>> you're heard plenty for america's urban renaissance but those exciting places to live have become shockingly expensive. threatened by success? i'm ray suarez, have a good weekend. good night. this is al jazeera america live from new york city. marco rubio's plan to try and stop donald trump even if it means losing votes to a different rival. april final farewell to former first lady nancy reagan. tears and prayers as people remember the devastating tsunami five years ago. obama address at the south by

south-west festival. former first lady nancy reagan was buried today. the list of dignatories were long. >> reporter: she was laid to rest friday at the presidential library. the ceremony capped a week of remembrances and reflection. michelle obama led presidentials.

represe representing white house george zchuttz. there were also movie celebrities. larry king and tomorrow brokeoff were also there. >> we didn't know what her husband's condition was and when she was told athere was a shooting, she said she must go. we said we don't think it was a good idea. she said, you get me a car right now or i will walk to the hospital. >> reporter: their daughter spoke of the strained relationship and reconciliation >> i tried her patience and she intimidated me. we were never mild with one another, whether we were distant and angry or bonded and close. our emotions burned up the color

chart. nothing was ever grey. there were moments in our history when all that was going on between us was love. i choose to remember those moments. >> reporter: the son spoke of his parents' unbreakable bond and long journey together. >> they were more than the sum of their parts and it would be a mistake to consider her as somehow subordinate to him just because he was the one usually taking center stage. they were co-equals. they complemented one another. individually they may have gone far, but together they could and did go anywhere. >> reporter: following the service the children led the long list of mourners to their mother's burl site. after-- burial site. after a rendition of god bless america, it stood alone before burl in a tomb next to her

husband now to the race for president and another former rival the donald trump camp. ben carson endorsed donald trump. >> reporter: at donald trump's club in palm beach florida it was the endorsement the republican front runner was hoping for >> donald trump talks a lot about making america great, but it is not just talk. he means it. >> reporter: former rival ben carson said there are two different donald trumps, the one the public sees and the more cerebral thoughtful man in private >> he sits and considers things very carefully. you can have a good conversation with him. that's the donald trump that you're going to start seeing more and more of. >> reporter: donald trump could not agree more. >> it is another side of me. i'm a very deep thinker

>> reporter: he was gracious to his beaten rival >> it is such an honor to have ben, he is a friend, he has become a friend and i appreciate the endorsement >> reporter: it comes a few months after he saw carson surge to an iowa lead. >> he said he has got pathological disease. he said pathological temper and says disease. he said he has pathological disease >> reporter: he added this >> if you're a child molester acres sick puppy, there is no cure for that. -- a sick puppy. >> i talked to him it yesterday, but he handle it with dignity. i thought it was amazing. i gained respect for him >> reporter: his remaining republican rivals are still

holding-- hoping to hold him from keeping the nomination. if he loses the win take all contest next week in john kasich's home state of ohio and marco rubio's home of florida, marco rubio is urging republicans to be strategic when they vote >> john kasich has a better chance of winning ohio than i do, and if a voter concludes that voting for him gives us the best chance to stop donald trump there, i anticipate that that is what they will do >> reporter: john kasich's campaign is refusing to return the favor: >> reporter: as for ted cruz, the senator just received an endorsement from the conservative fashion review and he was the target of a joke during a state dinner when obama noted the country's great

relationship >> one born from calvary can become the next president. >> reporter: bernie sanders is again attracting huge crowds with supporters saying, thank you. we're trying to change the world >> millions of americans stan up, get involved in the political process and demand a government which represents all of us, not just wealthy contendsers. >> reporter: to keep his dreams alive he needs a string of victories next tuesday. hillary clinton is hoping north carolina will see favorably there >> i think every child in this

country deserves a good teacher and a good school regardless of zip code you live in. >> reporter: but this was a day that belonged to donald trump. he said ben carson will help his campaign and will serve in his administration. >> maybe ben doesn't know this, but he will have a big part. we want to keep that talent. >> reporter: david shuster live to chicago where donald trump is going to be holding a campaign event and huge crowds outside. it seems probably to be a combination of a line of people trying to get in, but also many protesters who said they would show up. some incidents involving events. we will keep an eye on this. what is happening there?

