Details coming up. But news4 midday starts right now. Good morning and welcome to news4 midday, im barbara harrison. And im Erika Gonzalez this is the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington National cemetery. News4s Pat Lawson Muse with more on whats taking place there. President obama is just arriving at Arlington National cemetery at this hour this will be his final da arlington while serving as president. First will lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. After that the president will go to the amphitheater where he will make his veterans day remarks. And deliver a speech about veterans and the meaning of this day. Well keep it right here. Well be watching the ceremony and bring you some of what the president has to say here from the live desk. Im Pat Lawson Muse, back to you. Veterans were honored this morning at a world war ii memorial. Among the guests, former senator bob dole, senator dole is a veteran of world war ii. He received two bronze stars for valor for his ac
Governor christie. That was nbcs political director and moderator of meet the press chuck todd. You can keep it here. Chuck is going to join us at 6 00, and for complete coverage of the trump transition team, stay tune for nightly news. Antitrump protests turned violent in portland, oregon. Police had to bring in riot gear. They said the demonstratored smashed light poles, started fires. They also damaged north of the border in canada, a large group of protesters gathered outside trump tower in downtown vancouver last night. Many chanting love trumps hate. Were also seeing people overseas working to make their voices being heard. A group of american israelis gathering outside the embassy in tel aviv for a peaceful protest. The organizers saying their wanted their voices heard after they saw the demonstrations elsewhere. Your country is going through such a difficult time. Here in our area, there are a lot of concerns in the Muslim Community about what a Trump Presidency could mean for
Demonstrators taking to thee streets to voice theirto v opposition for hoursours overnight. Our Melanie Alnwick joins use nc now live from the trump the T International hotel inationahote northwest with the latest. Mel, good morning. D m reporter gooord morning, steve and allison and thingsngs are quiet now but you can see s d. C. Police with a much stronger presence here outsidehi the Trump International hotelot this morning. Ni much more visible presence prese than we saw even here wsaw yesterday after that otherer round of protests last night. Nt no surprise really with thiss of the president elect in d. C. Dc that this is sort of the magnet for protests in theor city. Well take you to some of the video from last night with you e protestors their voicesois literally echoing off the carved stone archways here ofs h the hotel. People still stinging fromtill tuesdays Election Results shouted antitrump slogans andls waved signs. It was the seconds night of unrest in many heavily heavi d
He doesnt support trump. He hopes protest are peaceful. Spread a message of positivity, i did not vote for trump, i do not support trump but were going to be stuck with him, so its up to us to make the difference. 4,000 protestors in portland turned into riots. 26 people were arrested. Its apart of a serge of protest nationwide. That works against what we should be doing as A John Turner supports the president elect. Trump took to twitter and called protest unfair and friday morning he tweeted lobby for protestors and he says well come together and be proud. I hope that they give the guy a chance, you know. Just like they did 8 years ago. Its up to the president not just shove them off. Students are protesting too. This one is from britter high school in montgomery high this man. Two more protest are being organized. Both at the capitol, but first is this weekend, the second a million woman march for the day after inauguration day. Live downtown, pete, wusa9. Well watch closely, thank
Desk. Chopper 4 over the scene in rockville, maryland, right now. Hundreds of students in Montgomery County have walked out of class in protest of donald trump being elected president. This is downtown rockville. The students left the high school about 50 minutes ago and marched through the rockville town center. Now they are in front of that old courthouse building. They are Holding Signs and chanting on the ground. There is also more from twitter and other schools are reportedly ba no video of that quite yet, but take a look at that from above. Chris gordon is on the ground. Chris, how is it down there . Reporter well, it is nonviolent and they are stressing, they are stressing that they are trying to build bridges, not walls. They said lets show them were better and we are not violent. They are here on the steps of the old Montgomery County district courthouse, and they that we have to analyze what happened in this election, how it is that the Electoral College will name trump presi