Headquarters. Hello, im eric shawn. Arthel im arthel neville. Police say the violence began when a pro trump caravan, hundreds of vehicles long, arrived in the city just as a counter protest was getting underway. Police say some fights broke out throughout the two groups throughout the evening, they say shots were fired, about 15 minutes after the trump caravan left the downtown area. The victim has not been publicly identified and the shooter remains at large. Christina coleman is live in los angeles with more on what happened last night as we await the News Conference from merited wheeler. Christina. Reporter this is the third consecutive weekend of tension escalating between competing groups of protesters in portland. A caravan of Trump Supporters was making its way through Downtown Portland when protesters attempted to stop them by standing in the street. Some Trump Supporters fired paint ball pellets and protesters and they threw things at the caravan. The shooting happened after
Matters protesters and Trump Supporters. At this point its not clear if the deadly shooting was related to that. Heres chad wolf, acting Homeland Security secretary. Were waiting obviously for that investigation to unfold. I do understand that there were a number of counterprotests and counter groups in portland overnight. I think this points to a larger issue that weve seen in portland for the last three months and that is local and state officials not allowing Law Enforcement to do their job and to bring this violent activity night after night after night to a close. Arthel we have live team fox news coverage, david spunt has the white house reaction. Aishah hasnie reports on Police Shootings in the line of duty. Garrett tenney on the wisconsin protests. But first to Christina Coleman and the deadly shooting in portland. Christina. Reporter arthel, a caravan of Trump Supporters was making its way through Downtown Portland when protesters you attempted to stop them by standing in the
15 minutes after that trump caravan had left the downtown area. Victim has not yet been publicly identified and the shooter as far as we know remains at large. The mayor of portland, ted wheeler, who serves that citys Police Commissioner is set to speak at the top of the 4 00 p. M. Eastern or of 1 00 p. M. Pacific time hour, just under 60 minutes from now. We will bring that to you live as it happens. First, lets go to Christina Coleman live in los angeles with more details on the tragic and shocking turn on the streets of portland last night. Reporter this is the third consecutive weekend of tension escalating between competing groups of protesters in portland. A caravan of Trump Supporters with 600 vehicles was making its way through Downtown Portland when protesters attempted to stop them by standing in the street. Some protesters fired paint ball pellets and bear spray at counter protesters and they threw things at the Trump Supporters. Supporters. Police havent released details on
Democrats say the cost cutting measures are slowing mail delivery. Many americans are expected to use the mailin Ballot System because of the coronavirus pandemic, though they say postmaster general louis dejoy and President Trump are trying to sabotage the election, so say the democrats, President Trump and dejoy say thats not so. The house says the bill is an overreaction. The president says the democrats are trying to steal the election. Democrats say thats not so. In the middle of all this on the hill is chad pergram as we await the vote. Reporter we think the vote will come sometime in the next hour, hour andahalf. Theyve got a little ways to go yet here. Democrats are very concerned about vote by mail. They believe the president and the postmaster general are trying to undermine vote by mail ahead of the november election. Heres House Speaker nancy pelosi. Dont pay any attention to what the president is saying. Because it is all designed to suppress the vote. Hes going to have La
Progress also being made on a Coronavirus Vaccine and he attacked democratic policies and made a pitch to black and latino voters. Hello, everyone, this is americas news headquarters, im eric sean, hi, arthel. Arthel hello, everyone, im arthel neville, the speaking before hundreds of supporters in south lawn, comments coming just 23 days before the election and as he plans to return to the campaign trail, the president s team announcing he will follow up todays event with stops in the battleground states of florida, pennsylvania and iowa. Thats coming up next week. We have fox team coverage. Rich edison has more on Election Security concern. Hillary vaughn is following campaign. We begin with Mark Meredith, live at the white house. Mark. Mark President Trump, he had plenty to say to supporters gathered in the south lawn as you and eric mentioned. This was the first time we saw the president hold public event after leaving walter reed medical center. The president did have a mask as he