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as today's g-20 meetings get under way protesters are out in force. if yesterday was a warm up certain to be a raucous friday. trump and putin meet. wildfires in 11 states, cattle seeking refuge to 125-foot flames where mandatory evacuations have been ordered. reports that foreign hackers are targeting the u.s. grid. katy perry needs your
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friday morning. i'm frances rivera. a high stakes one-on-one, hours away from president trump's first face to face meeting with vladimir putin. the political world watching for any clues on what either world leader may say. the sit down comes one day after president trump sent this mixed message to moscow. >> i think it was russia and i think it could have been other people in other countries. we urge russia to cease its destabilize activities in the ukraine and elsewhere and support for hostile regimes. >> the meeting will pit president trump with putin. it will take place on the sidelines of the g-20. thousands of organized demonstrators erupted on streets of hamburg throughout the day and night.
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those smoke bombs that's gone off in the middle of this crowd now. further back the german riot police are lined up, moving in to cordon off this anti-g-20 protest. we're right in the center of it and they are determined the german authorities to prevent these protesters from even staying here. >> now is this scene in hamburg this morning as protests get under way. violent images you see there are new, g-20 protests are not. massive demonstrations against world summits are being waged city after city going back decades. in 1999 protests in seattle setting off one of the largest protests in recent history. this morning it's trump and putin who will hold the world's attention which is the most consequential meeting. na
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hamburg at the center it. what can we expect from either trump or putin? >> reporter: good morning. donald trump arriving here yesterday. russian president putin arriving here early this morning for this highly-anticipated half an hour session. this is a group of 20 summit. the main event is this meeting to take place behind closed doors only a short time from now pitting the deal maker donald trump against the spy master vladimir putin. putin now sitting across from his fourth u.s. president when the two men meet today. president trump tweeting a short time ago his anticipation saying he looks forward to his meeting today. he said much to discuss. he's tweeted on a very different topic writing everyone here is talking about judge john podesta refused to give the dnc turn over
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the cia disgraceful. the president while the focus has been on put and his meetings has been focused on some other topics. in terms of that meeting i'm told by officials familiar with the planning there will be six people inside that room presidents putin and trump, sergei lavrov, rex tillerson and two translators. among the likely topics they will discuss, potential for shared cooperation like isis and others where two men may clash pressure points like ukraine, syria and iran. before we let you go any sign those clashes, those demonstrations will impact these meetings in anyway? >> reporter: we can tell you already again today we're hearing police reports and seeing pictures of new clashes again this morning. sporadic sites across the city. molotov
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location. a car burned. a police station attacked. this follows those demonstrations you witnessed yesterday being billed as the welcome to hell demonstration, 111 police officers were injured, more than two dozen arrests were made, expectation is there will be at least 100,000 additional protesters here arriving over the course of the next couple of days. while police are confident they can keep this area safe there's expectations of more clashes ahead. the united states is working on a diplomatic solution to the first intercontinental ballistic missile test from north korea. >> i do not believe this capability itself brings us closer to war because the president has been very clear
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very clear that we're leading with diplomatic and economic efforts. >> working on economic efforts at the g-20 president trump tweeted he had a great meeting with leaders of japan and south korea and that the photo shoot with him. he hadn't given up on china's president. the fbi is gag it an incident on a delta airlines flight where a crew member was assaulted, forcing the plane to turn around. the plane was headed from seattle to beijing thursday when a 23-year-old man in first class assaulted a flight attendant. the passenger did not try to baby into the cockpit as reported. it happened about 45 minutes into thing flight. the plane returned to seattle. the man was restrained and removed after landing. two people were taken to hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. the flight was rescheduled. foreign hackers have been breaching the
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including nuclear power stations according to the fbi and homeland security reported obtained by the "new york times". according to bloomberg the chief suspect is russia. dozens of facilities have been a targeted since may but it is unclear whether it is an attempt at espionage. no operation systems have been affected. in a joint statement the fbi and homeland security said there's no indication there's a threat to public safety and the hacks have been limited to administrative and business networks. a federal judge denied a request by state of hawaii to expand exemptions to president trump's most recent travel ban. it affects six majority mums allows exemptions with those with close ties such as immedi
