. >> protesters angry -- >> the death of freddy gray would send the city into chaos. violence. looting like no one had seen here since the '60s. >> this is one of our darkest days as a city. >> the spring of 2015 left the community desperate for heroes. ♪ >> that summer, i went back to baltimore with the mission of finding some. after all, it is the city where i grew up. my beloved home town. for the girls of baltimore leadership school for young women -- >> we have to protest for our rights. >> what happened those fateful days would set the tone for the school year. >> when you all heard about freddy gray, where were you? >> we were at school. >> did you all get a text? >> it was a lot of stuff on social media. >> i received tweets, instagram, alerts on snap chat. >> saying what? >> come and riot. we want to burn this down or burn down. when you wear the uniform, it stood for something. so our teachers and our principals wanted to let us know what we were going into before we left the building. because we're downtown. right in the heart of the city. >> but the lessons hard lea

of the baltimore girls high school dance team at a time of social unrest following the death of freddie grayorth your box office bucks? fox news contributor kevin mccarthy, good morning. >> this movie step is an incredible documentary that follows an all girl step team in inner-city baltimore, taking place, filmed during and before the event of freddie gray's death. and baltimore beating a leading character on this film, two sets of drama, the school and baltimore instead of gold, every student in school would be accepted and graduate from college. it follows the step team to a championship and is a powerful, inspiring, beautiful film and i was cheering and clapping the entire time, found myself really involved in the lives of these american girls, this gives you a deeper appreciation for the amazing teachers and coaches and counselors and the idea of how much impact on our lives, a beautiful story, found myself so engaged in it. had the chance to catch up with three leading girls in the film to find out if they can teach me some step moves. is there any way i could learn a couple step moves

and in baltimore photographer allen talks about the uprising following the death of freddie gray. those are some of the events will be covering this week. many of these are open to the public.look for them to aaron the new preacher on booktv on c-span2.

it was, though, in 2015 after the death of freddie gray at the hands of police it sparked days of raciallyed riots in that city and it's currently on a track record to record its highest annual homicide rate for baltimore this year. through the end of july, there's been a record number of 204 murders. joining me now, the organizer of the grassroots effort for the cease-fire there in baltimore, erica bridgefort. great to have you on today, and i know this is very close to your heart because of the efforts that you put behind this and also because of your own confession, because i watched this video and you're talking about this, feeling desensitized because of the crimes and people being shot and killed in baltimore now year after year. with two people that were lost over this weekend, do you feel your effort saved any lives because of the fact that you drew so much attention to your effort? >> oh, absolutely. we know that it did. there was a lot of grassroots, street outreach done. baltimore has a lot of open-air drug markets, and so we were in the streets having conversations with people

as i mentioned baltimore plays a major character in the film because of what happened with freddie grayod. >> let's go with dark tower. >> idris elba and matthew mcconaughey. >> what. >> i heard the same thing. i didn't want to disappoint you. >> are you serious. >> i love steven king i love idris elba. >> i love matthew mcconaughey as well. >> it takes place after the events of the book of the dark tower series. it feels incomplete. a little bit off balance. i will say this, though. idris is awesome. every time he reloads that gun with the bullets in midair i was geeing outer beyond belief. matthew mcconaughey is great. the script is not good completely falls off the rails at times. i give it a three only because idris is awesome in it. >> otherwise it would have been less. >> yes, exactly. >> kidnap. >> kidnap surprised me. this movie surprised me. i -- we've seen. >> why because halle berry is nuts. >> no, no, we've seen the story about a kid getting kidnapped and obviously a parent's relentless job to get the kid back. halle berry is awesome in this movie. >> i'm so glad. >> i love

. >> reporter: but it's not a laughing matter in communities like baltimore where freddie gray died after a rough ride in the back of a police van. in atlanta today jeff sessions promised to prosecute officers who use excessive force. >> all it takes is for one bad officer to destroy the reputations of so many who work every day to build good relationships in these communities. >> reporter: the president's off-the-cuff comments police chiefs warn detract from their legitimacy and trust in their communities. >> we're not thugs. we are professionals. >> reporter: committed to upholding the law, while they enforce it. peter alexander, nbc news, the white house. >>> this evening, the senate has voted overwhelmingly to confirm christopher wray as the new director of the fbi. the vote was 92-5. wray, a former justice department official under george w. bush, takes over the bureau following president trump's abrupt firing of james comey, who was leading the investigation into possible connections between the trump campaign and russia during the 2016 election. >>> as the crisis with north korea e

