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Controversial where general lees statue currently stands, throughout the city of charlottesville weve heard other gatherings, protesters, counterprotesters. and of course you cant escape the images that are coming out of charlottesville last night. a torch-literally led by the alt-right through the center of the university of virginia campus. were early in the day and already tensions in charlottesville are high. >> from what we understand, weve confirmed that police are trying to hold the line ...

Counter-protesters here in charlottesville, virginia, where we have been monitoring, of course, the ongoing situation all day long. talk to me about what were seeing right now, jim, and the response from law enforcement. it looks like we see some uniformed law enforcement standing around and protesters, of course, locking hands around this vehicle. >> right, jacob, hello to you and hello to brian as well. when the police dispersed the crowds earlier from the violence that occurred when the two g...

Of that silver sedan, a very violent, very violent scene there in charlottesville as that silver sedan plowed into the crowd of counterprotesters. i want to bring in our nbc news producer who is on the ground and actually witnessed, i understand, this incident take place. mariana, what can you tell us? >> reporter: hey, jacob, i did not see this car plow into the people. however, i did see, once it plowed into the people and then reversed, it went down the street that i was on. and it was smokin...

Orientation i think not until next weekend for freshmen? i mean does it look pretty empty, which means safer than normal school periods? >> reporter: i think you could characterize it that way. the fact is school has not started full force again here. and like you mentioned, orientation is coming up, so there werent as many students on campus as there might have been, say, in two or three weeks from now. so in a way that was a good thing. of course you saw the video from last night. you had the ...

Theres lots of restaurants and cafes and whatnot. theres a pedestrian mall just to my right over here. when all this happened about an hour ago. >> were watching also we see you pictures of tactical officers with helmet that say vsp, which i believe is virginia state police, moving people out of a different area, which i believe is close to where you are. over your left shoulder, we see people touching each other. one woman, i believe, has her hand on someone elses shoulder. who are those people...

Progress" newspaper there, allison rabel. i understand you are in justice park. that is not where the original rally was supposed to take place, that was emancipation park. it was closed down, that rally was, because of unlawful assembly. but where are you now relative to that park and whos gathered with you? >> so i am in justice park, you are correct. its about a couple of blocks northeast of emancipation park. its mainly counterprotesters. they have received a permit for this park as well as ...

Bigotry. it devolved into the afternoon into a car -- youre looking at these pictures right now -- ramming into innocent bystanders formed of counterprotesters to that earlier clash earlier in the day. we have seen pictures of injuries. we have seen pictures of cars with blood splattered on the windshield, and we know that a car from the images that we are getting in, drove into this area filled with pedestrians, catapulted, i think, is the only way to describe it, at least one of those people i...

Removal of the confederate monuments from public spaces. there has been discussion in charlottesville ant removing that statue. of course, that rally was broken up after some clashes happened at the intersection near that park. all of the protesters went their own way for a few hours then about two hours after that, came word that a car plowed into a crowd of counterprotesters here this this area. those counterprotesters were against the rally. the unite the right rally. when we came out here, w...

One death as i said because of a car ramming into a stream of protesters on foot. they were counterprotesters. who were there to have their voices heard over that of white nationalists, who were protesting the fact that a statue of robert e. lee was voted by the city council to be removed from emancipation park there. violent day in charlottesville. clashes as youre witnessing right here, captured on camera. all day between these two factions with police according to our maya rodriguez, only an ...

Again used to be called robert e. lee park. thats why theres a statue of robert e. lee and really thats at the heart of this entire rally. you have the white nationalists, the alt-right saying we want to keep this confederate monument here and you have counterprotesters saying wed really rather see it go and would rather not see you here in charlottesville at all. as you can tell, things have calmed down substantially in the last hour. about an hour and a half ago, we had all kinds of people out...