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They have been without water or any help for a couple days, ever since the storm hit. they say they have been on their own. i was in one neighborhood where the power kicked back on. crews are working as fast as they can. work started today and it s going to take patients and there s no way around it. they say the deadline to get the lights on will be next friday, the 22nd. neil: as far as people coming back, have many opted to do so? are some still waiting? it looks like the roads are clear, by and large. the debris has been cleared off the major roadway. we saw front end loaders and garbage pickers working on the street today. we saw the crews out there working with the lines. by and large, mostly the trailer homes are the only things i ve seen that are uninhabitable because they are flimsy and they took a beating from the window. a lot of roofs peeled off. neil: thank you, mike tobin in naples, florida. they are adding up the costs and what effect this will have, even on tax cu ....
Getting a better picture of the turnout there. it seems to be pretty lopsided. reporter: kelly, some remarkable numbers just released by the police department here, as many as 40,000 protesters out on the street today, dwarfing expectations. it appeared at least 39,900 were on the side of those counter-demonstrators. fewer than 100 on side of the far-right, free speech demonstrators. it was a largely mixed crowd out on the streets today. they marched about two and a half miles from roxbury to the boston common. it was a mixed crowd of men, women, old and young, a lot of people with their families as well. i can tell you the mood, there was a lot of chanting, some swearing but also a lot of celebratory chants as well. as far as property damage goes, it was minimal. there were, according to police, some troublemakers in the group, some urine bottles were thrown at police. 33 arrests made overall, most of that for disorderly conduct, ....
Is they do not want to see any kind of reputation of what we saw in charlottesville. so, the police are out in full force, hundreds of police there, on the street today. dr. alveda king, whose father and uncle, martin luther king, jr. advocated for peaceful protest, joins me right now. obviously, dr. king, we want to see peaceful protest here, but when you have that many people, with it seems an agenda, do you run some risks? absolutely, trish. the risks are there, but, remember, the prayer is there, also. now, in the 20th century, i m 67 years old and i ve marched and went to jail, i was arrested, faced bombs and brutality, but i was trained in nonviolent peaceful conflict resolution by my dad, my uncle martin luther king, jr., my granddaddy, in our legacy we know you must have ....
Getting a better picture of the turnout there. it seems to be pretty lopsided. reporter: kelly, some remarkable numbers just released by the police department here, as many as 40,000 protesters out on the street today, dwarfing expectations. it appeared at least 39,900 were on the side of those counter-demonstrators. fewer than 100 on side of the far-right, free speech demonstrators. it was a largely mixed crowd out on the streets today. they marched about two and a half miles from roxbury to the boston common. it was a mixed crowd of men, women, old and young, a lot of people with their families as well. i can tell you the mood, there was a lot of chanting, some swearing but also a lot of celebratory chants as well. as far as property damage goes, it was minimal. there were, according to police, some troublemakers in the group, some urine bottles were thrown at police. 33 arrests made overall, most of that for disorderly conduct, ....
thank you, sir. thank you, mr. president. okay. thank you very much, everybody. mr. president a number of the white nationalists do you want the support of these white nationalists groups who say they support you, mr. president? mr. president, have you denounced them strongly enough? a car plowed into a group of people. would you call that terrorism, sir? pretty striking to see. we just heard the question, mr. president, do you denounce the support of these white nationalists, do you want the support of these groups out there on the street today. the president shook his head, walked off and did not address those comments, questions from reporters gathered in new jersey. we heard the president say he is closely following the violent protests in charlottesville, virginia. he called them terrible. the statement that sticks out to many people is the president of the united states said hatred and bigotry is on many sides in the united states of america, and this, of cour ....