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. >> tikrit remains a ghost city. many parts of it destroyed. there was fierce fighting between government and forces, and there are also signs of looting and arson attacks carried out by the militias. the government admits some members of the mobilization forces committed these acts. it says that it will hold them accountable. security forces hearsay all have left the city and they're calling on the people to return home. >> i'm from tikrit, and i tell the people and families to return. we're your brothers. the conditions are good and your neighbors are returning. >> al jazeera's request to accompany the mobilization forces on the trip to tikrit has been pending for almost two weeks. we were able to film inside the city center. no families were found signs written by isil fighters have been crossed out. signs may reflect the sectarian nature. some residents we spoke to say the burning of property is still ongoing. many are outside of the city. they fear appraisal attacks when they return. isil fighters are also present and in the surrounding ar

. >> reporter: that crete remains a ghost city. many parts of it destroyed.re was furious fighting between isil and the government forces backed by shia paramilitaries. battle scars are everywhere. there are also signs of looting and arson attacks carried out by the militias. the government admits some members. popular mobilization forces committed these acts. it says it will hold them accountable. security forces here say all pairparamilitaries have left the city and calling on the people to return home. >> translator: i am from tikrit and i tell the people and the families to return. we are your brothers. the conditions are good and your neighbors are returning. >> reporter: al jazerra's request to accompany the popular mobilization force to his a trip to tikrit has been penning for almost two weeks. but our camera person got in and was able to film inside the city center. no families were found signs written by isil fighters have been crossed out. but the new slogans signs and flags may reflect the sectarian nature. some residents we spoke to on the phone

. >> tikrit remains a ghost city. many parts of it destroyed. there was fearless fighting between isil and government forces backed by shia militaries. battle scars are everywhere. there are signs of looting and arson attacks carried out by the militias. the government admits some members of the mobilization forces committed these acts. it says it will hold them accountable. many have left the city, and they're calling on the people to return. >> i'm from tikrit, and i tell the people and the families to return. we are your brothers. the conditions are good and your neighbors are returning. >> al jazeera's ask request to go to tikrit has been pending for weeks. no families from found. signs written by isil fighters have been crossed out. but the new slogans signs and flags may reflect the sectarian nature. many people we spoke to that the burning of property is still ongoing. many of it is outside of the city. a fear of appraisal reprizal of attacks is a concern. isil fighters are still present and fighting in the surrounding areas. the big batt

. >> tikrit raimdz a ghost city. many parts of of it destroyed. there was first fighting. >> a request to accompany the popular mobilization forces has been pending for almost two weeks. our camera person got in and was able to film inside the city center. no families were found. signs written by isil fighters have been crossed out. the new slogans, signs and flags may reflect the sectarian nature. some residents we spoke to on the phone say the burning of property is still ongoing. many live outside of the city. they fear attacks if they return. shia pera militaries are in tikrit away from cameras. isil fighters are present and seen fighting in the surrounding areas. the big battle for tikrit could be over but winning the trust of the residents is not easy. >> people can't return because there is a lack of basic services. water pipes are broken. there is a shortage of electricity. there is a battle in tikrit now destroyed. security is good. there is there is no popular mobilization forces but it's restrician of the services. >> we found this fami

. >>> tikrit remains a ghost city many parts of it destroyed.as fierce fighting between i.s.i.l. and the government forces backed by shia and battle scars are everywhere. there are also signs of looting and arson attacks carried out by the malitia, the government admits some member of the popular mobilization forces committed these acts and says it will hold them accountable. security forces here say all para militarys left the city and are calling on the people to return home. >> translator: i'm from tikrit and i tell the people and the families to return. we are your brothers. the conditions are good and your neighbors are returning. >> reporter: al jazeera's request to accompany the popular mobilization forces on a trip to tikrit has been pending for almost two weeks. but our camera person got in and was able to film inside the city center. no families were found, signs by i.s.i.l. fighters have been crossed out but new slogans, signs and flags may reflect the sectarian nature some residents we spoke to on the phone said the burning of proper

