♪ >> hey, yo. >> what's shaking, man. everybody want to sue me. anyways, y'all, let's end it up with my first born. this is my firstborn. >> let's do it.

>> new york city! you know the words! sing it! ♪ look i don't dance now ♪ i make money moves say i don't gotta dance♪ ♪ i make money move if i see you and i don't speak♪ ♪ that means i don't -- with you ♪ ♪ i'm a boss, you a worker ♪ i make bloody moves now she say she gon' do♪ ♪ what to who? let's find out and see♪ ♪ cardi b, you know where i'm at♪ ♪ you know where i be you in the club just to party♪ ♪ i'm there, i get paid a fee i be in and out them♪ ♪ banks so much i know they're tired of me♪ ♪ honestly don't give a -- about

who ain't fond of me ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i got the trunk in the front i'm the hottest in the street♪ ♪ know you prolly heard of me got a bag and fixed my teeth, ♪ ♪ hope you hoes know it ain't cheap and i pay my mama bills, ♪ ♪ i ain't got no time to chill think these hoes be mad at me, ♪ ♪ their baby father run a bill said ♪ ♪ you can't -- with me if you wanted to ♪ ♪ these expensive these is red bottoms♪ ♪ these is bloody shoes hit the store♪ ♪ i can get 'em both i don't wanna choose♪ >> let's go! ♪ i don't dance now, i make

money moves ♪ ♪ say i don't gotta dance ♪ i make money move if i see you♪ ♪ and i don't speak that means >> put your hands in the air, put your hands in the air! hands in the air! put your hands in the air! hands in the air! let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go! make some noise for cardi b! >> water would be nice. all right, y'all, i was going to read it from the teleprompter, but i'm going to just say how i want to say it. >> that's all right. >> it is our right to vote, and nobody can take that right from us. >> that's right! >> unless you're a criminal.

anyways, we need to vote. especially us, the millenials. under 25 and over 18, we need to vote. last election everybody took it as a joke, even me. i'm not even going to front, because i thought, man, that person ain't gonna win. and look where we at now. >> right. >> we need to vote so we can change our community. we need somebody that's going to represent us, that's going to protect us, not put us with everybody else. we don't need somebody that's going to be arguing with ball players. i'm going to tell this woman tell it better. i'm going to let her tell it better. >> hello, global citizens. i'm thrilled that all of you are here tonight and that you're using your voices to lift up

your communities, our country and our world. no matter what issues you're passionate about, no matter what causes you're fighting for, there's one thing all of you can do that i guarantee you will make a difference, and that is electing leaders who share your values and will stand up for you in the halls of power. so as a citizen and as an activist, it's critical that you get registered and cast your vote this november and make sure that everyone you know, your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, make sure all of them are registered and ready to vote too. our democracy only works with your participation, and that's why i'm so glad that global citizens movement has teamed up with when we all vote to ensure that every eligible voter casts their vote. not just in the election this november, but in every election for every office. so register to vote today.

sign up to volunteer at whenweallvote.org or text we all vote to 97779 and get out there and vote on november 6th. thanks so much. and have a great night. >> you heard mrs. obama, go register and show up on november 6th. go vote! i'm voting. what's good. bye, everybody. >> cardi b! millions of american students lack the access to technology and the skills they need to succeed in the digital world. >> since 2012 verizon has been working to help solve this problem through a program called verizon innovative learning. the program provides free technology, free internet access and hands-on learning experiences to help give

