ben ferguson, very quickly. your response. >> i'm not surprised. knows he can't sit there on the streets of ferguson and put other people's lives at risk that may be working with him. so for this, it's -- you know, he's going to have to move. he's going to have to start a whole new life over again and this is that first step in doing that. unfortunately, he cannot stay there for his own safety and his family. >> mark lamont hill, weigh in for us, if you will. >> no surprise here. he couldn't be a police officer anymore. certainly not in st. louis. certainly not in the state of missouri. and after giving a national interview, where his face is broadcast everywhere, i'm not sure he could be a police officer anywhere. but given the amount of money he got for his legal defense and for doing the interview, i suspect he'll be just fine. >> and do we think that there are supporters here who will react, who will respond, who will fight this? and say, you know, this isn't fair. >> i mean, it's not -- certainly not fair. but they're not going to come out and

ferguson. >> absolutely. that's why i disagree with ben a little bit.f those coming out of town are not coming down to cause trouble, even the people who may destroy things or cause violence, which we don't advocate, they are still coming from a place of righteous indignation. they are still tired of terrorism in their communities. and that's what they are responding to. we still don't want to dismuss the thing that drove them there in the first place. because as you pointed out, it didn't start in august. it started hundreds of years ago and certainly decades ago in ferguson where people are becoming or feeling repressed by the state. and it is continuing after this. >> i want to respond to bill cosby. you said terrorism. can you clarify what you mean by that, marc? >> many young people on the ground feel unsafe, unprotected and subject to random violence on the street. not by gang members or by other people who look like them, although those are issues we need to talk about as well and do, but by law -- >> terrorism is also a strong word, police are t

ben. ferguson is like this tinder box.they need their leaders to come together, work together and here we're seeing it in real time that the same old crap is happening again. >> i think that's where part of the political correctness came in. remember all of the controversy over what people thought the police in ferguson and the state police, the state troopers were too heavy-handed in the response when we had the initial phase of rioting and looting that happened after the shooting took place, and so i think the governor more than likely had in the back of his head, i don't want to get criticized for that this time. as soon as you see an obvious explosion, you have to protect the businesses and the citizens and not let it get out of control, and what you saw from night one was, you have now people that were emboldened and empowered to keep doing the same type of activity, so he sent them in but he sent them in late. this is wuone of the biggest failures of a governor i've seen in recent history when everyone around the cou

mickey cost joins us and political commentators ben ferguson and mark lamont hill. uson. white house senior adviser dan phifer said friday morning the president would not be speaking about the grand jury. hours later, he gave this interview to abc news. obviously, they asked about it. he called for calm. the right move, or should we have heard more from the president sooner? >> i mean, to be honest, i've given up on president obama on the ferguson issue. at every moment, he has preached calm, he has tried to articulate the language of equivalence, as opposed to speaking out against injustice. i quite honestly would have rather the president said nothing than to have the statements he made previously. what he said this past -- over the past few days i think has been quite reasonable. he wants calm. the truth, though, is, there is calm out here. i'm literally here on the strip where so much of the protesting is happening. and as you see, there is calm. i've been talking to youth activists, met with the lost voices of the youth activist group out here. calm. everyone is

we talk with marc lamont hill and ben ferguson.rt with you, marc, as we know the success of the gop in the midterms was a huge blow to the administration here at home. so durng tho you think this dea obama regain some momentum here, even if it is abroad? >> it should help him gain some momentum in the global certainly will, among everyday people i think it would. this is an historic deal with china, getting china to admit having peak emissions by 2030 or before them, committing to reducing the amount of damage we do to the environment overall is an extraordinary achievement and do it with china is special given how much antagonism alleged between the two countries. i don't know it will get hard core policy through because mitch mcconnell waged war on the environment and promised the republican senate will wage war on the epa. that's his own language. he says "we will rein them in." when he talks like that, it makes me less optimistic. >> senator mitch mcconnell did release a statement saying "our economy can't take the president's

