small plants uh that helps but that we do have just an actual shortage of inspectors. um and we're seeing that both at the state inspected facilities in oklahoma and at our usda inspected facilities. uh so we have to address that problem and get more federal inspectors right now, the big plants have priority and so they're getting the inspectors, the small, the small mom and pop s

marcus moore tonight from oklahoma. >> reporter: tonight, jubilation after oklahoma's governor granted clemency to death row inmate julius jones, sparing his life nearly four hours before his execution. governor kevin stitt choosing life without parole for jones, despite calls from supporters and family, saying in a statement, "after prayerful consideration and reviewing materials presented by all sides of this case, i have determined to commute julius jones' sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole." jones also not eligible for a future pardon. ♪ amazing grace ♪ >> reporter: still, outside the prison, crowds breaking out in song. his sister telling me, she and jones spoke after the news. his first words to her, "i love you." as best you can, describe what that moment was like. >> it's a blessing to be able to hear his voice and to know that he will still be alive. >> reporter: jones was a college student in 1999 when he was charged with murdering paul howell during a carjacking outside of oklahoma city. investigators finding a gun wrapped in a red bandanna i

[applause]. >> so this was oklahoma this week, this was oklahoma today. a direction of a very different kind but also going the difference. getting to the goal. yesterday, union workers at john deere finally rack defied a new contract. which brings to an end their labor strike. last month, more than 10,000 people who worked at john deere walked off the line, five, states colorado georgia, illinois, kansas, john deere workers have been in the streets for 35 straight days trying to get better working conditions. as a result of their strike, they won. they want to 10% pay increase that goes into effect immediately. they also get a signing bonus, and better retirement options. that's what they were asking for. here was direct action of yet another kind, and in another place. this is glenn county georgia, outside, where three men were accused of killing a man. a man name ahmaud arbery. four days, now for one of the men's who's accused of killing mr., aubry was attempted to prominent african american pastors removed from the side of the trial. removed from the

." >>> just about 20 miles southwest of downtown oklahoma city sits a town called mustang. once farmers and ranchers dotted the land. it's bigger now, but folks still hold tight to their roots. >> pretty quiet community for the most part. >> faith connects community here, and people stay lifelong friends. >> it is a small town feel. very much neighbors helping neighbors. >> in a place like mustang, neighbors know almost all there is to know about each other, for better or worse. >> 911, state your emergency. >> so when the unthinkable happened -- >> my husband is lying here gasping for air! >> -- it would be all the more startling when the secretings came tumbling out. >> i heard a lot of things that shocked me that i never would have imagined. >> had evil invaded mustang? >> i'm in mustang, america. who would [ bleep ] do that? >> or come from within? >> it created a lot of fear for a lot of people. >> that was my first real whodunit. >> keith bryan was oklahoman to the core. proudly raised in the sooner state. he married his wife becky at 19, and they settled in mustang.

but what the supreme court in oklahoma is saying is that they misused this public nuisance law. they overstretched, it and the ruling, the supreme court just say it doesn't lessen the impact of what is happening in this country with the opioid epidemic. but they did think that the court overstretch that mock now why this is significant is because in norman oklahoma, i was that the date, the judge made this ruling. it was a latin mark case, the 1st of its kind, but there are 2700 other cases in all other states in this nation. and this was being seen as a template to hold big pharmaceutical companies responsible for the pure epidemic. so if they were watching this, they can see how oklahoma went wrong and what the implications are for all these other cases going on. so it is a significant ruling. i remember meeting outside the court house, a doctor who ran clinic for people who was suffering from addiction and a mother who lost her son to opioids. and they were both extremely happy with that ruling. but clearly. 6 it looks like this will have ramifications for all these other cas