are living with poisoned water and polluted air, when there is still no justice for eric garner, freddie gray, philando castile, and so many more. yeah. [applause] sen. warren: the system is rigged. and keep on going. when you can still be fired from your job because of who you love. when you cannot use a public restroom or serve in the military because of your gender identity. when you are afraid to report a rape because ice can split up your family. you are treated like a suspect every minute of your life, yeah, the system is rigged. [applause] and if you don't feel like anyone in politics is doing anything to unrig it, or you feel like it is too broken to unrig at all, that is what a lot of folks felt last a lot of november. folks who should have been with us on election day, but who just stayed home. so spare me the argument about whether we should be trying to bring back folks who voted for donald trump, or trying to turn out votes who just did not vote because we cannot do either of those things until we show that things can change, and that we will fight to change them. [applause] you

and in baltimore photographer allen talks about the uprising following the death of freddie gray. those are some of the events will be covering this week. many of these are open to the public.look for them to aaron the new preacher on booktv on c-span2. >> thank you all for joining us this evening. it is nice to see all of you and some new faces in the crowd.if this is your first time visiting we welcome you. we are the oldest society and the country and we are inviting people for 226 years. we are an independent nonprofit organization. we offer training for educators, and material for researchers. looking back at how we planned this evening's program i can say that there has been about a year in the making.last august brenda lawson our head of collection services mentioned that papers of gerry studds was processed and ready for researchers. she also mentioned that mark robert schneider, was because even he had been using this to research a book. on august 2016 he agreed to speak here so we are ready to go! it has been quite some time in the making. this is often the source of our

the baltimore pd w after the death of freddie gray. a body cam program was launched to help improve trust. now new guidelines. cameras have to be activated at a scene and at no time should officers attempt to re-create the recovery of evidence. collins says she's scared of the police. >> i'm not saying all of them are bad, but it's just like the ones that are bad are making them all look bad. >> reporter: making the job of policing an already tough city even tougher. stephanie gosk, nbc news, baltimore. >>> it is scorching in the pacific northwest. third straight day of triple digit temperatures, highs there reaching 20 to 30 degrees above average. not helping matters, smoke from fires in british columbia polluting the air over washington state and oregon. even animals at the oregon zoo are struggling to beat the heat. 14 million people are under heat advisories or excessive heat warnings through tomorrow. >>> tonight officials in minneapolis say body in the rubble after a natural gas explosion ripped through a historic academy during

twangy you were the first person i met and baltimore when i went several years ago after the freddy gray death and to talk to people who could speak about the real struggles faced by people involved the more every day that the gray incident wasn't an isolated incident before that there was your brother and tyrone west and many others not only did you reject the settlement but you also rally every wednesday night around baltimore demanding justice for your brother as specially considering the way city leadership has treated you what keeps you going where do you find strength to do this. i found a strong because i love everybody in the world i love my brother i am my brother's keeper and the love that i have my brother is extended down to all the victims of police brutality homeless out the never ending just like now i'm still why heart is broken to keep david gyngell is still a call so rabid was something i obviously didn't do so i'm here not just the five of our brothers tabo west but i'm fighting for all the victims of polly's brutality and murder and for. the national weather service d

but that was a larger conversation of black lives matter, of trayvon martin, of freddie gray in baltimoreuson in missouri. i mean this is all part of the sense in this country of race, this big race debate, and also of this president. and so there's this outrage that's lingering over this week where the president has yet fully to close the book on this episode from charlottesville last weekend and really say that racism is unacceptable, that there's no moral equivalency between protesting neo-nazis and being a neo-nazi. so i think that's what you see is this sort of anger on a lot of different levels and a lot of different sides of this debate. >> eliza, if jay is right that the dylann roof shooting there at the emanuel ame church was the catalyst or a resurgence of this kind of thought, do you agree that this presidency has only exacerbated it? >> i definitely think the way the president handled this has kind of sent out all these different feelers. some of these people on the far right, the white supremacists, nazis, those are not part of the far right, they're a separate group. they're

violent police killings of twelve year old tamir rice in cleveland walter scott in south carolina freddy gray and baltimore and recently philander steele in minnesota just to name a few. these deaths in the bureaucratic resistance to justice surrounding them can all be traced back to that fateful august ninth two thousand and fourteen that day when the white side of the united states was forced to come face to face with the reality of the racism and institutional oppression that still goes on today and could no longer be written off as you know rare one off vestiges of a bygone era confined to the dusty pages of u.s. history so today let us remember august ninth michael brown jr and the countless lives who struggle we hope will no longer have to be remembered through their tragedy but through their victories as we start watching the home. to. the. real that. you know that i got. this. week. what are the what. are and on tap at the last august ninth marks the third year anniversary of the death of michael brown many people were outraged by the events that transpired both during and after the k

