couple years ago, joe said, hey, i got this kid from alabama, he's really talented. talks a lot, but he's really talented. clayton collins, he's leaving us. >> i know, it's a sad day. >> and you, young man, surpassed even joe's greatest expectations. you have been a dynamo on this show, a great asset. we're going to miss you. >> you're not going too far. you're staying in the nbc family. >> anything quick you want to say on joe? he's on a plane. >> i couldn't be more thankful for the opportunity. i love everyone here except for sam. >> right, perfect. perfect. excellent. if it's way too early, what time is it? it's time for "morning joe." but now it's time for "the daily rundown." craig melvin is filling in. it was a hot, muggy day but temperatures did not heat up on the streets of ferguson. tonight because of the calming influence of good people. >> no more shackles, no more

chains, i am free. >> hands up, don't shoot. >> again tonight, we deployed no smoke devices, no tear gas and no mace. >> hey hey -- >> and again tonight, no police officer fired a single shot. >> i feel inspired at the fact that the community is showing love toward the family and the respect that they deserve. >> today we have a good day, today we have a good night, so let's enjoy today and know that we're headed toward a sense of peace for our community. >> a third straight night of calm here in ferguson, missouri. good friday morning to you. it is august 22nd, 2014. this is "the daily rundown." i'm craig melvin in for chuck todd. almost two weeks after the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager touched off violent protests, the military-type police presence is

scaling back here. governor jay nixon is pulling the national guard out. all of the public schools in the area will be open monday. meanwhile nbc news has learned that officer darren wilson was treated for injuries shortly after the shooting of michael brown 13 days ago. wilson was taken to an area hospital. but we do not know how serious his condition was. we also don't know whether he was actually admitted to the hospital. the ferguson police department has also released this video of officer wilson receiving a commendation for outstanding police work back in february of this year. joining me now with the very latest, nbc news' ron allen. ron, let's start with the question everyone seems to be asking right now. is ferguson, missouri, finally getting back to normal? >> well, it will certainly be a new normal, as the cliche goes, craig, because things will never be the same here after the past couple of weeks, but it is quiet again after another calm night.

this parking lot is looking more like the mall parking lot that it was before all the trouble broke out. whether that will endure, the peace will endure is a big question. it's been hot here, it's been two weeks of this. we've had torrential rains at times, that has helped. eric holder, the attorney general, has helped because i think people feel more optimistic that peace will prevail, although it's all going to take a long time. the grand jury process is under way we know. they meet once a week on wednesdays. the state prosecutor has said that it's going to be months before a decision is made whether the officer, officer darren wilson, will be prosecuted or not. so police are still going to have to keep a lid on things, and i think people here want to see progress. they want to see tangible things happen. and whether that occurs or not, that will determine, i think, the course of things. right now a lot of people are forming their opinions. we're hearing from a number of witnesses and people who say they were witnesses offering varying accounts of what happened.

and while all that's being sorted out, again, people are digging in their heels, it seems. we don't know a lot about the officer. that's one big question. we don't have a police incident report. we've heard these reports about injuries. we don't know how severe they were. one of the most important aspects of this case is what happened when michael brown and the officer came together apparently at the police car. there seems to have been some sort of altercation, some sort of back and forth. the police say he was physically assaulted then and then, of course, the encounter moves on from there to the time when michael brown is shot and killed. so again, the good news here, a night of calm. everyone hoping it endures while this community sorts through and sorts out what happened. craig. >> ron allen less than a mile away from me at a smaller command center. ron, thank you. ron has been here from the beginning. zachary roth has been as well, msnbc.com. really quickly in terms of the investigation, what's next? >> as ron said, they meet every

week, they meet on wednesdays and so they have said this will -- they will continue to present evidence. it will last through october, so a relatively long timeline before they would be bringing charges. darren wilson will testify, they have said. he has not done so so far, but he will have the chance to do that. >> no testimony, no statement of any kind. we haven't heard anything from the officer. you wrote an interesting piece yesterday from the website about how some are using this as an opportunity to galvanize voters. >> that's right. there was a lot of focus in the last week or two on the fact that although ferguson is two-thirds black, it's run by mostly white people. the mayor is white, five of the six councilmembers. so there was a voter registration table out yesterday on florissant. antonio french is organizing a big voter registration drive. people are using this as an opportunity to get people engaged in the process, especially young residents of ferguson who have been very kind of disengaged from the political