>> reporter: donald trump hasn't shown up yet. there have been several noisy ejections out of this event. some wore muslims united against hate t-shirt. they were thrown out. we found them standing in line. they had a frae ticket to get in originally and when donald trump people saw them, the campaign tossed them off the line and then they just went across the street there to the other protesters, all the thousands of protesters, roughly 7 to 8,000 of them. many groups are going to show up here along with democratic congress men from illinois to protest. earlier we did talk to those three young men who got kicked out as they stood in line and we asked them why did you show up

to this rally? >> trying to represent islam, showing people that we as the muslim people do not support donald trump, not just that he is against the muslim people, but against a lot of minorities as well. >> reporter: like i said eventually they got tossed off that line and somehow managed to sneak back in and got tossed out again. as we stand right now, we're just waiting for donald trump to show up. it has been very noisy and a lot of other ejections as well i will do my best. hopefully you can hear me because it's clear that it's loud there, but donald trump supporters, what have they been saying about the protest? >> reporter: what's interesting there is that a lot of the folks here who are anti donald trump have been saying why did he come here because it is a blue college, blue blue state in a blue city.

he finished distant third in the latest poll and they want to poke their eye. they say he has the guts to come here and take on the protesters. here is what one told us. what do you think about the protests? >> i think they should have saved their time and stay home. they should protest somewhere else. >> reporter: what is interesting too is that this pavillion 10 thouks. that's how many were planning to go to the protest to the street tonight. that's a big protest. they're on a big stage out there for speakers and the like. there has been banter back and forth, but before it has

started, it is getting hot let's talk about the numbers. you're saying possibly up 120,000 people inside. it's several thousand outside as well. what are the security concerns, if any?concerns,if any? >> reporter: lots of security, police an campus police, they have kept a long buffer of policemen in between the people going into the pavillion. we have seen insults back and forth. we saw a little bit of shoving, but the trump supporters were admonished over the loud speaker not to touch anybody. just to yell and scream when they see somebody trying to

protest, but don't touch them. this is all before he has taken the stage and so we will see what will happen when he does thank you. donald trump being the front runner also has secret service protection now. south east have been seeing severe weather. >> reporter: six states were understand flood watchers and warnings. >> this truly is a statewide event. i have to manage that when we add up the damages, it will be in the millions of dollars. >> reporter: 20.9 rain full in monroe in a 48 hour period causing a road to collapse >> part of this concrete was all

gone. so it was like a huge water fall was going down. >> reporter: trucks were forced off highways. drivers tried to get to washed out roads forcing water rescues. some neighbors are still under water. a university of louisiana shot this video of fish swimming in the streets. an owner is trying to rescue her vehicle >> we were in the lake. >> reporter: they didn't see as much rain here, most schools and the city government closed friday. in harris county taxi as livestock and horses were stranded as the water continued to rise. volunteers led horses to trailers after their stables were swamped. this bus was flipped over.

the heaviest rain is going to be from new orleans to mississippi a health crisis is the syrian border. doctors are dealing with the extreme conditions. in baghdad, issues there for the first week in a row.

fa tears and prayers mark the five-year anniversary of that massive ersdz quake and

tsunamis-- earthquake and tsunami that struck japan. there were tributes. our correspondent reports >> reporter: this is the closest thing to high ground, a mound built 96 years ago so residents of this coastal town could lookout to sea. five years on from the tsunami it has become a place of remembrance. it was the aerial footage from over this area broadcast live that first showed the scale of the disaster unfolding in japan. 950 people died here, nearly 18,500 across the country. of the packed houses these are all that are left. it was about two metres above that man mound made. it was there at 2.46 precisely that they gathered to mark the moment the earthquake struck.

