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speech as a candidate to confront her own husband's tough-on-crime stance from the 1990s. >> what we have seen in baltimore should indeed i think does tear at our soul. landmark case. the supreme court decides whether same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. >> the justices need to go according to the law produced in the bible. >> hopefully we're on the right side of history, and our kids will now have equal protection. good day, everyone i'm andrea mitchell in washington. calm and order restored in baltimore after last night's mandatory curfew went into effect. stark contrast from the violence monday night. schools have reopened, residents are continuing to clean up.

some of the 41 juveniles who were arrested for looting are in court today. >> we want to get people out there today and be going about their business. we think there's no question in my mind the city is now safe. tonight we're going to still be out to make sure we enforce the curfew and make sure we don't have any more unrest. >> nbc's rehema ellis with more. and orjorie reed from outside the cvs that had been looted. what is going to happen to these kids? >> reporter: well, it's not clear yet. some of these juveniles will be processed if they have criminal records, they will -- some of them could end up in the juvenile justice system. others will be released to their parent, other may have to post bail to be released to their parents. there are those juveniles. then there's some 200 others who are adults -- >> we're going to show -- >> reporter: excuse me some of those adults may be in the range of 17 or 18-year-olds and might

be considered a juvenile. this judge for those adults is going to be reviewing cases what they callview video link. the defendants are being held at a detention center in the center of baltimore. we're about 20 miles south of downtown baltimore. and we're told by the public defender handling almost all of these cases that the public should understand that there is a range and variety of cases, some instances where police may have actually seen people looting freerl material from a short store-- material from a store and violence and damage. others may have been caught up in a mob. one man had on his work uniform with a name on his shirt. he was caught up in the crowd, swept up and ended up in jail for the last couple of nights. those are some of the kinds of cases that they're going to be defending. i'm told that the judge who's handling the cases says she wants them processed in an expedient way and will process

these cases today. that's what we're told. >> and you've also been reporting on a case of toya graham the mom who spotted her son in the crowd wearing a hoodie and a mask. she went after him. and became a hero it a lot of people. there was some criticism. but this is what she had to say to cbs. >> lo and behold i turn around and i look in this crowd and my son is actually coming across the street with this hoodie on and a mask. at that point, i just lost it. he gave me eye contact. and at that point -- not even thinking about cameras or anything like that -- that's my only son. and at the end of the day, i don't want him to be a freddie gray. but to stand up there and vandalize police officers -- get over here now! that's not justice. >> i know you talked to a lot of people about this.

but basically she did -- she was praised by the police chief who said, you know more parents need to stand up and take charge of their kids. >> reporter: yeah, exactly. the police commissioner certainly did say that. a lot of people i talked to echoed that sentiment. they said they would do it if they found their child in a similar situation. according to them, it's the right thing to do. that wasn't the only opinion that i heard. some were saying they thought the mother was exacting the same violence against her son, that she didn't want perpetrated against him. they tempered their thoughts about her a little bit. but more than anything we heard people saying we want more people to do what that mother did. i thought it was interesting that she could spot her son out of a crowd even though he had a hood oh, a mask on. she spotted him. >> that's a mom, isn't it? as you well know. it's fascinating, you know -- mix of problems here in baltimore. it's really interesting to see how the community is trying to

bounce back. joy reed, you're near the cvs which was a nightmare two days ago. what does it feel like today? >> reporter: hi, andrea. good afternoon. i want to give you a sense of where we are. the cvs if i could get tony to look that way, we're a long block down from where the cvs was. as you see this is a neighborhood that was not exactly without troubles beforehand. if you look around -- again, we're about a block from where there's a heavy force of armed police officers in full body armor. you can hear choppers overhead. i don't know if you can hear it. they keep buzzing over our heads. but in this area a block from there, there are building that these weren't damaged in any riot. these are buildings that are abandoned, where people are trying to live and work. and then if tony could swing around the other way this is how close we are to downtown. if we look just down this way, johns hopkins, other sources of the great wealth in this city of

