Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Md ben right now, protests are going on across the country against president elect donald trump. Demonstrators walked the streets overnight in cities from new york city to los angeles and in between. Some set fires others blocked highways. Tim, just how big were these protests . Tim in new york, around 5,000 people gathered outside of trump tower overnight. And thats just one of the cities involved. Thousands of people gathered on the 101 in los angeles blocking traffic. They crowded onto city streets, blocking traffic there too. Traffic was backed up for miles. Los Angeles Police arrested at least 13 people overnight. And this is the crowd in chicago overnight. The protesters marched through downtown and onto busy streets. They walked through traffic to show their frustration with the and in san francisco, it was also a busy night as hundreds of protesters staged a sitin outside of city hall. There were even more protests overnight in
Overnight construction on northbound 894 and 94 eastbound was closed and now open and running smoothly in the area. Now to the travel times. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Matt, thank you. Breaking overnight, protests around the country and crowds are filng against donald trump. Demonstrations are in at least seven major cities. Tim is live for us in the news room with more on this situation. Tim. Tim donald trump has been president elect for about 24 hours or so, but thousands are marching in the streets, like in chicago, they are chanting not my president outside of the trump power. On the west coast, the freeway in Downtown Los Angeles was flags. A similar seen in seattle as well. The biggest protest in new york city, they gathered outside of the trump tower and blocking the traffic there and we have learned 15 people were arrested. Of course, we are continuing the watch the protests and bring you new information as it is coming in. Tim, the prozests are coming ho
The two are meeting around the two were meeting around 11 00. In 71 days, donald trump will take the oath of office to become the 45th president of the united states. Mr. Trump arrived around 10 40 this morning at Reagan National airport. That is where his plane touched down with the trump logo emblazoned on the side. He and milani a he and his wife, melania, arrived at his they arrived at 11 00 and entered the building. They are meeting right now in the oval office. This is an interesting meeting because you will remember this is a traditional meeting and happens every time a president is elected, the an Office President welcomes the president elect. This is a unique situation because president obama has been so outspoken about to donald trump, saying he is unfit for for office, but obama said they had to put that aside. He said it is important for all of us to get behind the new president in order to ensure his success for our country and to heal the wounds from this very divisive el
Policy. We talked about domestic policy. As i said last night, my number one priority in the coming two months is two try to facilitate a transition that ensuring our president elect is successful. And i have been very encouraged be the, i think, trump s wanting to work with my around many of the issues that this great country faces. I believe it is important for all of us regardless of party or political preferences to now come together, Work Together to deal with the many had a chance to brief the incoming first lady. And we have an accident conversation with her we had an excellent conversation with her as well. We want them to feel welcome as they prepare to make this transition. Most of all, i want to emphasize to you mr. President elect that we now everything we can to help you succeed. If you succeed, the country succeeds. President elect trump thank you very much, president obama. This was a meeting that was going to last ten or 15 minutes and we were just going to get to know
Touched down and arrived in the white house the last hour. Reporter good afternoon to you and yes, president elect donald trump is here right now in town for two big meetings, one with House Speaker paul ryan this afternoon. First with president obama. This morning donald trump left new york in style. With a ceremonial cannon salute to march his first trip to washington as president elect. Donald trump at the white house with president obama both saying they want peaceful transition after a bitter campaign. He is perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States. He takes over with solid republican control at capital hill. And the center is undoing much of the obama legacy beginning with repealing obama care and then the big promise on border security. Today on cnn Rudy Giuliani says that donald trump will deliver even if it means going around congress. He can do it by executive order by just reprogramming money within the immigration service. Trump is also eager to fill