>> What you should know.

>> First off tonight, President Donald Trump today was clear about federal troops being deployed to Chicago in an effort he says to address violent crime.

But we're going in.

I didn't say when we're going in.

It comes as more than 50 people were shot and 8 killed across Chicago over Labor Day weekend.

But shootings and homicides in 2025 are down more than 30%.

Each compared with last year.

Governor JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson along with other local officials are pushing back on the president saying his pledge to combat crime is a cover for unconstitutional federal overreach.

>> An identifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals.

As we saw in Los Angeles, a very, very small percentage of the individuals they will target will be violent criminals.

breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try and disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades.

Let's be clear.

The terror and cruelty is the point.

Not the safety of anyone living here.

>> And our Heather Sharon joins us now with more.

Heather, did the governor say when he expects the president to deploy troops to Chicago while citing unidentified sources that he called patriotic Americans within the Trump administration.

He said he expects this deployment to target Mexican Independence Day celebrations.

Mexican Independence Day is September 16th.

Now he couldn't say exactly when this deployment will start, but he did again, as you heard sound the alarm that it is nearly certainly coming.

of course, know the president has not said when do we have any confirmation that the president will send Texas National Guard or other troops to Chicago?

We don't.

We heard that from the first time from Governor Pritzker today.

That's caused a great deal of alarm because it would be nearly unprecedented for one state's governor to send that state's National Guard to another state without the request of that state's governor.

Now I reached out to Texas Governor Greg Abbott's office.

They said that the governor's information was inaccurate but declined to detail exactly what was wrong.

Does the president have the authority to do this out that is really the million dollar question.

Nobody is quite certain.

This will certainly trickle a legal challenge.

We heard from Attorney General Kwame ruled that they would act almost immediately, but these are parts of federal laws that nobody has really tried or tested in the courts.

So will the ruling today by a federal judge that the Trump administration violated federal law when it deployed the National Guard in California in Los Angeles.

>> Will that give Governor Pritzker a way to stop the president from sending the military to Chicago?

Will?

It will certainly help bolster Illinois's case that what the governor or what the president is attempting to do is illegal and it violates federal law.

It's not clear if the president will assert the same law or the same section of law that he asserted in the Los Angeles deployment.

And that could change the legal fight entirely.

And this is sort of I think what's so concerning for a lot of people, including the governor and Mayor Jim Brandon Johnson.

Nobody quite knows what we're dealing mean time.

A game of wait and see for Chicagoans and reporters like Sharon will be on top of the force.

Had a Sean.

Thanks so much.

Thanks.

Brandis.

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