Time now for a look at the medal count, brought to you by mcdonalds, supporting athletes on their journeys toward olympic gold. The americans continue to lead in both overall and gold medals. Meanwhile, jamaica won its first two rio golds last night and tonight with Elaine Thompson and usain bolt claiming the titles of worlds fastest woman and man. And south africa won its first gold tonight with Wayde Van Niekerks world record performance in the 400 meters. It was also a tremendous sunday five golds and three silvers across gymnastics, sailing, cycling, and tennis with andy murray winning a second straight singles title. And there was goal from justin rose in golfs return. And well leave you tonight with the first olympic golf medal ceremony since one was presumably held at glen Oak Hill Country club in st. Louis back in 1904. Cue up god save the queen. Justin rose with the gold. Swedens Henrik Stenson wins silver. And americas matt kuchar wins bronze. . . . . . . So thatll do it for us. Ryan seacrest coming up in late night. And tomorrow on the today show two of the biggest american stars in rio, Michael Phelps and hoda live on copacabana beach. For now, good night from rio. That breaking news more this is breaking news now. That breaking news, yet more violence breaking out in the sherman park neighborhood. This is a live picture of the scene near sherman and burleigh. Shots fired here. Police in s. W. A. T. Gear are protecting themselves. People were throwing things at police. The protests had been largely peaceful, but less than 24 hours after buildings were burned and Police Squad Cars smashed, violence is breaking out. Just moments ago, reports that shots were being fired. Eric ross is on the scene and on the microphone. Eric, tell us the guys. We are here at the intersection of burleigh and sherman. We thought this was going to be a semi peaceful protest. We got out here at 8 30, 9 00. At that time, there were probably 150 protesters who were Holding Signs and chanting. As the night progressed, just before 11 00, we heard multiple shots fired across from the bp gas station, arson we saw arson here last night, one of six businesses targeted by vandals. There are probably 100 to 125, 150 Milwaukee Police officers as well as the Milwaukee County sheriffs office, they are out here in full riot gear. We heard probably five or six shots fired five minutes ago, weve seen bottles and rocks thrown at police. We do not know arrests at this point in time. Shortly before 11 00 and just before we went on the air, Milwaukee Police made an announcement that this was an Unlawful Assembly, and anybody who refused to leave the area was subject to arrest. Thats when the crowd really got rowdy. Now, we see Milwaukee Police out here in full armor, some of them have rifles, some have their riot gear on, sherman where the black lives matter protesters have since dispersed. This is our safe location, according to Milwaukee Police. We dont feel super, super safe, but this is the safest location that we could be in at this point in time. Officers have additional patrols staged at the bp gas station. If my photographer Jeremy Duncan will walk with me, theres probably a dozen Police Officers with us on standby as well, probably another 12 Police Cruisers moment. For right now, we have not heard any additional shots being fired at police, so that may be a good sign here. But nonetheless, it is still a semi volatile situation out here, and were going to continue monitoring conditions and bring you another update in a few minutes. Eric, in terms of manpower, do you think police have the manpower necessary if they need to im trying to get a sense of the numbers. Yeah, right now it appears that Milwaukee Police do have control of the situation. Of course, that could change in a matter of seconds. As you can see, if my photographer can zoom out toward the intersection of burleigh and sherman, there are multiple police units and Police Officers ready to respond. At this time in time, it does appear that they do have control of the situation. Of course if that changes, we will be sure to let you are relatively calm at burleigh and sherman, which was not the case about ten minutes ago. Again, we will continue monitoring the situation. Go ahead. Eric, we just want to give a bit of information we just got breaking into our newsroom. Police say that the shots fired, there was a victim, and they have to use the Armored Vehicle to get to that victim. We dont know if that was, indeed, one of the residents, one of the protesters, or a police a marntly been has apparently been the victim of a gunshot wound. Is there any dialogue between these for want of a better term protesters and police . We heard vulgar language when protesters were marching. Were not hearing that language anymore, but were not in the area. They have since left. We dont know if they moved down the block or left for the evening. But we did see the we did see several Armored Vehicles disperse a couple of moments ago. We dont know exactly where those shots were fired, but if you guys are getting that information in the newsroom, please report that to our viewers. Out here, at the intersection of sherman and burleigh, at the bp gas station, a lot of people are simply bystanders and onlookers, as our community essentially is being torn apart. Theres a lot of tension between police and the was talking with a lot of the members of the community earlier today about is how do we rebuild this relationship, in trust with the police . We did go to the Oreilly Auto Parts store location for a peaceful prayer rally that was held around 5 00 this afternoon. There were a lot of Community Leaders there. One thing they were praying for all