hello. i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm errol barnett. a big welcome to those of you watching in the u.s. and all around the world as we keep our eyes on a number of

places. it's 2:00 a.m. in new york where demonstrators have taken to the streets. 1:00 a.m. in ferguson, missouri and 11:00 p.m. on the west coast where there are a number of demonstrations taking place. but first, well'll just look at the big picture of what's happening in the u.s. racial tensions are spilling onto the streets of cities across the country a day after a white police officer was cleared in the shooting death of an unarmed black teen in ferguson, missouri. for the most part, demonstrations have been peaceful. take a look at this map, major cities from coast to coast, border to border where demonstrators have shown their support of the michael brown supporters in ferguson. >> dozens of buildings were burned or looted in ferguson when it was announced that a grand jury would not charge

officer darren wilson in the august killing of 18-year-old michael brown. missouri's governor responded to that violence by tripling the number of national guard troops deployed in ferguson on tuesday. a move ferguson's mayor criticized as too little too late. >> let's connect live now with our team on the ground in ferguson, missouri. stephanie elam joins us now to bring us the latest information. stephanie, at last check, we saw large groups of i think the national guard and other police force clearing many of the streets. the governor had tripled the number of national guard troops in the area. how calm are things now? >> reporter: pretty calm, errol. you can see that this is one vehicle that they brought out here to help clear out the streets. it's still here, but overall, the street is clear. the protesters have been pushed out. we just witnessed this one last parking lot get cleared out of the few remaining protesters that were out here for the night.

but overall, feeling a lot calmer. it does seem like things have -- are done for the night here. you can still see across the street that the national guard is lined up in front of the police station here. but before we were talking about how they had their gas masks on. they've taken those off. most of them have their face protection, those masks are up now. so feeling a lot calmer here on the street as we now are well into the middle of the night now. and it is still cold out here. i can see that the police that just pushed through this parking lot on the other side of the camera where i'm standing, they're now coming back towards the police station. everything here feeling a lot calmer going into the second night after finding out the fate of officer wilson and finding out he wasn't indicted. >> so residents will be comforted by the fact that things are much calmer tonight. hopefully they'll be able to get more sleep. stephanie, when we connected with you yesterday, people were

reacting to the grand jury decision. today, we heard for the first time from darren wilson, the man at the center of all of this, and he really seemed to not be that remorseful. he didn't think he did anything wrong, and he said he would do things the same way in the interview he did with abc, what, how did the people you talked with today react to that? >> reporter: well, there's definitely a lot of people who see things from two different sides. there's still a lot of people who feel like all they wanted walls to have a trial play out for this officer. that's what they were asking for. so they feel like justice isn't done. they say what he says happened is not the case of what really happened. obviously, it's one of those situations where you have these different viewpoints. it's not to say anyone is making up what they believe they saw that day, but they differ. the opinions differ on that point. but other people coming out and

supporting darren wilson. that message is out there in multiple places. you don't see it here. i was at one protest earlier or last week at this point, where there was one woman who showed up by herself supporting darren wilson. her point that she kept yelling was, your life mattered, every life matters. there was a little bit of a shouting match and that was it. but you don't see that here. you don't see that coming out here on the street in this part of ferguson. but from the conversations of people i've had over the times i've been here in ferguson, errol, i've heard people voice support for darren wilson for sure. >> stephanie, stand by for us. there you are in ferguson, missouri. we want to jump now to live pictures out of los angeles, just past 11:00 p.m. there, as we've been telling you. there have been a number of nationwide demonstrations? solidarity with those in ferguson, missouri, happening all over the u.s. in los angeles, what we've seen tonight are demonstrators going

on to the 101 freeway, and we also saw protesters walking through some of the main streets. and now as it gets very late, we're seeing what appear to be police officers in force. the police helicopter possibly shining down to keep an eye on these demonstrators who appear to be moving between a few of the buildings. we don't have much more information as we watch this come to us by our affiliate. >> what we were hearing this was that the police cars were trying to shepherd the protesters away, out of the way at this hour. of course, it's just after 11:00 on the west coast. it is 1:00 central time in ferguson and 2:00 p.m. here, of course, in atlanta, georgia. and on the east coast. so we want to give you an idea that even at this hour, people are still out there in solidarity. >> still that emotion. that note you made about them herding in a way, trying to

