Beginning, right in the middle of it, laura. Right, dan, well, things have changed considerably, since last time we talked. Lets show you some of whats going on right now, first of all, im standing near the first floor here of the asu Student Union. These are the broken windows things started to turn around 1k6 00 tonight, when the protesters began firing firew k fireworks actually at police. At that bone the we knew things had changed dramatically from there. They actually set a fire to a generator light stand that was set up, a generator for the purpose of trying to illuminate the protests that were definitely expected tonight. When this man was set to speak. At that point things again continued to turn, there was a big fire, the light stand went up, and at different times in the evening, we saw fights, skirmishes, within this crowd at one point the official estimate was that this crowd had grown to Something Like 1500 individuals. We would say the core of the protesters at the core, were probably 2 or 300. The rest of the folks it seemed were pretty much spectators observing. At one point we saw one young man get hurt, his head was cut. We saw another woman who appeared to be injured or hurt by the pepper spray. There was a lot of damage, at least to this Martin Luther kin Student Union building, as the evening progressed, we saw some demonstrators grab the metal barricades and throw them through the windows, shattering them through the windows. The actual speech, the event was supposed to take place on the second floor of this building. As for the police response, the primary response was from the uc berkeley, university of California Police department. Their tactics it seemed throughout the evening were to kind of hang back for the most part, they stayed up on the second story balcony. We saw them point to individuals in the crowned, they were identifying what they thought were instigators in the crowd. At one point they came out of the building, on the ground floor, and then carried him back into the building. We also saw at different Points Police on the second floor up on the balcony, they would come out periodically, and they would give disbursal orders, however, we did not at any point have those orders escalate to tear gas as far as we know, being propelled into the crowd. There were some irritants in the crowd as we noticed, but im not sure at this point. I guess well learn later if those were irritants that were fired off or dispersed by the police. As opposed to maybe pepper spray. Lets come back here live, and we can show you whats happening as we speak, we are again just right outside the Martin Luther king Student Union building, theres a large contingent of police, they have formed a skirmish line out here outside of the building. Just in the same area where we saw so much activity earlier tonight. And as you can see, i think in our picture to the left is the remains of the remnants of the light stand that was burned throughout the evening. At this point the protesters themselves have almost completely dispersed were seeing a few people out here, maybe a couple dozen, most of them kind of coming up to see what the seen looks like, now, that most of the people have moved on. At this point i dont know of any arrests, i guess well find out from the police later. We did not see any arrests. Except for the one or two individuals that were plucked from the crowd by the police, in terms of injuries for the most part, what we saw, looked pretty minor, maybe two or three individuals. But again, well get the official numbers from the Police Department im sure as the night develops. Live at uc berkeley, laura anthony, abc 7 news. Lets take you out to a live picture now, from sky 7 where protesters are at the Downtown Berkeley bart station, we understand some windows have been broken, some of the may hem by this Smaller Group of protesters continues. Now, yiannopoulous went on Facebook Live after he was evacuated from the cal campus, slamming leftist protesters for not allowing him to speak. Heres what he said about the police response. The Police Presence, they dont seem to be particularly aggressive this evening, thats something i witnessed and my security detail witnessed too. I was evacuated at the first sign of trouble, trouble did get a lot worse after i did leave. This event may have never got off the ground. It seems as though the university and police didnt want it to happen. Heres a quick time line of tonights events, just after 5 30, the crowd started to form in front of sproul plaza. The demonstration quickly turned violent. At 6 01, you can see someone throwing up fireworks toward police on the balcony. A minute later, demonstrators broke down the barriers and stormed the Martin Luther king Student Union building. They set a diesel generator completely on fire. Police issued numerous disbursal orders. Protesters stayed, defying their orders. At 7 25, can you see police carrying an injured person inside the building. And a short time later, you can see medical personnel treating someone outside by an ambulance. Heres a live picture of whats happening right now. You can see protesters again, some of those not exactly barricades, but you know those construction signs. Saw horses or whatever they are . Yeah, theyre in the middle of the street there, you can see some people have some signs in their hands, that theyve obviously taken down, windows are being broken. As we speak, somewhere along the way, lefthand side, somebody is banging on the window with something, breaking it. You see broken glass there. The chase bank. Thats where somebody is, breaking. So