burning and the pleas for peace. news 4's live team coverage tonights now. news 4 at 11:00, begins with breaking news. the young man who died in police custody in baltimore earlier this month. tonight, lines of law enforcement in riot gear, still marching through the streets. >> violence started this afternoon at the mondawmin mall. further to the south, the orioles were forced to cancel tonight's game at camden yards.

>> and here is how the governor described that conversation. >> he thanked me for the accident and exercising due restraint. i assured him that we were. the last thick we want to do is escalate the violence. i wanted to make sure that we did not allow our city of baltimore to be taken over by thugs. >> reporter: governor hogan also told us that the president made

it very clear to him that there were two separate issues. there was the issue of the rioting, the looting, the disorder but he said the president also tasked him with making getting to the bottom getting to the truth of what happened to freddie gray a priority. back to you. >> at the news4 live desk we have seen things settle down slightly at this hour but there is still a significant amount of damage being done tonight. baltimore county police and city police are tweeting that multiple cars are being set on fire this evening. our crews in west baltimore here have seen some of those cars at least three. none of them appears to be police vehicles but it is impossible to know for sure right now because it's dark and we're getting it very quickly as we drive by and shoot this. this appears to be a small store that was looted and then set on fire a short time ago. as many as 5,000 national guard troops -- there's that store. 5,000 national guard troops are going to be moving into the city

tonight, fully armed and will patrol the streets in an effort to keep more violence from i can braing out breaking out. a lot of people are voicing frustration. >> they can protest and say what they have to say but to mess up the city for those that don't live around here this is not cool. >> there will be a lot of changes tomorrow. a citywide curfew will run from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. for a week starting tomorrow. baltimore city schools are closed and multiple school systems throughout the school system have canceled field trips to the city if not for the week but indefinitely. also the family of freddie gray is set to talk in this half hour. at the live desk i'm jim handly. >> thank you, jim. this started with students throwing rocks and bottles outside of the mondawmin mall as

officers were protecting themselves with shields. >> at least 15 baltimore city police officers are recovering from injuries tonight. chopper 4 captured video of one of the officers with what appeared to be a head wound being carried away by one of his fellow officers. one officer was knocked unconscious and one has broken bones. several of prince george's officers were injured but none seriously. transit police say people attacked one of their lieutenants. >> and baltimore police are on high alert after warning today that three notoriously violent gangs had teamed up to target law enforcement officers. the department called this a credible threat. they named the black guerrilla family the bloods and the crips as the possible members and other law enforcement agencies were warned to take appropriate precautions. more than 100 police officers from the d.c. area are

in baltimore tonight. they are trying to help out there. 30 of them are from prince george's county. some of those officers were hit by rock this is afternoon but we're told their injuries were minor. montgomery county sent four officers to help and anne arundel sent 65. that includes the chief. 25 were from howard county. maryland has more than 80 troopers in the city helping the officers of baltimore. >> shomari stone is live outside of the mondawmin mall. shomari? >> reporter: police have surrounded the mall and they are making sure that people don't loot because that's what happened earlier today. the violence started out here but i'm going to show you what happened not too long ago. my photographer shot video of protesters clashing with police dressed in riot gear and

officers were forced to arrest a man on the street. police had to disperse crowds up and down mt. ave and many people threw rocks, bricks bottles at officers and the officers had their shields, their helmets to protect themselves from the flying objects. we came across a lot of different car fires and looters and a cvs going up in flames. this lawlessness that we saw and we saw peaceful protesters as well people mourning the death of freddie gray on the same day that he had his funeral. protesters want to know how did he receive that spinal injury. they feel that there's possibly a cover-up in the police department and they demand answers. let's take a listen to some of them. >> people want to go on social media and talk to everybody about it not being about freddie gray no more.