peacefully getting people to coalesce in one area. stephanie, what method did it appear police were trying to use where you are in trying to peacefully get people to disperse? >> we did see this before, errol. they are speaking early. they're saying several times, it's time to disperse, because of things being thrown, this is no longer a peaceful assembly. it's now an unlawful assembly. please leave. if you don't, you will be arrested. they made that announcement several times. it was different in tone to previous times that we've seen these interactions with police. the man on the how would speaker from the vehicle actually said, those of you dispersing, we thank you. just keeping it a lot calmer. they took their time before they went into the parking lot and

pushed people out. there were arrests. we witnessed a handful of arrests. they took people in, but there wasn't the big shouting matches we had seen before when people were being arrested. so that was one thing. and slowly, slowly pushing through the other parking lot. so it seemed to be a little bit more calm on the police part you they were moving people out of here, errol. >> do you think that's what is key here, as we look at this national debate, that the relationship between the police and the public needs to be one of increased respect rather than coming in with full riot gear, throwing out tear gas and being surprised when people are upset? >> reporter: that we saw how that played out in august. we saw how that was. i was here then in august. you could see it. you could feel the tension. you could feel that moment when you knew things were going to break. you do see people running here

and there. there may be pepper spray. there's been tear gas, we know that. but it's not in the magnitude that we've seen before. excuse me, there's more controlled response, it seems to help keep things calmer. >> stephanie elam, live for us in ferguson, missouri, just past 1:00 in the morning. a much more peaceful scene tonight than it was 24 hours ago. possibly in part by the behavior of the officials, but also possibly because there are the behavior ofdemonstrators, swem. >> we did mention we're hearing from the police officer who shot and killed michael brown. darren wilson tells abc news he feared for his life as brown punched him in the face and tried to grab his gun. >> wilson says once he was able to get out of his car, brown charged him and he had to make a split second decision to shoot.

>> i gave myself another mental time-out, can i shoot this guy, legally can i? and the question i answered was, i have to. if i don't, he will kill me if he gets to me. >> even though he's 35, 40 feet away? >> if he hasn't stopped yet, when is he going to stop? after he's coming at me and i decide to shoot, i fired a series of shots. >> and that is darren wilson's side of the story. the man who was with michael brown when he was shot is standing by with his version of events that brown was surrendering with his hands up when officer darren wilson shot the unarmed teenager. >> i know exactly what i saw. i was there the whole time, and i definitely saw my friend stop and put his hands up, being compliant, after being fired upon, after already being struck with a bullet wound. he had already shot my friend. so there's no way i thought he

would believe that he could take on an armed police officer, why him himself was unarmed. >> this is a situation where the prosecution was apathetic, where officer wilson encountered that he didn't think were human beings, he acted upon it and the prosecutor allowed him to get away with it. nothing that has come out discredits what dorian johnson said, compared to officer wilson's testimony that he had 30 days to prepare and once he got it together, he was given that testimony to avoid indictment. the fact that we could avoid this testimony and not have an indictment is just sad. >> dorian johnson's side of the story there. and u.s. president barack obama says he and the u.s. attorney general will launch a series of regional meetings to discuss the sometimes strained relationship between police and minority groups. >> that's really key.

the u.s. president is uniquely poised to communicate and bridge that divide between whites and blacks in the united states. mr. obama says he understands the frustrations felt by people in ferguson, but insists violence is never the answer. take a listen. >> to those who think that what happened in ferguson is an excuse for violence, i do not have any sympathy for that. [ applause ] and i have no sympathy at all for destroying your own communities. >> another key question that emerged out of yesterday is why did things become violent? things were peaceful for a while, then all of a sudden buildings were set on fire, cars were set on fire. we want to take a look at a pivotal moment monday night in ferguson, which could explain that. >> not necessarily suggesting it was the trigger, but certainly this played into part of the narrative there, and captured by "the new york times." we see michael brown's brother,

leslie, reacting to the grand jury's decision not to indict you officer darren wilson. >> watch closely here, you'll see that the grief turns to anger when brown's stepfather addresses the crowd. >> i've been here my whole life. i ain't never had to go through nothing like this.

