this is charlottesville chief of police al thomas.et's listen in. >> thank you all for being here. thank you for giving us the opportunity to meet with you to answer questions. i do have some prepared remarks. following the prepared statements i would like to take time to answer questions that you may have as well. before i begin, on behalf of every member of the charlottesville police department i want to take a moment to send our deepest condolences to the families of three virginia residents who lost their lives saturday. as you know, charlottesville resident heather heyer was struck down by a vehicle while exercising her peaceful right to speech. the city-stated earlier while it will never make up for the loss of a member of our community we will pursue charges against the driver of the vehicle that caused her death and are confident justice will prevail. the virginia state police lieutenant cullen and trooper bates were working with charlottesville police department this past weekend to protect our community. these men also gave

police are investigating. we are monitoring the events in charlottesville and kimberly: breaking news right now and arlington, fire and police crews were called to the amc theater and courthouse for the report of violence. the police have tweeted two victims are being tweeted -- treated and they have secure the building. we have a crew on the way there and will bring updates as soon as we learn more. right now we are going to switch gears and talk about the weather because we have some alerts coming out. a very busy night. what's the latest, josh? this linere watching of thunderstorms coming together and strengthen and intensify. part of the severe thunderstorm watch through 11:00, but pinpointing more extreme parts. the picture for you from rockville, where we have dark clouds as we are getting ready for thunderstorms to track in that direction. keeping and i am the system as the line of storms works across. country. closely,w box, look but this is where we have the severe thunderstorm watch dropping into southern maryland, all the way into new york. things will leave all for along that line. this is thanks t

before i begin, on behalf of every member of the charlottesville police department, i want to take a moment to send our deepest condolences to the families of the three virginia residents that lost their lives saturday. as you know, charlottesville resident heather heyer was struck down by a vehicle exercising her peaceful right to speech. the city stated earlier while it will never makeup for loss of a member of our community, we will pursue charges against the driver of the vehicle that caused her death and are confident justice will prevail. the virginia state police lieutenant cullen and trooper pilot bates were working with charlottesville police department to protect the community. these men also gave their lives in the line of duty and our gratitude to them cannot be overstated. their loss is a loss for us all and we mourn with their families and colleagues. we are working with the heyer family to ensure the safety of vigils and other memorials that are planned for this week are safe. we plan to keep the four speed crossover closed until further notice as there are thousands of

before i begin, on behalf of every member of the charlottesville police department, i want to take a t to send our deepest condolences of the three virginia residents that lost their lives saturday. as you know, charlottesville resident heather heyer was struck down by a vehicle while exercising her peaceful right to speech. the city stated earlier while it will never make up for the loss of a member of community, we'll pursue charges against a driver that caused her death and are confident justice will prevail. the virginia state police lieutenant cullen and pilot bates were working with the charlottesville police department this past weekend to protect our community. they gave their lives in line of duty and gratitude cannot be overstated. we mourn with their families and colleagues. we're working with the heyer family to ensure the safety of vigils and other memorials that are planned for this week are safe. we plan to keep the street closed until further notice. that is the location of the crash site. we're also establishing a hotline for any victims or witnesses to contact local

let's listen in. >> before i begin on behalf of every member of the charlottesville police department, i want to take a moment to send our deepest condolences to the family of the three virginia residents who lost as you know, charlottesville resident heather heyer was struck down by a vehicle exercising her peaceful right to speech. the city stated earlier that while it will never make up for the loss of a member of our community we will pursue charges against the driver of the vehicle that caused her death and are confident justice will prevail. the virginia state police lieutenant cullen and trooper pilot bates were working with the charlottesville police department this past weekend to protect our community. these men also gave their lives in the line of duty and the gratitude to them cannot be overstated. the loss is a loss for us all and we mourn with the families and colleagues. we are working with the heyer family to ensure that the safety of the vigils and other memorials planned for this week are safe. we plan to keep the four street crossover closed until further notice as

