hundreds marched down the streets. meantime, back in baltimore, the crowds were mostly peacefully marching on wednesday. police say they arrested about 18 people on wednesday, 35 on tuesday. far fewer, of course, than on monday night when the riots began and about 235 foot people were arrested. baltimore police have been investigating fredy gray s death. he is, of course, the man you see right there who inspired all these protests. they are expected to have a report for the state attorney s office by friday. from there, prosecutors will decide whether charges should be filed. and a first for major league baseball, the orioles and a chicago white sox played baseball in an empty stadium on wednesday. officials decided to shut out fans at camden yard because of rioting earlier this week. the orioles beat the white sox, 8-2. baltimore s manager weighed in earlier on what was an unusual matchup.
this month. health officials report 21 confirmed cases of the illness and at least we can suspected cases. many of the victims ranging in age from 9 to 87 are in critical condition. botulism is caused by unnerve talks in usually linked to bacteria from contaminated food. protests over the death of freddie gray in baltimore popping up outside maryland, one person was shot overnight during protests in ferguson at the site of violent demonstrations of the fatal police shooting of michael brown. hundreds marched in a mostly peaceful demonstration. garrett any joins us with the latest. last night s demonstrations were not as large as we saw in august and november but a crowd of 50 protesters in ferguson did block off traffic for a time by putting several trash cans on fire as well as support a body. gunshots were fired and one person was hit. one person tried to help the
bottom. i d worried more if it were in the pentagon and other places i suppose. i think both those agencies have trouble. it looks like secret service pay have a person there, informant to create discipline. dea needs the same thing. julian, your response or take from the white house? the white house has said as late as yesterday they had questions. they were drubld by what had come out when she was testifying on the hill. when you have the press secretary basically making that as far as they will go in terms of standing by you you know you are in trouble. i don t think there was anyway she was going to be able to stay on the job. especially given this was not a partisan attack on her. it was very bipartisan, you have 13 democrats that express no confidence in her. i think it was inevitable. let s go to baltimore the justice department launched an investigation into the death of freddie grey, hundreds marched if west baltimore yesterday demanding justice for the man
21 past the hour. we want to go to baltimore now where the justice department has launched a civil rights investigation into the death of 25-year-old freddie gray. hundreds marched in west baltimore yesterday, demanding for justice for the man who died from a spinal chorld injury while in police us the stowed. nbc news correspondent joins us tell us lou the city is responding. i spent some time there. i know a little about the history and the crime rate the murder rate, the struggles they ve had. it has not been an easy time for cops or the community and i m sure this is not helping. reporter: no, i think that s absolutely right. i think you talk to anybody in this community. you talk to the police the mayor, the people. they will tell you that the relationship with the police and the african-american community in particular especially in some of the high crime areas that have really struggled that that
we re allies on a whole host of issues. but she s wrong on this. now, understandably folks in labor and some progressives are suspicious generally because of the experiences they saw in the past. i understand the anxieties that people feel and some of that has to do with globalization. a lot more of it actually has to do with automation and shifts in the economy away from manufacturing towards services. we re not going to be able to compete for low wage manufacturing jobs any more. that ship has sailed. what we can do is compete for the high end where we re adding value. to baltimore now where the justice department has launched a civil rights investigation into the death of 25-year-old freddie gray. hundreds marched in baltimore yesterday demanding justice for the man who died from a spinal cord jooul injury while in police custody. and while it remains unclear precisely how that injury happened, the gray family is asking why police pursued him in