Which he escaped. Now, his family is reacting. A Philadelphia Police officer survives an attack by a gunman who says he was acting in the name of isis. This morning, fellow officers are speaking out about how their colleague survived. Cnn newsroom begins right now. It is so good to have your company with us. Im christi paul. Im victor black well. 10 00 on the east coast. Thousands of protesters are chanting in colon, germany, waving flags and demonstrating over the new years eve sexual assaults of the 31 people identified in the attacks, 18 are seeking asylum. They are refugees essentially. Cnn correspondent, Atika Shubert, live from colon. We saw cologne. This is the right wing protest. They are a movement against refugees coming in and allowing migrants. As you can see, it has gotten a bit dicier. We have had bottles thrown at police. We are keeping a slight distance away. A number of them with german, regional flags as well. Riot police have warned protesters st protesters they cannot let off any fireworks. They have now brought in. I will pull you around to take a look. There are some bottles being thrown at the moment. We might have to move back. That, as you can see over there, that blue truck is a water cannon. It is being put into position. That is a firecracker. They have been letting these firecrackers off all day. It is one way for these protesters to cause chaos and disorder to intimidate people but really it is just a loud sound, not a danger to anybody nearby. It also alaos them to scuffle with police and cause disorder and push forward and so forth. This is the situation it has been like over here on the side of the right wing protesters. As you seek with the water cannon, we now understand that other riot gear such as horses may have been brought in. The police may be getting ready to disburse this rally. We are looking at around several hundred protesters here. Perhaps that is much smaller than the 1300 of the left wing protesters on the other side of the train station. It is a very Challenging Police environment now. The police are just trying to keep the tensions down and Disperse Protesters as safely and quick a as possible. You were talking about bottles being thrown, the Water Cannons there. We heard the fire crackers going off. The train station, we were noticing last hour, people were walking out of the train station probably not even realizing what they were walking into. Are the plans to close that station and try to close off a little more of the perimeter there. In fact, since i last spoke to you. They cleared out that area. I went into the police station. They were not allowing anybody in unless they had specific tickets. They even closed off the bathrooms. I saw riot police in the bathrooms doing checks of the stalls making sure there were no provocateurs or instigators inside. They are taking some very serious measures to make sure that there is nobody instigating violence. It is already so tense on the streets. These announcements they have been making. Go ahead, go ahead, what are they saying . Basically, they have been announcing to people that they need to stop a lot of these actions, the fire crackers and so forth. That they are planning to stop this rally unless this kind of activity stops. What they were supposed to do was actually march through here. They have only stopped a few meters into the march because it was getting so rowdy and police are afraid it will get out of control. I am trying to get a sense of how you feel there. Do you feel safe . Do you feel there are enough Police Officers and folks in riot gear that there are enough who can control the situation if it does get out of hand. There is a very tight security presence. There are roughly around 2000 police on the streets here. Thats almost one for every protesters. There really is enough police out here. Thats not going to stop anybody who is trying to provoke violence. They are still going to try and find a way to throw bottles and so forth. Every now and then, somebody throws a fire work or a beer bottle, as youve seen over here. I should point out that ia numbr of the protesters here have been drinking and that only exacerbates the situation. This is the kind of thing that police have to deal with, this kind of harassment by protesters as they try and keep the calm and tensions under control. This is also why they have brought in the water cannon and put it into position to warn protesters that they can use it if this kind of thing continues to p ha. Looks like we might have somebody injured here actually unfortunately. Atika, i dont know if you can hear me. Reporter yes, we do have somebody injured here. This is the problem. We have projectiles being thrown around and fireworks going off. It is very volatile. The police is warning what will happen with the continuing fire crackers and bottles. We have a very serious scuffle happening over here. I dont know if you can see that. There is quite a serious scuffle happening over there. The police have surged forward to push them back. We can see a number of bottles being thrown out towards the police and the water cannon. Also, moving forward to push the crowds back. This is all part of the effort now to disperse these right wing protesters. You can see i dont know if you can see those bottles flying. Those are essentially being thrown by a lot of these angry protest rs. Go ahead, christie. I wanted to ask you, have you talked to any of the protesters to fully understand what points they want to make today . Reporter yes. There is a lot of anger. This is what this is. This is a lot of anger. What these assaults have done is they have fed into the fears of people and its given them an excuse, an opportunity to come out on to the streets like this and vent their frustrations, their fierce a and fears and anger. One said rapugees not welcome there is that boiling anger that is now surfacing. For this, i should point out is a small segment of german society. It is a very vocal one. On the other side of the station, we see 1700 protesters in support of those victims of the assaults, in support of continuing to open the door to refugees. What this kind of tension shows is that deep divide in society. Is this, atika, contained to this single street, this