counterdemonstrators barricaded a good distance away. thousands of people marched through downtown boston, speaking out against racism, nazis, and white supremacism. they carried signs, such as united against hate, while other criticized president donald trump. a few vocal trump supporters could be found in the crowd amid the sea of counterprotesters. some in the front line of protests at times got confrontational with police. amid some particularly tense moments, several counterprotesters were taken into police custody. from the sky, you could see the huge visual police presence. some of the confrontations and a handful of people pulled into the crowd of police and taken away. i m andrew spencer reporting. thanks for the report. again, the comment that was expressed by the u.s. president just a week ago, the comment raised a great deal of
disparaging the facts, denigrating see denigrating science, and we re here to tell him science matters. reporter: speaking to a crowd in washington, science advocate bill nye said science must shape policy, not just in the united states, but arnoound the world. our lawmakers must know and accept science serves every one of us. every citizen of every nation in society. reporter: the marches have been worldwide with demonstrators taking to the streets from sydney, australia, to geneva, switzerland, and from the arctic to the antarctic, researchers and scientists added their support to the cause. at new myers station in antarctica, they summed up the movement with a quote. nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less. i m andrew spencer reporting. andrew spencer, thank you. president trump didn t respond to the protests, but he did release an earth day statement
tomorrow when we vote in the electoral college, i ll be putting forward a motion to call for a bipartisan independent commission to investigate russian interference. the vote remains scheduled for monday. the intelligence community says it will not discuss the russian hacks until a review ordered by president obama is completed in january. andrew spencer reporting. two top democrats and sere your republicans want a bipartisan probe into the hacking of the u.s. election. that group includes incoming senate minority leader charles schumer. he says nothing less than a senate committee investigation will do here. listen. leader mcconnell said let the intelligence committee do this alone. that is not good enough. for three reasons. first, there are conflicting jurisdictions. the judiciary committee has
the food fight that reporters are trying to stirrup. let s talk about how we stop radical islamic terrorism. democratic candidates responded in much stronger terms. his latest outrage, the way he handled the question about president obama was shocking. but not surprising. he s been trafficking in prejudice and paranoia throughout this campaign. led by that racist, anti-immigrant carnival barker, donald trump. trump says the voters question put him in a no-win situation. he defended himself by tweeting if somebody made a nasty or controversial statement about me to the president, do you really think he would come to my rescue? no chance. i will be the greatest andrew spencer reporting. best selling novelist jackie collins has passed away. the publicist says she died of breast cancer.
it gets high up by the palm trees. you see kids flying out of the bounce house. little kids start flying out hitting the ground. and flies all the way across the air. knocks over all this stuff. and it just keeps going. just keeps going. three children were carried into the sky and dropped. ambulances would later take them to a nearby hospital. i m andrew spencer reporting. all right, in central china a fire reduces a nursing home to day patch of charred rubble. and twisted metal. authorities say 38 people were killed and six others injured in the fast-moving fire. according to state-run media it happened in a building that hou housed residents who couldn t move without help. that may have contributed to the high death toll. an investigation is currently under way. taiwan is proposing a peace is nesh tiinitiatives to settle disputes in south china sea.