>> that was somebody's son! >> burn this -- down! burn this down! burn this bitch down! burn this bitch down! >> okay, you can hear the call there, and the attorney for the brown family, benjamin crump, says the video captured the couple's desperation and frustration. he admitted brown's stepfather's call to the crowd was inappropriate but said that he shouldn't be condemned for it. >> yeah, that was just pure emotion and anger boiling over

there in a very raw moment. raw emotion. we're continuing to cover this still developing story from los angeles to ferguson, missouri to new york and beyond. we're going to keep you updated on every aspect. we'll have more after this very short break.

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we're still hurting. it's basically i feel like they just kilt him again. >> michael brown's father there, calling for peace amid violence over the decision not to charge ferguson police officer darren wilson for fatally shooting his unarmed son. >> and everyone got to hear and watch darren wilson for the first time. he broke his silence on tuesday, telling abc news he's sorry for the loss of life, but he says his conscience is clear because in his opinion he was simply doing his job. >> st. louis county prosecutor robert mccullough has become a lightning rod of sorts since his announcement of the grand jury decision. >> cnn's ed lavandera takes a look at the man behind the controversy. >> a first year law student would have done a better job of cross examining a killer than the prosecutor did.

>> reporter: that's the criticism aimed at prosecutor robert mccullough. >> all decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evidence and the credible testimony corroborated by that evidence. not in response to public outcry or for political expediency. >> reporter: he lodged his own criticism, lashing out at news organization and social media. >> the most significant challenge encountered in this investigation has been the 24-hour news cycle and its insatiable appetite for anything to talk about. following closely behind with the non-stop rumors on social media. >> reporter: the grand jury's decision follows calls for mccullough to step down. the prosecutor's objectivity has been questioned, in part because of an event that happened when he was a child. in 1964, his father, a police officer, was shot and killed in the line of duty by an

african-american man. the future prosecutor was just 12 years old. he once told the st. louis post dispatch, "i couldn't become a police officer, so being counter prosecutor is the next best thing." 14 years ago, two unarmed black men in st. louis were killed in a hail of gunfire, more than 20 shots fired by two white police officers in a botched drug bust. at the time, he called the victims bums. a grand jury didn't indict the officers, and mccullough refused to file charges. despite the tide of recent negativity, he's been re-elected every time since he first took office in 1991 as a democrat. but that's the history that fuels the prosecutor's most vocal critics. >> he has shown in the past he is not sensitive to the african-american community. >> [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> reporter: even with the grand jury decision behind him, he still has in naysayers, questioning how the evidence was

laid out and why he decided to make the announcement late in the evening when protests were more likely to get out of hand. ed lavandera, cnn, ferguson, missouri. >> and we want you to stay with cnn for the latest developments on the news in ferguson, missouri. our team of reporters is spread out across ferguson and the neighboring cities. stay up to speed on your smartphone or tablet by logging onto cnn.com. >> as we look at the week ahead, the busiest travel day of the year for the u.s. may meet up with the worst weather day yet of the season. we'll bring in our meet jips now to detail that. a lot of americans are watching there, planning to see their family and friends for thanksgiving. but you have people internationally coming to the u.s. and want to know how bad this is going to be. >> flights in and out of the

united states, over 200 flights have been canceled. things are about to change dramatically in the coming hours. 45 million people have been warned of inclement weather, severe storms as a possibility, with snow and accumulating rainfall and snow in the forecast. when you look at the numbers, aaa telling us this is going to be the most traveled for this holiday season since 2007, with the immovement in the economy you look at the economy, 46 million people set to travel. so here you go, at this point generally partly cloudy skies. most people don't have early morning flights. if you're getting off work on wednesday taking an evening flight, the track is working out the details of the forecast. one saying it's going to be more of a rain mixed with snow, the other saying heavy snow.

but by the evening on wednesday night across the northeast, cities like boston could see six inches. new york city could pick up six inches of snowfall ahead of the thanksgiving parade on thursday. baltimore and d.c., a couple of inches in the forecast. starting your wednesday morning with rain transitioning into snow by the evening hours. once you work your way out of the northeast on into the midwest, a few delays possible there, as well. again, with this nor'easter that is shaping up across this area, as well. >> so if you're headed to the new england region, just be patient. >> it is the same story every year. >> it is. we're going to take a short break. we want to let you know we are

