These stories are all ahead this hour. Welcome to the viewers a in the United States and around the world. Im natalie allen. Im George Howell in the newsroom in atlanta. Newsroom starts right now. 5 00 a. M. On the east coast and we start with a feud between the u. S. President and professional sports. It got even more heated on saturday after the president disinvited the National Basketball champion Golden State Warriors from visiting the white house. He said in a tweet, going to the white house is considered a great honor for a championship team. Steph curry is hesitating, therefore, invitation is withdrawn. Nba star lebron james fired back calling the president a bum. He added this. Going to the white house was a great honor until you showed up. The warriors responded in lieu of a visit to the white house we have decided well kruktively use our trip to the Nations Capital in february to celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion. The values that we embrace as an organization. Heres the background. This all started friday when President Trump blasted Football Players who refused to stand for the National Anthem. Wouldnt you love to see one of these nfl owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, get that son of a [ bleep ] off the field right now, out, hes fired. [cheering and applauding] hes fired yeah, a lot of folks there cheering. A lot of folks not cheering that thought. On saturday, some League Owners shot back, calling the president s remarks callous and offensive. Nfl commissioner Roger Goodell, critical statement said, divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the nfl, our great game, and all of our players, and a failure to understand the overwhelming force for good our clubs and players represent in our communities. The president shot back, rog Roger Goodell of the nfl put out a statement justifying the disrespect certain players show to our country. Tell them to stand, he says. This controversy is not going away any time soon. In fact, it could become even more pronounced during sundays football games. Yes, we get more on that, cnns brian stelter. Reporter hey there, this controversy involves politics, patriotism, and two of americas favorite pass times. The president seemingly taking a baseball bat and swinging it at a hornets nest. First at a rally friday night, then on twitter saturday. Hes criticizing some of the best known africanamerican athletes in the sports world. That is causing some people to say there is a racial component to these controversies. The president speaking to a mostly white crowd in alabama was talking about the africanamerican players in the nfl who have been taking a knee during the National Anthem before games, protesting, they say, Racial Injustice and inequality. The president doesnt want to hear it. He says, those Football Players who do so should be fired by nfl team owners. He said it at the rally on friday, he said it again on twitter on saturday. Keeping this controversy going. Even as nfl commissioner Roger Goodell weighed in in a surprising move, he called the president s comments divisive even though he didnt name President Trump directly. So there is the nfl controversy, then the nba side. The president taking aim at steph curry, member of the championship Golden State Warriors team. On twitter saturday morning the president was apparently inspired or motivated or ticked off by a statement on the folks news morning show, fox and friends. 20 minutes after fox and friends mentioned that steph curry is thinking about skipping a white house visit, President Trump tweeted and said the invitation had been withdrawn. Weve seen lots of prominent celebrities and athletes and ceos having to make these choices about whether to attend a white house events. Whether they want to be associated with President Trump or try to avoid it. Curry said he was going to avoid it, now the warriors say they are definitely not going because the president has disinvited them. And so this rolls on. These controversies with a racial component to them continuing to fire up people on social media. Now the question, by the way, is what is going to happen on sunday, are even more nfl players going to take a knee not just to protest racism, but to protest President Trump. Brian stelter, cnn, new york. A big day for football in the United States. Well see the reaction on the grid iron. Reaction to the president s broadside keeps pouring in from across the sports world. Former nba great Magic Johnson tweeted, i support the nba World ChampionGolden State Warriors, their owners, players and fans. Golden state players are champions and men of principle who give back to their community. Chris paul of the Houston Rockets said, with everything thats going on in our country, why are you focused on who is kneeling and visiting the white house . And from Richard Sherman of the seattle s Seattle Seattle seahawks, the behavior of the president is unacceptable and needs to be addressed. If you do not condemn this divisive rhetoric, you are condoning it. The silent protest has also spread to major league baseball. Take a look here at the catcher breus maximum well of the oakland athletics. Hes believed to be the First Major League player to take a knee during the National Anthem. During saturdays game against the texas rangers. Lets bring in Erica Rene DavisSports Reporter with cache digital to talk more about this. Erica, thank you for being with us this hour. So, this movement started taking a knee to bring attention to the issue of police brutality, to racial issues in the United States. So, the president of the United States reframing it as an issue about the American Flag and the National Anthem. Yeah, george, thank you for having me. I have to say not only is donald trump guilty for reframing this as a flag issue. I think many of his supporters or all of them many of his supporters, i hate to over generalize, are responsible for reframing this being about the flag when, as you said, it is about police brutality. It is about Law Enforcement officials getting away, even sometimes on camera, mistreating and sometimes killing egregiously innocent men without having a fair trial within our justice system. I dont understand the value in donald trump continually antagonizing nfl owners. I dont understand the value in trump continually antagonizing nfl players who are peacefully protesting something that they perceive as an injustice. So, erica, speaking of these owners, several of them donated to the inaugural committee, supporting President Trump. They did release statements stating that they were offended, backing their teams, of course, given the president s comments. But, again, is there a sense here that the president is hurting many of the people who initially supported him . Well, lets just be completely honest, george. I dont know if you saw the nfl statement they relesioned today, but that was the quintessential nonstatement. That was the quintessential textbook version of, let me just Say Something to kind of sweep under the rug the real issue, but make it seem like we really care. I do feel like nfl owners understand the majority of their league, black men makeup the league. So, they have to stand up for them in a sense. But again, they are trumps home boys, like they are a part of his crew. So, they arent going to say anything thats too staunchly opposing Donald Trumps views and thats exactly what the nfl did today by releasing that nonstatement statement. The National Basketball champions, Golden State Warriors were invited to the white house initially, but that invitation was rescinded by the president , essentially saying that, you know, theyre disinvited now. Right. Theres been a lot of response from that. I have to say, kind of comical in light of all the negativity, its been really funny to watch the social media backlash because, you know, the warriors had not they had not decided that they were going anyway. So, what donald trump did is what he typically does before he could look like the loser. He made sure that his opponent was the loser. I really think a lot of the warriors for standing up and standing in solidarity and saying, we are not going to support a white house that continues to divide our country based on misogynistic values, based on racist values. You know, based on dividing the country anyway that it can. And its not just a knock at trump. Its a knock at his supporters. It is speaking out people who support his administration. It takes a very strong leader, steve kerr, the head coach of the warriors, and it takes a very Strong Organization to say, were not going. We are the champions, and we are not going to this white house no matter how much of an honor it is. We wont be there. Erica rene davis, thank you so much for taking time with us. Of course, mr. Trump not just picking fights with athletes at home. Hes also trading threats and insults with north korea. At the u. N. Tuesday he said the u. S. Would destroy north korea if forced to defend the u. S. Or its allies. Saturday north koreas foreign minister responded at the u. N. General assembly. The absurd reality a person like trump, a mentally deranged person, full of megalow mania, the person who has chastised even by American People as commander in grief, lying king, president evil, is holding the seat of the u. S. President and the dangerous reality that the gambler who grew old using threats and all other schemes to acquire a patch of land holds the nuclear button. These are what constitute the grave est threat to the International Peace and security today. Mr. Trump responded to the foreign minister in a tweet. He wrote, quote, just heard foreign minister of north korea speak at u. N. If he echoes thoughts of little rocket man, they wont be around much longer, exclamation point. He goes on to say, little rocket man, that is mr. Trumps new nickname for the north Korean Leader kim jongun and it appears to be getting to him. North korea held an antiu. S. Rally saturday to denounce President Trump. Also on saturday, the u. S. Says that it flew bombers to the east of north korea. The pentagon says that it was a message to pyongyang over its nuclear ambitions. Our ben wideman following this story live in tokyo. Ben, lets talk about this. Weve been talk Berkshire Hathaway rhetoric from north korea, also met with name calling from the u. S. President. The things are now getting much more real, this show of force much closer to north korea. Reporter yes, its important to note that they flew along the eastern side of the Korean Peninsula and its on the northeastern side of north korea where these Nuclear Tests have been going on. So, it was probably more than just a show of force by the United States. In fact, a spokeswoman said it was intended to send a clear message that President Trump has, quote, many military options. They were also probably having a look at the terrain in that area in the eventuality, the possibility that the United States will take military action. So, in addition to these shows of force and this mud slinging back and forth between the two leaders, this is exacter baiting an already very tense situation to the point where a spokesman for the Ruling Democratic Party in south korea, south korea of course being a very close ally of the United States, put out a statement saying that the exchange of excessive verbal threats would only heighten anxiety. George . Ben, thats the other question. As far as residents throughout japan, residents throughout south korea, people have been accustomed to the rhetoric from north korea, but now that the rhetoric has been ratcheted up with the name calling from the u. S. President , is there more anxiety among everyday people watching all of this play out . Reporter if you take into account the events of the last month, you have had north korea on the third of september conducted its 6th nuclear underground nuclear test. Within the last month, north korea has fired rockets over japanese territory. In addition to the mud slinging, so, it definitely has caused people to have far more concern. It was almost sort of a fact of life before this recent chain of events. I think whats most disconcerting for many people is the nature of the rhetoric coming out of the United States. Theyre accustomed to a much more thoughtful, balanced rhetoric coming from the u. S. And, for instance, just look at, for instance, if you go back in time to 2003 before the United States launched its invasion against iraq under Saddam Hussein at the time, at least the american president said, we are not an enemy of the iraqi people. But here what we seem to be seeing is that President Trump is threatening not to destroy the regime, but to obliterate the country, and thats a cause for concern. Cnns Senior International correspondent ben wedeman live in tokyo at this hour. Ben, thank you for the report. Southern mexico felt the effects of a 6. 1 magnitude quake saturday morning, less than one week after a more powerful quake struck just south of mexico city. The confirmed death toll from last weeks disaster has now risen to 307. And the hope that more survivors will be found under the rubble is beginning to dwindle. Ivan watson has the very latest for us. Reporter sirens rang out across the mexican capital when a 6. 1 magnitude earthquake shook central mexico. So far we have not gotten reports from the government of new casualties or significant damage, but the tremors did interrupt some of the dangerous and vital rescue and recovery work taking place at sites like this office building, a sixstory building that collapsed in tuesdays much bigger earthquake. Now, at this time there are rescue workers from four different nations at work here, from the u. S. , israel, japan, and from mexico. And overnight friday, the mexican rescue workers recovered the body of one victim from this collapsed building. We spoke earlier with an israeli Lieutenant Colonel from an Israeli Defense force rescue team, and he gave an update on this difficult work and was sounding rather pessimistic. We have here a sixstory building which collapsed for about three days already. And we believe that inside the building there are between 50 to 60 men and women trapped and unfortunately, we believe they are already dead. Reporter at the site of another collapsed building several blocks from here saturday morning, rescue workers recovered the bodies of two victims from that location. At this location, family members of the dozens of people missing have been conducting an agonizing vigil here, hoping for some kind of news about their missing loved ones. They have been assisted by an outpouring of volunteerism with ordinary mexicans coming out in droves, bringing in donations, aid, and supply, trying to help their loved ones and trike ying help their country men at this time of need. Ivan watson, cnn, mexico city. And during ivans report, you saw behind him the sea of people. You know, continuing that search effort. I was listening, and looking right at those people. You can appreciate what theyre up against and what people went through. A lot of work for sure. Germans are voting this hour and we could be seeing the start of a new era in german politics. 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