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00:00Well, turning our attention to the northern border and the latest in the so-called Canadian Freedom Convoy.

00:05Here's a live look at the Ambassador Bridge, which reopened last night after protesters shut it down for nearly a week.

00:12Police making several arrests as they cleared the bridge of demonstrators.

00:16But a different story in Ottawa, as protesters continue clogging downtown streets.

00:22And over the weekend, we started seeing counter-protesters.

00:26Correspondent Tom Negevin is live for us in Detroit.

00:29Tom, the Canadian Prime Minister making an announcement less than an hour ago that would usually be reserved for times of war.

00:38That's exactly right, Nicole.

00:39This is a really significant development on a day that we're seeing quite a few of them.

00:43Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoking the Emergency Powers Act for the first time since it was created in 1988,

00:52giving him almost wartime powers over domestic affairs as he tries to get these protests under control,

00:57brought under control in Windsor, Ontario, here at the Ambassador Bridge just yesterday.

01:02And Windsor Police today updating us on the number of arrests they made there significantly.

01:08It was 42, and they are standing firm, saying anyone else who tries to close this bridge is going to jail.

01:14The big rigs are rolling again, back and forth between Windsor and Detroit,

01:23along a vital corridor lined with auto plants, sustained by the parts these trucks provide.

01:29Companies on both sides say the blockade has been crippling.

01:33First, it's COVID, and everything's an excuse for COVID.

01:37We can't do this, can't do that.

01:38The prices are going up.

01:40Now they've just thrown something on top of that that's even made it worse.

01:45Looking at that by the numbers, it's been an expensive six days.

01:48About 10,000 commercial vehicles cross every day, moving $325 million worth of products,

01:56which amounts to 25% of all cross-border trade.

02:04This hit a critical mass yesterday.

02:06Police in riot gear moving in, dispersing the last of the protesters, making arrests.

02:12We started hurting the big businesses, and we started hurting the money flow for the government.

02:17That's when they put their foot down, and that's when they've had enough.

02:19The Ambassador Bridge protest, inspired by this one in Canada's capital, going on for weeks, unchecked.

02:31Residents say truckers have been terrorizing them with impunity.

02:35Their government, afraid to act.

02:37People are scared to go to work. They're scared to leave their homes.

02:40And today, action.

02:42Ontario's premier announcing COVID restrictions will be rolled back days earlier than planned,

02:47insisting it's being done in spite of the protests, not because of political pressure.

02:54And we're here today. We're able to take this step now because of each and every one of you.

03:01And back with a live look at Canada's capital, Ottawa, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,

03:05who just today, just a short time ago, has invoked the Emergency Powers Act for the first time since it was created in 1988.

03:13Its predecessor was something called the War Measures Act.

03:16The only Prime Minister to invoke that was during the October crisis,

03:21and that was Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Justin Trudeau's father.

03:26A very dramatic development in Canada's capital today.

03:29And other developments that are pretty dramatic along the Canada-U.S. border.

03:33Coots, Alberta, on the border with Montana.

03:35The RCMP saying they made 11 arrests there early this morning and seized weapons.

03:40Long guns, handguns, even body armor, Nicole.

03:44So this is a pretty serious situation, and it appears that Canada's Prime Minister is treating it that way.

03:50Absolutely. We know you are saying on top of that, Tom. Thank you for that.

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