>> u.s. special forces land on iraq's mt. sinjar as kurdish forces and american air strikes reportedly break the siege by islamic militants. more fire power than troops in war zones. i'm antonio mora, welcome to "consider this," those stores and more, straight ahead. >> more u.s. troops now on the ground this morning in iraq. >> dropping food and water is

not a long term solution. >> there needs to be a lasting solution that gets that population to a safe space. >> there's a lack of humanity with respect to syria because when we talk about syria we always talk about figures. >> people talking about bombing shelling, family members dying, pictures in their head they cannot get rid of. >> unrest grows in ferguson, missouri. >> unrest in the streets, at times between a swat raid and a full scale military invasion. >> we look at ourselves and say, do we have the kind of country we want to live in. >> mother nature doesn't have to have an appointment. we begin with the crisis in iraq and the increasing u.s. involvement. senior pentagon officials said, the siege of mt. sin is broken, enabling yazidis trapped on the

mountain to escape. that fold news an american team including dozens of u.s. officials, landed on mt. sinjar figuring out how to get the yazidis off the mountain. the americans left safely. supplies and a few were lifted out on iraqi military helicopters saving the yazidis from islamic state extremists, who call the yazidis devil worshipers. a number of options were being considered. >> you look at quarters, you look at air lifts, you look at i different ways to move people who are in a dangerous play on the mountain to a safer position. >> but the americans who landed on the mountain say the yazidis are fewer and in better condition than previously believed which the pentagon says makes a rescue effort less likely and in baghdad supporters of prime minister nouri al-maliki demonstrated in favor

of him staying in office. which prompted iraqis to leave, maliki said he would stay unless a court decided against him. stephen simon served as senior director of affairs at the white house, wrote about the unintended consequences of u.s. military action in northern iraq for foreign affairs. seefn good to have you with us. the u.s. actions, trying to protect the thousands of refugees on mt. sinjar. in the case of a terrible humanitarian crisis is it appropriate for the u.s. to interfere in this way? >> well, i think administration clearly sees it as its responsibility do something. the president defined the missions quite narrowly and in

fact you just described them very accurately. on the one hand to prevent genocide and he did use that word with regard to the yazidis. genocide was an important word to use because it clears away some legal obstacles to military action. and also, focuses attention on the yazidis themselves and their plight. on the other hand, the president specified protecting specific american personnel in erbil. missing from this was any mention of iraqi territorial integrity. iraqi sovereignty, support for iraqi government in baghdad. none of those issues were raised. the military mission was cast entirety in terms of humanitarian and force-protection objectives. >> but hasn't that iraqi government and the kurds been asked for american support? would it have been better for americans to -- for u.s. just

have evacuated american personnel and civilians from erbil and other iraqi areas and allow the peshmerga to fight the slucislamic state themselves? >> the peshmerga haven't fought a war in probably decades. so it's knot surprising they stumbled when they fought i.s.i.l. or whatever we want to call them this week. transferring weapons to the kurds to modernize their weapon stocks. but the fact is that erbil was not likely the fall i don't think to the jihadists, and withdrawal u.s. personnel would have been premature and probably unnecessary. >> you wrote that no matter how limited in design u.s. air

strikes will have a wide range of unintended consequences including benefiting the iraqi government by allowing what you described as a free ride, getting it -- it would get a fry free ride from the u.s. mill -- free ride from u.s. military. what do you say of other that the u.s. needs to go big or go home that the only way to influence the iraqi government is to become indispensable. >> well, you know, i don't think that the logic behind that is sound. because the revealed preferences and the actual behavior of the iraqi government has been to step back and wait for united states to do the job. the united states is not going odo the whole job, which is to say the united states will not put boots on the ground as the president was very careful to say. and a war against i.s.i.l. will ultimately require challenging that group on the ground.

