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One reporter filming the immediate aftermath of that deadly car attack found herself as target when a man approached her and punched her if the face. stop recording! that happened just two days ago. joining me now, the reporter who was attacked, the hill s taylor lorenz. first, how are you? good. yeah. what exactly happened? for those of us watching this weekend, the image, it felt like movie. it certainly didn t feel like 2017 charlottesville, virginia, home of the uva cavaliers. you tell me, what happened? sure. this was my first time in charlottesville but not my first protest by any means. it did feel different than other ones. the tensions were high. there were these two competing groups that sort of were both focused very much on each other
reporter: and she was from here. for all intents and purposes, heather heyer was a local. she wnt to an area high school. she was a paralegal here in charlottesville, and this is where she died. we re at the intersection of 4th and water streets, and as you can see, they have set up a makeshift memorial here. people have been leaving candles and flowers. you see her picture there. they of been doing this all weekend long. people writing messages on the street here, messages of love and peace. there was supposed to be a formal vigil last night at uva but it was canceled because of a credible threat according to organizers. they did not go into what the threat was. in an exclusive interview, health ears mother talked about her love for her daughter and how she s trying to cope with this loss. i m very sad, i m very, very sad, but i can t be angry because angry will make me hate, and hate only leads to more hate. and there s just no point to that.
Incident. according to a statement, they were testing artillery when one of the shells exploded p a hacker group anonymous has reportedly taken over the neo-nazi and white supremacist website the daily stormer in response to the violence in virginia over the weekend. this comes after web hosting company go daddy said it had given the daily stormer 24 hours to move their domain to another buyer. according to variety more leaks have been released from the hacking of hbo including clips of the highly new anticipated season of curb your enthusiasm. we now have have our seventh named storm of the hurricane season, tropical storm gert formed over the weekend and will likely become a category 1 hurricane over the next few days. it will pass in between the outer banks and bermuda before heading out to sea. now back to a city in pain, charlottesville, grappling with questions of security and free speech after this weekend s protests turned into deadly violence. joining me now, former