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i love cardi b, i really do. i am a fan. >> i do too. i was saying what i love about her is the sort of evident to light she has with what she's up to, a. b, the fact that she does not take herself too seriously, which is a rare commodity in people these days. >> i love her personality, i think she's bubbly and i think she represents a kind of like sort of unbound womanhood that says i don't care, i'm going to be myself. i'm going to be my feminine self and i'm going to do what i do. >> earlier today sitting in this chair, it was crazy, the two big news makers of yesterday, chris coons and jeff flake were both here. they had been previously scheduled to appear. i was able to pull chris coons aside and interview him about everything that went down and now the restrictions that the white house has put on the fbi investigation. i got to talk to him about all of that. take a look. >> i'm here with delaware senator, chris coons, member of the judiciary committee and a key player in everything that went down on friday that led to

the current fbi investigation. what feedback have you gotten from your colleagues, both jeff flake and republicans and democrats about what happened? >> well, first, jeff flake is the real hero here of what happened. he just needed some reassurance to listen to his own conscience and to recognize that the very real doubts he had at the end of dr. ford's testimony and which a number of other colleagues had were worth taking a pause and investigating. jeff's first comment to me when we went sort of backstage in the anteroom to talk is this is tearing our country apart. he had been deeply moved. i had been deeply moved by the number of folks who had spoken to us, talked to us, texted us, e-mailed us during dr. ford's testimony. i heard from people who i had known my whole life and people i'd never met with their stories of sexual assault. i deeply respect jeff for standing up to a ton of pressure to demand a one-week pause and an expanded fbi background check. now the challenge is going to be making that real.

>> right. so the big question now is what is your understanding of who defines and sets the terms of the scope of what the fbi investigates? >> well, the fbi works at the direction of the white house in investigating the background of an administration nominee like judge kavanaugh. so it's the white house counsel or the president who says this is the scope of the further investigation. because they're doing it at the request of the senate judiciary committee and what senator flake said was limited in scope and duration, i expect -- i support it being one week. that's what a compromise is all about. i would have liked longer, but one week i think was a key compromise and commitment here. the core issue is are they going to fully investigate the allegations in front of us. will they just question two or three witnesses who we already know all about, like mark judge, judge kavanaugh, dr. ford, or will they question some of the dozen people who have come forward publicly in the press and said what judge kavanaugh said wasn't true.

i saw him doing this or doing that, drinking with me at yale or at a certain type of party in high school. will that be investigated. that's the issue. >> were it the case that the white house were to say deliver a list of witnesses to the fbi and say this is the list, only these people and no one else, what would be your reaction to that? >> i'd be concerned that that was an attempt to really sharply narrow. look, if it's a list of 75 witnesses, i'd say, okay, in a week that's a lot. but if it's a list of three, that's an attempt to shut it down and not make this a legitimate background investigation. >> what's the back and forth now? i know that these processes are dynamic. obviously the fbi is in the executive -- >> the executive branch. >> but this is something that happens all the time. they're used to going to senators on relevant committees and having a back and forth about what the senators want to see investigated. >> that's right. and i do think it's appropriate for us to offer some input on what we think should or shouldn't be in the scope of

this investigation and they'll take it as they do, take advice or input from senators with typical investigations on judiciary committee. look, time is of the essence. they ought to be doing multiple investigations at the same time. there's multiple allegations currently in front of the committee. i think it's not hard to figure out the universe of witnesses. it's not 500. it may not even be 50. but it's got to be more than five. >> more than five. >> it's more than five. >> there are three women who have made on the record allegations in addition to dr. christine blasey ford. >> and i hope that all of them will offer to be interviewed pie the fbi, will come forward and cooperate. there was some concern last night, i think it was deborah ramirez, her attorney was saying a week is long enough, this isn't legitimate, she wouldn't cooperate. i think that was misunderstood by some of our colleagues. my understanding this morning is she's offering to be questioned and may well be being questioned by the fbi today. >> your friendship with jeff flake, which sort of predates obviously everything that went

down here and actually is some rooted in some common and shared experiences that relate to why we're at the global citizen concert today. you both did work abroad in sub-saharan africa. >> that's right. we're both 55, a few months apart. when we were in our 20s, i spent a semester in kenya, he spent some time in zimbabwe as a mormon missionary. we've both lived and worked in africa. this was in the late '80s when the antiapartheid was an absolutely critical part of the continent and the world and i was the chair of the africa subcommittee my first four years and he succeeded me. he's the chair now. we've traveled together to africa. we've legislated together on africa. and it's great to be at global citizen together. >> senator chris coons, thank you so much. now back to the show. >> all right. that was my conversation earlier with chris coons of delaware. of course we have joy reid and