oklahoma governor kevin stitt on thursday halted the planned execution of julius jones, a black man who was sentenced to death for a 1999 murder he's always insisted he did not commit. jones' reprieve came just hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection last night. [cheers] hundreds of death penalty opponents erupted in cheers inside the oklahoma state capitol as news broke that julius jones' life had been spared. but as a condition of granting clemency, governor stitt said jones shall never be eligible for commutation, pardon, or parole for the rest of his life. this is reverend christine byrd, a long-time supporter of julius jones and his family. >> i am overjoyed -- i know some people will not see it as a victory, but his life is spared today so i am thankful there will not be an execution today. would we have wanted something different? yes, but i'm thankful that he will live another day. amy: in louisiana, 75-year-old henry montgomery walked out of angola prison on wednesday, winning parole nearly 58 years after he was sentenced to life in prison for a crime he commit

basically what the oklahoma high court said was that the public nuisance law they were trying to use in this case was far too broad. they say that doesn't take away from the tragedy of the opioid crisis that really plagues this nation. i wouldn't say that johnson and johnson or many other pharmaceutical companies are off the hook and in the, big pharmaceutical companies are offering about $4 billion to settle all these cases at once. but i remember, i was there the judgment came down in oklahoma and i met a doctor who ran clinics of people who are hooked on these kinds of painkillers. this kind of cash even the 500 or so million was not enough to keep those clinics running for a year so they've certainly got away with it in this case in oklahoma. but as i said, there are almost 3,000 other cases pend inning other states and they are bound to take a different legal direction. anchor: six more former associates of donald trump have been ordered to appear before the congressional committee investigate thing january 6th storm offing the capitol building. they include national security ad

back here, a face off between oklahoma and the pentagon. the commander of oklahoma's national guard refusing to in force the military's vaccine mandate saying he answers to the governor who is against it. cnn's oren liebermann live at the pentagon with details. oren, what is going on here? >> reporter: christine, there are a number of republican-led states challenging the vaccine mandate. it is oklahoma's governor going after the military part of that vaccine mandate. coming from defense secretary lloyd austin. he has instructed the head of the oklahoma national guard, brigadier general thomas man sin owe, not to enforce the vaccine mandate even though the deadline for the guard is still about six months away. brigadie brigadier mancino said he will follow the state dpliguidelines long as the troops aren't called by the government. as long as they aren't federalized. if they are they will have to enforce the vac mandate. here's where it becomes a dispute. even when they are not federalized, they are still required to immediate federal requi

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he is set to be executed today in oklahoma. his supporters, including everyone from football players to actors to schoolkids are fighting for a last-minute reprieve. andrea fujii explains why. >> reporter: this morning, a death row inmate who claimed his innocence for more than 20 years is set to be executed, unless oklahoma's governor intervenes. >> take a knee >>ep julius jonprotesting outside the governor's mansion last night. the confrontation leading to at least one arrest. [ singing ] >> reporter: hours earlier, demonstrators voicing their support at the state capitol. local students walking out of class, lepleading with the governor to grant jones clemency. his mother is refusing to give up. >> i don't get to hug him. and he's not this monster that people have portrayed him to be. i feel empty. the system is broken. >> reporter: jones was convicted, along with his high school friend, in the 1999 shooting of paul howell, on oklahoma city businessman, who was carjacked and killed in his driveway after getting ice cream wit

oklahoma and oklahoma state. a trip to the conference championship on the line. sanders and the cowboys delivering in the fourth. 37-yard scamper for the score. eric gray muffs for oklahoma. oklahoma state recovers it within the five. only in a rivalry game. the td, the game winner. oklahoma state roaring back from down nine points to win it 37-33. the first win over ou since 2014. oklahoma state gets baylor in the big 12 title game. the winner has an outside shot at the playoff. if we had to sum up the intensity and passion of rrivaly weekend, it would be this from florida and florida state. helmet pulled off but refusing to go down. heart and determination into the end zone. state bragging rights, both teams are 5-6. bowl eligibility on the line. that's how much this matters to these young men. rivalry weekend brings out the best and sometimes the worst in players and fans. the ups and downs, highs and lows. setting up for an awesome college football playoff rankings coming out. >> it's going to be good. congratulations. i will say it. gotta be a good sport. >>

