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and good morning. we begin with charlottesville, virginia, a city in mourning after this weekend s deadly violence. and here s what we know right now, especially about james fields, the man charged with plowing his vehicle into a crowd of people. he was photographed earlier in the day marching with a white supremacy group. an army spokeswoman confirms that he reported for basic training in august 2015 but was later released, and fields is due in court today facing murder and other charges. and the charlottesville woman killed in that crash was heather heyer, who worked as a paralegal. the other victims were virginia state troopers who died when their helicopter crashed as they were looking to get to the scene. mourners have been gathered in charlottesville to remember those victims and to call for peace going forward. abc s emily rau joins us now with the latest. emily, good morning. reporter: good morning, diane and kendis. the city of charlottesville is still in ....
and good morning, we begin with charlottesville, virginia, a city in mourning after this weekend s deadly violence. here s what we know right now. especially about james fields, a man charged with plowing his vehicle into ray crowd of people photographed earlier in the day marching with a white supremacy group. an army spokeswoman says he reported for basic training in august 2015 but was later released and fields is due in court today facing murder and other charges. the charlottesville woman killed in that crash was heather heyer who worked as a paralegal. the other vics were virginia state troopers who died when their helicopter crashed as they were looking to get to the scene. mourners have been gathered in charlottesville to remember those victims and to call for peace going forward. abc abc s emily rau joins us with the latest. reporter: good morning. the city of charlottesville is still in a state of emergency. the streets though are quiet this morning afte ....
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and fleetwood mac going their own way for 50 years. and the journey, it has been worth a damn. this is the cbs evening news. mason: good evening. i m anthony mason. the disturbing images have been playing over and over, white supremacists holding a torchlight march friday night at the university of virginia in charlottesville. then their violent clashes saturday with counter-protesters that left at least 16 injured. and the sickening scene when a driver plowed into the crowd, killing a young woman and injuring 19. today, two days after this domestic terror attack, and after meeting with the attorney general and the f.b.i. director, the president finally condemned the hate groups by name. racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. mason: the president took a lot of heat for failing to call out ....
courtroom is about this video from saturday where fields slammed into counterprotesters and two stopped vehicles killing one and injuring 19. the 20-year-old was arraigned in court this morning appearing via video from jail, fields looked scared and nervous. those who know him remember a child who used racial slurs and was fond of hitler. derek weimer was his high school history teacher. he loved hitler. he loved, you know the nazi movement. they were all, geniuses. you know white supremacy thing. white people were dominant. reporter: as a young teen, fields wheelchair-bound mother called 911. records show he threatened her with a 12 inch knife and on occasion hit her. fields, focus of a federal civil rights investigation, grew up in kentucky moved to ohio with his mother a year ago. released court documents show fields worked as a security officer for securitas. in 2015, fields joined the army but lasted four months due to failure to meet training standards. court ....