it's not clear if it was related to the unrest around the city. baltimore's mayor said a curfew will go into effect and schools closed. freddie gray's family has been speaking in baltimore, let's listen to some of what they had to say. >> so this is a wonderful coming together tonight. and we are interested in planning a view about all of this. everyone wants to no. so now you no. now. ministers are up here. men from all walks of life. they came together to a person. they are interested in stopping

the violence and to a person. and to a person they had a stake in this a personal stake. let me ask you a question that we asked earlier tonight - how many of you know someone close to you, or yourself have been victims of police brutality. raise your hands. look all around you. look all around you that is attorney billy murphy representing the family we were listening to the attorney for the family for the gray family speaking powerfully about how all the people there are calling for an end to the violence in baltimore. adam may has been seeing some of

that violence, and is close to the center of where it happened. the governor declared a state of emergency. what is there now? >> yes, the governor imposed that state of emergency. he issued it within seconds after the request was made by the mayor of baltimore. the mayor is taking heat many wondering why he didn't request additional help sooner. we understand members of the maryland national guard are geared up and some are deployed heading into the city at this moment. >> we called everyone together in advance of the city so we were ready to engage immediately. we are going to put every available asset and man power as it takes to get this under control as quickly as it can, and maintain the state of emergency until it is put to

rest. in addition to that the governor requested law enforcement help from neighbouring states as many as 5,000 additional police officers could be sent to the area to baltimore. we are right outside a baptiste church. this is where the family and as we heard their attorney defense attorney billy murr any are speaking here now. the family very disturbed by this violence that had bren out in the city and ask that there not be protests. they asked for no activity on the streets. instead you had the violence that began at 3 o'clock blossoming in the early evening, tapered down a little. fires burning in the city looting taking place in isolated pockets and many neighbourhoods not just isolated to this area. >> we are seeing cars burning

and pictures. earlier there was a car burning near where you were. have things calmed down in your area? >> the irony is the car was burning a block from the church where the funeral was taking place, and the family asked for no violence. i'll step back there was another fire two blocks away. that appears to be out now. not as large. i can't see the mistake. there was the sound of an explosion from the fuel or food there are people that are listeninger ing. before we came to you, a -- lingering, before we came to you a person walked past with a tire iron. tomorrow you'll get assessment of the damage. you'd have to say dozens of businesses the bigger businesses that you see from

news helicopter reported but a lot of ma and pop stores around baltimore. it's a small community of neighbourhoods. they were reporting windows broken things stolen. this is a scene no one imagined would unfold it will be tremendous consequences for that neighbourhood. a lot of jobs disturbing and sad to see. more than a dozen police officers were injured in the rioting. stores have been looted. you saw the vehicles and buildings set on fire. firefighters busy especially together trying to contain a 3-alarm blaze, one that we are not sure was related to the rioting. there are different reports on that. the baltimore major said a curfew will go into curfew. schools closed tomorrow.

>> reporter: a day of remembrance. >> i promise you i'll miss you every day. >> reporter: turned violent. baltimore police faced rioters throwing bricks and rocks for hours following the furniture of freddie gray a 25-year-old black than that died after being injured in the custody of police. >> it's a corrosion of justice. we are calling for police the six of them who are at least being partially if not totally implicated to come forward and tell it all, like you tell ou citizens to do. >> reporter: only a few hours after the funeral, scenes of looting, police cruisers torched, a burning store and vandalism filled streets followed by a police response with tear gas, take downs and

arrests. >> this afternoon a group of outrageous criminals attacked our officers. now we have seven officers with injuries broken bones and an officer who is unconscious. >> reporter: the riots broke out blocks from freddie gray's funeral, spreading east and towards downtown. by dust parts of baltimore were engulfed in flame. the mayor condemned the violence. >> i'm a life-long resident of baltimore. too many spent generations building up the city for is to be destroyed by thugs who, in is senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for views night a city-wide curfew will begin and be in

effect all week. maryland's governor declared a state of emergency, activating the national guard. something he said was a last resort. >> people with the right to protest and express frustration. baltimore, city families deserve peace and safety in their communities, and these acts of violence and destruction of property cannot and will not be tolerated. >> up to 5,000 national guards men are expected to be an standby and have begun mobilizing towards baltimore. >> i would highly recommend that we all go in and take cover for the night, and actually go to sleep, and get some rest and let things settle down so that we can restore order to the city. we'll be out in massive force, and that basically means that we are going to patrol the streets and out to ensure we are

protecting property joining us on the phone is the former president of the n.a.a.c.p. and he was a 5-term congressman from maryland. it is good to have you with us. i know you were a councilman in baltimore, this is four city. i know you went out on to the streets to talk to the rioters. >> yes, i spent several hours at the funeral like a lot did with the family and when out into the neighbourhoods and it was interesting that although there was a clear call for calm and a clear sense that this was a mourning that something was going on i got to one interception and several young people came up saying "we appreciate you, but we think you ought to move away from here." i said "why?" and they said "you don't want to be here, you don't want to be hurt."