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hawaii argued it excludes grandparents or fiancees. but the judge said thursday that only the supreme court could rule on the issue. it was the high court that allowed the limited version of the travel ban to go into effect until it makes a final ruling later this year. now a mass skbrif wildfire raging across the west leaving a mandatory evacuation order for hundreds of residents. flames leaped 125 feet into the air. in california one wildfire grew to the size of 1,000 acres. about 500 firefighters were working there to fight the blasz. investigators are looking into the cause of some of these fires, but in los angeles officials say 100 were sparked by illegal fireworks on the 4th of july. and west of sacramento, small herd of cattle struggle to escape the flames. firefighters doused them with water. they found the
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appear to be doing okay. we got a hot and stormy start to your weekend. here's meteorologist chris andersen cairns with your forecast. happy friday to you. weekend forecast, smack in the middle of our weekend. today a hot day in the west. that won't stop. as we go into saturday the stormy weather will be along the gulf coast. some showers and storms up here through areas of new england. some temperatures are still in the 90s. sunday we are still watching typical afternoon showers and storms. very nice day in areas of mid-atlantic and northeast on sunday and the heat continues in denver, albuquerque all the aback. 100 in north dakota. that's a look at the big story of the day. how here's a closer look at your day ahead. here's those showers and thunderstorms on the map. some could be strong to severe. storms in the ohio valley. ahead of that cold front. behind the front
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nonfarm payrolls today. more importantly, will there be wage growth? the fed is looking to that to confirm whether rates will be going up later in the year. couple of other stories we're to concussion on, uber introducing its tipping feature in its app for over 100 cities. that's par of their efforts to improve their image. and smoking sales as you pointed out of approved marijuana in nevada. it's thought the state made over a million dollars in taxes between saturday and tuesday and four key dispensaries are reporting sales in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. clearly, there is very big demand for this marijuana. back to you. >> thank you, jeff. just ahead what southeast wealthiest people in the world all have in common. plus how you can be the star of katy
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i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm erika gonzalez in for eun yang. >> if you drive in work and it includes 66 or 95 you might need the wipers too. didn't take much rain to cause flooding in some areas. parts of northern virginia and southern maernds got the worst. the heavy downpours caused roads to flood, power outages led to a water rescue. >> tarp still not on the field, but we are waiting for baseball at national park. still in a rain delay for now. >> this is a sore subject this morning. the weather delays the nationals until 10:10 last night. the game didn't end until 1:30 this morning. there will be a lot of coffee drinkers because of that. we will take a look at the reaction from the fans concerning that long delay coming up. give you a head's up on
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it's not very pretty. let's check in with our team. >> a look at the wet roads. let's start with chuck. good morning, guys. >> good morning. not too bad right now, but we have rain on the radar we're watching closely. >> gnaw for coming back to work. >> it's friday. i figured i would do that. >> those one-day work weeks are killers. >> really. >> outside a lot of clouds and more rain chances coming your way on your friday. thunderstorms down over the lower parts of the eastern shore now won't be bothering us. could cook up an isolated shower in the next couple hours and a chance for some thunderstorms coming back in for your friday evening plans. you may get rained on more than once today. might be two or three different times. this morning not a whole lot of heavy rain out there, sprinkles along 270, light rain showers out near gainesville and the plains, virginia. more rain drops out on i-81 as well. temperatures aren't too bad, in the low to mid 70s across the area now. we will have highs mid to
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80s and tracking the chances for thunderstorms later this afternoon and evening coming up in a few more minutes. over to the lovely and talented melissa. >> good morning, chuck bell. at the beltway had an earlier problem that has cleared out of the way and right now the beltway at least is dry. but is it going to change throughout the morning. 66 live look at germantown road no problems in or out of town on 66. overall prince george county looking fine here this morning and 95 northbound quantico to the beltway you're on time as well. now again, may come across some ponding, flooding, some shoous on the roadways. driving around looking for all those. hi, justin. [ no audio ] >> good morning from the gw parkway making our way now into northern virginia. the alexandria area. so far, the roads are not too bad
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wet blacktop as we make our way to 495 here. you're seeing light fog, not too bad so far yet. no rain falling. cars pretty much going at speed out here. the conditions at this point are not terrible. but you still want to take your time out here. we saw some wet spots making our way to the area so be careful as you make your way to work this morning. but also bear in mind, too, there could be standing water at points and also fog conditions could change. back to you. >> all right. justin finch on the road for us, thank you. it's 4:30. right now president trump is in hamburg, germany, getting ready for a high-stakes meeting with russian president vladimir putin. a live look for you here overseas where the president will play a key role in today's g-20 summit. trump and other world leaders have major issues on the table from terrorism to global trade to climate change. it's already creating some heated protests. >>
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