jacob soboroff has joined us as well. one thing that i thought was very interesting there, from the outside the way the senate functions in the rise of partisan maximumism means that the sort of senator-to-senator relationships are much more frayed, but these two had a relationship specifically because of this stuff. specifically for africa and aid in africa and that's given them a shared relationship that was the origin of what happened yesterday. >> and you and i talk about the incentives in politics. what incentivizes behaviors. for jeff flake they have shifted a little bit because he's on his way out. he doesn't have the incentive of re-election but she still has t maintain the relationships. but that personal relationship did allow him to make this deal. just looking at my twitter feed as i'm listening to your interview with senator coons, there's a lot of concern that the deal that these two men brought together may not be as good as it seems because the scope is being more and more

limited. >> that's right. seven days. you have seven days to do it. who is ultimately setting the parameters for who is asking the questions from the fbi. >> right. >> today is a day of action. today is about a day of action. it was really nice that the two of them got together, that we were able to delay this to have a further investigation or reopening of the background check. at the end of the day, this is what does jeff flake do when we get to the floor of the senate and will it be any different seven days from now than today or yesterday. >> i asked chris coons saying the white house is directing the fbi in scope. he said five witnesses is not enough. 75 witnesses, fine. 5 witnesses, not okay. there's a bunch of limitations on that scope that i think are troubling, but we are now ready to go back to the main stage here in central park. we are not. i'm kidding. did i say we were ready? >> cardi b was awesome. >> she was so good. we had to take a break. can i say one thing about cardi b? she got up there and told

everybody to vote. she said everybody get out there and vote. she said you can all vote unless you're felons. which is true. >> in florida, there is a move to change that. that's absolutely true because there are at least nine states that have these really sort of post civil war era laws that were designed specifically to keep black people from voting. >> i want to say one other thing about a moment that happened earlier today. i don't know if we've replayed it. janelle monet up there. she got up on stage and she said i want you to repeat after me to the survivors out there, i hear you, i see you and i believe you. and then she stopped and she said the men in the crowd, i want to hear you say it. they said it. she said no, that's not loud enough, say it again. i found it an incredibly powerful moment. >> it was all about educating refugee children. i know this is something you've been talking about. we have refugee children in the united states that we're not treating the best way. i think we have that moment. >> take a listen. >> so today i'm standing here

with my sisters on this stage and with you and we want to send a message loud and clear to survivors here and all over the world. let's make sure that they know that these 60,000 global citizens right here in this audience have got your back. >> and when you're talking about educating girls around the world, the united states used to really take the lead in this idea of trying to equalize women's status and girls' status around the world but now we're in the midst of a crisis of the legitimacy of women's power and agency and even their control of their physical bodies. >> and not just around the world. i thought the other extremely powerful moment that she said, and i'm paraphrasing, let's stop and not just talk about the empowerment of women and girls around the world but right here at home in the united states of america. that always happens at the global citizen festival. it's an event to talk about eradicating global poverty by 2030 but we always come back to issues that are absolutely relevant here in the united

states of america. >> so the two very big headliners have yet to perform here tonight. >> i'm charging my phone because i actually might just wig out. >> we've also got a lot going on back on stage. we'll take you back to the show for a little bit. stay with us. >> and make a pledge. i'm here tonight to report that together with our partners, we have fulfilled that pledge. large scale testing of the hiv vaccine is now under way in five african countries, including south africa. >> thank you so much. so we have to make hiv history. let's make hiv history. let's see your hands. let's make hiv history. can i see your hands for victory. victory against hiv. so my work takes me to the front line of south africa's fight