the red cross worker in the past hour reporting that the port city is a ghost town. the city scale of destruction, he said clearer by the day. the red cross has been struggling to get any humanitarian aid into aden. it will be days before they fly in supplies and materials. the red cross is asking for a 24 hour cease-fire and the russians provided the united nations asked for a humanitarian corridor. at this stage, saying their members are considering that. as you rightly point out, on the ground things deteriorating. some are still held by houthis militia. many supported by the iranians. the air strikes really are not set up what they are supposed to do. we have been reporting now for days the jihadists and al qaeda bringing some 300 prisoners from a jail and one of those prisoners, a senior commander of al qaeda, seen in the presidential palace just days ago in aden. things are very very difficult on the ground as i say with the red cross hoping to get in today and things will get clearer as aid workers come in. >> becky anderson thank you for that. on the phone fro

in a tweet he called the city "a ghost town." "inhabitants are nowhere to be seen." those who can have fled the city. at the international airport in sonoma -- sanaa, foreigners are waiting to catch flights home, but many others are not so lucky. as the strikes continue, the red cross says it needs better access to the country to deliver more aid and to prevent a humanitarian disaster. laila: now two australian nationals were -- who are currently on death row in indonesia have run out of appeals. they were denied clemency by the court in indonesia, the only authority left that could have commuted that sentence. brian: andrew chan and myuran sukumaran face execution by a firing squad for some of the going -- for smuggling heroin out of indonesia. reporter: it was behind these walls of the convicts' hopes for a reprieve were dealt another hefty blow. the court ruled that they do not have the right to challenge the president's decision to reject their plea for clemency. the state says the two men have now exhausted all legal options. but their defense lawyers are not bac

describes the city as a ghost town. residents are caught in the fighting, and many are seeking shelter in baghdad. but the capital is denying most of them entry. >> it doesn't care about us. look what happened to us. they sold us. they are cowards and traitors. >> we slept on the streets in miserable conditions. we left everything behind. >> officials fear that isil fighters infiltrated the crowd. and many say they have seen bodies scattered in ramadi. >>> arrests were made of those who are suspected of having ties to isil, investigators have been tracking youths from the minneapolis area who have tried to travel to syria to fight with isil and other groups. let's go now to a live press conference by the u.s. attorney. they are he talking about the charges and these arrests. >> the by bus by car and answer mines possible. as describe in the complaint some members of their group have succeeded, but many have been stopped by law enforcement, and have been unable to travel syria. the defendants are friends. they met regula

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city. rahmaddy is now a ghost town after thousands of people fled. meanwhile, iraq's prime minister is pushing for the creation of a unified fighting force. kim met the volunteering training to retake the city. >> in p step with each other and now with the iraqi emerged a too. >> these volunteer fighters have for the first time pledged to take order from baghdad, part of the effort to unify countless militias. this group is diverse from the arabs curds and christians for mosul which has been occupied by isil. all of them are eager to go back. one of my sons is here, he was a soldier, and the other one will come in the next intake, i have ten children. and i came to be a volunteer nor for money or any benefit just to get my city back. they call themselves a national guard a force which officially doesn't yet exist. >> it is the name the president wants to give to a new force the sunni tribesman the mostly shia probablyized forces and other volunteers. >> it is uneasy union and one these men don't fully trust. >> mosul is on the other side of this hill,

in the distant smoke was rising from a capital city now described as a ghost town. our time on the ground in sanaa international airport will be brief. the airplane will be on the tarmac for half an hour. that is all air india has been given to get the rescue mission completed. the airport in the south is under the control of the houthi rebels. that was one of the targets in the airstrikes began. rebels posed for a group shot for the aircrews, but elsewhere the houthis are fighting street battles. in minutes passengers were brought to the airplane and rushed to board. many had waited days for a way out. one man had to bribe the houthis $1000 to get his family through the airport. the airplane was full to overflowing. 240 passengers. 60 more than the aircraft is supposed to carry. all eager to leave their ordeal behind them. >> it was really horrific. one after another. the h -- boom boom. explosion after explosion. windows shaking and all the buildings. it was horrific. >> we were scared for our lives our family's lives. my dad is an old man. he is sick. it was not

positions on the outskirts of the city and it's a ghost town after thousands of people fled the fightingaq's prime minister pushing for a creation of a unified force under the banner of iraqi army and say they are under prepared and under resourced to take on i.s.i.l. and kim met volunteers training to retake the city of mosul. [whistle] in step with each other and now with the iraqi army too. the volunteer fighters have for the first time pledged to take orders from baghdad, part of the government effort to unify countless malitias. this group is diverse and soon any, arabs and christians from mosul which has been occupyied by i.s.i.l. and all of them eager to go back. >> translator: one of my sons is here. he was a soldier and the other one will come in the next intake. i have ten children and came to be a volunteer, not for money, not for benefit but to get my city back as soon as possible. >> reporter: they call themselves the national guard, a force with officially doesn't yet exist. it's the name prime minister abadi wants to give to a new force of sunni tribesmen the shia popular

