The country listening to demonstrates. We dont have to retaliate with anger we retaliate with love. Signs of hope. Take the helmet off, laid the batons down. I want to make this a parade, no the a protest. The efforts to find peace and the worries about what mass protests means in the fight against the pandemic today june against the pandemic today june 1st, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, 1st, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, america in crisis, with Savannah Guthrie from new york city and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody welcome to today. Its nice to have you with us on a monday morning were glad youre with us. Hoda back in the studio. Im here in new york city just a few miles south of where you are in union square, hoda. Normally at this time of the morning, this would be a busy, crowded place. Its quiet now because of the pandemic and a lot more quiet than it was even as recently as a few hours ago. This has really been the center of protests here in new york city here and in brooklyn every since the death of george floyd at the hands of Police Officers in minneapolis youre seeing some of the images of the mayhem that went on last night and over the weekend, here and all around new york city this scene is being repeated, of course, across the country protests just like those have erupted in 140 cities from coasttocoast some of those protests did turn violent and that has prompted officials in at least 21 states to activate the National Guard. Overnight the Police Officer charged with murder in the death of george floyd was moved to a new detention facility he was scheduled to make his First Court Appearance today, but that now has been pushed to next monday, savannah. Meanwhile, hoda the president is set to hold a Conference Call on safety with governors and Security Officials we have complete coverage this morning. Craig is with us hes in washington, d. C. , and he will get our coverage started. Craig, good morning to you. Savannah, hoda, good morning to both of you we are in Lafayette Park as you can see behind me, just steps away from the white house. This is the same spot where i stood last night as violence erupted, chaos erupted flash bangs used throughout the night, rubber bullets throughout the night. Also last night shortly before 11 00 lights went down here at the white house. Those lights used usually to illuminate the outside of the peoples house they went off. Im going to step over and show you whats still happening fires around washington, d. C you can see the top of the small building small offices here that fire just started back up literally three minutes ago as you see officials. In fact, there comes the fire truck. Behind the fire truck, this is known as st. Johns church. Its known as the church of president s because every president with the exception of james monroe has worshipped at this church, riddled with graffiti a fire was started in the basement sunday night. As the sun came up, city workers came out to clean off the graffiti and try to clean off that church. Meanwhile across the street from the church, this is a building that actually has significance to me and my family. This is the hayadams hotel. This is actually where i had my wedding reception. Riddled with graffiti, hotels boarded up this is the case for businesses in and around washington, d. C. Looting in georgetown throughout the night. Protests started last week, protests largely peaceful in the wake of George Floyds death have turned into Something Else entirely were in the midst of a pandemic, were in the midst of an economic crisis what youre seeing here is a overni manifestation of all of that overnight unrest across america. The death of george floyd, in Police Custody sparking protests nationwide violence taking place steps from the white house. You can see the fire that has been set just in front of the white house at Lafayette Park. In an extraordinary step u. S. Marshals and dea agents deployed to keep the peace. It comes as nbc news has confirmed the secret service was so concerned about president trumps safety on friday, they ushered him to a bunker underneath the white house for a very short period of time. More than 100 protests and rallies taking place in cities coasttocoast in more than a dozen states, the National Guard was called in to restore order. In louisville a man killed after shots were fired during National Guard and Police Officers. Chief of police saying officers and soldiers returned fire the identity of the man who has been shot has not been released. In tampa, smoke and ash filling the sky as businesses burn authorities shooting off tear gas. Cars like this Police Cruiser in boston incinerated, while looters storm shops including this mall in arizona in new york city, this video of two nypd vehicles ramming into a crowd of protesters sparking outrage. The mayo defending the officers involved. I want to emphasize, that situation was created by a group of protesters blocking and surrounding a Police Vehicle. On saturday night mayor de blasios own daughter arrested during citywide protests according to senior nypd official in an effort to clear the streets, dozens of cities, including minneapolis, put curfews in place over the weekend. We cannot afford to lose anyone else. We dont want any more innocent bystanders getting hurt. Please stay home. Chicagos mayor echo what so many are feeling. Turn our pain into purpose to get through this moment and do the work needed to unite our city. The protests were not all violent, though. In denver thousands laid on the ground for nine minutes chanting i cant breathe. While in iowa, hundreds marched to make their point. We feel its time for us to stand up and show the nation, show the world, even with social media, we can come together in a peaceful manner and show how we feel this sheriff in michigan marching arm in arm with his community. But it was on the streets of washington, d. C. , among the chaos, that found a father trying to teach his son about peace. We dont have to retaliate with anger we retaliate with love thats why were down here theres always another way thats all i want him to see. A poignant moment as a nation tries so hard to move forward. Meanwhile back here at our nations capital, you can see firefighters have pulled up again to try to put out the latest fire thats broken out in washington, d. C. In just a few moments, well have an exclusive conversation with the mayor of washington, d. C. , Muriel Bowser. Well ask how the city is preparing for what they expect will be another night of protests savannah. All right, craig. Thank you. We are joined by new York City Police commissioner shea good morning how would you describe the evening last night we saw a Massive Police presence, huge crowds, violence, fires. From your perspective, how would you characterize the night savannah, it was incredibly challenging and busy weekend tens of thousands of protesters all over new york city yesterday was a busy day first 90 of yesterday went very well, probably 5 or 6,000 protesters throughout new york city less violence i would categorize it as the days before. The majority of the protesters were peaceful, making their point. When it got dark, it got ugly and it got ugly quick. We had some violence we had another incident, unfortunately, of an individual with a molotov cocktail in brooklyn we had an individual two officers in a marked car in queens a bullet hit their car thats under investigation there were no protests in that area it could be unrelated. Thats