♪ ♪ state of emergency remains in effect in virginia days after protests involving white nationalists and counter demonstrators turned deadly >> after facing heavy criticism, pesident trump condemned this weekend's violence in charlottesville. >> to anyone who acted criminally in this weekend's racist violence, you'll be held fully accountable. justice will be delivered. a total of three people are dead following at the unrest in charlottesville. including 32-year-old heather heyer who died after being hit by car that plowed into a crowd of counter protesters, a vigil for her is being held. the driver of the car is now being c

the two virginia state police troopers killed when the helicopter crashed had been responding to the rallies where white nationalists groups were protesting plans to remove a confederate statue. now there are several other rallies across the country including in seattle and cincinnati >> many other cities are having their own protests and everybody is standing strong with charlottesville. you can see on the rundown on the side, it's what we're talking about at 6:30, live team coverage from the justice department, the white house and charlottesville. lindsay, let's start with you, what's situation tonight? >> reporter: sarah, we are here in front of the memorial that's been set up for heather heyer, this is the street she was struck and killed. and you can see all of the flowers that have been left behind here. people have been adding to this memorial, even in just a few minutes that we've been standing here, people are lighting candles, and writing

the majority of the demonstrators who are here over the weekend have left. but the grief in this community is still so evident, walking around on the streets, looking at people, people who live in this community. some seem shell shocked. i've seen people hugging each other and comforting each other. still just so much hurt and grief left behind in this comm community. >> you know, as we seen everything going on over last day or so, seem much quieter today than what we've seen over last few days and do officials feel like it will stay that way? do they believe that the storm has passed at least for the time being? >> reporter: i think so. i think officials and people who live here feel that that is overwith for now and now they have to deal with the aftermath of what

people who came in for the demonstration have left but i can tell you in just the time we've been here, maybe an hour ago, there was a confrontation that we saw between people on the street, man who confronted a couple calling them nazis, they were screaming at each other. for several minutes. fortunately that conference was only verbal. no violence be there are definitely still some remaining tensions and people on edge in this community. lindsay watts reporting live. president directly condemned the white supremacist groups involved today after many accused him of refusing to acknowledge or name them over the weekend. >> ronica cleary is at the white house with a look at the president's latest remarks and reactions, ronica, active behind you what's going on there. >> reporter: i'm not at the white house anymore. i was with a group of protesters at the white house and as you

don't know if you said it i can't hear very well. the president did acknowledge today the groups involved in the violent activities in charlottesville in remarks today, they were unscheduled at the white house. the group of protesters gather to do the white house, now they're marching to the trump international hotel. if i haven't lost everybody, i got a handful who said they're willing to chat with me. >> what's your name? >> ethan miller. >> reporter: what brought you out >> i'm here because as a jew, a proud american jew, i know what it's like when our communities don't confront fascism and nationalistism directly. what we saw was senseless violence committed in the name of naziism, fascism and in the name of trump. >> reporter: what do you think about the president's remarks today? did that change your response >> not at all, an example of too little, too late. and

again, an unwillingness to confront white supremacy directly, it's not about his ability to, it's about his unwillingness to. >> reporter: thanks for slowing down with us, i'm going to go you up here. this is the fastest walking group of protesters i have ever covered. but we're not going to let them get away too far. let me run up here. all right. what's your name? >> welch can van. >> reporter: what brought you out here today, what's the message you want to send to people >> that oath -- you have to choose the free speech, everybody has a right. you can use it to protect people or you can use it to hurt. and i think it's really important to stand up to everybody. >> reporter: what free speech are you alluding to? i mean, we got the issue of the protesters in charlottesville, but also, a big conversation about the president's response. where do you find the most frustration or issue? >>

response was absolutely pitiful. he is clearly more interested with the concerns of white people than all american, he's clearly more concerned with his own legacy than making sure all americans are protected. president had to say naming the groups, calling out the kkk, neo nazis, white supremacist, did that change anything now, fact that he did do that today on camera? >> i think in american president taking a full 48 hours to condemn explicit fascism is unacceptable and i in whole or in part that every american would want more from their president. >> thank you for the comments. the group now gaining a little more energy and steam, if you will as they get to the trump international hotel. we walked along side them for this entire route from the white house to the trump international hotel. of i did have one other person who said they'd be willing to chat with me. you guys know i'm out here

the time doing the pulse of the people. this group has a little trepidation to come on camera from what i'm used to people sort of jumping in line to do it. i think, let's see >> there you go. >> reporter: what's your name? what brought you out today >> i have a diverse fund group and i'm a christian and i believe that we should support one another and doing this things called life together. i don't think it's about one political party versus the other. i think we should all be inclusive and appreciate that. >> reporter: you're talking about unity. we can keep walking with the group. after what happened, after the murder, governor terry mcauliffe and the president said they spoke about unity that light of this, we need to unite the divide that exists in this country. do you think that that can happen >> i think it can but we need to have a sustained and concerted dialogue between all invested parties. those who may or may not agree with one another and that's how