are the lessons that we still haven't learned from ferguson from mike brown from tomorrow from freddie gray what are we still not getting unfortunately what we are getting is this cycle that continues to happen and i call that. of a police killed first of all first of all there is the shock and then we go to the outrage then we go for the call for calm and want to community because then the. so you know we're happens all the time then the failure to char you know we've got more chart. but it's turned into a. then we get to. where everyone older it's all good alone let's have the police community interactions and then there's the amnesia time in the country where we get all about what really happened and then we're back to business as usual so what did we learn we learned we have been. doing the same thing over and over again. because. i want to ask you you know one of the biggest things speaking of things we've learned is you know in the aftermath. of everything that happened with michael brown of the city of ferguson the justice department came. you know you need to reform investigation fr

the police where he was that commit police brutality ok against people like killing people like freddie gray in baltimore. it's administration constantly giving aid and comfort to the provinces and he never condemns the bio he tries to create a false equivalence so i find it curious when journalists seem to be carrying his water for him where they keep trying to turn the story on people trying to demonstrate and as i say again this is like blaming martin luther king and the civil rights movement which did happen that so this shows what side of history you are on. for the pilot it gets that you were doing nothing but waiting ok as you said you've been watching numerous channels i don't think you've been fully watching our coverage because we're not on any side here but i do hope you will cheat in a little later just to understand the fact that we are trying to remain objective here and there is no suggestion whatsoever that counter-demonstrators were in any way to blame for course now but why. do you why do you keep asking about the how to demonstrate you yourself said straker stop blaming fi

the tragic owns a trayvon martin, michael brown, eric garner, walter scott, tamir rice, freddie gray, and others served as the catalyst for this anthology. but these killings also inspired the contributing authors to think about all of the ways that black men are policed in the broad sense of the word, have old and harshly at every step of the criminal process. in fact, black men are policed and treated worse than the similarly situated white counterparts at every step of the criminal justice system, from arrest through sentencing. these unwarranted disparities exist whether black men are charged with crimes or are victims of crimes. police officers stopped, search, and rest black men far more frequently than white men engage in the same behavior. prosecutors charge black men more frequently and with more serious crimes than white men who engage in the same behavior. they are disproportionate numbers of black men in the nation's prisons and jails. criminal defendants regardless of the race are punished less harshly when the victims are black men. this anthology explores and explains t

michael brown, eric garner, tamir rice, walter scott, freddie gray, sam dubose,alton sterling, philando castile and terence crutcher are just some of the names on a long list of unarmed black boys and men who were killed by police officers in recent years. although black men have been the victims of violence at the hands of the state since the time of slavery, technology and social media now permit us to literally bear witness to many of these killings repeated hi. repeatedly. millions of people have watched the video of a police officer choking eric garner to death as he struggled for air. similarly, millions have watched the video of a police officer shooting walter scott in the back as he ran for his life. who can ever forget the grainy footage of tamir rice, the 12-year-old boy who was shot by a police officer while he played alone with a toy gun in a park near his home. two videos, one from a police helicopter and another from a police dashboard camera, show terence crutcher walking away from police officers with his hands raised high in the air just before he was shot and killed.

are living with poisoned water and polluted air, when there is still no justice for eric garner, freddie gray, philando castile, and so many more. [applause] sen. warren: yeah, the system is rigged. and keep on going. when you can still be fired from your job because of who you love. when you can't use a public restroom or serve in the military because of your gender identity. when you are afraid to report a rape because i.c.e. can split up your family. when you are treated like a suspect every minute of your life, yeah, the system is rigged. [applause] sen. warren: and if you don't feel like anyone in politics is doing anything to unrig it, or you feel like it is just too broken to unrig at all, that is what a lot of folks felt last november. a lot of folks who should have been with us on election day, but who just stayed home. so spare me the argument about whether we ought to be trying to bring back folks who voted for donald trump, or trying to turn out voters who just didn't vote, because we can't do either of those things until we show that things can change, and that we will fight to c

