Hundreds show support as trucker convoy rolls through Missouri

>> FIRST ON NEWS, 11 AT 4, A CROSS-COUNTRY TRUCKER CONVOY TO PROTEST COVID MANDATES TRAVELED THROUGH MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO FROM BOMMARITO AUTOMOTIVE GROUP SKYFOX WASHINGTON, DC AUTHORITIES TAKING STEPS NOW TO PREPARE FOR THE POSSIBILITY THAT THOUSANDS OF THOSE TRUCKERS WILL GATHER ON U.S. CAPITOL GROUNDS IN THE DAYS AHEAD. NEWS ELEVEN'S KELLEY HOSKINS SPOKE WITH SUPPORTERS WHO LINED MISSOURI INTERSTATES AS THAT CONVOY ROLLED THROUGH. >> HOLDING AMERICAN FLAGS AND SIGNS HUNDREDS OF SUPPORTERS RALLY TO CHEER ON THE CONVOY TRUCKERS PASSING THROUGH MISSOURI. >> A LARGE CONVOY OF TRUCKERS TRAVEL THROUGH MISSOURI TUESDAY AFTERNOON, BUT PLANS TO TRAVEL TO THE NATION'S CAPITAL WITH A UNIFIED VOICE TO REOPEN THE COUNTRY. CONVOY DEPARTED CALIFORNIA LAST WEDNESDAY IN THE GROUP ONCE ELECTED OFFICIALS TO LIFT ALL MANDATES AND IN THE STATE OF EMERGENCY RELATED TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. >> INC UNITS TO BE ABLE TO HAVE FREEDOM AND I I DON'T WANT TO WHERE THEY TELL US WHAT TO DO OR NOT, HOW TO DO HAVE STRONG TOGETHER. UNITED. STAY GOD. LOVE YOU AND GOD BLESS WHAT? >> PEOPLE WANT THEIR COUNTRY BACK DURING THE CONVOY ON MISSOURI ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC SCHMITT AND HUNDREDS OF RESIDENTS LINE INTERSTATE 40 FOR ENTIRE ROAD IN EUREKA, MISSOURI. AND THIS IS GREAT. THIS IS WHAT THIS COUNTRY'S ALL ABOUT. PEOPLE >> MAKING THEIR VOICES BE HEARD. YOU'VE GOT THESE COURAGEOUS TRUCKERS ARE GOING ACROSS THE COUNTRY. WE SEE A LOT OF PATRIOTS HERE AND REALLY THEY JUST WANT THEIR COUNTRY BACK. THEY WANT LIVE THEIR LIVES. GOVERNMENT GETS TOO BIG CONSTRUCT PEOPLE, FREEDOM LIBERTY. AND I AM GLAD TO SEE THE MANDATES LIFTING AND THINGS OPENING UP. AND I JUST HOPE WE CAN RETURN TO WHERE WE I HOPE OUR ECONOMY RECOVERS, BUT I SUPPORTING OUR FREEDOMS AND OUR RIGHTS IS WHAT WE'RE ABOUT TO RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA. AND I'M HERE TO DO I DID. >> TRUCK DRIVER FOR MANY YEARS. OWNER OVER A LONG WORKING FROM AND I SUPPORT THE TRUCK DRIVERS BOMMARITO AUTOMOTIVE GROUP SKYFOX WAS OVER THE CONVOY AND A JEFFERSON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT BOARD MEMBER JOINED THE PROTESTERS. WE DON'T LIKE TO WEAR MASK. >> SO WE'RE JUST THANKFUL TO HAVE OUR CONSTITUTION AND BE PROTECTED. >> HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI SAYS SHE IS MONITORING THE TRUCKER CONVOY HEADING TO WASHINGTON, D C AHEAD OF PRESIDENT BIDEN'S STATE OF THE

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Length: 2min 25sec (145 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 01 2022