at least seven baltimore police officers have been injured. one of those officers was unresponsive when placed inside an ambulance. we have seen video of protesters stomping on police cars and others looting a cvs there that you see. north avenue pennsylvania avenue in baltimore. baltimore police just held a news conference moments ago. >> i don't know who's out there right now. that's something that we'll be able to determine as the event goes on. what we do know is they're criminals. they attacked officers without provocation. they have no regard for the i have a safety of the residents that live in that neighborhood. >> we have some more context of where this is all happening and what kind of impact it is having on that city tonight as these people who work in baltimore and live in the surrounding communities and suburbs are trying to get home. tisha. >> let's go back to that map that you all just showed.

that map is going to be incredibly help lful. the activity started at the top yellow square mondawmin mall near the maryland zoo. we heard that students came out of frederick douglass high school a public high school and started to flood into a 7-eleven. they came they went they came back out and making the way down reisherstown road until they got to the mall. this looks like interviews happening right now with channel 11 sister station. this is the activity that was happening outside of the mall. you can see police would move forward. it looked to be mostly students at this point. this is right after school. they would run away. they never entered the mall itself. most of the mall people had left. it was described as a mostly ghost town. that right there was an arrest. this was the action all throughout the afternoon. the folks would move across the

street. and then start throwing bricks and stones at any vehicle that would pass by. there's one right there. at buses. at police. at police vehicles. there was an armored car that they threw a lot of debris at. the activity then started to move south. once the police formed a pretty solid line around mondawmin mall and officers at this point injured it appear that is the protesters then moved south towards north avenue which is a very well-known area in baltimore city. it's about ten blocks south of where the activity began. there is where they started to loot the cvs. this right here this video you are looking at is when things started to become the most intense because a baltimore city police officer was injured. we think severely and was carried out by nearly two dozen police officers. we have heard reports of a helicopter that came down in the mandawmin mall area.

we are not sure if that's a medevac for the police officer or another activity. this is typical. this is what cars have been dealing with. this is why they're shutting the roads down in baltimore city. this is the kind of activity. this right now is a live shot of north avenue. there had been a pretty severe car fire of an m 12ta vehicle. equivalent of a metro system. that fire happened in front of a very well-known large bus stop that a lot of folks would be using to come home. i need to get context about -- oh. this is a reporter from channel 11 that you see right now. he's been covering it. barry simms. affiliates up in baltimore, channel 11 has been incredibly helpful getting information. a lot of pictures coming from their helicopter. this was the height of the activity earlier today. this was the -- this is the

parking lot in front of the shoppers food warehouse across the street from frederick douglass high school. another well-known landmark is coppen state college. this looks to be one of only a few arrests we have seen and we continue to monitor this as things progress. we'll let you know. the activity continues to move south from about the northwest intersection of the city. >> we just need to emphasize this is video that was recorded about an hour ago. >> right. >> this is not active right now. >> we want to go live to the western district station. this is an area where police have been gathering. a place that has barricades around it. derek ward is on the scene now. how have you seen things evolve in the past hour there, derek? >> reporter: well it's definitely been an increase in the numbers. not a lot of action as you put it that way. it's quite quiet except for the

helicopter overhead. we do know that this has been a scene of some of the action some demonstration and confrontations among police and protesters at least during the weekend. and certainly, now amid this new threat that baltimore police are calling a credible threat. this would be at the very least prudent to show up with these flanks of officers like this and to man the barricades and could indeed be anticipatory of something coming this way. actually someone just came by and said they're coming. rather ominous sounding statement amid what we know is going on here. again, though there are a good number of police officers here we see. two levels of barricade on either side of the western district station. and also some of the streets that lead off, some of the resident shl areas that surround the station immediately. it is quiet, anticipatory and

right now calm. >> looks like they have fortressed themselves in there. you said this is not just a blue wall if you will around the police station. there they have gone into the neighborhood to create sort of flanks out front to head them off as they first come in if they come into that area. derek? >> indeed. all of the approaches to the police station itself you have the jersey walls and then again you have the metal fences. in the alleyways around the block, police cars and officers as well. we don't know if they ramped up and put on the riot gear. earlier they weren't. i would imagine if that's the protocol here at the front of the station it is the protocol at other locations with people posted again. it is the ever-present sound of the helicopter above. sirens occasionally. again, the warning if you will or just statement by someone said they're coming.

