Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us. We start with breaking news. A serious accident at 70th street. We flew over the search minutes ago. We saw a father and child being carried away on a gurney. There is the photos there. We are told four cars are involved here. Four people have police are warning us thunder bird is closed 65th avenue to 75th avenue. It is likely to stay that way for hours. Avoid this the area if you can. More protests in the streets after donald trump was elected president. Several cities had large crowds march in protests. Some even scuffling with police. White house. Reporter antitrump demonstrators staged another round of disruptive protests. Police in Portland Oregon fired rubber bullets and arrested two dozen people. They declared the protests there a riot. After initially blaming the unrest on professional protesters incited by the media trump credited them morning for having passion for our country. Hell take the oath from office ten weeks from today. Yes
Brave men and women on this veterans day. Good friday morning, this is early today. For the second night in a row, spontaneous protests erupted as frustrated voters marched in the streets in opposition of tuesdays election rules. They appeared in patriot more, san francisco, oakland and more. Protesters demonstrated their frustrations, donald trump returns to his old , to twitter to blast them and the media, posting, just had a very open and successful president ial elect. Now successful protesters are protesting. Very unfair. Now it should be noted that trump. Called for a march on washington the night of the 2012 president ial election. Prior to taking a jab at those protesters, trump had a more conciliatory tone with president obama and his wifes trump, the first time the two met facetoface is a hallmark of events, for the First Time Since becoming the president elect. Noting public protocol t. Trump camp refused to allow journalists to travel with him for his historic first meeting
Is open to the public. This is a day where we honor those who have served in our nations military. Skyfox over two veterans day parades happening in phoenix and mesa today, thousands of people lining the streets to celebrate our veterans, and one of the largest gatherings was here in phoenix. It started at bethany home and central and ended near the phoenix va hospital. Fox 10s Andrew Hasbun was there, and he spoke to three veterans from three different wars, and he joins us now live. Iraqi freedom, vietnam, and world war ii. They came with families to watch one of the biggest parades in the state, cheering as floats passed by. Its a parade many veterans wont miss. We did two tours in iraqi freedom, two tours, two deployments. We brought his family, including young kid. Missed a lot of holidays together, birthdays, and its nice to be here and join everybody out here. The parade zigzagged down Central Avenue and camelback road and ended near the va. Elected leaders and High School Bands
Fire crews just coming on scene once again to check all of this out, after dealing with this massive fire burning here. After the flames have died down, this is what were seeing now. All of this damage to three of these mobile homes, affected by these flames. It seems two did have People Living inside them, but no one was home at the time. Crews working to contact those homeowners now. A captain on scene just explained to us, just how important it was secure this location quickly. The structures are put together very closely, side by side, which can cause spreading very quickly. Theyre a lightweight material. Lot of times theyre fed by propane. The number 1 thing were really worried about are the people within that community. Reporter this community, obviously concerned, but okay tonight. Investigators have come out here working to determine the cause of all of that. The coming days. Jason . All right, thank you, megan. Those people in our thoughts certainly tonight. Developing story i
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