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Curfew in Effect Across Downtown L.A. as Demonstrators Continue to Resist Authorities; Austria's Worst Rampage Happened in a High School, 10 People Killed; U.S., China Agrees to a Trade Framework. Aired 3-4a ET
Aired June 11, 2025 - 03:00 ET
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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church.
A nighttime curfew is now in effect in Los Angeles for the first time since protests erupted last week. Police say they have initiated mass arrests of demonstrators refusing to leave the curfew zone. No word yet on how many people were detained, but police have arrested nearly 400 since Saturday.
To be clear, this curfew affects a very small section of L.A., America's second largest city. Earlier, the California Governor slammed the U.S. President for deploying the National Guard and mobilizing U.S. Marines. He says that, quote, "brazen abuse of power escalated the protests against the Trump administration's growing immigration crackdown."
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GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM (D-CA): Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball, a wrecking ball to our founding father's historic project.
Three co-equal branches of independent government are no longer any checks and balances. Congress is nowhere to be found. Speaker Johnson has completely abdicated that responsibility.
The rule of law has increasingly been given way to the rule of Don.
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CHURCH: During a visit to a U.S. Army base on Tuesday, Donald Trump defended his decision to send in National Guard troops and Marines.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: What you're witnessing in California is a full-blown assault on peace, on public order and on national sovereignty carried out by rioters bearing foreign flags with the aim of continuing a foreign invasion of our country. We're not going to let that happen.
We will use every asset at our disposal to quell the violence and restore law and order right away. We're not going to wait seven days and eight days and wait for a Governor that's never going to call and watch cities burn.
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CHURCH: California has sued the Trump administration over the troop deployments. On Tuesday, a judge denied the state's request to immediately stop the mobilization and set a hearing for Thursday.
CNN's Michael Yoshida has been covering the unrest on the streets of downtown L.A. and has this report.
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MICHAEL YOSHIDA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Right behind me, you can see we still have that heavy law enforcement presence. This is mostly California Highway Patrol here, but we have been getting reports from the LAPD as well as from some of our other CNN crews that there are some arrests happening to those that are still defying this curfew.
They're happening mostly off in the area we're pointing our camera at. That's several blocks away, and it's near, again, kind of where you can see the building right here. That's that detention facility where we've seen a lot of these protests focused over the last few days, the few nights.
And again, even today, I'll walk you through what we saw for most of the day. This street right here, it leads right up to that detention facility. And as the day progressed, we saw protesters fill the street.
And then as we neared this curfew time, that's when we saw police start to push them back. And that's for most everyone we had in this area. That's when they cleared out.
We have helicopters overhead still from law enforcement. They've been putting their spotlights down in different areas here throughout the evening.
But again, just a few hours now into this curfew, it's going to last until 6:00 local time, and we'll be keeping an eye on it throughout the evening.
CHURCH: Right. And Michael, what was the mayor's rationale for this curfew? And how long will she likely keep it in place in terms of how many nights, do you think?
YOSHIDA: Sure. So when we talk about this curfew and the Mayor's rationale, we know over the last few nights we have seen some violence amongst those who have stayed out all night. We've also seen some looting.
The LAPD saying about 23 or so stores have been looted over the last few nights. So in terms of trying to really stop those activities, that's why we're seeing this curfew. Again, it's only for a small area here within L.A. It's about that one square mile that you talked about.
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That's roughly 100,000 or so residents impacted of the four or so million that live here in L.A. So again, a very small section that will have this curfew tonight from 8:00 until 6:00 in the morning. As for how many days and nights we could see this, the Mayor saying and her office saying it could last potentially for several days. But again, something we'll be monitoring.
We'll be monitoring how tonight goes and how the next few nights may go as well.
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CHURCH: The mobilization of the National Guard and U.S. Marines will cost, it will come at a hefty cost to taxpayers. The current estimate is $134 million. That is according to congressional testimony from a Pentagon official.
The price tag is largely comprised of temporary duty, travel, housing, food and similar costs. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified before Congress on Tuesday that the Los Angeles deployment would last 60 days.
Jim Bueermann is the retired chief of police for Redlands, California, and he is president of the Future Policing Institute. Thank you, sir, for talking with us.
