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In a state of, lets say high alert right now. the university of maryland, baltimore, has been shut down, in the middle of all of this. milwaukee county sheriff david clark, dr. alveda king joining us right now. dr. king the niece of martin luther king, taking all of this in. you had written a letter to the mayor, trying to urge caution here and to dial that language back. >> i was trying to explain to the mayor and i hope she got it its an open letter on social media. maybe the viewer can help u...

>> if the rules were no longer adhere to anything would go. we made it clear that we were not going to tolerate what was tolerated last night. >> the police really did change their tactics. there was teargassed from last night, also some rubber tapper bullets that were thrown. those kinds of things. and relatively few number of what you might call agitators, in greek, mostly young men who were out here but they dispersed. as they look at the numbers coming important to keep in mind the average d...

Leland. theres that smell of tear gas here, and its hard to put into words the amount of violence weve seen. weve witnessed probably at least half a dozen stores being looted reports of many many more stores that have been looted. as you get a sense here sean as weve been standing out here and you see all the liquor bottles and things being thrown at blisspolice. the police had been retreated for a while. the clergy came out and said they asked the police to move all the way back and you have ...

Agitators come in from around the country, and we had some roving gangs and young people that were out looking to cause problems. its unfortunate. i had a long discussion with the president about this this evening. he supports our actions 100%. we talked about the fact that weve got to find everybody to get the answers and resolve this situation with what happened in the freddie gray incident. but this is an entirely different situation. this is lawless gangs of thugs roaming the streets causing...

Its so shocking. >> theyre bringing him down now. >> reporter: saturdays earthquake comes a year after an avalanche claimed the lives of 16 nepalese sherpas, ending the the climbing season: since then new paths have been put in. dozens of injured climbers have returned to kathmandu, an all too familiar scene of horror and terror on the worlds tallest mountain. >> miguel almaguer getting us started. we will have much more from this devastating scene throughout todays "rundown." now to baltimore...

Now you can see were live covering these events which have been described as disastrous by many who have been covering this situation. i want to bring in now leland stays on the scene and continues to cover the breaking news. theres now looting on all four corners. this is just one corner of baltimore. western baltimore in particular is under siege at this moment. but looting under way at all four corners. the police largely standing by in the face of the looting according to the reports. the ma...

Brian, baltimores mayor and dozens of religious groups are also calling for peace. what do they say? >> thats exactly right. the mayor and other leaders calling for peace today following yesterdays mostly peaceful but at times violent protests. mourners coming out of the funeral home today to view the body of 25-year-old freddie gray. gray died last sunday from an you can unexplained spinal cord injury. some gathered across the street holding cardboard signs honoring gray reading justice for all...

Police custody. brian, baltimores mayor and dozens of religious groups are also calling for peace. what do they say? >> thats exactly right. the mayor and other leaders calling for peace today following yesterdays mostly peaceful but at times violent protests. mourners coming out of the funeral home today to view the body of 25-year-old freddie gray. gray died last sunday from an you can unexplained spinal cord injury. some gathered across the street holding cardboard signs honoring gray reading...

What do you say when i say these two people that i singled out tonight dyson and blow are basically agitators and they are basically putting up a false scenario of what america is all about. what do you say to that? >> you know, blow i dont think much about them. blow had a gun pointed at him in new haven and he railroad about the fact that here his young black son cop is black and never mentioned that in the column. these guys play it both way. >> can i speak to the larger point? >> yes. >> i t...

The reports narrative was sadly familiar. it evoked the kind of abuse and disregard for citizens that spawned the civil rights movement. but i rejected the notion that nothings changed. what happened in ferguson may not be unique, but its no longer endemic. its no longer sanctioned by law or by custom and before the civil rights movement, it most surely was. >> president obama also spoke about patriotism, about what it means to be a patriot, something that some people said was a response to form...