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Neighborhoods are going to be safe. Still there is an uneasy tension right now. As this community and officers gather again, waiting to see what happens next. Now, a curfew is in place tonight. And unless someone is going to work or has a medical emergency they will not be allowed on the streets between 10 00 tonight and 5 00 in the morning. Jay gray, nbc news, baltimore. On a final note after two days of postponements, the orioles white sox game will go on tomorrow, but it will be played in an empty stadium. It is closed to the public. Its the first time thats ever happened in a Major League ...

Obamas visit is shining on this long troubled city. The president will shine a spotlight on camden as the city that is turning things around focusing on what the new Camden County Police Department has done in just two years. Driving murder and crime rates down while forging new relationship with the community. I think the cops is more into the people of camden. They sit and talk and chat with the people of the camden. Reporter the president will tour Metro Divisions headquarters including its tactic california Operations Intelligence Center where chief Scott Thompson will brief president on s...

Choctaw nation live below the poverty line, seven points above the national average and in some communities the rate is above 50%. an area of extreme need obviously. >> right. >> so what is the promise zone program designed to do specifically for the choctaw nation. >> what the promise zone doesn't do is deliver a boat load of cash. it's about strengthening federal partnerships with the tribe and local communities so the hope is with greater access to the grants they will be able to fund their programs, their outreach programs that are critical. they make a lot of money off casinos. in the las...

Different community. trying to continue a culture that was really displaced by the united states. >> the choctaw is one of the first five tribes with the chick saw and seminole, actually a slave-holding tribe. they held and enslaved africans and sided with the confederacy in the civil war. a lot of these kids, this is southeastern oklahoma, not far from the border with texas and the red river. they identified in a lot of cases more with the rural right culture than the choctaw culture so a whole generation of older choctaw forced into these boarding schools and barred from speaking their langu...

It's infrastructure, it's employment, outreach work so they are still working out details of how best to allocate the funds. >> the promise zone program which i think people mistake it for the enterprise program, that happened during the clinton administration. the rollout to the choctaw nation, how is that going because there's other communities getting the program implemented? >> when you speak to the choctaw nation, those who secured the grant, they haven't got the official white papers. the hope is they can use this to already -- to help folks with what they are already doing and that was ...