crowd where everything is happening. has there been any response to what we ve seen here? including the violence. you had members of these white nationalist groups striking, punching clergy members with brass knuckles. where s the city leadership? any response from the mayor of charlottesville? any response? reporter: i have not seen them out here. yesterday, they said they would be ready for the rally and planning for this for weeks. they had a plan in place to handle this. we re going to see how that plan unfolds as the day goes on. for those just tuning in, you are watching live pictures from charlottesville, virginia. a very large protest and counterprotest. white nationalist groups, various groups converging on the city of charlottesville to protest the planned removal of a statue of robert e. lee from a park now called emancipation park. i ve been handed by my producer
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, connect, and move forward.
gentleman had a me his business card. when was last time you had a professional data business card. it says unicorn right, your commercial free so it suggest that a lot of these guys are professional protesters. not local charlottesville people. i want you to look behind me, the first national guard troops are prepared to step into the line of battle, should it become necessary. we ought to hand it to these guys and the police officers, they have been extremely hot and humid day. a lot of these guys are decked out in right gear, extremely hot to be wearing that. with us now as karen, a spokesperson for the virginia state police. what is the condition and status of things now? the unlawful assembly was declared by the city of charlottesville. as a result of compliance with
virginia. we saw escalation in the tension again just a few minutes ago because the white nationalist groups have moved over on the outskirts of the city of charlottesville. white people who are the victims of violence in this country at the point he was saying that one or two or three or four antiprotestors had arrived and a brave young woman went into the crowd and started yelling at them, brave only because she was completely outnumbered, the shouting match erupted amongst them and broke apart and everybody has moved back a hundred yards away. from my understanding they have no further plans so appears that they are sort of absent mindedly idling here with nothing to do which may in and of itself be
break things up so where they were may have been much more calm than the areas we were picking up with our news camera crews. jim, i m going to ask you to stay on the line as well. maya rodriguez, if you could as well that would be great as long as you re in a safe place. we re going to take a very short break but we ll be right back to bring you much more live from the city of charlottesville that s clearly in the midst of a very tense demonstration. we ll be right back. julie is living with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. she s also taking prescription ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor, which is for postmenopausal women with hormone receptor- positive her2- metastatic breast cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. ibrance plus letrozole was significantly more effective at delaying disease progression versus letrozole.