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We're going to stay with news out of New Jersey. Actually, the matchup for the state's governor race now set, teeing up one of the most closely watched elections of the year. NBC News projects that Democratic Congresswoman Mikey Cheryl and Republican Jack Chidarelli have won their party's primaries.Cheryl, a former Navy helicopter, pitched herself as a Democrat willing to stand up to Trump. She defeated five other candidates to win her party's nomination. Now, Chedelli was endorsed by the president and beat ...

And one of those families is with us tonight. Aid's brother, Nester, was detained by ICE on Friday. She is joining us with her parents.Uh, thank you so much for for taking the time to speak with us tonight. It might be a little hard to hear us uh right now. There are a few helicopters circling overhead.Uh, but can you explain a little bit more on on what happened the day your brother was detained and what you know right now. Okay. So, it happened on this last Friday.My brother texted me at around 9:32 sayin ...

Spirit Airlines flight 2145 to Los Angeles on Thursday stopped and held on the runway after a caller phoned in a bomb threat. Everyone on board removed from the plane and screened on the runway by TSA dogs. But within just a few hours, the FBI said they had their suspect, 23-year-old John Charles Robinson, who allegedly admitted to calling in the threat after arriving too late for the flight and telling the Spirit Airlines rep on the phone, there's going to be someone that's going to try to blow up that fli ...

In major cities across the country, protests erupting. Demonstrations from coast to coast. Like in New York, what do we do.With people storming the streets or this neighborhood outside Phoenix. Thousands demonstrating against ICE raids. is illegal.And in some places, clashes giving way to vandalism and looting. Oh. All further inflaming rhetoric on all sides now coming to a head in the streets of Los Angeles.Let's go. Let's move. As tensions flare up, heading into another night of unrest.We thank you for wa ...

The year was 1959 and Joan Alexander was getting ready to graduate from the University of Maine with hopes of becoming a teacher. But then came the big news. She and her husband were expecting.At the time, pregnant women weren't allowed to participate as student teachers. All all these years, I hadn't realized that I had this big hole in my life. And that's what it was, the lack of the diploma.As years went by, Joan's family grew, and she began volunteering in schools, helping young preschool children learn ...

Okay, we want to turn back now to our top story. The Trump administration's immigration raids from coast to coast. Tonight, we're speaking with one teenager impacted personally by the crackdown. Marcelo Gomez Dilva is 18 years old, attending high school in Massachusetts. He came to this country on a visitor's visa at just 7 years old, later getting a student visa. He was detained on May 31st on the way to volleyball. The agents, it turns out, were looking for his father, but took him in when they realized h ...

Thanks to our law enforcement officers and the majority of Angelinos who protested peacefully, this situation was winding down and was concentrated in just a few square blocks downtown. But that that's not what Donald Trump wanted. He again chose escalation. He chose more force. He chose theatrics over public safety.He federalized another 2,000 guard members. He deployed more than 700 active US Marines. These are the men and women trained for foreign combat, not domestic law enforcement.Donald Trump's gover ...

Tonight, it started in California. Now it's spreading around the country as raids expand across America. Protests spread as well. Police trying to push back crowds angry over aggressive immigration raids. Democratic leaders in California saying it would all stop if the raid stopped. Arrest and damage to buildings and vehicles continue. And amid the chaos, a news photographer taking a rubber bullet to the head. Anxiety rising in California as thousands of National Guard members and Marines on President Trump ...

Uh, good evening everyone. I wanted to let the city know that I have declared a local emergency and issued a curfew for downtown Los Angeles to stop the vandalism, to stop the looting. Many businesses have now been affected by or vandalized.Last night, there were 23 businesses that were looted. And I think that if you drive through downtown LA, the graffiti is everywhere. So my message to you is if you do not live or work in downtown LA, avoid the area.Law enforcement will arrest individuals who break the c ...