baltimore, we're not far from washington, d.c. you see people are just trying to live and work and go about their daily lives. you have problems compounded on problems. i talked to a young man today who said that when he hears people calling the young people in this community thugs, he's offended because he's saying look around at what these young people are trying to work with. when they see their parents being roughed up by police on top of the issues of unemployment and poverty there that are already piled on top of them, he essentially likened it almost to gossip. you have young people acting out of the frustration that they're taking in generationally from their families. so we have a lot of problems here that need to be dealt with. the policing aspect compounds it. >> joy reed. right on all of those issues. it's dramatic when you show the camera perspectives. if ever there were a symbol of neighborhoods and new development, it's camden yards. camden yards, of course the

beautiful baseball field that replaced memorial stadium which was in one of the worst neighborhoods in baltimore. and it's now a great tourist attraction. casey reed -- casey hunt is there where the orioles and chicago white sox will make baseball history by playing. orioles executives decided not to have any fans in the stands. they spoke to casey hunt this morning. i agree that baltimore needs to get back to normal but until they get back to normal i think the comfort of our fans and safety is paramount concern. i think we had to keep this in mind during this challenging time. >> casey joins me from a perspective over camden yards. they've got batting practice. they're going to play at 2:00 to an empty ballpark? it seems insane. >> reporter: it's unprecedented,

andrea. it does seem as though the game will go on. you have members of both teams on the field warming up, they're set up for batting practice you have the other side of the box office where fans are trying to exchange tickets for this game and the two games that were postponed to later in may. on saturday there was a scare here at camden yards. they shut the crowd in and wouldn't let them leave after some of the rioting emerged into the streets that are not that far away from camden yards. today, you actually have a police helicopter currently circling overhead. so kind of an eerie scene. of course, as we approach the start time those stands behind me are going to stay as empty as they are now. the other thing, right now they're planning for the in-game, in-park experience. we'll hear the national anthem see the scoreboard light up

we'll hear "thank god i'm a country boy" in the seventh inning stretch, i talked to fans, as well. while things have calmed down, some say it might make more stones let the fans watch the game go on. >> at last check it costs $165 for a family of four to go to camden yards including a couple hot dogs and a beer. that is not accessible to a lot of people in the neighborhoods surrounding baltimore. thank you very much. sbault cleaning up baltimore is cleaning up the debris. there's pig questions about the distrust between the police department and community it is supposed to protect and serve. joining me is neil franklin retired major for the maryland state police former baltimore police officer, as well. thanks for being with us. this works both ways. blame on both sides.

from your perspective as a law enforcement expert how do we get to this bad situation? want to talk to you about the reforms suggested in mandatory minimum sentences, excessive incarceration, disproportion yachtly affecting the -- disproportionately affecting the poor and black men. >> i'm glad you asked this question. i heard you to talking about other getting back to normal. what does that mean? normal for many of the people in the city is not necessarily a good thing. if wind shear talking about normal getting back to the zero tolerance, arresting so many for nonviolent drug crimes, that's not a good thing. what does that mean? you also mentioned programs that are available such as drug diversion programs. seattle has the lead program, law enforcement assisted diversion, where law enforcement, where they come in

contact with those who are using drugs and selling drugs at low levels, where they're diverted into a process of wrap-around services. drug treatment, that's health care, job training and job placement, a successful program that's also gone to santa fe. they're looking for a program on the east coast. was presented to the police commissioner, to the mayor's office behind me. and no one has taken advantage of it. and the money was available to get that program up and running. it would have made a huge difference in the city. i left a successful law enforcement career to manage officials, to lead against prohibition to do this very thing. to call issue to the war on drugs. and to end these policies of drug prohibition, to uncuff our police department, our police officers who are charged with

going in to these communities and enforcing laws that don't work -- we know we drugs doesn't work, it's a war on people. we will to stop the reform that's needed and rolling back these policies the systems intentional or not, we have to move to a place of regulation and control for drugs. martin o'malley, seven-year mayor of -- >> why did you have to say that now? he's coming to baltimore. listen to what i have to say -- in 2005 i left baltimore city as head of training in 2004. by then we had started this zillions programs here in baltimore -- zero tolerance, programs here in baltimore under then-mayor o'malley. in 2005 108,000 people arrested

