in washington, d.c., our athena jones is there amongst the crowd. athena, where are the protesters at this point? >> reporter: hi, anderson. we're now in central downtown. we're in the thick of things, and you can see the protesters at this point are not actually blocking the street. they're here walking amongst the traffic chanting loudly. they continue to chant off the sidewalks into the streets. they've been chanting out of the restaurants into the streets and there was a woman just a few blocks ago who said she left a restaurant to join in this protest. they're energized, walking quickly having covered several miles of this city already. i should tell you too, we've been talking about a lot of the emotion. the charged feelings people are expressing on the streets. earlier, one of the protest organizers say i'm not an angry black man, i'm an outraged and