is describing the city of ramadi as a ghost town. more than 90,000 people have fled the area since i.s.i.l. began its offensive there last week. the capital describing, i.s.i.l. has infiltrated the crowds. we are getting a new sense today of the impact of boko haram on nigerians. more than a million people have fled the group. unicef say 800,000 of them are children. boko haram has been attacking the region since 2009. but those attacks have become more frequent and more brutal. >> more than a thousand have been killed in the last year. >>> university in kenya activists and students raise the flaks, working together to stop these kinds of attacks. 140s people mostly students were killed when al shabaab opened fire on the garrissa university. as mohammad adow reports. >> on the wrong side of the law this is how police refer to a dusk to dawn issue. a massive security operation has also netted dozens of youth suspected of involvement in the attack. securities camera food an shows the antireplies units. security agents came for him. his

one witness this morning, in the past hour or so describing the city as a ghost town.e to be seen. the scale of destruction, he said clearer by the day. aid agencies have been struggling to get aid into the area. red cross is flying in today with staff and supplies. clearly, as things get worse on the ground in the country which is verging on a failed state if not one already, this cannot come quickly enough. as far as the war factions it seems the houthis backed by iran as far as the saudis are concerned, the idea was to degrade the militia on the ground. that doesn't seem to be happening here. the president here of yemen. president hadi. he is trying to form a new government of some sort. there are discussions going about a political solution to this as well. we seem to be a long way off. the saudis say any talks would go through the gcc and the houthis on the ground say they are prepared to talk but not to the aggressors. as far as a political solution lots of talk but no walking the walk as it were as present. no talk here today of any imminent ground troops. but a

ghost town. >> the people were flooding out of the city. some carrying belongings and some carrying rice. have nothing. my relatives took a little bit of rice. we were only going away for three days, so why would we need to bring so much? >> 16 of his family died during the four years of khmer rouge terror including his father, three brothers, and sister. the school where he taught was converted into a notorious prison where opponents were tortured and killed. it now stands as a gram and permanent memorial to those who died and a reminder of pol pot's crimes. molly: authorities in rio de janeiro have removed more than 37 tons of dead fish fish for -- from a late set to host sporting events next year. an unwelcome light on the city's pollution problems, as kate explains. kate: a postcard setting marred by thousands of rotting dead fish. the fish began floating to the surface at the rodrigo de freitas lake a week ago. the phenomenon continues. >> there are a lot of dead fish. we work every day, we do not rest. the cleaning services are working nonstop. kate: what would be a local concern ha

on the outskirts of the city, rahmaddy now is a ghost town after thousands of residents there ed the fighting. iraq's prime minister is pushing for a fighting force under the official banner of the army. voluntary fighters say they are under prepared and underresourced to taken oisil. the volunteers training to retake the city. >> in step with each other and now with the iraqi army too. >> these volunteer fighters have for the first time pledged to take orders from baghdad, part of the government's effort to unify countless militias. this group is diverse so the abe rabbs and christians which has been occupied, all of them are eager to go back. >> one of my sons iser hoo. he was a soldier and the other one will come in the next intake. i have ten children. and i came to be a volunteer not for money not for any benefit, just to get my city back. >> they call themselves as national guard a force which efficiently doesn't yet exist it is the name prime minister wants to give to a new force a sunni tribesman the mostly shia popular forces and other volunteers. it is an uneasy union and o

city was jam packed. today different stormy looks like a ghost town. cool temperatures keeping people away.e it another few weeks and we'll warm things up. sure that place will be hopping. storm scan3 the storm itself still to our south and west over the center of the can country but you can see plenty of rain ahead of it. we're still in the clouds. we're dry so several hours of dry conditions over the next few hours many it's really after midnight where that rain starts to some of in. a warm front will push through the region tomorrow. that actually warms us up. everybody who is on the south side of the front will see 60's and 70's maybe even a little bit of sunshine. i don't think the front will get as far north as the poconos. you guys will be a little cooler. pockets of steady rain during the morning more showery type deal in the afternoon, maybe a thunderstorm we start to dry out on tuesday sunshine returns behind that system but we cool back down into the mid 60's and we continue to settle into a cooler weather pattern from the middle to the end of the upcoming week and even wednesday

