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I'm Christie Krueger and I'm Jenice
Fernandez let's get right to your top
story at 3:00 now we do begin with the
breaking news out of Venezuela
that is where anti-government
demonstrators are clashing with Nicolas
Maduro as troops here you can actually
see that armored car plowing into a
crowd and the violent uprising all
taking place at an air base in Caracas
and is being led by interim president 1y
though though risky revolt - all in an
effort to lead a military uprising
against Nicolas Maduro well what turns
Kodi Weddell is the only South Florida
reporter in that area covering the story
he joins us live from Bogota Colombia
and guys we are still seeing live
gunfire on the streets of Caracas as the
threat of real bloodshed here continues
let's take a listen so we have been
seeing live gunfire from what we believe
are both sides in this uprising we've
also seen violent scenes from loyalists
- Nicolas Maduro ramming those tanks
into anti Maduro protesters now this is
all located right in the center of
Caracas right in an area in eastern
Caracas that is mostly pro opposition
but there is a military base there that
is located right in this area that is
near the alameda area and it was this
morning that we saw along Y though and
low for the Lopes they're giving
declaration saying they were beginning
this operation freedom initiative and
basically this is military uprising -
finally in the Osher patient as they are
calling it 1y though clearly putting all
of his cards on the table here now
pro-government supporters as well have
been called to surround the presidential
palace to protect that presidential
palace for Nicolas Maduro the second
most powerful person in the Socialist
Party via video took to the radio this
afternoon and he told Nicolas Maduro
supporters to gather around that palace
just in case opposition supporters try
to March there we know they have tried
but so far loyalists to nicolas maduro
have been repelling those efforts blonde
why though has also been rallying his
supporters and PLAs says after he was
outside of that military base they
retreated a bit really to a local plaza
and not a good sign for one why though
because obviously he needed to really
take over that military base and start
to see other military bases around the
country start to fall but so far we have
not seen that but there have been a
handful of military members defecting
against Motherwell joining Leopoldo
Lopez and Juan why though we've also
seen this effort internationally to get
to the effort by Juan why though - a
support to his his moves in Venezuela
internationally as well the you have the
Ambassador wronged by those ambassador
to the United States spoke a little
earlier today we want to set a clear
message also to the dictator Nicolas
Maduro your time is over Venezuela is
ready for a change
you must facilitate the transition in
our country you must allow the
Venezuelan people to re-establish the
democratic system the time is now
venezuela is ready for a change
nobody is going to stop it
and we're gonna look take a look at some
more live pictures now these are live
pictures coming out of the streets of
Caracas we are still seeing these
confrontations it is mostly my little
oilless at this point trying to repress
those who are supporting Juan who I
though so so far this effort by 1y
though to create a spark here doesn't
seem to have happened to yet he will
need that to happen in the next few
hours in the next few days or he
definitely risks this whole movement
being squashed by Nicolas Maduro and of
course he risk being arrested as well
all right Cody we will continue to check
back with you but certainly a volatile
situation a dangerous situation on the
streets right now we'll be talking to
you later in our newscast