when something happens and something goes on fire, large crowds generally move in that direction to see what happens and news spread quickly. >> shannon: again, we have to apologize to the viewers that you will see and hear a lot of profanity as we are covering these life events tonight. that is the way it will be. steve in minneapolis. is this woman talking with you? or trying to share a message of any kind? >> i'm just trying to let it go. >> shannon: we know, all of us who have been in the field that tv cameras, especially when it looks like it is live with lights and microphones and reporters, attract a lot of attention. sometimes it is good and sometimes it is not. sometimes people have a message, sometimes it is something else. but steve, as you continue on the ground in minneapolis, i know that you were not able to see the start of what happened

at the gas station, how far is that from where you were with the liquor store and the other businesses that you saw the same things happening? >> when you see a gas station on fire, you really wonder if you are an amateur and don't know too much how far away you should be, and i have to tell you, there are people very close to this gas station that is on fire. some just a few feet away. so really, just walking up and down the street, it is a remarkable scene of destruction, cars on fire, gas station on fire. there it goes. and you see people really close with their phones trying to get a close shot. then running away. we are moving out. we are moving out. >> shannon: steve, get to safety. we are monitoring a number of places. we have to make sure that they are safe. we have reporters that are willing to walk into this stuff. you can have the story and it is accurate and you know what is happening on the ground could we are going into extended

coverage. you are looking live outside the white house where there have been some scuffles with u.s. secret service, officers who are there in riot gear and trying to maintain peace. let's look in with jonathan terry who has been monitoring the situation in atlanta. he has some updates on the ground. what can you tell us? >> shannon, can you still hear me? >> and we can, we can hear you. if you can hear us, we can hear you. >> yes, i hear you as well. we are still in downtown atlanta, now about three blocks from cnn center where the looting erupted earlier this evening, you can see that there is a heavy police presence outside the cnn center after the rioters, the protesters started hurling bottles at them and empty teargas canisters, even firing fireworks into the assembled police. they responded with tear gas

after several barrages of teargas, the crowd dispersed and now the police have been building a larger and larger perimeter around that cnn center centennial park area, so while there are still protesters in downtown areas, they have been disbursed so much that the crowds are much smaller and so now what you see here is where i am, a firm barrier of police preventing protesters from going back into the centennial park cnn center. but also in other parts of downtown just mop up activities wherever there are trouble spots, the police quickly responding. but right now at least in the immediate area of centennial park, it seems like they have the situation under control. the crowds largely dispersed from the area where massive numbers of people were assembled earlier this evening.

setting a vehicle on fire, looting cnn center, breaking windows, spray painting walls, so obviously right now the situation is a far cry from that. it appears that things are beginning to calm down here in downtown atlanta. but shannon, as i said before, i just can't say it enough. i have never seen anything like this in atlanta, a city that prides itself on peaceful protests this is by far the most violent protests in the most destructive protest that i've ever seen in the cradle of the civil rights movement. back to you. it's going thank you very much for the update from atlanta, we are monitoring flareups all across the country. and bakersfield, california, we have been in all kinds of different places across the south come out west, the middle of the country, there have been protests in louisville, denver, a number of areas. we are trying to keep an eye on

cincinnati as well. we want to check in with mike tobin in minneapolis. mike, there is a very different theme from what jonathan terry is showing us in atlanta, heavy vehicles, heavy armed officers, and what we are seeing in minneapolis where you don't have the cover of law enforcement and it seems that that is only encouraging or at least allowing this behavior that many of the protesters fear is drowning out their real core message, or at least as what this started out as. >> it is hard to say many of the protesters feel that their messages drowned out, but certainly some of them and some of them that we have had the good fortune to speak with feel that they have been drowned out. but as you are looking at 31st street, i can tell you from my observation the numbers have thinned out. there is the party going on, but i want to show you here off in this direction, it may be hard to see with the camera at

nighttime, but there is a bunch of smoke, and what i have from a contact around the other side of that location is that that is the wells fargo bank that is burning. wells fargo branch bank that the demonstrators have set on fire. they tried to set fire to a couple of other buildings out there. you saw when we were in the back of the office depot, dollar tree, that is the same type of complex. it is one of those strip malls with a number of different facilities in it. so the office depot, the dollar tree are being looted in the wells fargo bank branch is on fire according to what i am hearing from a contact who has a different vantage point and i've. as you look out onto the 31st street all the way down to the area that is called the fifth precinct, the fifth precinct headquarters, you can see some of the fencing in the distance, that is the fifth precinct. you saw the demonstrators that were lined up for a really long time pressed up against the fencing chanting, and there is a very small police presence that

has been visible from the fifth precinct. but now it looks like the demonstrators got a little bored with themselves or their position. maybe they are getting tired, because the numbers have dissipated to some extent in this area, shannon. >> shannon: mike, we'll check back with you as we continued the extended coverage here. thank you very much for your updates and facts on the ground. we want to recap for people, correspondent alex hogan is in new york up-to-the-minute on what is happening in new york and beyond, because this is spread across the country tonight. good evening, alex, what can you tell us? >> good evening, shannon, we saw the protests really change just like so many of the stories we are hearing from our colleagues in different cities tonight. but we saw in new york the small protests of about 200, 300 people this afternoon changing and marching through new york city, more people joining them as they marched across the brooklyn bridg brook, where we saw massive loads of

