the question is, will they come back? back to you. the governor in his statement was pretty determined in saying, go home, get out, there s really no place for you here, especially with these types of views. tom, when it comes to the crash site, i know that s some distance outside of charlottesville, but have police said or any investigators given any intelligence as to the cause of this crash? i know that it was an aircraft that was being used to monitor the white nationalist rally. it was a bell helicopter. i apologize. i don t have the model in front of me. it was a bell and state trooper helicopter. there s no indication that that was brought down by fire. in other words, by somebody firing on the chopper. we believe preliminarily that this is unrelated to the
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use language which could directly confront white nationalists as the virginia governor tear remcauliffe did in a statement that he gave earlier. so please, go home and never come back. take your hatred and bigotry. there s no place. also, violence hits close to home for the mayor. what happened in charlottesville doesn t represent the charlottesville that i know and love. it doesn t represent the virginia i know and love and that kind of hate and bigotry brought to our town has to be condemned in the strongest possible way. that is the former mayor of charlottesville right there. we can report that the city council has given the police chief the right to have a curfew this evening. i m thomas roberts. stay with us for more throughout the evening.
how many people were on site when this happened. one woman was confirmed to be killed after this and we know that others were taken to the uva medical center. they confirmed 20 patients are being treated and their conditions are all varying. we know this horrific scene unfolded at the unite the right rally supported by white nationalists on the scene who got in these violent clashes with counterprotesters who showed up to express a different point of view. new york times reporter joining us now from charlottesville on the ground covering this story. cheryl, what can you tell us about what you witnessed on the ground today and was it just tension in almost a powder keg of anxiety or energy surrounding these differing groups? reporter: it was very chaotic here in charlottesville. i have to say, i went to school here. i m a university of virginia
the president s inclination to have tweeted or instagrammed or represented, as he said, maybe not intentionally, racist or anti-semitic statements before and this is a statement tonight from him about charlottesville where he did not come down on white supremacist or nazis. i think that s exactly right. i think tonight s or today s lack of direct condemnation of white supremacist is an established pattern that we ve seen from donald trump when the issue comes up. it dogged him throughout the campaign and off the top of my head, we saw this with his initial nondisavow of david duke s endorsement and several times he retweeted white nationalists twitter accounts