that's all we know from here. >> a tweet from prince georges cownunty police several officers hit by rocks, minor injuries. >> you have something new for us? >> wendy, we do. there was a big question of the maryland national guard to be called up to deal with this because we have had police officers from all over the region come to assist. as of right now, we are being told by the spokesperson for the maryland national guard they have not received a request for assistance. all school system field trips in the city of baltimore are canceled through sunday may 3rd. as anyone in elementary school student in maryland knows that you have to learn about your maryland history and there are a

lot of field trips scheduled for the inner harbor area of maryland throughout the springtime. the county is not going to send students until the baltimore area until at least may 3rd. >> you mentioned earlier that this is very close or fairly close to the zoo. have we heard from folks about when's happening? >> we'll reach out to them right now and get you an answer on that. >> thank you. >> also hearing that seven officers injured thus far. one officer was unresponsive. we did see some dramatic video about an hour ago that was showing the officer being taken by his fellow officers into one of the armored cars there. as they were waiting transport. here's live pictures of that cvs where they were looting and looks like it's still ongoing. i don't see a police presence there. >> no. >> i guess they figure you know whether's the harm? go in and get whatever you need.

whatever. >> we did see an armored car pause at the intersection and then it left and that was the first sign and that had been after 15 or 20 minutes of looting. >> also interesting after this as they were looting much more vigorously let's say 20 minutes ago first getting in that the roads around this cvs were still open at the time so you have to wonder about drivers who suddenly make a turn and drive down a street and drive into this. that's got to feel scary and then a precarious position. again, we haven't seen any of the protesters engaging or in any way attacking pedestrians or civilians there. saving all of their anger and an animosity for the police including the metropolitan transit authority car set on fire and then looked like it was about to take the bus behind it on fire. no injuries we have heard of. >> the governor's office is

monitoring the situation. will put out a statement as soon as he has been briefed and we heard that the maryland national guard has not received a request for assistance as of yet. this is a staging ground and i think pretty near the western district station where derek ward was a moment ago. >> maryland state police are sending in some reinforcements. sending in 50. the president has not responded yet. >> we know that prince georges county sent in officers and sent out that some are injured, not clear seriously. >> tisha was saying the major road where this began around liberty and gwen falls, that's a area comparing to river road or

new york avenue. if it were in the district. that this is a major artery for people to get out of town. and that was shut down all looked looked like six lanes shut down earlier today and still by police and imagine for commuters and people who have to live in the baltimore area and work that this is a very very rough afternoon for everyone involved there in baltimore. >> and up on the end, where loyola is near the johns hopkins campus student campus not the hospital students at loyola ordered to stay on campus. that is an i dilldyllic neighborhood. explain where that is. it's an absolutely stunning area. >> oh it's beautiful. it is further north and to the east. it's pretty far away from where this activity is. you couldn't walk there. let's put it that way and also hearing that the maryland

institute college of art which is a very famous school which is very close to that cvs, that is instructing the students out of abundance of caution, mica is advancing students not travel away from campus this evening and students not leaving home not to come to campus. they will -- they're officially closing at 5:30 and putting liberal leave policies in place for faculty and staff. this is an interesting mix of students who do go to this art school. it is a school where they make beautiful sculptures beautiful art. and it is juxtaposed with vcss and that sort of thing. there are a lot of student that is live in the area. that's the school that's much more impacted by all of this than say, the loyolas or some of the other school that is have been putting out closing statements. >> we're seeing what looks to be another store. we don't recall seeing this pile

of trash out there. >> outside the cvs. >> this is our chopper, chopper 4 now gotten over the scene. they were talking about that. >> this is -- we're looking at more looting and saw that cvs they were still looting even just minutes ago and the looting tapered off quite a bit. this is the back of that cvs. >> lower right you can see what we were looking at before. >> a whole different vantage point. they're coming in from both ends of it and looks like more on the backside now. >> a lot of their vent is. >> perhaps the pharmacy. we don't know. there's acvs. we also are wondering, too, you know we probably got about an hour and a half before the sun sets and you have to wonder if there's a curfew in place and that's got to be weighing on city officials now whether they're telling young people or all people to stay indoors once it turns dark. >> of course all of this

happening today as -- after the funeral of freddie gray and we want to hear from reverend jamal bryant who spoke at that funeral. let's listen. ire the ire. >> the family was very clear that that is day of closure. for us to come out of the burial and walk into this is absolutely inexcusable. i'm asking every young person to go back home tomorrow night we'll have a community meeting for us to really recalibrate because peace is the call and order of the day. >> angry reverend jamal bryant. the family of freddie gray put out a request last night pleading for people to be a peaceful day and that was inspector general noerled. in fact social media sent something out to start around 2:00 and was going to head down to city hall.

