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In washington, d.c., our athena jones is there amongst the crowd. athena, where are the protesters at this point? >> reporter: hi, anderson. we're now in central downtown. we're in the thick of things, and you can see the protesters at this point are not actually blocking the street. they're here walking amongst the traffic chanting loudly. they continue to chant off the sidewalks into the streets. they've been chanting out of the restaurants into the streets and there was a woman just a few blocks ago who said she left a restaurant to join in this protest. they're energized, walking quickly h...

That gives you a sense of how some demonstrators move city to city based on a particular cause. this is something that immediately touched his heart and made sure he came up to organize this demonstration. it's amazing what we saw tonight in terms of the group here. smaller than what we've seen in the previous nights. as you know, anderson, not thousands on the streets of new york. more like hundreds. i think this is probably at this point the largest group at about 200 plus. they started at columbus circle. staged a die-in at apple and then marched through the streets, stopped at macy's. then...

Hurt black man because of the state of our society. i spoke with two young black men a few blocks back who believes society wants to not just get rid of black men but black people. there's a charged emotion on these streets. you can see it's a diverse crowd and they all have the same goal in mind, which is the changing the system. making sure this doesn't happen, black men dying at the hands of police. they want a fairer justice system. organizers has vowed to keep doing this and the crowd gets bigger, smaller, bigger and smaller. it seems people on the sidewalks are joining in at different mo...

The country tonight. and, we begin with protesters in chicago. athena jones is in washington. actually want to go to you, athena. what's the scene? there there were threats throughout the night that they're going to be blocking streets. >> that's right. erin. that's what they have been do g doing. blocking a major intersection. connecticut avenue. major street. that connects the white house to northwest, northwest washington. three blocks from the white house here. you can see the giant circle behind me. several hundred people are out tonight. this crowd has been growing as this crowd has been...

Very peaceful. they circled back around and probably did a 20 block loop and came back to where they started on that 36th street if you're familiar with miami where the arts district begins and now they are starting to go home. they say they may be back on tuesday. >> brian andrews, i appreciate that. let's go to jason carroll who has been following a group of protesters throughout the streets of new york. jason, they left grand central terminal and how big is the group of protesters if you can give an estimate? >> reporter: it's still about the same number, anderson. we're now at bryant park....