people outside the barclays center and more, it was turning into a tense situation and there is a lot of anger involved in a lot of pain for the people who watch this video on monday saying that there needs to be radical change in this country. that these things cannot happen. but of course, not that kind of protest that lawmakers and the city wants to see. the mayor is even in brooklyn tonight, and tweeted "we have a long night ahead of us in brooklyn, the sole focus is de-escalating the situation and getting people home safe." there will be a full review of what happens and we don't want ever to see another night like this. so another night like this to talk about what exactly we are seeing, we saw in brooklyn the people set a police van on fire, a video of them surrounding this fan, setting that on fire, police called a level 4 mobilization to bring up and level 5 would be the most springing police from the

borough's income of thousands of protesters gathered outside the barclays center in police processinprecinct, and they bron fans to control the setting and bring some people into those fans after they were arrested. so people who work for the city are just saying that this is not the kind of protests that they were expecting, we want people to practice not only social distancing right now because of covid-19, but to be able to protest in a peaceful manner, just not what they are seeing tonight. while things are de-escalating, just again, not what they were hoping for. >> shannon: peaceful protest has evolved. it looks like new york could be settling. we will continue to monitor the situation. as you get news, alex, please let us know. thank you for your report. we will take you back to the scene outside the white house here in washington, d.c., where leland bitter has been for several hours, the situation has been tense at times, the uniforms, secret service

officers, most of what they do it's very discreet and quiet, they also look into treasury crimes, forgery of financial crimes, what they are doing tonight is a very different assignment, there has been an ebb and flow, what can you tell us about the situation just after midnight on the east coa east coast. >> things have increased in terms of the confrontation between the secret service officers who are now in full riot gear and the protesters. we have had some type of chemical irritant is what law enforcement would call it, pepper spray or tear gas as things got exceptionally tense to try to push back these protesters who have broken down much of the bicycle barricade. and when we talk about that, i will show you what we are talking about. this is what the secret service has as their first line of defense in front of the white house. they look like bicycle racks. they are more heavy-duty than that. in the secret service pulled him together with handcuffs and by clock wire and padlocks. the secret service broke through the protesters breaking through

that secret service line of defense. they brought out to now there right gear, and they are making a stand. and onto pennsylvania avenue and some of it is under construction, and right up to the front door of the white house. at the secret service has a couple of people injured, bricks thrown, number of firecrackers, and tons of water bottles thrown. now they are brought out a lot more of these bicycle barricades. conceivably a rebuild of the barricades, and under a little bit of a difficult circumstance, they are trying to push the protesters back, whether or not they are going to try to push everybody back with the pepper spray or teargas and then rebuild the bicycle barricade, i don't know. it might be the merciful thing terrain and quell some of the tempers. but shannon, as the night has

worn on, the tempers have increased, the vitriol has increased and the violence against the secret service officers and agents has increased. as we talk about so often the secret service takes great pride in the discretion with which they do their jobs. and the show of force right now that we are seeing in front of the white house, just discreet, i saw some of the right shields, and now starting to push everybody back. so this might be the beginning of trying to rebuild the bicycle barricade. and a couple of people are pinned. whether they try to arrest them, i don't know. but this is the scrum and this is where things get very difficult inside one of these riots scrum's, and you can hear some of the salty language that has been thrown at the secret service. they are letting the protesters come back out from inside the scrum, and despite the number of

arrests, and injuries to the secret service officers, just from smelling the air if that is pepper spray or teargas that is coming back. and that might be the way that they would try to push the crowd back without having to actually go hands on in the way they just did. but now might be the time that they try to rebuild the barricade with those handcuffs and also the wire. one thing that was interesting coming you asked if there is something that some people once, and there is not a centralized message. we hear a lot of "black lives matter," no justice no peace, and some salty language put towards the president. i talked to one gentleman who did not want to go on camera, he said i'm only here because my 17-year-old daughter is here and i'm trying to protect her. i asked him to talk a little bit more, he said i can't, and just having a hard time with her out here. so there is a real fear of the level of violence that is going to come out here. and if you talk to people to try

to reason about, hey, why are you angry at the president of the doj? that is not much of consolation to them. as the sand off now the secret service continues, but the secret service at six, seven, eight, nine, 10:00 seems to be endless and wearing quite thin after the barricades were broken down and at least a couple of the officers were takd to be nonlife threatening, but potentially serious injuries from either of these firecrackers or bricks that have been flying over. now we have the rain coming down coming in my time in protest and your time out in the field, you know that rain occasionally sends the crowd home, but also it leaves the most ardent protesters or demonstrators, whatever adjective you want to use to describe these folks out here. >> shannon: you referenced a little bit further of the shot, you are able to show us, and may be vehicles that were standing

