Your time. Thank you, joy. You can catch me tomorrow. In the meantime, keep it right here on msnbc. Joy, thanks very much. Were going to continue our coverage right here on msnbc through the next hour keeping everybody up to speed on the violence that happened in charlottesville today and we continue with the breaking News Coverage and there have been three deaths that happened today all caused by the White Nationalist in charlottesville, virginia. The governor, Terry Mccaauliffe said that a 32yearold female was killed by Police Killed excuse me. By the driver of that car. Police are calling this a criminal homicide investigation. A male driver plowed into this group of counterprotesters. They were targeted. Nine others were injured. The hospital says five in Critical Condition and four in serious condition. Police tell nbc news that the driver of the vehicle that caused the womans death then fled the scene but is now in custody. As you see with this video, the car without braking mowe
scene. joining me is tom costello. i know you ve had ran opportunity to speak with some eyewitnesss and this has been a hellacious day for people in charlottesville and for people in the police community having to deal with the clashes and then the loss of life of one person and now two troopers. reporter: that s right. this has been a horrific day of racist rhetoric, of who would have imagined that in 2017 we re talking about one of the biggest gatherings of white nationalists, of kkks, of neo-nazis and of this alt-right white nationalist movement in decades. behind me, we re at the scene where that car, according to the police, intentionally mowed down counterprotesters, killing at least one woman and just seconds before you came here, they brought in the state police crime investigation, forensics trucks. so this looks to be like this will be part of the
were you aware of the events that happened between the counterprotesters and the people there for the unite the right rally? i was there on july 7th for the early kkk rally and then for the whole thing and then today i was just there to support a friend who was alone. i didn t want her to be by herself. she was a unite the right no, she was a counterproteste counterprotesters. did you realize at the time what had happened or were you just kind of in shock of what you were seeing? we were all kind of in shock. we thought, was there a bomb going off? was it dragging a person? we didn t know.
your time. thank you, joy. you can catch me tomorrow. in the meantime, keep it right here on msnbc. joy, thanks very much. we re going to continue our coverage right here on msnbc through the next hour keeping everybody up to speed on the violence that happened in charlottesville today and we continue with the breaking news coverage and there have been three deaths that happened today all caused by the white nationalist in charlottesville, virginia. the governor, terry mccaauliffe said that a 32-year-old female was killed by police killed excuse me. by the driver of that car. police are calling this a criminal homicide investigation. a male driver plowed into this group of counterprotesters. they were targeted.
nine others were injured. the hospital says five in critical condition and four in serious condition. police tell nbc news that the driver of the vehicle that caused the woman s death then fled the scene but is now in custody. as you see with this video, the car without braking mowed down counterprotesters with bodies flying into the air upon contact. the driver backing up and then injuring others as he escaped. shortly before 5:00 p.m., a virginia state police helicopter crashed and killed two officers who had been patrolling the white nationalist rally. the crash marked a very long day. violent clashes on the ground. white nationalists clashed with police. tear gas was released into the crowd. a witness says that the white nationalists committed an act of terrorism. what happens, when