there was a peaceful gathering in maumee, ohio. that's the hometown of the suspect in saturday's attack. the mother of the 32-year-old woman killed in that attack says the tributes about her daughter have helped her grieve. ( mark ) this morning president trump continues to face criticism for his delay in condemning white supremacists and other hate groups. this despite his more pointed remarks yesterday. (darya) and now we are learning details about plans for two right wing rallies here in the bay area.(mark) kron 4's terisa estacio is live at crissy field where one of those rallies is planned. terisa. ( terisa )one is scheduled to take place in san francsico on august 26th. a right wing pro trump group patriot prayer hs been granted a permit for a rally at crissy field. a seperate right wing event is

he could be 20 or 22 from maumee, ohio. he is charged with one count of second degree murder.ts of malicious wounding, one count of failure to stop at an accident which resulted in a death. he is from maumee, ohio, and and some of this information coming from martin coomer, the superintendent of the albemarle regional county jail. again, what we can also tell you about some of these arrests tonight, mentioned them a moment ago, john. three people arrested, one of them is 44 years old. he was arrested for carrying a concealed handgun, two others 21-year-old young men arrest ford misdemeanor assault and batteriry and one arrest ford disorderly conduct. two of those three from out of state. one from chattanooga, tennessee and the other from gainesville, florida. we were told earlier from the governor and the mayor that a lot of the people causing trouble were from out of state. i've covered a lot of these riots and protests in the past. and very often, local officials will accuse people from out of state of coming in and causing the trouble. that seems to be the case here, as wel

there was a peaceful gathering in maumee, ohio.n of the suspect in saturday's attack. the mother of the 32-year-old woman killed in that attack says the tributes about her daughter have helped her grieve. ( mark ) this morning president trump continues to face criticism for his delay in condemning white supremacists and other hate groups. this despite his more pointed remarks yesterday. ( darya ) and a berkeley restaurant worker resigns after he is exposed for taking part in saturday's white supremacist rally in charlottesville. ( mark ) this morning - it's raising questions of whether an employer can legally fire someone for their involvement in a hate rally. kron four's spencer blake has the story. (pkg)anti-semitic chantsnazi salutesand other racist, hateful remarks filled the air at the rally in ch

the driver is identified as james alexfields from maumee, ohio. >> several lawmakers are calling what he did an act of domestic terrorism. further counter protesters resulted in more injuries. the governor spoke with president trump about what unfolded today. >> we need to work together. i told the president that twice. we'll work to bring people together. stop the hate speech. we have to bring people together. >> tragically, the other two connected with chaos in charlottesville were two troopers on the way to assist at the rally when their helicopter crashed. >>> a police officer from houston had a split second to react when a drunk driver came barreling toward him. his body cam picked up the scene. >> this terrifying moment caught on tape. a houston police officer making a split-second decision to get out of the way of an on coming car. >> in late july, officer carter forced off the highway by an alleged drunk driver. before i knew it, there was a car upon me. i had less than a second to rreact. >> that decision saved his life. watch again as officer carter finishes talking with the

. >> reporter: the driver is identified as 20-year-old james alex field from maumee, ohio.t before the attack fields was caught by our abc cameras chanting a message of white power. 19 people were injured. 32-year-old heather heyer was killed. heather's mother told us her daughter was there protesting white supremacy. >> i'm extremely proud that she to stood for what she believed in, and now she's given her life for it. >> reporter: shortly after a virginia police helicopter monitoring the rally crashed outside charlottesville, killing two. fields was arrested and faces several charges, including second-degree murder. he has not yet entered a plea. the justice department and fbi are also opening a civil rights investigation into the incident. >> this is a case that's very, very high-profile. mr. sessions has made it really, really clear that he is going to be tough on crime, and i expect him to carry it through. >> reporter: fields's mother, who learned of the incident on camera -- >> did it hurt anybody? >> reporter: -- said she knew cher son was driving the eight hours fr

police say 20-year-old james fields junior of maumee, ohio and his mother is now speaking out. i didn't know it was white supremacist.i thought it had something to do with trunk. kimberly: fields' minor -- mother says he joined the army years ago. it's do not show him as active.across the country , people are coming together in the wake of yesterday's violence. rallies and vigils are happening across the dmv as a sign of support for charlottesville. this is new the world war ii memorial. a strong showing of solidarity tonight.i'm curious as to why they chose that particular memorial. reporter: they are going to use this memorial as a sign. you can see that we already wins. organizers,age from they are condemning white supremacy and honoring those who already fought against it. some of the signs have remained after the crowd left. go home. you are not wanted in this great commonwealth. reporter: echoing the words of governor terry mcauliffe mcauliffe after the violence in virginia -- >> in this commonwealth, he'd will lose and love will win! to show acrowds rally sign of solidar