by should they begin to carry out arrests. >> we can show you those. we can show you those. at the secret service has brought out one of their big supply trucks. that's where all of the riot gear came from. and down pennsylvania avenue they staged one of their bigs, they look like 15-passenger vans, and creates of many jails. in terms of the protests i have covered in different cities and places, i've never seen a police force that was confronted in this way repeatedly with bricks and other kinds of things show this kind of restraint. the secret service is very clear, they do not want to make arrests out here. they really don't want to get to that point. but they also are not going to let anybody come across this line. we saw when they did. first came the pepper spray and the teargas, and then the scrums with the right shields pushing back. it's been on the last live shot where we visited a few minutes ago, it looked like there was one officer who was taken off

the front lines that it looked like they were trying to assess an injury. any updates? did they stay on the line? are they receiving medical treatment? >> we definitely saw the secret service medics come out and look at a number of officers including the one that was taken off. had some kind of head injury, and taken over. a little mini command post, and further down the fence line they have a couple of other staging areas, we did not see an ambulance coming out, the officer was able to walk away under their own power, in these protests things can get awfully violent, awfully quickly. and with the bricks that have been thrown and obviously we have had those firecrackers go off. people can get hurt. if somebody takes one of those to the head and things could go badly. it goes back to how the secret service wants to handle this. they could've come from all directions to arrest these folks and push them out, et cetera. and that has not happened.

it's a credit to the secret service and you hope that the violence will stop. the standoff certainly has not. rain has not stopped it. it teargas has not stopped it. and the pushback has not stopped it as well. it would be difficult to talk to any of these officers and try to get any more of an update in terms of what is happening. there is another water bottle that came from all the way in the back. it is clear that whoever the more angry agitators who are out here are pretty well organized. and they have a plan. they came with both waters, bricks to throw, and they also have firecrackers, and there has been a number of nonviolent protesters. a lot of people saying that they don't want to be -- they don't want to be violent. they are standing and chanting, they have signs. a lot of kids are out here. and also to have the people who are very clearly willing to resort to violence, and also very clearly willing to break down the bicycle barricades. and then you have somebody else

who is saying that by reporting on the protesters, we are putting them in danger, which for all the riots i have covered, that is a new one at 12:20 outside of the white hou white house. >> shannon: let me ask you, because not long ago you were out in baltimore for several days covering the unrest after the predicates -- freddy great case it there. how do you assess what you are seeing tonight after a very touchy situation in baltimore also? >> in baltimore much like what you are having in minneapolis, there is no law, the police have pulled back, and hooting and riding runs wild. it's something that was more kin to what i have seen in libya or perhaps some nights in egypt, and certainly not what you would expect to see in america. i never thought that i would see something like that in america. this is a very different situation. this is clearly a protest with the secret service who now was

in plainclothes, and now right shields because people are breaking down bicycle barricades. it is a contained and controlled situation, probably the biggest difference between what you see in baltimore or minneapolis or any other town, the police will make a stand. before there has been calculated decisions. we reported on it in baltimore and clearly have a new minneapolis part of the police made a calculated decision to allow the riders to burn off steam, burned down buildings, let them loot, et cetera. that has happened. that's not going to happen here. the protesters are not going to go past here over to the white house north fence. that's not going to happen. the secret service will make that very clear, as long as they don't try, the secret service will let them do whatever they want in lafayette park. where we have had these confrontations, and pretty sizable ones when the protesters have started to push in there, and that's when we saw the secret service come out with the right gear et cetera. it is unclear as the brain is

coming down harder whether or not the secret service is going to begin to start rounding up the people who are bringing in the firecrackers and et cetera or whether they will just hold the line, shannon, right here. they certainly have all the security lights on. we have seen a number of the observation posts up on the top of the white house. folks moving around and et cetera. they are taking no chances. this is a line that has been drawn. >> shannon: leland, we will check back with you pretty he is live outside the white house in washington, d.c. as the situation does not appear to be dying down, it is 12:20 on the east coast. across the country and every time zone we are monitoring protests in minneapolis. in cincinnati, in bakersfield, california, there are flareups all over the place. so let's check across the country as we see violence and looting in many places, we want to check out what is going on in the west coast where senior correspondent rick leventhal is standing by reporting from the l.a. newsroom, bring us

up-to-date on what is happening out west. >> good to see you. a third night a protest in los angeles across the region led again by the group black lives matter. they gathered outside l.a. city hall and move through the streets of downtown, mostly peaceful protest, but then there were numerous incidents being reported between these demonstrators upset about the death of george floyd in minneapolis and the l.a.p.d., officers on bicycles were frank clement flanking some of the demonstrators and then there were skirmishes were in some cases liquid and garbage were thrown on the cops that lead to scuffles and attempts to pull the demonstrators who were throwing things out of the crowd. one local reporter says that he was punched repeatedly after he shoved a protester who tried to grab his microphone. the l.a.p.d. tweeted out a warning to residents tonight saying due to ongoing protest, we urge you to avoid the downtown l.a. area including side streets and freeways, please avoid the area tonight