charlottesville police chief al thomas jr. addressed criticism from both sides. >> we did make attempts to keep the two sides separate. however, we can't control which side someone enters the park. >> do you regret not having your officers better prepared and in their proper gear earlier so they could have acted sooner? >> i certainly have regrets. we lost three lives this weekend. >> heather is my darling child. >> reporter: susan bro, mother of heather heyer, the 32-year-old paralegal who died standing up for what her mother said were injustices she saw against the black community. >> i'm extremely proud she stood for what she believed in. gave heart and soul to it. now she has given her life off to it. >> tonight in the spot where heather and others were hit by the vehicle, there is a memorial. all day people have come here to place flowers, light candles or like folks here stand and >>> a man charged in the attack is being held without bail and is waiting for the court to appoint an attorney to represent him. here is kris

the charlottesville police chief said today he regrets the death of heather heyer and virginia stateroopers jay cullen and berke bates who were killed. but he defended the actions of his officers before and during the violence. here's david begnaud in charlottesville. >> reporter: screams and panic as-year-old nazi sympathizer james alex fields, jr., drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters. heather heyer was killed. others weres toed into the air. marcus martin is the unanimous in the red shoes. that is one of his shoes flying out from underneath the vehicle as the driver reversed, trying to flee the scene. >> my life could have been over, ended. >> reporter: martin says he lays blame at the foot of the officials who permitted the rally. >> because without your approval, this would have never happened. >> reporter: over the weekend unite the right brought together hate groups from around the country, including neo-nazis, kkk, and white pride groups. on friday men marched with tiki torches on the university of virginia campus and saturday they marched downtown brandishing naz

nearby traffic should always be blocked. >> what happened yesterday was the result of the charlottesville police officer refusing to do their job. but the governor defends his police force. >> not a shot fired. i'm very proud of them. >> noting two police officers lost their lives in a helicopter crash while helping cover protests. >> we will be reviewing the events of day over the next weeks and months. >> authorities are already bracing for what could be the next big confrontation. a white lives matter rally led by the white national cysts planned for next month in texas. larry: charlottesville police were not the only ones facing fierce criticism. president trump was chastised for failing to condemn the white nationalist group by name. we look at the criticism and the president's response. >> after facing backlash for failing to condemn white supremacists, president trump directly named the hate groups responsible for the deadly violence in charlottesville. president trump: racism is evil. those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs including the k.k.k., neo nazi, white supre

charlottesville, virginia. we're awaiting a news conference from police chief on this weekend's violence. we'll be keeping an eye on this and bring you any developments as you get this. >> people in charlottesville are still trying to come to terms with that deadly weekend of racially fuelled violence. we have all the angles covered for you this afternoon. the man accused of driving his car to crowd of james field was charged with second degree murder. he's being held without bond. >> outside the cram, a tense scene as members arrive at the hearing. counter protesters nazis go home. >> meanwhile for the first time president issued stronger language today against hate groups. he called racism evil and he said groups who cause violence including the kkk and white spr supremist will be prosecuted. >> she's been talking to people and taking the temperature of the town today, so may gaegan w the feel here right now. >> reporter: a lot of people say it's town that's small, close knit, they're traumatized and they're angry by the hate they just poured into people who say they find peace and comfo

but charlottesville police department is facing a lot of criticism for the way it handled the deadly protests over the weekend that left one dead and several others endured many people are up in arms saying charlottesville police did not do enough to protect to protect protesters from white national west white supremacist neo nazis and the ku klux klan however charlottesville police chief thomas said he regrets the loss of life and despite the violence that unfolded he stands by his department's response joining me now to discuss this further is it time to edward disaster response training and security expert and executive director of the international preparedness network thank you so much for joining us time now many protesters say there was a police presence but it appeared officers were not intervening and it appeared they were on the side of the all right i want you to take a listen to. one troll is still resident had to say we were on that front line yesterday. when the. story. and tell people yesterday was oh they stood by and then this car comes up i'm day oh. those people. a

kelly: what we are looking at right now is video of a charlottesville police and virginia state policeorking on the scene where a vehicle has run into another vehicle and early reports that the vehicle may have been trying to run into protestors, we have to wait to get some confirmation of that but we are looking at it live right now. you saw them putting up the police tape and conduct their investigation. but to your point of having undercover investigators also on the scene, going out to look for possible leaders, there's one leader already there and that's david duke. that's one that even the fbi has followed periodically through over the years, what do you say about the fact that he's moved into this situation and he's casting a cloud of us possession on this group in terms of why they were there. it was reported they were there to actually protest the taking down of the statute of general robert e. lee, the famous general from the confederate military but it turned into something else. what do you make of david duke and background and what he might be contribute to go this violenc

