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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....

Central situation. then they left. they went on the move. they're on the move right now. our chris welch is with them. chris, what are you seeing? >> reporter: yeah, well, poppy, really within the last hour or so it was a pretty strength -- pretty strengthy march. people went from grand central station where i believe you showed video of a die-in. there were probably about 75 people there laid down on the ground for 15 1/2 minutes of silence. now, those 15 1/2 minutes signify 11 times that eric garner cried i can't breathe. plus 4 1/2 minutes to signify the 4 1/2 hours that michael brown laid ...

These marches the last few nights. there have been very few confrontations between the police and protesters. and in a lot of occasions these protesters are even stopping at crosswalks waiting for the light to be in their favor, megyn. this is a very different kind of protest and series of protests than we saw in ferguson. these people are passionate. they are angry. but these protests have remained almost entirely peaceful. >> jonathan, have they said to you why this is racist? >> reporter: megyn, i'm not sure if you're still talking to us. i've lost my connection with you. but just to tell y...

>> jason, you were saying there were several hundred protesters, as many as 700 who had gone inside macy's. >> reporter: it was incredible. it was an absolutely incredible moment as you can imagine, anderson, to walk in the middle of that store and see all of those demonstrators there and the shocked look of shoppers who were there as well. the people working there, just trying to figure out what's going on as they marched in there and chant, i can't breathe. the same thing they're now chanting out here as we cross over on 42nd street heading towards times square eventually. the demonstrators ...

This is the latest thing. look. the protesters chanting "black lives matter" and "die in" and lying down in the aisles. shutting down one of new york's most popular landmarks at the height of the shopping season. at grand central station commuters had to deal with a holiday die-in as well in the middle of the iconic landmark. as these dramatic protests gained steam, the white house comes under new pressure. the congressional black caucus urging president obama now to make alleged police racism the central tenant of his state of the union address. and they're pushing the president to invite to ...