JIM BUEERMANN, RETIRED CHIEF OF POLICE, REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA, AND PRESIDENT, FUTURE POLICING INSTITUTE: Good evening. It's my pleasure.
CHURCH: So police have been making these mass arrests since this curfew was enforced in downtown L.A. at 8 p.m. local time. How critical was it for local authorities to put this curfew in place, to gain control over the night hours? And how long do you think this curfew will be necessary going forward?
BUEERMANN: So I think it was very critical for them to do that. It was the next step in what has been a logical progression of their reaction to. I'm reticent to call these people protesters.
The protesters were the peaceful, albeit angry, but the peaceful folks that were demonstrating their anger at the occurrences. These people at night who are vandalizing cars and assaulting officers and throwing things at them and all that are not protesters.
Those are anarchists. They're criminals. They're people who clearly have some kind of criminal intent. And so I think the LAPD, who has great experience in dealing with these things, they're probably one of, if not the best, police, large police departments in the United States in terms of dealing with these kinds of things, as messy as they may appear to viewers.
But this is the next logical step. And it'll probably stay in place for the next couple of nights until they decide it's no longer effective or they no longer need it.
CHURCH: And I did want to find out what your reaction was to President Trump activating and deploying 700 U.S. Marines on the streets of L.A., as well as 4000 National Guard troops. As someone from law enforcement, what was your response to that?
BUEERMANN: Well, it's unprecedented and we are in uncharted waters, I think, for sure. My opinion, because I know both the sheriff of L.A. County, Bob Luna, and I've known the police chief for a long time, Jim McDonald, and the appropriate people to determine whether the law enforcement presence was adequate enough, in my opinion, are the police chief and the sheriff. And if they're not calling for those resources, then we should be listening to them.
The Marines have, it's my understanding, the Marines have not been deployed on the streets. They are staging at a city south of Los Angeles at a naval installation. And I don't think that they've actually been in L.A. on the streets.
Where you're showing right now, that image is where they are staging. The National Guard is a whole other story. And the fact that the President federalized the California National Guard, in essence, taking control of the National Guard away from the governor, is an unprecedented step, I think, in California.
And has left a lot of, I think, police leaders in California scratching their head. But California is a very complicated policing environment as it relates to immigration issues.
In January of 2018, a law went into effect in California that prohibits the police from assisting immigration authorities. So the police are prohibited by state law in California from engaging in any kind of immigration behavior.
There are some exceptions that relate to criminal activity. But as we understand immigration law and what we're seeing here, the police are prohibited from doing that. So even if they wanted to, they could not assist ICE in what they're doing.
And that may have necessitated bringing in the National Guard. It would have been better for everybody, I think, had the National Guard been deployed, if that was at the request of the chief and the mayor of Los Angeles and the county sheriff in concert with the Governor.
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But that's not what happened. And so we've got this situation where we've got these two bodies that are trying to do things without much communication. And it's a complicated policing environment for everybody right now.
CHURCH: Right. And what do you think it will take to de-escalate the tensions on the streets of downtown L.A. in addition to this overnight curfew?
BUEERMANN: So remember that these events really kind of have two sides to them. During the day, these are peaceful protests. They may be vocal, people are angry, but they're peaceful protests by people exercising their constitutional rights to demonstrate their expression, their freedom of speech, and especially their anger.
At night or during the day when they are throwing chunks of concrete at the police or they're vandalizing buildings or burning cars, those people are very different than the peaceful protesters who are just angry about what's going on.
I think slowly but surely, the criminal element that has been assaulting the police and vandalizing and destroying property will either eventually stop because they get tired of doing it or they will be arrested slowly but surely the police are going to get them in custody. And the downtown area, remember that most of L.A. is not affected by this. But this small area in downtown L.A. will return to normal.
CHURCH: Very important distinction to make there between those day and night protesters. Jim Bueermann, thank you so much for talking with us. I appreciate it.
BUEERMANN: Rosemary, my pleasure.
CHURCH: Texas Governor Greg Abbott is deploying the National Guard to various locations ahead of planned protests this week. We've already seen demonstrations turn to chaos this week in Dallas and Austin, where police used tear gas and pepper balls to disperse the crowds.
Abbott says peaceful protest is legal, but harming a person or property will lead to arrest. The protests denouncing immigration raids and President Trump's policies have spread throughout the country. Crowds gathered in New York City on Tuesday outside ICE offices and marched through the city to other ICE locations and an immigration court building.