in baltimore city. in one year 620,000 people live in the city. we're talking about multiple arrests. that's why the city got sued. over 20 people who were arrested were released with no charges proffered because there was no probably cause for the arrest. does that sound familiar? freddie gray, no probable cause for the arrest? i shouldn't say this -- if he's coming back to town, we might see a riot. >> we don't want to stir things up i want to -- >> we don't. i would encourage him ton come to baltimore. >> he was there last night and yesterday. we showed picture of it. i want to ask why it is taking so long to find out what happened. he died in custody. why couldn't an autopsy or some

medical result be released to the public sooner than it has been? >> i think that they have probably completed the investigation by now. they have the results of the autopsy. i'm sure they've interviewed witnesses. there may be some other data they have to go g through. i'm not sure, not being privy to that. now comes the decision making. marilyn mosby has to make a decision. one, if any charges are placed on the officers involved here, and two, what are those charges going to be? what do i have evidence for? first-degree murder, in my opinion from what i know about the case, is not an option. that takes to second degree and men manslaughter. in my opinion as i spent a lot of time in criminal investigation with the maryland

state police i believe there's probably a case for involuntary manslaughter. i know the police officers didn't intend to kill anyone. because of their negligence freddie gray he died. >> thank you very much. thanks for being with us today. appreciate it very much. raising a lot of important questions. >> thanks for having me. >> you bet. much more from baltimore and about baltimore coming up as members of the community appeal for continued calm including former baltimore raven star ray lewis who's had his own brushes with the law. yesterday he posted this passionate plea to stop the violence. it's been viewed already more than 24 -- >> you've got to understand something -- get off the streets! violence is not the answer. violence has never been the answer. tters. i want some gray...but not too much. only touch of gray uses oxygen to gently blend away some gray but not all for that perfect salt and pepper look. satisfaction guaranteed. just you and the look you want. just for men touch of gray

counsel, i'm not sure it's necessary to get into sexual orientation to resolve the case. i mean if sue loves joe and tom loves joe, sue can marry him, and tom can't. and the difference is based. their different sex. why isn't that a straightforward question of sexual discrimination? >> provocative question from the chief just. the supreme court expected to rule in june on what is likely going to be a landmark decision on same-sex marriage. tom goldstein is more than's supreme court expert and the publisher of scotusblog and joins me now. despite that head fake from the chief justice, that's probably not where he's going to come down on it? >> our chief justice is a very conservative justice. he might land in the middle ground saying there isn't a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. if you do get lawfully married in one state, maybe your home state has to recognize it. >> and what can you learn from

the argument? i listened to the whole thing to c-span. two hours and 20 minutes whatever it was, fascinating questions and answers and -- just the level of the lawyering also. >> it's incredible. you know, the constitution's been around for a long time. the idea that we don't know the answer to this -- hundred of years into the country's history, it is remarkableable. a historic day yesterday. we will get a major ruling that will stand probably for centuries. >> and justice kennedy in your view is -- and pete williams' view is the deciding voice here. here's part of what he had to say yesterday -- >> there's time for the scholars and commentators and -- and the bar and the public to engage in it. but still ten years is -- i don't even know how to count the decimals when we talk about millennia. this definition has been with us for millennia. it it's difficult for the cower to say, well we know better. >> when he talks about ten

years, he's talking about also the analogy to brown v. board of education and the loving case which outlawed the laws in virginia. there was a ten-year gap between '54 and '68. the ten years that we have now been dealing with the legality of same-sex marriage. >> that's right. ten years ago, passed the vote in favor of gay rights in the supreme court. he's been a hero and the leader in the supreme court on that issue. what he's struggling with has the ten years that the country has had to adapt to an expansion of gay rights been enough when we look against the span of history across millennia where we've only had opposite-sex marriage. my bet in the end is he will say yes. he cares so much about the dignity of couples in the end. >> he repeatedly mentioned dignity. the dignity that they deserve. i was struck by the counter arguments against the plaintiffs arguing in one stance it was the

