reporter: ferguson voters elected their former mayor, brian fletcher, to the city council. they also elected two of the african-american candidates on the ballot. wesley bell was one of them. the ferguson city council now has three african-american members and three white members. and while a 29% turnout doesn t seem like much, it s more than double the 12% that voted last election. ultimately, history was made here on tuesday, a change was made to the levers of power. the question now is, will it be enough? we have an opportunity to effectuate broad, sustainable change. and i think we ve got to take advantage of that. we can t look back three years from now and say, oh, we missed an opportunity. talking to me now, msnbc s national reporter, trymaine lee, whose voice you heard tracking that. you re now in north charleston, came straight from ferguson, where you re covering that election. in terms of ferguson, there was a lot of emphasis, effort, and attention put on that election
meaning the ones who actually make changes. good evening, the world will be watching adds voters in ferguson go to the polls this week. those voters have the chance to transform the political landscape in that city. reporter: ferguson voters elected their former mayor, brian fletcher to the city council. they also elected two of the african-american candidates on the ballot. wesley bell was one of them. the ferguson city council now has three african-american members and three white members. and while a 29% turnout doesn t seem like much it s more than double the 12% that voted last election. ultimately, history was made here on tuesday, a change was made to the levers of power. the question now is will it be enough? we have an opportunity to effectuate broad, sustainable change. and i think we ve got to take advantage of that. we can t look back three years from now and say, oh, we missed an opportunity. talking to me now, msnbc s national reporter trymaine lee, whose voice yo
elected their former mayor, brian fletcher, to the city council. they also elected two of the african-american candidates on the ballot. wesley bell was one of them. the ferguson city council now has three african-american members and three white members. and while a 29% turnout doesn t seem like much, it s more than double the 12% that voted last election. ultimately, history was made here on tuesday, a change was made to the levers of power. the question now is, will it be enough? we have an opportunity to effectuate broad, sustainable change. and i think we ve got to take advantage of that. we can t look back three years from now and say, oh, we missed an opportunity. talking to me now, msnbc s national reporter, trymaine lee, whose voice you heard tracking that.
gives him a thumbs-up, really keeps the trip going. if you guys could just take your cell phone off of speakerphone for me, i think we ll get rid of some of that feedback. when you do achieve that number of $100,000, what do you hope that this money will be used for? what s your objective? are you going to take that money to haiti yourself? i m donating the money we raise to an organization that s been in haiti for a long time. they have about 90 schools there and 20 of them got destroyed in port-au-prince in the earthquake. that s who we re raising money on behalf of. it s long, sustainable change. evidently, it s not working, guys. but we re getting the most important thing, that s your ideas.