Police detained some protesters who defied orders to clear the streets. A law enforcement official tells CNN there were about 45 arrests in the city Tuesday evening.
In San Francisco, a source tells CNN the protests are the reason two immigration courts closed their doors early Tuesday. According to the Associated Press, there were multiple arrests during those demonstrations.
And protesters got quite a scare in Chicago as a car sped through the crowd. CNN's Whitney Wild was there.
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WHITNEY WILD, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRESPONDENT: We are down here right in the heart of downtown Chicago. This is Daley Plaza.
Marchers have been marching for hours. You can see that law enforcement is flanking their side, trying to help control this crowd as they move through the city.
One thing we did see was that at one point police had formed a line that basically split the march in half. So some marchers kind of looped around one way, some another way. It was in that moment that there was a brief scuffle with just a couple of protesters, one or two at most.
But for the most part, this has been very peaceful. What you see right now, again, is a crowd of hundreds if not thousands of people.
Right now we are on Washington and Dearborn. This protest stepped off at 5:30 p.m. And it has been going nonstop since that moment.
There has only been really one critical incident. And that was when a car at Wabash and Monroe drove through protesters and clipped a few. It didn't look like the car was driving into a mass of people, but rather sort of through people.
And in that moment, that's when that car was clipping some protesters on either side. We have covered protests here, you know, for a year and a half, really since they kicked off after October 7th in 2023.
And this is probably the biggest protest we've seen so far. Again, this protest has been going on for a few hours. It is peaceful.
There was just that one incident with one protester or a couple of protesters when the police line began. And then the incident with that car at Wabash and Monroe. But for the most part, this has been a, it is loud, it is big, but this is a controlled protest.
Whitney Wild, CNN, Chicago.
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CHURCH: As tensions rise on the streets of Los Angeles, the political battle heats up between President Trump and California officials. We will hear what the president said, that's next.
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CHURCH: A show of support for immigrants in Los Angeles on the fifth day of protests in the city. Right now, a curfew is in effect and will last until the morning in a small part of downtown L.A. In the last few hours, we have seen police detaining anyone remaining on the streets. Earlier, LAPD said they have arrested almost 400 people since
Saturday. A series of immigration raids triggered the protests. Those raids are continuing with National Guard troops seemingly in attendance.
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Well meantime, the war of words between President Trump and California's governor intensified on Tuesday. Gavin Newsom said the president chose theatrics over public safety in deploying the National Guard. After Trump posted on social media that if he hadn't deployed them, Los Angeles would, quote, "be burning to the ground."
Kristen Holmes has the latest now from the White House.
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KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: President Donald Trump talking about the situation in Los Angeles, using a number of opportunities to get in front of cameras with reporters and answer questions on what was happening on the ground there. He took that opportunity to once again trade barbs with Governor Newsom, the Democratic governor in the state, saying that he was grossly incompetent, but he also took it a step farther.
When he was at Fort Bragg, he talked for a while about why exactly he sent troops in, doubling down on this idea that it was necessary. There have obviously been some complications with this, meaning that there was legal action that was brought against him.
He is clearly trying to justify why it was. He used words like rebellion, used words like invasion. He also at one point said that there were people infiltrating and operating federal buildings.
So, again, he is trying to stress the idea of why he did this by saying it was necessary to not only send in the National Guard, but to also send in these Marines, which we have heard from lawmakers in California who have said it was not necessary for Trump to do so.
Now, when asked about how long the National Guard or the military was going to be in California or in Los Angeles, here's what Donald Trump said.
TRUMP: If there's peace, we get out. If there's even a chance of no peace, we stay there until there's peace.
HOLMES: So, that there being a little bit subjective, until there's peace, earlier he said until there was no more danger. When asked what danger looked like, he had some examples. But it is clear that Donald Trump himself is watching this unfold and deciding what next steps to take.
One of the things we have been reporting is just how far he was willing to go. Would he be willing to invoke the Insurrection Act? There are members of his team who don't believe that's where they should go. But there are also others who want to take a more aggressive stance. And Trump himself seemed to say that he was making an example out of Los Angeles in some ways, saying at one point that people would look at the city and know or look at the situation and know that if they were to act out during these various ICE raids or events like this, that they would be met with equal or more force than they're seeing in Los Angeles.