you can kill a lot of them when they mass from the air. and we're already doing that. the u.s. is already doing that. but ultimately the iraqis will have to step up and do it on the ground. they've deployed small numbers to the north. the iraqi army has been active. it's worth remembering that the iraqi army is actually quite large, end strength is about 900,000. and according to a pentagon study that was described in newspaper reports a couple of weeks ago of the capabilities of the iraqi army, in the u.s. view, about a third of the army was okay. in other words, it could accomplish basic missions. >> right but large numbers but so far terribly ineffective. and you talk about the air strikes in your article and you say that they unavoidably will mark an already vulnerable

minority with the stain of american favoritism saying that the yazidis and the christian minorities would be hurt in the lock term in that way, aren't they already in dire straits facing persecution and extinction that at this point they need that help? >> oh, yeah. and in fact you know i was careful to point out in my analysis that these problems, the wunl ones i was identifyinge unintended consequences, were really tomorrow's problems. and the reality is, sometimes you have to make decisions to effect assistance even when those issues will cause problems. >> that they will most certainly unite sunnies against other sects, and complicate american

relations with saudis and emirates, but in the new york post it is written that what's happened is the creation of a common enemy of i.s. of these islamic extremists. >> you know, i think in capitals, the problem is manageable. i think that what we're seeing now, in what looks like a temporary rapprochement between the saudi and the iranians, in that the saudis and the iranians both backed al-abadi, the newly appointed iraqi prime minister, there's no doubt on the ground sunnies will be yeunded b -- yed

by the american strikes, when the u.s -- that the u.s. had been -- assemble on behalf of shiites,. >> on behalf of shiites, i'm sorry. >> complicated region. >> absolutely. when in fact the united states hasn't done anything until now to intervene on behalf of soofns who -- sunnies who were under attack in syria. i don't think these policies are easily explained and it will fuel a sense moon sunnies that somehow the united states is against them. >> again it is a terribly complicated situation. in terms of iraq suffering, we'll talk more about syria in just a few minutes. steven simon appreciate you being with us. >> thanks very much. >> now from the kurdish side, karwin sabari.

karwin good to have you with us. it looked like i.s. was threatening iraqi, now u.s. fights and the peshmerga fighters have broken the siege around mt. sinjar. are your troops gaining ground? >> absolutely, antonio. they had captured a lot of ground and had momentum going their way. they were able to gain this momentum as a result of the american army that was left behind, i'm sorry, manner arms left behind by the iraqi shooting forces, the four divisions that melted away in mosul on june 9 and 10. they were able to break through some of the peshmerga ranks and capture some of the ground. as a result of these air strikes that are taking place and we are very grateful for the united states and allied forces that are coming in and stepping up this momentum has been halted and now what we have to do is go

on the offensive and repel i.s.i.s. advances. >> talking about the allied forces one of the concerns is that the kurdish force he did not have weapons to stand up to those american weapons that had been captured by the i.s. extreme is in addition to the united states, the french are saying they are going to give arms, the british are considering it and helping by transporting jordanian equipment. all this has changed and what kind of a difference has it made? >> absolutely, what has been making the difference is the air strikes, although they are limited and we have been asking for more. the plead came from when you had tens of thousands of yazidi minority kurdish community that were stuck on the mt. sinjar and they couldn't get off. the babies were dying. people were dying. there was no water. there was no food. and they were stuck and stranded on that mountain and that's where the call came into.

on top of there you've had a huge influx of these i.dps headed towards kurdistan where kurdistan was inundated by refugees. there was a two way call to international community, one to come and help us repel i.s.i.s. and stop these advances and two, to come in and help us and rescue some of these stranded refugees or idps on that mountain. >> what's next in terms of kurdish needs? the u.s. is going ocontinue to provide air support but as you said before you're going ohave to win this war on the ground. >> absolutely. this is our fight. this is our land and this is our people to protect. and we are determined to taking this back and we will go on offensive as soon as the air strikes have penetrated through i.s.i.s. momentum and their gains. what will have to take place is from now on, the ground incursion has to take place

hopefully after these air strikes and that ground incursion will not be easy. it will be second phase but it will be a tough fight. the reason it will be a tough fight, i.s.i.s. now realizing the attacks are taking place, they are blending in between urban population. that will be a fight street by street and block by block. to do that antonio, what is important is we are quipped the right way. i.s.i.s. has tanks and nonpiercing humvees. we need to be quipped just as well or better to be able to repel some of these advances. >> the trouble of lack of arms when the u.s. military left iraq. what about your relationship to thing iraqi central government? it was supposed to provide arms all along to the forces but

maliki hasn't provided them. >> you're right, antonio. there was about $200 million worth of equipment meant for kurdish force he. that was never delivered and held hostage by maliki the outgoing prime minister. with that, the kurdish could have defended and stood their ground and made sure i.s.i.s. would not gain so much ground as they have gained. allied forces the friends from the united states and from europe will be stepping up their efforts both in terms of aid humanitarian aid and as well as security aid to push back on i.s.i.s. advances. >> carlos zabari thank you for bringing the perspective from iraq. joining us from washington, d.c.