150 kilometers north another community marked the same moment the same way, sounding the tsunami sirens. >> translation: the reality is that we still feel the scars here and there are still many who are struggling to restart their lives. >> reporter: at the national memorial in tokyo the emperor addressed many. >> translation: efforts are being made to improve the situation, but my heartaches at the thought that many cannot return home. >> reporter: for the construction elsewhere, and the prime minister is promising to get it finished, large parts of the exclusion zones in fukushima

remains unchanged. this man says the efforts are hampered by a short aeng of people willing to do the job, even if conditions were different to what he afaced in the weeks following the melt downs >> translation: i think i felt anxiety most. i thought my experience would be useful, but all the rules and values that i used to abide by became completely irrelevant. it was like a war zone and that as stonished me. >> reporter: there are sections being raised for new construction to minimise damage of future waves. scars still remain. a day of come memorandum registration of coming together can-- commemoration for comfort. a reminder of how much has been lost coming up a look at what

happened at the fukushima nuclear power plant. a five-year investigation, a nuclear story airs sundays at 10 p.m. eastern an 7 pacific. an african teenager says he found a piece of debris which may be linked to the missing malaysian aeroplane. it appears to be a part of the plane wing. it holds a serial number, it may belong to a boeking 777 jet. it vanished in march 2014 with 239 people on board. it is a scene that evokes all the political intrigue of the dead war, the dead body of a russian official. russia's former press minister was found dead in the nation's capital. the autopsy revealed he died of blunt force trauma to the head. >> reporter: according to

washington dc's chief medical examiner, 57-year-old was found with blunt force injuries to the head, neck, torso arms and legs. russian media had reported his death as a suspected hard attack in a hotel not far from the white house in november last year. the medical examiner gave no further detail. however, the new york times is reporting his injuries were the result of some sort of altercation that happened before he returned to his hotel. nicknam nicknamed the bulldozer, who helped to put together a tv channel in the u.s. after his death putin spoke of his enormous contribution to russian media. two years ago mississippi senator called for an investigation into him over possible money laundering regarding property he said may have been purchased with the

help of people and groups on a u.s. sanctions list thousands of iraqis took to the street for a third week in the row. they're followers of a shia cleric and they're calling for a change in what they sa say is a corrupt government. >> reporter: demonstrations and supporters are a regular site on the streets here. they are demanding reforms to tackle endemic corruption. he wants prime rhyme minister to press on with plans to challenge a system of government patronage that encourages corruption by disputing posts along political, ethnic and sectarian lines. >> translation: we hope these promises of reforms will be true. i urge iraqi prime minister to press on with plans to form an independent cabinet, to desist.

i want the prime minister to continue his reformed plan with no fear of political pressure. corruption is eating into dwindling government finances in iraq that are suffering from the fall in the price of oil and the cost of the war against i.s.i.l. the prime minister was given 45 days to appoint the group or face a no confidence vote in parliament it has been almost five years since the war in syria began and despite the recent cessation of hostilities agreement, many say the last 12 months have been the company's most trying. some say the u.s. and other outsiders are to blame. >> reporter: it is a grim milestone, almost five years since the start of syria's civil war and a new report by aid agencies, including oxfam,

action, and others that say it is the worst year yet. a report fuelling the fire note that some 50,000 people have lost their lives with almost a million civilians forced to flee their homes. many of those homes were destroyed in 2015 t around a million and a half of people are in need of humanitarian aid with an additional 400,000 children no longer in school because of the violence. the report notes failures by the international community both through inadequate diplomatic pressure and direct military involvement in support of their allies. u.n. security council resolutions it says have consistently been flouted by parties to the conflict and their international backers, including permanent members of the u.n. security council have actively added fuel to the fire. the report highlights how

russia's air campaign since september last year has damaged civilian infrastructure while reportedly causing thousands of civilian casualties. deaths and damage have been caused to civilian areas and the international powers are accused of supplying weapons to opposing forces on the ground. the report notes that a partial cessation of hostilities has resulted in fewer civilian casualties and greater humanitarian access to besieged areas. however, it says all parties, including governments that sit on the u.n. security council bear direct responsibility for the war in syria. jonah hull a conflict in syria has had a profound effect on the health care systems. doctors and hospitals are struggling to deliver basic care to patients. medical facilities have found things in the line of fire.

