WE HAVE BREAKING NEWS, THANK
YOU.
>> THANK YOU, SANDRA.
>> Bill: LIVE PICTURES AT THE
AIRPORT IN HONG KONG.
THIS IS A SCENE OF CHAOS FOR THE
SECOND DAY NOW THE PROTESTERS
HAVE TAKEN UP THEIR POSITIONS
INSIDE ONE OF THE TERMINALS AND
THE POLICE ARE RESPONDING WITH
FORCE.
LAST NIGHT AND AGAIN TODAY AS WE
GET THE INFORMATION HERE.
THE SECOND DAY NOW THE AIRPORT
HAS ESSENTIALLY BEEN SHUTDOWN
AND FLIGHTS DIVERTED.
THE GOVERNMENT IN BEIJING
CONCERNED ABOUT THE ONGOING
PROTESTS IN HONG KONG ABOUT A
MONTH'S TIME.
IT INITIALLY BEGAN THE PROTEST
AGAINST THE LAW THAT COULD HAVE
BEEN INITIATED FOR PROSECUTION
OUT OF HONG KONG BACK TO
MAINLAND CHINA.
IN WILL TELL YOU, THE ANALYSTS
WILL TELL YOU IT'S A BIGGER
DEAL.
IT'S ABOUT THE AUTONOMY OF HONG
KONG AND HOW THEY WANT TO REMAIN
A SEPARATE SYSTEM AWAY FROM
BEIJING.
>> Sandra: TAKING THE IMAGES
IT'S SOMETHING TO SEE IT
HAPPENING AT THE HONG KONG
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
IT'S ONE OF THE BUSIEST IF NOT
THE BUSIEST IN THE WORLD.
HANDLES ABOUT 1100 FLIGHTS EVERY
DAY TO 200 DESTINATIONS.
YOU CAN'T EVEN CHECK TO SEE IF
YOU'RE FLIGHT WILL TAKE OFF.
IT'S THE SECOND STRAIGHT DAY OF
THAT.
YOU CAN SEE THE PROTESTS
BUILDING THERE.
THEY'RE BLOCKING POLICE BUS ARE
OUTSIDE THE AIRPORT.
WE HAVE POLICE IN RIOT GEAR.
YOU CAN SEE VERY CLEARLY ON YOUR
SCREEN, IT'S A DEVELOPING
SITUATION THAT SEEMS TO BE
GROWING BY THE DAY.
>> Bill: THE COMPARISON GOES
BACK TO 1989 AND TIANANMEN
SQUARE AND THE REASON THAT'S
BROUGHT UP IS BECAUSE YOU DON'T
KNOW THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT WILL
REACT AND AT WHAT POINT DO THEY
STEP ON THE GAS AND MAKE A MOVE
AGAINST THE PROTESTERS.
LATE LAST NIGHT THERE WAS VIDEO
GOING OUTONLINE -- OUT ONLINE
AND IT WAS VIOLENT CLASHES AND
POLICE TAKING PEOPLE, FOUR AND
FIVE OFFICERS PER PROTESTER
BEING RATHER AGGRESSIVE IS AN
UNDERSTATEMENT IF YOU WATCH THE
VIDEO AND BACK AT IT AGAIN
TODAY.
THE WORD AT THE AIRPORT IS
CHECK-IN SERVICES FOR DEPARTING
FLIGHTS SUSPEND.
OTHER DEPARTING FLIGHTS HAVE
BEEN COMPLETE.
IT'S A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT FROM HONG KONG.
FLIGHTS WERE ABLE TO DEPART AND
LAND EARLIER TODAY.
GREG PALKOT IS WATCHING THE
STORY TO BRING US UPDATED ON
WHAT WE THINK WE'RE DEALING WITH
NOW, GREG.
HELLO TO YOU IN LONDON.
>> BILL, YEAH, WE'VE BEEN
WATCHING AS YOU HAVE TOO FROM
THE HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT.
IT LOOKS LIKE, GUYS, THE
AUTHORITIES ARE SAYING ENOUGH IS
ENOUGH AFTER FIVE DAYS OF
PROTESTS THERE AT THE SCENE IN
THE AIRPORT.
YESTERDAY'S PROTEST BASICALLY
SHUT THE HUGE INTERNATIONAL HUB
DOWN AND WE'VE BEEN WATCHING IN
THE PAST 25 MINUTES RIOT POLICE
MOVING IN AND TRYING TO CLEAR AT
LEAST SOME OF THE PROTESTERS
AWAY FROM FIRST OF THE FRONT OF
THE FER
THE TERMINAL AND THEN GOING
INSIDE.
WE'VE WATCHED SOME TARGETED
ARRESTS BEING MADE AND WATCHING
CHAOS INSIDE.