due to ongoing protest, also in san jose, three nights a protest with hundreds of demonstrators marching onto the 101 freeway, and southbound lanes were blocked, others on the upper deck of the bay bridge, and one officer has reportedly been hospitalized after a violent confrontation with a crowd in san jose, last night people, nine people were arrested after rocks were thrown at businesses and vehicles and police in numerous windows smashed, in the mirror released a statement saying anger and peaceful protests will always be appropriate responses to injustice. violence will never be. united outrage in minneapolis, but the police will take a measured approach in facilitating peaceful protest, but there will be no protest of violence or damage to the city. where you can see there are incidents on tonight. protests in the phoenix area

where there was another separate police involved shooting that left one man dead along a freeway, and police were forced to fire rubber bullets last night. at least one police vehicle was smashed, and you see large crowds of people in the streets of phoenix. we have also heard about hundreds of demonstrators on the las vegas strip with police in riot gear blocking entrances to major hotels trying to disperse the crowds and keep them from coming onto those properties. plenty of action on the west coast and the region as well tonight. shannon. >> shannon: we will check back with you as things are very much in play. bye for now we will go back to minneapolis where mike tobin is on the ground. this is bakersfield, california, that you are looking at right now or there continues to be a peaceful standoff at this point. 9:23 on the west coast. we will monitor that with rick keeping an eye on all the activity in california. in the western part of the country, but for now back to

minneapolis which has been the core and the crux of the most violent reaction that we have seen. and mike, it seems like last time we checked in, you are getting word that a wells fargo bank was on fire? it is very smoky from your vantage point, what can you tell us about what is happening now? speak with the smoke that you are looking at right now, shannon, is the post office at the corner of the 31st street and first avenue. and about 15, 20 minutes ago we heard the glass break and saw some of the kids run in and out. any started to see just a little bit of smoke out of the post office, and now you can see black smoke is billowing from the post office. what you don't see is any fire trucks. you don't see any law enforcement. we mention the wells fargo bank, some fireworks going off in the background. it's hard to see it now because there is so much thick black smoke in front of it. that is a block away from our location. what we have from our security personnel that is working with a

cameraman out there, what happened was that there was an atm and i don't want to call them demonstrators, because you are talking about somebody who is a rioter took a car and rammed it into the atm in that car was set on fire. because there was a fire at the wells fargo, it could be a supplemental fire inside that particular branch. there is fire nearby the office depot and the dollar tree as well. a lot of fires, the crowd has dissipated, but the looting continues. a short time ago somebody went down the street with a will dolly and he had cases and cases of red bull. last night we saw some kids running with bottles of liquor under their arms holding cell phones and giggling to someone that they had just robbed of the liquor store. so when you talk about the people. we interviewed people that were very concerned about what is happening. very concerned about the death of george floyd.

hoping that they can make a statement and make a change, you have other people who are opportunists hoping that they can get armfuls of liquor and a dolly full of red bull. maximizing the situation, and the kids who come out here and they are angry and they want to break things. and set things on fire, so you are seeing all the above, and you do have people who are very angry that once again we are talking about one of these situations, the death of a black man at the hands of a white cop, and they are angry as they are lashing out. what is the motivation? it is a little bit all the above, shannon. we are watching the fires burned in this area, and no law enforcement, anarchy rules the streets. unabated. >> shannon: mike tobin, thank you very much. if you will stand by, we have an aerial shot in dallas, texas, where we are going next. there is an overlook of what is going on in the city, you can see a heavy police presence, we have not heard or seen any

reports of damage like we have seen in minneapolis, but you can see that there is a heavy police presence, that shot coming into us from katie fw. as officers want to be ready for any potential trouble, and you see lining up against the street way, it appears that there are, possibly creating a barrier against something that they are expecting or seeing in the area. several officers look like they are out of their cars talking to each other. perhaps this is an area where they have -- okay. okay. we are told that there were protesters in the streets earlier this evening, that some tear gas was used in dallas, that there were protesters who were crossing the line of appropriate behavior from peaceful into not so peaceful, that may be why we are seeing in part what is this aerial view in dallas with officers appearing to set up an area in which they

do not want people to cross. let's go back to atlanta, because we have seen has heavy presence, tracking officers and also large vehicles of things that would send a message. and when we talk to to you stay an hour and a half ago, jonathan, we were seeing teargas and crowds and a lot of unrest. what are you seeing now? because what we are seeing on the streets as far as law enforcement presence in atlanta is very different than what we have been seeing in minneapolis where mike tobin and steve harrigan, no law enforcement present. how is this playing out in atlanta. >> we have been following the police as they enlarge their perimeter where the looting began. we are probably six blocks from cnn center we have seen a lot of