i understand that an hour later i understood what they were talking about. it almost seems in terms of social media, the protesters were more organised than the police. they knew what they wanted to do and how. they could not control the violent element that took it over making it what it is today. you made up the police. let's talk about the police response. it's been criticized. it seemed the polar opposite of the strong militarized response criticized in ferguson. is this a case of place being dammed if they do dammed if they don't. what is the response when a c.b.s. is looted and set on fire when civilian and police cars of set on fire. >> i think police have a sworn right to protect private property homes, businesses in a community, particularly when violent acts of taking place, and more so when some of those

violent acts represent themselves as arson. we don't know who is in the building, just that they are set ablaze. they have an inherent responsibility to take action. even though they may - even though they have to do it in a way that does not inflame the situation, police have been dammed if they do dammed if they don't. the issue is how much restraint is needed. at what point do you protect the people in the communities who are afraid right now, who are watching this like the world is watching it, wondering what to do in terms of their own property and it's a situation where, i think, there has to be, like most of us have been saying from the beginning, real structural change in the police department. this what we are seeing did not happen just this week. it's been boiling over for years and years and years. in 1980 there was legislation that i put in to have a review board for the police, nothing

that was tried worked or was passed. what you have is a city with pent-up anger. just final anger against the police department that paid out there 5.5 million for cases that they have lost on brutality, where they beat up pregnant women, slammed a deek job into the church, and ultimately got in court in the cases. it does not justify what is going on in any way whatsoever. these are our streets and i have been saying to many we have to keep going back into the streets. like most of us have been going. in meeting protesters where they are, telling them that this won't work. it takes, i think, the community to police itself in the situation like this where the community trust is higher than that of those in bloom former congressman, good of you to take the time to join us.

best of efforts and luck with your efforts to bring peace to the streets of baltimore. we'll head back to baltimore because police - there's the mayor of baltimore speaking. let's listen in. >> this is a horrible incident that we didn't want to see happen but we are - like i said it's happening all over the city. we work hard. >> thank you. >> reporter: do you regret the decision to allow or do you stand by your opinion to allow people to express... >> listen i will protect people's right to protest. the fact they exploit that i never said they couldn't protest. i never said we are giving people space to destroy our city. my words should not be twisted. >> reporter: that was the mayor ... we heard the major of

baltimore, stephanie raul jings blake speaking. we have the former congressman an the phone. she was referring to a controversy that has arisen. the mayor says that comments she made about police showing restraint and leaving space for protesters had been misconstrued. what do you know about that. what she believed was misconstrued was it was thought she was saying protesters should be given space to destroy things. >> destroy was the wrong word. once words leave our mouths, we can't always take them back. it was the word destroy. if she had her way, they'd take that. that's what was said. her efforts to clarify that was good, it's after the fact that the genie is out of the bottle.

while she may have been well intentioned, the way they were received is the way they were delivered. >> earlier you talked about what needed to be done from the perspective of the police. what else needs to be done. we see the flare-ups. anyone that is observing what is happening across the united states after the past year or so has to be worried. >> i hope most americans are worried. they are not isolated event. the situation with freddie gray he's number 111 in the last year or so. when you multiple it across the country and you look at it city after city if it were not for cell phones the cries of wounded goes unheard. a lot of stuff is video taped. it's self explanatory in terms of what it shows, and it's crying out for larger structural

issues. clearly we have to wear cameras in a first step and now they have to document what they see, encounter. and a camera on the hood of a car is not enough. it's the cameras on eyeglasses that are needed that many are going to. another thing is there has to be structural changes inside and a clear respect for the rights the constitutional rights of people no matter how big eted or bias anyone may be it has to go out the window went the uniform goes on the body. that sort of thing can't be legislated. it comes from a police commissioner or department or force, that realises that the bad elements are taking it out of control, and what happens is that all the good police officers paint it with a broad brush, and the bad ones are covered with a blue badge they wear the blue shield they get

behind. >> you were the head of the n.a.a.c.p. what about the role of african american leaders in the country. many went out on the street including congressman cummings to try to make it peaceful. there has been calls for peace. at the same time there was justifiable anger at freddie gray's funeral, and there were strong words issued. how do you walk the fine line between justice and passion. >> it was a thin line. you measure it every step of the way, not coming back to see how it was resonated. many at the funeral express the emotions of the community. i have to go back to the fact that this is a community where

people feel they had no opportunity, where they watch things sent to china, indonesia, and they are judged if they have an arrest. they are judged in oftentimes not deemed worthy or eligible for a job. where there is very very little infusion of anything from the federal government. instead, it's up to the community, it's up to the churches in the community, the churches the sororities and people who are philanthropists, giving to activities who are trying to make it hold and worthy, to gi them scholarships and opportunities. that's a lot to bear. when you consider the fact that communities like this are heard pressed and there's a lack of opportunity, this tension, no matter what you say will bail over. i don'tant want to say we are

