>> dragging them out. >> so what's going on, don? can you hear me? >> i can hear you, jake. go ahead. >> don lemon? >> okay. so what's going on is the individuals here, the protesters are in an area where they're not supposed to be congregate, and they are dragging things out into the middle of the street to set up their own sort of barricades. i don't know if you can see them. this way, john. and they are setting up their own barricadeses and, obviously, the police are objecting to the -- these things. look at this young person holding up a "do not enter" sign. >> jake tapper -- >> she's standing -- >> yeah, can you hear me? >> yeah, jake tapper, stand by for one minute. we'll get back to you in a second. the next hour of "cnn tonight" starts right now.

11:00 p.m. central. top of the hour. midnight in the east. 11:00 p.m. central. you're watching what's unfolding. the sights and sounds, scenes unfolding in ferguson, missouri. what had been a peaceful protest earlier has devolved in a bit cavos. it appears they've gotten some order back in some areas. jake tapper out live at another part of this protest where there is some unrest going on. jake, continue. >> yeah, we're near where that convenience store that was burned down about nine days ago. the day mike brown was killed. and there are a number of protesters. hands in the air yelling. a number of things, including hands up, don't shoot. they've set up a bunch of barricades to try to stop the

police from going through. john, i just want to -- >> you need to exit the roadway. get out of the roadway. >> you hear the police are over here warning people, get out of the roadway. we're going to follow that advice. come over this way. and somebody just threw something. that is -- okay. so here -- here we go. jake is this teargas that we're seeing? >> somebody get my mask! come on. i'm with you. right here. >> i don't care if it's far away. somebody get my gas mask. >> these are just stun grenades, don. >> stun grenades. stun grenades. >> these are just stun grenades,

not teargas. clearly, clearly the crowd throwing things at the police on this other side. and now there's a bunch of stun grenades. that's teargas. that's teargas. we're going to walk down the street to get away from the teargas. >> jake, get to safety. >> can you continue to talk or you want to -- here's what we have going on. about a quarter of a mile down the road here our jake tapper is reporting and there were some stun grenades thrown to break up some of the protesters. now there is teargas that is being thrown as well. and now you hear the police helicopter in the sky and they are looking for the people who are -- that they are trying to break up, some of the

perpetrators here. we're looking at police activity that's happening all over the sce scene. jake tapper, just yell at me when you get back. >> they're throwing more teargas. all right. all right. >> where's john? >> jake tapper, you okay? >> yeah, i'm fine. i'm fine. >> everybody get down. >> what happened? okay. >> hold on a second. >> so we are told that where we are, did someone get shot? >> yeah, that's what they're saying. >> okay. so there is an abundance of

police activity going on here. i'm being told here that someone in the car that just pulled up in front of us got shot. they pulled someone out of the car where we are here. someone was just pulled out of the car. they came don the street and that person got shot. we are being told by police to put on our gas masks. as a matter of fact -- i am going to do this. because i need to be -- can you help me with this, mark? >> we are told by cnn management that if something starts to happen, we must protect ourselves. that's what we're going to do here. we need to have that confirmed that someone in the crowd has

been shot. can you help me with this? there we go. our jake tapper is down the street in the crowd here where there were some stun grenades and also teargas that has been thrown into the crowd. and we don't know exactly what's going on, but it is really devolving into -- let me pull this microphone out. this is live television. i'm sure the viewers are thinking the same thing i am, better safe than sorry here. but this is what's happening. and what can you really say, mark lamonte. you said you'd like one of these. but what can you say about what's happening? >> it's been fits and starts. moments of peace and then one thing, one provocation and then this huge response. you just saw people swoop down