Kristen Holmes, CNN, the White House.
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CHURCH: The World Bank is predicting a global economic slowdown and laying blame squarely on President Donald Trump and his trade policies. We'll take a look at that after the break.
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CHURCH: Welcome back to "CNN Newsroom." I'm Rosemary Church. I want to check today's top stories for you.
Shock and mourning in Austria, where a gunman killed at least 10 people at a high school in the city of Graz on Tuesday. Several vigils have been held for the victims, which include teenagers. A national minute of silence will be held at the top of the hour at 10 a.m. local time.
There's a possible breakthrough in the economic standoff between the U.S. and China. Negotiators say they've agreed on a plan to ease export controls, although neither side is discussing specifics. They still need the sign-off from Presidents Trump and Xi.
Los Angeles police have been arresting demonstrators who violate the newly imposed curfew. It went into effect several hours ago and affects just one square mile of downtown L.A. Now this comes after several nights of protests against the Trump administration's immigration raids and its decision to deploy the National Guard.
California Governor Gavin Newsom says the President quote "shows theatrics over public safety by deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles." He says President Trump's involvement in the protests has become an attack on democracy.
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NEWSOM: Trump is pulling a military dragnet all across Los Angeles, well beyond his stated intent to just go after violent and serious criminals. His agents are arresting dishwashers, gardeners, day laborers and seamstresses. That's just weakness, weakness masquerading as strength.
(END VIDEO CLIP) CHURCH: And for more, I'm joined now by Will Spencer, a protester who lives in downtown Los Angeles. Thanks so much for talking with us.
WILL SPENCER, LOS ANGELES PROTESTER: Yes, thanks for having me Rosemary.
CHURCH: So, Will, you have attended a number of these protests. I did want to ask you, why did you decide that you needed to make your voice heard and what message are you trying to send here?
SPENCER: Yes, well, we are protesting ICE. There are anonymous masked federal agents that are really terrorizing our community here.
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They're arresting men, women and children with no warrants, no due process, with complete disregard of habeas corpus, which is a basic principle that protects individuals from unlawful detention.
And so, authoritarian regimes tend to attack those who are least able to defend themselves. And so, I felt like it was my duty as a resident here to speak out for my community.
CHURCH: So, what then was your reaction when you heard that President Trump had bypassed Governor Newsom and deployed 4000 members of the National Guard now and 700 U.S. Marines?
SPENCER: Yes, very distressing. I was very distressed. I think that, you know, attending these protests, from my perspective, everyone was very peaceful, everyone was just out there voicing their opinion.
The LAPD was there and I personally didn't really see any sort of need for, you know, this type of militarization that seems unprecedented, honestly. So, it was, Yes, it was very distressing.
CHURCH: So, your sense was that LAPD very much had this under control before the National Guard arrived and was federalized?
SPENCER: Yes, that was my sense. I mean, it wasn't without, you know, its hiccups.
But I think for the most part, this seemed like a pretty standard protest. So, I was definitely very confused hearing the news of the, you know, National Guard and the Marines being deployed.
CHURCH: And Will, you have been attending peaceful protests, as you say. So, how did you feel when some bad actors became violent and hijacked the message that you and others are trying to send at these protests?
SPENCER: Well, I personally didn't see any of that. I know that there have been some videos out there, but the vast majority, from what I've seen myself and from videos, is peaceful people trying to be a voice for the voiceless and really protect their community here in Los Angeles, which is so rich with immigrants. So, I really think that it was a, you know, this militarization is an
affront to us. But I didn't personally see any of these, you know, so- called bad actors. That's something I've seen the videos of, but didn't see personally.
CHURCH: So, what do you think of the curfew that's now in place and will be in place from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. for a number of nights? We're not completely sure how many nights. So, what was your reaction to that?
SPENCER: Yes, well, I was out there tonight, actually, Rosemary, and it was a very eerie scene because there were very few single-digit protesters that I saw, probably four or five, but hundreds, literally hundreds of LAPD officers, military convoys. I hear the helicopters outside my window right now.
