tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. the american people about to see two very disturbing police videos. first, memphis bracing tonight. police at any moment set to release graphic body camera video showing what authorities say the brutal police beating of tyre nichols. the other story, for the first time the police video, the chilling attack on nancy pelosi's husband, paul pelosi. in memphis, that video expected to be released shortly. showing the police beating of tyre nick oms. tonight what the family is saying. what authorities said today, pleading for peaceful protests. what they say the video will show -- the beating, kicking, pepper spray, and a stun gun at a traffic stop near his home. the officers fired and charges with second-degree murder. tyre nichols' mother and her message today, addressing those fires officers directly. stephanie ramos in memphis.

also tonight, the very unsettling police video on the attack on nancy pelosi's husband. we will not show it all here. a judge in san francisco releasing the video of the vicious attack, along with his call to 911. officers confronting the intruder. and he and paul pelosi struggling over a hammer. they tell the suspect, drop the hammer and what he then says, what he then does. matt rivers from california. the attack on this international holocaust remembrance day, the deadly shooting rampage outside a synagogue in jerusalem. at least seven people killed. the dra the dramatic day in court of the trial of the once prominent attorney alex murdaugh. charged with murdering his own wife and son, and what the jury was shown today, the police interview with murdaugh. what he said to them about discovering his own family. the major storm and for many, a frigid weekend ahead. multiple states on alert, and there's news coming in of a massive pileup on i-90, dozens injured. sweeping west to east.

another accident involving jay leno, this time on his motorcycle. we'll have the latest on the his condition tonight. and at the very end of the broadcast, so many of you responded at the time after our journey back with the children of auschwitz, the survivors. what they want you to hear tonight. good evening. breaking news. police bodycam video released in memphis. the brutal police beating of tyre nichols. he was 29, a worker for fedex, a father, unarmed. five officers fired and now charged with the second-degree murder among other charges. tonight, tyre nichols' grieving parents are calling for peaceful protests.

we have bleeped some of this because of what is said. here is the moment that nichols is initially pulled from the car. >> i didn't do anything. >> turn around. >> all right. all right. >> you don't do that. >> get on the ground. the five officers facing charges were members of a street crime unit called orpion, some arriving that night in unmarked cars. nichols is on the ground calling out for his mother. >> give me your hand. >> you want to get sprayed again? >> mom! mom! mom!

mom! >> there are so many questions as to why he was pulled over. the police chief telling abc news that so far they have found no evidence to back officers' claims he was driving recklessly. nichols' parents asking for prayers for their son and family and again calling for peace with this video soon coming out. president biden watched the video saying he is pained by what he saw. he talked with the family. abc's stephanie ramos leading us off tonight from memphis. >> reporter: tonight, the city of memphis ree releasing the footage. police stopping nichols in his car and pulling him out. >> get on the ground!

we are going to >> mom! >> camera footage showing the police kicking and punching nichols. the brutal beating of the 29-year-old unarmed father after a traffic stop just y5rd yards his home. nichols dying in the hospital three days later. outrage brewing over the roles prosecutors say five memphis police officers played in the death, all now fired. those five officers all facing felony criminal charges including second-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping and assault. today, tyre nichols' family and their attorneys coming before

cameras, speaking just hours before the footage is set to be released by police. >> it doesn't matter if the officer is a black officer, a hispanic officer, or a white officer. it is the culture that allows them to think they can do this to tyre. >> reporter: attorney ben crump acknowledging the memphis police department's swift action in firing the officers, calling it a blueprint for cases like these going forward. >> when we look at how these five black officers who were caught on camera committing a crime and when we look at how fast the police chief and the police department terminated them, and we look at how swiftly the district attorney brought charges against them in less

than 20 days, then we want to proclaim that this is the blueprint going forward for any time any officers, whether they be black or white, will be held accountable. no longer can you tell us we got to wait six months to a year even though we got a video. >> reporter: family attorney tony romanucci describing what tyre nichols was allegedly facing that night. some unmarked cars, which police have confirmed, and some plain-clothed officers. >> this supposedly emanated from a traffic stop which turned deadly. some of them were unmarked squad cars. these were not all officers in uniform, only partially of them were. >> reporter: the family's attorneys arguing there were other cases of police misconduct by that unit, but that some claims were ignored and this case could have been perhaps prevented. this morning, memphis's own police chief questioning the