there are some people out there causing some trouble. Even though a large part of the protesters over at sprout plaza werent causing any trouble. They were just hanging out, chanting and dancing to music. Look at all the damage. Inside the chase bank building, messing things up. Now they just causing destruction. Now its breaking and entering, now that theyre inside the building like that. Causing destruction. Were going to stay with this a few minutes to see what happens. This is something i cant imagine the police wont react to, inside the building. And these. We notice theyre wearing black outfits, hoods and masks, these almost certainly are professional protesters, not that they get paid, but they do this around the country. This is just what they do. Who knows if a single one of those breaking into the building even know why the protest happened tonight, specifically, theyre there. They showed up really at the last minute before the as the protests got underway, they came in at the last minute, some of the ones with masks on, thats when the demonstration really started to escalate. But now, can we see anybody in the bank . They were in there briefly. That just happens at night. Yeah, they were in there briefly, i dont know if they thought better of it, and decided they better get out of there. Somebody had a poll or something and was just wailing on the glass of the side of the chase bank there. Breaking in, and people got in, and were causing some destruction. This is near shaddock avenue as we take a live look at the scene. This all started. Earlier this evening because Milo Yiannopoulous was scheduled to be speaking. Because of the protests and the damage that was caused, they cancelled that, his speech tomorrow at ucla has also been cancel cancelled. Theres some trash in the streets, i wouldnt be surprised to see that on fire at some point. Theres a person stopped wait ing you can see its all broken through. Berkeley officials are talking now. Lets listen in. Prime objective for policing on the College Campus is protecting the safety and well being of the students. What was the extent of what was the Police Presence that was here tonight. We had university of California Police officers throughout the system, nine of the ten campuses donated or gave us officers to use for this event. So we would have sufficient officers on hand who understood what our priorities are with campus police. About how many in total . Im not going to give out the numbers that we had here. Once the we saw the extent of the damage and the tactics that were being used by the agitators, we made a call to the county the security costs, we spoke with berkeley representatives and we were told that an anonymous donor covered for security, but we were getting unverified reports. Let me talk about this for a second. This is its been consistently misreported. Every student group. Assessed basic security costs, that are derived from neutral criteria, nothing to do with anticipated protests, the kwon tent of the perspective of the speaker. Thats forbidden by law. The Berkeley College republicans were assessed a standard fee. Let me give you an example, different venue, larger crowd, a few years back, the dalai lama came. The group that sponsored him, 24,000 in security costs, they had a large venue. Any additional security costs that would be driven by the professional assessment, the Police Departments professional assessment of security needs in the context of anticipated protests, those costs must be bourne by the campus, and they will exceed by multiple orders of magnitude those basic security costs that the Berkeley College republicans had to assume which were covered by a benefactor. The Berkeley College republicans had this event cancelled and we are not going to assess a security cost to them for a failed event. So in other words, theyre not going to be required to pay anything . They didnt have to put down that 7,000 earlier . No. It would have been a build event and we will not be billing them. I told the Berkeley College republicans that before i left the building. There have been erroneous reports that they are somehow going to be held liable for the damages, that is categorically false. Zbh at what point did you decide you had to abandon ship, had you to cancel the event. Once we heard the commercial grade fireworks we knew the amazon windows had been broken, we realized it was too dangerous to let this event go forward, thats when we told mr. Yiannopoulous he had to leave, we had to get him out. Was he on campus at that point in the. He was in the venue preparing for his talk. What do you say to people who are wondering right now what happened tonight, what would you say to them. Say, for example, theyre hesitant to have these events because of what had happened tonight. Any time we have a controversial speaker, there are people who stand on both sides of that, some that are supporting it, some who are not. This campus is well known for its free speech stance. No group should hesitate to have an event here out of fear. And thats what were here for, were here to do our best, to act professionally, and to make sure that events for our students occur safely. And that they are able to have them i would tell any group, come and sit down with us, let us assess what the situation might be, make an educated decision on whether you want to go forward or not. Can you talk about the strategy that was used by your Police Department. I mean, you had a show of force to some extent, but then for the most part, they stayed up on the second balcony, there were a lot of disbursal orders given, what