>> reporter: the syrian government and its russian allies sometimes claim fighters hide in hospitals, but surely not this one. it is a children's unit and the bombardment has rendered beds and cots unusable. such conditions in towns like azaz where they have no water to do you say the flames. there's no-- douse the flames. there's no choice but to watch it burn. few hospitals are remaining with less medicine combines to treat the injured. >> translation: because there are so many refugees now, there is enormous pressure on the medical facilities that are left. it means it is no longer possible for us to treat lesser injuries. >> reporter: all this means turkey has had no choice but to

move people here where there is a continuous flow of ambulances in and out. it is hardly safe here either, but it is better than the alternative. on the morning it had received three patients who would need amputations. it is like this all the time now. >> reporter: all the attacks on syria's hospitals have put a huge amount of strain in this little unit on the turkish side of the border. they have had to bring in interpreters, double the number of plastic surgeons to deal with burns and trauma experts as well. there are more syrian patients inside here than there are medical personnel. >> reporter: once they've been treated in turkey, syrians face a choice of going home. this man returned to his border and was hobling his way back to his village inside syria. he paid $100 for his drugs. >> translation: it brought me

by p ambulance because i was very sick. i needed medicine for my heart. i was going to die >> reporter: the good news is that hospitals have been attacked since the cessation of hostilities. for those injured, the best hope is to get them to another country for treatment michigan's governor is calling for an investigation into how the state handles the water crisis. what we're learning about the emergency from his personal emails.

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we're just learning about a decision that could impact on the race for president. an ohio judge ruled that 17-year-olds will be able to vote in the primary if they will be turning 18 by the general election in november. bernie sanders is hailing the ruling, he is attracting more younger voters. john kasich is touting his economic record as ohio's governor as he prepares for tuesday's primary in his home state. some places in ohio are feeling the effects of a slow recovery. lisa stark is in cleveland for us >> reporter: as john kasich travels around the country, he talks about the ohio miracle. he says he took this state and turned around from the depths of recession. how accurate is that?

we went to the middle of the rust belt. we want to see whether the economic boom is a miracle or a myth. on a rainy evening in youngs town, ohio, he is putting the finishes on the last customers. he embodies the fall and rise of ohio. 15 years ago he worked at an auto parts manufacturing plant. >> one day they ended up closing the doors >> reporter: so he went to school to become a basher. now he has-- barber. he has expanded to a prime corner >> i wanted to be part of the growth >> reporter: the success story john kasich touts on the campaign trail saying he brought the area back from the financial brink >> not only did he have a balanced budget in washington, but when i went to ohio we were to 8 billion in the hole and now

we're 2 billion up. >> reporter: there is a lot of credit for the turn around they say >> there is a positive result from him. there are tax cuts and is a more friendly state >> it is utterly and completely false it is booming >> reporter: the state has lagged behind the national average for more than three years. he blames tax cuts and the elimination of 390,000 state and local government jobs. >> he balanced the budget on the facts of the local jurisdictions and the counties and cities. that's how we did the. that is slowing down the economy now as all those policemen and

firearm, teachers and so forth get laid off >> reporter: 70 cities are down at least one million dollars in tax revenue a year. youngs town is one of them. it is holding off on new police hires and purchases of police cars, fire engines and snow employees. the town is trying to make up the revenue loss by attracting new business. one bright spot had been this french owned plant which makes pipes for the gas and oil industry. with that industry in a sump, 100 of the workers have been-- 150 of the workers have been laid off. the owner hasn't seen any ohio mirror ago em >> the business is no good. it has come undone. there is no company open. everything closed. >> reporter: the kind of discouragement felt by some here and fuelling their support for donald trump. >> both main parties have disappointed the average working

class, middle-class. i hardly refer to myself as middle-class any more. i feel i'm the middle-class of the poor. >> reporter: the uptick in ohio's economy has not been felt by everyone >> there's no silver bullet out there. there's pain in any change you make, but if we look at the whole, i think we're better off >> reporter: youngs town is certainly not the boarded up city it once was. this man hopes the city will continue to take on a fresh new look. >> reporter: john kasich's tenure as governor of ohio has also corresponded, of course, with the economic improvement in the country as a whole. so it's hard to know how much credit john kasich should get alone and how much it has to do with the fact that the economy has been improving over the last number of years. back to you thank you for that. president obama delivered the

keynote address at the south by south-west festival in austin today. it is an annual event that combines music, film andy emerging technology. >> the reason i'm here really is to recruit all of you. it is to say to you as i'm about to leave office how can we start coming up with new platforms and new ideas, new approaches across disciplines and across skill sets to solve some of the big problems that we're facing today president obama will also speak during the ten-day event. more on the festival from austin. >> reporter: president obama came here to austin, texas, to speak before a technology expo at the south by south west festival. he said it was important for entrepreneurs and innovators in the digital world to use their