on that car, search the car, machine guns on the car. police were right behind us with guns pointed at the crowd. not sure what happened. grenades down -- stun grenade down there and up here and apparently teargas. the police have just taken the car they were searching before and drove away with it. that was the site of the first provocation here. >> this has been happening for over an hour, for two hours you. from our perch we saw someone get out of the car. we're being told someone got shot in the car and they needed to get out and get some medical attention. that's according to the people in the crowd. there are people who are running don the street holding their eyes, obviously, as if they were hit by something. obviously, teargas. there you see someone taking what appears to me to be the side of the port-o-can,

port-o-potty to use it as a shield in this crowd. i hear women visibly crying. they are afraid. obviously security people here who are with us are in bulletproof vests and have donned their gas masks. put on this vest as well. and it has become increasingly difficult to leave. jake tapper right in the middle of it. jake, what do you have for us? you were down in the middle where there were teargas was being thrown. what do you have? >> yeah, it's down near where that convenience store was before it was burned down nine days ago after the shooting of mike brown. there was obviously a standoff between protesters who were provoking the police, the

militarized police and they put up barricades in the street. it seemed like the tipping points came when one young person held up a do not enter sign and stood in the middle of the road challenging defiantly the presence of the police. and then somebody threw a bottle. and there was the sound of broken glass and then the sound of flares and stun guns and obviously a lot of teargas. and the crowd's dispersed. >> we saw the person in the crowd carrying the top of a dumpster as a shield. how are you doing, jake? did you get hit by gas? >> yeah, we all did. we all got hit by gas.

>> you all right, man? >> jake, what's going on there? >> this is a photographer. this is a photographer who got hit pretty badly by the teargas. somebody get a medic, okay? somebody call a -- >> dude, you all right? >> if you are just joining us, you are watching cnn live coverage of though situation in ferguson, missouri. i'm don lemon. our jake tapper is out on the street. you are watching a photographer there who has been overcome by gas.

they have been -- they threw gas into the protesters to try to disperse them. jake tapper is out in the field. jake, what are you seeing? >> the photographer is making his way away as are a lot of journalists who were hit by the teargas. >> jake, it's unbelievable to see an american city this way. you mentioned earlier about the amount of presence of police, the amount of force. you said you hadn't seen that since iraq. i think it would be fair to say that at least this part of the city is under siege tonight. i'm going to get to steve cassenbaum who is out in the crowd as well who joins us by phone. what are you seeing? >> this is an extremely tense situation that has elevated to the level we saw last night with tear gas and smoke being blown.

we're don about a quarter mile away from where you have been broadcasting down by the ferguson mart. we're up by the qt gas station where we had seen a lot of activity here through the days when the riot police pushed back protesters, up the avenue. a lot of young people gathered here and were out in the street. armored personnel carriers and s.w.a.t. units, the riot police have been out here for the better part of an hour now in a standoff with people. there were young people protesters, defying orders to clear the street. there were repeated orders to clear the street. some of them had taken out street signs that said do not enter and yield and were waving them out defiantly in front of the police officers, ignoring their orders to clear the streets and ever since then, we're watching a tactical unit going in now. so there are journalists in

there. there are journalists in there. i'm sorry. a tactical unit was going in toward the car wash where some journalists sought safety. the reason we're all hunkered down behind a concrete wall is because moiments ago we heard te sound of gunshots. everybody took a defensive position. we're all safe. we need to stress that we are safe right now. the police know where we are. and i want to stress that to everybody at cnn. we are safe. you are looking at live images of a standoff that's been going on for about an hour, don, and there were shots fired. young people had thrown bottles at police, glass bottles that broke over their vehicles. >> and steve kastenbaum -- >> yes, go ahead. >> stand by. i want to update the situation. we have a police source here on the scene telling us that molotov cocktails have been thrown and also that several -- >> yes, don, i can tell you that as well. we did witness some molotov

cocktails. we did witness at least one molotov cocktail thrown in the direction of police. some of these young people grabbed port-o-potties placed here throughout the week and put them across the street attempting to make a barricade. we just saw a massive response of police here. they are all in their gas masks. there is tear gas in the air mixed in with the smoke. and this has been going on for the better part of an hour now. photo journalist ken tillis is here feeding back these images live. they are pushing the media back. we have to step back. they are ordering us back for our own safety. and, don, i'm going to have to put on my mask. the teargas is starting to become difficult to deal with. i'm going to stay with you as long as i can. they are pushing us back. there was -- >> go ahead. i'll talk. i'll continue to talk until you put your mask on because again, we want you to be safe. get back to me whenever you get that mask on.

