it doesn t hurt the intelligence community. well, yes, and you know, you bring up yukraine and according to administration officials telling cnn and it s ukraine and syria that are really the top prioriti priorities ahead of this putin meeting. thank you so much. you re looking at live pictures here in hamburg, maybe two miles away from the epicenter of the g20, with all these world leeshds coalescing. fred pleitgen is there. talking about water cannons. what are people tossing? reporter: well, they re tossing, looks like throwing bottles. you can see there s a bottle flying right now. some were actually shooting fireworks at these police trucks as well and the police is responding in kind. they have the water cannon trucks sort of shooting at the folks here. so the situation here is just escalating. there s also a guy sort of sitting in front of the water cannon trucks and trying to stop them from moving forward as well. so, it s certainly escalated somewhat here. you can see they
you. what s going on again? reporter: yeah, we have a situation here, brooke, right now where you can see those are police water cannon trucks that were just in use here. seems as though they re pulling back a little bit. if you look in the middle, they have that armored vehicle that they used to clear a barricade. the situation here, seems like the cops are moving along. seems to us, by the way, brooke, that what the police seem to be trying to do is you had one very large demonstration that was going to march and it seems they re trying to break that up into smaller groups to sort of deal with smaller amounts of people than they had before. but then still quite a tense situation here. there s a lot of screaming going on. obviously some of the use of that water cannon truck going on. there seems to be some people who might have some signs of some sort of tear gas maybe or something. also seems to have people who seem to be injured as well. so certainly, it s still quite a tense situ
also perhaps from this open patch here. i think we saw some bottles flying down. th they cleared this area using those water cannon trucks and the bangs we were hearing before, those were flash bangs. those were them sort of setting off some sort of stun devices to try to get people to move away. so it s kicking off for a little while. seems to be calming down somewhat now. we ll wait and see and monitor the situation but certainly the march that was supposed to take place so this was a march against the g20. little bit of an anti-capitalist vibe to it but generally against the meeting in general. and it was actually supposed to go for quite a long distance, several miles around the actual venue, around the outer perimeter of the venue, not only managed to get, say, 100 to 200 yards from where it started from the first place, which is a fish market, sort of a popular place here in hamburg along the water. and that s when the police stopped it. they say that there were some people who w
s.w.a.t. team officials with white helmets who have lined up to essentially block what would be a running path or sort of a promenade along the river there and there was orange smoke coming from some of these protesters. this is usually the sign of tear gas or something like that. we hear intermittent shots. do not believe they re gunshots or anything like that. but perhaps just a cannon of tear gas or something. but brooke, i can tell you, from our vantage point here, there are a lot of people. and a lot of police. and as fred was just saying on the air, we are a couple miles or so from where a lot of these moe mo meetings are going on so this is not something that the president can see. in fact, most world leaders never see those protests unless they see them on our air, but this is something that is pretty typical for a summit of world leaders like this, brooke, but i can tell you the visuals are pretty strong here and the sun is still, you know, pretty hot at this moment. it will b