Overnight and its notoover yet. The crowd got out of hand damaging stores and property. Pamela osbourne is in the breaking news center. And police are calling this a riot situation . Right. Thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities across the country last night and early this morning, upset over the election of donald trump as president. Last night a crowd filled the streets in portland. This is video from the nbc affiliate there. It started as a peaceful protest. And then things turned unruly and heated with people smashing store windows. Police called it a riot. And then they moved into try to stop the vandalism. At one point police say protesters tried to take over p an interstate highway forcing officials to shut down a portion of that road. This person in portland was caught on camera taking his anger out with a baseball bat. You see him there hitting an leg cal box. And you can see the sparks flying as crowds cheer. And in oakland, california a third night of protests
3 a heads up if youre about to hit the road. Were getting reports of a serious crash on i275 southbound. Its just north of the bearss exit, in north tampa. So just north of this camera. The Highway Patrol got the call around 230 this morning. No other details. Other than there are reports of debris in the roadway. We have a crew heading to the scene, and well bring you more as soon as we get it. Vanessa will also bring us updates during her traffic hits. Later this hour. 3 trying to decide if a woman is guilty. Of murdering a threeyearold boy. 3 theyve been deliberating for two days and still no decision for kara oconnell. She is accused of killing three year old john taylor baxley. Prosecutors say the toddler suffered weeks of beatings and abuse. Oconnel was dating the boys father justin garwacki. The father is also facing murder charges but cut a deal with the state in exchange for his testimony against oconnell. The defense blames the father for the murder. 3 3 developing this morni
Calling trump a narcissist and pathological liar. Ted cruz from the beginning, i said i would continue one as long as there was a viable path to victory. But i, im sorry to say tonight, im sorry to say it appears that path has been foreclosed. Cruz, i dontted know if he likes me or does not like me, but he is one hell of a competitor. Jeannette it is not clear if ted cruz will back donald trump. Unite. Urged his party to everybody is wondering, when will that happen . Alison it was a very tight race on the other side of the aisle and Bernie Sanders edged 53nald trump has won 1,0 delegates, moving closer to the magic number of 1,237. Congratulated ted cruz, calling him a worthy competitor. Then he turned to the general election. Closer to home, this just in new cell phone video of a horrifying and deadly carjacking and a metro parking lot. The man attacked the driver. The police have identified a pedestrian who was killed in the chaos. Tom roussey is live with the investigation happenin
Homeless veterans and what the rest of the country can learn from it. We begin tonight with reaction and some frustration over a new deal for ukraine. It is Early Morning in the capitol of kiev, life pictures from Independence Square. Thousands of demonstrators are still on scene. Viktor yanukovych agreed to give up some of his power, a president ial election by december. But some demonstrators that is not enough. Nick shifrin, with an update. Nick. Yeah john, you know the Opposition Leaders have worked very hard both leer and in the intrsh here and in the International Community as a way to solve these problems. You talk to people here in Independence Square the cradle of where this opposition began and its hard to find anyone who will agree. For 50,000 people todays historic handshake was reason not to celebrate but to mourn. For exactly three months they filled this square, that witnessed two revolutions in hope for a third. Tonight their hopes are dashed. The Opposition Leaders cam
Machines would not change that but it is desperately needed. From the center from public integrity, could you address this question, are we headed for the dystopia inevitably and how can we avoid it if we want to . [laughter] i dont have a crystal ball i dont have my jet packs maidus scenarios would it might be like that the factory on the ground right now. You basically end up with have been and how this is the memorial scenario. It is now paying though lot into the future but the other is the mirror opposite with insane rapid change and we wipeout the human race in the next two days. That is a perfectly credible scenario that the most easily identify with. If you say it will go to hell everybody says yes. [laughter] but the third scenario that i am reaching for but not predicting but prevail is not a middle ground between heaven and hell day are deterministic meaning they boses them what matters is how many transistors can talk to each other. Prevail is its own territory because it h