flee and thousands left with the clothes on their back and enbar providence turned the city of 200,000 into a ghostn and i.s.i.l. captured three villages on the outskirts on wednesday, tents, food and aid sent to thousands who fled. in the mediterranean another rescue of migrants trying to go to africa and saved 74 people from a sailboat just before it sank today about 100 miles off the coast. 450 people were unloaded in a port in sicily today. the migrants came from ethiopia and syria included 50 children. italian authorities arrested to traffickers, in the past week italian ships picked up 10,000 migrants and many of them fleeing war and persecution and paul brennan is in sicily with more. >> reporter: flow of migrants from libya continues and we had a new boat land in the port of polermo in sicily in the last 112 hours bringing a total of 93 people and 71 men, 19 women, one of whom is pregnant we understand and three children too. there is one glimmer of good news and that is we have spoke tone the coast guard saturday morning and what they are telling us is they are not aware of any ongoing res

observers say one city now looks like a ghost town as people leave their homes. the eruption is triggering fears that the dust could contaminate water and cause health issues the ash and debris from the volcano have shut down an airport in costa rica. >>> the caps got the verizon center warmed up. stont it's the wizards' turn. jason pew is live at the phone booth with the big game against the rapt rz tonight. jason they played pretty well in toronto. are they going to keep it going here at home? >> reporter: yeah, let's hope so, jim. it's been a busy day here at the verizon center, the last two days going back to last night with the capitals. the wizards hoping to take their momentum they gained in toronto and bring it home. last year they struggled at home in the postseason winning just one game. if they want to get to where they want to go this season, they know they have to establish a dominant home court advantage and it starts tonight against the raptors. >> we've got to protect the house man. we can't let anybody come in here and win. we struggled last year

meanwhile the city of ramadi is called a ghost town. more than 90,000 have fled from the fighting. from baghdad, ali abdullah saleh reports. >> reporter: a sea of people on the run, escaping i.s.i.l., which is about to fully control the people of ramadi. they have been walking and driving for the last two days, taking what they can - man, woman, young and old. this is a terrified population, with no place to stay. some have been stuck near this bridge in southern baghdad. they are angry with politicians and tribal leaders. >> they don't care about us. look what happened to us, our condition. they sold us, they are traitors. >> we slept on the streets, and in the open. in miserable continues. we left everything behind. >> the sheikhs fled. sitting in hotels and homes. >> reporter: people who fled speak of terrible battles. some say bodies are scattered. i.s.i.l. fighters are making gains, closing in on the city center. more than 75% of anbar is under i.s.i.l.'s control. the government sent reinforcements. it will be a long battle. mosques across baghdad opened their doors to shelter

is describing the iraqii city of ramadi as a ghost town. most are seeking shelter in baghdad, but the capitol is denying entry. officials fear isil elements have i will fill trailed the crowds. >> we are getting a new sense of the impact of boko haram on nigerians. 1 million people have fled the group, 800,000 of them are children. boko haram has been attacking the region since 2009, but those are becoming more frequent and broughtal. over 1,000 civilians have been killed since the beginning of this year. >> new york governor cuomo is visiting cuba today. he will lead an official delegation of lawmakers and business leaders. it is the first such visit since president obama moved to take cuba off the lift of state sponsors of terrorism. that has investors hopeful. a trade embargo could be lifted after more than 50 years. we have this report. >> the americans are coming, but not in the way the cuban government had for so long anticipated. these visitors are here from a washington organization to talk about mutual understanding and political c

city." it comes as "ghost busters" shoot this summer. >>> the "washington post" reports which jobs are most most following by employees in construction hotels and restaurants and arts and entertainments. >> it just lemds itself to so many things and i'm going to keep it moving. >>> nasa release add composite that showed the planet in psychedelic colors. the colors represent data collected by merges in spacecraft. merges will retired today. it will crash into mercury at more than 8,000 miles an hour. >>> "the baltimore sun" says the mayor is open to opening the cure few. it was put in place to control unrest in the street bus bars and restaurants normally open late have lost business. the mayor may consider listing the curfew if the calm continues. >>> searching for harmony after the riots. it could start after the music. ♪ that's nice. the baltimore symphony orchestra performed a rare outdoor concert on wednesday. some of the events are canceled because of the violence and curfew. the musicians filled the time with something other than bricks and tear gas. >> they want to feel joy and hope