>> we have been watching the police chief of charlottesville, virginia and i wonder what you think watching an african-american police chief defend the mission of protecting what he described as an alt-right rally that ended in a tragic way? >> well, everyone has the right to peacefully assemble. everyone has a right to have a peaceful march. where this crossed this line is with the provocation and the violence. mine, i would take -- i mean, i would take offense and fight granting a permit to any group marching with torches and shields and baseball bats because all of that taken together is nothing but provocative behavior. and goes beyond i think the protective right to peacefully assemble. so the police have to protect the constitutional rights and keeping order. i think it's clear that one group came loaded for bear, looking for a confrontation, and unfortunately, the confrontation took place. and a person died. >> the police chief said this was an alt-right rally when asked if one side or the other deserved more blame. when we come back, crushing trump 140 characters at a time. republic

charlottesville police department is facing a lot of criticism for the way it handled the deadly protests over the weekend that left the wind dead and several others endured many people are up in arms saying charlottesville police did not do one not to protect held up protesters from white nationalist white supremacist neo nazis and the ku klux klan however charlottesville police chief has said he regrets the loss of life and despite the violence that unfolded he stands by his department's response joining me now to discuss this further is matthew fogg retired chief deputy u.s. marshal and ronald hampton retired d.c. metro police officer thank you so much for joining me gentleman now many protesters say that there is a heavy police presence but it appeared that the officers were not intervening like they should and that they were taking the side of the all right i want to quickly take a listen to what. a resident of charlottesville had to say we were on that front line yesterday. you know. and. yesterday was holding stood like. this car to come. and they are. those people. going to see th

thanks for joining us i'm sarah simmons >> i'm tony perkins, the charlottesville police chief faced questions about the preparation and response to saturday's white supremacistly's rally >> a woman was killed when man drove his car into a crowd of counter state trooper, lieutenant jay cole inand berk bates died in a helicopter crash while responding to the violence >> lindsey watts is in charlottesville with more. >> reporter: across the country today, we have seen protests and rallies but nothing at all like that here in charlottesville. people are welcoming the calm, even though they're continuing to grief. throughout the day, folks have been leaving flowers for victim heather heyer. then we'll take a walk down the street, this is the road where heyer died. where you saw that video where the car plowed into the crowd, and then backed up and fled. you can see people have been writing messages on the sidewalk, then down here, there are many flowers and candles and other mementos. tonight-questions remain about how violence got so bad here on saturday that more than 35 were injured an woman lo

we've seen the charlottesville police and to a degree the university of virginia campus police. we know one of those officers was injured earlier today and it's not hard to see why. some of the pictures we have been able to show you, you have seen people throwing bottles, rocks, there have been baseball bats used to beat people back. it has been pretty horrific and quite violent at we look at this from just moments ago. i want to let all of you know we are getting word from officials, elected and otherwise, throughout our country. let's go right now, i want to show you what house speaker paul ryan, reminding all of you that he is a republican certainly, the views fueling the spectacle in charlottesville are repugnant. let it only searrve to unite americans against this kind of vile bigotry. he is echoing the sentiment of republicans and democrats condemning this kind of behavior. maya rodriguez has been doing an outstanding job covering this developing story. i know that you've gotten out of the way of danger. i believe you are with this shot that we are seeing right now, maya.