>> reporter: thank you for sharing your thoughts. i appreciate it. there you have it. jim and sarah, the pulse of the people live and in progress >> quite the turn-out for sure. we'll check in later on. there's a lot of people out there protesting. the racial tension that is came to a head over the weekend in charlottesville with an act of what some are calling domestic terrorism >> to talk about the rise of home grown hate. we talked to mar see dyson. >> thank you for having me >> when you saw the response, we saw march friday and then everything come to a head saturday. you like to think that we're past this as a country, we're past this, over this. yet, we see that. >> first of all, whenever you have a loss of life, it's always great tragedy and always sad en enemy, as an african-american woman, in the 70'

90's i have never had a decade where i did not personally experience racism but i don't think the genesis of hate started in charlottesville. it definitely did not begin on november 8, 2016 with trump in the office, we have experienced this throughout the course of american history. though it was around who should put up a statue and who shouldn't be my more concern about the statues, the laws and regulations that cause the dis par tea mentioning it's the people. i'm not not for white supremacy or black supremacy. we're one people by my estimation but when you have a country that refuses to educate people on the legacy, real history of america then you have a problem, because to have a statue of robert lee along with a statues of the people who are still in the marketplace tell a tragic story of america. when i went the president kagami,

president, after the conflict in his country, who you can appreciate who they were, did not hide the bodies, they put the body of her son display. so they can remember the tragedy. if we make donald trump. the door open, we'll never be able to go back to the genesis which means we never exited out of the problem of hate in america >> what lot of people, is it something that's passed down generation to generation? do you really believe that's where it is and how do you reach that? >> there's definitely a socialation. that's why i said education is important. our educators and the people in the education system, federally and locally did a disservice by erasing the slave narrative in our books to talk about dispar teas of other people. so when you have immigrants and refugees, you don't know about the culture, the country they came from, you don't know about the politics. you don't even know about the native american

could still be racist but your more epithetic -- which is just as harmful to have a person who does not have empathy based on socialation and concerns, i know that the people who wanted to march hit the right of free speech. when you put it in context of the greater thing that's happening in america, i think education one is tool and i think some moment when is college students can come together and include inclusive tea, i can't be about the democrats where a president incarcerated millions of men and help bit a presidential complex that put men in prison, three strikes you're out bill. so i understand the complex tea and it helped me understand so many children are left without fathers in the community and it's a lack of education, a more epithetic society which does not nurture communities and give us you enough experiences which we can really outside of things that happen like this to enjoy

dance, we're not integrated just yet, still segregated in our realities >> thank you for coming in >> thank you for having me. let's take break and get the latest on the weather, sue palka is standing by with more on what is really been quite a humid day, sue >> very humid cloudy and this afternoon and evening we continue to track showers mainly north of dc, sarah and jim, and you can see they're very light. there's been a little bit of heavy activity northern portions of interstate 81 toward hagerstown, everything will be fairly light but if you live north of dc and you have evening plans, i'd keep the umbrella handy and that will probably be a good idea for tomorrow too, let me running allow the weather headlines, it will be a day that will have some sunshine and clouds and humidity continues, temperatures get into the mid 80's, so that means we'll likely have to not only deal with evening showers but a few showers around tomorrow, and maybe an isolated thunderstorm although it looks more showery than thunderstormy, but

get into wednesday and end of this week, august will make a big come back and we'll see summer heat returning wednesday through monday with temperatures at or above the average for this time of year and many of those days close to 90 degrees. summer is not quite done yet. but you know what happens when we get those warm summer day, storm chances will be on the rise and we'll be watching for that especially in the thursday, friday time period. so that's a look at your weather headlines, keep an eye on those showers as we go through the evening hours as well. 5at630 will be back with continuing coverage discussing the chaos in charlottesville throughout the show >> we'll have a number of guests joining us to provide perspective on the events of this past weekend. stick around we'll be right back. e

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♪ ♪ here in dc, the justice department civil rights investigation is centered on events that say strike at the heart of america. >> as the ag promises justice will be done, civil rights groups are urging to

probe, and tom fitzgerald is at the justice department to talk a little bit more about this. hey, fitz. >> reporter: hey, first up, we'll give you an update on the protest we've been watching, they just passed behind us had the justice department. your continuing to head up pennsylvania avenue towards the united states capitol. metropolitan police have been blocking off the street to not allow traffic to come out of pennsylvania avenue, but they're still on the move and moving up to the capitol. as to the business ahead here at the justice department tonight, this is what we can tell you. we're being told this is a three, pronged investigation, this will be the justice department's civil rights division, the fbi and this will also be the us attorney's office for the western district of virginia. the attorney general, jeff sessions, he was out on every broadcast morning show this morning and his message was this. he said on cbs this morning that in his opinion, the victim in this charlottesville violence this weekend, who lost her life in session's opinion, had her rights violated. >>

protesting racism and bigotry, she has right to do that. this individual had no right to drive car into them. and kill people. and killing her. justice will be done. we're coming after these people. it will not be tolerated. it cannot be tolerated in america. >> reporter: and jim and sarah the helicopter you hear still continuing to monitor the protesters as they move around pennsylvania avenue this evening, what we're hearing from civil rights organizations about this justice department probe is this. they want to know if the justice department is only going to limit this to what happened in charlottesville or are they going to broaden this out? are they going to look at the totality of hate groups in america? one such group is the anti-defamation league, they say what the justice department needs to do in

