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>> caller: well it's complicated. everyone's been asking for chief jackson to resign since august 10th, really. and it it's accepted as good news that he's gone. it doesn't solve anything really. but it's accepted as a step in the right direction. understand that there were new people at the protest tonight, and understand, it was winding down when this happened. everyone that i was in touch with all night was packing up to leave. and so this was not like there was an escalating tension that resulted in gunfire. it was a protest with some new people. and of course extraordinary circumstances, ...

>> deray, we are looking at video of a fight that broke out during the protests. a lot of people telling us the protests were mostly peaceful. i don't know if you can see your tv screen. we are looking at this fight breaking out. what is the tension among the different groups protesting? can you tell us anything about this incident? >> i think today was -- it has been a long time. you know there are some issues that people need to work out among themselves. we have not always had the space to do that. tonight was interesting, it was one of the single biggest groupings of protesters in a long t...

Right here is where you see this cop car right now, there was a big protest group here within the last hour and a half or so. we've been told by colleagues there could have been maybe 500 people. that's really essentially the largest we would have seen tonight. as you saw from the pictures from last night, people, groups marching all over the city last night. obviously many, many more than 500 people then. but what we know from tonight, things were a little more natural, a little more organic. things kind of happened so to speak. we got word early this afternoon it might be something happening...

Jones. >> reporter: the protest has just begun here in chinatown. this is in central washington. a very busy area, especially on a friday night. you can see them talking here. they have begun to shut down a major intersection. the goal is to disrupt, to bring attention to their goal of ending racial injustice and racial profiling and police brutality. the goal is not just to shut down traffic. they want to make it difficult for people to get to the wizard's game tonight. they're playing just down the street at the verizon center. and a group of protesters is planning to rush the floor of the g...

Particular protest group. and they want to irpt rupt other people's work and ability to do their jobs to get their point cross. we'll let you know as they unfold throughout the afternoon. >> and part of the highway is closed after a huge mud slide in southern california. and leaving 2 or 3 meet of mud. the devastating colby fire loosened rocks and debrie and making the area vulnerable for more slides. >> and a woman was kicked off of the job without pay after she got pregnant and now taking that case to the u.s. supreme court. peggy young drove for ups and her doctor told her not to do