A Video Emerges of a Fatal Shooting of a Black Jogger in Georgia.
HILL: Developing overnight, the case of a deadly shooting of an unarmed black man in Georgia will go to a grand jury. And that news comes as video of the February incident emerges, and I do want to warn you, it is disturbing.</s>HILL: Twenty five-year-old Ahmaud Arbery seen jogging, and is then as you saw in that video confronted by a former police officer and his son after an apparent struggle, Arbery was shot and killed. CNN has not independently verified who filmed the video. But it is consistent with the Glenn County police report. The video was obtained after a local radio host uploaded it on the station's website. The video has since being deleted. CNN's Martin Savidge joins us now from Glenn County in Georgia. So, Martin, what is the latest in this case? That video is awful, to put it mildly.</s>MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is. It is. There is no way to watch that without being moved. The latest on this investigation is, and remember that happened back on February 23rd. It's just been announced now by the third DA who is overseeing this case that he does intend to take it to a grand jury, which is of course, a relief and at least, the first indication, and many of the wheels of justice are starting to move here. However, we should point out, there are no grand juries that are being seated right now. And no one is really sure when they may next be seated because of the coronavirus that Georgia Supreme Court has at least shut that process off for the time being. The earliest they say that can happen would be around the middle of June which means the wait will continue for many in this community, Erica.</s>HILL: And in terms of the community, how is the community responding to all of this?</s>SAVIDGE: I think you look at that video and everyone has almost the same reaction. It's shock, it's horror, it's outrage and above all in this community, it is frustration. Because it has been over two months since the horrific event and many people here believe that an arrest was warranted on the very first day. That has not happened. And so along with the frustration has been the coronavirus. Many people believe that this story would have received a great deal more of national attention had the nation not been focused of course on the horrible pandemic. Then on top of that, when people got frustrated and they wanted to go out on the streets to bring attention, they couldn't because the state of Georgia was under stay-at-home orders and continues to be under restrictions as far as crowds gathering to demonstrate. That said, there was a protest last night in the community where all of this happened. It was small, but it was poignant and people were apparently saying pandemic be damned, we have to get out on the streets and bring more attention to what's happened. The NAACP was speaking out about really what many in this community are feeling.</s>JOHN PERRY, PRESIDENT, NAACP, BRUNSWICK CHAPTER: To believe that human beings could treat another human being that way, and of course, we see stuff on TV. But to be able to see it for yourself, him fearing for his life and being trapped like some animal between two cars while men with guns set their -- trying to take his life as he fought for his life. It was extremely disheartening.</s>HILL: Disheartening, he puts it mildly. And I know, too, that you -- while you were down there during reporting, speaking with people, you really got a sense of the tension's firsthand. What happened in those moments?</s>SAVIDGE: Well, we went into the neighborhood to talk to neighbors, to talk to witnesses and to perhaps talk to those who were seen on the video to get their understanding or their take of what happened. We were in the neighborhood only a few minutes when this happened.</s>SAVIDGE: That is semi-automatic gunfire and nobody was hit. Nobody was hurt. But there was a lot of it. And quite frankly, I can't tell you if that was somebody firing blanks or whether it was just somebody had a very good sound system. But clearly, that was a message directed directly at us, telling us that we weren't wanted in that community. And remember, we're walking down that same street that the young victim here had been running down, and we were going in the same direction. And it was gunfire once again.</s>HILL: Yes, well --</s>SAVIDGE: John?</s>HILL: Tough stuff, Martin, thank you.</s>JOHN BERMAN, CO-ANCHOR, NEW DAY: Right, well, I'll tell you that's deeply troubling but thank you, Martin, for that report. This morning, a top biotech company says it might have a treatment for coronavirus available by the end of Summer. It relies on something you've likely never heard of based on a concept from a century ago with a high tech twist. CNN medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.</s>ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The key to making a brand new drug for COVID-19 could be in this vial of blood. It comes from this man, Eli Epstein who has recovered from coronavirus. Now doctors at the Rockefeller University in New York City are searching his blood for just the right antibodies.</s>MICHEL NUSSENZWEIG, THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: You really want something very potent. Potent means can neutralize, kill the virus.</s>COHEN: It's a twist on the use of convalescent plasma where someone who has recovered from COVID gives blood directly to someone who is sick. That can work, but it's old technology. Dr. Emil von Behring won a Nobel Prize for his research on convalescent plasma in 1901. The new approach uses monoclonal antibodies and it's cutting-edge. Here's how it works. When someone is sick with COVID, the antibodies inside their blood fight off the virus. After the person recovers, they donate blood. Scientists select the most powerful antibodies and clone them and turn it into a drug. It's one of the hottest areas in COVID research. Companies in New York and San Francisco, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, even the Department of Defense and many more are involved in monoclonal antibody research. We caught the team at Vanderbilt as they picked their favorite antibodies.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: None of these -- these are all distinct, getting the same site, but distinct antibodies.</s>COHEN: The treatment could possibly prevent infection or treat those already sick. Vanderbilt's lead researcher around the project, Dr. James Crowe specializes in vaccines, but he says monoclonal antibody research will be faster.</s>JAMES CROWE, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: I think antibodies will be finished first, and will be the bridge toward longer immunity which will be confirmed by vaccines.</s>COHEN: So fast that the pharmaceutical company Regeneron says they might be able to have their monoclonal antibody drug on the market by the end of the Summer. Their technology is already used to treat cancer, arthritis and asthma.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We can clone out the best of antibodies from recovered humans. We've selected the best ones to create an antibody cocktail, as we call it.</s>COHEN: With so much work on this --</s>CROWE: I think the more groups we have working on it, all the better. And the more shots on goal we have for getting an effective prevention or treatment.</s>COHEN: The hope is high for this old therapy turned new. Elizabeth Cohen, CNN reporting.</s>BERMAN: All right, thanks to Elizabeth for that. We want to remember some of the more than 71,000 Americans lost to coronavirus. Emergency dispatcher Nikima Thompson had served with Broward County, Florida, Sheriff's Department for more than 16 years. Her daughter calls her a hero who was put on this earth to save people. The 41-year-old leaves behind four children. Tony Sizemore was a beloved nursing assistant at a convalescent hospital near Sacramento. Her family says they tried to persuade the 72-year-old not to work during the pandemic, but that she was stubborn. Sizemore was the first staff member at the facility to die. Thirty four other staffers and 32 residents have now tested positive. Seventy-year-old Donald DiPetrillo was the fire chief for the Seminole tribe of Florida. Officials believe he got the virus at an outbreak at an EMS conference in Tampa. The public safety director says DiPetrillo believes success in life was about just being nice. If you care for people, the rest takes care of itself. We'll be right back.