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This is "world news now" with t.j. holmes and reena ninan. >> well, good morning on this very busy wednesday morning. we'll kick it off with the curfew in baltimore going from its worst rioting since the 1960s to a virtual ghost town overnight. >> at least ten people being arrested overnight. the crowd tried to defy orders to stay off the streets. police quickly got this under control, restored calm with smoke canisters and pepper balls. abc's byron pitts is there. >> reporter: city-wide curfew did not start quietly. minutes into it, police helicopters flew low over protesters urging them all ...

And forth between police and some of the people who defied some curfew. what's going on where you are? >> don, we're at easily one of the most heavily fortified sections in all of baltimore. this is pennsylvania avenue and cumberland street. as we've been reporting, things have calmed down quite a bit in this neighborhood, but still a little bit tense as the police start to wind down their presence a little bit. setting the scene for you here, this was the scene of a confrontation. you see all the debris as this bus moves through. there were overturned trash cans here. this is one of the inter...

>> and when it started to morph, you sort of moved into the side streets, we saw some of the footage of projectiles being hurled at police, police using a variety of different implements. a kind of green gas was being fired. pepper balls and orange kind of pepper spray, how did it sort of evolve when you saw it from a ground's eye view, from what was this fairly limited confrontation between teenagers and the police into what we saw later? >> what i believe happened is, the police were you know -- they were holding lines, and then they eventually kind of made a perimeter that -- took up fourth...

Because all the city high schools let out around that time. so it did start. it did start rather small but it definitely grew very quickly. and at the same time the police were bringing in reinforcements as well. so i would say like i said the crowds were swelling on both sides. >> and when it started to morph, you sort of moved into the side streets. we saw some of the footage. we saw some of the footage of projectiles being hurled at police. we saw police using a variety of different implements. a kind of green gas was being fired, pepper balls and orange kind of pepper spray. how did it sor...

Them to jail. we prepared today for the mond mondawmin corridor. they just outnumbered us and outflanked us. >> not to respond forcefully or aggressively here? >> no. that's not the case. on saturday we were giving them space. they have the first amendment rights when they started breaking windows and doing criminality. that's when we changed our attitude to arrest those causing harm. what we did is we deployed pepper balls because of the bricks and the glass and the stones coming in. as we did that it pushes them. with the youth for kids, they started running around in rapid manner. we have t...