process. leaders are now saying you've got to get involved in order to make some change here. >> zachary, thanks as always. do appreciate it. thanks to ron as well. local leaders are praising the peace in ferguson, again a third straight night of peace and calm, missouri's governor continues to face some tough questions about race relations going forward. msnbc's chris hayes asked governor jay nixon last night whether officer wilson is getting preferential treatment. >> you can understand how people look at this. i've had people say this all week. they see it, you know, there's a certain segment of the population that says this guy is essentially on a paid vacation. >> there's rules in place for each one of those departments. those transparent rules, those things that they have used in the past, they use here now, and so i understand why emotions run high, that's for sure. >> joining me now is one of the governor's toughest critics here of late, state senator maria

nadal. your tweets always seem to be making news here recently. watching governor jay nixon on chris hayes' show. he is completely uncomfortable talking about race relations. was it that bad? >> yes, it was. it's quite evident every time he's asked about how he has performed within the african-american community, his communications, relationships, there's always a stutter and a pause. so even last week when there was a press conference, it took about at least 15 or 20 seconds for him to actually articulate a full and complete sentence. >> why do you think that is? >> because he's uncomfortable and he always has been uncomfortable. and when you know that you've done wrong, there's always a bit of hesitation. it's one of those points of nonverbal communication when you can tell someone is uncomfortable with a question. >> what would you like to see governor nixon doing instead right now?

>> i'm glad you asked me that. you know, it was quite evident that the governor finally came to ground zero for the interview with chris hayes yesterday, but he didn't sit down and talk to young people and those outside of michael brown jr., those are the victims really in this entire situation. so what i want him to do is to come to our ground zero here on west florissant or at the police station and sit down with young people and ask them why they feel so intimidated by police officers and why they have been harassed and what they would like to see happen in the future. until that happens, there's always going to be a disconnect between the people who are hurt, like michael brown and others who are still living, and government. and the governor is right there in the middle. all of the accountability is square on him. >> why do you think we've seen the protests dwindle the way that they have over the past few days? >> we've had some tremendous leadership. i do credit the governor for having captain johnson in this community. he is a native son.

also having eric holder here really impressed a lot of my constituents. they were very happy to have someone at the federal level who actually shows up and asks people their concerns. and so i was hearing on the ground when we were protesting yesterday just how excited and comforted my constituents were. so i was really happy about that. >> and you think that this peace, this calm, this order, that it endures through the weekend? >> well, i hope so. what really matters is the grand jury. and if there is an indictment and if there is a conviction. if that does not happen, i think we're at square one. and again, the accountability is squarely on the governor with this. the community has wanted an independent prosecutor. the governor says he doesn't want to do that. i have talked to several elected officials about the governor's decision on that. and everyone has the same conclusion, that if there is not a conviction, then the governor cannot want to accept that responsibility at all, so he's

laying it squarely on prosecuting attorney bob mcculloch. >> you think it's purely a political move? >> absolutely. >> all right. always enjoy your perspective. >> thank you. >> always enjoy your perspective. up next, defense secretary chuck hagel sounding the alarm on the threat of isis. also some new details this morning on the failed attempt to save kidnapped journalist james foley, straight from his own parents. >> jim's courage and particularly his compassion and love in that box, which they called it, was -- was an answer to prayer. jim's strength and love was the answer to prayer. jim was held up by all that prayer. spokesperson: get a $1,000 turbocharged reward card

