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This video shows you what happened. a car tack is being attainvestid autos a civil rights case. this man is being held in connection with the crash. in the meantime, we are hearing reaction from democrats and republicans criticizing the united states for not calling it what it was. protesters there who were white nationalists. witnesses who saw that car slam into this group of counterprotesters in charlottesville say the car was going very fast. two men at the scene describe exactly what they he...

Nazis with adolph hitler. >> well have much more from the suspects former teacher in just a few moments. first, i want you to know more about 32-year-old heather heyer, the victim killed yesterday afternoon when that dark gray car plowed into a crowd of people. she died on the same day she rallied against white nationalists marching through her quiet college town. rosa flores, whats happening on the ground there this afternoon? >> reporter: well, theres a lot of grief. theres a lot of pain but a...

He speaks so forcefully about everything else and yet it took until 1:00 p.m. for him to tweet and then we saw the statement that we saw. im not waiting for president trump for moral leadership. i think there are moral leaders and more hope in this country. if you look at charlottesville, theres a lot of things that we could look to with hope. there were clergy surrounding the protesters that were there and saying that love has already won. there were folks laying hands and praying on the counte...

President trump should have done that, and i hope he will. >> we will see what he does. there was a protester as i recall shot during one of the black lives matter protests in charlotte several months ago so sadly tragically there are these tensions in our country. we will see what the president has to say probably more about that tomorrow. judy miller, as always, thank you. >> i think we will. thank you, eric. eric: julie? julie: hospital officials in charlottesville virginia giving an update o...

Scuffle. that scuffle broke out, people separated and then a car plowed into a crowd of the counterprotesters. at least one person was killed. here is what two men who witnesses that horrific car crash told us in charlottesville, virginia. >> the car reversed very fast back up the street as you can see in the video. we were still, you know, in the scene and jumped out to get around the corner of this barrier of this building, and the car flew by and immediately, you know, there were victims star...

Efforts and counterprotesters today. now, that last sentence is true. there was a confrontation between the protesters and counterprotesters but i dont think a lot of people that both sides were expressing hatred and bigotry. people have criticized the presidents remarks because he is equating those marching in the streets with confederate flags carrying flags with nazi bem blems, some wearing nazi arm bands, some carrying trump campaign signs or signs supporting the president and also the peopl...

Vigilant. this started out as a peaceful rally organized by white nationalists waving confederate flags and chanting nazi slogans and then you had the counterprotesters that showed up. at what point did things spiral out of control? >> reporter: it wasnt too long after the crowd started to gather in serious numbers. they came to emancipation park to hold the rally and it was shortly after that the counterprotesters counterprotesters started to show up and then they were mingling each other and g...

Going on for a long time. sort of defensive. it is not my fault. i thought the attorney general of the united states hit a much better tone when he announced his federal investigation. attorney general jeff sessions said the violence and deaths in charlottesville strike at the heart of americans, american law and justice, when such actions arise from racial bigotry and hatred they betray our core values and cant be tolerated. i thought that was a strong statement. i dont know why the president m...

You felt as you saw the attack on other counterprotesters like yourself? >> i cant say it was an emotion of surprise because up around the center of the protest from both sides you had a high level of antagonism, right? it wasnt necessarily, a peaceful -- you had people in military fatigues with arms walking around. so of course thats an incredibly intimidating environment. so, then, naturally when that happened i thought this is someone deliberately attacking these people because of their belie...

The last few minutes or so. the chanting really, the sort of aggressive chanting at the police has tapered down a little bit, too. we heard there were possibly police coming to support this line. maybe to reinforce and bolster the line here and maybe to push and try to disperse this crowd in the next few minutes. thats something that weve heard based on reporting in the crowd. but so far, everybodys just kind of holding strong in extremely tense scene with counterprotesters and police. >> steve,...