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The mayors house. and took some very large rocks and broke some windows. thats when police really had to step up in to try to get the crowd to disperse. we also saw some flag burning as well. the question is, what is going to happen tonight. i can tell you that police say again theyre prepare and the missouri again has the national guard on standby, fred. >> all right, dan simon, thanks so much. so the issue of race looms over the rallies and protests across the u.s. today. lets get some persp...

Jason stockily testified to the way lamar smith handled the gun, he had it in his hand the whole time, he stuffed it in between the center console in the seat. all of this handling of this weapon and no dna? i think its dispositive of the person who actually owned the weapon and put it there. his dna has been compelling evidence against everybody except for jason stockley. >> i need to get back to dan simon live in the crowd. >> reporter: we see that police just deployed what appears to be some ...

Thats all theyre trying to do. give you a little more context don in terms of what we saw in front of the mayors house, we saw some people try to intervene and try to prevent somen those folks have smashing the windows. i saw a senior citizen yell at one of these young kids who was smashing windows, telling him to stop. but once the crowd joined in, there was no stopping it. it was a really sad scene. and that is what caused this massive police presence to descend on these streets, don. >> dan, ...

See how access to j.p. morgan investment expertise can help you. chase. make more of whats yours. st. louis police are preparing for more protests today. demonstrations overnight ended with ten people arrested and ten law enforcement officers injured. demonstrators marched through the city, protesting the acquittal of officer jason stockley in the shooting death in 2011 of anthony lamar smith. the protests were largely peaceful. there were some instances of violence. some protesters clashed wi...

>> reporter: well, i can tell you that the national guard, victor, is on standby in case things get more chaotic tonight. we know that police officers are working 12-hour shifts, some officers cancelled their personal days off. and, obviously, the city is basically bracing for more chaos that could happen tonight. victor? >> all right, dan simon there for us in st. louis. dan, thank you so much. well, the dramatic dash cam video captured the moment that officer shot and killed smith. >> the vi...

>> reporter: right now theyre taking a hands off posture. you can see, you have police over here on the side. obviously they dont want to shut down the freeway because thats really going to disrupt things. i dont know whats going to happen if and when they do try to go on to the freeway itself. its beginning to be something to watch this. you can see police casually standing off on the side, clearly they dont want to escalate things and this crowd is acting peacefully as you can see. >> dan, wel...

Hard to tell. were going to continue to follow this situation. we have reporter dan simon there. youre seeing lights there from the helicopter lighting up illuminating where the crowd seems to be going. its hard to tell, dan, just where you are in relation to this other camera that were seeing which is more of an overview shot but it does look like theres a large crowd of people moving down what appears to be more of a residential street. >> reporter: yeah, its definitely a residential area. i c...

Several hundred people have been marching through the streets. there have been according to dan simon they were thinking of cutting off a freeway. police are out in heff presence to stop them from getting onto the freeway. not clear where theyre headed now or how organized it is. well go back shortly to the reports on the ground. millions without power still in florida. already theres another hurricane that could impact the u.s. jose regained strength today. was upgraded back to a category 1 h...

And joins us right now with more on the demonstrations, whats expected next. so, dan, bring us up to date. >> well, hi, fredricka. obviously, police are bracing for more protests tonight, and because of that we just got word a short time ago that u2 actually had to cancel their concert tonight. we just got a statement from the band and their touring company. i want to read this to you, it says, "we have been informed by the st. louis police department that they are not in a position to provide t...

Situation. obviously if they flood into some of these residential areas thats going to cause some major concern and thats where you may have to seek police intervene, anderson. >> dan, well continue checking with you. former st. louis mayor antonio. he was an eyewitness to that speed chase. antonio, this was an incident that took place in 2011. my understanding was there was new information which is why this case ended up going to court, is that correct? >> well, first of all let me correct you....