so there you have reverend jamal bryant very angry they stepped out of the funeral and he called hoping to have sacred closure and then walking into this which he calls inexcusable. there's a community meeting later on to try to determine what to do with this and how to get people to do something, i guess, positive so something positive comes out and not so destructive. >> tisha thompson has some new information from the live desk. >> we just received an e-mail from governor larry hogan's spokesperson and saying that the governor is quote, monitoring the situation and putting out a statement this evening. jim, you were wondering if the governor said anything. that's what he's saying. >> all right. thanks so much. i had asked the question of curfew. daylight is running out pretty soon. this is the height of rush hour right now. where would that curfew come

from? police, mayor's office? have we heard anything from the mayor's office? >> we have not received any specific information from the mayor. we'll ask about a curfew as soon as i stop talking to you. you come up with the good questions and followed up with the maryland zoo and a report on that and we have only official city spokesperson we have heard from since this all began has been the baltimore city police. when they updated us that seven police officers had been hurt. that they were still determining who the protesters were. and referred to them as criminals. >> another thing that's kind of interesting because we have been covering protests throughout the career what you do not see happening today as you do not see the police aggressively going into engage the people and they were doing was a dispersal technique. you have not seen -- i think we have seen one or two arrests. we have not seen the police gathering people up putting them into police wagons and

taking them and arresting them. they seem to almost be just trying to protect certain areas, keep things cordoned off, keep a perimeter around the protesters and let them sort of bleed off this energy and this anger or even just this opportunistic destruction that they're doing. >> very good point. police said calling some in the crowd a group of lawless individuals, criminals, attacking without provocation. that the attacking end was coming from these individuals and we don't know whether they're students high school or college students or a mix of people. >> we have something from congressman elijah cummings and something to say after he left that funeral and walked into this. >> anybody who's thinking about bringing arm to our police

officers i'm telling them think twice. we cannot have police under the threat of being harmed. >> all right. again, we heard from congressman elijah cummings saying this is -- don't do this. we heard from the reverend jamal bryant saying they were hoping to have quote sacred closure after this funeral and said to walk out on this is inexcusable. and quite angry. >> this is the cvs the back door perspective and going in and out. many with arms full of things from this cvs drugstore on north avenue and pennsylvania avenue. we've been watching this for the better part of almost an hour now. >> right. we just heard the baltimore police say they have been able to get their injured officers

out of that area. there were seven injured, one was described by police as unpreresponsive. they have gotten him out and getting medical treatment. >> we just got an update of maryland state police. 40 more additional troopers will be deployed bringing the total to 80. i think 40 deployed about 7:30. >> sending in 50? and another 40. >> 82 total i'm getting now and i think this happening around 7:30 sunset for folk there is. >> you have some new information. >> i do have some new information. jim specifically asked what is happening with the maryland zoo. this began a block or two from the zoo and we got a statement from the spokesperson who said that their normal hours are 10:00 to 4:00 and decided to close at 3:00 p.m. they say all the guests are out of the zoo. the only people there are the security staff. this is a quote. we do not evacuate.

we just closed the gate once the last guest left. and they made sure that all of their staff got home okay. and you were talking about the police forces. once again, we want to remind folks that we have reached out to the maryland national guard. they say they have not been asked to assist in this situation. >> thanks so much. you're giving us a lot of good information and keeping us up to date minute by minute. we appreciate that someone who knows this area very well. >> here we go again. this is outside that cvs which is currently being looted has been looted. they've been looting it for 45 minutes or so. and you see traffic is -- they have not shut that street down. >> which is amazing to me. >> i don't think the police -- i haven't seen a single police officer in that area. i'm wondering if they're just letting this play itself out if you will while they're continuing to form a wall of defensive wall around areas that really could be vulnerable.

that is that mta car and bus still -- >> this is not a live picture. >> this is not live. this is live. so we have another -- >> it's burning again we understand. >> two fire trucks came and put that out. >> and then they left and also an mta bus behind this cruiser. >> that's on fire. looks like that's on fire. the bus is on fire. that thing has either reignited or been reignited. >> this is a major bus stop area. we have at least three metro stops. penn north, upton and mondawmin metro stops all closed right now. >> also, also a lot of universities around there telling students -- coppin state was in the middle of this earlier. loyola if you live on campus stay on campus. if you are commuting, don't come in. classes are shut down for the

night. even maryland school children in anne arundel county not taking field trips to baltimore this week. >> i want do give you a heads up. before that second vehicle caught on fire we were able to get a close shot out of it and i do not believe it's actually a bus. i believe it's an mta police vehicle. it was as jim said somewhere in between the size of a bus and a small vehicle. it is starting to explode. it caught fire after the vehicle in front of it which was an mta cruiser caught on fire. this of course is happening as you mentioned in front of a very large bus stop. that triangle that reck tangible everybody hangs out to get the bus. north avenue is really in the heart of working baltimore.