And so, the, you know, I think I understand where Mayor Bass is coming from with the curfews, but at the same time, you know, there's protesters that are out there that are trying to get their voice heard and they're being arrested. I believe there's been nearly 400 arrests made. So, that's, it seems a bit counterintuitive for Mayor Bass to go on and say that she stands with our city and stands with our community, but then to be arresting peaceful protesters.
CHURCH: Yes, I think what she was saying was that those who have committed any violent acts would be arrested, and I think that 400 is since Saturday. But what are your intentions in the days ahead? What will you be doing in terms of getting out and protesting? Will you continue to do that?
SPENCER: Yes, you know, we're resilient as a community. Like I said, this is such a rich migrant community. They, they, my immigrants really make up the fabric of our city.
You know, the most of the protests, a lot of the protests have been going on in downtown L.A., yes, but a section of downtown L.A. called Little Tokyo, which implies right there that this is, you know, built by immigrants here. So, I plan to be out there, especially this Saturday on the 14th for No King's Day as we, you know, respond to President Trump's birthday parade.
CHURCH: Will Spencer, we thank you so much for talking with us. I appreciate it.
SPENCER: My pleasure. Thank you.
CHURCH: And this just into CNN moments ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted to X, quote, "I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far."
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Now, it comes after Musk deleted some controversial posts about the president over the weekend, including a call for his impeachment and alleging President Trump's name appears in unreleased files related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He never provided evidence supporting that claim.
Well, President Trump's trade war is expected to slow economic growth in the U.S. and around the world this year. The World Bank warns the global economy is on track for its weakest decade of growth since the 1960s.
In its report, the bank downgraded expectation for global GDP growth this year to 2.3 percent from the 2.7 percent it had forecast back in January. Now, that puts the world economy on course for its worst performance in 17 years, excluding the global recessions in 2009 and 2020.
Well meanwhile, the trade tension between the U.S. and China may be easing. Representatives of the world's two largest economies have agreed in principle on a trade framework after two days of talks in London. Neither side disclosed any specifics.
The plan must be approved before it can be implemented. It follows a phone call between Presidents Trump and Xi and talks in Geneva last month. In May, both sides agreed to drastically reduce tariffs on each other's goods for 90 days to allow for negotiations.
Justin Wolfers is a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan. I appreciate you joining us.
JUSTIN WOLFERS, PROF. OF PUBLIC POLICY, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: A pleasure, Rosemary.
CHURCH: So, the United States and China have agreed on a trade framework after two days of talks in London, according to a Chinese negotiator. So, what does that mean exactly and what's the best likely outcome of these negotiations, given their main goal going into these talks was to preserve the fragile trade truce brokered last month?
WOLFERS: What does it mean? It means nothing. If they had something to tell you, they'd walk out and they'd tell you. They'd say, Santa Claus just visited, there's presents under the tree.
It's not like there's presents waiting there and they're not going to tell you about it. So they came out and there's a lot of gobbledygook with all of it. And basically, here's literally what it is.
The U.S. and the Chinese trade negotiators negotiated a handshake agreement that then they would each seek sign off from their presidents to agree that the previously agreed agreement is still their current agreement. Now, that previously agreed agreement is not actually an agreement. Rather, it's a framework for seeking future agreements.
CHURCH: So clearly, this--
WOLFERS: -- doesn't look like a lot of bureaucracy and progress.
CHURCH: Right, and very problematic, of course, because key to all of this is China's control over rare earth minerals. Beijing enjoys a monopoly over these much sought after minerals. So how complicated will these negotiations get from here as a result of that?
WOLFERS: Well, if they signed a deal about what this would be, they haven't released it to any of us. So therefore, I'm assuming that it's exactly what it was several weeks ago, which is an agreement that they would provide export licenses to the United States, with an understanding that China has been slow walking this and a hope that things would be better in the future. But hope isn't really what powers international trade.
CHURCH: And Justin, as the U.S. and Chinese negotiators met for that second day of talks in London Tuesday, the World Bank issued a bleak assessment of the global economy saying it's on track for its worst decade since the 1960s, citing Donald Trump's trade wars as a factor there. So what's your response to that dire assessment?
WOLFERS: They've hit the nail on the head. So I think the most revealing way to think about this is the World Bank did a series of forecasts back in January 2025, before the Trump administration had done anything. It's just released a set of forecasts today.