tried to lay blame for saturday's violence. >> what happened yesterday was a result of the charlottesville police officers refusing to do their job. >> reporter: but hundreds of people shouted him down, suddenly the crowd surged chasing kessler from the microphone, hitting and eventually tackling him before police moved in. he had to run behind a police line to escape the counterprotesters. we learned the identity of the woman who was killed saturday when a driver plowed through a crowd sending bodies flying. 32 heather heyer a local paralegal, her mother, devastated. >> i'm trying to honor my daughter and the way that i know she would want to be honored with speaking up for what she believed in and in the way she believed in it without hate, without anger, without fear. >> reporter: the alleged driver, 20-year-old alex fields of ohio is charged with second degree murder. his mother claims she didn't know where he was going this weekend. >> i just knew he was going to a rally. i mean, you know, i tried to stay out of his political views. >> reporter: but a former high school teacher said fields h

and a woman lost her life. >> absolutely i have regrets. >> the charlottesville police chief continues to face questions about how the violence got so out of hand on his watch. some claiming officers were reluctant to intervene saturday as protesters and counter protesters chief al thomas said the white nationalists and white supremacist whose organized the rally agreed to a safety plan and didn't adhere to it >> we made attempts to keep the two sides separate. however, we can't control which side someone enters the park. we had agreements and worked out a security plan to bring the groups in in separate entrance, they decided to change the plan and entered the park in different directions >> he was emotional talking about the lives lost >> we lost three lives this week. a local citizen and to fellow officers, we have regrets, it was a tragic, tragic weekend >> thomas didn't directly answer questions about whether he would have done things differently. >> i started running and everybody was just yelling, we were yell getting out of the way. >> lucas was on the street where the most hor

mcauliffe of virginia along with other agency partners in the state of virginia and the police chief for charlottesvilleaking statements, addressing the situation of what took place today. the governor talking about the three fatalities today. the one person as was described by the police chief, a 32-year-old female pedestrian who was killed in that accident, not an, but what they are considering to be an investigated under criminal homicide declaration after that vehicle slammed into pedestrians that were on foot, causing a chain reaction vehicle accident and one person lost their life. as he was explaining, nine other people had to be taken to the hospital. there were 14 other individuals that had altercations that needed to be treated. that's the accident i was referencing before where that gray vehicle came racing down the road into counter protestors on foot. one person we know has lost their life. then the governor was addressing the issue of the police helicopter, the virginia state police helicopter that crashed just southwest of charlottesville. two fatalities in that. so in total today, after

front of city hall one day after the violence. >> what happened yesterday was a result of the charlottesville police officers refusing to do their job -- >> reporter: immediately following the speech kessler started backing away from the microphone. a mob of people surrounded him. police moved in, grabbed him. >> let him through. >> and hauled him off for his own safety. new video from saturday shows the driver racing down a side street and onto the crowded downtown mall, plowing into a crowd of people. 32-year-old heather heyer of charlottesville was killed. seconds after that impact the driver reverses. you see a red shoe fly out from underneath his car. police say 20-year-old james alex fields jr. of ohio was the man behind the wheel. this all follows tense protests that started friday night on the university of virginia campus. >> blood and soil! >> reporter: there white nationalists marched with tiki torches. saturday things got violent. protesters clashed with counterprotesters. police eventually declared the demonstration unlawful and told everyone to leave. >> this event has been declared an

a clear problem here, the police are trying to control but looking at the situation, charlottesville is a relatively small city, around 50,000 people. ideally in a situation like this you would want to have an equal number of police to the number of crowds on both sides and that is a difficult thing for a small city. you can see the virginia state police are here en masse. what the police are attempting in situations like this is to keep each side separate so they won't keep the protesters separated by ideology. and try to give them an opportunity from each side to express their feelings on this but when you have these things breaking out in an area like this -- difficult to control at this time. >> if i may, i want to ask what goes on behind the scenes. arrests do not need to be made at this time. it went from a rally last night to it is physical, men and women showing up with physical weapons, handguns, chemical agents, shields. we have seen a piece of wood with tales in it, that can really hurt someone. that would be an understatement lose how aggressive do police get and at what p

charlottesville. but there is a secondary issue, lindsey more, on the helicopter. >> yes, we've just confirmed that two people are dead after a policerlottesville. a chopper believed to be responding to the scene there you can see the smoke from the chopper crash. fox5 evan lambert headed to the scene, en route to charlottesville, and just got word that two people are confirmed dead, this was confirmed by virginia state police, after that crash, just horrible, after a day of violence, people, you know, attacking each other, then to see police responding to this and two of them -- >> losing their lives, just been horrific day in virginia, state of emergency has been declared thereby the governor. and, again, we will continue to follow this, and bring you the latest as it becomes available, as soon as we get that press conference in. we want to give you update now on the war of words between the united state and north korea chinese president, urging both sides to cool the rhetoric, chinese leader spoke with president trump earlier today, and says the tough talk by the president could the situation. the president has urged china to pre