reaping what we sow, but we have to find a way to not look beyond the communities and people in them because they are invisible. and those that are law breakers that understand it that will not be tolerated. >> the owner of the baltimore orioles made similar comments that were worth reading. congressman, it's good of you to take time. thank you. a short time ago the mother of freddie gray called for restraint. >> i waunt you all to get -- want you all to get justice for my son, but don't do it like this here. don't chew up the whole city just for him. it's wrong i'm joined by del walters. you know baltimore, you worked as a reporter anchor professor. must be hard to see what

happened to a city that was once yours. >> i want to explain what you see in baltimore, which they sometimes ignore. when i went to baltimore, i was struck by the numbers of houses boarded up. blocks rows almost every opposite. i was told they burnt in the '60s. i asked "why are they boarded up." they said after the '60s crack dealers move in, and now are boarded up because of crack wars of the '80s. now we are looking at the same houses and neighbourhoods. they are going to ask why are they boarded up. they'll say it's because of the riots of 2015. when the job is left there was nothing to fill the void. i remember the story of a car manufacturing factory closing. it was headlines for a week then the media moved away.

the people there were left with a feeling of unemployment, not knowing where to do. >> i reported on the education system in baltimore and in that area, and the story is the renaissance of the downtown area. what happened in the inner city we rarely hear about. >> when you talk about jobs, you have to talk about the infrastructure plans floated on capitol hill. put down for political reasons, one way for another. they are casualties of people that can't find places to work or jobs. when you see people take to the streets, there's no excuse for what is happening, but there is an explanation. there is an explanation. unless you address the root cause, it will happen some place else. >> in other case ferguson in particular - white major, white head of the police department. here that is not the case. there's an african-american mayor and african-american commissioner of police. so that's not enough.

it's not enough... >> we want is to be simple. we want to put the, "r" word on it and say it's solvable if we have a dialogue about race. race is not just the colour of the skin. it was about dividing lines, congressional districts, all the things we don't want to talk about because they are messy, complicated. this is a complicated thing. when you hear them say this is something happening for 30-40 years, it's not going to be fixed quickly. the dialogue takes a long time, but it has to start. >> del walters, stick around with us. we are going to be back. we are waiting for baltimore's police commissioner to speak again. we'll take it life when it happens. and we want to tell you about another big story. it's tuesday in nepal, thousands spent the night outside because they are afraid of being indoors in the event of a powerful aftershock. the death toll from the 7.8

earthquake rose to 4300. the state department says that includes at least four americans. the united states has sent tonnes of humanitarian aid, specialised search and rescue teams to nepal. video shows the scale of the devastation in kathmandu. sabine shrestha joins us from kathmandu. good to have you with us. it's been 48 hours now, are conditions in the city improving at all? >> as much as they can. the sun is cleaning. people are getting straight. aid has not reached them. we were in the outskirts where people were desperate. ready to attack government figures. relief and aid has been coming in. the cabinet made a decision to

do something about it but they haven't gone on the field to distribute aid. there is anger and desperation that is building up. having lived through a major earthquake myself, and knowing what it's like to live through the after shocks. has the strength and intensity diminished. is the here diminishing itself? >> well i think because of that big after showing of 6.7 that we had the other day, people are fearful, and there has been lots of rumours before larger earthquakes, so there is no scientific evidence to that. these rumours are putting fear in people, and they are not willing to go back to their houses or resume their lives.

because of the multiple aftershock there is a lot of fear. still in people. >> yes, easy to under. it's understandable that people are sleeping outside because they are concerned. how much of the city is functioning. how much power is there. how easy is it to get the basic necessities filled? basic necessities are difficult. in terms of power in certain places power has come back. but there is no water supply. the roads are still broken in some places. kathmandu, besides the old building and the heritage site largely remained unscathed in a sense that the buildings are standing. it's more the villages outside kathmandu that are suffering because nobody has been able to get to them yet. parts of the roads are broken. efforts have been concentrated on kathmandu, and the epicentre

which is in gorka, people are complaining that people have not come there yet. more than 1,000 are dead. it's a dire situation there as well. >> yes, it is a dire situation. people are living outside in camps. they are getting desperate, and will to attack government officials. volunteers are managing the situation around. locals are helping each other. that is how they are surviving. when it comes to authority there is little to see. >> sab in shrestha good of you to join us in the midst of that chaos. more ahead on the top story, a day and night of unrest in baltimore. we are expecting police to hold

a news conference. and we'll go there when it happens. we have reaction from washington and from a city that saw similar situation recently

a city in turmoil. violence gripped the streets. maryland's governor declared a state of emergency and called in the national guard to help calm it down. rioters looted stores and set fires and fought with police officers after the funeral of freddie gray the african-american man that died in police custody. we are awaiting a police press conference in baltimore, which we'll go to as soon as it begins let's go in the meantime to adam may in baltimore. a powerful moment was when community faith leaders marched