we can remember back to freddie gray and consent is supposed to go online.ot of people say it is a great way to get folks' skill sets up as development continues in the city of baltimore and for the young people which is another area that she really targeted in her speech she was saying this was one way to keep them occupied. >> the unemployment rate is pretty high. >> absolutely. >> on another topic as the nfl season gets ready to start people are also talking about colin kaepernick and the fact that he still hasn't been picked up by a team. there is a petition being circulated calling for a boycott if someone doesn't pick him up. >> there are a lot of people who are joining social media to express their concern about colin kaepernick not getting on to a team. a lot of people saying there is a lot of other things i can do with a sunday if an athlete capable of making a contribution to a team i because of his beliefs at the same time other athletes facing serious criminal issues in the past and present are able to play and they are in camp as we speak. a lot

photographer devon allen shares images from the 2015 baltimore uprising following the death of freddie gray. that is a look at some of the events booktv will be covering this week's. many are open to the public. look for them to wear in the future on booktv on c-span2. >> booktv visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> i love history and just finished a book called 6 months in 1945 which told about the great historic events the took place in the first few months and conferences between the big three, the death of president roosevelt, dropping the atomic bomb, the defeat of winston churchill, a lot of things happened in the first we 6 months. i read a humorous book called a downhill lie, humor writer who talked about giving up golf when he was 23, picking up 30 years later. also reading a scottish mystery, i read several of her murder mysteries and i have read about half of david stockman's book, i have several things i am reading or finished reading. >> booktv wants to know what you are reading. send us your summer reading list via twitter@booktv

statue and it is also covered in writing that says things like down with white supremacy, rip freddie gray, sandra bland, are we helping black lives matter, other messages like that. this is a bronze statue taken down under the cloak of darkness just like the two others overnigh the statue coming down earlier, it was around 4:00, when rope and cable was tied to the statue, lifting it off of its base and even in that video, you can hear some audible clapping and cheers from bystanders as it was lifted off three so far confederate statues have been removed overnight in baltimore, including the statue of roger b taney and the confederate women of maryland statue. comes days after the violence in charlottesville. the commission decided to go ahead and remove the statues, they did it in the middle of the night probably to keep away the crowds. the decision originally decided back in january of 2016. now, as you can see, a lot of people that have left messages here are in support of the removal of the statue but we spoke to one woman out here earlier this morning, she put a little memorial up he

competition and the entire time of the story, it is taking place before and during the death of freddie graytimore plays a major character in this story. phenomenal documentary. really inspiring. it really remind you how incredible our teachers, counselors and coaches are. i love this film. and, everyone, should see, i give it 4.5 out of five. i love it. only hour and 23 minutes or so i just found it to be such an engaging story. i loved learning about these amazing girls, in baltimore. next up is new film the dark tower. this is new movie, this is, this is based on stephen king novel. there is seven major books in this series. idris alba stars as well as matthew mcconaughey. alba plays a gunslinger trying to get a hand on mcconaughey's character. he is trying to destroy this huge dark tower that is keeping out the evil from the universe. here's the thing, the movie is very, very mediocre. that becomes an issue as a reviewer because there is nothing horrible bit. but nothing great either. very middle of the road. i found idris character was awesome, i loved reloading of the gun. mcconaughey

, again, the joke that was made and brings up images and people remembering what happened with freddie graythe back of that van in baltimore. i'm just saying that that is what is happening. the president making a joke and now the focus is on the joke. >> well, i didn't see being thrown in. he went limp, and they put him up into the wagon and people can watch the video if they want and come to their own conclusions. but, look, like you said, this ms13, this very violent multitransnational gang that has infiltrated the united states, they're involved in murders, rates, and all the left media can do is take the focus off of that transnational gang and try to involve themselves in minutia, really, when it comes to that sort of thing. so i tell people get a grip. let's look what happens here when it comes to the law enforcement and the tough tough thing they have going on with ms13. donald trump has made it clear he is going to get his arms around the havoc being wreaked by criminal illegal aliens in the united states in this high time that he does it. it's very refreshing to me that we have a p

obama rushed to judgment, george zimmerman, trevon martin, freddy gray baltimore, was wrong on all counts he didn't wait for evidence, testimony, facts to come in. was it right for the president to condemn the hatred, what we saw on saturday, wait for the facts, and do what he did on monday and today? >> well, guys, the person i saw live on saturday, his statement, we both thought it was pretty clear and positive -- and direct. this is a man who, as a candidate, repudiated david duke, as a candidate -- >> i played that earlier. again and again. >> repudiated the ku klux klan. this is a man who in his inaugural address says to the entire country, we all believe the same -- bleed the same color, you cannot be a patriotic american and be a racist. he's very clear. so i think he's starting out saturday thinking i'm going to add to what i've been saying. and i suspect he was shocked at the level of hostility including among some republicans, that you had to be very specific. so he comes back and he's very specific. how can you be more specific than this. but then he makes the mistake of tellin

