Public safety in mind when it implored the president not to come. They write in a letter, President Trump, you are not welcome in pittsburgh until you fully denounce white nationalism. But donald trump did not heed either their requests. In fact, he made abundantly clear in remarks last night hes going to keep hitting the same divisive notes he always hits, no matter what. I was in the headline when they got him, they didnt say bomber found. They talked about trump in the headline. Now, they didnt do that with Bernie Sanders when he they didnt do that with the democrats when other people came out. They didnt do that with president obama with the church, the horrible situation with the church. They didnt do that. They put my name in the headlines. Its when i say enemy of the people, im talking about the fake news, and it is fake. A moment of national tragedy, thats all that matters, Donald Trumps clips. At least eight elected officials refused to accompany the president to pittsburgh to
Controversial border policies, today Border Patrol posted some images of u. S. Troops installing barbed wire in texas. This has voters across the u. S. Just swarming their early vote locations. More than 27 million early ballots cast as of yesterday evening. That number has eclipsed early votes for a president ial election in some cases, in some states, let alone a midterm year. Well talk more about these remarkable numbers in a moment. First lets go to our cnn senior White House Correspondent jeff zeleny who is at President Trumps rally in belgrade, montana. Jeff, what is the president s argument today . Reporter ana, the president is making a direct argument about why Montana Voters in his view should vote against jon tester. You can see behind me here, he is speaking in big sky country with air force one as a backdrop. From the beginning, President Trump making clear this race is indeed personal. He said, one of the many reasons ive been here four times is because of a personal veng
Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. We begin with breaking news. The lion air passenger jet crashing overnight during a short flight from the capital of jakarta to the island of pangkal. Lion airs confirmed it lost contact with the aircraft 13 minutes after takeoff. We have will ripley with more from hong kong. Will, what do we know . Reporter if you look at this on the surface, there are no clues to understand what caused the plane to go down. The plane made a sharp descent before it disappeared from the screen. Just 35 nautical miles off the shore of jakarta. We learned the identity of the captain. There are conflicting reports if he called air Traffic Control and asked to turn the plane around. The airline disputes that. What we know is there were thunderstorms in the air. Nothing dangerous in terms of weather in the vicinity where the plane went down. It was a safe distance from the lightning. There are so many questions for the family members waiting
Semiautomatic weapon. At that time, i instructions my congregates to drop to the floor. Do not utter a sound and do not move. Our pews are thick old oak. I thought perhaps theres some protection there. The people that were in the front of my sanctuary, i quickly tried to usher them up to the front, out some doors in the front towards exits or towards a closet, some place they could hide, some place safe. I turned back to see if i could help the remaining eight people in the back of my congregation. At that time, i could hear the gunfire getting louder. It was no longer safe for me to be there and i had to leave them. One of the eight was shot. And shes survived her wounds. The other seven of my congregates were gunned down in my sanctuary. There was nothing i could do. A short time frau now, the First Court Appearance for the man accused of killing 11 people. Robert bowers will hear the formal reading of the 29 charges against him. He could face the Death Penalty for the deadliest anti
All of those benefits. Its ridiculous. It has to end. I called up the military. This caravan is not theyre wasting their time. Were going to have tents. Theyre going to be very nice. And theyre going to wait. If they dont get asylum, they get out. We really need to decide what we want to occur almost a month from now. How we want to per perceived by our own citizens and by the world. Okay, just a week to go until the 2018 midterm electionings. Plea elections. For two years, you complain about what is going on, but this is the day you can make the difference. Seven days more for the candidates to make their case to voters. Lets look at whats on the table so far. Flift, the president stoked fears of the Migrant Caravan from Central America by claiming, quote, criminals and unknown middle easterners are mixed in. The president later admitted there is no proof of this claim. Yesterday, the Defense Department announced 5,200 active duty troops would deploy to the border with mexico. That is