one community preparing for a rally today is englewood, new jersey.is where we find gary grumbach. gary, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, alex. a quiet morning in englewood. me and the swiquirrel s set up the live shot. they are protesting black lives matter and honor of george floyd. this is the main thoroughfare in town and going to the police station to make remarks and heading to city hall to hear from singers and speakers. people are hoping this is a positive event and peaceful event. i spoke to the mayor who said he is handling the difference with peaceful events during a coronavirus pandemic. >> the constitution should not be trumped because of the pandemic. we have to work within all of the guidelines to preserve people's health, but also their right to protest. frankly speaking, i believe our city and residents need to heal and express themselves. >> reporter: now folks here and organizers here hope makes a change in the community and across the state and nation. in just in new jersey alone, alex, more than 100 protests have ha

he was murdered here in englewood in 1998. police murdered him. my family stayed silent because my aunt was afraid of the brutality we would go through, us, the family. we stayed silent. no more silence. >> in buffalo, dozens of firefighters and law enforcement officers waited outside the county courthouse for the arraignment of two suspended officers as more jurisdictions move to hold police accountable. they're charged with second degree assault related to this disturbing moment there caught on cell phone video. look at that. a 75-year-old man shoved to the ground and no one came to his aid as he lay there bleeding. >>> this new body cam video was released by police in charlotte, north carolina, and it shows the moment police say someone tossed an explosive at officers last saturday night. they're hoping the video will lead them to a suspect. >>> those are the headlines for you but now let's get to some of the reporters we'll go to for the latest from various locations. first we'll head to the nation's capital where thousands of people are expec

i grew up in a tough part of chicago, the south side, called englewood. you've probably reported on it before. i saw my first homicide when i was 14 years old. so we all have different experiences. i didn't have a bad experience with policemen. so we're all different. >> yep. well, former police commissioner, former police chief, thank you so much. have more on the calls for justice, racial equality and reform. first, an update on cristobal. 12 million americans under a flood watch right now. we'll be back. did you know diarrhea is often caused by bad bacteria in food? try pepto diarrhea. pepto® diarrhea is proven effective to treat symptoms, and it also targets the cause of diarrhea. the 3 times concentrated liquid formula coats and kills bacteria to relieve diarrhea. while the leading competitor does nothing to kill the bacteria, pepto® diarrhea gets to the source, killing the bad bacteria. so, try pepto® diarrhea, and remember to have it on hand every time you travel. also try pepto®-bismol liquicaps for on-the-go relief. don't bring that mess around h

. >> shannon: let's continue the conversation with the mayor of englewood, california, former police chief himself, james butts. and radio talk show host jason rantz. a new york fairly between jun june 19 and 28th there were 83 shootings and 112 victims. it's up ove over the same period from last year but here's what mayor de blasio says about changing the funding for the nypd. >> what i can tell you is we have found the plan that will keep the city safe, achieve the billion dollars in savings, allow us to redistribute money to youth programs and to communities that need it most. everything with an eye to safety. so we will be able to ensure the patrol strength that we need. >> shannon: mary heath says he can slash billion dollars and kp the city safe. >> i have run three police departments and in every one of them there weren't enough officers to do the job that needed to be done. because the police are the few and the people of the many. they are policed by cooperation. if they believe the law is just an enforced justly. that being said, to think that you're going to take a situati

i mentioned new york and englewood new jersey is also seeing its daily death count drop, just 36 yesterday. likewise, pennsylvania only recorded 11 new deaths on sunday and michigan, just three. in fact, nationally, the u.s. only reported 296 deaths on sunday. every loss is tragic, we all know that, but when we look at the numbers, which is what the experts told us to do. it's the lowest number since late march, so that's good news on covid. does it mean there couldn't be flareups? but that generally is really good news, so why are the media still fearmongering about covid? joining malcolm a doctor stephen smith, founder of the smith center for infectious diseases and urban health. also with me is -- cardiologist. the medicine cabinet. dr. smith, the more progress we seem to make in the death count and hospitalization from, the more insistent the media seem to get. what's going on here? >> it's tough for me to explain. good evening. i don't understand the approach towards this disease. i never have. it's a terrible pandemic. we've ever seen in human history. but clearly, the numbers in new

. >> how is englewood doing tonight? >> it's quiet. and we want to keep it that way. >> you served as the chief of police in santa monica, so you have an understanding of the communities that are being affected and the area that is being affected. what would you be doing, if were -- if you were in santa monica tonight, dealing with these protesters who seem quite legit, in order to looters and trouble makers who are kind of exploiting the chaos. how would you be hearing this? >> you should have bifurcated your response, there was a perfect response to the peaceful demonstrators, even to the point where they wanted them to disperse, they dispersed. however, there was the looters on fourth street and third street and on the santa monica boulevard and we should have had a mobile field force and taken three into custody and all of them would have been scattered. i think by not addressing them, you embolden them and displace -- destabilize the feeling in the community. >> englewood is 42% black. among the population, half of that population