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jim wanted to be there because he really embraced the suffering of the syrian people. we need to embrace one another's suffering, so that this can be the world with some love and there's some compassion. >> james foley's parents this morning expressing the pride that they still have for their son, saying he was strengthened in captivity by the prayers that he received back home. nbc's richard engel with more from the turkey/syria border. >> reporter: pope francis, craig, called the parents of james foley to express his comfort and prayers. the vatican said they were deeply moved and deeply appreciative of the gesture. the execution of foley just exposes the brutality of isis and now u.s. defense officials are saying the current american strategy of attacking isis positions just inside of iraq isn't enough to stop the group. isis doesn't operate only in iraq. the group spans the border,

operating in northern iraq and in syria. in fact syria is the group's base of operations. until now the u.s. has been very reluctant to extend its conflict into syria. in fact the u.s. initially wanted to topple the government of bashar al assad, wanted the rebel movement in syria to enact regime change. now it seems that the u.s., washington and bashar al assad are fighting on the same side. both of them carrying out attacks against isis. the big question is will the u.s. decide to expand its operations. will it go from just carrying out air strikes in iraq and go over the border and start striking in syria. if it did, it would be a major escalation. craig. >> all right, our chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, along the border of turkey and syria. we're also getting more details today about what life was like for james foley's parents. over 21 months searching for

their son, including a detailed understanding of the correspondence between the foley family and isis, beginning almost a year ago. nbcnews.com writer, cassandra joins me now. your story hits the specifics in the push to find foley. i want to start at the beginning here. his family nearly spent that entire first year having no idea where he was, no idea whether he was alive. then what happened? >> well, it started with a bit of a lucky break, as has been described to me by the ceo of global post, the company james was working for. word trickled through from a jihadist who traveled from syria to belgium who had managed to befriend james on the ground. once that fighter returned home to belgium, he was able to offer some information that indicated james was alive. it was the first sign of anything to do with james since he disappeared in november, 2012. so the foley family had been mounting appeals starting a website, facebook, twitter, trying to get any information

about where their son, where their brother was. and desperate for information. then an e-mail finally came in a year after he had been taken. that was the first contact from anyone who had any information about james. >> what do we know about the encrypted correspondence? what more do we know about it? >> the e-mail was sent from kind of an anonymous account. it was completely untraceable. the sender used a type of website that can mask where it comes from, the sender's name. so one of the issues is that it needed to be vetted because there's no way to know for certain that they actually had james or had any information about him. so when i spoke to people yesterday and was trying to get more details about the correspondence, i was told that it wasn't really clear from the e-mail handle, we all have our own aaddresses, but it's not lie

it came in from isishq.com so the e-mail needed to be vetted. everything was turned over to the fbi, but the foleys and global post needed information to prove that the sender actually had james so they asked for proof of life. >> did the family or leaders at global post, did they ever think that they were actually close to getting james foley home? >> when that first correspondence came in in november, it was the biggest moment of hope for everyone. but the correspondence -- it was a couple of e-mails exchanged back and forth. proof of life was offered. you know, they were able to answer questions about james that nobody who wasn't close to him or near him would have been able to get the answers to. but once that conversation ended in december, everything went silent. so i think, you know, everyone was working frantically behind the scenes to get information from other hostages who had encountered james, trying to set

up intermediaries with people on the ground. and, you know, we learned that there was a special ops mission in july, an attempt to rescue james. we heard from the defense secretary yesterday that they really thought the honstages wee there. it was a very close call but unfortunately they didn't find them. but it shows there were moments everyone thought they were getting close. and the last e-mail last week, when the threat that they were going to execute james, even that was taken as a chance there was another opening to get him. >> cassandra, nbcnews.com, thank you. secretary hagel did not mince words during a discussion with reporters about isis thursday, telling nbc's jim miklaszewski just how advanced this terror group is. >> jim, isil is a sophisticated and well-funded as any group that we have seen. they're beyond just a terrorist group.