windows and businesses that were smashed in earlier, right now you see a lot of protesters facing off against a line of police. for now these protesters are being peaceful. and policing to maintain the perimeter and just moving back any closer to cnn center and centennial park where all of the mayhem erupted earlier this evening. also, we are noticing that while there are protesters in downtown atlanta, they have been dispersed outwards where the individual groups of protests are much smaller than what we are seeing earlier in the evening. moments ago the governor of georgia, brian kemp issued a statement saying that at the request of the mayor of atlanta and inc. consultation with the public safety and emergency

preparedness officials, he has issued a state of emergency for fulton county. that is the county that this part of atlanta, downtown atlanta falls in. it actually falls in several counties, but this part of atlanta, the crux of atlanta, and certainly downtown atlanta, fulton county, he plans to activate as many as 500 georgia national guard groups to protect people and property in atlanta. he says that they will deploy immediately to assist other law enforcement agencies that are working in his words tirelessly to subdue unlawful activity and restore peace. shannon, earlier today, the mayor of atlanta has assimilated a team of people, civil rights leaders, and hip-hop artists to urge calm among the protesters. among the people she assembled was rapper killer mike, and i believe that we have a

sound bite queued up from him earlier this evening, if we can listen that out right now. okay. i am told we don't have that sound bite. but others have been weighing in as well. andrew young, former atlanta mayor, former united nations ambassador and certainly a major player in the civil rights movement in the 1960s, a confidant of dr. martin luther king. he issued a statement tweeting "tonight and tomorrow night we have to round up the reasonable young people and let them know that they have made their point and now they hurt their cause." and that is really their frustration that a lot of members of the old guard of the civil rights movement are expressing with some of the young people who would like to take on the mantles, wall all of

this mayhem serves their cause not at all, shannon, back to y you. >> shannon: jonathan terry, standby, we will check back in with you in atlanta, the fire on the other side of your screen is minneapolis again. mike tobin is on the ground and has been monitoring this. what can you tell us about the situation just after 12:32 on the east coast. >> there is a new fire right in front of us and it looks to be the china express. yes, that is the china express restaurant, which the popping was more fireworks. the flames are leaping up from that chinese restaurant. there is a hibachi grill and a china express parade i can get down from the vantage point to get a good look. but it is going off. and more fireworks are going over the fifth precinct. we hear reports that

law enforcement is massing at the fifth precinct. but we cannot see them. all we see are the demonstrators running wild on the streets, maximizing a guess what they can get at this moment. and burning everything they can. the flames are really leaping up out of that building. you see the black smoke. so in my general area, there are three fires, you have fireworks going off in the shot. but you have the chinese restaurant that is burning, little bit to the left you have the post office now with the black smoke billowing out of it, and what you can't see just past the black smoke is the wells fargo bank that was on fire. we just saw it right next to the fifth precinct, if you go out there, that looked to me to be a molotov cocktail. it was a flame that looked like it was thrown, not just shot out of anything and hit the ground and looked like liquid accelerant that spread out around the area, which would indicate that that was a bottle filled with some kind of

flammable material and thrown at the fifth precinct. you have some lights coming on now, those look like they are car lights. largely it looks like the crowd from this area has dissipated. but it is hard to tell because there's so much black smoke, shannon. >> shannon: mike, let me ask you, you talk about the fifth precinct and that is the area where you are, last night you were at the third precinct, and we went live, you are able to tell us that there was an evacuation. it sounded like the press conference at the national guard was involved in getting the officers out of that situation in the third precinct. the fifth precinct tonight it sounds like there is an massing there, did you sense that there were still officers who were trying to hold the fifth precinct in there from your camera shot some type of law enforcement in heavy gear that is proceeding in minneapolis, something we have not seen very much of the last two or three nights.

>> we are finally seeing some numbers of law enforcement, they are popping what looks to be teargas in front of them and you see in the distance there are flash bangs going off, and now you can see the kids scrambling. ballpark i would say you have 15 officers with one, two, three, four vehicles with them. more vehicles on the way, and they are making a slow advance up 31st, east 31st street in the direction of nicolett street. there are some fireworks going off in the foreground that was not the flash bang from law enforcement, but you have from our vantage point a small number of police that are advancing in the direction of the fifth precinct. more fireworks in the foreground, and clearly those roadside fireworks are coming from the demonstrators. and the police that we saw in

their vehicles, you can barely see them as they are getting lost in the black smoke, most coming from the post office that is on fire, shannon. >> shannon: so what is your sense earlier tonight that the fifth precinct was still manned and still law enforcement. but there had not been the kind of evacuation that you saw with the third precinct last night. >> it was pretty similar in terms 'that we saw from law enforcement. he really did not see the officers poking their head out of the third precinct last night, and there was some wonder as to whether it was left unmanned because of the demonstration, but once the demonstrators started getting up and threatening the third precinct, suddenly he saw the flash bangs going off, and a small group of law enforcement in the light riot gear come around from the back of the third precinct, and to the teargas and the rubber bullets from that vantage point. and now a situation where the