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as we take these live pictures from los angeles. now at this stage, we understand as we take this aerial shot that these protesters are refusing to disperse. you can see more or he is they've been rounded up into this section of l. a. at this stage, they have been peaceful protests for the most part. but we're keeping an eye on this. it is nearly 11:30 p.m. on the west coast. it's 1:30 in the morning central time in ferguson, missouri. this is a olympic boulevard there in los angeles. it's really a small group of protesters there, refusing to disperse. this is the santa monica highway. these protesters, all lanes have been blocked on the highway. at this point, we are hearing, as we take these live pictures,

again, these protesters refusing to disperse. but still, a peaceful scene and that has been the case in ferguson, too. these protesters out on the streets in support, in solidarity of those people in ferguson. >> and this olympic boulevard, a major, major street there in los angeles, also near the santa monica freeway. so demonstrators making their voices heard by clogging up what is already bad traffic in los angeles. but certainly doing that to make a point. so we'll keep our eyes closely fixed to many locations in the u.s., where we're seeing demonstrations. while we do that, we want to bring you other major stories happening in the world. police in hong kong have their work cut out for them. they cleared one of the major protest sites in that part of the world after two -- and arrested two of the democracy movement leaders. it came after police used pepper

spray to push back a large crowd there. a day ago, at least 116 protesters had been arrested for scuffling with authorities since tuesday. let's connect now with our anna coren, live with us in hong kong. it's in the afternoon there right now. anna, it's been a while since we've been watching events there live. these demonstrators have been camped out for weeks. remind us of why they're there and how farther into their political fight. >> reporter: well, errol, as we know, this has been going on now for nine weeks, but i can say that the protests has now been officially shut down. this is a major thoroughfare here. it is open for business. there's traffic now finally flowing on this road, which for the past two months, has been

the home for many protesters, thousands of protesters. we were here last night, and there were thousands of people still camped out here. there was an injunction that was handed down by the high court, allowing bailiffs and police to move in here. as of yesterday, they moved one side. that's where we saw all those ugly scenes between police and protesters, with the use of pepper spray. we witnessed that firsthand. interestingly enough, we thought the real clash would happen today here on nathan road, because you're talking about three blocks filled with tents and structures and barricades, as well as protesters. but police moved in here this morning and within an hour, they were able to clear it. and since then, they've had the trucks through. they've been cleaning the streets, obviously removing all the barricades and structures. now it is open for business. so as far as police are

concerned, they have achieved their objective and moved the protesters on from mong kok and this is a heavy police presence to make sure they do not return. >> anna coren live for us, 3::30 in the afternoon there. we'll have more from ferguson, missouri, expecting that press conference after this very short break. do stay with us. ♪ save your coffee from the artificial stuff. switch to truvia. great tasting, zero-calorie sweetness from the stevia leaf.

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with cnn special coverage. i'm errol barnett. >> and i'm rosemary church. we are following the breaking news out of ferguson, missouri, and indeed, across the u.s. where protesters are out in force. a live police news conference is due shortly. >> take a look at what we've already witnessed, racially charged protests have erupted into a second night of violence in ferguson, missouri. to a much lesser degree than we saw 24 hours ago. we have to make the point that the situation is much calmer now. it's just past 1:30 a.m. there at this moment. but the protests have themselves spread to dozens of cities all over the u.s. those have mostly been peaceful, as well. but not without a number of confrontations and several arrests. as we've been watching, some major transportation avs being blocked. >> while this is playing out, we are hearing for the first time in fact directly from the police officer who shot and killed michael brown.

