home appears to show a metal gate, brick columns and guard boats. a spokesperson for the obamas declined to comment to nbc news on the construction. in her reason lie published memoir michele obama wrote she would never forgive trump for putting her family s safety at risk by pushing the birth er issue. joining us now, john harwood. good to see you. i feel like i can t get rid of you. . i ve been seeing a lot of you in the last 24 hours. i think that s what my friend was trying to says we appreciate you. reporter: i m looking around my desk and there s not a single doughnut in sight. in case people were watching reporter: those doughnuts had as much traditional value as less hula and more moolah from
the man who killed nine people and wounded nine others then committed suicide. he took his own life. i want to go straight to cnn s ryan young, he spoke just a short time ago to the gunman s father in torrence, california. ryan, how did he respond when you knocked on his door today? well, you know, they were really apprehensive about opening the door. obviously, a lot of people have come to the door looking for requests in terms of trying to interview him. we talked through his metal gate for quite some time before i could get him to come out. the first thing out of his mouth, though, poppy, he wanted to talk to the victims and kept expressing over and over again, he had no words for the victims family. that s all he wanted to talk about. you could feel the pain he was going through. he has another family inside the house and trying to keep them protected, as well, from all the people focusing on this family right now. he says he really had no idea that this was inside his son. ob
spiraling further out of control. bill? bill: martha, we re watching that looting. our crew with peter doocy is watching as well. peter is with us, a mile from the heart of downtown balt more. peter, what did you see there? reporter: bill, we were actually just an hour ago we talked about how today things were looking a little better. some people, closer to where you are are cleaning up. we were on our way to a cleanup event. in the shoe store, dtlr, shoe store like most businesses has metal gate to protect its merchandise we saw a group of almost 10, i would say, young, to teenage looking boys lifting up the gates screaming expletives at us and everybody else in the street. breaking glass and rushing in. we did a loop around the block. we were trying to check things out, when we came back there were a lot of police. they were entering the dtlr shoe
patience. and there were places last night where the police were nowhere near these rioters. as my producer and i were driving into baltimore last night, we didn t see any police officers. we were trying to say where city hall was. we were driving in our rental car and a shoe store was being completely overrun by looters. people were escaping through a metal gate with boxes of shoes under their arms. no police in sight. it was just happening. so will that be the case again today? the sun is about to come up. the damage is not going to be pretty and the chance there is a chance that this team will continue to and there are different groups of people fighting each other on the streets out there last night. the schools are closed today. what about any other businesses? we ve seen a lot of businesses just driving around
scene, metal gate around the house of horrors. it s a saying, it s in my backyard, i wish they could knock it down. reporter: what allegedly happened inside has left an indelible mark. the women s courage inspired people in this community and beyond. e-mails weep coming and coming wanting to help. we re trying to channel those towards contributions to the fund. reporter: chris kelly of the jones day law firm runs the courage fund set up for the three women and little girl rescued this month, raising more than $650,000, with the funds to be equally distributed into four separate trusts. what does it say about the girls that they chose to put the money in a trust rather than take money directly now? they have the savvy and sense to know that they want to have the monies protected. reporter: those who know the women say they re drawing on the same strength that helped them survive so many years in