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Overseeing the policing of the city now that we are less than five hours away from the mandatory curfew that will go into effect at 10:00 p.m. tonight and last until 5:00 a.m. in the morning. that's going to go on instituted at least for a week. that is according to the mayor. maybe less depending on how the situation is under control now that the national guard -- and as you just heard from the mayor there, the regional and local forces that have amassed here in the city of baltimore, trying to help tonight not look like the chaotic scene that we saw last night. i'm still on the scene here at...

See if it happened. at the same time we were very fortunate, and if we can pan over here and see not just reporters, but other community members and throughout here we have been able to see people here gathering and earlier there were volunteers that were here cleaning up this debris in front of this cvs, so i think that coupled with the police standing over there, with the volunteers standing over here that drew a lot of reporters throughout the afternoon. >> the community members that you had a chance to speak to this afternoon, it was about changing the narrative. i don't know how much room...

Came in here piled on and drove it out of here. now you can see there are residents peering into the cvs trying to take a look at some of the damage. the hope was that the violence would not happen again tonight. the curfew is controversial for some. there are some people that think listen, what good does it do now? there are some people that ask the question why wasn't it instituted yesterday? the mayor said in order to have a curfew that was enforceable, that they needed to give notice. i wouldn't say anxiety, as you see around here. it's a bit of a celebratory atmosphere in a way. but they ...

Specific cause. it is about justice for this young man, young 25-year-old man, whose life was taken. they feel like there's been too much emphasis as one man said on 100 protesters versus 10,000 people who were out here protesting for freddie gray so they really want the focus to be on this movement which is an extension of this black lives matter movement and i think that people as one person said they are not necessarily mourning buildings. they are mourning people and they are mourning the people they have lost not just this one young man, but just this sense that there's a systemic problem...

Housing programs, and we did them in downtown areas, but we didn't do them in areas like this. and we've left these communities vacant for, you know, many, many years. if you're from baltimore area you've seen this. and you ride up and down. >> this didn't happen overnight. >> but we've got to fix it, because these people feel frustrated because their neighborhoods have been devastated for decades, and you've got people who have invested in these communities and stayed here and want to stay here. but the thing that hurt me most was to see mondawmin vandalized like it was yesterday. because tho...