they marry ideology, a sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess. they are tremendously well funded. oh, this is beyond anything that we've seen. >> california democratic congress ann adam schiff is on the house intelligence committee and joins me live now from washington. congressman, let's pick up on those comments from secretary hagel. some of the things that he said, they really stop you in your tracks. how concerned should everyday americans be about isis right now? >> well, we should be very concerned. i think the secretary is exactly right. this is probably the best resourced terrorist group in history. they hold territory, and the significance of that is that they have sanctuary to plan attacks not only in syria and iraq but potentially against the u.s. at home. we also have these thousands of foreign fighters that have gone to join this fight. many of them from europe, some from the united states. they can travel back often visa

free travel to the united states. that's an enormous security threat for us. so americans need to be mindful of just what is at stake. this is going to be a security challenge for us for years to come. >> how are they so well funded, congressman? >> well, part of it is external. more of it is internal. they have access to oil revenues and resources which they sell. they're engaged in kidnapping and ransom, they're engaged in criminal activity, they're engaged in hostage taking. historically from outside of the area they have gotten support from wealthy people who support their ideology and we have to do as much as we possibly can to dry up that external source of funding. it's tougher to go after the internal funding. ultimately we'll have to go after that as well. we have to hammer home the message that some of these allies, purported allies are ours which are allowing their citizens to fund this group are

really sowing the seeds of their own destruction. >> earlier we heard from richard engel about the situation in syria. the united nations today saying nearly 200,000 people have died in that conflict so far since it started in 2011. what's the end game there? and how much has the unrest in that country contributed to the rise of isis? >> well, it's contributed enormously to the rise of isis because that's isis' primary base of stability and power. in terms of seeing the end game, craig, that's a very tough question. we don't have the same kind of ally to work with in syria the way we do in iraq. we don't have a regime like we do in baghdad that's making progress. instead we have a regime that has gassed its own people, dropped barrel bombs on its own people. we don't have a credible military partner like we do with the kurds and iraqi special

forces on the syrian side of the border. so my guess is what we're going to have to do is fight isis predominantly in iraq until they can be contained in syria and the equation changes in syria. probably the best case scenario, craig, but it's not something that we're going to see in the near term is that we are able to bring the kind of pressure that we did in iraq to change the regime in damascus so that we have someone that we can work with. >> no good options, no good options. congressman adam schiff, have a good weekend. >> thanks, craig. up next, a strong show of unity by people here in ferguson trying to restore the image of their community. it's called the "i love ferguson" campaign. we'll tell you all about it, right after this. vo: this is the summer.

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our city officials and our police department is still in control of your neighborhoods. we are still in control of the rest of the city. city government is still continuing forward. i'm not scared and neither should you be. >> that was ferguson's mayor last night trying to reassure this community that they are safe, that they should stick together. neighbors turned up at this event called "i love ferguson" to show their support for their community. the city's former mayor has teamed up with community leaders to make t-shirts, to make bumper stickers, hoping that that will help bind this community together, this st. louis suburb. i'm joined by msnbc.com's amanda who has been reporting all week, jason johnson, professor of political science at hiram college. good to see both of you. thanks for being with me. you spent time at two town halls last night, i understand. >> yes. >> where were they? what happened? >> the first one was normandy town hall. that was run by a doj christian

coalition liaison and she's trying to explain what's the long-term game plan. we're not going to march every night for three or four weeks. what do we do if the officer is not convicted, what do we do to plan. the second one was the i love ferguson town hall at first baptist church and that was an experience. it's run by brian fletcher, the former mayor. there are a lot of interesting things that the people had to say about what's happening here. >> interesting in what way? >> in their level of disconnection. the church was to bring everybody together. 400 people, maybe three african-americans. >> three black people in the room? >> if you don't count press. and the mayor said i think i can understand the black community because i grew up poor and was raised by a single mother so that says a lot about how the community thinks they really understand what's going on in ferguson. >> and the first meeting? >> it was mostly community activists. it was all african-american. an asian american woman representing the businesses in this area, most of which have formed a union in order to get grant money to rebuild their

businesses. it was a stark contrast between the meetings. >> i know that you've spent a fair amount of time covering the students. >> yes. >> who are not in school right now. many of them, thousands of them monday every kid should be back in school. you also spent some time at the school where michael brown would have attended. >> exactly. it's a technical school just down the street from here. he was supposed to go into classes to become an electrician for cooling and heating. i spoke with some of the students there who said that they have no idea who mike brown could have been. they have no idea if they would have been friends at school, what classes he would have taken. and one of his father's friends growing up actually was a student there and he was so proud of mike. he was saying he graduated from high school. it was a tough ride for him. he just got his diploma at the beginning of the month, but he made it. his parents were so proud of him. and now he was going on to school when this man, he was in the middle of his life and he was going to school and so they

