and we tried to have a response that was appropriate and not excessive. and that s what our parents are asking us for. you look at the mayor, stephanie rawlings-blake. she s wear an under arm our hat. it s based here in baltimore. i think she wants to send is a message that business is still operating here. perhaps that s why she s wearing the hat. the president called on those rioting. he s calling them krimgs and thugs. the white house really out front and center to talk about what s going none baltimore. it was a little different than when the riots first broke out. then whereas the brand-new attorney general loretta lynch who was front and center. the president is now facing this directly. and having an emotional question and answer question with reporters during the meeting with the japanese prime minister. michelle kosinski has more. keep in mind what we heard
saw monday night. that s right, we did not see burning buildings. we did not see pandemonium that we saw monday afternoon leading into monday night. the police commissioner feels that the curfew was a success. let s hear what he had to say. after the curfew went up we had about ten total arrests. given reports from the organization we did not have activity or movement out there the city as a whole. so the curfew is in fact working as the mayor had called. one of the interesting things that i just did have happen as we were answering questions, as i exited the building to go to a meeting, we have 12 to 15 young adults waiting in line to become police officers at the baltimore police department. in light of the activities and issues i asked them are you still willing and wanting. they were enthusiastic about becoming members of the baltimore police department which says a lot.
they either don t have a home simply destroyed in the quake or don t trust the foundation of their own homes. search and rescue teams are working to help kathmandu and get to more remote villages in nepal. that could be where the tragedy is truly to keep the death toll from rising. it s very difficult to get to those areas because of the rain and infrastructure that could lead to landslides that making searching very difficult. it makes movement very difficult, especially here in places like the city if it rains, it could become a virtual spot. it s difficult to get aid in it has been coming in from all over the world. search and rescue teams. but the airport has been bottlenecked for days now. it s a very small international airport for only a few spots for major and commercial flights to bring in aid. there has been that bottleneck
up under the state of emergency. now, the delay in declaring that state of emergency, after the rioting broke out on monday has put the governor and mayor on the defensive. the republican governor larry hogan seemed willing to shift that blame to the democratic mayor, stephanie rawlings-blake. but the mayor said she faced a tough balancing act. we had already called the national guard, followed up the access and the emergency command center. we dw-d quite a bit, but we waited for the mayor asked us to come in we didn t think it was appropriate to come in and take over the city without the request. i want to say, just to be very clear, a lot of this started with high school kids. and we tried to have a response that was appropriate and not excessive. and that s what our parents are asking us for. president obama is calling those who rioted here in baltimore criminal and thugs.
police officers at the baltimore police department. in light of the activities i asked them are you still willing and able and wanting. they were very much excited and enthusiastic about becoming members of the baltimore police department which says a lot. reporter: so interesting to hear from the commissioner there talking about young people wanting to join the police department. but bottom line here there weren t a lot of arrests. the police of course have a wide range of discussion when that comes to enforcing the curfew. there were 10 sore 11 arrests, most of them were for breaking the curfew. you bring up. a good point, this was tense but it was not chaos. this was police and law enforcement in control of the situation which is very different than the situation the other night. so today, a big day in baltimore, kids are going back to school. reporter: that s right, baltimore city schools are reopening today. the ceo sent out a notice talking about reopening. there will be se