attorney bush arguing that the couples who are heterosexual merritty to procreate -- marry to procreate because they are committed to their children, committed to staying together for their children. but that same-sex couples don't have that same impetus even if they have children. alternatively as supreme court just ginsburg said, what if you're 70 and getting married and you can't procreate? >> absolutely. it was a hard argument for the state because there's such a misfit -- so many couples who are opposite sex don't end up having children. they have children if they don't get married. and justice kennedy said i think this argument may cut against you. a lot of same-sex couples are adopting children and raising them. and those families are important to me. why is it that they don't have the sait same rights and dignity? >> fascinating case. and it is of course cutting across all levels of society. tom, great to see you. thank you for being here. >> thank you very much for having me. next hillary clinton speaks out about the riots, the violence in baltimore.

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that the criminal justice system is a big part of the problem in cities like baltimore. in her first speech since announcing her candidacy, hillary clinton proposed changing the rules, some imposed bay her husband's 1994 crime bill. >> there is something profoundly wrong when african-american men are still far more likely to be stopped and searched by police charged with crimes and sentenced to longer prison terms than are meted out to their white counterparts. there is something wrong when 1/3 of all black men face the prospect of prison during their lifetimes, and an estimated 1.5 million black men are "missing from missingmissing"missing" from families and communities because of incarceration and premature death. >> joining me now is president and director counsel of the

naacp legal defense, an educational fund. thank you very much for being with us. i know you were a law professor in baltimore. you know the community very well. is hillary clinton right? if she's right, was bill clinton wrong back in 1994 when he and others cracked down on crime? >> reporter: the question, four is how do you crack down on -- of course, is how do you crack down on crime? no one wants crime flourish. the idea that the way you deal with skriem that-- with crime is you create a hyper-punitive system in which going to prison become normalized, not the exception for members of the community, and which you impose overly long and harsh sentences on people that essentially hall out out their lives their -- hollow out their lives and their families has proven to be wrong by the state we're in today. mass incarceration is a huge problem. we've got to reverse it. you know, i worry about the fact that we're trying to pick out

one or two thanks are that are the cause of the situation we're in. when christopher glover shot and killed by police officers in the community where i grew up when i was 10 there was no 1994 crime bill. when eleanor bumper a grandmother, was killed by the nooip in the 1980s -- by the nypd in the 1980s, there was no crime bill. in the early 1980s there was no crime bill. we have the issue of racial bias in policing and law enforcement. we have to be prepared to confront that. things like the crime bill make it worse because they up the ante and create this hyper-punitive system without ever addressing the reality of racial bias which we all know exists in the criminal justice system and everywhere. it exacerbates the problem but we have to be prepared at this point as the president said to do soul searching, but to do more than soul searching, to confront forthrightly the issue

of racial bias in policing, in law enforcement, in our criminal just system. >> and when you say racial bias, this is not the same as ferguson here you have a community led by an african-american mayor, african-american police chief. the racial bias is built into the system. it has nothing to do with the race of the people in charge. >> reporter: i'm so glad that you raised this. i have been saying since august when people noted the glaring lack of the diversity on the ferguson police force. diversity is really important. i think it's important that there's an african-american mayor and african-american police chief and other african-american leaders in the city of baltimore. but i have been saying since last august that what we are talking about is the culture of policing we're talking about institutional and structural racism which means it's baked into the pie. built into the system. it's built into the media images that have saturated our country

over decades and that leave even well-meaning team jump to conclusion weather service they see young african-american men. it's built into how we think about who is a criminal and what kinds of crimes are really dangerous y. we would suddenly decide that low-level drug crimes are so dangerous. how we can now be deciding that maybe marijuana is not quite as dangerous as we thought it was and doesn't merit the kind of strenuous criminal justice apparatus that we brought to bear on it. all of those decisions that we make are deeply embedded with our own notions and ideas about race that have been created over centuries and certainly have been reinforced over decades. so unless we're prepared to we'll do that reality and the reality is that we're all touched by it -- now we have police officers, young men and women who as many say put their lives on the line every day. we give them a gun and badge of honor, we give them pepper spray and mace. we give them a taser, and we