>> don, don, we're far enough back that i can continue on here, i think. we've backed a little bit away -- >> let me update our viewers. so we are watching the situation unfold in ferguson, missouri. what had been a night of hopefully peaceful protests -- i think it's fair to say that this is chaotic. our steve kastenbaum out in the crowd being overcome by tear gas. jake tapper out among the protesters as well. jake witnessing a photograph ee on the scene being overcome by tear gas. according to steve and to our police source here an the ground, several molotov cocktails had been thrown and also several shots fired. and, according to people who are here with us, someone very close to us in a car had been shot. again, unconfirmed reports, but we watched it unfold in front of us as they walked someone out of a car and not exactly sure what's going on and then someone rapidly went backwards.

and then rapidly backed up. we want to -- we're going to reset here in just a moment and find out what's going on. if you are watching us at home, this is a very tense situation. it's unfolding for all of us here. you are watching it with us as it unfolds. this is an american city, at least part of an american city under siege tonight. you're watching cnn's live coverage. we're back in a moment. surrender

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back now with our live coverage on cnn. there you are looking at live pictures of ferguson, missouri, where a peaceful protest pretty much a peaceful protest earlier, has devolved into chaos and anarchy. i think that's fair to say. and a big part of an american city under siege tonight. under siege by the protesters and, really, it's unbelievable to see so much police presence in an area. you are hearing now police helicopters in the sky. we have seen tactical units and we have seen members of the media and also members of the crowd being overcome by tear gas. our jake tapper down in the thick of it. jake, you got some tear gas as well. >> i did, but i'm fine. i wanted to talk to this gentlemen right here who was expressing some chagrin at the activities. you were down there. what happened from your point of

view? >> it's to my understanding that someone threw a water bottle and it ignited the police. it ignited them. they started acting like we were regular -- at the end of this, we're going to be classed as insurgents. nobody is out here for war. we are not out here for war. we are out here on a peaceful protest just seeing if we can get some justice for our brother that got gunned down. >> out of the road. out of the road. >> that was interesting. where were we? anyway -- >> yeah, we saw that. >> this is what it's like in st. louis every night. now, obviously, this is a new -- a whole new level. >> this is a whole new level other than what we have to go through on a regular basis every night. at the same time, all throughout the city of st. louis, we're always subject to harassment by

the police. it's just wrong. there's no balance in the black and the white in the police departments. we have to -- we have to -- we are made automatically to know that we have to be indoors at a certain hour in certain areas in the city of st. louis. it's just already known. it's not a written rule or anything like that. it's just something that we just already know. we just already know that we have to be indoors by a certain hour. it's an unwritten law, a rule. >> it was a tense confrontation down there. there were clearly people protesting, and there were clearly people, i'm certainly not justifying the gas, but there were certainly people trying to provoke the police. >> one thing that we have to take into consideration, we have to separate the people that are turning up and doing things that they shouldn't be doing from the regular citizens that are out here an a peaceful protest. separate us. we are not -- we're not soldiers

or anything on any kind of front line. when people are doing things that they should not do, separate them from those of us that are out here on a peaceful protest. >> reds black-owned business is on fire by their canisters. they are letting it burn. they walked past. reds, a black-owned barbecue place in st. louis is on fire because of the riot -- because of the police and the -- whoever. >> a white man walked in the street when they told us to get out of the street. what's that about? >> we have to go. don, throw it back to you. >> yeah, all right. jake, thank you. we're going to talk to leo. leo is the young man who was overcome. can we get leo more towels and water. overcome with teargas. what happened? who do you work for? >> i'm a freelance photographer out of albuquerque, new mexico. >> what happened? >> i got hit with a canister and