it's still about freddie gray but the thing is 99.9% of these people out here have some kind of crooked run-in with the law in this city with the police in this city. so therefore, the freddie gray situation was just the straw that broke the camel's back. >> reporter: now, i just have to be honest i've been out here all evening long and it was really sad to talk to some of the business owners. they've worked so hard to have their business where they are serving the community and now their businesses are destroyed. many of them are trying to figure out what to do next. not everyone has insurance just to quickly repair what was damaged. we'll just have to see how this all plays out, live here in baltimore, shomari stone, back to you in the studio. earlier, looters targeted this store in baltimore. you can see the thick clouds of

dark smoke billowing and a protester cut a fire hose hindering the work they were trying to do there. there were no reports of any injuries here. before that cvs fire started, a police car down the block was set ablaze. by the time firefighters arrived, the van parked behind it was also in flames. that police car was still burning when firefighters left the scene. the mta is in charge of the baltimore transit system. three stations were closed for a time and 150 officers were dispatched to dispatched to deal with the other rioters. >> and then another police car was shattered. with the turmoil in the streets, the baltimore orioles decided to postpone the game against the white sox tonight. it was supposed to be at camden

yards about four miles from where the violence occurred. fans were in the stands when the game was canceled. no word on when that game will be made up. and this violence is in contrast to the resolve we heard at freddie gray's funeral today. thousands mourned just not far from where the tensions broke out this afternoon. family members remembered gray for his smile. community leaders promised to keep pushing to make sense out of gray's death and urged everyone to do so peacefully. >> freddie's death is not in vain. after this day, we going to keep on marching. after this day, we going to keep demanding justice. >> the white house is weighing in tonight on the protests in baltimore. president obama is pledging the government's help to respond to that violence. the president spoke with

stephanie rawlings blake today and said that his administration would provide assistance when needed and asked governor hogan to practice restraint in respond to the protests. loretta lynch will be sent to baltimore at a later date. and mayor stephanie rawlings-blake is speaking live right now. >> i think this speaks to the real heart and soul of our city that we are not going to allow our beautiful city to be destroyed. we will bring order from this chaos. we will bring those who seek to destroy us to justice and it will take all of us going above and beyond to get us back. >> mayor, was this fire related to -- >> what do you make of the trail of destruction seeping across the city right now? >> it is extremely heartbreaking for someone who -- you know i'm

born and raised in baltimore. my parents are born and raised here. we know how hard people work to be able to have the city that we know and love and to watch a group of criminals go through our city with an intent to destroy, what does that solve? you don't get justice for that. what does it solve? you know why should those individuals who fought to get those jobs at cvs, you know now they have -- what are they going to do? for the people who fought so hard to get that resource there so the community could be served and have a good place to get a pharmacy and things that they need how is the looting going to help them? you know so you -- you hear

people say that -- you know that they care about their community and they want to be heard but you can't care about your community and do what they did. >> baltimore's mayor expressing the frustration and the heartbreak that so many are feeling about this violence in baltimore. we're staying on top of this breaking news throughout our broadcast tonight. we just heard from the family of freddie gray and jim handly will have that for us at the live desk. i also want to go out to the verizon center tonight. there was a huge game seven. jason and diana are there. >> something special for all of d.c. sports. doug? >> diana losing that voice on back-to-back nights of playoffs. sun made its way through the area today. big changes in

derek ward has been in baltimore for much of the afternoon and through the evening and is joining us from the western police station. derrick? >> reporter: this is heavily fortified in the wake of everything going on here lately specifically after the death of freddie gray. this was the last stop that he was taken to and where finally medical attention was provided and police conceded that yes, this should have happened earlier. this has been the focal point of a lot of the frustration and protests going on. things sparked off across town earlier this evening. and you know we've talked a lot about the cvs store that burned.

i spoke to a person who was a home health care provider and the majority of the folks in that neighborhood that need that sort of care that need prescription drugs get them from the cvs. they are very frustrated now that they will no longer have that place to get those prescription drugs as well as some of the stores that were burned or either demolished or looted in that neighborhood as well. people openly expressed frustration that those places are not there anymore and perhaps some of them won't be coming back. but of course that was all overshadowed by what we saw in the streets there. burning cars broken windows, rocks and people simply some trying to get out of this area as soon as they could and others being trapped there behind those police lines until finally things calmed down a bit and there's a hope that the calm will last through the night. live in baltimore, derrick ward news4. >> thank you, derrick. we're just getting reaction from

the family of freddie gray. jim handly has that. jim? >> blocks away from where this violence erupted was the funeral for freddie gray just two hours after they celebrated his life. the family spokesman, the family attorney spoke with family members and supporters gathered around him at the church today. here's what he had to say. >> this isn't a white/black issue. it's an issue of how do we treat ourselves as human beings. we love this city and we are here to work as hard as we can and as long as we can until this problem is solved. this is not going away. >> loretta lynch, the new attorney general just sworn in today, also issued a statement today saying the civil rights investigation into gray's death will continue and she also condemned today's violence. at the live desk jim handly. >> thank you, jim. maryland's governor, larry hogan, activated an emergency

