out between riot police and protestors. this is the fifth day of these kinds of protests. continuing anger over the jailing of catalan separatist leaders, estimated today more than half a million people joined in rallies around the country. they blocked a motorway at the spain/france border. there were huge backups there. we re going to continue to watch this. but you can see that these are violent protests in barcelona where it is now 9:24 p.m. meantime, fighting has continued along the turkish border in northeastern syria. contradicting president trump s announcement just 24 hours ago of a great day for civilization in the form of a temporary ceasefire. here, you see those plumes of smoke rising. a fire burning on the outskirts of a town along the syrian and turkish border. that s part of the pause agreement. nbc news has not independently
system. americans are understand what the problem is. it s time for republicans in congress to put up their solution to this most serious problem. harris: one thing is for sure. we have a deadline that republicans are working up against. it s september 30th to get around the special rule. they want to get this done before they go away and they need 60. gentlemen i have to step away for breaking news. let s go over to shepherd smith for some breaking news in mexico. very serious. a powerful earthquake has just struck mexico city. video is coming in over social media. the first we have is from global news. this is video out the window there. you can see what looks like smoke rising. this is in mexico city proper. that may actually be facades of buildings collapsing. we ll go to the next video and you ll see that it s not limited to this particular area. this is from inside telemundo studios in mexico city.
relief efforts. we have some news into cnn, these are pictures we are about to show you, news there is a possible fire or explosion. this is in crosby, texas, which is a plant there run by the company arkama, a chemical plant, plastics. you can see the smoke rising. this has been a continuing concern. these plants depend on electrical power when they don t have electrical power, they don t have refrigeration. some of these chemicals are very volatile and you can have fires, even explosions. this, as you can see there, some of those buildings behind with those black marks, they have already had fires, small explosions with that smoke there now. sadly looks like signs of another explosion there. we are going to continue to monitor this over time. keep in mind, that kind of fire explosion, not just a danger there on the spot. it s a danger to surrounding communities. those clouds are smoke can be toxic and that s one reason why around plants like this, the evacuation area has been
here s another photo from the isis news agency showing the smoke rising. this damn is west of raqqa. it s the largest damn in all of syria. they were worried about it for a while. this photo is from april. a u.s.-backed syrian fighter holding weapons near raqqa. jennifer griffin has an update on the latest push. jennifer? shep, may not be a coincidence that the allies decided to launch the operation to retake raqqa on the anniversary of d-day. 73 years ago today on june 6, 1944, dwight d. eisenhower over saw the effort to preserve liberty and freedom. it s hard to convince new recruits that isis a winning cause when they just lost their twin capitols in iraq and syria. and that statement was released by centcom this morning.
others say it is not but it is widely believed it was. he has denied being denied being involved. he s denied a lot of things. now pictures from the protest. you can see the smoke rising. lots of people had signs like there one. down with the usa. men and women alike wrote slogans on their hands. both against theand supporting leader, ayatollah khomeini. this is drawing more attention among hard liners and they re concerned about dealing with the united states and other nations in the iranian nuclear deal. either way, it seems there is never a bad time. remember, we left thing that chaos there. claiming responsibility for a passenger yet in just a minute and indeed, it may have been a bomb that brought down the plane. something apparently exploded and killed everybody on board. the british are going so far as to say, maybe it was a bomb.