then it dropped on my feet and exploded and everything came up. >> what went on? what precipitated that? >> people weren't leaving the middle of the road. and they dragged all the cones a and, yield, do not enter sign in front of the police line. like 100 feet away, and the police kept asking them to leave. and when they department leave, they just launched -- >> more towels, please. >> gas into the crowd. >> thank you. and that was that. and then one hit me and then hit the ground and, yeah, i just couldn't breathe. >> how long were you down? >> i don't know. people were grabbing me and pulling me out. i don't know. some guy pulled me out and then i kind of hit the floor and i couldn't breathe. it felt like my lungs, like i was under water and drowning. >> were there other people down there who got hit as much as you

did? >> i can't honestly tell you. there was gas everywhere. and -- whew. yeah it was not fun. >> to say the least. did you see the molotov cocktails? >> i didn't see a molotov. the only thing i saw was water bottles being thrown. and i haven't yet seen a molotov cocktail. and i know it's going around. not seen it yet. >> there have been reports of shots fired. >> i did hear some kind of shots by the quik trip. i looked over and couldn't see what was going on. man, i look like a mess. >> you can see yourself in the monitor here. >> yeah. >> do you have any clothing over here? >> i have my storage car over there. >> where are you from? >> albuquerque. >> did you ever think you'd be

witnessing this in an american city? >> i witnessed it in albuquerque. if you now know albuquerque, we have a lot of police shootings as well. >> so you have witnessed -- you have been hit by tear gas before? >> yeah, i was in the army, so i went through the chamber. but i didn't remember it like th this. >> i'm not sure considering what you just said that your odds are not real good that you get hit with tear gas. >> you know, i love this being on the front lines stuff, but sometimes, you feel a little brave and you know, you could go a ton of times and nothing happens and then it's just that one time, you know, bullets don't have navigation systems on them except from the back. and you can't tell where they are going. >> yeah, exactly. >> so you get hit, it's part of the job. >> you going to go to the hospital? are you going to get checked out?

>> are you going to go back out there? >> yeah. >> this is jake. he was on live trying to help you. >> oh, were you? >> yeah, i walked you part of the way. >> man, i couldn't tell who was who. >> you got hit but you said you're fine? >> did you hear any shots being fired, jake? don't go anywhere, leo. >> no, we heard earlier, we had heard earlier that there were shots at canfield, which is the street where mike brown was killed nine days ago and it's an area where it's not uncommon, according to people who live there for there should be shots heard every night. i don't think it's necessarily even related to the protests, mike brown, the police presence. i think it just happens sometimes. in terms of the standoff down the street, we were there and there was clearly people throwing things at the police. police were not happy barricades were being erected. >> what about molotov cocktails? >> i haven't seen any. doesn't mean they're not there. i haven't seen one. there have been -- our

photographer john was over there when somebody threw a bottle, a glass bottle. i've seen plastic water bottles being thrown. clearly there are people in the crowd trying to provoke the police, but they are a minority in terms of the people who are here. down there, a little more provocative. >> i have to say something. i have been here the whole week, and the people of ferguson have given me water, given me rides, protected me, helped me hide when police were firing the little rubber bullets on us. i have to say, hey, i love the people of ferguson and i know there's issues, but i hope they get the right thing done because they've been really good to me. and before i came out here, that picture wasn't painted. but i have to say, people of ferguson, they are really awesome. >> the local pastor said of the people trying to provoke the police, some are from out of town. some of them were from the neighborhood. but some of them are from out of town. but according to everything i've seen and according to everything