the baltimore pd was already under scrutiny after the death of freddie gray. a bottom cam program was launched to help improve trust. now, new guidelines. cameras have to be activated at a scene and at no time should officers attempt to re-create the recovery of evidence. collins says she's scared of the police. >> i'm not saying all of them are bad but it's like the ones that are bad are making all of them look bad. >> reporter: making the job of policing an already tough city even tougher. stephanie gosk, nbc news, baltimore. >>> montgomery county public schools are taking steps to prevent drug overdoses. for the first time, beginning this year, every montgomery county public school will be stocked with naloxone. it's a life-saving treatment to reverse the effect of overdoses. the county spent the summer training school staff on how to administer the treatment. people we spoke to think it's a good decision, but they're also alarmed. >> i think it's a great idea. i think it's scary that this is going on in the county, and it's a good first step. >> we've neve

photographer devon allen shares images from the 2015 baltimore uprising following the death of freddie gray. that is a look at some of the events booktv will be covering this week's. many are open to the public. look for them to wear in the future on booktv on c-span2. >> booktv visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> i love history and just finished a book called 6 months in 1945 which told about the great historic events the took place in the first few months and conferences between the big three, the death of president roosevelt, dropping the atomic bomb, the defeat of winston churchill, a lot of things happened in the first we 6 months. i read a humorous book called a downhill lie, humor writer who talked about giving up golf when he was 23, picking up 30 years later. also reading a scottish mystery, i read several of her murder mysteries and i have read about half of david stockman's book, i have several things i am reading or finished reading. >> booktv wants to know what you are reading. send us your summer reading list via twitter@booktv

matter whether it's the alt-right or, like i said, black men and women, whether it's mike brown, freddie grayt matter whether it's tamir rice, and white supremacy is affecting us regardless of who it comes from. so what i'm saying is what i think should happen is this. it's what you all do as supposed good white people. you see what germany did. why do you even care what the people from the confederate feel? they lost the war. it should come down. because if you really care about history, what about the native american history? what about the african history? everywhere that white men have conquered some -- anybody on this earth, they have literally almost totally decimated their culture. so why all of a sudden, because it's other white men, they care about the history. when you think about it, think about public flags. public flags are supposed to be a conglomerate effort of everybody in that state. so, as a mississippian and knowing how many black people stay in mississippi, that is -- that does not represent me or my culture. that means death and slavery to me, and just like most things in

. >> when i heard that, the first thing that popped in my mind is freddie gray. a sobering thing to see police officers cheering for that. but have a great show. >> thank you, joy. >>> well, the president brought

decrees you kind of scratch your head and say how come it's taken an incident like this, whether freddie grayrice. people have studied this. they've never discovered this before? >> they're giving a lot of daylight to real issues as opposed to turning a blind eye. to what justin was saying, a discount to people of color in this country. >> thomas, the police are on track to kill 1,000 people this year which is pretty much the same number that it's been last year and the year before. so the fact is we don't need to talk about reform. we need to talk about transformation. i talk about some common sense things we could do right now, measures like having more women officers, more college educated officers. those police are more like the guardians who police officers need to be and not like the warriors that they are, many of them are, now. when i was a prosecutor it felt like my job was to lock up young black men. prosecutors get those cases from police officers. so we need to think about transforming our entire criminal justice system. it is not just about unarmed african-american men. it is abo

. >> when i heard that, the first thing that popped in my mind is freddie gray. it was a sobering thing to see police officers cheering for that. but have a great show. >> thank you, joy. >>> well, the president brought in the mooch to stop white house leaking, to crack down on reince priebus and those white house leakers. that didn't work out so well. so today the president brought in former marine corps general john kelly to get rid of the mooch first of all and then stop the leaking. and of course, of course tonight right on schedule, "the washington post" has another massive breaking news story about the trump white house and the president in particular entirely supplied by trump leakers. >> if you want to eat an elephant, you got to eat it one bite at a time. sarah and i are going to do that together. >> he does not have a role at this time in the trump administration. >> was anthony scaramucci fired, or did he resign? >> oh, i think he was certainly pushed out. >> the president certainly felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate. >> reince is a -- exp