afternoon and evening was for a peaceful rally. Nobody is trying to silence protesters, nobody is try keep them from sharing their message. But the line is crossed when people throw things at police and set things on fire. Those are the victims. The members of this community, people who have lived here 20 or 30 years, seeing their Community Going up in flames. There is tension, but the line is crossed when bottles and rocks are thrown at police. While we thought the hostility died down much of this evening, and then things turned for the worse. My photographer Jeremy Duncan is showing how one of the bearcat vehicles is leaving. Were not sure where its going. This was set on fire last evening in response to all the violence, and the whole thing started over the shooting death of a black man, 23 years old, he traffic stop. Weve already reiterated that he had been armed. Police held a press conference earlier to give the public more information, but it doesnt seem to be stopping the violence, despite the cries and pleas to peacefully protest. Those please are falling on deaf ears. Eric, thank you very much. Been telling us there are thousands and thousands of people in the sherman park area and the neighborhood, but these are a minority of people who are causing the problems were talking about, a couple hundred, and i think, eric, you said earlier, you had estimated about 200 protesters tonight, maybe a little bit less . I think were going to go to charles benson. He is at Police Headquarters covering that end of things, and, charles, i was asking eric, perhaps it should have been better posed to you how equipped do police feel like they are in terms of manpower tonight . Reporter well, Milwaukee Police chief ed flynn believes he is prepared tonight for whatever might come their way, and he said from the standpoint, they have a number of officers they kept from the day shift that worked through the night shift, then they bring in the night shift officers, so all of those people are available, but he said there eric ross is right now, prepared, specifically trained to handle large crowds, high intensity, and they have specific training on how to deal with these situations. We saw some of those officers last night as well as they were going from Street Corner to Street Corner trying to disperse the crowd, saying this is an Unlawful Assembly. Theyre trained to deescalate. I was at the News Conference th he has 350 sheriffs deputies available to him, theyre not all walking tonight, but theyre all on standby to be prepared if need be. He believed he had 100 sheriffs deputies who would be willing and able to help. The command staff for Milwaukee County sheriffs department, theyre in the same areas, watching, monitoring to see what is going on, so they are all prepared. And then you have the backup to the backup here, governor has activated and mobilized members of the national guard. They are sitting in position off site. They are not nearby but are in position to be able to be called in to help out. So there are a number of officers ready to make sure that what we saw last night doesnt happen tonight. And what i mean by last night is they had six buildings that had caught fire, intentionally set, arson. They dont happen again. Here we are at 11 00 at night, and we have not seen that type of activity yet. I spoke to the president of the Common Council ashanti hamilton. He says they have been appealing for calm. Milwaukees tom barrett, and others putting out statements, and throughout the day, people like ashanti to meeting, meeting with pastors, with Community Leaders, so theres been an ongoing effort here throughout the day to make sure tonight does not look like last night, george and carole . One of the things, charles, we do hear about this dialogue with people from the religious community saying lets get together, lets talk about this, but it appears with the culmination today that its not reaching the people that need it the most. Mo are respectful and hard working. It seems like a small fraction of people who are not willing to follow the rules and want to cause chaos, basically. And thats what we saw last night, because a lot of this then starts to move through social media, and in talking to police throughout the day, they knew that people were talking about getting out on the streets, protests, people may be gathering, and these things move quickly throughout social media. Thats why you hear the about parents, where are your children . Make sure your children are home. He probably should add make sure they dont have their phone, make sure theyre not online, because thats how things are being communicated on these particular situations. But im not at the location where eric is, but we can see from last night how quickly things can change, and even a simple encounter, one or two people trying to have Police Officers, they werent listening, and quickly to to take one or two people down and arrest them. Given all the upset last night, there were a total of 17 arrests, even though there were hundreds of people demonstrating, and buildings were burned down. They know tonight, they had a lot of meetings, a lot of conversation on what to do build. One of the key areas to make sure things dont get out of control is they can have control of large gatherings. They know people are allowed to protest, peacefully protest, march, walk, do whatever you want, but once a large gathering looks like its going to get out of control, where police can no longer control the situation, thats when they move in to try to break up the crowd, disperse the crowd, and if people move and leave, thats going to be fine f. They dont, begins to build, and tension that is already existing in