promising announcement from egyptian and palestinian sources, that the ceasefire would stepped for another five days. but the israelis responded by more advances. nick schifrin, good to see you. five more days of peace look pretty good. is this just an isolated flareup? >> it looks like that and antonio i think it's important to understand the context of these particular strikes because of their targets. before the war as you and i talked about so many rockets fired from gaza into israel, hit on open field. and israel in return, hit open fields. that's exactly what happened again right around midnight, as this ceasefire was being announced, rocket fire from gaza

landed in open fields. the response was into open fields and despite the violence the ceasefire appears to be holding. the one thing it ds also show though is it doesn't show hamas with total control over some forces. that is difficult over the long term peace but it does seem that the palestinian factions have quieted down and the ceasefire is holding. >> are they making progress on the peace talks in cairo? >> one israeli source put it this way a couple of hours ago, the two sides are light years apart. but israel wants to completely demilitarize gaza, that's not going to happen. what hamas wants is complete opening of the blockade, and opening of sea and airports, that's not going to happen. what they will get to is

hopefully some kind of compromise so both sides can hopefully go back to their respective rather consistental populations to say, this war was not for nought and we got this and this and this out of these negotiation is and that's the goal now. the idea behind the five days which is the longest ceasefire that we've had is give the parties some breathing space. if you give the parties five days give the intermediaries, five days, the hope is that they can come to some kind of extended truce or one year or six months or some kind of truce that they can get to that they can say okay, this is the end of this war. of course both sides basically admitting that the long term truce the kind of status agreement if you will is way too difficult to discuss now and so all they're going otry and do is create some kind -- to try to do is create some kind of truce so this war can end. >> nick schifrin, from

jerusalem, thank you. now for more stories around the world. we begin in brazil where eduardo campos, the socialist presidential candidate died in a plane crash. he was flying on board a private cessna where the pilot aborted due to poor weather. coomplecampos was in third place polls and his death has thrown the election into the air. next we head to ukraine where the months-long conflict between ukrainian forces and pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine continues to escalate. conservative estimates put the death toll at almost 2100 with 5,000 injured. this comes a day after russia dispatched a convey to eastern ukraine stroking fears in kiev

of trojan horse type attack which russia has denied. the trucks are currently waiting at a russian air base several hours away. we end with the severe weather that has left many areas of the u.s. struggling to recover. flash flood crashed through a wall of windows. record rainfall on long island brought more than 13 inches of rainfall in two hours, heavy rains and flood spread from baltimore to detroit, causing significant damage through region. and that's some of what's happening around the world. coming up we'll look at the conflict in syria through eyes of doctors without borders. hillary clinton backs off her criticism of president obama's foreign policy just before the two get together at ohigh powered party. the tight rope she'll have to

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tents. doctors without borders is calling attention to the suffering in syria and in refugee gamples i -- camps in neighboring countries. >> it is what the patient needs now, not tomorrow. not another week. >> for more i am joined in new york by tara newell, doctors without borders. the reach of war videos are very, very valuable. they are touching, throwing the extent of the suffering, they show the work that your dorks do in those war torn areas. the message you're trying to get out is that there's simply no way with these numbers and the numbers are horrible of the deaths and displaced. >> staggering. >> there's no way of understanding the magnitude of what's happening. >> the data is staggering and i think that's something that gets