people think of inner harbor at the center of the city. this is the center of baltimore city. the people who live and work in the city. this is one of the major thoroughfares through town and causing quite a bit of traffic problems as well. i just wanted to give you a heads up. we don't think that's a bus. >> all right. thank you. >> one other thing to talk to you about, this neighborhood right here where they're looting, earlier when the demonstrations started up by i guess gwen falls you were saying that's a really lovely working class neighborhood. they did not have an antagonist relationship with the police. >> well to speak to what you're saying i think where this began is a nice neighborhood. houses are well kept there. people are working class folks. that's not to say there's not crime that happens in the mondawmin mall area. it's a mall. this area north avenue is the

same way. it attracts a certain amount of crime because it's a business area. but i wouldn't call it a rough part of town either. there are areas in baltimore with much higher murder and crime rates. this vehicle right here i'm trying to see, looks to be a baltimore city police cruiser. that's a pretty damaged vehicle right there. >> we understand there's not an officer in there. police were breaking out the windows and on the roof top. i'm seeing from our excellent long-time reporter jane miller police at the inner harbor showing a picture and all lined up in protective gear. water and boats behind them. water taxi service has shut down as well. >> i can imagine, i mean baltimore is a wide area and a large city with a lot of -- johns hopkins and the inner harbor they have fells point and i'm sure there's important areas, not important is the word to use but a lot of areas to make sure they fortify and make sure that everything does stay

calm. that police car that we were looking at earlier, they were all over that ripping it apart and the baltimore police reported they're tearing apart the vehicle. you have to wonder about the lovely people who live in this neighborhood and are just trying to work and their pursuit of happiness and they have all of this mess going on right now in their neighborhood and there's not much more to do. i guess just shelter in place and hope again that these people wear themselves out and will return to their homes, as well. >> a biggest employer if not the is johns hopkins hospital. it's a good distance away from here but also not in the best of neighborhoods and certain parts of around it. >> well it's quite a distance away from here. johns hopkins hospital is closer to the inner harbor on the eastern side of the city. this is if you think of baltimore as split right down the middle this is on the other

side. this is on the western side and north avenue is sort of -- if you made a big cross through the city we are right at the center of the cross right now. this is really the main part of the city. what's closer to this actually is the university of maryland medical campus where a lot of folks if you've ever heard your doctor went to school at the university of maryland this is closer to where that is. this is over in the west baltimore region. it's close to coppin state university. there's a there are a couple of htss. the school that's the closest to this mica. very well-known in the country for painting sculpture, visual arts. we wanted to give you a heads up. i had a piece of paper handed to me. it says several prince georges police officers were hit by rocks this afternoon during the disturbance. all of the injuries so far have been minor. there are about 30 prince

georges police officers in the city and as we have been reporting plenty of police officers coming from other jurisdictions including maryland. i'm sorry. maryland state police. about 90 of those. we have heard from baltimore county police and anne arundel police. we will keep you posted on this. >> we're also hearing that 40 police officers of montgomery county. what did you say? special event response team. are moving in now to help their fellow officers in baltimore. 40 montgomery county police officers sent to this area. including the special event forces. just to give you some context, again, this is the backside of that cvs. in baltimore, that they started looting an hour ago. this is the backside of it. jim, you were mentioning there's a pharmacy and the pharmacies are good about the big cages, locked cages to close down. so i'm sure they did that defensively. you don't see anyone trying to

stop them from this entrance and the back or the one on the other side. >> no you don't. >> if tisha is still available, again, just joining us just to kind of give you an idea it started in the mondawmin mall area and they were going to social media sent word out to start there and work their way over to city hall. if you're still on mic, do you know how close this was to freddie gray's funeral services? >> i do. i do. so mondawmin mall in the northwest section, if you think of the inner harbor what most people are familiar are. northwest section of town. it was about five blocks from his funeral. it was a little further north than that from the community where he lived which is called sand town and sand town you keep asking me is this a good

neighborhood a bad neighborhood. as a reporter in baltimore city, i reported a lot about the strg ls the baltimore city health department considering it to be a health crisis that too many teenagers and middle schoolers were dying from homicide. and i did quite a bit of stories in sand town because the baltimore city health department decided that's a city to try to focus and keep the kids in school keep them from dropping out. if they could keep them in school maybe they could keep them alive. that was several years ago. comparatively, the mall is a safer part of town. the funeral is sort of in the middle of those two locations. as we mentioned earlier today, baltimore is a fascinating city. you can be in what you think is a really safe neighborhood and then a couple of blocks later you're in a part of the neighborhood you may not want to be in because it's -- you just see a lot of police presence.

and it is the struggle of the city there. they have quite a bit of vacant housing in parts of town. sand town is an area where you will see a lot of abandoned property. but there's been a lot of revitalization. i think that's important for people to know about baltimore. is for as much of the ugliness that the city has gone through there's been so much reconstruction and new building and there's really been quite a bit of effort to do something for these communities that would typically be labeled as blighted. but i think the mondawmin mall area where this all began today, it is classic working class neighborhood. people care about their homes in this area and they're going to do what they can to make them look good. and they have steady jobs in that area. it's right across the street from the mall and anyone who's been around the mall knows it can attract teenagers.

