breaki breaking news in america this morning, new clashes with police coast-to-coast. in the last few hours, tensions boiling over in seattle, and in st. louis, reports of four police officers shot. two officers hit by a vehicle in buffalo. and in new york city widespread looting, even the iconic macy's store targeted. in washington, president trump makes history threatening a military crackdown on the streets of american cities. >> i am taking immediate presidential action to stop the violence. >> and overnight, the president winning both praise and condemnation for this extraordinary moment. peaceful protesters forced from the streets as the president walks out of the white house to stand outside a vandalized church holding up a bible.

the local bishop speaking out overnight. her message to the president. the search for solutions. a leading voice from the congressional black caucus joins us to discuss where america goes from here. thank you for joining us on this tuesday morning. we do begin with that extraordinary threat from president trump. >> he's vowing to send u.s. troops into american cities if local officials can't control the chaos on the streets after the death of george floyd. but it's this moment that captured even more attention, the president walking to a vandalized church near the white house holding up a bible moments after peaceful protests were cleared from the street with tear gas and rubber bullets. the local bishop is now condemning the photo-op. in new york city overnight despite a curfew, we saw looting in several areas of manhattan including on fifth avenue. and a disturbing scene in buffalo, new york. two police officers were hit by a vehicle when a protest turned violent.

their injuries are being described as serious. in st. louis four police officers have been hit by gunfire. their injuries are described as nonlife-threatening, but police said they were still taking gunfire downtown. >> back in washington, d.c., helicopters have been flying over the city, which is normally a no-fly zone. the city was described as a ghost town with a heavy presence of federal law enforcement. >> it was a different scene earlier in the night. abc's andrea fujii begins our coverage. >> reporter: overnight, new demonstrations just blocks from the white house. [ crowd chanting ] >> reporter: hours after entrre mitary cran calls the riots and lawlessness triggered by the death of george floyd. >> reporter: earlier monday protesters facing off against authorities kneeling and raising their hands in a peaceful demonstration across from the white house. then police using tear gas and

flash grenades to break up the crowd. the white house saying this morning the protesters were given a three-minute warning and the perimeter was expanded to enforce the 7:00 p.m. curfew, but abc news cameras capturing the first flash grenade was at 6:38, 22 minutes before the curfew. in the rose garden minutes later the president threatened to use the country's military might to end the riots across the country if states' governors don't take action. >> i am your president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters. as we speak, i am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults and the wanton destruction of property. >> reporter: to dispatch active duty military, the president would have to invoke the

insuection act of 1807, a rarely used law that hasn't been enacted since the rodney king riots in the '90s. senator tim scott, the only african-american republican in the senate praising president trump for vowing to take immediate action. >> we need to hear more like that from the president because, frankly, the country rallies around our chief executive when he speaks about bringing the american family together. >> reporter: after the rose garden speech, the president walking across the street to visit a historic church vandalized during the unrest then holding a bible standing in various poses for a full minute and a half. >> is that your bible? >> reporter: in a joint statement overgh t democrats blasting trump saying tear-gassing peaceful protesters without provocation just so the president could pose for photos outside a church dishonors every value that faith teaches us. the bishop of that church saying she's appalled accusing the president of using the church as a prop. >> let me be clear, the

president just used a bible and sacred text at one of the churches of my diocese as a backup for a message antithetical to the teachings of jesus and everything that our churches stand for. he sanctioned the use of tear gas by police officers in riot gear to clear the church. i am outraged. >> reporter: the president also unloading in a conference call with governors of both parties urging them to, quote, dominate violent protesters and rioters. >> they're going to run over you. you're going to look like a bunch of jerks. you have to dominate. >> reporter: on the call illinois governor j.b. pritzker criticizing the president's rhetoric. >> we've called on our national guard and our state police, but the rhetoric that's coming out of the white house is making it worse. people are feeling real pain out there. >> okay, well, thank you very much, j.b. i don't like your rhetoric much either because i watched it with respect to the coronavirus, and

i don't like your rhetoric much either. >> reporter: also on that conference call the president suggested people arrested in the protests should serve ten-year prison sentences. kenneth and mona. >> andrea, thank you. a news crew from australia got caught up in the violence in washington. police were seen hitting the cameraman with a shield then punching him. a reporter hit with a baton as she ran away. they're calling for an investigation. new this morning, incredible images from seattle. a reporter pelted by a police flash grenade as peaceful protests turned chaotic. police declaring them in the city a riot as tensions escalate across this country. a seventh night of chaos across the country. protesters in new york attacking police overnight bashing an officer over the head by a brick sparking a stampede as cops draw their weapons.

marchers took to the streets peacefully early in the day. this powerful moment, the highest ranking uniformed member of the nypd kneeling with demonstrators. >> everything they've given their blood for and the communities they serve and we all love can go back together and get those groups out of here from california, from all over this country who are being paid to take this movement, which is a good movement, and turn it into violence against the men and women who love the communities. get them out of here, throw them out of your protests, protest peacefully. why would anyone break into a store in your neighborhood. places that employ the people in this neighborhood. no reason for it. it has to end. let new york show the country how this is done. >> reporter: the tone quickly changing. >> things are getting wild here at rockefeller center here in new york city.