would be classmates together. and all of these students were saying who could he have been. >> the mood has changed here. >> yes. >> over the past just three days. and you've been here even longer than i have. how have you seen the mood change? >> it's been -- it's so quiet, it's been peaceful at night. last night the protesters here, residents, they laid roses in the middle of the street where mike brown was slain. and they started a vigil in the middle of the street lighting candles with boys from the community just bringing in candles and standing there and honoring him. >> there are a few hundred roses down there. i saw that memorial yesterday. did you get a sense from those meetings yesterday that there is a comprehensive strategy, a game plan moving forward? >> not even close. what the african-american activists, the whole point of the meeting is because there really wasn't much of a game plan. they didn't even have enough community activists to say what are we going to do monday, what happens after the funeral. that's what they are trying to lay out.

when i spoke to the white community, everyone there had suggestions, scholarships for the black community, places that they could go talk and communicate but there were no african-americans there. so the two sides are not talking to each other. there's still a great deal of territory grabbing and confusion on both sides. >> all right. amanda, jason, thank you both. i do appreciate you. when we come back here on "the daily rundown," a couple of felony charges, a hearing under way will not keep governor rick perry out of new hampshire today. the odd political twist that could make perry's court clash boost his 2016 presidential bid. we'll explain that on the other side of this break. es affecd me tremendously as a pilot. the pain in my scalp area and down the back of my neck was intense. it would have been virtually impossible in that confined space to move to change radio frequencies. i mean it hurt. i couldn't even get up and drive let alone teach somebody and be responsible in an airplane.

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some of you might have heard that there's some interesting things going on back in my home state. i am very confident in my case, and i can assure you that i will fight this attack of our system of government. with my fellow citizens, both

republicans and democrats, i aim to defend our constitution stand up for the rule of law in the state of texas. >> a good friday morning again from ferguson, missouri. much, much more on the improving situation here to come. right now, though, let's turn to some politics on this friday edition of "the daily rundown." at this hour, texas governor rick perry will be arraigned at travis county court in austin but the governor will be more than 2,000 miles away. he's coming for a comeback campaign tour of sorts in the granite state. perry will swing through three towns in new hampshire today with three more stops planned tomorrow. it's his first visit there since 2012 when he finished sixth in the primary with just 1764 votes. also raised some eyebrows with some speech. >> we're kind of into those slogans, man. it's like victory or death, bring it.

>> now perry hopes that he can use his indictment as a selling point with conservatives. a texas grand jury indicted him a week ago on two felony charges of abuse of power for allegedly intimidating a democratic district attorney, rosemary lehmberg, into resigning after she pled guilty to drunk driving and using his veto power to withhold state funds from her agency that investigates corruption. perry has responded aggressively, calling the charges outrageous, calling them a farce. his political action committee shows the d.a. being arrested and resisting police. thursday his legal team pushed back on an accusation by state democrats that perry was trying to quash an investigation into funding of a cancer research center that he has ties to, releasing an affidavit from the former lead investigator saying that perry was never a target of the inquiry. perry's campaign in new hampshire calls all of this a net positive, ahead of the governor's visit.

an adviser telling the national journal, it certainly built tremendous intrigue. it's true his smiling mug shot has gone viral with internet places adding his hipster glasses which he did not wear in the mug shot. there's legal challenges for another republican governor, former virginia governor bob mcdonnell is expected to arrive any moment at a richmond courthouse for his third day of testimony. >> excuse us. excuse us. >> everything i've got to say, i've got to say from the stand right now. >> what would you like to say about your marriage and difficulty of having to talk about all of that? >> well, i really have to say everything on the stand at this point. there's a long way to go, but all i've said for 18 months is i just want the full truth to come out and that's the best for me and my family. >> mcdonnell is charged along with his wife of accepting $177,000 in gifts and loans from

