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The crowd and for those who are unfamiliar with what's going on today in charlottesville, make sure our producers check on reverend blackmon and make sure she's okay. if somebody could please text her. there's a rally held and supposed to happen at emancipation park which used to be robert e. lee park which is home to robert e. lee in charlottesville. the statue was slated to be removed. there was a vote at the city council there. the vice mayor of charlottesville is black and the only black member of city leadership and was seen as the person who spearheaded the removal of that statue even th...

At live pictures from charlottesville, virginia. the city of charlottesville now declared an emergency as you can see. you can see on twitter, the tweet just sent out by the city of charlottesville. literal violence in the streets of charlottesville. one of the towns that went heavily for hillary clinton. it's actually quite a liberal college town and a park that is called emancipation park, renamed from being robert e. lee park and a city council vote to remove the statue of robert e. lee causing what you're seeing there today. a group of white nationalists, of neo-nazis, kkk. official organi...

Crowd where everything is happening. >> has there been any response to what we've seen here? including the violence. you had members of these white nationalist groups striking, punching clergy members with brass knuckles. where's the city leadership? any response from the mayor of charlottesville? any response? >> reporter: i have not seen them out here. yesterday, they said they would be ready for the rally and planning for this for weeks. they had a plan in place to handle this. we're going to see how that plan unfolds as the day goes on. >> for those just tuning in, you are watching live pi...

Who gather to strike fear do not reflect the university's values. i'll also mention for viewers any facebook posts last night, the mayor of charlottesville, whose name is mike signer, i believe, the marches called a cowardly parade of hatred and intolerance. i'm going to go to richard first to get joan seethed. richard, this is, you know, the south has a history. a particular kind of history. home of thomas jefferson, the place where the rally last night happened was around a statue of thomas jefferson who founded the university. we haven't confronted the history of the civil war, the south? >...

Supremacist groups today and instead, a group of hundreds as described to me by reverend blackmon last night to me on the phone, hundreds of torch wielding white nationalist marchers, mostly men, converged on the church and then on the statue chanting various slogans including the nazi slogan, blood and soil and chanting white lives matter and you will not replace us and the jew will not replace us. all of those chants captured on various cell phone videos. that is a scene right now in charlottesville. as you can see, it's a little chaotic and calmer now. okay, we're going to put on andy. he's...