kal tents to help-- at all tents to help society to help problems that they're facing, saying it's easier to order a pizza on line than it is to register to vote and cast the ballots here in many parts of the u.s. the president was also asked about the ongoing case between apple and his own justice department and f.b.i. as you may know, the justice department is trying to force apple to lift the encryption on a phone which was used by one of the shooters in the mass killings in san bernardino. this has been refused because it is said to be problems of government over sight and intrusion. the president said that it is important to draw some sort of a

balance that there has to be trade-offs and maybe an analogy between the idea of having to go through stringent security in airports before borrowing a plane. nobody likes it, he says, but sometimes it's necessary and it may be necessary in this case to get to the data on that phone. a very controversial topic here. certainly many in the tech community opposed to this type of government intrusion or monitoring of personal data rob reynolds reporting from austin. some breaking news in chicago. what you see here is inside one of the big arenas, there are a combination of donald trump supporters and protesters up to as many as 10,000 people are supposed to be there. there are thousands outside as

well. that is potentially a volatile combination. we have heard that the rally has been cancelled. what are you hearing? >> reporter: it has gotten chaotic in here. if you take a look around, there are hundreds, possibly thousands, of donald trump opponents who we heard rumors were going to rush the stage. a few minutes ago, the spokesman came out and said this event is cancelled. this part of the arena just erupted in cheers and shouts. it has been quite a sight to see. this must have been all the people who got in and had planned to do something, so they're very excited. the donald trump supporters here who have shown up, you can't see them, but a lot of them were just left in stunned silence a few minutes ago when it was announced that this rally would be can cancelled. it has been a chaotic night, even before he arrived, before

this started. at least 12 people were tossed out, very angrily tossed out. you can hear them shouting out in joyousness, the opponents, many of them hispanic folks, groups, there are various african american groups planning to show up here as well. again, the supporters were left in stunned silence. a lot of them are coming to confront those opponents here in the corner and we've seen a few shoves going on. nothing really violent yet, but it has gotten hot and a bit crazy. so this is the first time that we know of that any trump rally has been shot down before it got going. trump certainly not popular on this campus. about 200 professors on campus had asked the university to cancel this event i'm going to ask you to pause because what we're seeing

on the stage, i don't know if you can see it from where you are, is somebody on stage. we don't know if they're a protester or supporter, but he is extremely agitated right now and shoved off the stage right now. this seems to be a microcosm of the bigger situation that is happening where you are. this is at the university of illinois chicago pavillion on the campus there. a large area that can seat up to 10,000 people. there was supposed to be a rally there. as a result there are thousands of protesters that showed up outside as well. some protesters made their way inside and now it they have cancelled the really ee. there was some-- rally. there was some concern leading up to this. can you hear me? >> yes. i can, yes can you talk - go ahead.

>> there's some fighting going on here. there was a moment ago. what's happening now are the supporters have moved back from the stage, again to tussle with these folks, verbally at least, possibly physically. it seems to go back and forth. donald trump is not popular among even chicago or illinois republicans, he finished a distant third in recent polling of cook county republicans. even among republicans he is not that popular, but the campus was cut up over this. a lot of people felt it was unsafe to even hold this rally. you see a mix of joy usness amongst the protesters and now starting to face off against supporters. a very ewe nik situation talk us through what has-- unique situation talk us through this.

there have been other incidents at donald trump rallies. one protester was arrested yesterday and charged with punching a - a supporter was arrested and charged with punching a protester who was at a donald trump rally. he was asked about this type of situation at his rallies at the debate last night. he didn't seem to truly take a firm stand on this type of thing being unacceptable. can you talk us through what has gotten us to this point? >> reporter: right. the trump folks said after that punch that we saw in north corolina. it was, hey, it wasn't us. not criticizing the violence on or saying in relation other than "it's not us". it will be interesting to see what the donald trump folks will say about this one. there were people who wanted to get in here.