reported in the media often. but what gets lost is the human face to the whole conflict. and it's so easy going into the fourth year now of this conflict to be desensitized if you will to the whole thing. and i think a big part of what we're trying to do and trying to say, there's such a human element to it that people just perhaps need to understand. and what i'll equate it to, i've come back myself from being there a year trying oexplain to my family how these are developed normal people, people like you and me who sent their children to school with a spiderman backpack, flat screen tv in their homes and suddenly the whole bottom has fallen out for them. suddenly you have no longer access to health care. you and i take for granted that we can go into any hospital and get care, no care is available and your children are dying of preventible things that would have been unheard of prior to

the conflict. >> doctors have had to set up clinics in chicken farms, in caves, under crazy circumstances. the syrian government isn't even allowing them under their territory, i know you are in parts of syria where syrian government isn't control. but what about the doctors, the savagery of i.s. group too. >> access is so limited in this country because of the insecurity most particularly. as you say we've had to be creative with delivery of our program for that reason and we've had to juggle at all times the beneficiaries that we serve, not just our ex-patriot staff but all of the doctors on staff. what i've seen here this whole year is an absolute disregard for humanitarian principles which is very difficult for us. i've worked in many contexts

around the world where at least ambulances and doctors were respected but not in syria. >> lebanon, iraq, jordan, working, helping people, let's take a look at one of your doctors, what he had to say a trauma surgeon in jordan. >> we have three new cases coming. three of them kids. >> some of these doctors are working around the clock. this doctor, dr. alwash was a refugee himself. how many people are there like him in your group who come to it because of their personal experiences? >> we have so many. we have so many people working for us. i mean ex-patriot staff as well as national staff some of which as you mention are in fact refugees themselves.

it's extraordinary how many people are willing to put it out there and risk their lives. you are compelled to help and these people are so so -- >> there is so much need and so much suffering from little kids to old people, across the board and these refugee camps are cities, there are some places that have more than 100,000 people. let's play one more piece from reach of war, a psychotherapist working in northern iraq. >> if you say, you can stay here for another month and go home, people can cope easily. but nobody can tell them when they can leave the camp or if they can go back. >> it's not just the physical suffering it's the psychological suffering. what does that do to their psyche?

>> to be honest, these are people who were normal people living normal lives when everything fell out. so the psychological trauma is enormous and during the time i was there the number of psychological patients that we saw and the severity of it became greater and greater as we went on. as i say they've lost people, no longer have a place to go, they don't see an end in sight, i don't see an end in sight. when is this going to end, when will this nightmare end and i think it's going to be impossible to live with. >> what can we do to help, what can people do to help doctors without borders? let's listen to a young girl who lost both her legs, lost her mother. it's horrifying the need for people there, what can people do for doctors without borders? >> the first thing we want to happen is for people the understand what's happening, for

people to be actually compassionate and see the human side of it. the things we do is to witness what we see and share with other people and that in and of itself is very important to us. other than that of course being able to support cross-border supply of goods, you know, the united nations making an effort to try and get supplies in and the international community really needs to speak up about this. it's very underwhelming the international reaction, the need for humanitarian access to these populations that are so much in need. >> very important points tara o'neil. thanks. >> the american foreign policy has landed form he secretary of state hillary clinton in hot water. she apologized and said she plans to hug it out with

president obama on a dinner on saturday. implying president obama's foreign policy was weak, she also said great nations need organizing principles and don't do stupid stuff is not one. president obama's former advisor david axelrod, shot back, don't do stupid stuff like occupying iraq in the first place was a tragically bad decision. referring to hurl clinton's vote -- hillar hillary clinton'e in favor of the war. a clinton's spokeman's, comment, pretty much blamed the president for the rapid growth of the

islamic state extremists. do you think the comments were an intentional move on her part to distance herself were atrocious? >> she's ostensibly running for president. and to distance irs, it happens with popular administrations, ronald reagan was a pretty popular president when he left office, it always happens, you'll see with secretary clinton is that she -- i wouldn't say that she was walking all over or blaming obama there. she's saying there's nothing doctrinal about his foreign policy and maybe it needs to be a little more organized and i'm sure everything will be fine. there are not allot of people going to the polls because of syria. >> but the i.s.i.s, the islamic state developments are certainly worrying a lot of people in the