And so you can think about the change in that forecast as being the change in the outlook due to what's happened in the last few months, I'd say mostly the Trump administration's trade war and other economic sorties. And it's dramatically cut back growth for the U.S. It's led to substantially slower growth throughout the world, in both the developing and the advanced countries.
But among all the major economies, the country whose economic outlook has suffered the most is that of the United States. So this trade war appears to be one where the President is hurting his own constituents.
CHURCH: So let's look at what that means to the average U.S. and in the end global citizen. I mean, what is life going to be like in the months and years ahead then?
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WOLFERS: Okay, so I don't want to be overly dramatic here. I want to tell you that economic growth is not what it could be. If it's a percentage point lower than it would otherwise have been, one percent of a humongous amount is still pretty big and it's well worth getting.
But it still means that this is expected to be an economy that's growing. The World Bank is not forecasting a recession, just anemic growth.
So on average, lifestyles, material standards and wellbeing are not going to move backward. There are a few countries that are particularly hard hit, Mexico being the most natural one to think about. It may well end up in recession as a result of this.
But you know, it's benefits that we're not going to get and maybe our children will never see.
CHURCH: Justin Wolfers, I appreciate your analysis. Thanks for joining us. WOLFERS: A pleasure Rosemary.
CHURCH: I'm Rosemary Church for our international viewers, "Marketplace Middle East" is up next. And for everyone in North America, I'll be back in just a moment.
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CHURCH: Welcome back everyone.
In our top story, parts of downtown Los Angeles are under curfew this hour. CNN's Nick Watt was among the crowds in the city and he shows us what it was like on day five of the protests.
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NICK WATT, CNN U.S. NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A flash of anger on a hot tense afternoon. A bus pulling into the detention center was the spark.
The National Guard holding the line, then a snatch squad out to make an arrest. Everyone ordered to leave the area. Another arrest.
Plenty of peaceful protesters and local politicians also don't want the National Guard here or the 700 Marines deployed to L.A., but still awaiting orders.
ADM. JAMES STAVRIDIS (RET.), CNN SR. MILITARY ANALYST: These are the most experienced, highly blooded shock troops in the world, but putting active duty U.S. Marines into this situation, I think is dangerous and they're not well trained for the mission.
WATT (voice-over): Mayor Karen Bass calls this a grand experiment.
MAYOR KAREN BASS (D), LOS ANGELES: If you can do this to the nation's second largest city, maybe the administration is hoping that this will be a signal to everybody everywhere to fear them, that your federal government, that historically has protected you, can come in and take over.
TRUMP: Very simply, we will liberate Los Angeles and make it free, clean and safe again. It's happening very quickly. What you're witnessing in California is a full blown assault on peace, on public order.
WATT (voice-over): In reality, there has been violence, but it's been contained to a small area of the city.
BASS: The unrest that has happened are a few blocks within the downtown area. Having said that, though, the violence and the damage is unacceptable. It is not going to be tolerated and individuals will be arrested and prosecuted. WATT (voice-over): Sparked and sustained, says the mayor, by ICE immigration raids and the fear they're spreading. One state representative called those raids dark, disgusting events, adding Los Angeles was targeted because they hate our immigrants for the color of their skin.
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CHURCH: Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman is splitting with his party over the Democrats response to the unrest in Los Angeles. But fellow Democratic lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does not agree with his criticism. Take a listen.
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SEN. JOHN FETTERMAN (D-PA): We should have learned the lesson back in 2020. Absolutely, there was righteous outrage over what happened to George Floyd, but that never mean that you can support or be quiet if there's destruction or rioting and destroying and looting and those kinds of things.
REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-NY): Senator Fetterman or anybody else is concerned with law and order. We should be looking at one of the most law-breaking agencies and administrations that we've seen in the United States.
They are invoking a chaotic situation for political gain. And the idea that we're going to turn around and try to make the center of attention a smattering of people is actually ludicrous.
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CHURCH: Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer responded to Fetterman's criticism of Democrats calling the violence outrageous while also condemning the president's military deployment as dangerous.
Austria is reeling from one of the worst rampages in the country's history. Officials say at least 10 people were killed in a shooting at a high school in the city of Graz on Tuesday. The victims include teenagers between the ages of 14 and 18.
Several vigils were held for the victims on Tuesday evening, including in the city's central square, where crowds gathered to light candles and comfort each other.
