Decorum in the house chamber. Breaking news now. Utter chaos in congress for 16 hours. Democrats take over the house floor staging an historic all night sitin demanding a vote on gun control which ended moments ago. Welcome to early start. Im alison kosik. Thank you for joining us. Im ryan nobles. It is thursday, june 23rd. 5 00 a. M. In the east. Breaking news. A standoff overnight in the house of representatives. Democrats seizing the floor demanding a vote on gun control legislation before the house goes on its july 4th break. The tension exploding after 10 0 p. M. After a chant of no bill no break. No bill. No break. No bill. No break. Emotions in the house veering from anger to frustration as protesting lawmakers and constituents took to singing in front of the capitol. God bless america my Home Sweet Home the 16hour sitin led by Congress Member john lewis of georgia. An hour ago, Republican Leaders adjourned. Then minutes later, john lewis and steny hoyer talked about Gun Legisla
Trump. These are live pictures from los angeles where you can see police are still on the streets there as well as demonstrators. We also have live pictures from portland, oregon. This was really the site of some of the most tense moments overnight. Police declared these demonstrations actually a riot in portland after demonstrators threw projectiles at officers and smashed car and store front windows. Also, on the portland twitter feed, the police warned rioting is a class c felony. The damage that we saw in portland, but we saw thousands and thousands of people on the streets once again all across the country. For the first time, donald trump has responded directly to this. He did it in a tweet, and he blamed the media. He wrote, just had a very open and successful president ial election. Now professional protesters incited by the media are protesting. Very unfair. However, most of the protest across the country overnight were peaceful. Cnns anna cabrera walked alongside thousands of
by anderson cooper and kelly rupa tonight 8:00 p.m. you won t want to miss that. one café spreading the christmas cheer in their community. a facebook post from a single mother who couldn t afford a christmas tree for her son. the café s owner, she and her husband went out, bought trees, and placed them outside the tree for anyone to have. they were gone within an hour and said okay let s get more, and more, then the community said let s donate a tree. hopefully we re helping to bring happiness into their home as well. reporter: trees are given oit no questions asked, if you need one, you can take it. next hour of cnn newsroom starts now. reporter: massive rescue and recovery effort under way after
secretary mayorkas and we toured it. there are still crews going 24/7 trying to recover. there are people unaccounted for that were accounted for. they wanted to go home and check on their families and they go to homes that are no longer standing. it took 24 hours to locate all the people, but there are still a few unaccounted for there. reporter: is it still a search and rescue operation or is it a search and recovery? it is still a search and rescue. there is hope there may be one or two in there. we all know the temperature, and this is the second day going into the third day, so reporter: i ve been going around mayfield talking to folks, and several people as i walked up to them said, are you fema? they re so desperate for help, and i know you have so many resources from the federal government, the local government. walk us through what is being done to help the good people of mayfield and beyond?
so again, did the virtual meetings, create a space online and we continued that work. so we have a new group called the ld alliance where people can come together and find their allies, sometimes back in person, thank god we can do that again. still behind a mask, but they can feel seen and know their voice matters. reporter: now celebrities making their way down the carpet, singer singer josh rog they ll be on stage welcoming these heros, the on the stage tonight with $10,000, and the hero of the night will get $100,000 for their organization, but honestly, pam, they re all heros tonight. thank you so much, looking forward to it a little later. and the 15 th annual scene of heros, all-star tribute hosted