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I want to bring in sara sidner now. shes following this for us this morning. why is second interim chief? >> reporter: theyve been looking for quite some time. i spoke to the city this morning. they say were still in the process of trying to find someone who is going to be the permanent replacement for former chief jackson. this is a city thats gone through a lot of turmoil. the whole world knows it. i suspect its been a difficult search. this is a place where whoever comes in is going to have a...

Parx attorney for the parx family. tell us, if you can, darrell, who is named in the lawsuit and what is the family seeking here? >> well one, you have chief jackson. officer darren wilson and the city of ferguson made in the lawsuit. obviously, the lawsuit is wrongful death suit but also the practice of culture that eventually led to michael browns death. >> so how will this civil suit this wrongful death suit present the evidence differently from what we have seen in the state and federal case...

Darren wilson did nothing. chief jackson did nothing. james knowles did nothing, yet theyre the ones being punished. whats interesting, sean if you look at what barack obama just recently did at selma where he sat on the edmund pettus bridge and how the nation had overcome and now hes going back to ferguson and not even talking to people about the outcome of selma which is 80% black, heavy unemployment and lots of other issues. so what they want, the left is they want to make ferguson into anoth...

St. louis county in so they can do this. the problem in terms of change then becomes, if you want to change, chief jackson came from st. louis county. chief ikoff who is sitting here now, going to be the the acting chief. came from st. louis county. who are you going to bring in? st. louis county. thats not the change perhaps that people want. so again what im coming back to chris is its not going to look like people think its going to look. i think if you drill down into all this i think in ord...

Protesters finally got what they wanted, chief jackson stepped down. they didnt get what they wanted when tom stepped down. they got it late last night when they successfully shot two police officers. >> its unbelievable. i understand there were # 2-year-old and a 41-year-old they may have been helping out to fill the ranks because ferguson has been overtaxed. they came over maybe a little bit of overtime and do policing in a congested area. this is the most predictable outcome you could imagine...

Overnight are conscious right now. now, this followed a night of largely peaceful protests. you are looking at a scuffle between protesters. there were some arrests there. at least two arrests from the scuffles many you just saw right there. the shootings and protests came hours after the announcement that the embattled police chief tom jackson is resigning one week from today. johnson is the latest in the series of local officials to step down after the justice department report that faulted po...

Path to justice is one all of us must travel together. as he says the fact that violence against police is unacceptable, how do you feel about that? because this situation last night obviously brings up a lot of questions for how proper oversight can happen in the wake of the department of justice findings that there were bad practices coming out of ferguson police to its community. so as we see what happened last night on a good note where we know that this is something that people that were th...

Welcome back everybody. all day long weve been following the breaking news out of ferguson missouri and the shooting of two police officers there last night. just take a look. this powerful image shows the aftermath of the shooting with officers rushing to the aid of their fellow policeman on the streets of ferguson last night. and when chief jacksons resignation goes into effect on march the 19th, his assistant lieutenant colonel will take over as interim chief until a replacement is found and ...

Of watching before i realized there was an officer down. when i figured that out, i think everybody else figured it out at the same point. we just began to run. that was probably the fastest i ever run in my life before i got to my car. as i was driving away the cops were down on their knees with guns drawn. i could see several of them standing over what i think was the cop that was shot. they were lifting him away and pulling him away. >> as chief belmar mentioned, the shooting marked a violent...

>> the two police officers were from other jurisdictions not from ferguson. they were there helping ferguson police to deal with the crowds of the protestors. a st. louis county officer shot in the shoulder the other officer from the west earn groves area was shot in the face. both men are expected to survive as the search and potentially dangerous search for that shooter is on at this hour. the protests they were in response to the resignation of chief tom jackson. he is one of many named in th...