demonstrators are encroaching on the fifth precinct, and late into the evening, some presence of law enforcement moving up the street with the teargas and the nonlethal weaponry at the ready, and i just saw some more flash bangs off in the foreground, making slow progress off of -- down east 31st street. i don't see something like the kids back filling. it looks like they are clearing the street and it is remaining clear. >> shannon: again hard to see with the taillights going into the heavy smoke, but what mike is telling us and what we saw moments ago that there was a police presence in a number of officers and cars, it looks like one large suv vehicle proceeding towards the fifth precinct where there are crowds. but as we see the smoke behind you and the flames around you, it would seem that this is the first from your vantage point

and where steve harrigan has been as well, the first that we have seen law enforcement moving in. it looked to me, and i don't know if you could tell where you were that it was local police. we heard the national guard would be there to support and protect them to give them safe passage, any sense that there were additional agencies? >> what we just saw to be world local police. and what we have not seen since the initial announcement that any protesters remaining on the street would be in violation of the curfew, that was 15 minutes before 8:00 local time, that was 15 minutes before the state patrol, the troops from the state patrol retreated to retreated, retreated some more, they released to some smoke and then they were gone, and the demonstrators were free to run the street with nothing holding them back. and little by little we saw the fires getting set and they

started getting whipped into a frenzy and we started getting reports of looting in this area and came out to check it out and sure enough, things were looted and as we watch throughout the evening, things were set on fi fire. finally the hour is 11:30 eight local time, and 5 minutes ago we saw the law enforcement show up. i would not say that was a massive show of force, and they worked their way up the street and started clearing the street. >> shannon: it looked like maybe just north of a dozen officers and vehicles that were heading. keep us updated. i know that it is tough from your vantage point to see what progress they are making. but again, the first show of law enforcement as we see what appeared to be burning fires, several of them behind you. in the area around where you are. we will check back in with you. we are taking a number of looks around the country. atlanta where we have been reporting and hearing from, jonathan terry tonight, where it seems like at this moment there

is a peaceful standoff, when we first checked in at the 11:00 p.m. eastern hour, there was a lot more activity. there were some jostling and teargas that was looking to disperse the crowd. they are heavy duty vehicles as you can see, armed to law enforcement officials on the streets. and it seems that everyone is maintaining their distance and maintaining the peace for now. and at least in the area where jonathan is reporting from, we have been bringing you pictures from phoenix, from bakersfield, california, from new york. protests bleeding over into violence, minneapolis the most pronounced, but again, there are number of cities. we are getting word on the situation in seattle as well. and continuing to look across the country and let you know. some of the biggest disruption we have seen tonight, no property damage or much physical damage, but we have seen very

vocal crowds outside the white house in washington, d.c. we lynn better has been reporting where uniform secret service officers have tried to keep it barricaded and keep the distance. it started raining, which you talk about sometimes that is a little bit of a deterrent, but how is it playing out now at 12:41 at the white house? >> no deterrence, you have the anarchists, the hecklers, and people who are angry, and a hard core black life matters folks in the standoff, we have discussed they have drawn a line in the pavement. actually between the bricks of lafayette and the pavement of pennsylvania avenue, and they are not going anywhere. they are taking incoming bricks, incoming water bottles, incoming firecrackers, and then they have gotten in return some teargas, pepper spray, chemical irritant, and we have also had a number of

pushes by the secret service officers who normally would be in plain clothes or in uniform said they would see sometimes when the president is wandering around the white house, they have now traded that out for the riot gear. a number of the officers have taken either bricks or something else, they are injured, and a lot of protesters have gotten injured when the pushes happen, so there is a very different feel out here, but this is clearly a flash point that the protesters don't want to give up. they have had rain come down, and we have talked about the teargas, and if you ask them, what do you want? there is not a clear answer, there are some colorful insulting language, we cannot repeat, there are chants of black lives matter, and even when the protesters put their hands up and try to push into the secret service lines, that was not enough to not be pushed back. you have to understand the

amount of restraint that the secret service has shown has been going on for almost six hours has really been incredible. the numbers have increased and we now have 100 secret service officers and obviously a huge number of reinforcements on areas we cannot see. they have turned the lights on, the big security floodlights pointing this way, so you cannot see what is happening. i will give christian a second opinion up so you can see how close we are to the white house. here is the protest with the secret service, the protesters have broken down all the bicycle barricades that the secret service uses that are handcuffed together. that's what was broken through, and you can see some of those being pushed. the crowds moving down to break down some of the barriers, and the riots moving down as well and the protesters moving down as they move back and forth. they have to hold this line, because they are broken down all of the barricades. i don't know how many they have.

