thousands of demonstrators who were peaceful. again, we were standing right here when something like an altercation seemed to have broken out. that gas is coming towards us right now. but it still continues to be a pretty tense situation down here right now. difficult to tell what is happening inside the park itself from this vantage point. those demonstrators sorry. no idea what that was. nick paton walsh has more. what can you see from your vantage point right now, nick? reporter: what we have been seeing in the last few minutes are what looked like water canons firing in the direction of gezi park. we don t know what sparked this police move. did say there was some sort of altercation. so no specific reason why that itself would be cause to trigger such an enormous response by police.
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joe johns, have a great rest of the weekend and safe travels. you, too. on this memorial day, i want to begin on cordova, alabama. it hit on the morning of april 27th by a powerful ef-3 tornado, and then the very same day ef-4 tornado hits that same town that night. cordova, alabama, is not the town that you see here in some of the video, some of the aerial pictures here and satellite images. a lot of folks have certainly lost their homes, but as we told you on friday, the cordova mayor jack scott is invoking a ordinance that rejects any trailer which is being offered by the federal government to folks whose homes have been destroyed. and jack scott is saying emergency or not, the law is the law. and as we showed you on friday, none of the folks in cordova are none too thrilled about the 50-year-old ordinance. we will talk to some folks live in a moment, but first, listen to this. what i suggested is putting the fema trailers in my backyard, because of the mayor, we wan