give them training in how to shoot and how to drive their car and fill out their reports. we don't give training in how to manage their implicit biases which they may have even if they are african-american police officers. how to manage and control them how to deal with young people who are going to turn up at a counter and how you have to master your ego to know how did he say deescalate that. training in dealing with the mentally ill. that's the equipment we should be giving police officers before sending them into the communities. we don't. we also don't send them out with body-worn cameras so we can monitor what is happening with police officers. and so we're not caught in this he said/she said allegations of pulling the race card that is characterized -- has characterized the issue for decade. it's only now that we have to see on camera the execution of walter scott, that we see these videos that now we're having a broader conversation. there are actions we can take,

but the actions begin with our being able to forthrightly confront what lies at the bottom of many of these problems, it's the issue of racial bias. >> thank you as always. thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. and another major story, of course the latest from nepal as the country tries to recover from the most devastating earthquake seen in a lifetime. excellent looking below the surface, researching a hunch... and making a decision you are type e*. time for a change of menu. research and invest from any website. with e*trade's browser trading. e*trade. opportunity is everywhere. congratulations. you're down with crestor. yes! when diet and exercise aren't enough, adding crestor lowers bad cholesterol up to 55%. crestor is not for people with liver disease

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out and try search for people if there could be any other survivors. >> reporter: andrea we were with fairfax county search and rescue team and will be joined later tomorrow by the los angeles county search and rescue team as you mentioned, the weather, steady rain that we've experienced this evening and the thunderous rain we had earlier this afternoon really does hamper the search effort. we were with crews as they were surveying the area. fairfax county search and rescue here with 1 members of the crew two tons of equipment and three search dogs. they'll go neighborhood to neighborhood in areas that were hardest hit. many of the communities are built on brick and wood. what is just the worcester material -- the worst material in an earthquake like this. we were in a community that was five or six stories tall. most it not all of it has collapsed. it's only a few stories tall just brick after brick piled on top of each other. that is what search team are

sifting through. we're with the -- we were with the turkish search team earlier as they were looking for signs of an on-- of a victim. onlookers heard cried. we heard of a recovery in the past 24 hours. we've also heard miracle stories, a 4-month-old baby rescued yesterday. so that's certainly what keeps search teams here going. they are sending more and more crews in here. they say's possible to survive an earthquake for a couple of weeks after it strikes. search teams optimistic they'll find more people buried alive in the rubble. >> thank you very much. for more on this tragedy of extraordinary proportions i'm joined by someone who grew up in nepal. internationally known designer pablo who moved to nepal in 2000. his family is still -- moved from nepal in 2009. his family is still in kathmandu. let me ask about your parents siblings, nieces and nephews,

what are you hearing? what is their condition? >> good afternoon. what i'm hearing from them you know they've survived. they're managing and as difficult as it is in the situation, everyone is on the ground literally like running around helping people finding information, and going to the grassroots organizations and talking to people who need what and then reporting back to us. it's been gut wrenching, devastating, heart wrenching to see there. there's resilience among the people. and just to see that -- through social media, twitter, emails that we've been getting you know there's hope. the time to act is now. >> i know you're trying to rally people in the fashion industry. you've had support from sarah jessica parker kim kardashian

high profile people with extensive followings. what can americans do to help? >> what americans and the rest of the world can do is donated. donate and spread the message what's going on. right now what we need is -- reason why i got into fund-raising with my foundation is because simply immediate release of the money that sis needed on the ground. as time goes by and the world's attention is on another disaster, what is going to happen. we need to start thinking about it now. so what the world can do right now and in america everywhere is to donate be actively engaged in conversation. you know go to my home page or crowdrise, and on that there's a site to collect. we're collecting money. we operate with zero overhead. and 100% of the fundraising goes directly to the ground.