. >>> so let's talk more about the tuesday midterms with two of our political commentators, ben fergusonmark hill joins us from philadelphia. mark, say the pundits are right and republicans take the senate. will they be able to claim a mandate and have the right to set the agenda for the last two years of president obama's term? >> i mean, that's wishful thinking from the right, and a very generous reading of congress in general regardless of what party you're affiliated with. the truth is, first, tuesday's going to be closer than people think. everyone thinks it's a big day for republicans. republicans may win the senate but it's going to be very tight. because of that you're going to see lot of negotiation in the senate, lots of stuff being brought to president obama who will veto it. you'll see just as much gridlock in 2015 as you saw in 2013. i wouldn't be optimistic about this election. >> ben, the president does have veto power. will the republicans be able to claim a mandate and get things done. >> i've never enjoyed a marc lamont hill commentate more than that one. they're acting

cnn plit commentator and host of "the ben fergsthe b ferguson radio show."secretary gig. no sooner did the white house announce secretary hagel was on his way out we heard there were three leading candidates to become the next secretary of defense, that was a week ago and there are two of those three leading candidates that we were sort of wirng, wink, nudge, nudged by the white house have withtra jn withdrawn their names from consideration. seems to be a job people would want. why are people running for the hills here? >> well, six years ago this job many people wanted particularly since president obama was committed to putting together a team of rivals. over the last six years the obama administration and the defense department in particular develop a particular plan of action which some disagree with, many people in the foreign policy realm disagree with and as a result many people who are critical of the position don't agree with the obama administration's direction and when you combine a different ideological direction with a very deeply entrenched in v

, host of the ben ferguson show.good morning. paul begala, keystone failed by one vote and hearing from senator landrieu, she said up until right before the vote she was feeling very comfortable about it. what do you think happened? >> she just couldn't get the last vote. you feel for senator landrieu, she's the chair of the energy committee. the only reason it came to the floor was because democrats love senator landrieu, they want to to see her do well in her runoff, win. so they gave her the vote. but they couldn't quite put it over the top. it flips forward into the new year when the republicans will have more votes presumably, votes for keystone. but then the problem is, can they sustain, override a potential obama veto. >> you're jumping ahead. so you roll paul begala. this is senator landrieu, her speaking just after the vote. take a listen. >> i did not ask harry reid's permission to do this. and i did not inform mitch mcconnell. i took to the floor of the united states senate and used the power that comes fr

ben ferguson the cnn political commentator and host of the "ben ferguson show." . >> good morning. >>rts the sixth governmental report issued. some are, well, two years, a two-year investigation, they found no intelligence failure. yet, there was confusion in the intelligence, but when they don't call eight failure, nor do they call eight cover-up or conspiracy, no delay in sending a rescue team. >> that, okay, has been a big complaint from the victims' families that something should have been done sooner. what are your thoughts on this latest report? >> one for the families, if you read this entire report, it is one of the hardest reports, it reads like a terrible tragedy, which it was. so for the families, i hope they find comfort knowing, in fact, there were people trying to come rescue and save their loved ones, but in this roar, i think the most shocking part of this, which has been overlooked by a lot of people is the fact that it's blatantly obvious on september 12ing the cia made it clear no one on the ground thought it was anything but a terrorist attack and the narrative was

where a grand jury has decided not to indict ferguson officer darren wilson for shooting and killing unarmed teenager michael brown. >> you are looking live once benrom ferguson where a large group has gathered. they were outside of the courthouse where the decision was announced tonight. they are now in the streets and they are marching. again, we're standing by now waiting for president obama. we understand he's just a couple of minutes away. he has talked about this in the past few days. he has urged people to react to this decision no matter what it is by being calm and showing restraint and again we expect to hear from the president in just the next couple of minutes from the white house. we'll bring it to you live right here. >> well, taking a look at the weather now, get ready, the record warmth we enjoyed today will soon be leaving us and it will be replaced, well, by snow for a lost us just in time for all the thanksgiving travel. meteorologist kathy orr is keeping a very close eye on a nor'easter headed this way. kathy. >> that's right, it's still mild outside jessica, that's what's so hard to believe. 63 in reading, 66 in philadelphia.