speak of the is that secret service members have escalated the issue, that is why people are riled up. >> nice to meet you. what are you out here for? >> i am out here, because we are hurt. we are angry, we are tired. we are tired of being victimized and killed and brutalized. and it being swept under the rug. we are tired. >> so you are tired, what -- hold on, what is the message. >> are you asking me because you don't know? >> i am asking you because i'm giving you an opportunity to talk on live television. >> the problem is black people are murdered over and over and over again, and nothing is being done about it. >> the president of the united states is inciting violence against americans. speak of the president has ordered the fbi to investigate, they say they are, the officer has been charged with murder, are you willing to give those

investigations a chance to work -- >> i have a question. i would rather have a question, when i am more concerned about, why is it okay for the president of the united states to tweet that he wants to send the military to kill american citizens -- if you shoot somebody, what is the intent when you shoot somebody? you are not shooting to -- >> you think that looting should be allowed? >> why do you think we are looting? why are we living? you know why we are looting! >> okay, so you can see just how angry this crowd is, shannon. they are pushing us around. we are getting him to turn around where the line is. that's basically where the things are out here. >> shannon: it is a heated conversation outside the

white house. a lot of frustration, again, the apologies. this is live television tonight and a lot of high emotions. you are going to see graffiti and hear things that include profanity. our apologies. we are looking live in dallas. it is 11:45 local time and we have seen police presence on the street. we were told that there were some crowds there were "rowdy" and that there was some teargas that was used. we are seeing an increasing presence on the ground as the police presence. it heats up in dallas. now to phoenix where 10:46:00 p.m. there and you are getting an aerial view of what is happening in phoenix. we are seeing clout to enact crowds. we have no assessment of any damage in dallas or phoenix, but we continue to monitor what is going on after increased activity protest. we don't know that this has moved over, and things that we are seeing in minneapolis, very clear that there are number of fires burning, and we have had

our cameras on people openly looting, business is all kinds of businesses, we will keep an eye on dallas and phoenix, we are watching bakersfield and cincinnati, and a number of hot spots tonight. atlanta, new york, many others as well is the presence on the street of law enforcement is very busy. as you saw at the white house, very heated. let's go to mike tobin, because he has been in minneapolis, and we check back in with him, as the backdrop increasingly because flames and smoke crosses across the city when we were told that there is hope that there would be more controlled tonight with the national guard brought in and the announcement that the officer who was seen with his neck, his knee on the neck of george floyd has been arrested on murder charges, we are told that more charges may be coming for additional officers as well, it does not seem that that has been enough to quell the passion and the unrest tonight.

>> certainly not, and i want to update that we were talking about the new fire that had started off in the background, we can see the flames really leaping out of the front of the building. it is not the chinese restaurant that we thought it was from the vantage point. what building in the area, there is a rental agency and a tobacco store and there is a money gram store, those flames are really coming out. so that was a fire that was just black smoke with a little bit in the way of leaping flames, as we are talking the heat, the intensity has increased dramatically as we are watching, the flames are just leaping out of that building. about a block away from here we did see police presence show up. that's what we were talking about. we watched the group of law enforcement work their way up the street. what we don't see right now is any law enforcement in this particular area. i'm getting some unconfirmed reports that the guard is in this area, but i am not seeing it. all i am seeing is the angry mob. here's something interesting as

that building is burning, it is attracting a lot of attention. you see the kid showing up with their phones out trying to get the video and put that stuff up on instagram. there is a car right next to the fire, and actually not too concerned about the danger that that fire brings, it's obvious that the heat is intense when you flames leaping out like that, but the kids are running around and they are starting fires and looting of the they are looting the dollar store, and up to this point we have seen really just a small number of cops out here doing anything about it, shannon. it's going please keep us updated and we will check back in with you as that situation continues to unfold in minneapolis. we want to take you back to the white house where leland has been reporting on a very raucous crowd, we want to make sure that you are okay. >> yah. >> shannon: i know that you have said that there are more officers on the scene, this is directly outside the white house. what is right behind you over your shoulder.

but what about the crowd? can you tell us has a groan? has it dissipated at all, nearing 1:00 a.m. on the east coast outside the white house. >> you can see me looking around and keeping my head on a swivel. the crowd in numbers has not necessarily grown, but in intensity and anger has kind of grown. if you cover these things, you get a sense of who is looking for trouble and who is not. earlier i may have miscalculated that in terms of being able to interview, that's part of the problem is we are trying to hear what people's grievances are versus just really hearing the angry rants. as we look, this is the standoff between the secret service and what is left of the people who have survived about six or seven hours out here, the rain, and then some teargas, or pepper spray. the protesters have been throwing bricks, water bottles, whatever else at secret service and shown an awful lot of restraint. there is a chance going on with some rather salty language about what they feel about the

president of the united states in front of the white house. and this whole line is bicycle barricades. you can see the secret service running down, that is typically uniformed officers who are now wearing all of their riots gear. they have spread out to. protesters have broken down part of this bicycle barricade. so there is part of it that the secret service has to stand shield to shield to shield. and the protesters have seem to have gotten a little bit smarter out here, because they outnumber the officers in the officers have to match them one for one barricade. if the protesters spread all the way out -- if the protesters go ahead and frame up on me, if the protesters are able to fan all the way out, they may be able to get over some of the bicycle barricades. there's no way they are getting into the white house. you have about 15 or 20 feet, and then you have the 15-foot high white house fence that has

