Rally set to start in about an hour in Lafayette Park there, directly in front of the white house. It is the same group behind the violent rally that happened in charlottesville, virginia, last year that i was just mentioning. So far, very few White Nationalists have shown up. A much larger number of counter protesters there to hold their own rallies nearby. We have reporters monitoring the situation. Were going to start with nbcs Garrett Haake with the White Nationalist rally. And a lot happening there. What are you seeing . Reporter hey, richard. Im actually on the edge of that rally. We are blocked by the police on one side from getting any closer. What youre seeing right now is the arrival, or more accurately, the return of a group of antifa counter protesters. They gathered maybe 20 or 30 minutes ago. Best probably to think of them as patrolling the outer edges of this park. D. C. Police have made it their mission, and they have been very clear about this, that their big goal here
producer, katie ingle hart went back to charlottesville to find out what happened to those survivors and for some, the future still looks a bit uncertain. so i broke a right rib. i broke two parts of my spine, and i broke both legs. a right . i broke two parts of my spine and i broke both legs. squeeze down here. right there. not horrible, but yet that hurts. on august 12th, a man drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters. killing one woman. starr was one of the people he hit. yeah. i really don t want to do a fifth surgery. it s already really pushing it to go back to work we january. and no one s paying my rent anymore. no one is paying my electric bill. so that s really scary. coming up to the one-year anniversary of the unite the right rally, it occurred to me that i knew very little about the specific people who were hurt that day. and how they were doing. so i started making calls to charlottesville. i haven t worked since the accident. tay wasn t part of th
them. i can t see ahead. nbc s katie inglehart joins us. katie, thank you for sharing that piece with us. such a snapshot of their humanity, suffering economically, physically, and emotionally. and financially. in some ways, this is part of a larger health care story. i posted a longer version of this report on nbc left field s page, and some say the women should buck up, pull themselves up by their bootstraps. the reality is according to federal data, about half of americans could not come up with $400 in the event of a medical emergency. this is a systemic issue. medical emergencies bankrupt americans all the time. we re looking at some of the video that is so tough to watch a year later. are they still going through ptsd?