leah gabriel has more on that. across the country and thousands along the east coast and then the midwest. here in new york, it started at 11:30 a.m. this morning crowds lining more than 20 blocks on the west side of central park for the kickoff rally. then they started marching an hour later heading down sixth avenue. marchers could be seen for hours. according to the nypd, 200,000 men and women, many wearing pink including those signature hats. many also carrying signs. the message, a combination of women's issues like equal pay, sexual-harassment and trafficking and domestic abuse. there was also a heavy anti-president trumps sentiment seen here . >> he needs to hear that every time something else is taken away, we are not going to walk away. we will come back at him. >> no fatigue. that's what i keep saying. >>reporter: that sentiment echoed in places like chicago where it is estimated 300,000 attended. the opportunity to get more women in office. in atlanta, heavy focus on mobilizing the female vote. they're h

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now, former intelligence operator, navy figh fighter pil, leah gabriel with me, what do you think ofquestions that they are questioning that he hit the young button. >> you have to be really careful using that language in today's political environment, where conspiracy theories abound, having served in mill pear for 2 years, i have seen systems in place where people takeover a watch, that is what they were doing, they go through a check list, they reinstated this, from when i am reading, and reporting there are two options to test this system, one was test missile alert. and other was missile alert, they pushed wrong button. connell: maybe the buttons should not be so close to each other. >> they should not that is what they are saying, they correcting that, they are not doing the tests unless they have two-person confirmation, and they also have to have a way to quickly retrack it. you know one thing that jason mentioned, what if it was real? well, a couple things, we know that system works. it works, message got out, unfortunately it was the wrong, if scared a lot of people, if the

i'm leah gabriel. president trump is on his way back to washington after taking his america first agenda to a gathering of the global elite in switzerland touting a revival of the u.s. economy and american spirit say when america wins, the whole world benefits. john roberts is live in davos. how is the president received there? >> good evening. this whole thing was really kind of drenched in irony. an organization that snubbed him when he was a businessman. never invited him to come to davos. a lot of people who come here every year have been extremely critical of the president yet they lined up for an hour to get in to see him and a packed house, standing room only as the president gave his speech. broke it down into three themes. the world working together against shared threats like north korea's nuclear program, iran and the threat from ice is and engaging with the world over trade and then saying america is the place to do business with. listen here. >> president trump: america is the place to do

leah gabriel is in lower manhattan in battery park where you catch the ferry to go across the bay to liberty island if you want to visit the statue of liberty. but no one is doing that today. >>reporter: people come from all over to visit new york city. of course one of the main attractions is the statue of liberty and all it represents. four people came here today this weekend, this is as close they can get to see lady liberty without taking one of the doors on a privately operated ferry. some people who arrived here and found signs telling them the statue was closed had been taking a very poor option today. we should mention a number of national places are still open. in washington d.c., open air parks and monuments including the war memorial. the government trying to avoid a replay of what happened during 2013. that's when veterans were turned away from their memorials. the smithsonian museum and national zoo have been open and will be through monday. in new york, governor cuomo announced the state will reopen the statue of liberty and ellis island tomorrow and the state will pay

that's where we find leah gabriel standing by. >>reporter: the marchers passing right by our building on sixth avenue for the past couple hours. you can see the tremendous number of people have turned out. many of them wearing pink are those familiar pink hats. you can hear them chanting as they go by. some of which is to profane to repeat. but some is, stop the hate, make america great. 20 blocks for a pre-march rally started on the west side of central park today. that kicked off at 11:30 this morning with speakers including the founder of the #metoo movement. as i was saying before, marchers are here with energy. they are bringing their message and they will be her for quite a while. >>kelly: leah, thank you. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is on the senate floor. let's listen and. >> the only thing preventing chip reauthorization from being signed into law is the democratic filibuster of the bill. therefore, - - [indiscernible] >> mr. president. >> the house of representatives, the president and a bipartisan majority of

leah gabriel is live on the ground with the latest. . >> hi, gillian, we're on the southwest side of central park where the pre-march rally is taking place right now. i'm going to step away so you can see the throngs of people who are here wearing a sea of pink hats, those familiar -- those familiar pink hats. now, organizers of this march are expecting this to be one of the largest. last year, they had about a million people and this year they're expecting even more. the pre-march rally kicked off around 11:30 with speakers including the founder of the #metoo movement. they're carrying signs pre motoring women's issues, equal pay, stopping sex trafficking and ending sexual harassment. but there's also a lot of anti-president trump messages on the signs as well. the organizer of the event is a conservative and this should really be about women. take a listen. >> we're not anti-men. we're not anti-trump. we're pro women and we're pro supporters of women. >> now, there are a large number of men here as well. i spoke with one who came with

. ♪ >> welcome to america's news headquarters from washington, i'm leah gabriel.eland: great to have you in washington, welcome, welcome, two big hours ahead and to be with you at home, i'm leland vittert. president trump arrived at the white house, arrived yesterday after speaking at the world forum in davos, switzerland. he was talking about his immigration proposal and preparing for his first state of the union address. rich edson is at the white house, which is at work this weekend, which are you. good to see you. >> there's plenty to work on at the white house, there's government funding there are all of these other proposals that they're pushing on congress and the linchpin is immigration and what to do about hundreds of thousands who would brought here illegally as children and now are adults, so-called dreamers. and a path to citizenship open for 1 1/2 million of these so-called dreamers and a 10 to 12 high pressure year path to citizenship. the white house put that on the table, but in return, it wants $25 billion for a trust fund to build a border wall s

i'm leah gabriel.is on his way back to washington after taking his america first agenda to a gathering of the global elite in switzerland touting a revival of the u.s. economy and american spirit say when

leah gabriel is live in new york with more. hi, leah. >> hi.rch passed by our building in 6th avenue and went on for several hours. it was a sea of women of all ages, many wearing pink and those little pink hats that we saw at last year's march. you could hear groups chanting as they passed by. listen. >> this is what democracy looks like. [cheers] >> people packed more than 20 blocks for premarch rally that started on the west side of central park. now that rally kicked off around 11:30 this morning with speakers including the founder of the me too movement. then the march started moving south of central park and down 6th avenue about an hour later. organizers of the march were expecting it to be one of the largest. we spoke with one of the organizers. take a listen. >> this is not about taking rights from anybody. this is about allowing women to have their voice heard and be represented in our government. women matter. our voices matter. and all we want is equal representation. >> marchers carried signs with varying messages, many promoting w