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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. ....