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Another who travelled up the street to alert police of what had just happened and ensure that the vehicle had been identified. >> all right. i thought wed hear some sound there, so hence my little pause there. i want to address this issue that has come up over and over again since the presidents remarks he said many sides in condemning the bigotry and the hatred and the violence occurring in virginia today. these many sides. can you shed some light on to the facts of the situation on the ground ...

University of virginia. lets go now to cnn correspondent caylee hartung with more on what were seeing this morning. weve seen the protesters and the counterprotesters. lay it out for us. >> victor, those images coming out of charlottesville last night as the torch-literally congregated harnd thomas jeffersons statue. this is the center of the controversy, emancipation park. where general robert e. lees statue is standing to my left. youve seen the militiamen marching in. they describe themselves...

>> i want to bring in cornell brooks a former ceo and president of the naacp. some of the presidents supporters have said that other people are being too critical of the presidents words. your thoughts? >> well, first of all, lets look at who were dealing with here. we have a group of white nationalists who organized a unite the right rally with nazis and ku klux klansmen. the ku klux klan going back to the days of reconstruction and before were and are a white terrorist organization. the nazis ...

Charlottesville, but also it has tones of racism. theres a statue of confederate general robert e. lee over what was for a long time known as lee park. a month ago it was renamed by a vote of the city council to emancipation park. and thats where the heart of the controversy lies and thats where the largest protest in charlottesville is happening before our eyes. so while this discussion and debate is not unique to charlottesville, this has become a hotbed of discussion here in particular for se...

Course, where we expect him to address the media at 3:00 p.m. at a planned event. but of course, today the nations attention has shifted to the reports of very violent protests and counterprotests out of charlottesville, virginia. over the removal of a statue of the confederate general robert e. lee. white sprupremacists, white nationalists, members of the alt-right were out last night with torches in hand. in addition, members of the ku klux klan were there and today, counterprotesters from all...

In los angeles as a delegate to the republican national convention, the campaign obviously quickly removed him from that position, but he -- the president, as a candidate, had to put out fires all the time when it came to accusations of racism and otherwise as a campaign, we all recall hillary clinton making that speech in nevada about the alt-right and the presidents adviser steve bannons role in fanning the flames of this type of hateful dialogue that we see playing out on the streets of charl...

We saw people who were hugging, in tears, just trying to comprehend exactly what happened here. >> maya, why are those tactical officers move you from the position that you were in there? is there something going on that theyre trying to clear out? are they looking to move protesters, counterprotesters out of that area still? >> reporter: it does appear that they are trying to clear this particular street, waters street. i dont know if you can see behind me, there appear to be two vehicles. one ...

Virginia, are they going to look back and think that the charlottesville police department did not do enough in terms of insulation on the front end to make sure something like this, you cant flush out all scenarios, this is a deadly one, but they could have done more. >> im sure that the police there are wondering how they could have protected those protesters because they knew this was going to be a volatile crowd. those -- if youre at a health care or abortion rights rally. but that was a kkk...

Here on fourth street just about two blocks off market street where the original rally had been taking place. there is a massive police presence out here along with many, many counter-protesters, i would say at least several hundred are out here in this intersection. weve seen people crying. weve seen people hugging each other, very upset at this very violent turn of events. its been a violent day all day here in charlottesville. this is just the latest situation to come out of this unite the ri...

We saw both sides. they sort of held back then went forward, cleared out the entire park area and by the way, they did the same here. b obviously, there were a lot of counterprotesters here right after this incident happened. where that car plowed into the crowd. but they did clear out the scene. again, because they are working and you can see that we have more state police arriving here as we speak. >> all right. maya rodriguez on the scene. keep us up to speed again. i know we are working dili...