Triggering states of emergency. At least 25 cities across 16 states have imposed curfews because of scenes like this, as well as fires being set, businesses looted, cars flipped, officers hurt, crowds teargassed and now even chicagos Main Business district has been shut down. There are just hardly any words to describe the toxic combination of the things that are all happening at once. These protests originally focused on george floyd, remember . The unarmed black man who died under the knee of a White Minneapolis Police officer. That officer is now in custody and charged with thirddegree murder. And while George Floyds family wants justice, they have pleaded for protests to be peaceful, saying images of violence, images like these would devastate him. Lets go now to philadelphia, where a short time ago, in what appears to be continuing. Weve been seeing looting, vandalizing, brian todd is there on the ground. What can you tell us, brian . Ana, this area of northeastern philadelphia was the scene of some heavy looting just a short time ago. Were at a walmart in the Port Richmond neighborhood here. Were going to walk you over to a door where some looters apparently got in or out. You can see just items strewn all over the floor, a cart that was overturned over here. The alarm still going off inside there. Were going to walk you back here, ana. We came upon the scene when the police were still here apprehending people. We saw them apprehending three people and putting them into squad cars. And i asked a Police Officer, you know, exactly what they came upon when they pulled up to this area. He said there were several looters rushing out the front area there. He didnt really have an exact count, but there were several people rushing out. He said they caught some of them here, caught some of them in the back, and he said one of them was carrying this pretty large tv and just dropped it and took off. So this is the kind of scene that weve been kind of coming upon in this area of northeastern philadelphia, araminhgo avenue is right there and that was the scene of some very heavy looting at a foreman mills store earlier today and at an at t store. So some looting events going on here. The Center City Area of philadelphia are all the trouble happened last night, the fires and the looting, the access has been shut down to that. Only residential residents and owners are allowed to go into that Center City Area and well see if any trouble starts there later on today. But this area of northeastern philadelphia, ana, has been the scene of the heaviest looting today. The police have told us about six arrests have been made since noon eastern time today. Most of them very likely were happening in this area and a total of 200 excuse me, more than 200 arrests took place since noon yesterday. And that included, of course, the fires being set, the looting in the Center City Area of philadelphia in fact, brian reporter that was so horrible in fact, brian, we are seeing a police car right now on fire. I dont know if you can see any smoke from where you are or how far away from where you are there in philadelphia, but currently there is a police car on fire right now and we had shown some aerial images just before we got to you, in which we saw a number of people appear to be vandalizing and pulling things out of other police cars in the vicinity. So do you know where this police car is on fire in relationship to where you are or where there was the looting in that location that youre at . Reporter we dont know, exactly, ana. We cannot see the smoke, but well certainly check that out. There is a very Large Police Presence in this general area. A aramingo avenue, there was heavy looting there earlier today. The police were streaming back and forth with tactical vehicles and other vehicles. And they are coming around this entire area. It could be in this area. Well check out to see where that vehicle fire was. It could also be possibly downtown somewhere. But that area is a little bit more secure than this area right now. And brian, i actually heard that philadelphia police officr was injured last night while trying to pursue a looter. What do you know . Reporter we do know that officer was struck by a vehicle. Apparently the officer came upon some looting, tried to stop it, and was run over by a vehicle trying to escape. That officer apparently suffered at least a broken arm and possibly some other injuries. We were told that one officer, possibly that same officer, is still hospitalized. A total of 13 Philadelphia Police officers or state Police Officers were injured overnight. And were told that civilians were also injured in that just chaotic scene, really, throughout the Center City Area of philadelphia last night. Brian, are you actually seeing protests today, or are these isolated incidents of people causing trouble . Reporter ana, weve seen both, pretty much. We saw a peaceful protest over by city hall before we got deployed over to this northeastern philadelphia section. Probably 200 people in front of city hall. They were reading the names of young africanamericans that have died in recent years at the hands of police. They were giving speeches and it was very peaceful. We dont have any word of what happened there after we left. We assume that everything was fine. But this area here was really where most of the trouble has been today. Its about six miles from there in the