>> exactly. earlier we were saying we weren't sure. it kind of kicked off as soon as school let out and earlier people referring to them as students. we weren't sure what the demographic makeup of the kids were and the proestesters were people from the neighborhood students just opportunists or people who maybe had again antagonistic relationship with police and just joining in. we don't know what set this up. i want to emphasize it's not as if people came out of that funeral and joined. reverend jamal bryant spoke at the funeral and here's what he said when he walked outside. >> today of all days the family was very clear that this was a day of sacred closure in the funeral. so for us to come out of the burial and walk into this is absolutely inexcusable. i'm asking every young person to go back home. tomorrow night we'll have a community meeting for us to

really recalibrate because peace is the call of the order of the day. >> there you have it. reverend bryant obviously very disappointed that this is what people are doing, some people were doing today when they were remembering freddie gray. and asking for peace as the family did last night, asking for peace, asking for people to be quiet and respectful today and then you have this. and again, this is just the looting of the cvs. if you have been watching or seeing the video from an hour hour and a half ago, when they were initially engaging the police at the mondawmin mall and walking up the street there. there was a lot of bricks being thrown and it was the protesters were fairly aggressive. the police were just holding their line and doing what they call a dispersal didn't actually throw out the first can of teargas or mace whatever the smoking can was,

they didn't throw that out until you see here. this was recorded earlier. this is them bringing an injured officer in and had to get him into one of the armored vehicles and get him to safety and transported before i guess another brick came and there was a crumbling brick wall nearby and the protesters made great use of that. >> we want to go to paul starks with montgomery county police. tell us first of all, we had heard about 40 of your men and women are going to be sent or have they already been sent to baltimore? >> they're in baltimore city now. have been throughout today. that 40 includes command staff, folks that help with communications within the 40 people there. and also a couple officers trained as medics. >> what will they do? what have they been doing and what are they prepared to do to help the baltimore police?

>> just as i heard you saying wendy, before i jumped in, they'll be deployed at baltimore city assesses the need so they can be in different areas and location and different areas within the city and then as things occur as you say they may need to hold the line sometimes they may want to disperse the crowd. use tactics that way. but, you know their goals are the same as anyone else up there in baltimore city now as to prevent death and injury and vandalism and just encourage folks to disperse. if they want to protest, do so peacefully so commerce and business carries on within the city. >> as you have been watching this we have watched the police are just holding the line and they were dispersing them by

waving their hands like move on. can you describe what this -- i mean does this tactic or technique surprise you they weren't engaging them more considering they were throwing bricks and rocks at them and can injuring some of their officers? >> no. i mean they've got to without giving away too much in the way of strategy it's better they just stay together and hold the territory that they have. as points. as it gets to be a different type of behavior then the commander there can give different orders and directions to the officer on the line. >> paul how difficult or easy is it to work with someone from a different jurisdiction? now we have prince georges county baltimore county police all assisting baltimore city police.

you guys aren't used to covering riots every day in montgomery county or violent behavior like this with large groups. i assume all of your people are in riot gear. is that right? >> they are. they have been trained for this. but as you say, this is pretty extreme behavior. what isn't extreme -- what is routine is that there is a mutual aid package within the state of maryland and other jurisdictions are accustomed to responding to assist large crowds in other areas because most departments just don't have the personnel for something like this. so we need to borrow from one another within the state. >> paul thank you so much. we'll probably be checking in with you a little bit later. we hope all of your people stay safe up there. thanks so much. >> we want to go to jane miller from the nbc station in baltimore and i saw her tweet out pictures. there's the inner harbor right now. >> where was going to happen

took place on social media from what i understand. >> there were fliers distributed, believe. this was a planned day at 3:00. some sources of mine in law enforcement, they were really preparing earlier in the day. i think what happened at mondawmin was beyond their expectation. this is obviously a very challenging situation because city of baltimore is not small. it is not a small town and you have a lot of ways in and out of downtown and, you know obviously if you're on foot lots of ways to get down. >> sure sure. i mentioned on the air about an hour ago that you know we saw primarily the vast majority of these people who were throwing things and starting things on fire were young people. we could see that they were wearing school uniforms many of them wearing backpacks so i assume that a lot of them were students and i put out the call