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UNKNOWN (through translator): When you hear about it, you have so much sympathy for the people. Maybe you could have known someone.
You know people in your circle who knew people, and this is an example of solidarity. And you grieve together, and together it is easier to cope.
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CHURCH: A national minute of silence will be held soon in Graz, timed 24 hours after police received the first calls about shots being fired at the high school in Austria. CNN's Fred Pleitgen has more on the suspect and how the mass shooting unfolded.
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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Children screaming as the shooter opened fire inside this high school in Graz, shattering the quiet of this South Austrian town.
Police say they intervened only minutes later, hundreds of officers deployed to the scene. But the damage had been done. Many killed and wounded, some critically, evacuated to nearby hospitals.
Even as things calmed down, a heavy security deployment in surrounding streets. Panic parents soon converged on a nearby sports center where authorities had moved students trying to find out if their children were among the dead and injured.
This mother said she was lucky to hear from her son who has a cell phone. I still cannot comprehend it, she says. It's unbelievable when you're sitting at home and don't know whether you're safe or not.
The mass shooting, one of the worst rampages in this country's history. Austrians own more guns than most of their European Union neighbors, but gun violence here is relatively low, a fraction of the U.S.' rates, according to the Small Arms Survey Research Institute.
And many are left wondering about the motive. Authorities said they believe the shooter, a former student of the same school who didn't graduate, acted alone and died by suicide in a school bathroom.
Two firearms were used in the shooting, this police official says, which were recovered at the scene. These weapons are now being forensically examined. The suspected perpetrator is believed to have possessed the weapons legally.
Austria has declared three days of mourning, with messages of condolences pouring in from all over the world after a rampage many in this country cannot comprehend.
Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Graz, Austria.
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CHURCH: The European Union is planning harsh new sanctions against Russia. The proposal still needs the approval of E.U. member states. It targets Moscow's ability to make money from its oil and gas production. The new package is the 18th since the start of the war.
It comes as the Kremlin has ramped up its aerial attacks across Ukraine. The President of the European Commission says the sanctions are necessary because strength is the only language that Russia will understand.
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh has more now on the pace and intensity of Russia's attacks.
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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: While it's Monday night's attacks that appear to have been a record Russian attempt, according to Ukrainian numbers of 479 drones launched against Ukraine, it is indeed the last night that's seen so much of the focus, it seems, on trying to break Kyiv's air defense, 315 drones launched, according to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a lot of which focused on the capital.
Some effects too, where certainly a building next to the E.U. delegation's office is damaged and the 11th century St. Sophia Cathedral experiencing damage too. That's a UNESCO-protected site, a sign that potentially some of the capital's air defenses were not indeed able to stop everything getting through and perhaps Moscow's focus will be night by night, as they seem able to escalate the volume of drones that they fire at Ukraine, will be focusing on trying to breach the capital's defenses.
That have held up, it's fair to say, reasonably well over the past months or so, although many were concerned at some point there would be a moment where they would break. The port city of Odessa too, though, coming under attack, two killed there and a number injured as well, as well as a maternity ward being hit too, again by drone strikes.
It appears though that the response to Russia's being attacked in its key airbases over last weekend is, it seems so far, to up by a few hundred more potentially the number of drones it launches at Ukraine every night. Is this a start of a new, higher tempo potentially, because Russia's able to produce more drones? We'll have to see in the weeks and months ahead.
But it certainly marks again sleepless nights for Ukrainians. Injury, death and civilian infrastructure clearly being hit as well, as these drones are either shot out of the sky or dive down into their targets.
The horror though, frankly, of so many in Kyiv, the capital, just lying awake and listening to the endless buzz of drones passing overhead. Hard to overestimate.
Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, London.
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CHURCH: The United Nations says the world is facing a fertility crisis and is calling for urgent action to address it. A survey across 14 countries uncovered the main reasons why millions worldwide are having fewer children than they would like. They include financial limitations, job insecurity and fears about the
future. Lack of a suitable partner and limited child care options are also among the biggest reasons. A U.N. expert suggests paid family leave, affordable fertility care and supportive partners could all be answers to the crisis.
I want to thank you for spending part of your day with me, I'm Rosemary Church. My colleague Polo Sandoval picks up our coverage after a short break. Stay with us.
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