with me right now are cnn political commentators maria cardona and ben ferguson.lly hammered the obama administration for the way they handled this attack. in february on cnn, you called u.n. ambassador sue vasan rice, quote/unquote, a liar, and insinuated she was part of a cover-up. now you've got this investigation, it's a bipartisan conclusion that debunks that and says that there was no cover-up. do you want to take all that back now? >> no, it doesn't cover up the fact that the first three of the four points that they put out in this report say very clearly that the administration did, in fact, lie and mislead on the fact that there was a spontaneous protest. this report makes it very clear in the first three points that they make that there was no protest before that attack. this was a terrorist attack and, yes, the administration misled it. so, you have to read the entire report to see very clearly that they did mislead the american people on the protests. they did mislead on the narrative afterwards, that this was spontaneous in a protest. that never happe

suggesting it could lead to a government shutdown, a cnn contributor and columnist and host of the ben fergusontleman, great to see you this morning. >> good morning. >> reuben, a fight over immigration. is it time for the president to break this cycle that he's been trapped in for the past six years and to use executive action or is that the wrong move? >> i think it's the right move. this is really on the left is being sold as something grand and bold. it isn't. it's sold as the apocalypse. it really is an attempt to take some groups of people and form ammize their status for a temporary time period. >> ben, your reaction. >> you have a lot of trust issues. president obama could have done anything. they cozy to play politics him he had control of the house and senate, moving forward he kept this going and going. now to say i'm not going to act before the election. because it may hurt politics or people in my party. the american people don't want this. they understand how important congress is. they sent new people there and so for the president to do this, it's a dangerous president. it's not

tim stanley and cnn commentator ben ferguson are with me now.want to start with something you wrote on cnn.com. the title is why jeb bush shouldn't be president. you say it depresses you that people are talking about jeb bush because, quote, it's that the thought of a third bush in the white house feels distingtdly unamerican. expound for us. >> actually, it's even unbritish, the thing we wouldn't tolerate in our country. for a democracy to really be effective it has to be constantly going through renewal. it has to be throwing up new political personalities. the idea you could have a third bush like this, suggests that there is some kind of stagnancy in american politics that it can't go elsewhere for talent. two stats put that in perspective. if jeb bush ran on the republican ticket and won that would mean there had not -- that every single successful republican ticket since 1928 had had either a nixon or a bush on it. and secondly, if jeb bush runs and wins, that would mean since 1980, in every single decade, there have been a bush in the whi

ferguson. i'm with ben crump. i just met with him for about 30 minutes and interviewed him. he says that no one has notified him, no one has notified the family, no one has notified his co-counsel anthony gray about a decision. the first they learned about the possibility of a decision was from cnn and was from me. he said that the family is very upset. they are distraught that no one from the prosecutor's office has reached out to them. they are offended and they had an agreement in place whereby the prosecutor's office was going to give them some notice. ben tells me, benjamin crump tells me at one point it was about six hours notice and that then changed to some notice, but at this time, no one from the prosecutor's office has reached out to the family. >> so, sunny, again, remember we were talking about that 48 hour notice. that's not going to happen. you're saying there was supposedly, as a courtesy, a six hour notice, but nothing yet. and has the family really been in contact or the attorneys with law enforcement or with the prosecutor, with officials in this case? >>

ben. you just heard from this ferguson resident.ow concerned are you about more violence if officer wilson is not indicted? >> well, the parents and our legal representatives put on record, randi, we want people to be able to exercise their american constitution first amendment rights but we want them to do so in a non-violent, construct tough way, but we do expect people to react as americans, not just african-americans, but all americans, because this process certainly needs to be fixed. >> the prosecutor meanwhile is saying that he is unlukely to file charges on his own or convene another grand jury if this one does decide not to indict. how do you feel about that? >> that's what i was saying, i say this process needs to be fixed. there is a problem with this process that is toward pliolice officers with alleged brutality on people of color. that's why michael brown's parents were in geneva testifying how their child was executed in broad daylight and had his hands up in the universal sign of surrender and he was laid out in the