accusation of reckless driving that led to the initial stop. >> we haven't been able to substantiate in any video that there was a reckless driving type of acton that prompted this stop. >> reporter: today, tyre's nichols' mother, rowvaughn wells, emotional, addressing the five officers directly. >> i want to say to the five police officers that murdered my son, you also disgraced your own families when you did this. but you know what? i'm going to pray for you and your families, because at the end of the day, this shouldn't have happened. this just shouldn't have happened. >> reporter: saying she has not yet had time to grieve the loss of her son herself. >> no mother -- no mother -- no mother should go through what

i'm going through right now. no mother. to lose their child to the violent way that i lost my child. i still haven't had time to grieve yet. i'm still dealing with the death of my son. this is -- this was not supposed to happen. my son was supposed to be with me today. >> reporter: tyre nichols' mother saying she could not bring herself to watch the body camera footage. she's been told it shows her son screaming out for her. >> for me to find out that my son was calling my name and i was only feets away, it -- did not even hear him. you have no clue how i feel right now. no clue. >> reporter: tonight, the attorney for one of the fired officers, desmond mills, saying the video will likely be terrible, but that not all the

officers played an equal role here, defending his client. you say they weren't equal partners that night. what do you mean by that? >> everybody played their own role, and i suspect that you're going to see that some officers crossed the line, but it wasn't desmond mills jr who crossed the line. >> reporter: tyre's stepfather, rodney wells, saying the family is satisfied with the charges, including second-degree murder, once the charges were explained to the family. tonight both parents are asking for prayers for their son and family and for any protests to be peaceful. >> we want peace. we do not want any type of uproar. we do not want any type of disturbance. we want peaceful protest. that's what the family wants. that's what the community wants. >> the country seeing this video. there are images coming in of

protests in memphis. >> reporter: absolutely. we are seeing protests here in memphis. people in the streets, on highways, chanting, no justice, no peace. also saying, tyre nichols' name, ahead of the release of this body camera footage. we heard from tyre nichols' family, including his mother. she's upset. wipe agway tears. asking for peaceful protests, not just here but across the country. >> stephanie ramos in memphis. we turn now to the other unsettling video. showing the attack on nancy pelosi's husband, paul pelosi at their san francisco home. body camera video from the responding officer showing pelosi and the attacker struggling with the hammer. you can hear they tell the intruder to drop the hammer. what he says next, what he does next. also, surveillance video showing that intruder breaking into the home. what he did to get in. later telling police he was

looking for the former speaker who was in washington. her husband, the victim instead. former speaker pelosi responding to all of this tonight, and abc's matt rivers from california. >> reporter: tonight, newly released body camera video revealing the moments san francisco police officers arrived at paul and nancy pelosi's home just before the gruesome hammer attack. they're responding to paul pelosi's 911 call about an intruder. >> how you doing? what's going on, man? drop the hammer. >> uh, no. >> hey, hey, hey. >> what's going on here? >> officers have just seen pelosi and depape wrestling with a hammer. depape strikes pelosi viciously in the head, fracturing the 82-year-old's skull. officers rush in, tackling the suspect.

video capturiing depape smashin through a window before entering the home. authorities say it took 16 blows and an entire body slam to break through that glass. in audio frdepain saying this. >> reporter: and describing the moment he woke up paul pelosi standing above his bedside. >> i told him i'm looking for nancy pelosi, and he's like, she's not here. >> reporter: the then house spaker not home at the time of the break-in. paul pelosi able to grab his cell phone in the bathroom. the audio from that 911 call made public. >> this man broke into my house and wants to wait here until my wife comes home. >> do you know who the person is? >> no, i don't know who the person is.