there were people who bought tickets and not planning on showing up. it holds about 9,000 people here. it is interesting how many anti folks came in and shut this down based on security concerns. donald trump to this point has said, "hey, the things that break out at my rallies is nothing to do with me. it's about other people". that is it. it will be interesting to see what he says about this there is fighting going on right now. i don't know if you can see it from where you are, but there is definitely at least one altercation that we can see. it's kind of difficult to see past this person that is blocking the camera. this looks to be the gentleman who was actually on stage earlier that stuart, i don't know if it was secret service, i don't know who, escorted him off the stage and he seemed to have some sort of interaction a few

moments ago with other people that are there. look at this. it is difficult to deal who is supporters and who is protester. is there any effort to separa separate-- >> reporter: there was just a loud bang. i couldn't hear what you said. they can only do so much so far as security and who might be wanting to cause trouble. a few people were taken off the line, but once you're in, you're in. it just speaks for itself. a bunch of supporters are in front of us. you can see they're playing to the cameras, trying to give their best shot at leaving everyone with the opinion that

donald trump supporters are won. people just want to watch this spectacle. police don't seem to be doing much what does the university of illinois say about choosing to allow this event to happen there. >> reporter: that's the funny thing. a lot of people are saying why are they doing it, allowing them here. the administration says whoever pays for this arena has every right to go there. they're not taking a stand on donald trump or his policies. a lot of the supporters, i said it earlier, but a lot of people here in this very diverse campus said that they felt donald trump was coming here to poke a finger in the eye of a diverse blue democratic type of campus, but the supporters say that's why they love him, he has the guts to come here and face the protesters. whatever reason, they're

shutting it down because of concerns over security what can you tell us about what security measures were taken as the crowd started to form. i know there were things that happened behind the scenes that we don't know. i assume there's metal detectors, a bag search. what did the take to get into that pa obviously i don't know-- pavillion. >> reporter: they said no signs were allowed except standing with trump signs. i believe those were handed out once people got in. they said no signs, we don't want anything at all. they tried to be very, very careful about who they let in. they can't search everybody and a lot of people had anti trump shirts on and signs underneath their clothes. you can only do so much. the tickets were free. when they saw people who had shirts, for example, that said

muslims united against hate, they pulled them out of the line and kicked them out. that's the best they could do. it has gone into a free-for-all now. some people are leaving. i think the trump supporters are getting tired of this. on the pa system - i couldn't kwiment hear what was said. whatever it was, it made the people ee rupt in cheers yes. it was very difficult to hear. it was something that the protesters were pleased about. the donald trump chain released a statement. are they just telling people to leave the building? is that what we're hearing? >> reporter: yes. i think so.

i'm seeing more people to leave. i'm urging them to take off. i think the donald trump opponents are feeling like they've won. that's it. they're basically sayi saying-- we've just lost our live shot with andy, but we will try to get that back up. in the meantime, we will stay on these pictures. it is the university of ilinvoice, chicago, the people-- illinois, chicago. this is a large facility that seats up to 10,000 people and it seemed to be near to capacity. what was happening outside was there were thousands of protesters who did not want this rally happening and who do not support donald trump. because apparently security concerns, the event was cancelled. donald trump didn't make it to

the stage. his campaign released this statement. the statement reads this way. donald trump arrived in chicago and after meaning with law enforcements have derpd that for the same of all of the tens of thousands of people who have gathered in and around the arein, tonight's rally will be postponed. please go in peace. that is what is the situation now. are people leaving? there eseems to be so many people milling about. >> reporter: right. obviously, the donald trump opponents want to bask in the celebration because they got their way. in the meantime donald trump supporters are heading out. 10,000 people can be here, and it was packed. it was how many people they

expected outside the area as well. they couldn't separate the two sides, but they can't control everybody. as we speak, you can probably see the police in very strong numbers to come to shoo away the people. supporters heading on out, police coming to round up the last of these opponents to get them out as well yes. we can see a line of a few dozen officers making their way down to the venue floor to round up people and get them out. we're going to have all of these people leaving the venue to go outside where there is actually more protesters. you can see people coming out right now.

