added cars. they used liquor as accelerants. lit on fire. lee land our crew is also on scene. have been attacked on scene. rick is on the line. are you okay? yes. we re all fine shep. we re at fulton street north avenue. there are cars on fire. and a line of police in riot gear. there are people on the street very upset at our being there. we got harassed by people. people started following us and yelling at us and throwing bottles at us from in front of their homes. large bottles crashing at our feet. it got hairy. police were focused on north avenue and not on what s happening on fulton so we
demonstrators know the streets. and this is very dangerous game for lack of a better term like whack a mole. they get one area contained and demonstrators pop up somewhere else we don t know how many individuals there are. we have watched stores being looted all afternoon. there are a lot of folks running out of targets and other places. with five-finger discounts. we ve seen crowds growing and violence growing here. you can see the police have cordoned off a larger area. they have to be able to bring in fire trucks the fire started and then they
screaming at police officers? this guy claims he was beaten by police and has been a victim of police a lot of folks here claim the same thing. they say they ve been victims of police violence or know people who have been victims of police violence. residents we ve talked to say they don t think this type of violence and call it protesting if you want or rioting is going to solve anything. and they think their voices are not going to be heard. folks tell us they want answers to freddie gray and you say how this is you talk to them look at the fire. the live aerials we re watching is demonstrators throwing more and more accelerants on to that
before. the coalition of automotive retailers maintains those two licenses should never have been issued in the first place and those were essentially illegal dealerships. so they would say this was never legal in the first place. the auto dealers have a lot of political muscle. i remember covering dodd/frank up on capitol hill. right. and there was a provision they were going to put in to basically change to regulate financing for cars and it was like congress just got lit on fire by the auto dealers. i was like, oh my goodness, i didn t quite realize how strong auto dealers are. yeah, both at the state level and the federal level, auto dealer lobbies have given tens of millions of dollars. tesla has put down less than seven figures. they re getting totally outgunned and also, you know, being a new company, they re relatively inexperienced in the lobbying realm. they ve got i believe one lobbyist who s a former staffer to dianne feinstein. they re really, you know, the aut
1,000 a day to get affordable health care. so it s working in kentucky. all right, so you talk about it working because of the preparation that went into it. you basically pushed through to make sure that this happened, against republican roadblocks that were happening in your state. we know a lot of republican governors around the country, they have not been, shall we say, lit on fire to make this fire. but connect had so much traffic on the first day, the system went down in about six hours. you all had to provide more servers to deal with that surge. were you surprised at the overwhelming response especially when the drum beat from the right kentucky senators, rand paul and mitch mcconnell say kentuckians don t want this? on october 1, it was probably the most exciting day of my governorship. you know, this is not a political decision for me, it s a moral decision. we ve got 640,000 uninsured kentuckians. our health statistics are awful. and they have been awful ever since they