>> reporter: there's still a strong police presence in the downtown mall of charlottesville. the crime scene, the scene of that incredibly graphic collision that we've showed you is still cordonned off. police otherwise keeping a tight lip what their orders are, how long they will be posted up here. seems they don't know the answer to that question. there's a lot of uncertainty here, tensions remain high, as we saw thousands of protesters and counter protesters dispersed earlier from that rally, still uncertainty about where they have gone and if the outsiders who have come to town have left there will be this press conference starting shortly with governor mcauliffe of virginia as well as other state and local partners in charlottesville to address all that's transpired today. >> are you hearing from the people who witnessed the car plowing into the crowd of people? >> reporter: i did, ana. it was a really eye-opening conversation as graphic as those images that we've showed you are, to hear the per spspective these two young men were startling. they were disturbed by the vio

i want to thank the charlottesville police department and theirlaw charlottesville police departmenthe injuries that were suffered today and our prayers are going out right now. please send your prayers to these families and their loved oi'ies. to these families and their loved ones. i will turn it over to the city manager. that was the mayor of charlottesville, calling for calm after events that earlier today. time for a weather update. good evening everybody. well, we had a few showers that were a bit of a nuisance today. they refused to clear and as you can see from this weather watcher's picture from durham, it made for a really miserable day. the showers came out the borders of scotland, heading down towards north—east england and lincolnshire. some lovely spells of sunshine for some of us. 2a degrees the highest values, in kent. and you can see by the weather watcher's picture this afternoon it was a beautiful day. most of the showers will is aware of the next hours so with a clear skies out to the west in the north in particular, it means that if you are heading out as a starg

on a visit to camp, he said "this is where the magic happened." >>> the police chief in charlottesville is expressing regretd and calling it a heart wrenching weekend. >> verbal exchanges can lead toe physical exchanges to lead to further violence. >> reporter: that chain of violence escalated to violent chaos, leaving one protester dead, dozens injured after a car plowed into the crowd. now many are questioning if local police could have done more. >> you can always have lessons learned. >> reporter: authorities did try to cancel the planned unite the white rally, a judge denied their request. instead, thousands showed up clashing with counter protesters, well armed and outnumbering the police. but police experts say the sides should never have met in the first place. interlocking fences, large vehicles and the officers themselves should have been used to create a barrier. >> you want to keep them separated. it allows you to designate areas for counter protests and areas for protests. >> reporter: experts say nearby traffic should always be blocked. >> what happened yesterday was the r

a headline "charlottesville police not doing enough to keep the groups apart." the writer attended a morning service in charlottesville with a large group of clergy members. they said the police did not do anything in terms of protecting the members of the community. "if it had not been the anti-fascists protecting us from the neofascists, we would have been crushed like west said that if it hadn't been for the antifascist protecting us from the neofascist, we would have been crushed like cartridges. -- like cockroaches. on our public , harry. ladyr: i agree with the who talked before. i do not understand why every time there are riots going on with black people or hispanic people, they destroyed the place and a white person does something wrong, and all of a sudden, they get condemned like they are animals. i do not understand it. arkansas, also on the republican line, hello. caller: i agree with the last caller. i do not understand how these people can protest a good thing of removing that statute is not right. they are allowed to be attacked like that? the pol

