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and the conditions there. the latest heartbreaking story there this chaotic humanitarian crisis involves an infant and a toddler who police say were abandoned by smugglers in the desert. arthel: matt finn is on the border live in eagle pass, texas, with more on this dire situation. matt? >> reporter: hi, arthel. this saturday afternoon weve already seen a few dozen illegal migrants crossing the rio grande illegally, some of them over my shoulder now waiting to be processed. eagle pass,...

Police and also the national guard. the national guard standing by behind me here at baltimore city hall. right here which is a strange sight for a lot of people to see when you see heavily armed national guard troops protecting our city halls across this country is an unusual thing. but its part of the state of emergency now in place here in this city. the curfew began at 10:00 last night. after it began, there was a moment tension. fairly extreme tension. a standoff you can see it right here b...

A curfew enforced by the baltimore state police by maryland state police and by the national guard who are in fact standing guard right here behind me at baltimore city hall. it is an eerie sight for many people to see, when you see heavily armed national guard troops standing in front of our city halls. but its happening, and to a certain extent it worked. the curfew began at 10:00 p.m. last night. and it did begin with a tense standoff between police and protesters. the confrontation ended qui...

Can see. and it appears some of them are bent on causing trouble, unfortunately. it doesnt appear to be as many people on the street in your location the tactics that police are using, at least for the moment may be holding. tlooets at least for the moment. >> reporter: theyre dispersing the people. are the people going home? no. theyre moving back down where ryan was. there have been a lot of volleys between police. you can see the co2 cartridges charging up. thats what they use to power and fi...

Used? we know the pellets were pepper pellets. >> what i saw from my vantage point was pepper. >> okay. the arrests that were done there is some drama online going on about how men were taken into custody. as far as you know did anybody get hurt last night while being arrested? >> no. >> do you have anybody who needed any medical attention? >> no. >> so thats a good sign. >> thats a great sign. >> do you believe you will need to stay this way? youll have to keep a curfew in effect for an extende...

So is it working? yes, you no longer have the concentration of people here. is everyone home at 10:00? no. there were targeted pepper targets being fired by that group of officers in the corner. you hear that pop, pop, pop. thats them shooting the pepper pellets at some people in the area over here where they had some objects thrown at them. thats the kind of volley going back and forth between those two groups. and there are definitely some harder core people down this street here who were thro...

And so yeah im going to assume it was brick. he was struck by something that really bloodied him up. >> whats striking about that report particularly because you saw it firsthand as a reporter is that you dont expect police to be throwing bricks. the police have talked about the fact that they are willing to be tactically aggressive willing to use pepper pellets, theyre willing to use rubber bullets, weve seen them using gas today. but if theyre throwing things back, that implies to me that the ...