was the tactic you were trying to employ. I dont want to get into specific tactics, our officers were out in front of the building and watching the crowd and with the crowd. You may have seen a few on the balcony. Most of them were actually on the stair line and inside the building for use if it was necessary. They did come out at some point, but we had to retreat into the building for our officer safety as well as for the safety of others inside the building. Was it the desire to wait out these folks. Our strategy is to issue disbursal orders and try to get compliance with that. When the disbursal orders were being issued, we were waiting for mutual aid to come, we knew we were going to need that extra line of officers to move people off the campus and disburse the crowd. And that was a good thing, that was a good thing, because we were able to move quietly, patiently to get them off the campus. Can you talk a little bit about how you got him out of the building . Quickly. No, i cant weapon we moved him as quickly as possible. I dont think anyone saw him enter or leave. Is there an underground tunnel . There are multiple exits into the facility. At the height of the crowd, how many people were there . I think at one point we estimated 1500. And we estimated the group of agitators was about 150 in number, 100 to 150. Do you think those agitators were students . My initial assessment of that is no. Do you think any were from berkeley . I dont know that for a fact, i know that as dan explained earlier, they showed up almost in uniform totally through from masking to their clothing, it was a very practiced group that came in. Their referred to them as the black block. I was there actually in the crowd when they arrived, it took even the people in the crowd by surprise. They were covered head to toe in black. Many of them were carrying packages or what looked like weapons, im not talking about firearms, but sticks and other sorts of devices that they had. They came in in paramilitary fashion, they were marching. They seemed to be well rehearsed and highly disciplined and highly dangerous. Weve been listening in to a live News Conference on what was happening at uc berkeley and the protests, and getting yiannopoulous out of there. They were saying about 100 to 150 agitators in the crowd of 1500. Its hard to know for sure. What you just heard them say there is, she doesnt believe that the 150 or so agitators were students in all likelihood. Just people who came from elsewhere who do this often. Wayne freedman has that part of the story, you spoke with one of the Ticket Holders . There are sub plots within the plots. We had argument over the suppression of free speech. People who were here to protest the speech, and people who were here to protest the protesters against free speech. Lets double back and show you aa little video and well show you what happened. The crowd gathered early and left only after Uc Berkeley Police threatened to arrest anyone who remained. As to what happened in between, there may have been 400 active protesters and 3,000 people looking on. Some of them came hoping to hear the speech. Heres part of the discussion with keira row bless who wore a red hat in the crowd. Im looking to make a statement by being here, i think the protesters are doing the same. For the ones that are doing it nonviolently, its a very rare thing in deed. Thank you. Are you surprised . Maam . She was not the oy person to be attacked here tonight. I hope i dont have a broken nose over this. All im talking about is the first amendment, i think its fundamental to our society. When we caught up with keira a few moments later, she wanted to find the man that did attacker, she was dismayed that with an opinion in this country, the place where free speech was founded that she could not appear without fear of being attacked. Joe expressed the same sentiments, we dont know his condition tonight. His nose continued to bleed as long as he talked to us. Both of them were dismayed by the way things turned out. Live at uc berkeley, wayne freedma tomorrows the day well play something besides video games. Every day is a gift. Especially for people with Heart Failure. But today theres entresto. A breakthrough medicine that can help make more tomorrows possible. Tomorrow, i want to see teddy bait his first hook. In the largest Heart Failure study ever, entresto was proven to help more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading Heart Failure medicine. Women who are pregnant must not take entresto. It can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. 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On the storm impact scale while many of us are sleeping, its going to be a moderate storm, isolated downpoors along with the winds picking up in the morning. Midday and into the afternoon, were dodging drops, there is a chance of thunder, but a slight chance at that. Future weather as we go. 3 00 in the morning, here comes that heavier line of rain moving through. While many of us are sleeping, it moves through pretty quickly, as the thursday morning commute gets under way, we will be having rain to contend with. Get you through your commute with alexis smith our traffic reporter, by 4 00 in the afternoon, its not widespread activity. Were unsettled throughout the day. And then into early friday, another wave of moisture moves in. More downpours will be developing in the Early Morning hours, that will lead to another unsettled afternoon friday, and friday afternoon too, there is a chance of an isolated thundershower popping up. 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