clearly alarming to us. The looting turned very quickly in portions of the city in brooklyn, primarily manhattan, the area of union square, 14th street there were hundreds and hundreds of arrests in a very short time in that area some, unfortunately, are still going on it was a challenging evening for peace officers. Union square is where we are right now, the New York Times reported flames going two stories high i wanted to ask you about a couple of incidents making the rounds on social media, one in which a patrol car, nypd car in brooklyn, appears to roll into a crowd of onlookers or demonstrators i should say another case where an nypd officer appears to shove a woman down to the ground are you looking into those incidents . Have you come to any conclusions about whether those actions were justified . Savannah, i appreciate the question in literally tens of thousands of encounters we have about six that our internal Affairs Officers are looking at in the process of either identifying the officers i think by now probably when i get my update shortly, probably most of the officers will have been identified and there will be an investigation. In the car one, anyone that looks at that has to be troubled by what they saw, but theres a couple of other incidents in cars we released to the media. And werent shown. It shows a similar situation where cop cars are getting attacked and have to basically get out of there as quickly as possible its a very difficult situation without a good ending either way. That is on the heels of molotov cocktails being thrown at Police Officers if you look at that entire video, you see people i would describe it as an ambush, physically trying to hold up Police Officer cars in check as people are surrounding it. So its clearly something no one would want to see but well move should want to see but well move forward. Forward. It is difficult situation, no doubt about it do you believe there should be a curfew new york city doesnt have one do you need the National Guard here we dont need the National Guard. We got the question on the curfew ill be honest with you, savior, we could impose a curfew today the problem is, people need to listen to a curfew, thats not going to happen, first and foremost if people think it will, they dont understand whats going on the second point is anyone that is on the street during the curfew, we had this discussion last night, they probably would already be arrested for five different offenses what were trying to do is trying to manage an extremely volatile situation level heartee there is a lot of outside influences, how were going to get through with it. Its level hearted, we need to come together, not just as a city but as a country. As elected officials, community leaders, less inflammatory talk. Criticism is good but inflammatory talk is not helping. Commission shea, a longer conversation is warranted about all of this and the deeper issues presented here, unfortunately weve got to leave it there this morning so we can get down to washington and craig who is with the mayor mr appreciate it. Craig, ill send it down to you. All right, savannah, thank you. Commissioner, thank you as well. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is with me now mayor, as we look at Lafayette Park, statues littered with graffiti, trash everywhere, lights out, what do you make of your city this morning were certainly very sad and angry, quite frankly about the destruction that happened here but were in Lafayette Park in the city in front of the white house. We had damage in blocks throughout the city. We want people we recognize people are frustrated and mad but tearing up our beautiful city is not the way to bring attention to a righteous cause. One of the things that struck me here last night as i talked to protesters and walked amonge organized. We know we have people that came here with tools and supplies, them for a couple of hours, they seem to be really organized. Ive been to a number of protests over the years like this this one seemed to be unusually organized. We know we have people that came here with tools and supplies, and they reupped their supplies they went to different parts of the city we think there was a mix of people here but certainly people here who do this type of protess well, weve seen some of these tactics before, so we know they were among the grou demonstration. Professional protesters well, weve seen some of these tactics before, so we know they were among the groups here. Tactics like. Tactics like the types of tools they used, restocking, setting fires here and there to try to draw in the police to various locations. The curfew, the National Guard being called in. You were reluctant to do both of those things, but you did. What changed your calculation. I think, you know, our police and all of our intelligence suggested we were seeing the same actors and we wanted to make sure we had every tool at our disposal to keep the city safe we saw most of the people peaceably protest. We saw most of the people leave at the time of curfew and that gave authorities the ability to focus on troublemakers. Are you expecting another night of demonstrations . Were certainly prepared, as weve seen across the country multiple days of demonstrations. Were working with our intelligence and all of our Law Enforcement partners to figure out who is coming where. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. Thank you well continue our protest of protests, our coverage of protests around the country. But first were going to pause and take a check of the weather. And for that we turn to mr. Roker. Hey, al, morning. Hey, good morning, hoda as we look, weve got some Severe Weather to tuck about today. Really more for tomorrow all across the Northern Tier of states from dakotas all the way to wisconsin, weve got 10 Million People at risk, damaging winds, tornadoes possible. Look what happens wednesday. 34 Million People from the dakotas all the way to new jersey and down just to the north of washington, d. C. , for Severe Weather possible. Were going to be watching these storms it will be hit or miss, widely scattered. More of an impact on the great lakes. Tomorrow the storms fire up again if the plains. Severe weather for southern minnesota, parts of minneapolis will be affected rainfall amounts anywhere from 1 to 3. Some of these hourly rainfall rates could be up to an inch per hour were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds the men and women of the United States postal service. Were here to deliver cards and packages from loved ones and also deliver the peace of mind of knowing that essentials like prescriptions are on their way. Every day, all across america, we deliver for you. And we always will. Good morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. As we take a live look outside in san jose were starting out with some clouds and well see the clouds linger at least through the morning. Its also going to help keep our temperatures down today as we look at our highs, were going to see some of our warmest spots reach up to 84 degrees like in antioch and santa rosa. San francisco stays in the 60s today. By tomorrow its really going to start to get hot and that heat continues at least through the middle of the week before we cool off again this weekend. Thats your latest weather. Savannah, hoda. All right. Al, thank you. Coming up next, were going to take you to the epicenter of th thats your latest weather. Savannah, hoda. All right al, thank you. 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