>> darren wilson tells abc news he feared for his life, as brown punched him in the face and tried to grab his gun. >> after the supervisor got there, i give him the brief rundown of what happened. >> what did you tell anymore >> i had to shoot somebody. he asked me why. i said he grabbed my gun and charged me and he was going to kill me. >> is there anything you could have done differently that would have prevented that killing from taking place? >> no. >> nothing? >> no. >> and you're absolutely convinced, when you look through your heart and your mind, that if michael brown were white, this would have gone down in exactly the same way? >> yes. >> no question? >> no question. >> you and your wife, i don't know if this word is appropriate anymore, what is your dream going forward? >> we just want to have a normal life, that's it. >> i guess it's hard to have a normal life after someone is

lying dead. >> uh-huh. >> something you think that will always haunt you? >> i don't think it's haunting. it's always going to be something that happened. >> you are -- you have a very clean conscience. >> the reason i have a clean conscience, i know i did my job right. >> so darren wilson there, and we had told everyone that we were going to go to this news conference from the police. we've got a live picture up this, but we are waiting for them to get in position. you would know, of course, 24 hours ago they did this very same news conference, and we were going to hear and we did hear 24 hours ago presumably again this hour, the st. louis county police chief, captain ron johnson, the missouri highway patrol. we know at this stage that they've been more or less or this were 21 fires or so 24 hours ago. we're expecting better news, of course, now that things have

calmed down. we should get an update on any arrests that have been made, any guns that have been seized. the situation there on the treatments that we're seeing them prepare exhibits there on the tables. so we'll get an update. >> if you look at the twitter feed, they took pictures of some of those bottles, sending out a message saying they were filled with urine and being thrown at police officers. so that will be one of the many things they'll detail as they explained their actions tonight and last night, as well. you can just see all these of what i would assume to be homemade, you know, projectiles that people they've collected over the past 24 hours, and possibly this will explain their use of force. although there wasn't any tear gas as far as i know tonight that we've seen. 24 hours ago, it was a much different scene. captain ron johnson saying 24 hours ago he was disappointed with how things got out of hand, considering all the efforts that

had been made in the past three months, as this michael brown case was sitting with the grand jury, to connect that between the police and the african-americans in ferguson, missouri. but last night, for whatever reason, and it's unclear, things did not remain peaceful. the number of businesses were burned to the ground and others were looted, as well. this morning, or i should say tuesday morning here, he apologized to the local business owners, to the community, captain ron johnson, for not being able to protect everything and everyone. but even yesterday, as we were speaking to the mayor of the neighboring district, dellwood, he was disappointed that not everything in his district could be protected and the police said they cannot be everywhere and do everything. so we're standing by and watching this hive picture out of ferguson, missouri, where it's 1:37 in the morning. a smaller presence of protesters, also our correspondents told us, by the looks it's not going to be a

pretty picture, but from what we've seen, better than 24 hours ago. >> yeah, of course, we heard all through tuesday there were these same police news conferences. looks like we're about to hear from them. and there was a lot of criticism suggesting -- okay, let's have a listen now. >> i'm going to go over some of the more significant events of the evening. first significant event was a group of rioters went on church street to city hall, broke out several windows of city hall and badly damaged a ferguson police car parked there. that happens to be the only place that we deployed tear gas this evening. most of the chemical agent you saw was smoke. but the tactical teams did deploy some tear gas in the evening regarding that also. we ended up with some broken windows later in the evening south of the police department

on both the east and west side of the road. there was an attempt to do some looting at the walgreen's. there was a car set on fire in a parking lot next to the michael brown memorial in canfield. that extended to a tree but to the a structure. that was the only time there was any gunfire here in the area was during that car fire. the fire department did not respond to the car fire because at the time they felt like it would not extend to any structure and because of the sporadic gunfire in the area they felt it was not safe. we were able to seize a molotov cocktail. there was an arrest made regarding that. i have the actual molotov cocktail here on the tailgate of the pickup truck. we seized earlier in the

evening, a 9 millimeter semiautomatic pistol. we also seized another pistol here, but i don't have any details regarding that. so obviously when we have peaceful protesters and they have the ability, even at times to occupy the street, that's okay. however, what we noticed this evening was, when we have an array of things on the tailgate, rocks, bottles, a socket extension, looks like broken tent poles that were hurled at the officers. pieces of asphalt. small bottles filled with probably something you could drink, waps water or gatorade. other bottles filled with what appears to be urine. so those are all things that we're trying to obviously protect the guardsmen and the police officers from as they treat to do their job. again, i would just like to express when the officers are having those kind of events,

it's very difficult for them to really manage the job they're supposed to be doing as well as they can. we made 44 arrests this evening. the majority before misdemeanors. we did make four felony arrests. three of them -- one was unlawful use of a weapon, and the others were assaults against police officers. i wish i could give you more details, but i'm just getting this. we'll be able to give you more regarding the nature of those arrests as we go on in the evening. i think generally, it was a much better night. we didn't have arsons. we had some reports of arsons but they never seemed to materialize. please keep in mind because it's a crime scene, all the way down to chambers it is closed. the police departments and the guard is keeping that closed while bomb and arson works on those cause and origins of those fires. i just drove through there about

