any big negative reaction from that crowd at this moment. there s no there s no surge toward the police in any way because of that. can you can you see any of this from where you are, amanda? yes, yes. but i was saying that that is the difficult tactic here. i think people have been openly defying the police orders. they ve been told not to go into the roadways. if they are, there will be subject to arrest. many have been crowding that in a sense. but i wouldn t say that they have ever taken an aggressive trying to taunt or become arrested. they have been trying to kind of take over the street and and they ve been there to press them back up against the barricades. so far, the people have been able to pick off folks one by one and kind of target those that they think are aggressively defying the orders to stay out
very peaceful. they circled back around and probably did a 20 block loop and came back to where they started on that 36th street if you re familiar with miami where the arts district begins and now they are starting to go home. they say they may be back on tuesday. brian andrews, i appreciate that. let s go to jason carroll who has been following a group of protesters throughout the streets of new york. jason, they left grand central terminal and how big is the group of protesters if you can give an estimate? reporter: it s still about the same number, anderson. we re now at bryant park. they staged a die-in here in front of the christmas tree and now they re starting they re going to be on the move again. something that happened a few moments ago, i ran actually into a protester who i met down in st. louis in ferguson. one of the organizers there. he said the minute he heard about what happened to eric garner, he started organizing protesters up here.
going into dry dock. that afternoon i was clarngs an undergraduate at georgetown. and i was at the foreign service school. i was walking back to the foreign service school campus and as i walked into 36th street i saw 50, 70 people in the middle of the street in front of the foreign service school building and as i got closer there was a white buick skylark convertible, top down, a mild day and tony hughes was driving it. she stopped and the radio was up and people gathered around. as i got to the edge of the crowd somebody said the president had been shot. so i went into the bar there and there was or to the diner and the last television, they were all-black and white in those days, a black and white television above the counter and that s when i heard that he was dead. dan and i had a different experience with richard nixon than you did. you ended up working for him. no one has been in the unique
way in the chelsea area about 36th street and it winds down here to the birth place of where that movement took place 44 years ago at the stonewall inn where this parade will endoup. joining in this parade to mark this week that it has been for equality for the lgbt group edie windsor who was at the center of the lawsuit that the supreme court this week said that they could receive, gay couples could receive federal benefits and gave that equality. the 84-year-old widow was at the center of that and serves as grand marshall as they march down here. a lot of significance as well as what you mentioned. weddings taking place in san francisco. since the supreme court also decided this week that they
out what they need. how are the people here doing? people are doing great. really? people are doing good. they are coming back and everybody is helping each other but, you know, i turn around and look at what happened to my house and it s nothing. you look at what is going on just in this neighborhood, where people had passed away during the storm and people didn t make it. they are still out of their house. gentleman across the street from me just moved in after six months. his house is totally redone. he had part of the boardwalk come right into his house. but there s a lot of worse things going on, but it s a great neighborhood, you know? i got an e-mail the other day from the gray beards. gentleman on 136th street, old-timer he needed stuff moved from the second floor out to the garbage. guys just show up. people just show up. it s a great neighborhood and you re a good representative of that.