single intersection . How broad is this group . Are they spread across several blocks . It is difficult to tell from this camera angle . It is actually fairly contained. This is only contained. It is contained to just a few hundred. You can see the water cannon now in use. They sprayed quite a number of the protesters. There is the water. This is their way of saying move out of the way, stop this protest. We will disperse if this behavior is continuing. You can see the water cannon spraying directly into the crowd to get them to move and disperse as soon as possible. So this intersection here is very close to the train station. They are kind of pushing them back towards the train station to an area where i think they can try and get them to disperse a bit more. Go ahead, christie. I just wanted you to mention, you had spoken to several of the protesters. Did they tell you what they want to get out of what they are doing today . Reporter yes. Everybody is here with a different agenda and a different aim. Im going to walk forward so we can get a better sense of whats going on. Please be careful. Reporter basically, a lot of the left wing protesters say they want to show solidarity with the victims and they want to see the police do more. At the same time, they want to continue to keep the door open to refugees and migrants. What they want to see is more Law Enforcement and more explanation to refugees of the laws here and how they will be enforced. What the right wing group wants to see is to completely close the door to refugees and migrants and not allow anyone in but to move out anyone that has broken the law. They feel they must be deported immediately. These are what the protesters have been telling us. What really a lot of the protests have focused on is almost fight wg wiing with each and taking their anger out on police. A lot is directed for police for apparently losing control of the streets on new years eve. The police are perhaps the ones under the most pressure today with scenes like this, christie. We want to welcome our viewers who are joining us around the world as we are now simulcasting on cnn international. You mentioned the anger. We know the Cologne Police chief was dismissed yesterday. As it relates to what we are seeing today, have we seen any arrests . You reported that bottles have been thrown and fireworks have been thrown. As we see more fireworks, have there been arrests of any of these protesters . Not that i know of. It is likely that has already happened already. Anybody they feel is an instigator. I have not had confirmation from police of any particular arrest. What you just saw were riot police, more reinforcements being brought in, carrying pepper spray. Quite often, in situations like this, they will use pepper spray to disable anybody they feel is being particularly provocative, that is Challenging Police in that way and particularly as you saw those beer bottles being thrown and firecrackers being let off. We hear the helicopter. We are supposed to stay here for now. What is the helicopter . Reporter there is a helicopter overhead keeping an eye on the situation. I believe it is a Police Helicopter overhead monitoring the crowds. In addition to the several hundred protesters you have there, you do have a lot of bystanders. This is a huge intersection with trains and people are trying to get to trains, coming off of trains. They are very concerned about Public Safety and they are trying to keep any bystanders to the public away from them. You can see there is that bridge overlooking a number of bystanders looking there. In addition to these 300 or so protesters, of course, the left wing protesters are still on the other side with another more than 1,000 over there. The challenge is to disperse these protesters while preventing them from moving towards their opposing groups over there and crashing. This is one of the most challenging situations the police force can deal with. This is why this he have roughly about 2000 police on the streets today to try and keep some order. We see the contingent of police right now that i believe this is a video of the police on the other side that you were referring to where there are more than 1,000 protesters. Do you know if there are other police that may be plainclothesed or trying to congregation within the people . Reporter yes. I have seen a number of plain clothed officers. Basically, yes. There are a number of different policing methods that they can use to try and control the crowds. We are just going to go across here as we try and get a better view. Basically, they have plainclothed officers in the crowd. Anybody that is distributing bottles or any kind of projectiles. This is a very common method. Mostly, we are seeing a lot of these police. I will ask my cameraman to put his camera on the shoulder to see a better view of whats happening. Now, they have two Water Cannons who are in position there to force the crowds back. They also have a lot more reinforcements in terms of riot police, again, pushing the crowds back towards the station. I think that is in order to control the crowd more and get them into one area where they can be slowly dispersed and bring the tensions down. There are more than 1,000 left wing protesters on the other side. So there is the possibility of a clash there. It seems to have died down. Hopefully, police have been able to get better control of the situation. Atika shubert, we are going to stay with these pictures. What we are seeing now are the clashes of two protests. A protest against refugees coming into the country centered around the new years eve attacks. 170 reports of criminal activity. 120 of them from women who were groped or assaulted. Police have identified 31 suspects. 