fire that is burning in the middle of the intersection. i think you have a live picture of it here. since the police arrived here, there must be about 20 or 30 of them here, and they blocked off this street. and there are fire apparatus down there trying to put this out. above us, the helicopter is flying overhead, as well. trying to illuminate the area. and we have been hearing what sounds like small explosions, almost like gunshot puffs in the distance, like a couple of blocks away. behind us. so it s sort of we re just trying to stay out of the way and just see what develops here. this fire has been burning for some time now. and a lot of smoke rising. they kind of put it out. it seems to be garbage or trash in middle of the streets. there was a blockage down in the middle of the street and we can t see exactly what it is. but the bottom line, the police
share lynn eiffel of the naacp legal defense fund. lifelong baltimore resident. thank you very much for joining us. you re looking there at live images at this hour. the curfew is not as yet declared. that will be starting tomorrow at 10:00 p.m. baltimore public schools have been closed as well tomorrow. there is questioning that decision, given that tens of thousands of children will not be able to go to school. will be out of school. obviously, a public safety determination made there by the baltimore city schools. but police have been called into the area from all around surrounding baltimore earlier at the state the governor s press conference. they said they would be making calls for as many as 5,000 law enforcement officers from the neighboring states to come in. we know the national guard has been put on alert. the state of emergency has been declared after a rough day in baltimore. please stay tuned for the latest. we ll be right back.
in riot gear are just trying to keep this area clear and watch their backs and watch these side streets coming into this main intersection and let the firefighters do their work safely. but there seems to be a group of people down there i can hear some yelling and screaming. i saw there were people running around in the streets. not sure exactly what is going on. it s not clear what s going on. a lot of these are little hot pocket corners. we have been driving around for the past couple of hours and we ve seen fires and police walking around on the streets. we ve seen a number of people arrested and taken down, one man who was making a u-turn in front of the officers, he apparently got too close or said the wrong thing. they took him out of his car and took him off, trying to ease things off. we re talking to a lot of residents here who are angry and frustrated and mad about the whole situation.