the 2016 race. and rehema ellis starts our coverage from outside the courthouse in baltimore where the looters from last two nights are now appearing before judges today on charges. >> reporter: bike 2i'm -- hi thomas. i'm about 20 miles south where the judge is handling all of the adult cases of those arrested over the last couple of days during the violence that erupted in baltimore. there are over 240-some-odd cases. 41 are juflts. they're being processed in another area in the juvenile district. the public defenders are going to be handling the cases of many of the adults. in conversations with public defenders, they say the public needs to understand that all of these cases are not the same. they are varying. it may not be that people were seen looting or destroying property. there might be some of those cases. they also told me of the instance of one man who got