call your children and tell them it's ees's time to come home and the baltimore city police department would like the same. they want parents to use the social media. call the kids. it is time to come home. the only thing that happens if you stay out there and somebody's going to get hurt. nobody wants you to get hurt. it's time to come home. trying to hammer that message home. it's time to be proactive. get your kids to come home. >> that's a good point. that's wbal up in baltimore and jane. you mentioned the zoo closing at 3:00. luke russert of nbc tweeted out are the orioles playing tonight at camden yards? >> next, jim, we are hearing that there is a group of protesters who are moving down mlk or martin luther king jr. and that is an even bigger thoroughfare. i think a really good comparison to that is new york avenue. if they're moving down south

that way, we are hearing they could be going as far as 25 blocks south and may be moving in the direction -- oh. let me see what this is. okay. they may be moving in the direction of city hall closer to the inner harbor area so we're hearing a conversation of closing the gates at camden yards with a game tonight. we're hearing they're moving to lexington market. >> look at this live video right here. >> this is a cash checking store. much more massive than the cvs. >> yeah. is this north avenue? do we know? okay. i'm being told we don't know if this is north avenue or not. okay. we are being told this is north avenue so this is a business. this is a typical business that you would see on north avenue. as i said it is really the center of working baltimore. and it looks like they are looting a checks cashed location. the question is are they finding anything and they're all

walking back out. so you know have that building been evacuated? did that person have any money in there? that's the question. you can see looking at the building to the left that the windows have been covered up with blinds. i'd be willing to bet most businesses have left. most owners are not there right now. i'm also being told that it is right down the street of course, from the cvs. they're all coming out. look at them all coming out. >> coming out sort of their body language indicates they're not joyful. >> not as much to loot in a checks cashed location as a cvs. >> you would assume that a check cashing place has a great vault dealing with a lot of cash and got its stuff locked up pretty tight like a bank would and that it's not easy to get into with a bat. >> what's interesting about this location of course is that this is a business that many people in baltimore do business

at. this isn't some large corporate, you know company that represents something. this is a local business right here. that they have just crushed the windows at. >> and we often see that in demonstrations and protests where they tend to sort of attack often the mom and pops and their own neighborhood which is if you're angry with the establishment, going after the people who have worked hard to build a small little business and who serve your community, that's always -- that's not the people that you want to attack or you want to hurt. >> and, wendy, an interesting note here is that the folks at our sister station where we're getting many of the pictures from alluded to this. but the baltimore city police department has done something interesting. on their facebook page they have in big letters we are asking for the media capital letters to assist us in relaying this message. due to the large number of juveniles in these violent groups we are asking for

parents, parents please bring your children home. we don't want to see anyone get hurt. that's an indication that they think it continues to be a large group of students. >> also you said they're starting to move south down mlk, where does that take them? camden yards near there? >> so that's a good question. so that video coming in and out of there of the checks cashed location that is on north avenue. we are hearing from bal, channel 11 who have got people on the ground right there, that there does seem to be a group moving down martin luther king and moving in the direction towards downtown. it makes a big elbow. it makes a big right -- i have to wogs my body. it's a big right turn towards downtown. they could go one of two directions. move towards the city hall area the police department the inner harbor or if they continue to go south they would hit right into camden yards and the same businesses that ran into trouble

earlier this week in the last ball game. >> saturday night as we saw on the dramatic -- the drama unfolding right after the game. so what we have heard that the inner harbor that what we're hearing from the baltimore station, as well is that they have a line of defense they are fortifying the areas. we even now have people from montgomery county. police officers from montgomery county. prince georges county maryland state and anne arundel county. a lot of police officers. howard county. going in as reinforcements. looks like they need a lot of bodies to form the human walls and going in with riot gear and need the bodies. they don't want them in the downtown area because they don't want a repeat of what they saw on saturday night. >> interesting about the vehicles right there is i don't see -- i can't really see the logo on the side of that one van

but those do not appear to be baltimore city police vehicles. those look to be evidence markers right there on the road right there. that's typically when you cover the city of baltimore you see those when they find gunshot residue or some kind of leftover from a crime scene. so they may already be processing that scene. i believe this is closer up to the mondawmin mall area. these are television crews. >> just to update people we have been saying at least seven offers injured. one unresponsive. most have broken gone sbones. we have not heard of anyone injured as a civilian or protesters injured. >> we haven't seen mass arrests. i think we have seen three or four people arrested. you have to remember we are -- what we can from our choppers and hearing from and seeing from

video relayed on the ground and reporters not everywhere. they have to worry about their safety, as well. we haven't seen that. it's been unfolding and in a -- i don't want to use the word calm but not an aggressive on all sides and it's not unfolding with the ton of drama. there's been like little skirmishes. the seven police officers we have heard they have gotten to the hospitals. they got to the hospital about 45 minutes ago. and they're all being treated. so no one is still left out on the street trying to get transported. there in baltimore. they were throwing bricks at them at a pretty close range and some pretty big rocks early on when this thing started unfolding just after 3:00 this afternoon around mondawmin million. >> the true tragedy and just reading on twitter, wpot and people are running through the streets saying rest in peace freddie. this is all on the heels 2:00 that funeral ended. that drew thousands.