the city, starting from yesterday, starting from the night before, and throughout the summer, people concerned about what is happening in the community, and so this tension has been building up throughout the summer. Thats how some Community Leaders put it in terms of the tension and the concern that they have. The hope today was, with the prayer vigils, with the pastors praying, with events that we saw in sherman park where people came out to say this is not the community i want, this is not the community that i know, that there are more people in invested in whats happening to make sure that there are not problems, and that tonight we would not see a repeat of what happened last night. Last night we had 17 people arrested. So far we dont have any word of any arrests right now, but were hoping that at least we do not see that horrible devastation of the fires that we saw last night. I dont think with the Police Presence were seeing, we wont, but there are a lot of prayers that the community does not light up again. On that note, lets get back with eric, along with photographer jeremy. Eric, bring us up to date. Has anything changed since last we checked in with you . Reporter weve seen a little more Police Presence, a Milwaukee County sheriffs any more shots fired since last we were on the air, so thats good news. Im going to have my photographer jeremy walk with me. To my left is the bp gas station. You can see there are some Milwaukee Police officers still on command by. I wouldnt say this is a command center, but its where police were staged before protesters arrived. There are protesters to my left and right, and it l here may have been injured. Were going to look and see if she is all right. It looks like she has a foot injury. Definitely not a peaceful protest out here by any mea means. Eric, very difficult to see yes, we do see the officer limping. We dont know how she sustained that injury. This is what we are hoping to avoid, injuries of anyone, officers, citizens, protesters, reporters, have been seeing, though, earlier, this is the culmination of something we didnt think would happen, because earlier tonight we saw people in that same area singing and Holding Hands and saying, you know, we are going to call for peace and unity. And, quite frankly, we thought that was going to be the story tonight. That was going to be our lead. Unfortunately, that has changed. Reporter that is exactly what we thought was going to happen. When we came out to the Oreilly Auto Parts store for the peaceful prayer vigil and rally, people sang and held hands for hours, we spoke to Community Leaders, even families, children, who basically say the violence must stop and theyre fed up with whats happening. I spoke with a 14yearold girl. I wish we could air her package, but because of this breaking news thats unfolding right now, were not able to get to that, but i spoke with a 14yearold afraid to go outside and play because of the violence, she has heard so many shots being fired, shes witnessed the scene firsthand, seen whats unfolding on tv, and for kids to grow up in a neighborhood with this violence around them, you really have feelings for them. I spoke to another kid, maybe 9 or 10 years old, very concerned for his grandmothers safety, as she lives just down the street from the Oreilly Auto Parts store. A lot of peop day we spoke with were very cord nal cordial, peaceful, calling for peace, calling for unity, for calling for a better relationship between the community and the police force, and there were no issues. Things took a turn for the worse shortly after 10 00 this evening, as protesters started marching near sherman and burleigh, where is which the bp gas station you rowdy, and rowdier when police made an announcement over the intercom system that this was an Unlawful Assembly and everybody needed to leave or face arrest. Thats when we saw rocks and bottles thrown and heard shots fired, and we saw police go into riot gear, there were bearcats to try to control the crowd. From where we are right now, it a control of the situation. We havent seen bottles thrown at police in several minutes, we havent heard shots fired, but police have their guns drawn, and theyre ready to deploy at a moments notice. There are Numerous Police here at the intersection. We have a Milwaukee County sheriffs deputy thats loading up in riot gear, but everybody out here is basically in a standby mode. They are moving toward protesters, but, again, it does not appear police have situation. Well continue monitoring situations and bring you another update in a few minutes. This all began with the death of 23yearold sylville smith, a man who had a lengthy arrest record. Mayor barrett said a still image from the officers body camera actually showed without question that smith had a gun in his hand when he was shot, and the protest began as a result of that. People are still upset tonight, as you can see, a very volatile and tense situation in the sherman park area. Charles benson has been listening in. Charles, youre on. Reporter i want to give some perspective in terms of shots fired. During the News Conference today with chief flynn, he talked about last night and the chaos and unrest, that spotshoter. It note shotspotter. That indicated at least 48 different times, it recognized that shots had been fired in a particular part of the city, and thats not just one shot. He says anytime it goes off, it can indicate multiple shots, five, six, seven, whatever. During this time period last night, to give you some context and the perspective that they were dealing with off 48 different times. Now, i dont know how that compares on a normal night, but he was indicating that was a highvolume nig