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charlottesville police chief, al thomas jr.ides. >> we did make attempts to keep the two sides separate. however we can't control which side someone enters the park. >> do you regret not having your officers better prepared in their gear earlier so they could have acted sooner? >> i certainly have regrets. we lost three lives this weekend. >> heather is my darling child. >> reporter: susan bro, mother of heather heyer, 32-year-old died standing up for what her mother says were injustices she saw against the black community. >> i'm extremely proud she stood for what she believed in. she gave heart to it. she gave soul to it. now she has given her life off to it. >> nazis go home! >> get the hell out of here! >> reporter: another tense moment in charlottesville as the two white supremacists squared off against locals and media outside the courthouse where james fields jr. appeared before a judge. >> if an angry mob starts beating your car with sticks, and there are hundreds of them, and the police are not protecting you, you pani

eric: continuing coverage of the tragedy in charlottesville continues. police the driver of that car, that careened into a group of antiwhite supremacist protesters in charlottesville, virginia, this afternoon is in custody. one person was killed during that. 19 people injured as a result of that horrible violence. president trump tweeting today, quote, we all must be united and condemn all that hate stands for. there is no place for this kind of violence in america. let's come together as one. and first lady melania trump tweeting, our country encourages freedom of speech, but let's communicate without hate in our hearts. no good comes from violence. hashtag charlottesville. we are live now at the university of virginia medical center in charlottesville where the injured are -- injured are being treated >> paramedics brought 20 people to the hospital over my shoulder here. 19 are being treated for injuries. one person has died. we don't have any information on the person who passed away. the city of charlottesville says they are working to notify the victims'

police do enough to keep the two groups apart? well, this photo is from the ku klux klan rally in charlottesville last month, police here clearly forming a line between the two sides. charlottesville's police chief addressed that just a short time ago. >> we did make attempts to keep the two sides separate. however, we can't control which side someone enters the park. we had agreements and worked out a security plan to bring the groups in in separate entrances. again they decided to change the plan and entered the park in different directions. >> all right. let's zoom in on the park here where the protest was supposed to happen. as the chief said, police and demonstrators cut a deal where they would enter the park from one side. the counter protesters would come in from the other side, but police say both sides different directions and that meant officers just weren't in the right place to stop the violence and that's when they shut the whole thing down. by the way, that park, only about 4 blocks away from the spot where a man drove a car into a crowd of counter protesters. [ screaming ] >>> it is disturbing video and this is the only

of city hall one day after the violence. >> what happened yesterday was the result of the charlottesville, police officers, refusing to do their jobs. >> reporter: immediately following his speech he started backing away from the microphone. a mob of people surrounded him. police moved in, grabbed him. and hauled him off for his own safety. new video from saturday shows the driver racing down a side street and on to the crowded downtown mall plowing into a crowd of people. 32 year old heather hayer of charlottesville was killed. seconds after that impact the driver reverses, you see a red shoe fly out from underneath his car. police say 20 year old james alex fields, jr. of ohio was the man behind the wheel. this all follows tense protests that started friday night on the university of virginia campus. >> blood and soil. >> there white national siss marched with tiki torches. saturday things got violent.esth counterprotestors. police eventually declared the demonstration unlawful and told everyone to leave. >> this protest is declared unlawful. >> the virginia governor said today police acted app

wineses say that virginia state police troopers and charlottesville police stood by and did virtually nothing. as -- antifa and white supremacist attacked each other. the result kill be one person, and 19 others injured. for more on relentless attacks again president, charlottesville police sti san decision to stann and a lot more, author of putin putin's gambit, lou is calling in. from his vacation, we were watching this unfold, media is all there all networks are there, were are police. lou: why isn't the national left wing media rolling video of antifa attacking and white supremacist attacking who is creating this language? white nationalists, we're talking about white supremacists, we're talking about neo-nazis, talking about antifa, and left wing anarchists meeting in streets of charlottesville, people ar acting as though they are make less. mayor of this town, refusing to enforce the law, officers told to stand down. they were -- i mean david, when we look add this truth, there is one truth teller right now in washington, d.c. in the white house, and that is president trump. >>

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is not a proud day for charlottesville and virginia to see two opposing groups that have sides that have the freedom of speech but to turn to violence. >> i'm amazed that the police have allowed people to assault other people and throw things at them. >> so we are hearing more witness accounts there on the scene today. those folks that were on-site in charlottesville as they were watching all of these scenes unfold, chaos through the morning and into the early afternoon with white nationalists and counter-protesters clashing as police watched. mia rodriguez on the scene reported only one person was arrested initially. prior to the deadly tragedy that happened in the afternoon with a gray vehicle slamming into a pedestrian-filled street of counter-protesters. one person has died. 19 others were taken to the hospital. and the police say that they do have one of the drivers in custody. a person that they believe could be responsible for that. we are working to get more confirmation on who the police might have in custody. but that car not only slammed into the crowded street of people, hitting two other vehicles, causing this chain reaction. but then reversed and fl