and then we have this. contrasting image. this is the officer, a couple of hours ago at the initial point of this the most severely injured. unconscious and surrounded by almost a dozen police officers getting him into an ambulance earlier today. >> and what we saw when we were watching this in the newsroom just after 3:00 coming in what we saw is right off theo the right is a crumbling brick wall and protesters making use of this by throwing bricks at this scrum of police officers trance portding and getting an injured colleague out of harm's way and into the back of an armored vehicle. there were no ambulances nearby. it was tough getting some off the officers out of that area and forming the sort of walled in areas as protest for their own. so it's been a rough afternoon for them out there. and again, also one other thing

as jim, you said this started just after freddie gray's funeral. reverend bryant is livid they had to walk out of this and the family hoping for what he called sacred closure and for them to walk out of this funeral where they remembered this man who died too young and in suspicious circumstances, that to walk out on something like this this destruction he described as inexcusable and he was mad. >> let's go back to the live desk. tisha thompson gathering new information for us. >> you have asked me about two very specific things. a curfew. our producers e-mailing the mayor's office and the police department calling them trying to get information on that. no one's picking up the phone right now. that's an indication of what's happening. we wanted to tell you when's happening at camden yards. supposed to be an orioles game tonight. some of the gates have been

closed. and are being guarded. fans can enter the stadium through the home plate gate and a couple of others and still scheduled to be played as it was scheduled at this moment and orioles in contact with the police about what to do from this point forward. >> good work. thank you for that. we appreciate it. just to keep everybody up to date. of course this is -- how close did we say earlier, wendy, to the site of the funeral? >> five blocks. when this first started at the mall about five blocks from the funeral. and also close to sand town which is where freddie gray that's his family's neighborhood where he grew up. this is a neighborhood where some of them are salt of the earth, working class people who maintain their yards and they're very proud of their property. and proud of their little place

on the earth. >> this is another live picture here of a car and we don't know whether it's a police cruiser. this is from wbal. seems to be a separate car. another car on fire here and the images just continue to come in on our feeds and they are heart breaking on such a tragic and sad day to begin with. >> we have written one officer unresponsive. again, the police did report out that all seven of the injured officers are getting treatment now. this is a map to show you. see where it says mondawmin mall? that's where this started near the gwynne falls parkway. tisha, you actually lived in the city. what do you have for us? >> i have two pieces of information. one, you know people really do care about baseball.

so the -- we have more information on what's happening with baseball. comcast sports networks o's insider says that the gates are closed and the fans are in the stands. they're doing batting practice and the commissioner is there. he's on his regularly scheduled tour of the major league ballpark ballparks. we don't want to diminish how serious of a situation this is live as you can see. that right there the north avenue area and we were just told that the maryland transit police had a lieutenant who was injured in the penn north metro station in that area. they had two agency vehicles that burned. we have been showing the pictures. they have 150 transit police officers dispatched to protect their transit stations. so that would explain why that mta which is the equivalent i guess you should say of the metro system down here in the

d.c. area it's the mta system up in baltimore. its the buses and the metro stations. there's an underground metro system in baltimore. people don't realize that and where the action is happening right now. >> thanks so much. we want to check in with friends of prince georges county. you are sending people in. are they already there? >> some of your people got injured? julie? julie parker from prince george's county us? >> i do. thank you. >> can you hear us now? >> i've got you, wendy. >> okay. we were just wondering how many officers you have up there. when did you send them? can you tell us if they've been injured. >> hi we just at last check of 5:40 two of the officers were hit with rocks. very minor injuries. no one has been transported.

they were on the scene today. part of this multi-jurisdictional response in baltimore and they're in a stand by role near mondawmin mall. at some point they were pulled in to start backing up baltimore police. fortunate fortunately, within the last 20 minutes or so they have been able to pull back into more of a reserve status near the mall and they're there available to help baltimore police as needed. >> what do you think as someone with the police department just kind of enlighten us civilians. what does that tell you? have things calmed down in that area do you think? >> that's absolutely what that means. it's important to be clear that this is obviously a fluid situation, things are very dynamic there on the scene. i'm not there on the scene. just getting updates of the commanders who are and at least right now the situation has improved such that our officers who are part of our special