i hear, it's a minority of the people here. >> and you and i had the same experience and leo had the same experience as well. well, not with that. he's standing here, wait until you see the tape of this. we'll send you a tape of this. >> oh, man. >> but people here just wanted to -- they really just wanted to be heard. >> yeah. >> they would come up to me and say i'm so glad you're here. i want to meet you. it wasn't the picture that was being painted about the folks here. >> i think that's right. for the most part this evening, the protests were peaceful. and people were abiding by what they were supposed to do according to what had been hashed out between the community and the police, a continuous march in a loop. then that stopped and people started congregating here, and then the police presence grew and you saw what happened. >> what do you think? you've been here how long? >>ive think i've been here since tuesday or wednesday. >> what do you think, as you've been here on the ground. we sort of swoop in. but after a while you sort of

get an idea of what's going on. what's going on here, leo? >> i think it's just an issue of, like, a long-term treatment of the people here. and they feel like they've been subjected to racism by the cops. they're not being treated well. they are african-americans, and they go buy groceries and are walking home and they get stopped. they are walking to school and they get stopped. they are just -- they just are tired of it. and it's understandable. and it's not fair to be treated that way because of the color of your skin. and i don't think michael brown is the one issue that started it. it's decades. >> it's a flashpoint, though. >> yeah, it's like, you know, the needle in the haystack and then they finally found it, and now it's going off. >> so there was a pastor here that you should have on your show tomorrow. i'll have him on mine. he is from cincinnati where you

might remember 15 years ago, they went through many of the same things. riots, police shootings. accusations of racism by the police. and the system changed. the policing system changed there, he said. and he's here to -- here. >> can we get more water, please? >> and hige's here to talk abou the different policing systems that should work. community policing as opposed to whatever they are doing here now. >> yeah. and so, you know, there's a car that had earlier where the issue was they said there was an issue with someone being shot. it's odd, you know, we don't know what's going on with that. >> you know, a lot of -- even when i was sitting down before, a lot of people just want justice and peace. and that's it. there's nothing else besides that. i hope something can happen. i would hate to see another trayvon martin situation. >> one thing --

>> come on in here as well. go ahead. >> the point that somebody just made here is, if you -- let's say you're here in this area right here and you want to go home. you can't. there is the 101st airborne right there. there's another presence down there and you know they're serious. they're not playing down there. what do you do? where do you go? what if you came out here completely peacefully and you just want to exercise your try to protest. things got crazy. you want to go home now. >> you absolutely -- >> it's not plugged in. >> they want to say we want to go home. they are saying we literally can't. when can we go home? they are trapped. >> that's teargas. >> do you smell that? >> tear gas. >> that's probably the same tear gas from before. i don't think that's new stuff. >> that is tear gas and, boy, that is --

wow. >> that's my little gig. thank you so much. >> hang on. >> leo, take my mask. you aren't going to go through it twice. >> there's tear gas in the air here and some people are being overcome. our crew is being overcome. are you guys okay? is everybody okay? you okay, jake? >> i'm fine. but here's the question -- >> i know. i'm going to hear about this but that's okay. >> but the question is like, why are these police still here? what is the helicopter -- like who -- >> come on, jake. >> but who is left right now? >> it's like 100 members of the media and 20 protesters. >> why are they still here? >> come on. i understand what you are saying, but i don't know if

there should be -- i doin't kno if there should be this much preference. >> there should be law enforcement presence -- >> but what's necessary is an organized drawdown. where police begin to move back as people begin to leave. people want to go. there's teargas in everyone's eyes. people closer to the street have more teargas in their eyes. everyone wants to go home and police are keeping this going with their presence and these helicopters. something needs to change right now. >> yeah. >> okay. we're going to take a break here because, obviously, there's an issue when it comes to tear gas here. >> whoever makes gas masks -- >> this is breaking news on cnn. everyone in our immediate vicinity is being overcome by tear gas. they are rubbing their eyes. itchy, scratchy throat. it's not enough to really don a mask for an entire period of time, but it is definitely extremely, extremely uncomfortable. we'll take a break here.