but for the most part, when we came through the city this morning, it appeared to be a ghost town. there are more signs of life now that this curfew ended just a few moments ago. we have seen people walking through this neighborhood with what appeared to be their lunch bags in hand, assuming -- we assume they're on their way to work this morning. more signs of life, first night of this curfew just ended a few moments ago. i want to step out of the shot and see that there still is a visible presence of police and the national guard troops here at this intersection. this is where the main rioting and violence took place on monday night. but throughout the night here it appears to be a pretty quiet night during this first citywide curfew. i'm molette green in west baltimore. back to you. >> 5:05 now. one of the results of the situation in baltimore, the inner harbor sits empty. the national guard took over the area and set up a makeshift headquarters. normally video would show a lot of tourists people going to restaurants and bars and seeing the sights. instead, many of those stores a

the city's one shiny new crown jewel revel casino might have well have been on the boulevard of broken dreams. a once hot spot now a ghostown town. every door locked uptight. security guards hold down the fort. a sad symbol of what atlantic city has become. >> to me it's a waist of money. waste of materials a lost people don't have no homes or a roof and we got these humongous buildings just sitting there. >> getting worse honestly. >> reporter: a block away there are signs of arrive. literally in the shadow of the former revel sits tony boloney's pizza and hoagie shop. >> hi. >> a small business not just surviving but thriving. >> in the shadows of failed million dollars casino and we're doing better year after year after year. >> owner michael cease the future in a reinvented atlantic city. not one dependent on slots and blackjack. >> the town is more diversified. you can walk around. it's good you can spend a couple days here. >> he may have a point. >> may have had a heyday. >> tourist we ran into kay casinos are nice but the areas around them need help. >> you could walk in areas innocent be concerned about crime. t

city streets. just don't let pac-man run into the ghosts.hen you know what happens, game over. >> yeah. >>> and if you look closely at pac-man, he was wearing a winter coat. it's cold outside, but we've got sunshine. the sun is just coming up. you can see some clouds in the distance. no rain clouds. just completely dry. 25 degrees in mount pocano. 34 in northeast philadelphia at the northeast philadelphia airport. in atlantic city 31 degrees. leftover rainfall is icing up this morning, but not on beach avenue. it's too warm there with sunshine warming nicely into the 50s at the shore today. but, below freeze right now in wilmington. atlantic city, wrightstown doylestown, 29 degrees. and in chester county westtown we're at freezing and 29 in chadsford. we'll be getting a cold start, but the clouds are moving out with bright sunshine. you'll need sunglasses. very bright sunshine today. and sunny skies again tomorrow with warmer weather. and then we turn our attention to this. doesn't look like much right now, but that's friday with rainfall. f

city right now. >> wow. >> they say the streets are like ghost towns. no one is there. i mean they are really just -- there is nothing left. very reminiscent of auto aleppo very disconcerning. this is an important saddle for the iraqi security forces and tough battle because there are pockets of people that do support isis. and there are pockets of people who want to get out. so, again it's going to be very tough battle. and we're not really sure who is supporting whom at this point. we are not really sure who is fighting on the front lines, it could be the iraqi security forces could be the shia militias. i heard from people on the ground today that there were no shia militias on the ground. it was only the sunni tribes and security forces. >> three villages on ramadi's eastern outskirts. do you think this signifies a threat to the capital? >> i do. i have been following this story since november. isis has been in anbar in ramadi city since november. people have been living there they have been going to school and doing, you know, got great but they have been staying i

ghost town. baltimore getting back to normal with moments to go before the first night curfew ends. >> citizens are safe. the cityable. we hope to maintain it that way. >> after a night of calm we have heard about orders to stand down. >> the incredible story of survival emerging from nepal as this man lives for days under the broken earth. >> flight risks. dozens of planes grounded. what your family needs to know about. "fox & friends first" starts right now. >>> good morning to you. you are watching "fox & friends first" midway through the week. i am heather childers. >> i am ainsley earhardt. thank you for starting your day with us. for the first time in day the stores are quiet in baltimore. >> good news after it began with rioters hurting things at police and police retaliating with tear gas. >> the curfew has now been lifted. >> the curfew just a minute ago ended but you look around it is still all quiet here at the epicenter of where we have been seeing so much of the really noisy riots, so much of the clashes between police and protestors and the more violent riders. now we have just in the last few minut