. >> well, we'll keep you you up to speed with the news coming out of ferguson, of course. >> ben oppenheimer joins us. welcome. >> how are you? >> i'm good, thank you. what do you make of the markets at the moment? >> an interesting combination of dynamics. we have this big split between the u.s. economy which is doing rel well and others which are doing less well. there is other central banks still very much in easy mode. so i think the combination is pretty supported. >> i think it's more than a couple of months. it's really for the last several years. the combination is supportive of equities. >> there were definitely many problems. the oil price falling is clearly one of them. in general, the patton of outperformance is still pretty much in train and rightly to continue. >> peter, you write in your notes you expect oil prices to rise. we're seeing growth stagnation fall in many countries of the eurozone. >> europe is sfag nation. they're not optimistic about profits, either. profit for the stoxx 600 grow about 6%. consensus is still around 12%. so we're more conservative there. he think

ferguson missouri overnight. >> now for a bloomberg exclusive, francine lacqua sat down with ben walk or bay., francene asked him about his concerns to european low flastion. >> we are not in deflation but low inflation is as bad in terms of the capacity of our economy to grow out of depth and deleverage. so we don't need deflation to be worried but low inflation is a concern in this is where we will be watching the numbers carefully. upit seems that the ecb set -- stepped up its fighting talk is that because the situation is much worse than expected? >> it is not much worse than expected but we do see the rift moved to economy and inflation and we see a degree of urgency in acting which does not apply to diplomacy. there is urgency in the creating of patriotic growth in the eurozone and urgency in labor market issues and there is urgency in creating jobs. that is the only way to reconcile the people with the project. >> how will you grow? you are saying europe pizza grow and push reforms how much of a danger is it -- europe needs to grow, and push reforms how much of a danger is it? >> we ha

ferguson. and the president as well saying that this evening. but i have to tell you, ben, the people who needed to hear what the president was saying this evening probably did not -- were not able to hear him because they were not in front of a television. instead they were out here, many of them, not all of them, but you know, rioting and having tear gas thrown at them. >> well, hopefully, we can reach them through social media, through you out there on the street corner. we've got to find a way to reach them to say what we need now is people to be disciplined and dignified so we can try to address these real serious issues that keeps claiming our children's lives. michael brown and the unknown michael browns are crying out from the grave saying we have to change this system that let people kill them and are not held without consequence. that's the serious conversation we have to have, don. >> yeah. all right. benjamin crump, thank you very much. we appreciate you joining us here on cnn. if you're just joining us here on cnn, we want to tell you that we are live here. th

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ferguson destroying some 12 businesses. reverend al sharpton and the brown family ben crump both concede that the outbursts were not appropriateg it a result of agony. >>> the attorney for michael brown's family also addressing the violent outbursts with the victim's stepfather. benjamin crump told cnn last night there's no way louis head's words played a role in the violence that sparked in ferguson after the decision to not indict officer wilson. >> without question, number one we know that was raw emotion. however, those comments were completely inappropriate and unacceptable. however, i have not seen a witness who has tied that comment to any of the violence placed that night. and i think just to say that, to make the overture that it was related i think is not there. >> attorney defending the family. he also went on to criticize anyone who might judge brown's parents for their emotional response. >>> much more on our breaking coverage of the protest in ferguson and across the nation. plus, yerngs it seems to be coming. a winter storm expected to wreak havoc for a lot of folks traveling for thlg. and now technology gives y

ben carson former director of pediatric surgery at john hopkins hospital, what should they be doing in ferguson i think people really should stop, first of all, and say let's wait until we get a verdict. we really don't know what we should be doing until we get a verdict. but also recognize why allow yourself to be manipulated whipped up into frenzies by outside agitators. all that's really going to do is result in more militarization of police forces. there are going to be people who are killed. there won't be just michael brown, there will be other people killed or seriously injured. and what will be accomplished in the long run? we have excellent mechanisms for taking care of situations where there is injustice. so let us see what the facts are. what are the things that were presented to the grand jury before we go rushing off. and let's not listen to all these people who are just fanning the flames. i don't know what preverse joy they get out of seeing people being killed in the streets. >> well, don't you think that some folks who are fanning these flames, you know, view this as an opportu

thank you ben lippmann and sara shider in, thank you for being here. we will talk more about ferguson, the invisible man, darren wilson, because there are a few television anchors that have actually seen him and spoken to him but they're not allowed to tell you about it. i'm going to tell you why. my exclusive reporting on this right after the break. [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, we've always been on the forefront of innovation. when the world called for speed... ♪ ...when the world called for stealth... ♪ ...intelligence... endurance... affordability... adaptability... and when the world asked for the future. staying ahead in a constantly evolving world. that's the value of performance. northrop grumman. time. i'm going to tell you why. just your signature,righty you could drive home for the holidays in a new volkswagen. like the sporty, advanced new jetta and the precisely engineered passat tdi. ah, the gift of clean diesel. for the new volkswagen on your list this year, just about all you need, is a pen. festive, isn't it? hurry in and get $0 due at signing, $0 down, $0 d

