CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield August 23, 2015 19:01:00
On fire. police are using water cannons and tear gas on the crowds there. demonstrators calling the piles of refuse an example of government dysfunction. nick paton walsh is live for us in beirut. nick, have things calmed down? i know you said the piles of trash, that's really just the beginning of the problem that people are upset about. >> reporter: well, i mean have things calmed down? hard to tell more broadly. the police have taken the move now to head toward the remnants of the protesters who are behind me further down that road here and they fired a lot of tear gas at them. at one point...