former dietary supplements company ceo jonnie williams in exchange for boosting its products. thursday mcdonnell spent nearly six hours on the stand presenting himself as a bystander to his wife's increasingly erratic behavior, saying he was, quote, astounded when he learned that she had exchanged 1200 e-mails, calls and texts with williams over a two-year period and sharing a 2011 e-mail that he sent to his wife in an attempt to reconcile. quote, i am so spiritually and mentally exhausted from getting yelled at. mcdonnell testified that he never liked the $7,000 rolex that his wife gave him that was paid for by williams telling jurors, quote, it was big, it was gaudy, it was not my kind of watch. i didn't like the feel of it on my wrist. he also explained the trip back from williams' vacation house in his ferrari saying i hadn't

driven in almost two years. at some point, i'm entitled to be normal. i'm joined now by nbc's senior political editor, mark murray. also nbc political reporter kasie hunt. mcdonnell's defense team relying on this broken marriage defense, mark, yesterday, saying that his 38-year-old marriage is on hold. he's moved out of his richmond home. he's living with his parish priest. how effective can this strategy be? >> craig, it could be very effective. you know, prosecutors are trying to say that the mcdonnells conspire in this corruption, that they ended up receiving all these gifts, tried to end up returning some type of official things in response to that. but if the mcdonnells can be able to prove that their marriage was breaking apart, it's hard to say how they were conspiring if they were at each other's throats, if they weren't on good terms. the one thing that is a little striking to a lot of political reporters like me who cover bob

mcdonnell since he won virginia's governor race in 2009, when he was even trying to really push to be mitt romney's vice presidential candidate, even in early 2013 when he was thinking about maybe running for the presidency in 2016, it's striking how his marriage was falling apart as he was making all of these political moves, craig. >> mark, is it safe to say at this point that bob mcdonnell's political career is over? >> oh, i think so. no matter what ends up happening at this trial, one of the reasons being that the virginia governor's -- he only served one term. it's very hard for him. i think this entire -- this entire trial, craig, is all about staying out of prison rather than resuscitating a political career. >> kasie, i know that you were at that rick perry event yesterday. we played some sound a few moments ago from that event. what do you make of perry's decision almost to play up his indictment? do you think that's something that's going to work well with

republicans? >> i mean sure, craig. this was a defiant rick perry. he got up on that stage at heritage, which of course was a very friendly crowd. and the first thing he tackled as soon as he walked up there was this indictment. he was defiant about it. he almost seemed to be enjoying it. and then he went on to make a speech that was primarily about iraq and syria. he warned that isis terrorists could already be coming across the mexican border. he said america should be much more aggressive in iraq than the obama administration is being. he left open the possibility of troops on the ground. i think what you're really seeing is a rick perry who is trying to take advantage of this moment to sort of energize the base, get people to feel defensive of him as he sort of step by step rolls out a potential 2016 campaign. he's in new hampshire today. he's going to be in south carolina next week. his aggies are playing down in south carolina. he's going to go to the game. so i think what you're seeing is somebody who's really trying to take advantage of this moment and use the publicity that it's

giving him to build and try and change his brand from the oops rick perry that we saw in 2012. >> yeah, those aggies don't have much of a shot against the gamecocks. last time we know that the governor had some trouble, to say the least, catching on in the granite state. is it likely to be different this time around, kasie? >> well, you know, craig, i think that there certainly -- he's done a lot of work. i interviewed him earlier this year and he talked a lot about how he's doing day-to-day briefings. he's taking foreign trips coming up later this year. he's really spending and putting in the time. he says that the mistake he made in 2012 was not really taking the enterprise of running for president seriously enough. his argument is that he's going to be one of the guys in the field who's done it once before and that's something that's worked for presidential contenders in the past. mitt romney, of course, lost the party's nomination in 2008. that said, perry still clearly

has a little bit of work to do on his feet. i think you saw that a little bit at heritage when he got into the question and answer session, when he wasn't working from prepared text. i wouldn't say that he struggled to answer the questions. he knew what he was going to say. but i think those are going to be the places where we're going to have to watch to see if perry really has made a significant difference from where he was in '08 -- i'm sorry, in '12. >> mark murray, 2012 to now, rick perry's stature nationally, his national political reputation, better, worse, about the same? >> it was getting a little bit better, as kasie was pointing out. craig, after his very disappointing, humiliating, whatever adjective you want to take about his 2012 run, he was facing a situation where there was almost no margin for error if he was going to make a very big bid in 2016. and this -- this is where this indictment comes into play. i know it's rallied a lot of conservatives. it's fired some of them up. it's seemed to give rick perry a

