with members of the law enforcement community but cops handled it. tell me what you saw and what it means now for where we are going forward. i think the difference was that monday night the police said we can only do one or the other, protect property or protect people. we don t have enough officers on the street to do both. and so the property was looted and some set on fire and fire trucks took a bombardment and fire hoses cut. all day yesterday there were many thousand additional police arrived and national guard soldiers arrived and they were in the background ready to back up the police. yesterday was a measured, professional police response with assistance from community leaders and clergy in the community and police were able to be more measured knowing there was this huge force to back them up if it went bad again.
as deliberate as they were, they had backup in terms of numbers of law enforcement and backup in the community. that s why i wanted you to come here today, donna. i was at a remarkable meeting that you were part of last night at the empowerment temple where clergy gathered to make a plan to go forward and you spoke in front of this group of people and you were making the case that they need to get on social media because that s where the kids are and reach these kids. during that event last night that tom was just talking about when police were face to face with protesters, you were sending out text messages to hopefully at some point that will reach thousands of people, perhaps thousands of kids and some messages i got on my phone says going home does not mean giving up. you also said, you know, this is not quitting. stop to quit basically. these messages, what difference can they make? they can make a great difference. this is a power moment for youth where they come to understand,
hours. the stress still remains here. there are people walking around saying they want to be heard. they want to make sure this doesn t get washed away but keep that symbolism between the police and community but so many people coming out working together at this point. any sense of what happens there? yesterday we saw those joyous people there really celebrating all day and then last night there was a moment where it looked like things might get ugly. any preparations for tonight to make sure things don t go bad? reporter: that s a great question. i want to say this. one of the things we noticed yesterday after being here for more than 12 hours on the street, the crowd changed. people were here throughout the day and then right before curfew, a different group of people showed up. i can honestly tell you the crowd managed a lot of them. that s why i don t think you saw a lot of arrests. we got hit with tear gas. we watched people run. for the most part we didn t see police have to
chicago tomorrow night. real quick, is this video? can we show this real quick? we ll try to get that for you later. the problems in baltimore have reawakened the tension and anger felt in ferguson, missouri. authorities are keeping a close eye on their community today and tonight after dozens of protesters hit the streets last night and into this morning. police say at least two people were shot but it s still not clear if those shootings were related to the protests. scary nonetheless. witnesses say that some demonstrators were throwing rocks at police and even set fires in the streets spinning out cars there as well. officers were also arrested at least five suspects for looting. president obama is speaking out again about what s happening in baltimore. the nation s attention on this city right now. he praised police for showing restraint, ripped into the rioters and said there are better ways to address the root causes of the protest. this is more of his interview with the ste