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blatant destruction with people who have nothing do with what caused this. i can't imagine if it wasp was happening in new york that the police would stand there and let it happen like this. >> i have seen a lot of things over the years and it never happened this way. leland the bad guys have gone somewhere else. baltimore sun suggesting they are moving west and setting more cars on fire. >> hard to tell how far they moved. to the west is where we are as well. in terms of the car fires -- >> an american city in state of emergency. >> you are looking at a live shot from baltimore maryland right now. police in riot gear blanket the streets at this hour. arson fires are burning throughout the city and tensions continue to smolder. maryland's governor is now declared a state of emergency
and i can tell you that it is something in all of the years i've been involve fled law enforcement, i've never seen law enforcement offices so dos do isle dos yil /* dos ill in situations where they should have been in control. i think you will hear they wanted to be more aggressive and they were give and why stand down order not to be so aggressive. >> the harsh realities is that wst and east baltimore and impoverished areas and the em who took to the streets to riot they have done themselves no favor at all in terms of attracting more attention to improve their lot, improve those areas. areas that you're very familiar with. i'm even very familiar with it being a resident of the state of maryland. this is shocking to so many good
people that live in maryland as well as enjoy's baltimore's finer attractions. like the inner city aarea. the aquarium. all of that has to receive a black eye now because of this incident. >> kelly, you're absolutely correct. and i think we need to understand that what we are witnessing here on the streets of baltimore tonight, this is not indicative of the good and great and citizens of baltimore. those people are now under siege themselves and you're absolutely right. there was a cvs tonight that i watched how they looted and now that was in their neighborhood. that cvs was a place where the elderly people in that neighborhood could go to get their prescription and now that burned down p. there with a a church burned down tonight.
>>zz because there are police on scene here. >> have things quieted down? >> because there are police on scene here. >> have things quieted down? >> because there are police on scene here. >> have things quieted down? >>because there are police on scene here. >> have things quieted down? >> calm is a relative term. let's go there way. i don't want to say we were attacked, but we had bottles thrown at us and people were harassing us. in the striets. very streets. very close tower location right now. we saw people at this location when we got here. one of the reasons we were able to report on this event is because we have security police and firefighters here. it is a more stable situation. when we were out on the street with no police officers to keep an eye on things people were very anxious for us to leave, put it that way. >> i had a reference to all these fires. i know they have to investigate to determine what caused them how they were started. are these rioters using like molotov cocktails? what is going on with all of these fires and how are they
street but we're told they are out here. and state police and hundreds of others joined in baltimore city police department and trying to put down any disturbances that may erupt. as you know on streets of west baltimore tonight. >> when you think about the threat that this all started at 3:30 in the afternoon. and it is continued through out the night. where you are now. getting into early morning hours. and what went wrong. the police should have been prepared for this. they did prepare for it and you said in an earlier news conference they weren't prepared for the onslaught of looters who outnumbered them. they back aid way and held things in check. but they didn't check enough because so many things did go awry. >> i'm not going to second-guess how the police department or the city handled the situation, but i can tell you it did spy rl out of control quickly with a lot of locals and mostly young people
they put a car fire out. this thing has been burning for almost an hour or more out here in terms of the car fires. whether the police are held back or they made a tactical decision here opt ground i don't know. we've got interestingly enough if this is happening some of the folks throwing bottles now approaching the police line again yelling at them. we don't know whether we will see more of the same kind of violence that we've seen over the past couple of hours here. but clearly through out the night, as the police get tired and everything else the demonstrators here with the upper hand. these guys don't know the streets. they have no idea where they are and they don't know the tactical situation they are facing a not they don't know the score here. you put that combined with a lot
of firepower as you can tell they have and clearly a lot of anger on the streets. could you have a recipe for a dangerous, dangerous situation. not only the rest of tonight but over the next few days. clearly you would be surprised if this is the beginning middle and end. >> leland we will continue to watch your camera. as you gather facts on the ground we will talk to reporters from the baltimore sun newspaper. luke is one on the scene of one of those massive fires. i wonder if you can get anything from police whereabouts why they don't do anything. >> people come and taunt them. they don't attempt to arrest them. they just kind of take it. >> i think in the beginning of the night they were perhaps thinking that they were thinking about surprise at the
the mior isy mayor is talking, we will listen to her. >> we will assemble resources. bring calm to the city. made sure we got the executive order right to give people enough time to know we were putting the curfew in place. we worked with the school system to make sure there was a daytime curfew in place and schools would be closed. a lot of ts to cross and is to dot. >> so some saying troops on the streets are aggravating the situation. are you worried about that? >> we will bring order. it is very clear that i am not interested in exacerbating the situation. my goal is to bring calm. but we will have order. and we will have peace. because there are too many of us in baltimore who believe that baltimore is much better than what you are seeing today. >>
ers lot ers looters who broke into the store and started a fire. the fire truck and firefighters were attacked as they were rolling here. this and other blazes.g cinder blocks. you can see the group on the corner. there was one standing on top of the truck moments ago. firefighters are attackeded as they try to respond to blazes being set by people in the neighborhoods. this is one of fume ras fours. we were at one a few ploks from here. couple of kr fires in the street when locals began throwing bottles at us. it is a tense situation on the streets of baltimore tonight. firefighters getting police protection as they work to put out some of the blazes. there are others we're told in the west baltimore area. as you mentioned, national guard is activated. we haven't seen troops on the
other things that are now at this corn he and the p em who caused all this have disappeared out into the streets a little bit. there is a number of back alleys around here from this main corner. h is sort of main and main best i can tell, in this part of baltimore. and now, the police have once again retaken their position here around this conner. and allowed the foyer department and everybody else to move in. this is the same thing you saw at 9:00. >> i would be interested to hear from those police about their level of frustration that they have to stand here an watch the thugs. >> you would certainly like any time i approached folks here in riot gear they have not been too keen on speaking and pretty keen on tell meg to get back. that's a challenge tonight in both getting information out of the police and understanding.