now been completed. so shannon, now it is up to the protesters, the secret service is not going anywhere. and unlike anywhere else, this is a stand that they are going to make. because they have drawn a line in the pavement between the bricks of lafayette park and the pavement of pennsylvania avenue. in these protesters seem to be able to chant, throw firecrackers at the secret service, but they are not going over this fence anytime tonight, shannon. >> shannon: that is the point of a protest is to be able to in this beautiful country of ours to say your piece, to make your voice heard, only law enforcement, the secret service guarding the white house will have to make the call, whether they begin any arrests, which thus far they have been pretty restrained as far as we can tell has not happened. we want to do a round robin with our brave reporters on the ground and have seen all kinds of things tonight. jonathan, give us a recap in atlanta. and we will end our two hour

coverage, which will continue. let's check in with jonathan in atlanta. >> yes, we started out at cnn center near centennial park, where there was looting taken place at cnn center. what is happening now is police have been moving a larger and larger perimeter outside that central downtown tourist area. right now we are on forflush sythe street. so far things are peaceful, but a fark cry from earlier this evening when we saw people hurling protesters hurling bottles and other objects as the police were launching some fireworks into the police and then police responding with tear glass which is what finally disperse the crowd from that very concentrated and very

volatile area just outside cnn center. shannon, back to you. >> shannon: thank you very much. the coverage will continue through the night, jonathan is there. let's go to mike tobin who has seen a lot in the last two or three nights. give us an assessment of what you have seen tonight. and where we are now in minneapolis. there is a tweet from tim wallace 12 minutes ago where he said the national garden state patrol are on the ground as well as local police. and trying to secure the situation, but what i can tell from this vantage point, we have three fires that i can see. there is tobacco, rental agency, a money gram building with the flames leaping out of the front window. a very intense hot fire. as we go off in this direction to screen to the left. we will see the wells fargo bank

branch, and just passed it to you can see some flames. i assume that is the same fire, could be a fourth fire and i can show you what is black smoke, and that is the u.s. post office, so three fires in this area, a small police presence spread as we look on, and looking at the fires as the flames are leaping into the air, we hear talk that there is some law enforcement in the area and we have seen minimal law enforcement in the area. >> shannon: i know that you have been there for a matter of days, have you heard from local business owners who have had to show up the next day and see rubble where their businesses once stood? >> i heard from the neighbors at the target where the day after the target was looted it was still being looted and nothing was being done about it, there was no law enforcement after the

people who were just streaming in and out of the targets carrying whatever they could still find and it was terrible for the real estate prices, and and through the difficulties and through this. they just wanted life to return to normal and whatever was going on was not fair to the buildings inside the target building working and honest day. and already through a financial hardship brought on by the pandemic, and today still can't work because somebody thought it was in their best interest to go and trash. >> shannon: i want to check in with leland from a final message from what the scene as they are.

let's take it back to jonathan terry and atlanta, there has been a lot of that, he is right there in the crowd in lafayette park, which is a place that has been a long term a protest, it just outside the white house. a little bit volatile, the secret service remains with the riot gear and the barricades trying to keep peaceful right outside the white house, let's check in where at this moment there is a relatively peaceful protest underway. >> it is relatively peaceful, protesters shouting, mainly at the police, but also a little bit at the media. there is an attitude of distrust, and the mainstream media a lot of people preferring to watch their own facebook streams and social media streams, the problem with that is that you are preaching to your own echo chamber, and some of the old guard of the civil

rights movements would love to sit down with some of the young people and give them some coaching on how you do things that appeal to the general american public, how you attract media attention in ways, even though the media are generally unbiased, you can do things that attract the nation's attention that when people over to your cause. clearly that is not what is happening here tonight, shannon. >> shannon: briefly, jonathan, a lot of the action in atlanta was centered on cnn. can you tell us about what went down with respect to their property? >> that is the other thing that was very disturbing about this. and it goes along with that distrust of the media that they would attack this media outlet there was a lot of vandalism taking place at cnn, even the iconic cnn logo, the large cnn

letters outside of the atlanta headquarters. where they were spray-painted and vandalized, and windows were shattered, and access to the inside of the building and things are tense inside cnn center certainly outside and protesters hurling objects at police, firing fireworks into police. and tear gas, dispersing the crowd, and with the crowds dispersed, seeing much smaller groups of protesters than when they were all concentrated around cnn center, but as you can see, the rhetoric is still very heated, shannon. >> shannon: thank you for your coverage. we know that it will stay on the scene in atlanta. with his knee on the neck of george floyd, before he died,

and and has been arrested for murder or manslaughter, and possibly other officers. we will give you overnight coverage, tossing it to rick leventhal on the west coa west coast. >> this is a fox news alert. i am rick leventhal in los angeles. a curfew is in effect and response to the death of george floyd in police custody. and clashing as officers try to crush the streets. the minneapolis unrest spreading to other u.s. cities including atlanta, and washington, d.c., and here in los angeles with the secret service and uniformed officers trying to keep the situation under control before demonstrators threw bricks and other objects at demst