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oklahoma's governor commuted the death sentence of julie jones just hours before he was scheduled to be executed. the governor's decision came down just a few minutes after noon thursday markie martin was inside the capitol in oklahoma city. when that news broke. >> this was the moment inside the state capitol rotunda when hundreds of julius jones supporters learned a death row inmate's life have been saved. and when jones sister antoinette learned her brother would live. >> what are you feeling right now. peaceful. >> just been thanking guy continuously what? that's a son. this is all due to that said he shall live and that that oklahoma governor kevin stitt releasing his final decision shortly after noon. >> saying after prayerful consideration he had made his choice life without the possibility of parole. and that is really what we needed in oklahoma city know the case dates back to 1999 jones was convicted of shooting and killing businessman paul, how in his driveway in front of house 2 daughters after they returned home from an ice cream date. how sister the lone adult eyewitnes

the 6th, the top court in the us state of oklahoma has overturned a $465000000.00 ruling against drug make a johnson and johnson over its alleged part in the nation's opioid crisis. the pharmaceutical john was accused of fueling the epidemic through deceptive marketing . but the time a supreme court has ruled the de la cord wrongly interpreted the states public nuisance law in 2019 or a half a 1000000 people in the u. s. died from period overdoses. in the last 2 decades in miami, that's quite a reversal, isn't it? it is essentially, this was the 1st case to be kind and i was there the day that the judge made that room ruling in norman oklahoma and essentially all the other states we're looking at this is the template of how to make big pharmaceutical companies like johnson and johnson pay for the damage they say they have done. there are 2700 pending court cases. and what the supreme court no close said was look, you misuse this public nuisance law. so now they've thrown that entire case out. i remember very distinctly outside the courtroom meeting, a mother who lost her son. he'd bee

he is set to be executed today in oklahoma. his supporters, including everyone from football players to actors to schoolkids are fighting for a last-minute reprieve. andrea fujii explains why. >> reporter: this morning, a death row inmate who claimed his innocence for more than 20 years is set to be executed, unless oklahoma's governor intervenes. >> take a knee. >> reporter: supporters of julius jones protesting outside the governor's mansion last night. the confrontation leading to at least one arrest. [ singing ] >> reporter: hours earlier, demonstrators voicing their support at the state capitol. local students walking out of class, lepleading with the governor to grant jones clemency. his mother is refusing to give up. >> i don't get to hug him. and he's not this monster that people have portrayed him to be. i feel empty. the system is broken. >> reporter: jones was convicted, along with his high school friend, in the 1999 shooting of paul howell, on oklahoma city businessman, who was carjacked and killed in his driveway a

to buy a rocky piece of lands in oklahoma. that no one wanted. >> the conventional wisdom of the day was if we moved here, they wouldn't want anything to do with us. because the land isn't suitable for farming. >> it's kind of amazing to look out and think about the fact that 150 years ago the osage people settled here because they wanted to be left alone. there was no peace for the osage. by the time jim's ancestor was born in 1883. the government declared all out war on native culture. >> we need to stop them from being indian. christianize them. reeducate. reregulate their children. this is what they did. >> henry and tens of thousands of native children were forced to leave their families to attend boarding school. >> they didn't just okay we're going to pick up your kids and take them to the school down the street. no, they took them five states away. shaved their hair. washed their mouths out with soap. if they ever spoke their language. or tried to practice their traditional ways. kill the indian, save the man. that was

here in oklahoma city, as in most cities, we do that every day. we work together, republicans and democrats, to get things done. i'm so glad that on a national level we could finally do that here for something this important. >> mayor whaley, as a democrat, you are in my home state of ohio. currently has a republican governor. you're running for governor. what was it for you about this infrastructure bill and what it will mean for your constituents that made you say i'm going to go to the white house and show my support? >> i think it's the same that mayor holt just talked about. we as mayors have been fighting for an infrastructure bill, roads, bridges, broadband, airports for over a decade. >> what is it that you get that members of congress haven't gotten for the last ten years? >> i think frankly when you go to washington, d.c., things become much more partisan that they're not on the ground. 63% of americans approve of this bill. they know that this is what their communities need. it's the number one issue in my community is paving and fixing