u.s. >> for sure. >> and the clinton people knew the comments were going to be an issue. they warned the white house. so if they weren't intentional, could that be a sign that she's gaff-prone which is something that's come up since she started her book tour when she goes off-script? >> there isn't anyone who's better prepared to run than hillary clinton. i didn't mean to brush it off as nobody goes to the polls on syria, you made a good point. the issue of syria itself is sort of safe haven for picking on the president because indecision is always easy to go after and there was great indecision on the part of the administration but it doesn't speak to -- >> but she also went after that guiding principle about don't do stupid stuff. >> exactly. what i'm saying. there is a point here that she's making is you have to have an organized foreign policy. i do know she's appreciative of the fact that there's an

unprecedented level of activity that's happened under this administration which no one had ever anticipated or had to deal with when you look at the arab spring and the uprising of civil war in syria. i'm not defending by any means anything that the administration did but i do think that this is what happens. this is where you start seeing the divide go wider. should hillary clinton decide not to run for president acknowledge joe biden is going to find it more difficult to distance himself from president obama. >> not playing well with the democratic base either, could that hurt her if she has a serious where primary challenge? >> it's august of 2014. she won't be a candidate for president no. the beginning of 2015 but then going into 2016 when there are going to be primaries. there are going to be so many things about what he should had

to say -- what she had to say about the syria policy, this is something when congress is out and there isn't much to talk about it is intriguing, the palace whispers are always intriguing but not that much at the end of the day. she going to have to distance herself, go against something she didn't like about the president's foreign policy. >> that's 2016. what about 2018? obamacare center stages, now form e-foreign policy could it become a bigger deal? >> well, it's hard to say how that affects senate elections, when you look at these mid term elections foreign policy doesn't generally play into them as much but again, you're right, people are talk about that more than obamacare, that helps the democrats in a weird way. you see some odd numbers out of

kansas where pat roberts is trying to keep his seat and now is being chased by a democrat. he was being chased by a tea party republican there. it is about issues having nothing to do with foreign policy. if it becomes a wave and an issue where everybody is jumping over the president on foreign policy yes, i think there are a bunch of state races for senate and the things that are going to be determined in congress not foreign policy. >> thank you for being with us. >> antonio, thanks. the killing of an unarmed teen in st. louis and the days of rioting that fold bring to rise the issue of militarized civilians in america. the growing debate over salary transparency.

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>> the justice department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the fatal police shooting of unarmed missouri teenager michael brown and the man who says he was with brown when the shots were fired gave his side of what happened. >> he said he was unarmed. and before he could get out a response the officer let out seven rounds. >> the officer involved in the shooting has not been named. jackson offered new details to back up the claim that brown fought with the officer. >> his face was swollen, so he's owbled beeobviously been hit orr simg like that. >> journeying us from jengz,

missouri, is al jazeera correspondent ash-har quraishi. the police chief is calling for calm, you're at the mobile command center. what's the latest and what's the atmosphere like? >> reporter: well one of the things the ferguson police chief said today he was hoping that demonstrators would restrict their activities to day light hours, to prevent some of the unrest over the last three nights and right now we understand there's a large contingent of police officers trying to get people to disperse. the area was cordoned after dark and you can't get into ferguson unless you have residence there and they're checkin checking ch. it's a checkpoint antonio. >> there are concerns tonight? >> reporter: yes, there are. we've seen numbers diminish over days.

but st. louis police chief says his officers are working 24 hour shifts and no time off. protesting overnight, dozens of police officers racing towards a scene of one of the shootings, where some of those demonstration took place. we're here at the mobile command center and you see a large contingency joining together with ferguson police department as well as the county to help deal with the unrest that they've been seeing here over the last few days, antonio. >> al jazeera's ash-har quraishi in jennings, missouri, thank you very much. >> joining us, author of the book rise of the warrior cop, glad to have you back on the show radley. we don't mean to imply that what happened to michael brown was directly connected to the