that's what i think everyone should do. more than anything, i would like the international, the u.n. and everyone to -- and the world to be held -- the nepalese government to be held for what's happening, keep on engaging people. that's what i would say. >> it's striking that after the haiti earthquake there was initial help and very little follow followup from the u.n. and elsewhere. this is something to keep focused on. i was in nepal, had the privilege to travel with secretary of state colin powell years ago. i was thinking about the beautiful temples and architectural landmarks. they're all gone. >> it's heartbreaking. i grew up there watching that centuries' old, 5 hover hover-- 500 years old. the heritage all gone devastated. a whole generation of people and the world will never know about them. to see that and -- more than

that right now we're getting reports from kathmandu in itself. it's the villagers, the far-flung villeages that's devastated. we haven't been able to get reports back directly. the infrastructure is so poor so it's really -- it's -- we're getting all the news from kathmandu. the disaster is even 100 times more i feel, out in the villages. those are going to be my focus, and the world's focus should be that. >> we pledge to stand with you. thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you for having me here. i appreciate it. >> you bet. and coming up next, a supreme court deeply divided as it considers a potentially watershed decision on whether same-sex couples have the constitutional right to marriage. the president of the human rights campaign next. ♪ building aircraft,

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chad griffin is president of the human rights campaign and joins me now. chad you were at the start of the challenge to prop 8. now you were in court yesterday. have we arrived at that decision at that moment? the court is going to come down? >> i do believe the moment is here. we've been talking about the word "evolving" for the last five, six, seven eight years. this country has evolved. i think now it's a question of whether the court is going to catch up with public opinion, where the country is. i do believe if you take all the questions that were asked yesterday and -- and there were tough questions for both sides, at the end of the day, they're going come down on the side of freedom, liberty, and just. -- and justice. >> there's no longer doubt about -- we know where four are and on the other side, the other four. there's justice kennedy talking about we've had this definition of marriage for millennia. he's also talking about the dignity of families, the dignity of children, but adoption.

what did you come away with? >> in addition to dignity, we heard parents, children and families. that came from multiple justices, but it especially came from justice kennedy. the question was asked -- what about the hundreds of thousands of children in america being raised by same-sex parents? don't they deserve the same rights and protections as children being raised by opposite-sex parents? that is a really difficult question for our opposition to answer. they couldn't answer. they didn't have a good answer yesterday. i think that troubles justice kennedy. that was central to his opinion in the windsor decision. >> yet the opposition attorneys were arguing the attorney was arguing that same-sex couples do not have the same commitment to children. nay bond not to procreate, they

bond out of love, and affinity. how did that make you feel? >> it's ridiculous, outrageous and doesn't pass the smell test. study after study including the position of the american academy of pediatrics, same-sex parents make just as good of parents as opposite-sex parents no question. our opposition is flopping in the wind coming up with this argument and that argument to try to justify discrimination in this country today. it just doesn't pass the laugh test. >> what if you lose? what if this gamble to take it all the way to the supreme court, to push these cases by the attorneys involved, results in a decision that it is not constitutional? >> look, i think at the end of the day we're going to win this case. and i'm confident because it's the one issue if you look at the country today, it's the one social issue where there is incredible support. more than 60% of americans. a majority of republicans under 50. a huge majority of young republicans supporting marriage.

republicans and democrats agree to this issue. some of our candidates are catching unin the -- catching up in the party, the republican party. the public is there, and i believe the justices are going to be there. there's one reason why -- because every single person including those nine justices have someone in their family a close colleague at work a fellow congregate at church next to you sunday or your next-door neighbor that is lbgt. when you know us you don't wish less rights. us. i believe at the end of the day this court is going to come down on the side of marriage equality. and americans of -- all over this country will have the chance to marry who they love. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. coming up more from baltimore where today music is filling the streets. a free concert courtesy of the baltimore symphony.

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effect. and there were people who wouldn't listen. now in all fairness a lot of the baltimore residents did leave the area, but there were some some pockets, troublemakers throwing things at police officers such as bottles, and the police responded accordingly with pepper bawls and teargas canisters in order to suppress the crowd. >> and there had been a truce declared between the crips and blood, the street gangs had come out and joined the ministers as community leaders trying to clear the street and get the young people out of there. >> reporter: indeed, the baltimore community coming together for peace. it was interesting seeing the bandanas with red for the bloods and blue for the crips. they were forming a land trying to push the crowd back and working with the police officers. >> shomari, a better outcome. still tension in baltimore, but thank you very much for being with us as you head back out there.

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