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as things calm down, significantly here in ferguson the question is almost after two weeks of violent protest, how does the community heal? how do they restore their faith in the local police? i'm joined by aaron haines, vice president of the national association of black journalists, and a freelance journalist on the stand, bob herbert. thank you for being with me. bob, i'm going to dom you in a moment. erin, you've been here for awhile. describe the mood at the beginning, describe the mood now. >> well, there's a lot of grief over michael brown's death. especially in the african-american community. but also, you know, the whole town of ferguson has expressed sympathy to the family for the tragedy and also support for officer darren wilson as the

investigation continues. there have been simmering attentions at times exploded here as protesters clashed with police. and the community is trying to figure out a way forward. >> you're at one of the meetings last night where folks were trying to figure out a way forward. did it seem as if they were close to figuring something out? >> i was at meeting for the friends of city of ferguson which has been organized by a group of folks that are concerned about the imimagine is being portrayed, they say, in the media they say is negative and unflattering and not an accurate portrayal of what ferguson is about. coming from the meeting, it sounds like there are two different conversations happening here in the city of ferguson black and white residents and young and old residents about what they want and think should come out the tragedy. >> when i was in sanford,

florida. that was one of their primary concerns. it was a city that was forever associated with the shooting death of trayvon martin. how real is the possibility that ferguson, missouri is forever associated with the shooting death of michael brown? >> well, i think that's definitely a possibility, but of more concern would be the much shorter term. i don't think that the troubles in ferguson are at an end by any means. this investigation continues to go forward. depending on what happens to the officer that shot michael brown, you could see more turmoil in ferguson. obviously, the protesters want to see this fellow charged an would like to see him convicted. but the criminal justice system is not based on what the community wants. so if he's not charged or if he's not convicted, i mean, you can expect more and perhaps more serious protests >>well, i enjoy your perspective

on things, and i haven't gotten a chance to talk to you since it started. as you've watched the situation unfold here on the ground over the past nearly two weeks now, what has gone through your head. what are some of your thoughts? what i think is if you look at the latest polling data, there's a big divide in the way that african-americans and whites look at this situation. whites think that the criminal justice system should, for the most part, be allowed to play out and the majority of whites seem to think that the protests have gone somewhat too far. blacks, on the other hand, believe there is a very serious problem with the way -- and i agree with this. a serious way with the problem the criminal justice system in treats african-american not just in ferguson but across the united states. and also, that we have had met far too many cases where

african-americans have been killed by law enforcement officers in situations in which, i think, that the deaths were not warranted. and the most recent example was right there in st. louis this week. i urge viewers to go online and watch the video of the emotionally disturbed man who was killed by police in st. louis this week. my personal opinion there was no reason that man had to die. >> we're going have to leave it there. we're out of time. thank you. that's it for this edition of the "daily run down" coming up next jose diaz-balart with more on what is happening in iraq including the latest on a mosque attack and a interview with a member of congress trying to help save the life of captured u.s. journalist.

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the isis fight. a grave warning from america's top commanders as the parents of james foley describe their son's courage and add their plea for the safe return of stephen sotloff. i'll speak with a congresswoman. >> the lessons of ferguson. more peace on the streets but ha questions about the work of the grnl and the best way to police our streets. our are cameras on cops the answer? from mug shot to manchester. it hasn't stopped rick perry's trip to new hampshire. will the presidential hopes for him live free or die? we'll frame that debate on friday, the 22nd of august. good morning, i'm jose diaz-balart. the first focus on the growing threat from isis. the islamist terrorists who murdered american journalist james