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Broken into and robbed. i want to bring in while we continue to watch these images and continue to check in with our correspondents, i want to bring in our legal analyst sunny hostin and jeffrey toobin and harry hawk. just from a policing standpoint, we see this massive fire burning out of control in the city of baltimore, we now know the national guard are going to be coming in. theyre not on the streets at this point. it seems like the state police are going to be running this operation. we he...

For saying we gave those who wish to destroy space to do that. wish to destroy space to do that as well. she has then subsequently her spokesman walked that back saying she wasnt saying that they were intentionally giving space to people who wanted to destroy things, but that it was an unfortunate byproduct of the way that they were dealing with protests. nevertheless, what do you make of what youve seen? >> i think i am more concerned about the mayors deeds than her words. but it strikes me tha...

And then to have that taken away. i cannot tell you the level of heartbreak of somebody whos worked in communities, when youre trying to rebuild back, whether its detroit, oakland, or other places. its so hard, anderson, to get those permits, to get banks to invest, to build a center and to have it standing there. you can imagine the ribbon-cutting and everybody has a sense of victory, to have that snatched away in one day, in one hour, thats the kind of things that communities have a hard time ...

Television, they walk up and stab the hoses with knives making it impossible for the firefighters to do their jobs. the police had to move in closer to just protect the hoses. thats a sort of stuff that is happening. the fear is now that this has been lit to pull resources away from other places of the city where other things may be going on. they went after a mall downtown this weekend. they went after several businesses downtown as well. and we havent seen that yet tonight. but ill tell you, o...

Space do you give? you saw that happening in ferguson. you see it happening in other places. this is a police department and a mayor trying to figure out how not to make things worse. sometimes you can do too much, sometimes you can do too little. this is a situation, where obviously too little was done. >> the violence will be brought to an end, national guard will be on patrol. more fire units are responding. in terms of what happens in this community, not only are we seeing the cvs burned dow...

Just in baltimore, but moving toward downtown. this is a devastating, devastating fire. >> miguel in the location youre at, mark puente, we are wewere g to him, from the baltimore stun, hes tweeting out pictures of worshipers praying near the fire, standing in a circle praying, also some pictures of police with shotguns out and he says about ten fire companies are fighting the fire where police with shotguns are standing guard. do you see a heavy police presence in that location? >> reporter: we...

That some of this would -- people would get tired of this. im joined by mark puente of the baltimore sun. can you tell me where you are right now? >> yeah, im at the corner of north chester an landville east baltimore across the southern baptist church, the church was building a new senior center and right now that new senior center is engulfed in flames. firefighters are standing on ladder trucks -- >> and, mark, were seeing the images that youre speaking about. so this was a new -- brand-new s...

Situation here? have you knocked it down? >> it is done. it is under control. >> all right. was it arson? >> i dont know. >> was there anybody trapped inside here? >> no. no. >> okay. but you did have an injury to a firefighter? >> yes. >> what kind of injury? >> im not sure. >> okay. >> but is he -- has he been hospitalized? was it serious, minor? >> i would say it was serious. >> and what, smoke inhalation or what? >> no. >> okay. okay. all right. thank you very much, chief. i appreciate it. >...

Of baltimore. while we continue to watch this -- these images from the corner of chester and gay street, this according to mark puente, a new senior center that had been built by the baptist church on that -- in that neighborhood was a multistory newly krconstructed building in east baltimore, a massive blaze and as mark said there are a lot of parishioners, the pastor is on his way. a lot of parishioners have been crying saying why would anybody do this to our church and we have heard those que...

Completely detracted from freddies death, and the positive things and the hope for positive change that was going to come out of that investigation. and thats just disintegrated into just people looking at baltimore city and thinking that, you know, the city is the city of violence and that we cant control that -- we cant control our emotions. >> what is your message then to anyone who may be listening, maybe who has a child out there or who may be thinking about going out on the streets tonight...