ghost town in iraq. >> we want officials to tell us to get back to our homes or not. >> sunni residents want to return home to a city battered and bruised by isil >>> and 33 years after their war in the south atlantic. >> i still hope to one day set foot on what should be our territory. >> britain and argentina are still bickering of the falkland ulklandlkland s -- the eu high representative made the announcement with the iranian foreign minister details of how iran's nuclear program will be restricted in phases over a 25-year period. its centrifuges cut from 19,000 to 6,000 and limited to one facility. >> iran's enrichment capacity enrichment level, and stock pile will be limited for specific durations. and there will be no other enrichment facility. >>reporter: and this the fate of the once-secret bunker built inside a mountain. >> it will become converted from an enrichment site into a nuclear physics and technology center. >>reporter: so does this count as the framework agreement the white house had promised by the missed deadline of the end of march? iran's foreign minister insists for now, none of it is bindin

pictures is opposed also submitted a practically a ghost town at o'clock last night curfew went into effect in baltimore to concede the streets all the cityard troops are patrolling baltimore and will continue to patrol baltimore overnight to the next zero days they arrested 10 people shortly before midnight including seven for violating the curfew is not hard to drop a similarity between what is happening in baltimore and will start a trend archetypal tuscan oakland that in 2011 i think the whole situation is regrettable. >>: is a pattern with sen across america in oakland ferguson misery of places like los angeles and baltimore he says police and baltimore are trying to do the best they can under the circumstances he hopes the protest and peacefully and that no one else to turn. will continue to fall the latest turmoil in baltimore on air and on line also put our mobile application give that a download will post a base in the get on our web site. www.kron4.com >>michelle apon: you definitely need the 80 this afternoon because the potential jurors will likely heat up the to the upper seven is to lure '80s were awakened to a record start

downtown withered up and died and i was on the city council in the '90s and we would find every possible way to try to pump life into downtown, that was literally a ghosttown and we threw a lot of money at it and nothing seemed to stick and towards the end of my service on the council back in the '90s, when i felt like i had worked that out of my system, one of the last votes i had was do we participate in this regional transit program that's going to bring light rail to the edge of our city. i remember being more than skeptical, thinking this is kind of cute, walt disneyland ride that will come into our city, but i don't see it as something that's going to help us from a transportation perspective, but i reluctantly agreed to go on with this communist conspiracy of bringing these silly little cars to the edge of ou community and thought i might live to regret that move. i have to tell you, i am so delighted now to come back to city government and no one's ever been happier to be entirely wrong than i think i am. light rail has been a huge boon to our economy. light rail has proven to be successful as a transportation participate in this regional trans

downtown withered up an died and i was on the city council in the '90s and we would find every possible way to try to pump life into downtown, that was literally a ghost town and we threw a lot of money at it and nothing seemed to stick and towards the end of my service on the council back in the '90s, when i felt like i had worked that out of my system, one of the last votes i had was do we participate in this regional transit program that's going to bring light rail to the edge of our city. i remember being more than skeptical, thinking this is kind of cute, walt disneyland ride that will come into our city, but i don't see it as something that's going to help us from a transportation perspective, but i reluctantly agreed to go on with this communist conspiracy of bringing these silly little cars to the edge of our community and thought well, i might live to regret that move. i have to tell you that i am so delighted now to come back to city government and no one's ever been happier to be entirely wrong than i think i am. light rail has a huge boom to our economy. light rail has proven to be successful as a transportation system. to mesa. millennial

ghost town overnight. >> at least ten people being arrested overnight. the crowd tried to defy orders to stay off the streets. police restored calm with smoke canister and pepper balls. abc's byron pitts is there. >> reporter: citystart quietly. minutes into it, police helicopters flew low over protesters urging them all to go home or face arrest. nearly 2,000 national guard troops are here and lining the streets in what is still a state of emergency. tensions are still simmering as we witnessed firsthand. ♪ >> reporter: one moment a peaceful demonstration, the sweet sounds of amazing grace when without warning, a scream, a push, confusion. police in riot gear using pepper spray. we've watched adults, many of them parents taking a stand, taking back their neighborhood. >> walk back. >> reporter: this mother of two, registered nurse at johns hopkins hospital. >> this has been a long time. when you have an overreaction, it is an old reaction. >> reporter: she took the day off from work to walk the streets comforting where she could, confronting when she had to. when the worst was over, more than 250 people arrested. including 39 juveniles. >> if our society really wanted to solve the problem, we could. it's just i