i hate to take a break in the middle of what's going on here but we'll take a break and be back with our breaking news on the other side. i'm here with marc lamont hill and jake tapper and leo, an independent photographer who was overcome with tear gas. we'll be right back after this. spokesperson: get a $1,000 turbocharged reward card

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breaking news. if we sound a little odd here it's because we have been sort of overcome with tear gas. and i'm joined by leo who has had tear gas. you really got the thick of it. marc lamont hill joins me as well. you okay? >> i'm okay. i'm good. >> all right. >> it's tear gas. as good as you can be with tear gas. >> ed lavandera is down the street. he's been in the middle of all of this. what's can you tell us? >> hi, don. we're on canfield, and this is heading down the street toward where michael brown was killed. justice a little while ago, this is a restaurant on the corner. there's a group of what i saw a few minutes ago about 15 to 20 men down this street here on canfield. and you can see that two armored vehicles have made their way down the road there.

and they had set fires, like a barricade of fire across the street just a short while ago. and i saw one man running up to the restaurant here and had thrown some sort of fireball. it has since been extinguished and hasn't done any damage to the restaurant there. flamed out by itself. another one there in the middle of the road which you probably can't see in the darkness. just beyond where the tanks are -- the vehicles are there, there was a line of fire and as the armored vehicle started making their way through there, the men started dispersing into the crowd. now we're hearing authorities are telling people to be aware that they are hearing reports of shots fired and this is at the corner of canfield and west florissant. this is just one block from the qt convenience store that had been burned down. from our vantage point, there's a great deal of attention. there's a team of s.w.a.t. officers off to my side over here waiting for some kind of

instructions or some kind of news. excuse me, don. we see officers trying to go through. it becomes much more residential as you go down the street and obviously much more dangerous for the police officers that are going into -- sorry. they are telling people to turn around and walk away because it is not safe in this area. the officer is saying they are trying to find the group of probably 15 to 20 people, from what i could see justi a little while ago. as soon as those armored vehicles came into the area they started running after they set that line of fire. so now we're also hearing that the officers are saying they heard shots -- report of shots fired. so back into this neighborhood. back toward the area where michael brown was killed. another chaotic scene. we'll continue to monitor the

situation, guys. >> lrall right. thank you, ed. we want you to stay safe. i'm joined by leo who is a freelance photographer. and you are from albuquerque? >> yes. >> marc lamont hill is with us here as well. marc, the tear gas has subsided. >> yes. we're clear again. the air is still thick but much better. we can see now. >> considering the little bit that we got, right? >> look at you. >> i can't imagine. >> yeah, i have some choice words for this but they can't be on the air. but i don't even know what happened. once it takes a hold of your lungs, all you do is start thinking about your lungs and then one of the cnn guys and came and picked me up, i guess and then another guy. and then the people of ferguson were pouring water. they came out and poured milk and mag nes meiu s magnesium on.

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back now with our live coverage in ferguson, missouri. the large police presence here on the scene. and as i said earlier, a city under siege here. most of the protesters are gone, but none of the law enforcement. our crews, the protesters overcome here on the scene by tear gas. it was very tough to breathe. we spoke with a journalist just a short time ago, a photographer, freelance photographer who had been overcome as well. the little bit that we did get here, nothing to the extent that he did. he laid on the ground for quite some time. our jake tapper helped to get

him up and get him to safety and get some water on him. so we appreciate jake for doing that. that is a video of that happening earlier on cnn. and as we were doing -- >> the ferguson market parking lot needs to disperse with the exception of the media. the ferguson market parking lot. needs to leave immediately or you could be subject to arrest with the exception of credentialed media. do it now. >> i'm sure you can hear that. everyone on this parking lot, they are asking -- >> everyone on the ferguson market parking lot that is not credentialed media needs to leave immediately or you will be subject to arrest. do it now.

