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Terrorism, thats what you should call it. i think before -- lets take a bit, lets find out more here, lets find out more about this driver and all of that. but in terms of the situation on the ground there, i noticed kat katie couric of yahoo saw people being taken away in bad shape. other journalists on the scene saying some of these injuries appeared very significant and you heard kaylee talking about cpr on at least one of the victims. we dont have any idea of the count of the number of casua...

Quiet college town of charlottesville, virginia. ive heard verbal altercations between locals here shouting at whether it be protesters or counterprotesters to go back home, to leave this town be. but right now tensions remain high. >> absolutely. its so disturbing to see all of that video. kaylee hartung reporting on the ground, stay safe and keep us posted of course. thereve been a lot of responses from across the country related to the violence were witnessing before our eyes here in charlott...

To see this kind of disgusting hatred on the streets of a town as beautiful as charlottesville. and there was an attempt to separate the crowds but it got violent very quickly. so yeah, certainly i agree with the decision to declare a state of emergency and try to shut it down. just its a terrible thing were witnessing. >> where do you both anticipate today going from here? when protesters and counterprotesters have been separated but when as you both just witnessed such a horrific act of violen...

Evidence today richard spencer, one of the organizationize iners of the rally, he reacted on twitter and said i think hes talking about the counterprotesters. so the muddled message is not properly chiding the white supremacists so we wont see a chilling effect based on his words. >> is this the presidents first major domestic issue he has to respond to and im wondering if he -- if your former boss, george w. bush, would have reacted or responded differently. >> well, george w. bush time and aga...

Again, is state police officers standing in front of this what looks like an automobile accident but we know that these cars have plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters at this rally, which again, to reset, was unite the right, a gathering of groups from around the country, whose members have said they are being persecuted for being white and what white history in america -- how white history in america is being erased. jim cavanaugh, i believe, is standing by. jim, i want to just quickly ask...

Monitor the situation, jim, on the ground. it does, indeed, seem like we are looking at pictures from another erah. the idea that in charlottesville, virginia, where during the civil war, according to t"the new york times," half f the residents of that city were enslaved, is now being marched upon by ku klux klan members and various white nationalists and other alt-right groups is just shocking to see. i want to go to maya rodriguez who i believe is at the scene where this crowd has plowed into ...

Positioned themselves right here where you see all of these folks lined up here on the sidewalk. at that point about 30 minutes later, you had some counterprotesters starting to come out. youre right, they were out there carrying their weapons. that is legal here in virginia, you are allowed to open carry. so they were not breaking any law in that sense, but we did hear some people on the counterprotesting side say they were quite intimidated by that entire show of force. >> i have to talk about...

The white nationalist protesters started the demonstrations earlier this morning. they were protesting against the citys decision to remove the statue of confederate general lee from a public park. well, counterprotesters were also out in force and as you can see both sides went at it. punching each other, baseball bats were swung and bottles thrown. then after that erupted about two hours later, a car went down that street when a driver suddenly plowed into a group of people. those protesters w...

Gathering spots that they have a permit for. >> okay. so, allison, you say these are -- these are not the group that was originally going to emancipation park, right? these are counterprotesters. tell me how many of them you see there, approximately. >> i am guessing around 300 are here right now. >> wow. >> from all different kinds of groups. and theres some, i think, still in mcguffey park when i walked over before that, there were a few groups there as well. then we kind of followed them over...

Seen, the reports weve heard from producers and reporters on the ground, the video and other images we were able to look at, it looks like its intentional right now. the police have not confirmed that, absolutely, so well have to wait and see. and you can have hit-and-runs, you know, but this sure looks like the car knew there was a big group of ralliers there and hit pedestrians before they struck the vehicles and tried to make an escape. >> all right, jim cavanaugh, nbc news law enforcement ex...