militarization of police, but sometimes violent protests in ferguson has been shock because swat teams could be mistaken for military units in a war zone. do police need this kind of equipment to react to something like we've seen there? >> well, i mean this kind of force is you know appropriate when you're responding to a very specific situation. so there were reports of looting, rioting in a particular area, then maybe a swat team is appropriate. you know the idea behind a swat team is to use overwhelming force and violence to defuse an already violent situation. what we're seeing in ferguson and other cities after a crisis like this is kind of a mass suppression or saturation of entire towns and neighborhoods. some of the photos we've seen, people being accosted in those photos are not in the process of a crime, they're being stopped and searched and patted down. that is not -- these are not

images we would normally associate with a free society, this looks more like martial law. >> the aclu issued a report that looked at how the u.s. military transfers military grade equipment from war fighter to crime fighter. in 1990 the military only gave about $1 million of equipment through that program but by last year it distributed $450 million. some numbers say that there are 50,000 swat operations a year, almost 140 a day, some counties have them every day. the concern is they are increasingly used to conduct ordinary police work? >> they are and in fact that is case in st. louis county. just a couple of years ago there was a swat raid in st. louis county to serve an administrative warrant for a white collar crime and some

neighbors complained to the local media and the media asked the st. louis police department why this show of force and the police department answered that every single police has served the county regardless of the crime. st. louis county is the county that has come in to ferguson and however you want to look at it imposing order or martial law. the images you are seeing is mostly of st. louis county troops, ferguson is in st. louis county. the kind of force reserved for emergency situations is spread all over the country and it has now become the default use of force in far too many situations. >> but on the other hand we've seen terrible situations where police have gone to serve an rather wasn't at the house and they end -- warrant at the house

and end up being killed. this type of situation, the rioting and serious violence don't we want police heavily armed? because sometimes criminals are more heavily armed than police. >> what we want is police to respond with an appropriate amount of force. and you know locking down an entire neighborhood or an entire town because of rioting or looting, you know, basically, is punishing all the residents of that town for the actions of a few people. you know, yes it's true that in some case he police have been killed serving search warrants. but you know, if the police are looking for a felon, if they are looking for somebody who's suspected of very serious violence crimes then perhaps this force is appropriate. but the majorities of swat raids are are to serve people who are suspected of relatively low level drug crimes. the argument could be made that

people who shoot at police believe they are being robbed by otherrers drug dealers. yes, we do want police to use the amount of force they need to protected themselves and the community. what we are seeing with the residents of ferguson, is the police are more scared of them than they are the of the people rioting and looting. that is the problem. >> thanks for giving us your perspective. >> thanks for having me on. >> coming up, do you know how much your co-workers make? would that make a difference in the workplace? plus, the increase ever more people having babies. our data dive is next.

>> today's data dive looks at the relationship between marriage and parenthood. after decades of growth and the number of children born outside of marriage, the cdc says the number has gone down. 1.6 million were born last year, 2 in 5 of all baby delivers, the lowest since 2005.

lower than 1980 and 18 times higher than 1940. the decrease of out of wedlock babies is across ethnicities. also saw the largest drop in hispanic mothers, 28% fewer than in 2007. black mothers saw an 8% difference and nonhis pack in white mothers 6%. the cdc says drop in teen birth rates. ironically, there's been an increase in cohabiting parents. cohabitation has become the norm for couples. the council for contemporary families, reports that nearly two-thirds of all new marriages involve people who have lived together for more than two and a half years. that number has shot up 900% since 1950. another sign of a changing american society.

coming up: would your workplace be improved if everyone knew what all their co-workers made? the tricky subject of salary transparency. next. weeing like many other >> hi everyone i'm john siegenthaler in new york. breaking news from suburban st. louis. police are clark with protesters in the town of ferguson after a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager to death. patricia vines a democratic committee woman for ferguson township. patricia what can you tell us about what's going on right now? >> hi john. right now i don't know if you can hear the are heading, comes in and goes out. a helicopter going around the area with a search light. a few minutes ago it was filled with smoke bottoms flares, people running, throwing

canisters back at the police, throwing rocks and really tense situation. >> the associated press is reporting that molotov cocktails were thrown at police and police responded with tear gas. we're told by reporter on the scene rubber bullets were being fired. has the situation called since then or is it still going on right now? >> well, i haven't heard any explosions or anything like that. and i haven't -- i was not able to see all of what happened. but around it's a lot quieter right now. i haven't heard anything but it's been crazy. safety first, and it's not like the police didn't -- you know tell people what we were doing. we saw the armored trucks advance and the snipers and stuff had -- sniper position had been pointed and just plain view all day long during the day. so we already knew that there