45 minutes ago and there's a couple structures that are still smoldering. generally, i think it's fair to say the officers acted with an incredible amount of discipline tonight and some protesters tonight were out there for the right reason. but unfortunately, there are a few people that will try to prevent that from happening. with that, i would like to turn it over to captain ron johnson. >> good morning. like we've talked about last night and earlier today, we are committed to making sure that we continue to make our community safe. we always re-evaluate our plan and we did that and came out and worked the partnership. a lot of the protesters that came out were assisting us tonight. but once again, there are those that are stuck on violence that embed themselves with the peaceful protesters.

so we'll continue to do that. we'll go back tonight and have a briefing and re-evaluate so we can have a better day tomorrow. we'll continue to do that and our plan moving forward is to continue to make sure the businesses are maintained, the streets are safe and people still have their rights for freedom of speech and protest. >> chief, the guard presence tonight seemed a lot more visible opposed to last night. and it appeared they were more of a support role. leaving the police to do the arrest. >> exactly. >> is that pretty much the standa standard? >> it is. there's probably not an officer that's not been engaged in this one way or the other since august. so these guys understand what they're looking at. this guard, however, they are an outstanding support role for us. we really appreciate our volunteer soldiers out here for us. they can really fill in the gaps

for us. when you drive down the road here, you see the guardsmen scattered out. and i really think that's a visual. in many ways while it's perhaps alarming to some folks, at the same time, it's comforting to some, because it allows us to gain that measure of control. so the guard has been helpful. [ inaudible question ] >> it's hard to speculate on what might have happened. we talked about that we were at least hopeful that we would have a better night. and i'll be honest, i don't think captain johnson or myself or any commander here really envisioned how bad last night was. i think that was the scale that fortunately is seldom seen here in this country. i'll tell you this, i know

captain johnson and i talked about this, we're happy the guard is here in the role assisting us. >> you say you underestimated the danger and the threat and didn't bring more guardsmen and assets into play. >> i think if we ask ourselves as a community, none of us could have imagined last night was going to be what it was. i've heard that all throughout today, none of us could have imagined it was going to be what it was. if we had a crystal ball, we would have done something different. but we could have never imagined that. so we re-evaluated and i think we're there where we need to be and we'll continue to get better at it. i think now we all understand what we need to do to make this community safe. that's what i heard today. the day before, we were on different pages. what i'm hearing today from this community, we're all on the same

page. [ inaudible ] >> i don't think anybody thought it was going to be this magnitude. if you look through the operation of our country, we have not seen anything like this. so i don't think anybody would say we thought it was going to be this. we didn't think it was going to be a cake walk but we didn't think it was going to be this. >> you've certainly seen riots and destruction before. >> we have seen destruction and riots before. we have not seen anything here to this magnitude. one thing we keep saying all of us, is that we maintained life.

no one was injured. no one lost their lives. and that's a blessing. for our community, that is a blessing. it's something that we can hold our hats on and be thankful for. we'll continue to make sure our businesses stay safe. [ inaudible ] >> you saw today when we deployed our resources today, we made sure those resources were where they needed to be. we also got some help from the community today. so it's about that partnership, we just have to continue to make that, and that's what is going to make our community move forward, it's that partnership. >> chief, can you talk about how the city hall was ever at risk for fire or anything? >> the molotov cocktail was seized right in front of city hall, where the police car was damaged.