>> reporter: in that interview, depape explaining what he planned to do with nancy. >> i was going to hold her hostage and -- >> and what? >> talk to her. if she told the truth, i'd let her go. if she [ bleep ] lied, i was going to -- >> reporter: authorities say depape was on a suicide mission. he pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges. >> i have not heard the 911 call. iconfession. i have no intention of seeing the deadly assault on my husband's life. >> so, let's bring in matt rivers live in california. matt, the former house speaker also revealing in the last 24 hours how her husband's doing, his recovery that she says continues to this day? >> reporter: yeah, she's saying her husband taking it one day at

a time and it will likely be three more months until he is fully recovered. >> matt rivers tonight. thank you, matt. overseas tonight and to a deadly rampage out a synagogue in jerusalem, and it comes on this international holocaust remembrance day. at least seven dead, three wounded by a palestinian gunman before police shot him dead. it comes amid tensions. nine palestinians killed yesterday. israel's new government announced a new settlement plan. the trial of the once prominent south carolina attorney alec murdaugh. what the jury was shown today. tonight, what the jury was shown today. what murdaugh said about discovering his wife and son. here's eva pilgrim. >> reporter: tonight, new video of alex murdaugh being interviewed by investigators the night his wife and son were killed. >> i pulled up and i could see them, and, you know, i knew something was bad.

>> reporter: murdaugh now on trial for their june 2021 murders. today the state playing video from a camera inside an investigator's car with what he told them that night. >> i touch them both. i tried to take -- i mean, i tried to do it as limited as possible, but i tried to take their pulse on both of them. >> reporter: with one of those agents who interviewed murdaugh on the stand, prosecutors pointing out the gruesome, bloody crime scene, questioning his story. >> how would you describe his hands?p>> they were clean. clean. >> how would you describe his arms? >> they were clean. >> did he look like somebody who had just changed his clothes? >> yes. >> reporter: the state also zeroing in on his alibi. >> my mom's a late-stage alzheimer's patient. my dad's in the hospital. i went to check on them. >> did you find that unusual? >> i did. >> why? >> just the time of night. >> why? >> with her being an alzheimer's patient, they tend to be worse at night, so it seemed it was strange to go visit.

>> reporter: the defense arguing that murdaugh was just being a good son. >> in that context, you don't criticize a son who goes to visit his mother who has early onset dementia on the very day that the father is admitted to the hospital. >> reporter: murdaugh's team arguing his clean clothes show he wasn't involved in the murders. they have been questioning for days now whether that crime scene was compromised. david? >> eva pilgrim on this from the start. thank you, eva. when we come back this friday night, the dangerous storm moving west to east, and reports of a massive pileup on i-90 tonight, many injuries. in a moment. kidney disease. and my type 2 diabetes means i'm also a target. we are targets too. millions have chronic kidney disease and 90% don't know they have it. so ask for your kidney numbers and farxiga.

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>> reporter: now 98, a mother of three, grandmother of six, a great grandmother, too. claire sending us this message tonight. >> people should love each other and take care of themselves. >> reporter: and of course, we remember lois flamholz. at 95, so proud of the family she built after surviving. three children, five grandchildren, more than a dozen great-grandchildren. and we will always remember something she told us. >> hitler destroyed my whole family. he tried to kill me also. he is dead, and i built a beautiful family that i'm very proud of. that's it. that's my life. >> their words, their stories more important than ever.

>> next at 6:00, today's release of what police saw when they arrived at paul pelosi house and nancy pelosi's reaction to the video. >> the news at 6:00 is next. memphis, tennessee. peaceful demonstrations are underway in response to the violent body camera video showing the traffic stop and eating up tyre nichols -- traffic stop and beating of tyre nichols. four officers are charged with attempted murder. >> that reading -- that beating took place three weeks ago tomorrow. >> protests are taking place in the bay area right now, including a demonstration and march down market street.

>> we have reaction to the video and the praise memphis authorities are receiving today from nichols' emily. -- nichols' family. >> we have been hearing from officials about how would be. people have been drawing comparisons to rodney king and george floyd. shocking video came out in four different parts and featured police body camera footage and surveillance video that shows in great detail the moments after a police officer pulled over nichols' vehicle. nichols ran away after being traffic stopped, estop the police chief called into question. officers later apprehended him the video has sparked protests including one in the bay area with several more expected to take place across the weekend. nichols' mother has