BEING WITH US I'M SHAY ARTHUR I'M ALEX COLON TODAY ATTORNEYS GAVE THEIR OPENING STATEMENTS IN THE CASE IN THE FIRST WITNESSES WERE CALLED >> AND WHILE OUTSIDE COURT TODAY THERE WERE SPRAYING WRE CHEESE APRIL THOMPSON IS LIVE WITH THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS APRIL >> AND ALEX YES WITNESSES HAVE BEGUN TO BE COLD IN THIS CASE IN FACT SOME ARE ON THE STAND RIGHT NOW THE FIRST UP TODAY WAS A CRITICAL CARE NURSE WHO WAS WORKING AT SAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL THE NIGHT TERRY NICHOLS WAS BROUGHT IN AFTER HIS ENCOUNTER WITH THE SCORPION UNIT SHE TESTIFIED ABOUT TERRY NICHOLS INJURIES WHEN SHE FIRST SAW HIM SHE SAID HE IT FRONT TEETH WERE BROKEN AND LACERATIONS ON HIS LIP ABRASIONS ON HIS SHOULDER IN KNUCKLES AND PUNCTURES ON HIS PALM SHE SAID QUOTE HE LOOKED LIKE HE HAD BEEN IN A BAR FIGHT AND PUNCHED FEW TIMES SAYING HIS FACE WAS UNRECOGNIZABLE BECAUSE OF THE SWELLING AND WE ALSO HEARD FROM SEVERAL MEDICAL EXAMINERS THAT THEY DID NOT KNOW AND THEY WERE NOT TOLD AS WELL AS ON THE SCENE AT HOSPITAL VERY LITTLE WAS GIVEN ABOUT WHAT CAUSED THOSE INJURIES TO TYRE NICHOLS IN OPENING STATEMENTS TODAY WE ALSO LEARNED SOME MORE INFORMATION WHAT WE CAN EXPECT TO HEAR OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL WEEKS DEFENSE ATTORNEY SAYING THEIR CLIENTS WERE FOLLOWING WHAT THEY WERE TRAINED TO DO WHEN IT CAME TO THE USE OF FORCE PROSECUTORS ALSO SAID IN THAT MORNING DESMOND MEALS WILL BE TESTIFYING SAYING THE MEMBERS OF THE SCORPION UNIT WERE ANGRY WHEN TYRE RAN AND THEY WERE ANGRY THEY HAD PEPPER SPRAY THEMSELVES THEY ALSO SPOKE ABOUT SOMETHING CALLED THE RUN TAX THAT'S THE PUNISHMENT FOR SUSPECTS WHO RAN FROM POLICE YOU WOULD GET EXTRA PUNCHES AND KICKS AND THEY SAY THAT WAS WELL KNOWN IN THE MEMPHIS POLICE DEPARTMENT AS THIS TESTIMONY GOT UNDERWAY OUTSIDE TYRE NICHOL'S FAMILY AND ATTORNEY BEN CRUMP TALK TO THE MEDIA AND PRAYED ABOUT WHAT WAS TO COME >> OUR HOPE IS THAT THEY'RE FOUND GUILTY AND TO SHOW THE WORLD ASSUME WAS A GOOD PERSON AND HE WAS IT THE CRIMINAL THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE OUT TO BE I'M JUST GONNA LEAVE IT AT THAT RIGHT HERE >> AND THAT WAS ROVE ON WELLS TYRE NICHOLS MOTHER HIS FAMILY IS IN COURT LISTENING TO THIS TESTIMONY MORE IS EXPECTED TODAY A FEW PEOPLE WERE COMING UP TO TESTIFY AND THEN THIS TRIAL IS FULL UNDER WAY AND STILL WE COULD POSSIBLY HEAR FROM THOSE MEMPHIS POLICE