ben, do you agree? >> i agree that things have definitely deteriorated. we look at a situation like fergusonnd people say, that's causing more racial division. the fact of the matter is, ferguson is a manifestation of the racial division as we see it right now. obviously, there are a lot of people around this nation who feel things are unfair for them, who feel disenfranchised. it makes them ripe for a tinder box situation like this. >> it seems to be almost universal agreement on this. >> i have to disagree on this. we are looking at mike brown. but the issue of law enforcement and the killing of unarmed african-americans and the assault of unarmed african-americans has been going on for decades and has nothing to do with obama. my first exposure was when i was 10-year-old. this is in the early 1970s. the difference now is that we have these photos, we have these cell phone pictures. this is something, an issue that civil rights organizations have been working on forever and we haven't been listened to. people haven't believed us. >> do you think social media, if we had it 30 years ago, wou

ben a sort of tense standoff. group of protesters broken off from where we were in front of the ferguson police department. they're dealing with them. as best they can. whenever they, small group breaks off. tries to cause destruction. you then get a group of the officers who come over and meet them head on. so that's what we have been, watching, witnessing for the past, just 20 minutes or so. as we watch and see how this situation continues to develop. >> jason again, we are seeing a lot of, officers in, in riot gear. on the left of our screen. then on the right of our screen, describing what the viewers at home are seeing. an area shot. very smoky aerial shot. then of course. you there to the left. go ahead, jason. >> yeah, what we have got is, we have got members of the missouri state police. who are in riot gear. who are moving into the area now. moving the crowd back. we are in that crowd. so they're moving us back as well. holding on to my photographer. that's why the picture looks a little jumpy. i want to make sure that he doesn't lose his footing here as we are moving through the crowd. so we are

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ferguson much this is live look from chopper three. protesters have now made their way to the on ramp to i-95 at the ben franklin bridge where they have masked in the road there in an effort to disrupt traffic. philadelphia police are on the scene. we'll be keeping an eye on this situation throughout the night online at cbsphilly.com and of course the latest at 4:30 in the morning. that plus the latest on the storm headed our way. thanks for being with us tonig tonight. for beasley, kathy and everyone i'm charisma. >> i'm jessica dean. have a great night. we'll see you tomorrow. ♪ >> now a paid presentation for meaningful beauty advanced by cindy crawford. >> with special appearances by debra messing. >> valerie bertinelli. >> christa miller. >> and stars from tv's royal pains and the mentalist. >> and, brand new for 2014, our best offer ever, including $95 in free gifts. >> brought to you by guthy-renker. >> hi, everyone, i'm beauty and style journalist katrina szish on location in beverly hills. in just a few minutes we'll meet one of the most beautiful women in the world, supermodel cindy crawford. at age 45, cindy still looks impo

ben is going to pan over here. this is a permanent protest site pretty much since the site of the protests in august. outside the ferguson police headquarters of some protest that took place last wednesday and thursday. and there were arrests here, five people on the first night, at least two people on the second night last thursday. and the police were accused of ramping up their tactics against the protesters, being really quite aggressive towards them. so much so, in fact, last friday if you remember on your program we heard from the director of public safety in missouri who was forced to justify the tactics used by the police here. so the decision is coming down sometime in the course of the next couple of hours. that much we know. we're going to hear from the governor jay nixon. we're going to hear later from other key personnel as well. and at the moment that, the center of all this ask clayton in mrs -- is clayton outside st. louis itself. and presumably this weekend the focus will probably shift outside here ferguson itself. all police leave in ferguson has been cancelled. officers are working 12 hour shifts. ton

obtained, video showing officer wilson leaving the ferguson police department hours later, seemingly uninjured, a contradiction to what police originally said. ben crump is the brown family attorney. >> if you gotta blowout fracture to your eye socket, you're not just going to be walking around not holding your eye. we don't see him holding his eye anywhere in that video. >> no justice, no peace! >> reporter: on sunday protesters braved the cold and snow on the streets of st. louis. >> this is what democracy looks like. >> reporter: lying down in chalkout lines of bodies and blocking traffic, to commemorate 100 days since michael brown's death. >> we just wanted them to know if the weather's good bad, ugly, we'll be out here because it means that much to us. >> reporter: the protest, a far cry from the turmoil that shook the nation only months ago. there's fear violence could resurface as a grand jury decides whether to indeedict the officer responsible for the shoeing the unarmed team. >> there have been several days for training at every level. we have multiple police jurisdictions that are trying to understand what they can and cannot do. >>