this is a potentially toxic mix. >> reporter: that's it. we can't see it as we're trapped inside the pen, as it's called. the security knew when so many protesters were outside, they blocked off an entire parking lot to pen them in to keep them spilling into each other. i can't see what's happening outside, but that's the hope that police have that's fine. >> reporter: they want to keep the two sides separated exactly. it does seem that the crowd outside is getting bigger as, obviously, the kroupd inside is getting smaller. just to be clear-- crowd-- nothing to this extent, but there has been other incidents at donald trump rallies of violence. it was just yesterday that there was video of protesters being led out of a donald trump event

and a supporter, the term in sucker-punched, one of the protesters and that person ended up being arrested. a few weeks ago there was an incident on a college campus where african american students were in attendance at one of the rallies. they had not done anything. they were escorted. it's fairly common for protesters to be escord out of a donald trump rally and now we have gotten to this point. we don't know at this point who initiated what, but it just seemed to be a bad occurrence. >> reporter: yes. the pa has kicked in again. earlier before the donald trump rally was cancelled, one of their campaign spokesperson got on the pa system and said if anybody gets out of control, don't touch them but yell the

wrordz trump trump trump trump trump so we can get them out. that started about an hour before the rally even started. things were going to be hot right off the bat. the first three young men were tossed out after trump trump trump and then it happened again, again and again. it was said this was paid for by mr trump, it was his rally, he paid for it, he has the right to control it as he wishes, but it was free. it could have been anybody. we had heard, in fact, some folks had plan episode to sneak in, for lack of a better word, and rush the stage. they never got their chance. it was shut down before then in anticipation of the tension that may have been at this rally, you have been doing

reporting on this all week. could you tell me more about some of the groups that you spoke with who were planning to be there and who are probably in the crowd right now. >> reporter: one more time? you've been reporting on this throughout the week in anticipation of how intense this might be. i know you've spoken to some of the groups that organized and are probably in the crowd now. can you tell us about some of the students that you spoke with this week. >> reporter: one of them was one of the organisers. when this rally was announced a week ago - there's not much left here but pop corn and torn up signs, but when it was announced about a week ago, an hispanic group immediately had the facebook page stop trump chicago and in a few days they got 9,000

rsvps to protest outside the venue. these are hispanic, muslim and african american groups. she said they're not there to shut down trump as much as to say his message is wrong and we disagree with it and they were empowered to do it. she wasn't sure it was smart to cancel the event. it gives them a chance for their voices to be heard as well. i spoke to one of those groups as well. he said they had plans to have people on the inside here, but he wouldn't talk about what exactly they were going to do. that was all happening, a mix of people outside and inside. outside it just went on. thousands of people, but it's those people inside that really must have got this shut down because that's what happened reporting from your story a few days ago, the young woman you spoke with said 9,000 people are hsvp antidepressant, and

sometimes people just click and don't have intentions of going. i didn't see that necessarily as a gauge of how many people were going to show up, but it's not that part off. there are a few thousand people outside. i don't know that it's 9,000, but there are quite a few people outside of this event. so far from what we can see-- >> reporter: their goem was to get as many people on the outside as were on the inside. this arena holds 9 to 10,000 people. that's a big turn out for uic. as i said, 200 professors on the campus signed a letter to the administration urging this to be cancelled over fears of violence. 40,000 people signed a petition to move on dot organise to cancel this event. as i said earlier, the administration at uic said they don't take a position to donald

trump, he is just like anybody else, lean rented the venue so he has the right to come here. the goal was to bring a lot of people out here to be anti-trump. they didn't necessarily want to shut it down because they wanted to get in. this is what they wanted to show the world that they could shut it down from the inside i'm going to let you regroup for top of the hour. we will talk to john seigenthaler momentarilily. this is outside the university of illinois chicago venue where a donald trump rally was cancelled. there was a significant crowd on the inside. the capacity is ten thousand. we don't know that it was full yet, but as you can see there are also a few thousand protesters on the outside. this is something protesters had been organising for few days since it was announced that

donald trump was coming to chicago which is a fairly liberal city. there have been other isolated incidents of violence and confrontations at donald trump rallies, but nothing to this extent. so right now i'm going do toss it to my colleague john seigenthaler to continue to watch the crowd. hopefully soon n >> john. >> a disturbing scene here inside and you outside, the university of chicago. let's start with the scene outside because there are thousands of people. and what's interesting is, that many of them are protesters against donald trump. but what police i assume are trying to keep apart are the trump supporters who were inside who have now come identity to see this enormous crowd. tensions were high, organizers were