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so we're live back here. we want to sort of let you know what we know about what just happened. it appears to be not as bad as i think people thought it was. as far as we can piece together, a fence fell. the sound of the pop of the fence falling, we're exactly almost a year from las vegas, the sense of the fence popping freaked people out. a bunch of people saw people running. there was an incredible and sudden stampede for the exits. >> and the problem is there were

fences at the other end so people are all crushing from the gate. >> i believe we're hearing from a sergeant from the nypd saying everybody start to back away from these fences and try to open the sides for people to go out. it was obviously a very scary thing to hear pops. as you said we're a year out from las vegas. but the idea right now is just crowd management. there are nypd managing the crowd. things have started to slow down. >> the most dangerous thing is the running in a sense. smaller people and people that have children, it's impossible to keep up with the egress of the crowd. are we going to replay -- i think we're going to show what happened earlier. let's take a look. >> so we don't see the picture that you guys are looking at. just to describe what we saw when this all happened, all of a sudden, there we go, you can obviously see the spot lights were turned on and many people started running towards us here at the msnbc stage, towards the

exit. it was chaotic for a moment, but things have calmed down now. people are still milling about. so the chaotic scene you're seeing on your screen happened moments ago. things have calmed down since then. >> i just want to reiterate that there was -- there was no gunfire. >> no. >> as far as we know. i think we would have heard it. i heard it, i know what it sounds like. and there was no reason for people to be running. it was just the understandable spookedness of the sound of something hitting. again, the crowd had sort of moved forward. what happens at the concert through the night people get closer and closer to the front barrier, it gets tighter and tighter. when a mass of people like that start to move, it's extremely panic inducing because there's a wave of weight and momentum behind you and obviously that can lead to folks getting hurt. >> i would like to thank the professionalism of the new york city. you can see some of the police officers on the screen right now. they quickly moved in. they're very, very trained in

crowd management in situations like this, an emergency response. they have the emergency services unit that i'm sure is out here right now in central park just for events just like these. and the level of security just to get to where we are sitting -- >> is incredibly tight. >> yeah. >> and the thing is that in this environment that we're living in these days, that sound is so frightening to people that the immediate thought is to run. we cannot stress enough that it is sometimes the running and the crowd and the pressing against the fences that can be the most dangerous. so kudos to the nypd for getting people to calm down pause that's the thing that can get the most dangerous. >> we're getting a little update from the stage right now. here's chris martin from coldplay. let's listen in. >> there's no need to push people out of the way, okay. what happened is a barrier, i think, fell down. of course it caused people to be a little frightened and stuff like that, but nobody is trying to hurt anybody. you're all safe, okay. i just want to tell you that.

and as far as i know, when you guys are all ready, we can watch janet jackson, which we all want to do. okay. so if you're at the back and you're worried, of course everybody is worried, we all care about people, okay. where's the chief of -- hey, you're amazing. thanks for being here. all right. sorry to steal your microphone. where's the chief of the police? would you just reassure everybody. what's your name? >> chief kathleen o'reilly. everybody relax, calm down. it was a barrier collapse. there was no shots fired. we're going to try and -- hopefully the show is going to go on. we're just going to reassess the situation and try and create a new safety lane. we'll have to try our best. guys out there are trying to re-establish the safety lane. >> thank you, chief. all right.

okay. is that okay with you? slow down, okay. okay. i got it, i got it. okay. so in your own time with no hurry, we're not going anywhere. this show is going continue, whatever, but in your own time. so if you want to come back, if you're not too frightened by hugh jackman's muscles and you want to come back, now is the time but come back slowly, gently, kindly to each other. cynthia, are you ready to sing a song to be calming and kind? are we cool? you guys are okay down here? okay. all right.

