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Depending which way youre going. >> reporter: yeah. there are certain streets blocked off and neighborhoods that are for the most part evacuated. all theyre trying to do is to prevent anybody who doesnt belong there from getting inside well and potentially while they know that nobody is in. that is the bulk of the attention is for that situation. right now im on ocean drive in hollywood which has essentially turned into a ghost town. the winds have picked up slightly since we last spoke. you see...

Today demanding that mayor rahm emanuel resign. people filled downtown chicago blocking streets and chanting, rahm must go. a state representative introduced a bill opening the door to a possible recall election of rahm emanuel. and activists are calling for the department of justice to widen its investigation into cook county states attorney anita alvarez. joining me with more is john yang who is outside chicagos city hall. >> reporter: kate, the mayors not been seen today. no public events on ...

So thats what were seeing here. >> throughout the protests, weve seen moments of silence. lets watch as protesters are now pausing in the streets. >> reporter: all right. >> interesting to hear the silence after hours of protesters marching to suddenly hear such a large group fall silent in the middle of a city street. well check in with you, athena jones. well take a break. watch 360 on your dvr wherever youd like. up next, officer daniel pantaleo, his testimony, little of it we know through te...

Vocal. a lot of questions from them about for what reason were they arrested. a very different tactic here in chicago. instead of allowing the protesters to cross major streets like this one, this is michigan avenue. if youre familiar with chicago, right in front of the art institute here, what theyre trying to do is to say that they dont want protesters to cross the street. ive heard one of the officers say, did you watch the news last night? was that safe? so theres definitely a different sens...

Protesters split off from the side of street im standing on and were on the other side of the street and were detained. not exactly sure why. they were standing on the sidewalk but looks like the police officers are detaining them. im not sure if theyll ticket or arrest them but there are a number of officers. theyve been going into the back of that van, and somethings happening back there, but that has certainly been a question among the people who im standing with on this side of the street on...

In washington, d.c., our athena jones is there amongst the crowd. athena, where are the protesters at this point? >> reporter: hi, anderson. were now in central downtown. were in the thick of things, and you can see the protesters at this point are not actually blocking the street. theyre here walking amongst the traffic chanting loudly. they continue to chant off the sidewalks into the streets. theyve been chanting out of the restaurants into the streets and there was a woman just a few blocks ...

That gives you a sense of how some demonstrators move city to city based on a particular cause. this is something that immediately touched his heart and made sure he came up to organize this demonstration. its amazing what we saw tonight in terms of the group here. smaller than what weve seen in the previous nights. as you know, anderson, not thousands on the streets of new york. more like hundreds. i think this is probably at this point the largest group at about 200 plus. they started at colum...

Hurt black man because of the state of our society. i spoke with two young black men a few blocks back who believes society wants to not just get rid of black men but black people. theres a charged emotion on these streets. you can see its a diverse crowd and they all have the same goal in mind, which is the changing the system. making sure this doesnt happen, black men dying at the hands of police. they want a fairer justice system. organizers has vowed to keep doing this and the crowd gets big...

The country tonight. and, we begin with protesters in chicago. athena jones is in washington. actually want to go to you, athena. whats the scene? there there were threats throughout the night that theyre going to be blocking streets. >> thats right. erin. thats what they have been do g doing. blocking a major intersection. connecticut avenue. major street. that connects the white house to northwest, northwest washington. three blocks from the white house here. you can see the giant circle behin...

Very peaceful. they circled back around and probably did a 20 block loop and came back to where they started on that 36th street if youre familiar with miami where the arts district begins and now they are starting to go home. they say they may be back on tuesday. >> brian andrews, i appreciate that. lets go to jason carroll who has been following a group of protesters throughout the streets of new york. jason, they left grand central terminal and how big is the group of protesters if you can gi...