President trump telling amican minority congresswomen to go back to their country. And a new tweet from the commander in chief. We talk to a local activist about the. I. C. E immigration raids l nched inmaryland and cities across the ountry. News 4 at 11 00 starts now. Good evening, im erika nzalez. President trump doubling down tonight on tweets many are calling downright rac t. In a morning tweetstorm, he said Progressive Democratic women who originally came from, quote, crimeinfested places, should go back there. And then tonight, he followed it up with a second set of tweets. Called it sad to see democrats sticking up for people who, in his words, speak badly of the. United stat while mr. Trump did not mention names, his tweets likely refer to four newly elected congresswomen of color and just to be clear, theyre all americans. Alexandria ocasiocortez is of puerto rican shdescent. Was born in the bronx. And ilhan omar was born in somal somalia, emigrated to the United States when s
It is very niceut there. We will stay in the mid70s as we go through the 7 00 a. M. Hour. Plenty of sunshine once that sun comes up and that will take our temperature into the upper 80s today. Now yesterday weere about 94 degrees where we topped out. Looking a lot better out there today. Not a lot going on in radar. High pressure over us and give us blue skies out there throughout the day today. Looking pretty good. Now, head down to our friend in ae south. Tropical depression,ng probably dowded there throughout the day today. A lot of moisture still associated with and heavy rain working its way up through the missivyippi valley and h rain down through louisiana where i see a Flash Flood Warning pop up down there. We are watching the rain that will make the way through midwest and to the middle east and midatlantic and extremely hot temperatures. The hottest we have seen so this summer. We will talk about that coming up but lets talk about the road with melissa. Good mornind gmorning.
We tve back into mid70s and then upper 80s for day time highs today which is about normal for this time of year. Dry out there. Low humidity. Also patchy fog in some spots but we are dry and quiet out there this morning not quiet everywhere. We continue to track this moisture and its a lot of moisture moving in from barry. Take a look at the rain moving into louisiana and jackson, pp mississi we will continue to see heavy rain push into the midatlantic. We will talk about that and talk about the heat and humidity heading our way and some of the hottest temperatures we have seen yet this year is coming up. First, lets talk to melissa with traffic. Good morning. Connecticut avenue at university boulevardhopper 4 over this. Sounded like an unconscious person in a vehiclehere. They have rescue there on the scene so a ttle bit of a southbound delay on connecticut avenue there at university boulevard. Inner loop express lanes add dd bk road have opened but ride of the roadway a slow down bec
Good morning to you. Welcome to news4 midday, im jummy olabanji. Im eun yang. This is our first time working together on the set and im happy youre part of the family. Welcome, welcome. We want to star with reaction after President Donald Trump took aim at a group of progressive congresswomen ove e weekend, each a woman of color. En the presidtold the u. S. Congresswomen to, quote, go back home and fix their country. Here is reactiono to the tweea that many calling racist. Reporter a firestorm of reactions continuing today to a series of tweets from President Trump, targeting a group of democratic congresswomen. The president saying they should go back to the broken and crimeinfested places from which they came. Thats a racist tweet. Telling people to go back where they came from . Reporter all but one were born in the u. S. Its really aad state of affairs when the president of the United States is going to use race in a way that divides the ignorant about who all these people are. Rep
Im eri. Gonzalez the white house says immigration raids in major u. S. Cities have begun. So far, the pace is slow with only a handful of detentions. Nbcs Jennifer Johnso is tracking developments from pitol hill. Reporter immigration advocates rallying against i. C. E. Deportation raids sunday. I. C. E. Agents targeting2,000 undocumented immigrants already ordered by the courts to leave the country. We got compassionate, loyal, i. C. E. Agents who are just doing their job and it shows you how far weve fallen in that its become news that they would actually go deport people who have removal orders. Reporter democ the president s claim theyre rounding up criminals is not true. Ache simple f of crossing the border and, perhaps, having a technical, legal, violation at that point is being used as a basis for deportation of people who otherwise have nothing in eir ckground. Reporter this as President Trump ignited a firestorm after tweeting that a group of democrat congresswomen, freqcrnt ti