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well, cooler heads need to prevail here. we need to have community leaders step up and try to take some of the heat from this situation right now and try to calm it down. business owners should probably close up shop and vacate the area. but when you see these incidents occurring in a street where traffic is going by you have potential victims there and traffic, and in a situation where they re focused on a police cruiser know in a mob situation like this, because i ve seen this happen, after they re done with the police cruiser they start to look around for other places, and tragically businesses are targets. so that s why it s critical for police to come in and take charge of this right you. excisioner, we re hearing the baltimore police department did try to put out the warning today, knowing of freddie gray s funeral. it could be a tense day to put ....
Leland vittert is there in the west bank with the latest. leland? reporter: hi, jon. right now the violence is continuing here at the check point. you see a number of kids out there throwing stones. we had a number of israelis run out on our position and firing. you can see right over next to the wall the israeli soldiers running out. it has been a fierce battle all day going back and forth. i will give you idea of amount of ammunition was used. this is one of the buckets they bring out with the tear gas grenades. that is some of the stuff we collected for today. this is the palestinian youth that come down from the refugee camp. you can hear tear gas coming in from israeli soldiers. the palestinians are here for what they call the day which translates into the catastrophe. what the palestinians call creation of the state of israel 64 years ago. give you a sense of the battle situation out here. this is what the tear gas comes in? one of these grenades. fired from an m-16. this is wh ....
For the team at the time he was injecting clemens he says, not exactly a choir boy. he has got some problems in his background. well, that s right. that s a very good point. in other words it is funny the judge blocked one thing. the defense wanted to get records associated with his divorce. the judge described that as a fishing expedition. i think that was a good decision. but he had been convicted twice of driving under the influence. he apparently has some alcohol problems. then there was a very, very sort of hotly-contested situation involving some type of sex abuse situation in a hotel. nobody was ever charred. so what they did there they sanitized it link which is i canly which happens all the time. they will refer it to as some type of serious investigation. but your point well-taken is of course on cross-examination they re really going after him hard. jon: the clemens trial goes on. we ll certainly keep an eye on it. doug burns, thanks for sharing your expertise. yes, sir. ....
Ethnic lines or a competition where corruption can get even worse because one of the warlords runs for office and somehow wins then we re really in trouble. i think that will be the crucial moment. jenna: an important date to look forward to. seems like a long time away, two years especially when there are american lives on the line. what is your impression again of the situation on the ground there when it comes to the military? who is winning? i will say two things. first of all i think we continue to make gradual progress against the taliban. do i want to say that s winning? not necessarily because the pace we re trying to withdraw is fast enough i m not sure the progress will be rapid enough to compensate for our drawdown if you see what i mean. the other thing, even though the election is two years away one more encouraging thing, afghans are starting to get ready for it already. they re starting to talk about competing along political lines. if that goes well, get out of the ha ....
it has really been a long day of violence here over the west bank, especially where we re at, the kolondia checkpoint. as we look down the battlefield, if you will, you see a number of israeli soldiers up on that perch, trying to drive back the palestinian rock throwers. you also see the palestinian with a large fire there, that s to put up a smoke barrage so the israeli snipers can t see what they re shooting at. this is the palestinians coming to the refugee camp. you can hear the tear gas coming in from the israeli soldiers. the palestinians are here for the nokba day, which translates to the catastrophe, it was 64 years ago. i ll give you a sense of the battle situation out here. this is what the tear gas comes in, one of these grenades fired from an m-16. this is what the palestinians are throwing back, the rocks. one of these rocks hits you in the head or in the arm, thrown by a sling shot, it ....