had stopped them. johnny, tensions were already high when we were talking about it. they are dealing with that massive cholera outbreak. now this unrest with these elections. why are they so angry? what your seeing? what your hearing when you are down there? one of the things that s confusing people, what you just saw is not so much conflict, it s the martelli supporters continuing to support their candidate. they are rallying and continuing to the election isn t decided so they are continuing to campaign. that s what they are doing. it s when the police stop them that it turns into a clash. were you surprised when you saw these demonstrations? for you it s kind of relative because you were caught in some serious violence when you were down there previously. were you surprised with what you saw, how the election unfolded or what you expected to see? there s two parts to that. the night before this, election
night there were some clashes that were more intense. the election itself was an interesting process. i followed a friend of mine trying to get a vote. his name wasn t on any of the rolls. he was finally able to vote at 4:00. we started at 8:00. there s no privacy. it s a room. everyone is voting in front of each other. so when one of the candidates, a stronghold for him. my friend went to vote for martelli and the whole room turned around and told him to vote for selestine. we ll have more in the next hour. you ll stick around i hope. we got more to go over. we ll talk more about the impb reports. we ll have you back next hour. thanks so much, johnny. let s get a check of our top stories. unemployment benefits are about to run out for nearly 2 million americans. senate republicans and democrats
reporter: all right. so some of the security forces it s starting to hurt. just fired tear gas or pepper gas to disperse the crowd. haiti is in the midst of a political crisis right now. not much else you can call it. this incident in port-au-prince happened the day after hoitaiti s national elect. there s no clear evidence of major fraud but there were many reports sunday ever disorganization and in some occasions of apparent cheating at the polls. in addition to violence some haitians were not allowed to vote because their names were missing. last week we had johnny on. you since have gone back down to look to cover the elections and you ve come back to talk to us more about it. i want to roll some of the, if we have the video, one of your