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judge barry williams declaring a mistrial, saying the jury unable to reach unanimous agreement on any of a the four charges. involuntary manslaughter, second degree -- excuse me second degree assault, reckless enendangerment and reckless conduct in office. whats very fascinating is what happens next. well, judge williams dismissed the jury, thanked them for their service and announced that he will meet in chambers tomorrow with both the state and the defense to set a new trial date. no...

Way. for most of the evening so far, protesters have stayed on the street and tried to obey the traffic rules, but now it seems to be, they seem to be amping it up a little bit and police responding in kind. some of them in tactical gear, but for the most part, they are just taking a heavy hand in blocking off street zps keeping them from moving into traffic. you can see, actually, up here, theyre starting to move into traffic, on this major thoroughfare here. this is president street here in ba...

To substitute their emotions for this familys emotions. this family wants calm. this family wants intelligent reaction and the family wants them to know that there will be a second trial in this case. and so they should not be upset. >> billy murphy, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. nice to see you. >> i want to go back to brian todd ton streets of baltimore. whats happening there where you are? >> reporter: well, wolf, for the first time tonight, protesters have actually blo...

That didnt speak to what people thought the outcome would be. so you definitely had a sense of confidence and gratitude for attempting to mount these charges. of course its always difficult to convict a police officer. its rare theyre ever charged in the death of a civilian. even more spectacularly rare that theyre convicted. i think its important to impress upon people how incredibly rare it is for a police officer to be convicted in the death of a civilian in their charge. it almost never happ...

And i think there will be a very careful jury selection process by this judge, and well be able to pick juries in the rest of these cases with no problem. >> from the perspective of the freddie gray family and youre the attorney representing them, what would bring justice to them. >> as you know, wolf, i represent them in the civil tries, in the civil case, which is over. and my representation of them is only in the aftermath of that and not involved in the criminal cases. >> one more question, ...

Was sort of paving the way for this new accountability for police officers. given the fact that there is a hung jury and that they need, the prosecution, needs porters testimony in a trial thats going to start january 4th, and another trial thats going to start january 25th, im just not certain what, how the community is going to react to that. >> let me ask cornell william brooks. not only the president and ceo of the naacp, youre also an attorney. you know the legal system. all of these police...

>> senator, first, on the issue of climate change. do you believe that the climate change is the result of man made or is it man made in any way? >> well, first of all, the climate changing has always been changing there has never been a time when the climate hasnt been changing. what percentage of that is due to mans activity is not something there is a con ken us is on. there there is. >> what do you think? >> again, im a policymaker and my job is to go through the different solution...

To release it. thanks to judge billy murphy in baltimore. still to come this morning, if your kid is home but headed back to college later today, you could let them sleep -- or you could go grab them and wake them up because up next, race on campus. what our young people are facing and how theyre handling it. i just dont eat the way i should. so i drink boost to get the nutrition that im missing. boost complete nutritional drink has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vit...

Trial that could be used against officer gordon and white, for instance. so i think that lends itself to fairness on a purely evidentiary level. . number two, i do think the judge -- judge billy, he may have more experience with judge barry williams so he would be able to tell us about him but i think we are in a position to have a fair judge. it is so important, melissa, i think to have a fair judge because thats where you get your rulings. if i am trying to put in evidence my prior relationshi...

Fairly quickly in baltimore with baltimore citys state attorneys mary mosby announcing charges against all six officers involved with the grey arrest. almost seven months to the day since those charges were announced the first of six separate trials between now and march for each of the accused officers. joining me now, billy murphy, attorney for the family of freddie grey. were talking that on the one hand in the kind of big movement around black lives matter baltimores a space where just dislo...