approach this the way they hav with radical islamic terrorism since 911. they say they need an all encompassing all national look at hate groups and this cannot be on just one city and just one weekend. >> this is going to demand that kind of resource. national resource along with local law enforcement who do an excellent job and are put in difficult situations here to on the one hand end ensure the first amendment rights of groups who follow the law but maintain the public safety. of course, that is the delicate balance in all of this, jim and sarah we spoke to legal experts who say the primary question between the justice department investigators is going to be this. of can you connect any crime that took place with a federal hate crime statute? that's apparently not as easy as it sounds, in many cases just because a crime occurred may

might not necessarily bring it up to the level of the federal hate crime statute. there's a lot of work ahead of these investigators as they start to piece together what they have as evidence and what they have as law on the books as to what they can prosecute. >> we'll keep an eye on that one, tom fitzgerald thank you very much. >> the city of baltimore is moving forward on removing confederate statues following the violence in charlottesville. the baltimore sun reporting that mayor catherine pugh talked to two contractors about removal of all four monuments. she expressed frustration that the process for removing the statues wasn't further along already. more than a year ago, the previous mayor's commission recommended removing two of the four confederate era monuments, it's a move that could cost the city roughly $2 million >> as many pause to remember the dead after this weekend's violence, current and former students are shedding light on the culture of charlottesville, more just ahead

. we had a very swift response to this and we saw hundreds of people to this spot yesterday. mourning the victims and denouncing the violence that had taken place. there's going to be a lot of conversation moving forward. i think that people are ready to start the recovery process. figuring out what do we do next >> he's a newspaper editor from the university of virginia paper describing the aftermath of the violent weekend. >> the unrest in charlottesville obviously is dominating national headlines but for many, the city has deep rooted racial tensions. >> university of virginia alumni is joining us, not only did you go to uva but are from charlottesville. >> i spent a lot of my childhood years, all of elementary and part of middle school in charlottesville virginia >> give us an idea, your over the weekend be you still e- have family there >> frankly, it wa

and just frustrating to watch kind of what felt like an attack on our community, and i have childhood friend there, i went to uva, a college buddy, my first job was there working at a restaurant and to watch the entire community to be frankly afraid and uncertain of what this meant for their city was tough. >> it's been pretty well documented a lot of these people involved, a lot of groups, the white supremacists who came down had no ties, they came down because of renaming the park, but before that, were there growing up, going to school there, were there, what you would call deep seeded racial tension there? has it always been an issue >> i think you know, growing up as an african-american man, i think racism is always something that you unfortunately have to deal with interact with. i wouldn't say my experience was anything worse than other communities, to be honest, there's always be

but ultimately whenever there was something racist to happen, the entire community would push back and say that's not what we are, that's not what charlottesville is about. and that was from, you know, childhood in elementary school being one of three black kids in elementary school. it was the same thing, no one tolerated that. >> let me ask you this: when we talk about virginia, it's the south, let's face it. and there are people that say well, you know, it's not deep south but nonetheless the south is the south, was there that mindset through the years of we have to, people who subscribe to the idea we have to defend our heritage? was that a longstanding ideal or something popped up the last couple of years? >> that's an interesting question. i mean, you know, i think there's always a minority group that will cliin,g on to that. there's still home that have confederate flags and trucks. again, that never was an excuse to disrespect somebody or threaten them

a lot of my friends even in high school, some of them had it on their truck, you know, and that was for them. it was a sense of pride. but it was never a sense of hate. >> that was what i was wondering what i wanted to ask you. in some ways it was just like this is part of our heritage but didn't feel hatred >> yes, at least not openly. the again there's always incidents but there's a great deal of pride in our region of being where we're from and i don't think, we all look at each other as neighbors driving down the street, you wave at somebody at the mailbox. of there's lot of love in the community. this is totally in contrast to what we have in our community. >> the worse you've seen >> by far. >> all right. greg jackson, thank you for coming in tonight. >> thank you. >> absolutely. we're back after this.

we'll continue to follow the latest >> check us out at 8:00 and 10:00 and 11:00 >> and the final 5. a long night. make it great one, we'll see you later on.

announcer: today on "tmz" -- harvey: lebron james is understandably pissed off at donald trump. ♪ >> lebron james rocked a red hat that said strive for greatness and it looks like it's a take on donald trump's make america great again hat. >> if kwhiet people want -- white people want white supremacy gone, you got to get rid of it. harvey: i don't think that's a new thing that there are a lot of people that don't like white supremacy. >> i have been feeling this way since the late '90's. >> tom cruise was on the set of "mission: impossible" doing a crazy stunt. tom didn't quite make it. he smacked really hard. harvey: he fell a little short. >> oh, he's short! >> no, cruising for a bruising! >> oh, i like that one better! [laughter] >> video came out this weekend of conor mcgregor knocking down