request after a request from the mayor. jackie bensen is live. jackie? >> reporter: doreen the effort to restore order on the streets in baltimore is being coordinated here from the maryland emergency management agency. now, just a couple hours ago governor hogan had a press conference where he talked about the declaration of the state of emergency and referenced what appeared to have been some frustration, possibly some communication problems during the last 24 to 48 hours with reaching the office of the mayor of baltimore. >> i've been in daily communication with the mayor and others in the city and our entire team has been involved since day one. this was a baltimore city situation. when the mayor called me, which, quite frankly, we were glad that she finally did, we instantly signed the executive order. we already had our entire team

prepared. >> reporter: now, the governor later backtracked a little bit and praised the mayor and city officials' efforts but this does go to some degree to answering the question so many people had today watching just the awful things that were going on in the city of baltimore, how did it go that far that quickly? back to you. >> jackie bensen thanks jackie. it was nearly 8:00 tonight before the mayor, stephanie rawlings-blake made her first public comment on that violence today. when she did, she was quite blunt. >> too many people have spent generations building up this city for it to be destroyed by thugs who, in a very senseless way, are trying to tear down what so have fought for. >> mayor rawlings-blake said she

did not speak earlier because she was managing the city's response to all of the violence. our team will be monitoring everything happening up in baltimore throughout the night. you can follow the nbc washington app along with our twitter and facebook pages for around the clock updates and we'll bring you the latest on the air tomorrow on news4 today. we promoted a story over the weekend about knowing if you're getting a good deal. it was supposed to air tonight but because of our coverage in baltimore, we'll air it for you later this week. here is doug with a check on our weather forecast and you bring good news tonight in? >> yes, some good news. we maybe needed the jackets and umbrellas for a time. we saw showers around 7:00 to 9:00 in the area and now we're dealing with cooler conditions. 53 at the airport and that's really what we're dealing with. winds out of the northwest at 17 miles per hour and it's coming

straight out of the northwest. cooler wind and temperatures around the area in the mid-40s. 46 gaithersburg and 48 towards baltimore. it's a cool night. we're looking at a cool start tomorrow. the driving impact tomorrow no real impact as far as the weather is concerned. a cool start to tomorrow morning. we should see sunshine. tomorrow afternoon, a few more clouds but a really nice evening. temperatures around 69 degrees. we're looking at a very nice tuesday. it will be rather breezy once again. winds upwards of 20 25 miles per hour and that will make it feel cooler but not bad. storm team 4 radar, all clear. showers moving right down 270, almost like the traffic coming down from frederick down towards d.c. a couple of light showers that moved in and out very quickly. here they were right here. watch them coming straight across right in there and then as they moved farther to the south, they were out of here and now you can actually see the clearing skies. we saw the cloud cover as a result of a big area of low pressure. we talked about this all last week. look at this area of low

pressure spinning off the coast and it brings little waves of moisture and cold air pockets aloft and that helps the clouds to form and actually helps those showers to form as well. that's what we saw earlier. tonight, no showers. just cool. 46 in washington. 42 in gateithersburg and at least we were not talking 30s like a few days ago. tomorrow around 70 in some locations. 70 in manassas and 66 towards gaithersburg. on wednesday, a high near 70. a storm system on thursday and friday. that could cause shower activity but the coastal system which normally brings us a lot of rain should stay off towards the east i think, but of course it's something that we will continue to watch. i think the best part of the forecast just happens to be saturday sunday and monday. >> what a lucky break. thank you, doug. we'll be back with more on our breaking news from baltimore. schools there have been canceled tomorrow and a curfew goes into

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before we go an update on the unrest in baltimore that we've been covering all afternoon and evening. >> freddie gray's family members, supporters and lawyers just wrapped up yet another gathering at the same church where they held his funeral earlier this afternoon where they prayed for justice. >> baltimore police report at least 15 officers injured in the chaotic and at times fiery clashes that broke out after the funeral happened across the city. no clear numbers on how many demonstrators have been hurt but there are reports of police-inflicted injuries tonight. >> maryland's governor declared a state of emergency which means

state police are taking charge of law enforcement operations in the city. all of the baltimore city schools will be closed tomorrow. >> and the mayor announced a citywide curfew taking place for a week tomorrow night at 10:00. that's it for

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