so it's fair to say -- >> was it thrown? >> i don't know how it was recovered. it didn't break, but the upper windows of city wall were broken out. obviously the police car. here's the other thing. we were concerned if we didn't go in there and interact with these rioters, that potentially anything would happen. with the amount of arsons we saw last night, we didn't want to take that risk. we were able to manage that effectively. i watched that happen and i was pretty satisfied with the way that that happened. it took us probably 25, 35 minutes, but we were able to get that to a situation to where everybody moved on. >> also today, we didn't have the gunfire we had last night. so when we found out the incident at city hall, we were able to go there immediately. >> time for two more questions. >> we'll have that tomorrow. we usually get that over in the night. we had that for today. and we'll have that tomorrow.

so if you ask, we'll have that in the morning. [ inaudible ] >> are you expecting more or less -- >> there's a lot of people in town. there's a lot of people in town now. every night we go back and look at our plan. we don't just stay at that same plan, we adjust to the situation we have. so we'll take a look at that. [ inaudible ] >> this is thanksgiving. we would ask that you come here and enjoy thanksgiving with your family. >> the parade still going to go on? >> yes, yes it is. >> ladies and gentlemen, thank you. certainly welcome to come up and film these items and ask any questions. >> getting an update there from police. we heard from captain ron johnson and also there from police chief e john bomar.

both agree this was a calmer night. 44 arrests, mostly misdemeanors, four felony arrests, including an unlawful use of a weapon and they had seized a 9 millimeter semiautomatic pistol. >> we'll have more stories for you after this short break. stay with us here on cnn. (coffee being poured into a cup.) ♪ save your coffee from the artificial stuff. switch to truvia. great tasting, zero-calorie sweetness from the stevia leaf.

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take a look at some other news across the globe. internet providers are coming under harsh criticism in the uk for not cooperating with terrorism investigations. a new report on the brutal murder of a british soldier says an online threat could have tipped off security agencies and prevented the killing if authorities had been alerted to it. atika scubert has the details. >> reporter: we know now that the killers were both known not only to mi-5 but six other security agencies months before the attack. but neither was ever a main suspect. they were only on the periphery of extremist networks. the report here is 200 pages, minus information that was redacted for security information. so the committee went through hundreds of classified source material, but in the end, they say even though some mistakes were made, there's no evidence

that any of the agencies could have stopped the attack. the main reason is, there's no evidence that the killers were planning the attack. the one thing that might have prevented the murder was a single online exchange that had it been flagged by the computer service provider, might have stopped the attack. take a listen how the head of the committee explained it to parliament. >> this was an online exchange from december 2012. in that exchange, he clearly expressed his intent to murder a soldier. this exchange only came to light after the attack. if mi-5 had seen this exchange at the time, their investigation would have become a top priority. this might well have enabled them to prevent the attack.

>> now, that american company is never named, but the committee did speak to apple, google, yahoo, twitter and facebook as part of the investigation. all said they do not actively monitor user content, because of sheer volume and in the case of yahoo, concerns about privacy. this plays into the debate of how much government should monitor online conversation and it echoes comments from the head of the spy agency here that internet companies were becoming a safe haven for terrorists. interestingly, the brother of one of the attackers criticized the report saying his brother had no online foot print, and that the sort of more intrusive online surveillance being called for would not have stopped the attack. the accomplish government is now looking into how it can legally access more of this data online and on wednesday, we also expect to hear from the home secretary theresa may to unveil new

counterterror polys here in the uk. speaking of terrorism, two minnesota men are accused of providing material support to isis. one is in custody and the other remains at large at this hour. both young men are charged with conspiring to join isis in the middle east. authorities became suspicious when one of the suspects amied for an expedited passport for turkey. two women blew themselves up in a crowded market. a medic says as many as 50 people were killed in this incident. no one has claimed responsibility. but the militant group boko haram has been active in this area. messages of concern and well wishes are pouring in from

around the world for phil hughes. he's in critical condition after being truck in the head by a ball. it happened during a match in sidney. paramedics performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation before rushing him to nearby hospital on life support. pope francis says the european union can't allow the mediterranean sea to become a vast deprave yagraveyard for ths who drown seeking asylum every year. the pope says a unified response is the only solution. it is nearly midnight on the west coast of the united states. we want to take you to these hi live pictures. there are still protesters on the street. we'll cover that in the next hour. you've been watching cnn. i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm errol barnett. our special coverage continues. more on the situation in

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