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10:00 tonight after a very chaotic day yesterday in this city. it was just moments ago one our colleagues a reporter from the nbc affiliate in baltimore, wbal spoke to gang members about the riots. we initially reported that gang members here in baltimore had combined to put down their grudges and merge together to unify against police. and they said that they did not cause this violence. take a listen. >> although our cause is righteous, we cannot control every person. just because a person is a member of the bloods or crypts we can't control every gang in the city and say stop this. at the e...

Resources to deal with what was break out this afternoon, but it -- as jane says it doesn't seem like they had enough resources deployed quickly enough to get to this situation. >> i'm grateful the national guard is here. to be honest with you, i hope they stay for a while. our whole focus and angst has been on the incompetence and the lack of character of many who are within the police department. that's why we've been marching and protesting. since 2011 baltimore has had to pay out in excess of $5.3 million because of excessive force of police officers. so if the national guard is here for c...

But i think we're all concerned that one officer wuss severely injured and was unconscious and others maybe suffered some broken bones. so the department has to do the right things. it looks like a measured response, we're not seeing, you know, them pressing too hard right here but they're gathering their forces. darkness is coming, when you start seeing arson, you know, thing can get bad fast. >> well we are hearing from wbal, our affiliate there, that they will begin using tear gas tonight and there have been some reports of perhaps that happening, but wbla saying they are planning on using ...

Sound of wbal the helicopter pilot right now i want to tell viewers what they're looking at. on the left side of the screen they're seeing the police commissioner of the baltimore police department. he is with fellow officers as they take to it streets. there are arrests going on. there has been a great deal of violence against police officers today that we've seen. it started, it appeared with high school students. that's what we're told anyway from those in the streets of baltimore reporting for us. miguel marquez and athena jones. the high school students it appeared were the ones throwing ...

Coming together to agree on anything, even if it's making money, is possibly and probably untrue. >> reporter: reverend, thank you. >> thank you. keep doing the good work. >> reporter: don't walk away with my mic. >> i promise i won't. >> reporter: guys back to you. it is a very tense situation. as you know, we have been trying all along to characterize this appropriately. the appropriate numbers of people who are involved. on saturday we had a small pockets of individuals who were causing trouble. i would say i think that we are looking at a larger group of young people right now. back to you...