18 of them refugees. So what you saw today was a large protest their in cologne who do not want these refugees from syria coming into the country and into their city and a counter protest of those who are saying the refugees are welcome. This has gone on for hours. Police now trying to disperse the antirefugee, if i can use that term, protest, and to try to keep the other protest contained. I know at this hour, we are getting close to dusk, atika. Reporter thats right. It is getting close to dusk. You can see it in the light. As nightfalls, it makes it much more difficult for police to control the situation. What they are hoping to do is get them into an area and slowly start getting those numbers reduced. Bring the tensions down a little bit. The fear, of course, is that when people disperse, opposing groups tend to clash in smaller groups in other parts of the surrounding area. It is unfortunately going to be a tough night for police, even when these protests die down. You could still have small groups looking for a fight as they go around the city. Im going to swing the camera around. You have a number of riot police on horseback as well. This is a common strategy to control the crowds. Horses often brought in to cut through and direct the crowds where they will be safer. It really is a city at this point on high alert. There they are on the move now. Because, when you have so many hundreds of people out on the streets, like this, it can be very difficult to ensure safety. But police, there are about 2000 out on the street. Thats about one for every protester. They have clearly prepared knowing that people are angry. We are going to stay with your pictures. We want to bring in harry hauk. Harry, what is your assessment of what you are seeing there on the streets of cologne as they are trying to keep this from escalating . The fact that the police have got to maintain some type of control. If there is any type of violence towards the police, the police have got to move. I see they have been using water canyons against some of the protesters. That might convince some of them to leave. Maybe they want to go home hopefully. What you have to do is keep them contained but in an area where they can escape and go home and leave the area. Thats one of the most important thing when you come on a crowd like this with Police Officers trying to maintain civility somehow in the crowd. We have seen, we were talking earlier about whether they had seen any arrests. I believe we saw some in the last few minutes as they took some people into custody. When you have a large group of people like this and people taking some into custody, is that a way to disperse that crowd and diffuse the situation a little bit. Could it agitate people . You have to take action when you see a crime being committed. If you are throwing something at the police, the police arent there, they arent punching bags. The fact that if you dont go in there and make an arrest, then the crowd will see you or the violent people in the crowd see you. There is no risk being made. Why dont i do something, because the police arent moving in. If the police move in and the agitators in the crowd see arrests are being made, they might think, listen, im going to get locked up here. So maybe i shouldnt get involved in being any more violent in this riot thats going on here. How important, in your opinion, is it to contain this situation before nightfall . Night is really hard to control, basically, because it just gets dark. The police definitely want to maintain this situation. Hopefully, get these people out of there and split them apart, because they go their separate ways. Before it gets dark, a lot of times, these agitators, what they will do is split up between certain sections like what we saw in baltimore and ferguson where they go to separate areas and commit violence in separate areas like that. It is harder for the police to control. The best thing to do is for police to break this up and get people to go home and stop the violence from happening. Back to atika for a final thought. When we were with you last, with he saw the riot police on the move. Does this seem this has calmed down a bit or are they still on the move to disperse this crowd . Reporter it has calmed down quite a bit. You can still hear the helicopter overhead. You see the two Water Cannons there side by side and a number of the flags. They have kind of moved them back to their original position and, again, this is an area just as your guest was saying where they are contained but there are enough exits so they can slowly sort of draw people back home, get out of the crowd, hopefully, to cool off in another area or back home. That is the ideal plan. We are not at that stage yet. What they have done is simply contain them in this area. We dont hear as many fireworks or see any bottles thrown. Thats a good sign. It is going to be tough work for the hours ahead for the police. Atika shubert there for us covering these breaking details. Harry houck, thank you both. With he will continue to watch these pictures and check back in as police try to disperse these crowds after the new years eve attacks. Well take a quick break nd be right back. Another look there at the train station, which is the center of these protests in cologne. Some protests coming after the new years eve assault. 120 reports of women groped and assaulted. Thousands of people there showed up to tell the government they did not want, they do not want the Syrian Refugees in their city. There was a counter protest to tell the refugees they are welcome. While there has been a slash this afternoon, riot police there in full force. Atika shubert has been reporting live all morning and afternoon. Fireworks there. Bottles thrown and Water Cannons being used to disperse the crowds to hopefully keep everything calm before night falls pretty soon. We are hours, minutes from dusk. We will continue to watch the pictures and the breaking news in cologne. We have the other big story we are following. Mexicos most wanted drug king pin sitting in the prison in which he escaped six months ago. We have new video of his capture after a deadly shootout and a frantic chase through sewers, when he tried to escape through that manhole. Last night, he was paraded in front of the media. Take a look that the. As security there and those officers force him to look at the cameras before they transport him back to the prison under the high security. Cnns latinamerican affairs editor, raphael r fay el romos now. He broke the news to the world saying Mission Accomplished and almost immediately, one of his sons tweeted back threatening, warning, insulting not only the president but the Security Forces were responsible for capturing joaquin guzman. The president said,