YESTERDAY THERE WAS ABOUT 5,000
PROTESTERS INSIDE.
IT SEEMED LIKE THE NUMBER HAD
BUILT UP AS WELL.
YESTERDAY SOME 200 FLIGHTS WERE
CANCELLED.
TODAY AT LEAST 100 FLIGHTS WERE
CANCELLED.
THE RIOTERS ARE ACTIVISTS WHO
HAVE BEEN BUSY THE PAST 10 WEEKS
PROTESTING FOR MORE DEMOCRATIC
REFORM AND THE TERRITORY
BASICALLY RUN BY CHINA, A FORMER
BRITISH COLONY.
IT'S CALLED FOR A VARIETY OF
MEASURES.
IT STARTED WITH A DEMAND TO DROP
A PLANNED EXTRADITION BILL.
IT STARTED IN THE HUNDREDS AND
THEN THOUSANDS AND BUILT TO
SEVERAL MILLION A COUPLE TIMES
WHEN WE WERE OUT IN HONG KONG WE
SAW TENS OF THOUSANDS OUT IN THE
STREET.
NOW IT'S GOTTEN QUITE VIOLENT
AND TARGETED.
THE PROTESTERS, BILL, BASICALLY
HAVE FOUND THE SOFT UNDERBELLY
OF THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT AND
THAT IS INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
STATUS.
THEY BLOCKED HIGHWAYS.
THEY BLOCKED BUSINESS AREAS BUT
NOW THEY'RE GETTING TO THE
AIRPORT WHICH IS ACTUALLY AT THE
CORE OF THINGS.
EARLIER, BILL, WE HEARD BEIJING
BACKED HONG KONG CHIEF EXECUTIVE
KERRY LAM.
SHE RATCHETED UP HER RHETORIC
SAYING IT'S A DANGEROUS
SITUATION SHE IS SAYING AND THIS
IS A QUOTE FROM HER, MORE
VIOLENCE WILL PUSH HONG KONG
DOWN A PATH OF NO RETURN AND
THERE'S NO WORD ON ANY
CONCESSIONS BEING MADE BY HER BY
THE BEIJING BACKED AUTHORITIES
WHICH IS WHAT ALL THE PROTESTERS
ARE ABOUT.
I THINK IT SHOULD BE NOTED ALSO
WE HAVE SEEN IN THE LAST TWO
DAYS PUT ON OFFICIAL CHINESE
MEDIA SCENES, LINES OF ARMORED
POLICE VEHICLES, ATCs OF WHAT IS
CALLED THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION
POLICE.
THIS IS BASICALLY RIOT POLICE
BACKED BY THE PEOPLE'S
LIBERATION ARMY, THAT IS THE
CHINESE ARMY BEING STAGED
OUTSIDE OF HONG KONG.
ALSO THERE ARE BARRACKS FOR THE
PLA INSIDE HONG KONG ITSELF.
BUT WHAT WE'RE SEEING NOW IS
RIOT POLICE MOVING INTO THE AND
LOOKS LIKE AFTER A FIFTH DAY OF
PROTEST, A SECOND DAY OF
PROTESTS THAT HAS SHUT DOWN THE
AIRPORT.
THEY'RE TRYING TO CLEAR THE
FOLKS OUT AND TRYING TO GET THIS
AIRPORT BACK WORKING AGAIN AT
LEAST READY FOR THE NEXT DAY,
BILL.
>> Sandra: BUT NO SIGN YET, THIS
IS SANDRA HERE, NO SIGN YET OF
ANY ACTIVITY AT THE AIRPORT.
WE KNOW SOME OF THE PROTESTERS
WERE COLLECTING BAGGAGE CARTS
AND STRINGING THEM TOGETHER THE
PROTESTERS WERE, TO BLOCK THE
POLICE FROM COMING IN.
WE'RE STILL GETTING WORD THERE
ARE BUSSES OF POLICE IN RIOT
GEAR GETTING DROPPED OFF AT THIS
AIRPORT AS THE FLIGHT
CANCELLATIONS CONTINUE.
THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IN
BEIJING HAS CHARACTERIZED THIS
MOVEMENT AS SOMETHING
APPROACHING TERRORISM.
WE KNOW IT POSES WHAT THEY CALL
AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO THE
LOCAL CITIZENS THERE.
GREG, IS THERE ANY IDEA OF
POLICE ABILITY TO GET THINGS
BACK ON TRACK HERE?
YOU THINK ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF
BUSINESS AND TOURISM FLOW
THROUGH THIS HUGE INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT.
WHAT'S THE LATEST YOU'RE HEARING
ON OPERATIONS BEING ABLE TO GET
BACK ONLINE?
