still a number of protesters sitting in the crosswalk so it's going to take them a while to move them out. i think that's why they brought the water cannon as a sort of last resort to push them out. >> atika, help me if i can just jump in. help us understand, for people who don't know hamburg and the area, how far are these protesters actually from the summit itself, from these high-level meetings? >> reporter: this is about three kilometers from the messa, which is the conference center with the g20 summit is happening. so it's not that close. but it is close enough to do a march to and that's what they were planning to do. this part of town is known for its leftist protest activity, so when the g20 summit was put here, people said -- residents here said, it's going to get crazy. this is exactly what's going to happen. and that seems to be what's turning out. we're going to turn the camera up a bit so you can take a look and see what police are doing. but these are the kinds of running cat and mouse battles that local residents said were likely to happen if the g20