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martha: that was one of the young men out in the streets. in baltimore the schools are closed. that raises a lot of questions about where the student we saw yesterday are going to go today. it comes after that massive riot that raged in the streets. schools are canceling field trip the that were scheduled to go into the city. there is a week-long curfew that will go into effect tonight at 10:00 p.m. that's in addition to the 9:00 p.m. curfew for kid under 18. the district office is open. they are battening count hatches. very concerned they will see a repeat of what we saw last night. we have a lot of people trying to flood into the streets and
their homes completely and utterly destroyed. rescue crews have been taking advantage of every daylight hour trying to find survivors. but they are trying to get into the remote towns and villages. weather conditions are hampering the helicopter flights it's the only way in to a lot of the smaller places that are otherwise completely cut off from the outside world. nepalese families living in the united states are trying to get in touch with relatives living in nepal. in some cases they have got through but the news is not good. >> they said they couldn't dig them out. they don't have the helicopters to get the food or medicine. but there are no helicopters. and the roads are blocked. >> reporter: the u.s. is part of the major aid operation under
behind the police commissioner and the investigation. bill: yeah. police headquarters is off to our right over here. there are barricades set up. the county police have that area pretty well-marked. the national guard has now come to various parts of the city including city hall behind us. what do you expect for this response now, given the amount of numbers that have come to city of baltimore today? >> well what i really, i actually that has been a question asked a lot what now? where do we go from here? and honestly it is anyone's guess. we all thought that basically of a very violent saturday, and then sunday being totally dead, no one out on the streets, i went out to west baltimore late at night on sunday, the family asked there be calm for funeral and burial. and you know, it goes crazy on sunday with all kinds of stuff. so it is difficult to guess, to try to say, well this is how this might play out.
this town today. is that the end much it or not. martha: we'll see if we can show how this got started yesterday. yesterday the call to action on social media urging kids, you can read the words here, it says at 3:00 after school we are going to purge. and purge they did. they turned out in huge numbers. running at the police. watch this video from yesterday afternoon. hurling rocks and the police started to basically pull back from these front lines as this got worse and worse. just look at what is happening in the streets of baltimore. the fairs began and the smoke
happened. however, there is traffic moving through the area. but in west baltimore that's the issue and that is the concern not just today but going into tonight all the hundreds if not law enforcement agents responded to the city of baltimore, they will be put to the test to see if they can keep things peaceful today. martha: the schools are closed. he they canceled the orioles game last night. protesters are demanding their voices be heard. but are these violent riots sending the right message? will police be able to contain it anger on those streets? we come back to you live in a moment with detective rod wheeler. >> they are mad man. if you know what i'm saying? these comes are here killing young black men.
>> get back. get back. get up on the stairs. you watching this, guys? are they watching this? >> coming has. >> steve, are you watching this? are they watching this? okay. the. bill: that was leland late into the night. he is with me this morning. working till 1:00 a.m., right? >> something like that as streets cleared. bill: that was not shaping poll. that was liquor store. what was happening there? >> reporter: we showed up 8:00 or nine where the streets had riot lines. they were protecting a liquor stores, small businesses, minimarts those kind of things. by 9:00 9:30, they were streeted. dozens of police officers versus rioters and looters. through a couple bottles. the police backed off. they rushed in and looted liquor stores. we were between the police, they were about 100 yards up the way.
>> that's a difficult challenge but they have access to those social networks as well. they shut the transportation down and there are no yellow buss in the city of baltimore. it was ridiculous to let these kids out of school, on to the streets to throw rocks and bricks fan whatever they could get their hands on and torment the police department. the social media gives the flash mob kids a heads-up and a lead in this whole thing. but the bottom line is they should have been better prepared and the officials who run that city should have taken the leashes off the police to let them do the job in a professional way that i know they can do it. but they weren't permitted to do it. bill: that was yesterday. now we wait to see whether they
today as national guard pours into baltimore to get things under control. the scene in the streets as many people just going to work, to get about their lives but the schoolchildren are all home. there is no school today. orioles game was canceled last night as they watched 144 cars burned overnight. 200 arrests and 1500 buildings that were lashed out at, saw damage last night. it is horrific scene in one of our great american cities. bill hemmer is standing by as we watch all of this unfold today. he is at city hall good morning, again bill. bill: yeah, martha, good morning. some of the numbers are staggering. 1500 structureses burned, 200 arrested. we'll see if some numbers change. there is looting happening right now as peter doocy's showed you a few minutes ago. national guard soldiers and are staggering as well. if it comes to pass, i say if,
10 use of crime ate salt and murder at a higher percentage per 100,000. the real failure is that the leadership in this city, democrat controlled for a very long time, has not addressed the community problems rather than waiting for a crisis to say they will address it. while they want to talk about this issue and deal with the rioters, peaceful protesters are one thing, rioters are thugs restraint should not be used on them. restraints should be used on them. they should have been arrested. round up, taken off the streets. but this will keep repeating itself if they don't do something about this starting now. martha: these are the governor's word. he expressed dissatisfaction with the way the mayor was
the best way to stop this. the best way to turn community around. the best economic engine you can have is jobs. how do we create jobs? baltimore reached a tipping point but that could have been any other city across our country. all across the country we have a lack of jobs and opportunity. and greater inequality. martha: they just destroyed how many jobs in that community. people have been pouring their hearts into those businesses in the middle of that city. this is heartbreak for all americans. i don't know if this is a racial issue. you have got a lot of black leadership and youth out in the streets causing this violence. i think this is maybe a question that need to be addressed in how we can fix these problems the last 30-40 years. >> jobs is not an issue.