vehicle was very descriptive in what she saw in the person in this red vehicle that is alleged to have been involved in this shooting. reporter: well, we ve heard from the family s attorney, lee merritt, who has said there were four independent witnesses who also described that red pickup truck, a white man driving it. but he makes the point that it could have been very easy in those early morning hours for someone to confuse a fleeing bystander with the actual shooter. considering you have a confession from eric black jr., i think we can make the conclusion that that white man in that red pickup truck was not, in fact, involved in this at all. kaley hartung, thank you so much from houston. farmers are just some of the latest who feel the effects of the government shutdown. but republicans say the american people support his standoff. there s not going to be any bend right here. and the people that voted for
in 2000, george w. bush won georgia by 12 points. in 2012, romney by 8. the margin continuing to decrease in 2016 when trump won the state by 5 points. still, in a con ttentious runof that helped kemp win by four points. but unlike democrats across the country, she rarely invokes the president s name. there s a great deal of concern about whether we re going to continue to stand for the values that made us a strong country. reporter: unspoken or not, there s no avoiding the president s imprint on the race. if we re talking the first wednesday in november and this state has turned blue, who will be responsible for making that happen? who in the electorate? it will be donald trump partly responsible. either way. reporter: kaley hartung, cnn, atlanta. next here, venezuela accuses the u.s. of a conspiracy and it
november in the u.s., the governor s race right here in the state of georgia could make history. if the democratic candidate wince, she will be the first african-american woman governor in the whole united states. polls show this is a referendum and with president trump it is too close to call. here s more from kaley hartung. reporter: a democrat looking to become the nation s first female black governor. where you come shouldn t term how far you can go. reporter: versus this is about fighting literally for the soul of our state this fall. reporter: the republican using every page of the president s playbook. i got a big truck. just in case i need to round up criminal illegals and take them home myself. reporter: georgia s gubernatorial candidates polar opposites on seemingly every issue, from abortion to taxes, immigration to guns.
that s the mother of heather heyer. there is a lot of protests today and in virginia and downtown charlottesville. two virginia state troopers who were in a helicopter watching the protest, they were killed at the crash. less than an hour the university of virginia are hosting a memorial. clergy members are leading a service for the remembrance and our kaley hartung is with us right now. i understand you are seeing some activities right now. reporter: that s right, this is the first visual presence
not give us the votes for border security which includes the wall. meantime, more than 700 children separated from their parents at the border still have not been reunited with their families after the court-ordered reunification deadline passed on friday. cnn s kaley hartung has more for us from mcallen, texas. reporter: as we ve reported on the impact of president trump s zero tolerance policy, we ve learned no two family stories are the same. but there have been some common threads among them. that of confusion and frustration. at times chaos and incredible challenges in communication. the story that best encapsulates where we are today, though, is that of a woman we ll call alejandra. about a month and a half ago she and her 6-year-old daughter crossed the u.s. border. they had fled their home country of honduras because of the gang violence there. when they crossed the border, they were detained and separated. 11 days ago alejandra was told that she would be reunited with her d