this is "nightline." tonight, city under siege. federal forces accused of sparking urban urban urban portland, oregon's mayor caught in the crossfire. and no end in sight. plus, the $600 reality check. the popular covid lifeline set to expire. and the view from the hardest-hit. >> this is the longest i've been unemployed. it's been over four months now, and this $600 lifeline helps us. "nightline" starts right now. >> good evening. thank you for joining us, i'm diane macedo.

for more than 55 days, protesters a protesters have taken to the streets in portland in often violent clashes. a judge has entered a temporary restraining order barring journalists from being removed from the protests. here's kayna whitworth. >> reporter: in portland, a mostly white city, and these mostly-white protesters, and these black mothers, hope that protesters aren't just here to raise their own voices. they hope they're willing to listen to others. >> we've still got some ways to go. we realized through our protest on monday and especially tonight that we still have a big journey ahead of us, and we really need some black leaders in that wall of moms group. >> reporter: here clashes have raged for days. they increasingly look like a war zone. >> moms are here! >> reporter: and it's the mothers showing up to form walls on the front lines.

protesting police brutality and systemic racism. >> i feel like i've been protesting all the way back to trayvon martin, where i protested in washington, d.c., you know, when i was in colorado, i protested black lives matter there. and here i am, you know, in my third state, still protesting yet again, 12-something years later. >> reporter: what do you want people to know? >> i want people to know that racism is still very much a real thing. down to my 6-year-old having to deal with it at school on a daily basis, so yeah, i want people to come out here and support us. >> reporter: overnight, thousands gari thousands gathering behind them. many criticizing the use of force isn't by president trump. >> now they're shooting gas into the crowd. >> reporter: one of those buildings, this courthouse, has become a nightly rallying point for the standoff between protesters and those agents. >> i actually want to see this. >> reporter: even portland mayor

wheeler seen caught in tear gas after joining the protests himself, telling the "new york times" that he saw nothing to provoke that kind of response. >> this is an egregious overreaction on the part of the federal officers. this ilation strategy. this is flat-out urban warfare. >> reporter: agents, though, issuing several warnings after protesters breached the wall around the courthouse. they were lighting fireworks and several small fires outside the building. and, in an endless cycle of aggression, as the protests grow, agents have responded with increasing force. you see people running. you can see people running from the tear gas. but that was a firework set off by protesters. authorities have heavily gassed this whole area. we're all choking on >> reporter: since sunday, these parents have put their bodies on the line to protect the right to protest. their ranks, seeming to grow

every night. >> seeing this large crowd here in portland, oregon, it gives me hope as a black mother and for my children. >> reporter: for nearly two months, portland has seen sustained unrest stemming from d racial injustice locally, but in the last month, the presence of federal agents has only inflamed tensions, and the president seems to be doubling down. >> people were out of control for 51 days, long time. and homeland security and other law enforcement with us went in, and they've done a great job. >> reporter: today the department of homeland security telling abc news that they're sending a customs and border protection tactical unit to seattle, a similar wan cone cap in portland, it was tweeted by jeff merkley. >> what's going on here? it's the government miscasting protesters as violent criminals and trying to scare people from

going out and protesting police brutality. >> reporter: now concerns are growing that clashes between protesters and federal agents could be seen nationwide as president trump authorizes federal operations in other cities. >> yeah, the cities, unfortunately, that are in trouble are all run by democrats. you have radical left democrats running cities like chicago and so many others that we just had a news conference, and unfortunately, that's the way it is. >> reporter: calling it operation legend, the administration wants to send agents from the fbi, dea and atf into city, it says to help curb illegal gun sales and other federal crimes, but the violence in portland is casting skepticism on how this operation will actually be carried out. in cities like chicago the mayor has made it clear that those efforts which she calls political will not include unmarked troops on her streets. >> so they're not federal troops, they're fbi, dea, atf, and they will be plugged in to

the existing infrastructure. i'm glad to see that the president got the message. i'm glad to see that he realized what he did in portland was a grave abuse of his presidential power. >> reporter: amidst growing calls to curb federal agents' actions, the inspector general's office announced investigations into the federal response this weekend and in lafayette park on june 1st. protests here have gone on for nearly 60 is straigstraight day. citizen journalists like alyssa azar is with a collective of citizen journalists who have documented the growing outrage from the beginning. >> why are you pushing? no, no! i'm moving. i'm moving. >> the tactics that they're using every day just are bringing the protesters back in bigger groups every night, and just a lot angrier, you know?

we're seeing tt wvenseeminyocutg up that does every single night. i feel like what they're doing is really enraging people more than anything. >> reporter: she worries if tensions don't subside things could get much worse. >> like the only thing that could happen next that will take it to the next level is for an officer, federal or, you know, portland police to fire a live round. we've already seen those being pointed and pulled from hollisters at least on two different occasions. that's a fear for a lot of people, and if that happens i can't even imagine the reaction that's, that's going to be had. there's already so much anger. >> reporter: for many protesters, these clashes between law enforcement bring into clear f out at first and why they continue night after she started the wall of moms.

