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This was ground zero and the impact you know is not just roofs being torn off and the damage you might expect to trailers and light structures. this impacts the brick and mortar kind of buildings. the building behind us is wood. it is totally gone. but there are others made out of cement block. they, too, are devastated. it would appear that much of the downtown business area is devastated. one death here. if it stays at one death, that would actually be quite remarkable. though, of course a tra...

From the attempted murder of rodney king. i told everybody its going to go down. >> no justice, no peace. >> i was at parker center, which is the police headquarters at the time when the verdicts were announced. the crowd began to gather. it began to turn more and more violent. theres a glass entrance and people were throwing rocks at the doors. i was inside with the police commissioners and they were searching for gates. the gates were unreachable because they were at a fund-raiser. >> i was st...

Jonathan. >> hello, looking at the distraction here we get an idea of the power of the winds that came through the rural neighborhood. you can see the steps leading up to what was once a family mobile home. of the mobile home just carried off of the cement block location. a scattering all of the contents. we can overhear, you can see a pastor here. checking on the horses that miraculously survive the twister as it came through this neighborhood. they are now securing the horses and taking care o...

Hijacking what has been a legitimate march and movement theyve completely ruined it. now its all about protecting them. it remind me of the other day, when the gang memberings came out, there was a false allegation of wanting to kill the cops. we wanted to kill other people but not cops. >> josh earnest said this today, when youre looting a convenient store or throwing a cement block at the officers youre engaging in rioting behavior. >> theyve managed to get thiessen and josh earnest together o...

You have a mayor who is backing off in the face of rioters and looters. she backed off physically when they were burning cars and burning buildings and said let them loot. its just property. now, when she called them thugs, all of a sudden theyre young people who need support. rioters dont need support. the people of baltimore need support. people with their businesses destroyed need support. >> the effort not to offend people who are rioters and hijacking what has been a legitimate march and mo...

Jail was either good luck or good planning themselves manage to bust through a maintenance hatch above the shower themselves crawled through a pipe space in the roof. then they knocked out a cement block to get to another room that & that took them the an unlocked side door which they pushed open for freel. the longer the manhunt continues for the other two inmates, still on the run, police tend to gain more options to find them. >> the more likely theyll run out of money. the more likely theyll...

Climb over and get out. >> reporter: that is exactly how it went down, according to the officials, the men busted through a hatch, crawled through a pipe space beneath the roof where the air conditioning and plumbing sit and knocked out a cement block to get to another room, taking them directly to an unlocked side door which they simply pushed open to freedom. >> i dont think it was a design fault. its something that will have to be investigated but the jail is well built. >> reporter: our came...

Found and arrest. >> it just makes me nervous to think its not built better. >> elevate there vidently, a de the shower. >> that is how it went down. >> reporter: according to officials the men busted through a maintenance hatch in the shower in the jail and crawled through a pipe space beneath the roof where the air-conditioning and plumbing sit and knocked out a cement block to get to another room and that took them directly to unlocked side door which they simply pushed open to freedom. >> i ...

Armed and dangerous? should people be worried that these people are on the street? >> sure. anytime they break out, they should be more aware of their surrounding. >> reporter: for residents like mark johnson its the simple fact that this jailbreak happened thats even more troubling. >> there is a design flaw in it that you can get in the shower, climb up, climb over and get out. >> reporter: the men busted through a maintenance hatch above the shower in the jail. they crawled through a pipe spa...

Crawl space, knocked out a cement block and reached an unlocked door. >> meantime you know anybody who breaks out of prison or anything youll say theyre dangerous. were not for sure they are but you got to think they might be. you know they wasnt when they left but we dont know what they picked up after. >> three escapees had been convicted of drug offenses. the fourth waiting to go on trial on a gun charge. a spanish newspaper says the nsa collected data in spain from 60 million phone calls o...