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Baltimore is waking up this morning after a night of riots and city officials are facing questions about whether they were prepared for the outrage. tom comes tellcostello has more. >> reporter: the city's mayor and police departments are accused by some of losing control of the streets. >> i've been in contact with our governor and he has agreed to key employ the national guard. >> reporter: governor hogan seemed to suggest the request came late. >> we were glad she finally called. instantly we signed the executive order. >> reporter: mayor rawlings-blake has been under fire for these comment...

Think that this makes sense to destroy our community, when we know that those people who live there that are already hurting, are going to be the ones that pay for that. >> -- injuries so far? >> not yet. we can get that information to you. >> what do you make of the criticism that your -- may have encouraged some of the activity on the streets today? >> i'll say the very blatant mischaracterization of my words was not helpful today. i was asked a question about the property damage that was done. and in answering that question i made it very clear that we walk a balance -- we balance a very fi...

Her. it is so frustrating that people think that this makes sense to destroy our community when we know that those people who live there that are already hurting are going to pay for that. [ inaudible question ] >> not yet. we can get that information to you. >> what do you make of the criticism -- >> very blatant mischaracterization of my words was not helpful today. i was asked a question about the property damage that was done, and in answering that question i made it very clear that we walk a balance -- we balance a very fine line between giving protesters peaceful protesters

One, if they knew anything about the purge, help me understand what seemed to be a complete standdown and lack of immediately available assets for any change in behavior? >> well i think a couple things. number one, the men and women of the baltimore police department the rank and file have done an unbelievable job overmaintaining their composure, spit on assaulted and have done everything they can to try to end these issues in a very peaceful way. i think also i guess in weather terms, they were expecting a severe thunderstorm and quickly escalated to a category 5. they were outresourced -- >...

>> reporter: good morning, christine. i'm going to show you behind me a large, noisy, and for the first time pretty well organized demonstration here at the very heart of ankara, meters away from where the government -- again, what's interesting about today, though, two things have noticeably changed. as i said, the protests are organized. the proes ttesters are a lot ol. in the past few days young men, often young female students being part of the demonstration. the second big difference is we're not seeing the police really around the crowd. the occasional helicopter buzzing overhead. substa...