ben wedeman, cnn, jerusalem. >>> we'll take a short break now. but up ahead, a u.s. city on edge and divided. the protests and preparations as ferguson waits to find out if a police officer could be charged after killing a teenager. here's some news you may find surprising. we're for an open internet for all. we're for creating more innovation and competition. we're for net neutrality protection. now, here's some news you may find even more surprising. we're comcast. the only isp legally bound by full net neutrality rules. >>> welcome back, everyone. well, a u.s. grand jury deliberating a controversial police shooting is expected to reconvene monday. the 12-member panel is deciding whether a white police officer from ferguson, missouri should face criminal charges for killing an unarmed black teenager this summer. protesters were back in the streets demanding the officer's arrest. people in ferguson and the surrounding areas remain largely on edge while they wait for the grand jury's decision. well, that waiting is forcing ferguson to face the discord within the community and talk about deeper social issues. stephanie elam has more.

ferguson is a grieving mother and father. the mother lost her son. back with me to remember her son, leslie mcspadden and had her attorney, ben crump.want the world to remember about michael, your son? >> that he was kind, he was friendly, he was loving, he was a regular teenager. and he was a human being. he deserved every free right that all of us do. >> you know, today, you and other families are dealing with tragedy like eric gardner's family at my action network for bonding and prayer. what does it mean to you to have these women by your side at this time? >> it means a lot. for them to have the strength to keep going. and it makes me keep going. and it makes me feel so sad for them that we have to relate to such a situation to have a closeness. it is sad. it is very sad. and the other sad part about it is that over half of us have not got the justice that we seek. >> and in his testimony, officer wilson described michael looking like a demon and he was asked about it in the interview. >> why did you choose the word demon? >> i don't really know what was going. on i was so shocked by the whole interaction. this escalated so qui

ben franklin bridge, the view from camden. no accidents and no delays to report. vai? >> yillian, thank you. >>> tear gas and fire on the streets of ferguson, missouri. this comes after the decision not to charge the ferguson police officer with the killing of an unarmed teenager. ferguson wasn't the only place where protesters took to the steets. snarled traffic. in the nation's capital, protesters gathered outside the white house. many were college students or people with the d.c. ferguson movement. in sanford, florida, where trayvon martin was shot and killed in 2012, they held a silent vigil there. in philadelphia protesters marched through center city trying to stop traffic on two interstates and more rallies are planned for later today. we have been monitoring all the froess overnight in the city of ferguson. chris cato is live in the digital operation center. chris, some of these images are hard to see. >> this was exactly the scenario that leaders in ferguson, missouri, had hoped would not happen but werep prepared for i case the grand jury decided not to indict officer wilson. some of the coverage was hard to turn away from. polic

ben, as always. >>> well, the fbi has sent a bulletin to police across the u.s. warning them to be ready in case of violence in ferguson, missouri. >> that's right. and that's because a grand jury could decide this week whether it will charge a white policeman in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager. sara sidner is in ferguson with more. >> hands up! >> don't shoot! >> reporter: on a day protesters marched to the st. louis county prosecutor's office building, missouri's governor declared a state of emergency in preparation for whatever may come when the grand jury releases its decision on whether or not to indict officer darren wilson in the killing of unarmed teen michael brown. the st. louis mayor welcomed this decision. >> i agreed with the governor's decision. first of all, we don't know when it's going to happen or what the decision's going to be or what the decision's going to be or what the reaction's going to be. i think we need to make sure that we are prepared for whatever may happen. >> reporter: but the governor's actions have angered some protesters, who say their demonstrations have been peacef

