Synchronized anti-Israel protests strike at least six cities

Evolution reporting live from Los Angeles. As we look at what is going on in California, we’re going to keep moving around here because we’ve got a lot of moving stories. This hour, Bill, what’s the latest? Yeah Martha, we are tracking these pro Palestine, anti Israel protests really happening in multiple major cities all across the country right now. Getting word 1 just happened in Miami where arrests are underway. You’re taking a live look in New York City near Wall Street right now. This is a protest that has been going on for over an hour now. It’s one of the more heated ones. We’ve been watching a large group of pro Palestine protesters there. There was a smaller group of pro Israel counter protesters who were there a short time ago. Things getting heated. We almost saw some punches being thrown a short time ago. Eventually NYPD showed up and now kept those two groups separated. Then you mentioned it. We’re also watching out here on the West Coast, those remarkable images up in California’s Bay Area, the Golden Gate Bridge. That protest started blocking traffic at 7:30 AM Pacific Time. So we are now upwards of 4 1/2 hours of traffic in both directions on the Golden Gate Bridge being shut down. We just got off the phone with California Highway Patrol short time ago. They’re telling us as of right now, at least seven of those protesters have been arrested, but it could go upwards of 20 people arrested. They’re still working, still working on confirming that they did confirm that those people were chained to vehicles using PVC pipe. At least three vehicles involved. That’s kind of what the holdup has been. Officers trying to get them removed. CHP also confirming these people will be facing a slew of criminal charges, multiple violations of different penal codes that includes refusals to disperse blocking the road, and actually a specific California law about blocking bridges so those people will be arrested facing charges. CBP telling us, excuse me, CHP telling us it is legal to protest but not this way. They are saying what these protesters are doing is illegal and quote incredibly dangerous. Then you mentioned what we were watching in Chicago. If we can pull up that video from O’Hare airport, people just trying to catch their flights, trying to make it somewhere around the country. The roads were blocked there as well, People getting out of their Ubers and cars with their luggage trying to catch their flights. You’re watching what’s happening here in New York City. There were also protests happening in San Antonio, TX. You’re now taking a live look on the left side of your screen at Miami, where we are told at least six protesters have been arrested there. We also had a brief protest out here in Southern California at the port of Long Beach. So we’ve got six or seven cities across the country now, Martha, where these synchronized protests have taken place this morning and this afternoon, the biggest ones obviously being New York City and what we’re witnessing on the Golden Gate Bridge. And we’re seeing law enforcement respond in a different manner in each of these different cities. The Golden Gate Bridge situation, CHP is telling us they don’t know when that’s going to be reopened. They do not have a timeline for reopening that bridge as they are still trying to figure out how to arrest the folks who have chained themselves to the vehicles. New York City, that pro Palestine crowd appears to be getting bigger by the minute, started off as really only a handful of people about an hour and a half ago. We’re not seeing any more of those pro Israel counter protests anymore. What we are hearing is a lot of chanting over in San Antonio. We saw more roads being blocked out here in Socal, in Long Beach. We saw people marching in the streets before they eventually arrived at a building. That one seemed to simmer down. So the two main ones we’re watching right now, Martha, live in New York City. And then obviously the situation at the Golden Gate Bridge where traffic is backed up pretty much as far as the eye can see and has been for several hours as law enforcement is trying to figure out how to take those people into custody and eventually get traffic reopen. We’ll send it back to you. Incredible, Bill. Thank you very much, Bill. Millusion reporting from Los Angeles.