>> the group really organized itself. these women mobilizedro wee t throwing wids alone. >> reporter: do you want to say anything about standing out here tonight? >> it's empowering. it's empowering to see the numbers out here, especially being new to portland and seeing the, especially the white alliship. let's be honest. everybody's out here for the long haul, and it's empowering. it gives me hope. >> our thanks to kayna. up next, asking for a lifeline. are the extra $600 in as we move forward, let's continue to practice these healthy habits,

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helped millions of americans survive. now the fight in congress as lawmakers grapple with a decision that could change the lives of so many people already on the brink. here's abc's mary bruce. >> this is the longest i've been unemployed. it's been over four months now, and this $600 lifeline help the us, and it helps us pay into the economy as well. to keep things afloat. >> reporter: scott is one of the millions of americans grateful for an extra $600 a week to help make ends meet. >> it was a great lifeline for us to pay some bills that couldn't be reduced. there's a huge middle class sector like us that need that to get by. >> reporter: laid off from his job at an online compy in march when the coronavirus hit hard and living in the state with the second highest unemployment rate in the country, his main focus has been

trying to figure out how to support his family. >> we've applied for so many assistance groups. i'd say we've exhausted pretty much every option we can. >> reporter: even forced to pick up necessities from three different food banks every week. >> i'm at my next food bank, my second one for today. >> you may be wondering, why does a middle class family need to visit a food bank? >> we still had to pay rent, we had to pay some other utility bills. we wondered how we would do our food bills. >> reporter: this weekend will be the last time they receive that additional $600 payment. the emergency assistance is set to expire, after lawmakers in washington failed to reach an agreement today. >> all right, thank you all. >> reporter: when congress passed and the president signed the c.a.r.e.s act in march, a

$600 weekly bonus were provided to people who were jobless. because unemployment benefits vary greatly across the country, the $600 was added to the compensation from your state. in new jersey where the maximum payout is $713, could you receive as much as $1,113 every week. in florida, only $875. in colorado, $1,218. and in louisiana, $847. in new orleans, cindy moffett says she relies on that money. >> $600 is important to a lot of households, especially to my work. >> reporter: everyone agrees that the economy battered by the pandemic needs more help. >> the economy took a hit like we have never seen before. faster, deeper than anything that has come before. worse than the worst year of the great depression. >> reporter: tonight, with 25 states and puerto rico either pausing or reversing reopening

plans, unprecedented levels of uncertainty about when the economy will recover and people can go back to work. one in five workers, more than 30 million people are still off the job. but washington is divided over whether to continue these payments. senate republicans think that $600 is too much. that it discourages people from going back to work. pointing out that with this added benefit, some americans are bringing in more money now than they would if they were working. >> we can't give people a disincentive to go back to work. we'll never recover from this if we're all at home netflix. >> at this point, i would not support something that would pay on unemployment more than you would earn if you were working. >> reporter: the treasury secretary suggested they lower the payment to 70% of a worker's wages before they were laid off. >> if you were making $300, you're not going to get $600

this time. and that's fair. people understand that. >> reporter: republicans were expected to outline their plan today, but the party is still debating. >> what do you say to americans who ar additional federal funding they're really going to suffer? >> we've talked about adding $200 per week into our proposal. and so, with that, if it's200, rather than '600, it gives them 200 dollars over what they're going to get over their state unemployment benefits. >> reporter: not surprisingly -- >> we have to act on what they're proposing falls far short. >> reporter: democrats disagree with republicans. they've put forth their own plan to extend the full $600000000000 until january. republicans say it's simply high. >> they have this image that working people are lazy. they're the ones keeping the

rest of us going. it's more than appalling to me. so i take every opportunity to, i want to say whack them on the side of the head. i wish i co. >> reporter: democrats say republicans are out of touch and out of time. >> that money is probably the difference between their kids eating and not eating. them falling even further behind on their rent or their mortgage payments. americans are in desperate need right now, and we need to make sure that we provide them with the resources so they can recover. if we don't do that, our economy will never recover. >> reporter: what kind of an impact do you think it will have if americans all of a sudden aren't getting that check? >> that check is saving so many of our working families right now. many of them, they're on unemployment insurance now, no longer have health insurance through their employers. that just covers health insurance. que we're going to see kids going hungry if that doesn't remain.

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finally tonight, stepping up to the plate.

america's first doctor threw out the ceremonial first pitch for the washington nationals. the defending world champions. it's the latest honor for dr. anthony fauci, who's been guiding america through the pandemic and leading by example, wearing a face mask. at a congressional hearing in june, his mask did double duty, offering protection and showing his love for his favorite baseball team. like so many other americans, fauci has been patiently waiting for the sport to return. today that wait is over. major league baseball finally started its season. there are no fans, but some are cardboard cutouts. and before the game players took a knee. president franklin delano roosevelt said baseball was meant to boost morale. so let's play ball, america. that's "nightline," we'll see

you tomorrow at the same time. thanks for watching, i'm diane macedo, goodnight. >> dicky: from hollywood, it as "jimmy kimmel live," with guest host, sean hayes. tonight, jason bateman, and our health care hero of the week. and now, sean hayes. >> person, woman, man, camera, tv, person, woman, man, camera,

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