the charlottesville police department is allowing people to come in here and gas us. they won't allow us into the event even though we had a permit. >> reporter: police stepped in. a massive presence, clearing the demonstrators from the area, declaring it unlawful assembly. the largest deployment of state police in nearly three decades. tensions began simmering when white nationalists carried torches ererily reminiscent of the '60s. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. >> reporter: charlotte the the mayor weighed in saying he is brokenhearted and urged people to go home. experts say that this gathering of white nationalists here has been the biggest gathering they have seen in decades. dara, back to you. >> tom costello, thank you. joining me is jim kavanaugh, he retired special agent in charge. great to have you this morning. police charlottesville are receiving criticism for a slow response to the violence. did they respond appropriately? >> i don't think that criticism is justified at all

charlottesville police chief al thomas admits this. people in charlottesville say they know the days ahead will be tough. days ahead will be tough. but as tensions escalate in other parts of the country - this morning, they say things are slowly starting to simmer in their city. for the second night in a row - hundreds of demonstrators marched through d-c streets. organizers say they want to show solidary with charlottesville - and send a message to president trump that hate will not be tolerated. in new york - another group gathered outside trump tower.. where the president spent the night for the first time since inauguration. it's part of the continuing backlash against the president's response to this weekend's violence. yesterday trump finally denounced the hate groups by name - but is 48 hours too little too late? we'll have much more on the fallout - coming up in a live report at 5:45. stay with abc seven for continuing coverage of the fallout from charlottesville. be the first to know of any new developments... by signing up fo

late today we heard from the charlottesville police chief al thomas who said the department had a plan in place for the weekend but they did not anticipate that the unite the right rally would become violent. they had assurances from organizers that would not happen. when it virginia state police took over to contain the situation. >> he has deep regrets that it cost the lives of two virginia state police officer and a charlottesville resident heather heyer. >> moment after the court hearing for james fields two of the supporters forcefully camed to reporters claiming that the death of heather heyer was not the fault of the neo nazi movement. city government, police and the ral call left. >> eventually shielded by the police officers and escorted inside city hall. >> nazis go home. >> i said what i had to say. >> he appeared in jail by video link and said very little more than yes, sir or no, sir and listened as the judge read charges of the second-degree murder in the death of heather heyer. marching against the rally on charlottesville on saturday. >> for me it was disturbing that th

police are everywhere in this town of charlottesville. the largest deployment of virginia state troopers in decades. they are everywhere in this town. the county police are everywhere. they are determined not to have a repeat of this and they have essentially declared all of this an unlawful gathering. the question is, will they come back? back to you. >> the governor in his statement was pretty determined in saying, go home, get out, there's really no place for you here, especially with these types of views. tom, when it comes to the crash site, i know that's some distance outside of charlottesville, but have police said or any investigators given any intelligence as to the cause of this crash? i know that it was an aircraft that was being used to monitor the white nationalist rally. >> it was a bell helicopter. i apologize. i don't have the model in front of me. it was a bell and state trooper helicopter. there's no indication that that was brought down by fire. in other words, by somebody firing on the chopper. we believe preliminarily

lee. >> this is not a proud day for charlottesville or vgi freedom of speech, but violence is not the way to turn. >> policeothers. one man from virginia, and the other from out of state. their charges are from disorderly conduct and assault. >> two troopers died helping out with the efforts in charlottesville when their helicopter crashed southwest of the city. the pirate was lieutenant jay cullen, and lieutenant bart bates. trooper bates was supposed to celebrate his 41st birthday today. the ntsb are investigating what caused that chopper to go down and there's no indication of foul play. >>> the memorial was created to remember the woman that was killed and those hurt yesterday. candles were lit at the spot where the counter protesters. people have stopped overnight to drop off flowers and take a moment to reflect those that lived there. >> coming here is, um, it's my way of saying, um, our children are worth this site. >> that mother there said she has bi-racial children. >> and president trump is taking heat from democrats and some republicans for not going far enough and singling white nationalist for

