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Alexandria ocasio-cortez and ilhan omar and locals in new york city are falling in line behind bernie sanders, it shows he's not quite out of the race yet. >> he is certainly the front runner when it comes to fundraising at this point. leave it there, we have covered a lot. thank you. now to the breaking news from overseas. specifically hong kong, where anti-government protesters and those protests have turned violent. police again firing tear gas as protesters lit fires. nbc is in hong kong. this is the 20th weekend of this. does it seem to be increasing or do police try i to crack down on ...

Janis what can you tell us. >> reporter: good morning, dara. this is the 20th consecu hong kong. it appears to be heading in the same direction that it has so many weeks before. the protest that was organized was not authorized by police. they have warned that they would break it up. they used tear gas and water cannons to do so. it actually started down there and police in moving in were trying to push the protester line forward. they were using tear gas, water cannons, spraying that blue dye to try to disperse people and they actually did. this road was clear about 20, 30 minutes ago. but pr...

Cities across the u.s. is ramping up security and in new york police are setting barricades, patrolling tourist attractions and hotels. joining us now, the former new york homeland security, thank you, michael, for joining us. we had two attacks in u.s. in the last two months, how will these events impact security at times square? >> so it reconfirms the unfortunate truth that new york city continues to be a target of

We spoke. we've seen the police are making a move forward. before that you had the protesters sort of setting barricades on fire, police keeping them back using the water canon trucks. that's now changed. the police themselves are now moving forward, certainly trying to cord on the protesters if not trying to make it stop. not showing any signs of doing that. there are many streets here in hamburg where this is still going on here, very close actually to where the g20 summit is taking place, jim. >> what are the protesters trying to accomplish here, and what's led to these more violent clashes...