northeastern area of the city. Okay, and we did see the Fire Department move in and pear to put out the fire that was the one vehicle burning and it appears, perhaps, another vehicle has been set on fire, as well. Brian todd, we will let you go so we can track down some more information. Again, these live images coming to us out of philadelphia right now. But we have protests happening coasttocoast, and we have our reporters we also want to check in in washington. We know white house staffers were told to avoid coming into work today due to the ongoing demonstrations there. And our Miguel Marquez excuse me, our Alex Marquardt is on location there. Whats happening where you are, alex . Reporter hey, there, ana. This is Lafayette Park. What you are seeing here is a black lives matter protest. It is a demonstration that has been an entirely peaceful demonstration. In stark contrast to many of the other protests that we have seen across the country and really in stark contrast to what we saw overnight. For the past two nights here in washington, there has been a significant amount of violence that protests that have given away to violence and unrest between protesters and the police. This is a protest that started about two and a half miles away at howard university, which, of course, is one of the most famously historically black universities in the country. They marched down here over the past hour and a half, gathering steam, gathering supporters, emphasizing that this needs to be a peaceful protest. In fact, we saw organizers of this demonstration coordinating, in fact, with members of the metropolitan Police Department to make sure that it went accordingly, went peacefully. We have seen people kneeling in silence, remembering africanamerican men and women who have died at the hands of the police over the past few years. We have heard the name george floyd chanted over and over. Which, of course, goes is contrary to what we have heard the president saying ce about protests having little to do with the memory of george floyd. This is a heavily africanamerican city, almost half of it. 46 is africanamerican. Its also a unique city in this country was it is the seat of the federal government. It is the home right there of the president of the United States of america and what is clear right now, being out here with these demonstrators, is that they have not heard what they want from the president of the United States. In fact, just yesterday, early in the morning, he started tweeting about, if demonstrators got too close to the white house, that they would be met with vicious dogs and ominous weapons. Obviously, those references conjuring up all sorts of images from the civil rights era. And that was met with fierce criticism from the mayor of washington, d. C. , who has said that the president is causing division, that here you can hear chants of donald trump has got to go. But mayor mueller bowser has all but accused the president of the United States of inciting violence. So, ana, these protests very much peaceful for now. There is a lot of anger, a lot of frustration. And on the side of Law Enforcement, there are fears that later on today, this could give way again to more violence, ana. And we can see them using their voices, lifting up their signs and making their voices heard at this hour. Lets go to minneapolis. The epicenter of the outrage where george floyd was killed. Cnns omar jiminez is following all the unrest there. Omar, minnesota Public SafetyOfficials Say officers actually had to take some ar15s off of some people last night. Give us the latest from the scene today. Well, there were a lot of arrests last night, to begin with. As part of what the governor described as an unprecedented response from Law Enforcement to try and stop what had been three nights h a row of anarchy, as state officials had described it, from prevent it to going into a fourth. They had tripled the Law Enforcement size that would be responding out in the field that night. They have the largest deployment of National Guard for the state of minnesota in its history. They cut off major highways into the city, as there were concerns that people were coming from the outside to cause some of the major damage that maybe people here were not a fan of and the people here were doing peaceful protests. So there were a lot of factors that came together to again try to prevent scenes like what you see behind me right here to continue into another night. And by all means, it seems that they were successful in that. I mean, they prioritized high to use their words, highvalue targets in places that would see a high probability of being central locations for protests. So in this particular neighborhood where were standing, that would be the fifth Police Precinct for the Minneapolis Police department. As we have seen, the third Police Precinct get lit on fire a few nights prior. And over the course of the day yesterday, our crews were here as there were peaceful protests outside that precinct and the curfew hit that was put in place by the State Government here. And there was a bit of a weird quiet space, where even people we were speaking to says its eerily quiet. Then about 50 minutes into that curfew, as people were still outside, we saw a swift reaction by Law Enforcement, as all of a sudden National Guard, state patrol, descended on that location, and without hesitation pushed these