>> okay, so i'm supposed to do a speech here about 37 years ago in central park that simon and garfunkel sang this song, but i think right now this song is just necessary because of all of this and we just need to calm down. and i think we need something that brings us all together so we're not afraid of each other. and so i'm going to sing a song for you, okay. and i need you to help me when we sing it, and i hope you enjoy it. it's called "bridge over troubled water." ♪ ♪ when you're down and out

♪ when you're on the street ♪ when evening falls ♪ so hard i will comfort you ♪ i'll take your path ♪ when darkness comes ♪ and pain is all around ♪ like a bridge over troubled waters ♪ ♪ i will lay me down ♪ like a bridge over troubled water ♪

♪ i will lay me down ♪ sail on by ♪ your time has come ♪ to shine ♪ all of your dreams are on their way ♪ ♪ see how they shine ♪ and if you ever need a friend ♪ ♪

okay. so everyone is sort of coming back towards the stage and what's happening now, of course, is nypd is trying to sort of recreate the safety barriers. in crowd situations like this, it's extremely important that you have an exit lane which got knocked down when everybody was running away and they can't have thousands of people pressed up against with no way out. so we've got folks up on stage telling people to listen.

>> cynthia erivo just sang "bridge over troubled water" one of the most amazing vocalists in the game. i think that helped bring the temperature down. >> it feels much calmer down here. they did just stop her about three-quarters of the way through the song because obviously, like you said, the nypd is trying to get back in and make sure everything is as safe as it possibly can be. if you're watching at home, you should know everything is safe. there haven't been any reports of anybody being injured, no gunshots. this was an unfortunate incident of a fence that had fallen onto some people. i believe we have savannah sellers out in the crowd. what are you seeing out there? >> i'm just a little bit down from you, sort of near the front of the crowd. people were running, even hopping over this fence right here to try to get back that way, but everybody is starting to remain calm again. we have people that were sort of being pushed by the police a little bit beyond where we can see here. but like you said, it was that barrier that went down, they're

trying to re-establish that lane. but everybody here is safe and calm now. they are looking forward to janet jackson. it seems they started running back when they heard that. of course chris martin kind of saying calm down, let's be gentle, come back slowly. but right here right now, everybody is calm again. it seems like we'll get back to this shortly and like you guys said, everybody is safe and so the show will resume once police have been able to re-establish that lane. >> chris martin came on stage and i don't know, i think you saw that, he sort of called people together, said it's all good, don't worry, nothing happened. as you can see there's now a huge massive crowd there. >> everybody wants to celebrate. >> but the point is that hours and hours and hours before a concert like this happens, and this is, i think, the largest concert that happens in central park every year. >> yeah. >> hours and hours and hours and days before a concert like this happens, nypd is out here to create lanes so people can flow and get out because huge crowds

can be dangerous, particularly if they start to move. and what happened is that in the panic that ensued, all of that got knocked down. right now the nypd is trying very hard to create -- you can see that lane down the middle right there by the crowd to make sure that people can have a means of egress. >> and can i just say and i think you can relate to this as a new yorker. one thing i have to say, i feel incredibly safe in crowds in new york. >> totally. >> it is a city that really knows how to do public safety in these big situations. i remember covering one of the big marches during the black lives matter movement, 40,000 people who marched for eric garner. you feel incredibly safe because there is such a large presence. we have some of the largest parades here. >> times square, news years. >> so this is a safe place to be. >> in situations like this, i was an advance guy for mayor bloomberg and worked closely with the nypd at all kinds of events like this when they would bring dignitaries. particularly when you have so many influential high-level politicians and celebrities at a

place like this, this place is under some of the most strict security and guidelines and procedures. we're probably at one of the safest places you can be in new york city. >> and i didn't know that about you. we're getting your biography. >> having worked closely with the nypd. no, i can tell you we're all lucky to be here with those folks looking over all of us today. >> central park one of the safest places to be. you can see the crowd is reassembling because janet jackson is going to soon take the stage. i felt like cynthia erivo established some calm. we're going back to savannah. >> i'm right here in the crowd with some people. oh, i think somebody is hurt so we're going to get attention right here. did you guys -- what did you see as this was happening? >> there was a mass of people running. >> just like a wave of people coming in this direction and then we jumped -- my daughter is screaming at me to run and she's over there. i heard some sounds but we didn't know. we heard more people running and