ferguson police officer darren wilson another setback for race relations. >> all the protesting and people coming together. it's like a revival. so this is basically august all over ben. >> protests broke out within hours of brown's death 37 while the attention faded after a few weeks, the protests here never really stopped. some have turned violent since the grand jury's decision monday. over 100 people have been arrested over the last two days. the violence is testing many over the holidays. some shoppers preparing for thanksgiving say they just want life to return to the way it was before august. >> i just want to go back to the way it was. it's a little rough. it's hard. everything that's happened. i understand that people are upset. people still live and work in ferguson, and i think they should respected that as well. >> nowhere in the near future. by next summer maybe. >> protesters think they don't want things to return to the way they were. >> i read about this in school. i never thought that i would be a part of this. >> and there are expected to be more protests tonight, and some of these protesters say they intend to keep on protesting throughout the wint

ferguson have a sense those rules exist, do they concur and did they get support from the activists on the ground? >> reporter: certainly. in reasonable weeks as protests had kind of matured, they've ben also been talking with law enforcement. some rules of engagement are protecting -- making sure you protect the sanctity of human life. others were hoping the safe houses wouldn't be violated by law enforcement. these efforts and, you know, the back and forth seemed to be made in good faith. but there's still this undercurrent among many protesters who experienced those rough early days of the protests, when there was the tear gad gas and the rubber bullets that they don't necessarily trust that the police will maintain a sense of peace. now, of course, we also know there were some protesters who got a little rowdy and were also violent. now that everyone is kind of gearing up for this, you know, we'll see. >> and amanda, i want to bring you in on the same point because you are in ferguson. some of the rules that were actually -- became the subject of a lot of tension as well as court litigation were things like the five-second rule, saying protesters couldn't stop and continue to prot

ben on the force for .18 mores. the medical examiner has ruled this death a homicide. >> these were the protests on the streets of fergusonouri overnight. the grand jury set to reconvene this morning. it's looking into whether to indictment the police officer who figshot and killed michael brown. live in clayton, missouri where the grand jury is set to meet. for the protest orders, this is more than about the case of michael brown. >> reporter: well, del, michael brown in many ways is the straw that broke the camhe will's back speaking to anything in ferguson, they will tell you the same thing. there has been a long history of fractious and con tentious relationships, particularly between the afro care bean community and the police and the protesters are fighting really for three things. they will tell you: change. they want to change that relationship going forward. justice for what happened to mike brown and everybody else in the area going back many, many years. and, also, quite frankly, just to be treated like human beings by the police. they say, look. when white people are stopped by the police, the inter-reaction i

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ferguson turned ugly and stayed ugly for hours despite pleas from community leaders and michael brown's parents to remain peaceful. this grand jury decision fuels the distrust many here feel with local police. benrump is the brown family attorney. >> if we continue to have local prosecutors who have a sim sim onic relationship with the local police department, they're the ones deciding to indict or not then we're crazy to expect different results. >> reporter: officer wilson released a statement through his lawyers, he said that he followed his training and followed the law. he also thanked his supporters. he got the grand jury decision that he wanted but his career as a ferguson police officer is probably over. norah. >>> protests spread beyond ferguson to cities across the country. seattle police battled protesters keeping them from blocking interstate 5. and look at this protesters in oakland jumped on another busy street. >>> in chicago, after the grand jury announced, hundreds of angry people gathered at a downtown area to protest. hundreds more marched through times square. >>> >> mounds of evidence presented to the grand jury are available to the public this morning. it includes testimon

ferguson, but they are checking it out. savannah? >> craig melvin, thank you very much. michael brown's parents, leslie mcfadden and michael brown sr. are here with us now, along with their attorney, ben c ruchlt mp. what's the last 36 hours been like for you? >> sleepless. very hard. heartbreaking and unbelievable. >> i remember you said once, leslie, you felt there would only be justice if there was an arrest and a conviction and, michael, you said you believed justice would prevail. do you feel now that justice has been lost to you? >> no. we're just going to keep fight ing and pray for a better outcome. >> what do you hope happens? >> a conviction. >> you're hoping he's pursued in federal court? >> yes. >> you really made a point, as this was about to be released, this grand jury news, to call for peaceful protests. >> uh-huh. >> unfortunately, that hasn't always happened. and there was a video that circulated about monday night, leslie. i want to show it to you. in the video we see your husband, what appears to be, stirring up the crowd. take a look at it. i want to ask you about it on the other side. [ indistinct shouting ] >> i know you were there, in the crowd. this is just af