the governor of oklahoma, kevin stitt, said it is possible to teach about things like the tulsa race massacre without making white students, for example, feel shame or guilt about that event, which they were not present for and were not involved in. currently, in oklahoma, there is a lawsuit that has been filed, seeking to overturn this new law in the state on the grounds that it infringes on the first amendment rights of teachers, as well as students, to talk about these issues in a sort of free and constructive way. i think that gets into a different set of legal issues about students and teachers, especially with free speech rights, but, you know, that is one case to watch closely in this debate. i suspect it will not be the last, as well. host: catherine in minnesota. good morning. caller: good morning. when we talk about race theory, i think my own fear -- when i think about historically the way i was taught in a classroom in minnesota, they left out so much information. they left out anything that did not reflect positively on white people. so, we were not teaching much about r

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board in oklahoma also recommended commuting his sentence back in september. stitt has not said whether he will accept and agree with that. recommendation from the board had a news conference today. jones mother described her son's scheduled execution as a lynching. >> how could you want to go to a want to go to lunch. and tomorrow. i want to go to a i somebody compete against some want. why would i want to someone hand. >> jones says been on death row for nearly 20 years now after he was sentence for the 1999 murder. >> of paul howell who was shot in a carjacking is howell pulled into his parents driveway with his adult sister and 2 daughters. jones his attorneys and advocates say new evidence proves that he is innocent and was away from the crime scene at the time. the case also has the attention of warriors head coach steve kerr. >> and here we are literally hours away from an innocent man being executed. and so i wanted to put this video out please share please join me in the fight to save an innocent man's life to it for julius to him for his family. do i

what i was calling about, i have first some truckers call, i was raised in oklahoma. we are talking about huge, huge tanks. they have always been full. my sister called me and said they now have no drops of oil in those tanks. it has all been shipped to the gulf. he said you better fill up your cars and gas will go high because there is no oil. host: i will take the opportunity to rephrase her question, do you think rising gas prices hurt the democrats at the polls? guest: they did. inflation in general has hurt us. it is mostly because the supply chain has been held up in large part because of the pandemic and workers in foreign areas cannot produce. the ports have held up the supply chain, as well. we put a lot of money in the economy to help working people. >> the rules committee is

so they've certainly got away with it in this case in oklahoma. but as i said, there are almost 3000 other cases pending in other states and they are now bound to take a different legal direction. 6 more former associates, a former us president donald trump, have been ordered to appear before the congressional committee investigating the january 6th storming of the capital building. they include national security advisor, michael flynn, former senior advisor, jason miller, and attorney john eastman and the $700.00 people have been charged in relation to the rise of the capital building. on january the 6th and increasingly tense. political deadlock in bosnia herzegovina is raising concerns the country could return to war. it has been nearly 3 decades now since the 3 main ethnic groups signed a u. s. bank p. steel. now that demands for more or tommy from bosnia sub community are threatening to unravel. it'll demolish reports from sarajevo. it's been a gloomy few weeks in bosnia herzegovina, with dark clouds filling both the sky and the country's pol

but i remember i was there the day this judgment came down in oklahoma. and i met a doctor who run clinics of people who are hooked on these kinds of painkillers. and he said this kind of cash, even the 500 or so 1000000 was not enough to even keep those clinics running for a year. so they've certainly got away with it in this case in oklahoma, but as i said, there are almost 3000 other cases pending in other states and they are now bound to take a different legal direction. just a little background. if you wouldn't mind, andy briefly for our view as on the scale, not so much of the, of the litigation with the scale of the crisis in the 1st place. well, the center for disease control and prevention came out with the numbers between 19972017. around 400000 americans died and those deaths are all directly linked to opioids. this is a crisis that doesn't really pay much attention to wealth gender class. i've been all over the country covering this story. and it's something that really affects so many different people in a day of reckoning. i think for big ph