screaming than we did, heard some sounds that we thought maybe it was a gunshot. we didn't know for sure but we didn't want to take a chance. but i'm glad it's not that situation. >> could you guys even hear the actual noise? >> i heard some kind of popping noise but very faint, very faint popping noise. >> and so you guys -- what were you hearing from other people? were people shouting things? >> all we saw was the wave of people. just like -- because we were back here, we were back here. all we saw was a wave of people coming in this direction. it was very scary. >> i saw a lot of people running. i was sitting down on the ground. i wasn't in this area, we was back over there. and i just saw this mass of people running. i said to myself and my daughter who i'm with, we cannot run with the crowd, do not panic. we was near the barrier. stop running. you're going to get people really, really hurt. so i saw a police officer a little while after that and she said that they was actually

gunshots. >> a police officer told you that? >> actually told me that. so i'm saying maybe we really need to take this serious but i wasn't taking it serious. so when we came over here, we found out it really wasn't gunshots. there's a lot of misinformation. people were panicking all over the place. >> falling, tripping, climbing over here. it was really something to see. and to see a mass of people coming toward you, you don't know what to think. >> absolutely. how long after it happened until you guys saw police officers? >> minutes. minutes. >> we got there and saw police officer that said calm down, it's nothing. go back. after we got nearly out of this area over here towards where the bathrooms are, that's when they told us everything is okay, relax. but people were still running. i mean there was arms and legs and limbs and people just running. >> until chris martin came on stage had you guys been told that everything really was okay?

>> no, no. we were not told anything. it was really chaotic situation. it really was. like i said, misinformation. the police officer told us to vacate, we should really leave calmly. >> yeah. as you said, the other information that they had given you, that fortunately was not correct. all right. we're so happy you guys are safe, thank you. hopefully you'll get to enjoy the rest of the show. we'll keep talking to people, guys, and let you know what else we hear. >> thanks, savannah. we've got the nypd up on stage just trying to get people to not crowd towards the front and, again, it is hard. let me just tell you there's tens of thousands of people here. they have a tremendous amount of adrenaline pumping through their system because there was an immediate trigger of the fight-or-flight mechanism in everybody's brain stems and it sent them running so people are trying to recover from that and take a deep breath and be chill. and the nypd is trying to just get everybody in a comfortable position. we've got a little -- you can

see what happened. we've got video of the moment that was moments ago when people started running. take a listen. >> what's happening? >> so, yeah, you can tell in you can tell in these situations, when people have their in frame of reference things that have happened in the past, when you see people running, you start to run. >> to give you guys at home an idea of what you're looking at right here. the barrier at the foreground of your screen is at the front of our stage. people are running toward where we were sitting, jumping over this barricade. >> they ran right by us. >> they're talking about the weekend, janet jackson. >> everyone came out here for a good time. >> more importantly came out here to find a cause. the idea of eradicating poverty

is something that's not just a global problem. >> this was an important thing, the people who are here, are not people who bought tickets to be here. they're people who did actions and did activities and put their money where their mouth is it, their sweat equity in order to do the right thing. >> i think chris has hit the nail on the head. the adrenaline of the people that were out here, it was pumping so high, looking at the people behind us right now, everyone's taking a deep breath. everyone wants to get back to the point we were at 25 minutes ago. >> we live in a day and age where every popping sound makes you think something awful. that makes me sad about our country. that the immediate thought is to run. >> we are hopefully, i'm hoping, at least, we're minutes away from the resumption of the show.

we have andrew kirk here. you want to walk us through what happened, where we're at? >> thank you for everything you've done tonight. we had a minor incident this evening, where one of the barriers as you've seen in the park, we have several different pens, one of the barriers collapsed, it made a noise, people, of course, in these times are very reaction airy, everything is completely nine it's very unfortunate, but i want to reassure people on behalf of the organization. there's no cause to be alarmed. >> just a barrier. >> and a noise, and unfortunately, people could have reacted to that, and it created a ripple effect. which is completely understandable, but we have to make sure that people feel safe. our priority is always the safety of our artists, of our global citizens. we have 60,000 people who have come leer tonight.

