to make every effort to do hourly briefings from now until 9:00 tonight so we can continue to update you with information as we re able to get it. justin and i will go looking into that. if we have anymore on that thank you all very much. that s captain eric kowal all right. we ve been listening to the baltimore police. 144 fires. one person in critical condition from a structural fire. there was a large peaceful demonstration. officers have had a scrum with protesters so tensions continuing to be high in baltimore. let s go to bob urlich. hey, grets. last night you said those who wish to destroy need their space. i think she made actually
we re hearing the possibility of another protest coming out and starting around 3:00 p.m. rumors out here are flying like bricks were flying yesterday. i want to give you a sense of the crowd that has grown from dozens to hundreds. the police line has grown and become a lot more stabilized. look at the reinforcement they have brought out, armored cars state patrol and state troopers now. they are able to rotate out a lot more of their riot gear. it s getting warmer out here. the crowd has largely remained peaceful. there s a lot of yelling, a lot of screaming, a lot of cursing. no bricks. certainly a very different scene than what we saw last night near this location. get down. get back. get back. get up on the stairs. are you watching this guys? are they watching this? the issue now is whether the police are going to take a far tougher line towards these protesters tonight. clearly that s what we ve heard from the governor. it does look like from the reinforcement that they
yeah. i don t want to get into that right now. we re in the middle of the situation. our focus right now we need to let people in that community know that we re doing what we can to ensure they re safety. we re sending extra resources and deploying police officers to make sure that that neighborhood is safe. that the people trying to get home from work can do so peacefully. a question [ inaudible ]. that s something we re going to figure out. we know rocks are being thrown bricks are being thrown. we know our officers are placed in harm s way and seven injured and do everything we can to make sure another officer isn t. again, you ll see us use appropriate measures like tear gas and pepper balls. as we re able to provide nor information later in the night we will do so. thank you very much. the name captain eric kowal listening to captain eric kowalczech. spokesman for the baltimore police department reporting on the status of several seven specifically police officer