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On windows, another demonstration plant. the trend has been you have a largely lawful demonstration and an organizer will declare its over. a group of young people will hang around. these are the people that he determined to vandalize or have a conflict with police. eventually the destruction takes over. for three nights in a row, the demonstrations and they both have been overwhelmed by vandalism. sunday night, teenagers and young adults, many masked ran through the downtown area. blocking road...

Determined to either have a conflict with police, or vandalize things. they went off, and tensions built for a paeriod of time and they started blocking roads, broke up concrete in the planters, and took smaller pieces and threw them through the windows in downtown st. louis. they ran down the street, 120 businesses now that sustained some kind of destruction. weve got an updated number from police as far as the number of arrests that they made when the police came in force and swarmed in on the...

Tell me about your district, your constituents there just outside of miami. and i think we may have a problem there because im not hearing the congresswoman. >> im sorry. im here. sorry about that. >> thank you. thanks for being with us. >> im glad to hear they fared pretty well in st. petersburg. here in broward while we didnt get the direct hit we were anticipating, the preliminary reports from my district, i represent are broward and miami-dade countys weve had major flooding particularly in ...

Facility near that. as a precaution, they evacuated the prison. they were sent to other facilities overnight. all of them safe. >> and the firefighters, do they have enough personnel on the ground? >> caller: well, the exact number were getting from the sheriff, 487, but there are more people coming throughout the week. also we know nearby pilots from ft. carson are working on this and the national guard here working in a support role, blocking roads. there are a lot of people driving around try...

To hit the town in just 48 hours. in the thick of the storm, hail pelted cars, coming down so furiously that they had to pull off the road. power lines and trees are down everywhere. blocking roads and trapping victims of the storms in the middle of the wreckage and keeping rescuers out. for people in this part of the country, its hard to imagine that so much could be lost and so much damage could be done in just a few short hours. >> its hard. its just hard on everybody. everythings gone. every...

Winds on parts ever the west coast. some gusts topping 100 miles an hour and making a real mess in southern california. at one point knocking out power to more than a quarter million homes. meteorologist janice dean is in the fox weather center. janice, we are talking more than a hundred miles an hour, that is like hurricane-force winds. >> reporter: absolutely. wind gusts in excess of 140 miles per hour on the sierra crest mountains. okay. thats really dangerous, obviously in the mountains. ove...

On windows, another demonstration plant. the trend has been you have a largely lawful demonstration and an organizer will declare its over. a group of young people will hang around. these are the people that he determined to vandalize or have a conflict with police. eventually the destruction takes over. for three nights in a row, the demonstrations and they both have been overwhelmed by vandalism. sunday night, teenagers and young adults, many masked ran through the downtown area. blocking road...

That happened last year. juan, listen to this protest. listen to what theyre saying. go ahead, roll it. >> now, that was new york, juan, and theyre protesting. when do we want dead cops? when do we want them? now. you know what happened within days of that protest. these officers were executed by a guy who came from philadelphia and said i wanted some dead cops. were seeing the fall-out. its an ugly fall-out, juan. >> you know, this is almost like a fabrication. i dont know where to begin. there...

Need any confirmation. we know what we saw. >> reporter: it seemed to hit out of nowhere. >> you can see the rain coming down in sheets now. >> reporter: a fast-moving, ferocious storm exploded over new york city and the surrounding area just as people were headed home in the afternoon rush. commuters became storm chasers. and in a matter of minutes, sheets of rain, dark black clouds, 80-mile-an-hour winds. powerful enough to rip the brick off of store fronts. and for block after block, from bro...