we're working to make sure people kneel comfortable to come back in. we have janet jackson, the weekend coming. just to make sure everyone feels safe and to feel they can get back into what they're doing tonight. >> for an event like this, that has so many dignitaries. the security is -- >> central park on the evening of a global citizen festival is the safest place you can be. we're on the back of the u.n. general assembly, we've had world leaders from all across the world in new york. new york city, the police department, the services who look after our city are the best in the world. and i think for us to be gathered tonight with some of the biggest artists in the world, some of the biggest

dignitaries in the world, some of the biggest heads of corporations and ngo's, i hope people feel their safety has been the number one priority. i have friends and we have journalists coming in tonight who have said, the lines were a little long, but we got there. the lines were long, because we're checking everyone's bags making sure everyone gets sent to the park. we're very critical about our communications that go out beforehand, making sure that people are aware of what they can bring in or not. we are the safest place in new york city. we're going to have a good time. >> not only is this a safe place to be the people who are behind us in that crowd are not sort of a random group of people. these are people that made a commitment that they are willing

to do something to change the world. they want to be the world a better place, they want to create a sustainable future. and lend their voice to this. they want to be able to celebrate their action, what they've done. >> andrew kirk, i'm going to let you get back up to the stage. >> i think we havery gained our quill ib reum here. >> that's a big part of what this is about. i came here tonight all the way from brooklyn. anybody from brooklyn here.

we're talking digital. let me see the bright screen of your phone if you're from brooklyn or manhattan or you came to new york from somewhere else, we're all here together tonight. >> if you know one of brooklyn's great great leaders, the notorious b.i.g., you could be anywhere in the world tonight but you're here with us and we appreciate that. >> if you haven't noticed, the night, the concert, the party is back on. please welcome jayatha and jamaal. >> hello, global citizens.

the world today is home to the largest generation of young people in history, like you and me. there's 1.8 billion of us, and we are connected like never before. from nigh rairobi to silicon va. digital technologies have given us the opportunity to learn, engage and connect with the world in ways we never could have imagined. some music to exploit the people around them from unsafe personal spaces. to massive cyber attacks. my message is clear. being a global citizen means protecting the most vulnerable. whether it's in the real or the digital world. digital peace is a precondition to achieve the global goals, leaving no one behind. >> jayathma you are so right,

the internet brought us together here today. it's the gateway to the digital world, and we are its digital citizens. and right now we have an opportunity to stop future assaults on our digital world. but our world leaders need a wakeup call. and that starts with you. that's why we're launching the digital peace now campaign. it's about stopping cyber warfare and telling our world leaders to take real policy action before it's too late. sign the petition to spark this action. digital peace now.org. let's raise our voices, and right now i think we could use a little peace, a little digital peace, raise your hands for some of that. i'm jamaal edwards, i'm a digital citizen. you're a digital citizen. and there is no peace without digital peace. thank you.

>> please welcome actor, dancer and advocate -- >> we are back, you got to see ar our own ari mel better. how are you doing, hugh? >> i spoke to the artists backstage, i can tell you exactly what happened. one of the barriers fell over, obviously in this current environment that creates panic, people naturally would have thought, okay, i'm going to disburse. the police services walked on stage, and that created a bit of commotion, people thought this must be serious, fortunately, i smoke to the police commissioner myself, the police officers, and also counter terrorism, there was no gunshot, there was nothing, all it was was a barrier that fell over. >> we saw people in the crowd,

thought maybe some people fell over. were there any injuries? >> there were seven people who sustained minor injuries, nothing serious, and they're all being treated. >> it was due to the running. >> yes, not due to the barrier falling over. they are being looked after, we have full medical support, and according to what i've been told, nothing serious. >> the first time that you and i met, it may have been the first global citizen. i think it almost certainly was. you were talking about this concert in central park. are they really going to pull this off? it seems like a lot logistically. the planning that goes into this is basically a year long effort. i know that you guys put a tremendous amount of effort and coordination with security authorities and the nypd to make sure that everything is set up and safe. >> we spend the whole year making sure this is a safe event. we want to make sure every global c