a strong presence of the national guard, virginia state and local charlottesville police contend -- continueo stand very vigilant along the downtown mall, but from all i can see from this vantage point it's very quiet. it's been i'd say about 20 minutes since we've seen a skirmish of any sort break out. but the fact that i can say it's been just 20 minutes since we've seen a skirmish break out and i'm standing in the middle of the downtown mall of charlottesville, virginia, that's a tough statement to make. >> let's bring back cedric alexander, the deputy mayor of rochester, new york. somebody with law enforcement background. sir, what do you make of what we just saw? >> well, it clearly from the video, i think we all just looked at, that this was very deliberate. and you may have some very severe injuries out there. this is really very sad. this is really out of control. and there appears to be spurts of violence that is continuing to take place in that city. i think here again we need to encourage everyone to go home. go home safely so that we can begin as a nation to find ways to resolve

the charlottesville police chief saying he deeply regrets the loss of life there. >> absolutely i have regrets. we lost three lives this weeken weekend. i certainly have regrets, we lost three lives this weekend, a local citizen and two fellow officers. we certainly have regrets, it was a tragic, tragic weekend. >> jon: now people in other cities are reacting by taking down many confederate statues, doug mckelway live in charlottesville, virginia, right now. >> this is the epicenter of the writing we saw early saturday morning, this is the emancipation part of the statue of robert e lee. this was brought down and out onto the offices of the city, but vigilantes want to train this thing up and yank it down with their vehicles. as hard to distinguish whether that's a real news or the kind of stuff that we see on the internet that may not happen. there is significant police presence. a man with a confederate flag struck the base of the monument, he was surrounded by a handful of people who began shouting at him, calling him a racist, police intervened with a handful of police officers who

just about 20 minutes ago, a press conference wrapped up with the charlottesville police chief. he was faced with tough questions about how us office prepared and responded to saturday's rally. he said that he absolutely has regrets, but he dodged questions about how he specifically would have done things specifically and a question from a reporter who said he saw officers standing by and not intervening as people were attacking each other. earlier, we spoke to a man who was on the street, he's at the rally. he was on the street as the car plowed down it. and he described for us what he experienced. take a listen. >> i started running and a everybody was just yelling, get out of the way, get out of the way. ju like flying all over. when it started backing up, i was at the community foundation and people were hitting with bats trying to get it to stop, do anything they could. people were stopping trying to get people out of the street, we didn't know if he was going to try to come back and people were screaming saying he might come back, he backed up and we didn't know if he woul

charlottesville police have yet to charge anyone for that attack . caught on camera tonight these two people are wanted in connection with the vandalism of a statute in leesburg. they're accused spray painting vulgar language on the statue. the graffiti has since been removed, but if p you recognize either one of these people call the loudon county sheriff's office. the debate of removing saturday yews is moving well beyond soldiers and status today at a press conference d.c. mayor's was asked, that's the first i've heard that. i don't think that i would support that and if we jefferson memorial it will sing into the tidal basin. so i do think that we have to have a very, p we're starting to talk about the monuments, the me memorials and the monument core it has to be an ended conversation. we do have a confederate statue on federal land near judiciary square that we think the federal government can remove immediately. >> in addition to mayor bowser more than half of the d.c. council is also calling for that confederate statue to be removed . still a

>> well, i can tell you that virginia state police, charlottesville police, were out at the scene of the park where the rally was going on. but as those two side were confronting one another, they did not step in right away to sort of break them apart. there were about 20 to 30 feet a apart throwing projectiles at each other, screaming and yelling. bull didn't jump in right away, now, at some point, it got dangerous there. we were told to pull back. in fact, we had some tear gas smoke canisters coming our way. projectiles being thrown towards so we had the to pull back behind a building. by the time we reamerged 30 minutes later, the entire area had been cleared out and state police were there if full force. we saw both sides. they sort of held back then went forward, cleared out the entire park area and by the way, they did the same here. b obviously, there were a lot of counterprotesters here right after this incident happened. where that car plowed into the crowd. but they did clear out the scene. again, because they are working and you can see that we have more state police arriv