>> WELL, SANDRA, THAT IS THE BIG
QUESTION.
CHINA CAN DO IT.
THERE'S NO QUESTION CHINA CANNOT
GET THIS AIRPORT BACK OPERATING
AGAIN BUT IT IS WORRIED ABOUT
THE BLOWBACK AND THE PUBLIC
RELATIONS IT WOULD TAKE IF, AND
THIS HAS BEEN RAISED IN THE LAST
COUPLE PLAYS, IF THERE WAS A
REPLAY OF WHAT WE SAW IN
TIANANMEN SQUARE IN 1989 A REAL
CRACKDOWN BY THE CHINESE
MILITARY BY PROTESTERS IN
MAINLAND CHINA.
CHINA DOES NOT WANT TO DO THAT
RIGHT NOW.
HONG KONG IS TOO IMPORTANT FOR
THEIR ECONOMY, CHINA'S ECONOMY
IS BOOMING RIGHT NOW.
HONG KONG STILL PLAYS A CRITICAL
ROLE TO FUNNEL MONEY IN TO THE
COMPANIES AND GOVERNMENT TO KEEP
THEIR ECONOMY BOOMING AND IT
COMES AT A TIME OF REAL TRADE
ECONOMIC TENSIONS WITH THE
UNITED STATES.
TO THAT POINT AND IN THE PAST 24
HOURS WE'VE MONITORED WHAT
WASHINGTON IS SAYING AND THEY'VE
CONCERNED ABOUT THE THINGS WE'VE
BEEN SEEING TODAY AND VIOLENCE
BREAKING OUT AND A CALL FOR ALL
SIDES TO RESTRAIN THEMSELVES.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT IN THE PAST
24 HOURS SAID IN FACT THEY
DEFEND THE RIGHT OF THE
PROTESTERS AND THEIR FREEDOM OF
SPEECH RIGHT AND PEACEFUL
ASSEMBLY RIGHT.
RIGHT NOW WE'RE NOT SEEING A LOT
OF PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY AT THIS
POINT OF TIME AND JOHN BOLTON,
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER IS
ECHOING WHAT THE HOUSE IS SAYING
THAT THE U.S. IN NO WAY IS
BACKING ANY OF THIS PROTEST AND
IN FACT PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID
IT'S A MATTER BETWEEN BEIJING
AND THE HONG KONG PEOPLE AND
AUTHORITIES BUT THEY CERTAINLY
DON'T WANT THIS THING TO GET OUT
OF HAND AS WELL.
WASHINGTON WATCHING VERY
CAREFULLY.
THERE'S A LOT AT STAKE ON ALL
SIDES, SANDRA.
>> Bill: AS WE WATCH THESE RIOT
POLICE THEY'RE GEARED UP IT'S
CLEAR FROM ME IMAGE.
YOU SAID YOU SAW THOUSANDS MAYBE
AT ONE POINT TENS OF THOUSAND.
DO YOU KNOW THE NUMBERS AT THE
AIRPORT, THAT'S THE FIRST
QUESTION, AND EVEN IF YOU MOVE
OUT THE PROTESTERS FROM THE
AIRPORT THEY'LL GO ELSEWHERE.
IF YOU GET THEM OUT OF THE
AIRPORT, IT'S NOT OVER, IS IT?
>> ABSOLUTELY NOT.
WHAT THEY'VE DONE, BILL, AND WE
SAW THE BEGINNINGS OF IT, IT'S A
HIT-AND-RUN GUERRILLA TACTIC.
WE SAW THE MILLION MEN MARCHES,
VERY PEACEFUL AND NOW THERE'S A
MORE VIOLENT APPROACH.
THEY MODEL THEMSELVES, BELIEVE
IT OR NOT, AFTER THE KUNG FU
ACTOR FROM THE '70s, LEE, WHO
SAID HE MOVED LIKE WATER.
THEY MOVE LIKE WATER MOVING
AROUND THE POLICE AND WHEN
THEY'RE BEING HIT AT ONE
LOCATION, AT A SUBWAY OR CENTRAL
BUSINESS AREA, THEY MOVE TO
ANOTHER PLACE.
OVER THE WEEKEND, WE SAW CLASHES
BETWEEN THE POLICE AND THE
PROTESTERS AT ABOUT 10 DIFFERENT
AREAS OF HONG KONG AND AT THAT
TIME IN FACT POLICE WERE USING
TEAR GAS AND PEPPER SPRAYS AND
RUBBER BULLETS AND ACCORDING TO
THE PROTESTERS THEY WERE USING
ABUSIVE TACTICS AS WELL.
THE PROTEST USING MOLOTAUV
COCKTAILS TOO AND THIS IS AN
IMPORTANT HONG KONG AIRPORT,
BILL.