Lets begin with the breaking news, the white house announced moments ago that President Trump will go to kenosha, wisconsin, this week, the site of the shooting of jacob blakes and the protests all week. Jeremy d Jeremy Diamond is joining us and sarah sidner is on the scene for us. Jeremy, tell us what you learn about the president s position to go ahead at this sensitive time to visit kenosha. Reporter the president spent the day outside of washington, in louisiana and texas. As he landed here in washington, the press secretary confirmed the president will be going to kenosha, wisconsin on tuesday. They say hell be surveying some of the damage from the fires there as well as meeting with Law Enforcement officials on tuesday. The president earlier in the day had suggested that this was a possibility but it was not clear that plans are actually in action for this to happen. Now we know that the president will be going to kenosha, wisconsin, on tuesday, it could be a combustible situati
This is cnn breaking news. Hello and welcome to you, our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im ken brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. We start with breaking news out of portland, oregon. One person has been shot and killed near the site of a fierce and violent clash among protesters. Police are calling it a homicide, but we have to be clear, we dont know if the killing is linked to the unrest. The shooting comes after a huge caravan filled with supporters of u. S. President donald trump rolled into town earlier on saturday, met by furious counterdemonstrators. For months now, portland has been a flashpoint for protests. Our security correspondent Josh Campbell spoke earlier about what led up to saturdays violence. This city has been the focus of so much attention in the United States for well over two months now. There have been these nightly clashes between protesters and Law Enforcement officers, both federal and local Law Enforcement officers, but today it sta
Mike baker is a New York Times correspondent, he joins me from there. Mike, you were there during these clashes. What did you witness regarding the shooting that occurred and do we have any information as of yet on the victim . Yeah, so the shooting occurred while there were a bunch of trump pro trump vehicles driving through downtown. As you guys covered there, there was a gathering in the suburbs of Trump Supporters and they were going to drive around the outskirts of the city, but a lot of them decided to come through into downtown where they met a bunch of protesters who were there wanting to confront them. And sort of during the hours of that happening, there were reports of gunfire, went over to the scene and the police had blocked it off. There was a man who had been shot in the chest, who was being treated at the time, and he appears to have been wearing a Patriot Prayer hat, a far right group here in the portland area. Tell us more about the clashes between these two groups, m
Seen more than three months of protests, which have sometimes turned violent. We received some insight earlier from cnn security correspondent, josh campbell, he spoke with us on the phone from los angeles. This city has been the focus of so much attention in the United States for well over two months now. There have been these nightly clashes between protesters and Law Enforcement officers, both federal and local Law Enforcement officers. But today is starting to take a bit of a different turn, in that these protesters arent just antiLaw Enforcement. What we saw, and continuing as we speak, is there is also a large group of prodonald trump protesters, who are now also inserted into the mix. Earlier this afternoon, they staged hundreds of trump protesters outside of the city of portland and indicated on social media they were going to be heading downtown. And portland police, in fact, put out an alert saying there was this caravan heading downtown. They were asking people to please sta
Appeal that were going the hear a lot about formula retail, and tonight is probably not the night for those types of comments, but you can say whatever you want. Okay, one other thing, commissioners, if you were to decide to grant jurisdiction and hear all the matters together, we would not be able to hear them next week because under the code, we have to wait longer than that. Sure, i mean, would we be youve already noticed the hearing. You can hear the two appeals that are currently on calendar regarding the building pert but you could not hear an appeal of the letter of determination. So, theres another process thing. So, a hearing on the merits of the letter of determination which was issued in the e vept we grant the jurisdiction request, that hearing would not be heard until after a hearing on the merits of the actual permits. Am i being unclear . No. Am i confusing everyone . I think we just need to hear we can hear them all together, you would have to order us to reschedule the