were people on top of these trucks and like aiming guns already out at the crowd. but yes rubber bullets. there was also tear gas last night put on protesters and the night before that. when we come out here, we know there is tear gas, and efforts prohave masks or tie their shirts around their faces. medical masks. we already know this is going to end in some type of way like tear gas. so everyone comes prepared. >> the video has some remnants of smoke and tear gas being thrown at protesters. i know patricia that police had asked all people who resembled to do so with respect.

what happened tonight? >> well, you always have a couple of what i call them knuckle heads. especially with extremely tense situation like this. you know, this mike brown situation is horrible. the community is outraged. and when it comes the mike brown we're talking about an 18-year-old who was shot. he was unarmed. multiple times. he was shot in the head. no ambulance was called for him and his body was left in the middle of the street in the apartment complex for four and a half hours. the community is frustrated, anybody out here could have been mike brown. especially with a history of race relations in this area and the community. and that's what you see bubbling up and it's not getting any better. they don't want to release the name of the officer which would help other people be able to come forward to see if they received harassment from this man. you know, i don't know maybe it would be good to arrest him and put the officer in police

custody. if they are concerned about the officer, officer's safety. they don't want to release the autopsy report. the community is outraged on looks like the coverup of what actually happened is starting to take place. i hear several people ask me is it going to get better, no i don't think so. it looks like the cover up is happening and that is really ticking people off. >> are you suggesting the show of force by police is in part responsible for this? >> you know this is almost like the chicken or the egg. especially as an elected official i understand the public safety issues especially since we've had looting happen. but you know, i don't know which one starts the other. so i -- i don't know. you know. there are public safety concerns. and we have to be ready. but do i think these tanks and people in military gear aand armed -- armed cars and snipers sitting on top of these trucks

you are asking for a situation and clearly i don't think that these protesters, they're not intimidated if that's what they're trying to do. i don't know. there was even an occasio occasn where -- i don't know. >> are community leaders asking for peace, asking for calm, trying to calm the situation -- >> yes, yes. >> or do you think there's not are elected officials trying to stop this? >> including me on one of them i understand the police side i understand the protesters side trying to calm the people down but in this situation you're going to be unsuccessful all the time. i come out here and there are other elected officials that come out here we are on the ground. i don't want people to think there aren't any elected officials out here on the ground with our community. because i'm going to stand with my community.

i'm outraged about what happened to mike brown. and i want to make sure that we get justice done. i'm not interested in this vigilante justice with the looting and the rioting. >> patricia -- >> you need eyes and ears on the ground to know what happened. >> patricia, if you hear anything else, we'd like to hear what happened. thank you very much for the time. ash-har quraishi is live in ferguson. i know you've had a tense night. can you describe what happened? >> reporter: we were actually, the crew and i my producer and i were standing life to do a report, when we saw people running towards us. we were about a mile from where these protests have taken place. police threw tear gas canisters, we got hit with a tear gas canister, we heard bang flash

grenades, and the demonstrations had been largely peaceful. what exactly triggered this need to disperse the crowd with this kind of force it's unclear at this point. we just know that at one point they fired what appeared to be rubber bullets, possibly rubber pellets in our direction, i just dodged one of those and as we ran further into the neighborhood more people coming out from the areas of ferguson trying to find shelter trying to get away from the tear gas and some of the armored vehicles trying the come up the street as well with flood lights, warning. and officers fired more tear gas on the residential neighborhood otry disperse the crowds. we got connected up in it and still feeling the effects of the tear gas. >> are you in a safe position right now ash-har? >> we are. able to go back with the swat team and quickly gather up our

equipment load it up and we've now gotten away to an area where we are safe john. >> again, watching pictures some of them live some recently on videotape of the situation in ferguson, missouri tonight. we're tracking breaking news tonight from suburban st. louis. right now police are clark with protestors. gathering -- are clashing with protesters. there are reports that protesters fired molotov cocktails with police. at police. ash-har can you see much, do you still smell tear gas? >>