Moment but first of all, let me tell you where i am. This is the very landing area in order to get to Ketron Island where the 29yearold crashed that plane. Now, to give you an idea of how sparsely populated that is, the last census said theres only 17 residents living there. We now know theres dozens of investigators at that site. They would have left from here in order to get there. It is about a 10 minute ferry ride. The first as well as the data recorder. Ultimately, what evidence they could yield . We dont know. Of course, we do have a lot of conversation between air Traffic Control and the horizon employee. As for the pilot himself, obviously, he went through extensive needs means to get that. He had to taxi it and take off. Here, theres a lot of questions how this person who seemingly had no fliying experience was able to get that aircraft airborne. He played a lot of video games. Maybe that gave him the wherewithal to do this but still, so many questions as to how he got that ai
i don t want to get involved in that and said, move you away from the airport so you don t disrupt our operations. he said, i don t want to destroy everybody s day. he did exhibit some rationale that he wasn t going to threaten anyone except himself. rick francona and david soucie, thank you both for being with us. thank you, ana. unbelievable moment, dramatic dash cam video. nearly loses his life. got much more to show you, how this unfolded, plus, change in charlottesville. how last year s violence changed the national conversation on race. and the giuliani factor. the president s attorney making a slew of tv and radio appearances this week. what s his strategy? mark geragos joins us to discuss. you re live in the cnn newsroom.
one person is dead. one year later, a new team of officials are vowing not to let history repeat itself. we have to start owning that we did not live up to our training. we didn t live up to our oath but we have the opportunity to recover and get it right. reporter: after a sharply critical report placed blame on the charlottesville police department, failed to contain the violence and protect the public. this is not a law enforcement event. this is a public safety endeavor. chief al thomas retired. michelle bracny took over two months ago. i did walk in with my eyes wide open, but i didn t really the extent and the breadth and width of what the responsibilities would be because i had not really had the opportunity to hear how hurt this community was and still hadn t healed. the first images of hate saw in charlottesville came from here. the night before the planned and
white supremacists and nazis who came into charlottesville today. our message is plain and simple. you are not wanted in this great commonwealth. shame on you. and then, very fine both, sides. the refusal to condemn in the immediate aftermath further inflamed the national conversation. when you think about the flash point that charlottesville was in this country for the dialogue around race relations, where do you think we are one year later? so, i don t know if we as a city or even as a nation has had that real honest dialogue about equities and in terms of really moving the needle forward, i m not sure that we ve actually instituted policies, procedures or even support that could help move the conversation beyond a conversation. and so the conversation continues this weekend. as the second unite the right rally organizes in the nation s capital. here in charlottesville, the
emergency because of this anniversary. let s get right to correspondent kaylee hartung in charlottesville. we know there are events planned there. kaylee, how are police planning to keep the peace? reporter: well, ana, so much of the violence that we saw in charlottesville last year right here in these downtown streets, the downtown mall area now secured by a perimeter. metal and concrete barricades stopping any vehicles from crossing the downtown streets. entry points for pedestrians just two of them, just like this one behind me where bags are surged and the implements of riot are taken. we ve been told that a couple of cans of aerosol spray and brass knuckles have been taken but no one denied entry on to the downtown mall. everyone i have spoken with today said their purpose for coming down here is to heal. last summer, charlottesville became a battleground. erupted between white supremacist and protesters. terror in virginia.