. >> i'm headed to oklahoma to learn more about the osage, how they became so rich -- >> the rush was on. >> -- and who wanted them erased from their towns. so she was 21 years old. and ultimately from american history. >> america was built on the graves of indians. they didn't care if we died. they didn't care if our children died. >> it wasn't okay then, and it's not okay now. you know, murder is murder. ♪ ♪ >> one night, almost 100 years ago, a 40-year-old man named henry roan went out for a drive. a few days later, his car was found on the side of a road. inside, henry lay dead, slumped over the steering wheel. >> he was shot from the back of the head. >> jim gray and his son are henry roan's descendants. >> my mom named me james brown gray, and when i had my own son, i named him henry roan horse gray. my family never tried to sugar coat the story. it was very upfront, you were named after a man who was murdered. >> we both carried that same burden to know who we descended from, know what kind of challenges that he paid the ultimate price for. >> why was henry roan killed, and

mullin of oklahoma, i inform the house that mr. mullin will vote nay on the motion to table. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. moolenaar of michigan, i inform the house that mr. moolenaar will vote nay on the motion to table. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mrs. miller-meeks of iowa, i inform the house that mrs. miller-meeks will vote nay on the motion to table. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mrs. hartzler of missouri, i inform the house that mrs. hartzler will vote nay on the motion to table. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north dakota seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. johnson of south dakota, i inform the house that mr. johnson will vote nay on the motion to table. as the member designated by

we knew they -- our colleagues in oklahoma were praying there. so our faith was elevated. >> certainly, i mean, this is a week, i think, where there are so many questions about race and justice, right? and you know very well that one of the defense attorneys, this is the defense attorney for william bryan, the defendant who struck him with his truck. he asked for black pastors not to be allowed in the courtroom. what do you make of this? >> you have to understand it was really pulling off the sheets of america on display. of blatant racism with no policy. not only did he ask for black pastors not to be present, he said it three times, from reverend sharpton, to reverend jackson, and then a blanket statement without any fear of repercussion. and so i think this is time for america to do a deep dive as to the real core of this cancer called racism, that these men would shoot ahmaud arbery, who carried in weapon as they testified on yesterday, pose no imminent threat, but they have weaponized his melanin, said it is a crime to be black in america an

light boosters for all adults will the definition of fully vaccinated change >>> just hours before an oklahoma inmate was set to be executed, the governor commuting his sentence the celebration at the state capitol. >>> after 56 years, two men convicted of killing malcolm x exonerated. >>> the massive storm threatening thanksgiving travel. al roker timing it out for us. >>> days after his summit with china's leader, what president biden said today about a potential diplomatic boycott of the beijing olympics. >>> nbc news investigates the covid horrors in a nursing home one worker who made a grim discovery breaking his silence. >>> and serena williams joining the chorus of concern over a missing chinese tennis star. the mystery e-mail raising more questions. >>> this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening. the three georgia men accused of confronting and murdering ahmaud arbery as he ran through their neighborhood last year rested their cases tonight, but not before the defendant who fired the fatal shot, travis mcmichael, admitted on the witness stand arbery did not verbally t

>> oklahoma -- my daughter's moving. >> reporter: louise turpin directed to go back to the front door. >> why don't you stay with my partner, okay? >> reporter: a pale, emaciated child moves through the living room. her clothes dirty, so was her hair. >> what do you do for work? >> engineer. >> engineer? >> reporter: as the parents are talking, deputies head into the center of the house. there's a hallway. they pass the parents' bedroom. then down the hall, two other bedrooms. the deputy looks at the first door and discovers a crushing scene. those two young girls from their sister's photos, one is on a bed, the other a mattress on the floor. they are limp, frail, eerily quiet, caked in dirt. their arms are bruised. but where are the chains? >> hi, sweetheart. hi, girls. can i see your wrists? >> me? >> yeah. >> which one? >> okay. hi. how old are you? >> reporter: next, the deputy heads to the bedroom next door. two filthy bunk beds but no child is chained. he pleads with the children, can they tell him where are those chains? >> okay, thank you. we're here to help you. okay? just wo