operations division can pull back. >> we have seen them over on -- we're hearing they're on north -- north street and north avenue i'm sorry, and also on martin luther king and heading south and take them downtown. do you know if your officers are told to prepare to move to a new location? >> at this point, we have not gotten that word. like i said we just got our update about 15 minutes or so ago so right now we are staying put near the mall. >> okay. all right. julie parker with prince george's county police thank you so much. let's hope all your people stay safe. >> thank you much. >> we have some new sound, new comments of congressman elijah cummings who, again, who like reverend bryant was not happy that this was happening after freddie gray's funeral. this is what the congressman had to say. >> i think that's what the public is very upset. and has a great distrust for the

police but a lot of that is not just based on baltimore. where we have had 31 incidents of people killed in regard to police arrests. and between 2010 and 2014. it's based upon all the other thing that is are going, incidents going on around the country. so we've got a lot of work to do. and what i'm saying to people is i want them to demonstrate peacefully protest peacefully. when they go beyond that and begin to destroy property harm police throw things at police the only thing they do is distract. >> maryland congressman elijah cummings. you know again, another live shot now right now. we see people gathering around this police cruiser. >> the same car? i i think it's the same one. >> we have seen a couple on fire. at least two. but, you know, elijah cummings calling for peace.

police there want parents because so many of the people youngsters to make sure they know where their children are and to get their children home so the plea has gone out to parents now. >> i'm wondering how because these things feed on themselves as people are -- young people or whoever is coming home and seeing that this is going on if people are joining this because it's now a scene, a happening, if you will. >> all over the news. >> all over the news and if -- instead of them dispersing and wearing themselves out if they're not getting new blood coming as people hearing about this and the roads and the traffic around this area for people who live in the area and have been working in the baltimore area it's almost impossible to get out of there and some of these major roads so if you are wanting to call your child, you don't know if your child is home. i don't know that you're home. so there's a lot of sort of a

cascading problem going on here in baltimore. again, tonight, we have as we saw on saturday we have an o's game tonight with the white sox. white sox are warming up. they're in the batting pen or ball pen. i'm not a sports person. getting warmed up. it looks like they have shut down some of the entrances to the stadium there to camden yards but that there are some guests some fans are inside and they have not called this game at all. it is a go. tisha? >> i just wanted to let folks know that we are still on north avenue. the folks walking down the middle of what would be a jam packed street that's a baltimore city police cruiser. two vehicles we saw on fire were mta vehicles. the mta is similar to the metro here. we have a number of police officers throughout the area here locally who are up there

trying to assist including folks from prince george's montgomery county anne arundel county. up to 150 mta plifrls alone. there's another almost 90 police officers from the maryland state police that are up there. but we did reach out as we have said to the maryland national guard and fold if the national guard was to be called in the request would have to come from baltimore city and go to the state of maryland and then to the governor who would authorize the national guard to be deployed. i am being told that there also howard county police officers about 21 of them as well up there. so almost all of the local jurisdictions and the police departments from throughout our area right now assisting. there have been seven injured police officers at one point. they were telling us at least one of the police officers was

unresponsive. we watched nearly two dozen police officers try to get him to safety. and it was very dramatic video. this continues, however, to be about ten blocks soutd. this is north avenue. you can see another of these small fires. this is a major bus station in the heart of town. not the inner harbor. this is not near where the tourists and the school kids go. this is about 20 to 25 blocks north. it would require getting in a car and driving or awfully long walk to get up to north avenue. you can see it's been looted. we are watching -- at first we saw our helicopter from our baltimore affiliate channel 11 saw students flowing out of a local high school frederick douglass high school and affiliate jane miller up at wbal was reporting that police were aware that something might be happening near mondawmi mall

today. this is across the street from the mall and kids instead of getting on the bus like they normally do started to flood down the streets. started entering businesses including the 7-eleven nearby there. they did not, however, ever go into the mall itself. even though that seems to be the location that we have been talking about the most this afternoon. they didn't go in the mall. instead, they moved about ten blocks south. we are now in the north avenue area. we believe some of them are juveniles based on posts by the baltimore city police asking parents, please take your kids home. but at this point, it can be quite a mix because it's now been about two and a half hours since this all began. oh and we -- i just had a piece of paper handed to me that the emergency operation center has been activated to coordinate the response in the city. that's a pretty signifithose are the same folk that is get activated whether there's a

hurricane, a major natural disaster. they're now activated to deal with what we're seeing here. we have seen looting. this looks not to be looting right now but there are -- we have been seeing this throughout the afternoon. rocks and bricks being thrown at buses, at police vehicles and at people's homes. you know this is happening where people live. and this crowd of people continues to throw and destroy businesses. we do not know if these are the same people that began way up at the mall area. as i said it is about ten blocks apart from the two locations. it is quite a distance to walk. but it is possible that this continues to be the same group of people. >> you are