>> so as we watch this unfold, i want to get to my guests from -- for some analysis on this. danny savalos is a criminal defense attorney. a criminal defense and constitutional attorney. charles blow, a cnn political commentator and op ed columnist for "the new york times." guys, i want you to be very mindful that i may have to cut you off at a moment's notice. so please, if i jump in, be respectful and let me jump in here because we are -- >> everyone who is not credentialed media needs to disperse immediately. >> we need to come back to us. i'll get to you guys in a moment. so police are moving in. can you -- the protesters are saying this is our house. we're not going anywhere. police are moving in in force. if we can come to the camera here you can see that now.

>> -- or you will be subject to arrest. do it now. >> down in front please. thank you very much. >> if you are not credentialed media, you need to disperse or you will be subject to arrest. if you are the media, please move to your designated area. do it now. >> police telling everybody who is not part of the media to get out of the area. if you aren't credentialed media, and if you are,

tactical gear. the police are out in force. they are wearing gas masks. they are wearing helmets. and the protesters where we are standing -- >> if you are not credentialed media, you need to disperse immediately. >> -- with their hands up. >> or you will be subject to arrest. do it now. if you are the media, you need to move -- >> they are moving in. we have a shot. they are moving in. they are moving in. if we can get a shot of that. police are moving in. there we go. >> credentialed media, you need to move within your designated area immediately or you will be

subject to arrest. do it now. if you are not credentialed media, you need to disperse immediately or you will be subject to arrest. do it now. >> please down in front please. >> you need to disperse immediately or you will be subject to arrest. do it now. >> come over here. come over here. take -- bring the camera over here. >> he can't move it. >> you need to head up the hill. >> what's going on, officer? >> we're clearing out this area. it's not safe to be here. >> you are moving the protesters or the media. >> we're move progteing protest.

>> why is it not safe? >> gunfire. >> was there gunfire earlier or going on now? >> i don't have time to talk about it. >> don, there's been gunshots -- >> again, we're being told that if they aren't members of the media if you aren't credentialed you need to move out now, and they are saying as soon as we can, members -- can you move out of the way see woe can get that shot. members of the media, they want us to move as soon as possible. they say it is not save to be in the area which is interesting, marc lamont hill, considering there is so much police presence here. >> the one good thing is they are moving this way which is giving people a path to go home. we were instructed to go to the command center which means we can go up that hill which has been blocked off the last four hours. the way they moved down the street with guns drawn toward people. again, i'm afraid there will be one more antagonism before this is over. >> you see someone there being

taken into custody. with those plastic restraints that we have been showing you. and again, if you can come over here, they are starting to arrest more people. you will see a line of people who are peacefully submitting to police officers. i would imagine they feel that it is their right to assemble and to protest. and now they are being taken into custody one by one. >> they were standing in the street. while you were talking, they were standing in the street. some got on their knees and said it's our streets, it's our hood, we're not leaving. >> cnn's jake tapper, where are you, and what are you seeing? okay. we're not hearing from jake. we'll get back to jake. they are moving down the street. and they are saying if you are

the media, you need to stay within your designated area. if you are not part of the credentialed media, you need to get out. and as he is saying, do it now. so it is going to be interesting to see how this ends. if you look across the street, can you pan over to your right? this way. there is someone on the ground here that they are arresting. do you see that between the sign and the van over there? mark, can you move, please? >> so again, this is all unfolding here on cnn. you saw the officer come over and said as soon as we need to leave but no one has bothered us since then. the guy on the bullhorn is saying that there is a lane of

traffic open for everyone to get out, but he is saying media should stay in their designated area. and now they are instructing people about which way to drive out of here. and they are moving some of the protesters and some of the members of the media. they are making them -- they are making them move back to -- i think -- are they saying we should move to the command post and there's a lane of traffic open for us to move to the command post? we're here live, so until they come over and tell us to break down immediately, we'll stay here. obviously, we'll abide by police, the orders of the police. but we are essential media, and we are going to say here until they absolutely tell us to come over and that we must, must go.