. >> when i heard that, the first thing that popped in my mind is freddie gray.see police officers cheering for that. but have a great show. >> thank you, joy. >>> well, the president brought in the mooch to stop white house leaking, to crack down on reince priebus and those white house leakers. that didn't work out so well. so today the president brought in former marine corps general john kelly tge

of course, freddie gray, world got unfortunately a negative image of baltimore i think in many ways because. so the statues are down but that doesn't exactly solve all of the problems when it comes to racial harmony what's the next step n now? >> well the next step for us is to continue what we've been doing. i've been saying to any media outlet listen for me it took me five minutes to write that resolution and this interview is longer than the time i spent thinking about whether it should be passed or not. gore me it's always about how we're going to have comprehensive strategy to reduce gun violence in baltimore looking violence as public health issue, talking about how we can make our laws and more equitable for forgotten in our city for too long. how we're going to get people better wages, improve our schools, improve our neighborhoods. that's what i do every day and that always will be the top concern for me. >> do you feel by not simply having those statues there as people to look at that that itself can help in any way of thoses though? >> well, we know it's a strong these beacons of

. >> reporter: in 2015, riots broke out in baltimore, after freddie gray was injured in police custodyera program was launched to improve trust. now, new guidelines. cameras have to be activated at a scene. and at no time, should officers attempt to re-create the recovery of evidence. now, the police force is under even more pressure. >> i'm not saying all of them are bad. but the ones that are bad, is making all of them look bad. >> prosecutors have thrown out dozens of cases. connected to the officers seen in the videos. all at a time when the city is battling a huge crime problem. homicide is up 20%. the murder rate now in baltimore is twice that of chicago. matt, back to you. >> stephanie, thank you. >>> new york has delivered what it hopes will be a crushing blow to the ivory trade. nearly two tons of ivory was pulverized on thursday. this happening in central park. statues and other items made from the tusks of about 100 slaughtered elephants were put into a rock crushers. the idea is to show poachers that crimes will not be tolerated or profitable. >>> now it's time for hoda's m

say homicides have risen in the city due to the twenty fifteen death of twenty five year old freddy great gray died while in police custody from a spinal cord injury he sustained during his arrest now in twenty fifteen the f.b.i. ring to baltimore as the second u.s. city with the highest murder rates we spoke with baltimore city police department spokesman p.j. smith well lots of the youngest brother to gun violence last month take a look. we get calls every day from local media national media want to know what the homicide count is homicide count it was human beings the meekness families that are connected to each other and yes the number one seventy three was my brother d.r.g. smith and it's still something that hurts the most in a couple of days past when that incident occurred and it's tough but as i've done since i've been in baltimore i'm. a mouthpiece for not only the police but in the for the community and for the victims about and from baltimore mayor catherine pugh weighed in saying quote over six hundred shootings in less than a year in our city and something has to give and so we a

. >> reporter: in 2015 riots broke out in baltimore after freddie gray was injured in police custody launched to help improve trust, now new guidelines, cameras have to be activated at a scene and no time should officers attempt to recreate the recovery of evidence. now the entire police force is under even more pressure. >> i'm not saying all of them are bad but the ones that's bad is making all of them look bad. >> reporter: prosecutors have thrown out dozens of cases connected to the officers seen in knows videos. all of this happening at auto time when this city is is up 20%, the murder rate now in baltimore is twice that of chicago. matt, back to you. >>> new york has delivered what it hopes will be a crushing blow to the ivory trade. nearly two tons of illegally imported ivory was pulverized in central park on thursday. statues and other items made from the tusks of about 100 slaughtered elephants were fed into a rock crusher. the idea, to send a clear message to poachers that crimes against wildlife will not be tolerated or profitable. >>> now it's time for hoda's morning boos

whole ferguson thing we in other words with the michael brown as well as what is happening with freddie grayin baltimore and has resonated across the country because the continuation of police brutality and then exoneration of and acquittal of officers irvest reminiscent of the discuss i discussed in "black detroit" because we had a series of the same situations and you see that what happened to boyd in chicago is similar that would happened with jones in 2010 in detroit when the police kind of invaded their home and shot this seven-year-old young woman, young girl, in detroit. that's back in 2010. to say nothing of green who the police brutalized him. that's 1992. right after the whole rodney king thing in terms of the continuation of this. just amazing that you could absolutely categorize an organization that is concerned with the protection of this communities and its people and to see them in such a dissparing light and some of the media is responsible just beyond the altright. eh we have some main stream media just not sensitive enough to where ore or concerns are. the inneck inequity t