shortly after the shooting the victim s mother spoke to cnn affiliate kmov. they won t tell me nothing. his girlfriend told me that the police was messing with him. he was fitting to get up and run, when he was trying to get up and run, they start shooting him. they won t tell me nothing. they won t even let me see my baby. they just got my baby laying out there. he been out there for about two hours. the shooting has already sparked some tense protests with police officer at one point, demonstrators threw a smoking object toward the officers. some really tense moments there, as you can see. let me bring in cnn s george howell in st. louis. you just landed there, got on the ground. what can you tell us at this hour? reporter: well, randi, we
there. he s been out there for about two hours. the shooting has sparked tense protests with police. at one point demonstrators threw this smoking object toward the officers. let me bring in cnn s george howell. he is in berkeley with the latest for us. george, tell me what s happening there. well, randi, you walk through the typeline quite precisely. what we saw overnight, some 200 to 300 people who gathered around this area where it happened, people who were angry, upset about what happened and, again, you talk about bringing being thrown, those explosive devices we saw video of being thrown now we re at a point where this family, tony and jerome martin, they re trying to make sense of it all, trying to understand the facts. i spoke with them in their home a few minutes ago and it s
police. we saw this incredible video of this smoking object explode there at the gas station after the shooting. how do police officers, pois, t boyce, try to maintain the peace when the protests get so intense like we re seeing right there? i think the police main intaed the peace the way they always have and that s the problem that you see in places like ferguson, there really isn t as much accountability for officers as there should be. as marc mentioned, most protesters are reasonable and the fundamental issue here in all of these protests is that people are not against officers, but people are against cops who think they are above the law, who abuse their authority, and people are getting sick and tired of police terror which has really left law-abiding citizens in fear of the police and that s really their problem. what officers are seeing is of their own doing. the public distrust exists because they have not made themselves trustworthy and they have to accept that or continue
good morning. i m ashleigh banfield. and i m zoraida sambolin. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east. let s get started. we ve got a lot of breaking news coming into our offices from around the world. you know this story already, remarkable pictures out of italy, and now we re hearing the rescue operation of that cruise ship listing on its side has been suspended once again because the ship is moving. not only that, one of the res e rescuers had to be rescued as well. we ll get you detailed. and wikipedia and other websites going partially dark. right after midnight that happened. they re protesting anti-piracy bills. that s google right there. if you thought that all s fair in love and war and even the fringes of war, the u.s. and pakistan are having trouble right now. pakistan has said to the united states, you know that special envoy you sent us? send them back. we don t want them. weem get to the details. mitt romney reports that he pays about a 15% tax rate. how do you fe
more than 20 people still unaccounted for. rescuers are blowing holes in the side of the ship to get where they think people might be located. they found five bodies yesterday nap matt c . confirm death toll is 11. the man at the controls that might is now under house arrest today. prosecutors say they are speechless that he s even out of jail. they want to charge him with manslaughter and abandoning his post. we also learned today that it might not be the first time that that same ship was dangerously close to that s land. more in a couple of minutes. but first listen to this passenger who told us today what it was like. people s faces were panicked and they were trying to jump in and they just started hitting people with anything they could, the oars, poles, trying to push people back. but people kept persisting. and that s really when the screaming started and everyone was screaming and that s when they said we need to go, we need to get this down and it was just heartbr