offic office officers, and there are clearly different group that is are out here facing off with police. >> reporter: store fronts shattered. tempers flaring and punches thrown and the curfew did little to quell the chaos. looters breaking into the iconic macy's flagship store smashing out windows and setting it on fire. it comes as protests to the west took a chaotic turn. >> you're not the only one who is scared here. >> reporter: in seattle hundreds rushing through barricades and this peaceful protest turned into a riot. peaceful protesters caught in the crosshairs as officers fired off pepper spray, tear gas and flash bangs. and in california, police rounded up dozens of suspects loading them onto buses after widespread looting in l.a.

but this morning, peaceful protest remembers working to set themselves apart from the violence. worried the destruction raining down on their cities is overshadowing their cause. >> the entire movement is not about this. this i believe was opportunists looking for trouble. >> more upset about the things going on. >> we want to control the narrative of this story. we want to show what we really are. >> an official with the los angeles police department says officers overnight have taken a far more active role in taking on looters than during previous nights. tonight's curfew in new york city will go in effect at 8:00 p.m., three hours earlier than monday's curfew. we spoke to robert boyce, the former chief of detectives at the nypd about security concerns. >> well, curfews are effective. they stop roving bands. however, tonight in new york it started at 11:00 and that was a huge, huge mistake. they should start at the cover of darkness because that's when

these things happen. what we saw in new york was another difficult night. they attacked and looted several high-end locations in new york. >> the nypd arrested more than 250 people monday. seven officers were injured. an illinois man charged with traveling to minnesota to pass out explosives and riot. despite this case an abc news analysis found people arrested during protests in tiks major cities were mostly in-state irs dents. a developing story from louisville where crowds owned a restaurant owner shot and killed by law enforcement monday. david mcatee died and his body was left at the scene. the police chief has been fired. state police will investigate. federal prisons have been locked down because of staffing issues. sources say the federal government has pulled resources from prisons to respond to street protests. coming up, 40 million americans have lost their job in recent weeks. we have a new report on who is

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the county medical examiner says floyd died from a heart attack at the scene complicated by law enforcement's subdual restraint and neck compression adding floyd had other significant conditions, fentanyl intoxication and recent methamphetamine use, but experts hired by floyd's family say he died of asphyxiation from sustained pressure concluding the handcuffs, his position seen in the video and the weight on him all contributed to his death. >> the autopsy shows that mr. floyd had no underlying medical problem that caused or contributed to his death. >> reporter: floyd's family now calling for the arrest of the three officers in the video of his death. in addition to derek chauvin who is charged with murder. minnesota attorney general keith ellison who is taking over the prosecution says investigators are taking a fresh look at the other officers who were at the scene. >> that we are looking very

carefully at holding everybody accountability who failed to do their duty. >> reporter: in the meantime, anguish at the site where floyd took his last breath. floyd's grief-stricken brother terence addressing the crowd demanding the violence stop. >> what are y'all doing? y'all are doing nothing because that's not going to bring my brother back at all. >> reporter: terence saying the best way to force change is to vote. >> not just vote for the president, vote for the preliminaries. vote for everybody. educate yourself. >> reporter: meanwhile, the president of the minneapolis police union is facing fresh scrutiny for saying the four officers involved were, quote, terminated without due process. he says he's trying to help them fight for their jobs. kenneth and mona. >> ines, thank you. and coming up, new details on how china withheld information about the coronavirus. also ahead, with the nation divided, the search for solutions. an important voice in the struggle against racism offers a

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making news right now at 4:27, breaking news, vallejo police shoot a man outside a walgreens and the suspect leads them on a high speed chase. tear-gas used on peaceful protesters. also president trump can pose for pictures outside a washington, d.c. cathedral and this morning we have the orage from the bishop. good morning, everybody. it's tuesday, june 2nd. we will get to those stories in a moment but first checking in with mike nicco. >> let's see what is going on with our winds because they are the key to the forecast. today look at lack of sea breeze

out there, and that means temperatures will warm rapidly, faster than yesterday. cloud cover is a significant contributor to how warm it will be today. 16 degrees warmer than yesterday. i wouldn't be surprised if a few neighborhoods in san francisco hit 80s. we have mid-80s to your 90 around the bay, and even a 100 around fairfield. >> at the live desk this morning, i am following a story out of vallejo. it appears to be shot somebody that broke into a walgreens and this issue led to a confrontation with another person that rammed into a patrol car there on the scene and then led officers on a high speed chase. officers were responded to criminal behavior at 12:30 this

morning, and police shot one suspect on redwood street and then another suspect hit a police car before speeding off, and he lakefroeft his car and tf running. and then in walnut creek a big clash between protesters and police. amy hollyfield has more on this. >> reporter: the curfew was set to start here at 6:00 last night and it's just around that time that clashes started between police and protesters. protesters marched on interstate 680 and shutdown traffic there in walnut creek, and police fired tear-gas to the crowd when a tew the

do protesters could be seen taking off running. they did get the freeway cleared by about 6:30. there was a peaceful protest in downtown walnut creek, to show support for the black lives movement. we did drive around and and andd see if businesses were damaged, but we saw a lot of boarded up windows and doors here in the downtown area. in oakland more than 40 people were arrestedndti the city's 8:00 p.m. curfew. new video shows officers putting zip ties on multiple people last night, and the students c