and chaos and mischief, and it resulted in three fatalities here in the city of charlottesville. in the days and the weeks to come, our city will have many conversations in city hall and community centers and our houses of worship, over our fences and at our dinner tables. i would ask that in addition to sharing our grief and looking back at this difficult and extraordinary summer, that we look forward. i would ask that we would consider the question of who we are as a city and who we wish to be. i would ask that we each seek opportunities to seek people who share our home here in charlottesville, but who are outside of our circles. i would ask that we work to build meaningful relationships and foster strong connections. city hall will be working with the community to rebuild our structures and repair damages. and we will also work to provide opportunities for our community to come together to mourn,
we don t release our total numbers of law enforcement personnel. in the city of charlottesville and albemarle county has declared an emergency, what is that mean? , state police so is a better directed at the local city. i know they put it out and have been tweeting on the city facebook page and the factual updates. your people have been doing an extraordinary job under difficult circumstances. as a said we ve heard at least the epicenter of activity seems to be moving, so i m going to sign off for now and we will make our way back in met direction. back to. great work. stay safe and we ll see what you get along the way. thank you, unless has little bit more. dan has been more for the better half of the morning developing situation i wanted to talk about it tweet.
it wasn t very clear. he didn t say white supremacists, it was not clear. i have to leave we have to get in a quick break, guys and ben, we did get some confirmation on the number of people injured and one fatality involved in the crash in charlottesville. i m getting this urgent crossing my e-mail here. it says its happened during the rallies this afternoon. this was a statement from the city of charlottesville and they re verified and their verified twitter account. 15 other injuries were reported downtown as well. we re staying on top of the latest developments coming from virginia. the fighting, and the deadly crash that also happened on the streets in that small college town. stay with us. we ll be right back. experience unparalleled luxury at the lexus golden opportunity sales event before it ends. choose from the is turbo, es 350 or nx turbo for $299 a month for 36 months if you lease now. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. t-mobile announces zero down for all. now
bring people together. i spoke to the president this afternoon, and we had conversation. and i told the president that there has got to be a movement in this p country to bring people together. the hatred and rhetoric that has gone on and has intensified over the last couple months is dividing this great nation. we need to work together. i told the president that twice. we re willing to work with you if we can work together to bring people together, but stop the hate speech. stop the rhetoric in this country. we have got to bring people together. but we are a great commonwealth and we are a great nation, and we are even stronger today because of those actions of those people who came with their bigotry and hatred. i d now like to introduce the mayor of the city of charlottesville, michael significant nor. thank you, governor.
at live pictures from charlottesville, virginia. the city of charlottesville now declared an emergency as you can see. you can see on twitter, the tweet just sent out by the city of charlottesville. literal violence in the streets of charlottesville. one of the towns that went heavily for hillary clinton. it s actually quite a liberal college town and a park that is called emancipation park, renamed from being robert e. lee park and a city council vote to remove the statue of robert e. lee causing what you re seeing there today. a group of white nationalists, of neo-nazis, kkk. official organizations that are self-declared white nationalists decided to march on charlottesville and they were met by counterprotests to include anti-fascists, black lives matter and clergy and last night, those white nationalists marched on the planning and prayer meeting that was preparing to take on this white nationalist rally. they marched on it with torches.