protesters back by spraying out disbursing tear gas, flash grenades, and literally, after the course of being here for more than a week is the most methodical and forceful response weve seen so far. And again, the Governors Office and more have been the fan of the peaceful protests we have seen, but they say they draw the line when we see damage and destruction, some of which like you see behind me, ana. Its just so awful to see those images behind you. Omar jiminez, thank you for your reporting. Hundreds of National Guard troops are also in los angeles today and a state of emergency for all of l. A. County is in effect. Governor gavin newsom moving to deploy the National Guard after getting asked to do so by mayor garcetti. Scores of businesses have sustained damage or have been destroyed in this weekends unrest. Cars set on fire. Stores looted. Los Angeles Police arrested nearly 400 people on saturday and our Paul Vercammen is on scene in los angeles. Paul, it looks, you know, horrible behind you. So many people are struggling already and to see, you know, the signs of destruction behind you, now were getting reports that an lapd officer was struck with a brick in the head, has a fractured skull. What more can you tell us about the scene today and what youve learned . Well, right now, where some of the worst of the fires and the looting. Youre seeing those are building and safety inspectors. Theyve come through here and theyre tagging these businesses. And this is a cluster right here on melrose avenue. Many of these Business Owners tracing their roots to the middle east. They run mom and pop family shops. And they have been not only burned out, but theyve been looted. I want to bring in evy here. He sells highquality jackets and doc martins and owns a store right behind us. Yeah, my dad owns the store. Hes an 81yearold man who has his whole livelihood in the store and they looted it and they burn everything down. He has no other income. We dont know what to do for him now. We have to maybe open some fund for him, because that was the only source of income he had. My mom passed away about three years ago and all my moms jewelry and her old clothes that my dad had connection to it was in the store. Everything is gone. Everything is stolen. I dont know. They looted it, then they burn it down. Its horrible. I dont know what to do with my dad. My dad is in a horrible situation right now. We wish him the best and i hope that works out. I think you said to me, you think youve lost about 500,000 worth of merchandise. You saw something that broke your heart. You think that you have evidence, of video, of someone breaking your window with a crowbar. Yes, i do. Its actually on youtube. And we lost very close to 500,000, because we have been on melrose only since 1989. We have had stores big and small and we have inventory from years and years and years and it was a good business. My dad was making a living. He was not becoming a millionaire, he was making a living. But now everything is gone. Everything is up in smoke. Well, we hope somehow you can recover from this. I wish you the very best. This is the scene here on melrose with all of these mom and pop shops, ana. They really got hammered by that twin devil, if you will of the fires and the looting. Back to you. Thats just a shame. Thank you very much, Paul Vercammen. And as they work to clean up there in los angeles, were seeing businesses being gutted by looters right now live in philadelphia, as weapon continue to look at these images provided by kwy, our affiliate there on the ground. And we can see, obviously, police cars are set up in one part of the city, but people are still getting in and causing destruction in different parts of the city, as we heard in brian todds report. Well continue to monitor the protests and monitor violence and looting thats happening today in this country. It is the sixth straight day of protests and rage, frankly, following the killing of george floyd. This is to all who are putting their energy into helping others. To anyone helping and caring in their own way. Thank you. Like you, were always on. Were proud to put our Energy Behind you. Southern company theyre going to be paying for this for a long time. They will, but with accident forgiveness allstate wont raise your rates just because of an accident, even if its your fault. Cut sonny. Was that good . Line the desert never lies. Isnt that what i said . No you were talking about allstate and insurance. I just. When i. Lets try again. Everybody back to one. 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These are live images now again of philadelphia, as weve been seeing violence already today, looting, vandalism. You can see police cars right there lined up. We saw a number of police cars already vandalized. Some Police Vehicles burning and weve seen local shops there being looted. I want to bring in former Boston Police commissioner, ed davis, as well as gloria brown marshall, a constitutional law professor at the John Jay College of criminal justice. She is the authority of the Voting Rights war the naacp and the ongoing struggle for justice. Commissioner davis, when you look at these images, again, several days now where we have seen what seems to be a situation spiraling out of control across the country in many places. What are your thoughts . Good afternoon, ana. Its a terrible thing to watch our country go thr