Good thursday morning to you all. We begin with breaking news in charlotte where north carolinas governor declared a state of emergency. Police in riot gear faced off with demonstrators for a second night. The sights and sounds from several hours there in charlotte. Flash bangs, flare, tear gas hurled back and forth. Fires were set in the streets and buildings were damaged a looted. At least four officers were injured and one person was shot in the head. Police say another civilian was the shooter. The situation is even getting dangerous for people covering the story. This is cnn correspondent, knocked to the ground in the middle of a live report. Luckily he was not seriously injured. We do have Team Coverage on this breaking story starting with abcs maggie rulli live for us in charlotte this morning. Maggie, good morning. Reporter kendis and diane, good morning. Things are certainly quieter now hours ago these streets were filled with hundreds of protesters and as you saw many of them
By the fbi tuesday in dubai. Brian ross, abc news, new york. Now to the west coast, a wildfire burning in Central California claimed its first victim. One firefighter killed and another injured when the water truck overturned miles from the fire line. Its borned more than 12,000 acres, but its not 70 contained. Officials say theres been little damaged to tracks in the area and service can resume. Kudos to a School Crossing guard in east hollywood. Shes adrian young, 48, but her size did not stop her from rescuing a little girl from an attempted kidnapping. She said she went into, quote, mommy mode. Just started screaming, like, dont let her take me. I dont know her. Shes not my mom. Young was honored by local heroism. The woman who attempted the kidnapping was arrested, and the mother of the school says the school needs to do more so similar situations do not happen. Do not mess with mommy mode. Absolutely. I love she was still on the job on the day she was honored. Im busy, i got to w
Streets of los angeles. You see the way the baltimore cops sorry, the cops in charlotte are handling this and authorities there handling this, and you think what . Caller well, in los angeles, it was a very weak response. It was almost, like, back at that time, acquiesce to whatever the people in the streets were going to do, just go ahead and burn up the city, and there was a lot of debate about that m i think in charlotte, they have the advantage of learning from what happened in baltimore and i think they are being a lot more proactive in balancing not making the communities feel like they are coming in heavy handed, but at the same time, they have to protect the community, and i think they are now moving i think today will be seen removing the group to a different area, trying to take better control of the situation. Hopefully tomorrow, well see a lot better response. Steve, talk about what goes into that . How do you ride that line between trying to protect the to answer questions
Good thursday morning to you all. We begin with breaking news in charlotte where North Carolinas governor declared a state of emergency. Police in riot gear faced off with demonstrators for a second night. The sights and sounds from several hours there in charlotte. Flash bangs, flare, tear gas hurled back and forth. Fires were set in the streets and buildings were damaged and looted. At least four officers were injured and one person was shot in the head. Police say another civilian was the shooter. The situation is even getting dangerous for people covering the story. This is cnn correspondent, knocked to the ground in the middle of a live report. Luckily he was not seriously injured. We do have Team Coverage on this breaking story starting with abcs maggie rulli live for us in charlotte this morning. Maggie, good morning. Reporter kendis and diane, good morning. Things are certainly quieter now in charlotte, but just a few hours ago these streets were filled with hundreds of protest
Good thursday morning to you all. We begin with breaking news in charlotte where north carolinas governor declared a state of emergency. Police in riot gear faced off with demonstrators for a second night. The sights and sounds from several hours there in charlotte. Flash bangs, flare, tear gas hurled back and forth. And buildings were damaged and looted. At least four officers were injured and one person was shot in the head. Police say another civilian was the shooter. The situation is even getting dangerous for people covering the story. This is cnn correspondent, knocked to the ground in the middle of a live report. Luckily he was not seriously injured. We do have Team Coverage on this breaking story starting with abcs maggie rulli live for us in charlotte this morning. Maggie, good morning. Reporter kendis and diane, in charlotte, but just a few hours ago these streets were filled with hundreds of protesters and as you saw many of them turned violent. The corner behind me is a cri