>> you see young men down there who once again are saying we're not going home. they have their hands in the air but are in the middle of the street waiting for police to arrest them. they are making a peaceful demonstration. >> cnn's jake tapper, where are you, and what are you seeing? >> we're here at the mcdonald's. john, get over there. we're here at the mcdonald's. you can see this has been a standoff between police arresting protesters whose hands are in the air. hands up, don't shoot. and they have -- they were giving warnings. get out of here unless you are credentialed media. if you don't get out of here, we will arrest you. some individuals, not many, a dozen or two dozen, sticking around and they have been put on the ground and handcuffed. now you see the troopers and the police telling the media to get back. >> while they take care of these lone protesters.

these spare protesters here and the there. that's the scene right here. this huge police presence for very small number of protesters. they have presumably, the ones who were left, who had their hands up, have now been arrested. and -- >> jake, hang on. jake, hold on. officer, say again? hang on, jake. >> you are in the area for public safety. >> we're clearing this area. please leave for public safety. there's been a gone gunshot victim. please leave. >> as we said earlier there was possibly a gunshot victim. so they are asking us to clear the area. so i will leave it to the producers in the control room to give us some guidance as to what you would like us to do.

we're going to gather ourselves here. we're going to go to break and come right back. don't go anywhere. breaking news continues, if not with me, cnn international will pick it up, but we'll definitely let you know what's going on. i'm don lemon. we'll be right back.

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this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church. >> i'm errol barnett. if you've been with cnn, you've been watching breaking news out of ferguson, missouri. protests did erupt once again. we should note, not to the extent we saw 24 hours ago when there was a curfew in place. currently in ferguson there is no curfew in place, but i believe we're now -- this is from earlier, of course. we'll connect with our teams on the ground live as soon as possible. you watched as police and

officials in a unified line moved down this street where only about a few dozen or so protesters remained and told our news crew there, don lemon and others, that it was no longer a safe area for us to broadcast from. the police saying moments ago there had been a shooting victim not too far away and for those reasons, this intersection which is very close to where an unarmed black teen was killed by a police officer last week, this area is no longer safe. so we're going to continue to speak with our teams there on the ground as we bring you this breaking development out of ferguson, missouri. >> and if you are just joining us, you can see these police officers, they have gas masks on and this has been the problem, too. our team an the ground, they were overcome with tear gas at various stages. and people, the crowds there. what we're hearing from most witnesses, a lot of the leaders of these protests is there are a small number of provocateurs and

they are causing the problem here. and the police are trying to get those people corralled into an area so that they can then deal with those problemmakers. those bad actors if you like to call them that. this has been the problem all along. for the most part, these protesters want to get out there and they want to voice their opinion. and their rights to get out and protest about what they see as an injustice done to michael brown who was shot over a week ago now. so now the scene is most of the protesters have gone home but then there's this small group now that these police and this incredible show of force here. we know there's been no curfew for this evening, but at this stage, we've got the national guard out there in force, and then this small group of people. this pocket of people that have caused problems. they've been trying to provoke the police. they earlier threw molotov cocktails at the police and then they responded with tear gas and

stun grenades. >> that's right. in these next few seconds it will be midnight in ferguson, missouri. the images you're seeing now, though, are from earlier. there were peaceful demonstrations throughout the day. a number of clergy trying to serve as a buffer between protesters and the police. this was, as you see there, a small scuffle that was visible earlier but not representative of what was mostly seen throughout the day. u.s. president barack obama made a statement from the white house monday saying that really the community needs to build, not to tear down, need to listen, not to yell. we need to understand each other. that's how we bring justice and bring about peace. this incident has the attention of noft only everyone in the state but the entire country and indeed the world as it represents two things. the ability and the rights of people to protest and also the responsibility of the police to provide security. our don