authorities say fields, a registered republican, lives in maumee, ohio, almost 8 1/2 hours away. his mother telling the a.p. she knew her son was traveling to owwakeia for rally. pris d i>>idt n' i thought it had something to do with trump. trump's not a supremacist. >> reporter: this video showing fields under arrest shortly after the crash. >> whose streets? >> reporter: it happened just before 2:00 p.m. counterprotesters marching through downtown sent scrambling. >> a car just plowed through hundreds of people downtown charlottesville. >> reporter: here, you can see the silver 2010 dodge challenger barrelling down the hill toward a sea of targets with little time to react. car shifting instop only aftert reverse. screeching back down the street to get away. >> shoes all over the ground. pools of blood all over the ground. people screaming. >> reporter: one person, a 32-year-old woman, left dead. 19 more rushed to the hospital. five in critical condition. >> i can tell you that the injuries are ranging from life-threaning to minor >> reporter: the disruptive aftermath leaving b

. >> reporter: the driver identified as a 20-year-old white male from maumee, ohio. it capped off a weekend of height and violence with white nationalists swinging torches friday. violence escalating saturday as the white supremacists and counterprotesters clashed. lieutenant h.j. cullen and pilot m.m. bates died in a helicopter crash as they were assisting public safety. foul play is not suspected. president trump speaking to the nation, denouncing the violence but not the white supremacists specifically. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides. >> reporter: the governor of the state of virginia said he did have a message. >> i have a message to all the white supremacists and nazis who came into charlottesville. go home. >> reporter: the man arrested, james alex fields, jr., has a bond hearing set for monday. his mother telling the "associated press" she thought her son was going to a donald trump rally. in charlottesville, virginia. meghan hughes, abc7 news. >>> we're learning more about th

he is 20-year-old james alex fields junior from maumee, ohio. he has been charged with one count of second degree murder. three counts of malicious wounding and one count in failure to stop at an accident that resulted with a death. the governor and local mayor here have told us that a lot of the people they believe who have come here to cause trouble came here from out of state. investigators are piecing through what happened. civil rights investigation has been launched by the justice department into the incident behind me. and one man faces a second degree murder charge. brian todd, cnn, charlottesville, virginia. >>> cnn spoke with a reporter who heard from the mother of the man suspected of driving that car into the crowd of protesters. listen. >> he told her last week he was planning to go and h taken the day off work and she described it as an alt-right rally but had no idea of -- she said she was unaware of its extremist natures or leanings as far as the other people who were going to be attending. >> did she say that her son was part of

from maumee, ohio. he has been arrested and booked in a local jail. charged with one count of second-degree murder, one count of failure to stop in an accident resulting in death. three people have been arrested in connection with the demonstrations. two are from out of town. and the governor and local mayor here told us that a lot of the people they believe who caused here to come trouble did come from out of state. investigators are still piecing through what happened. a civil rights investigation has been launched by the justice department into the incident behind me. one man faces second-degree murder charge. >> brian talked on the scene there. cnn spoke with a reporter who heard from the mother of the man suspected of driving that car into the crowd of people. listen. >> he told her last week he was planning to go, he had taken the day off from work. she described it as an alt-right rally. she said she was unaware of the extremist nature or as far as the other people who were going to be attending. >> did she say that her son was part of any of t

cnn learned fields recently moved to this apartment complex in maumee, iowa. to -- ohio. he told the judge he couldn't afford a lawyer. a picture emerging of a troubled young man with white supremacist views. >> he had radical views on race. he was very infatuated with the nazis, with adolf hitler. he also had a huge military history, especially with german military history and world war ii. but he was pretty infatuated with that stuff. >> fields' mother said she knew he was traveling to virginia, but was unclear on the region. >> i didn't know it was white supremacists, i thought it had something to do with prom. >> he enlisted in 2015, according to documents. he reported for basic training, was released from active duty, due to failure to meet training standards in december of 2015. as a result, he was never awarded a military occupational skill or assigned to a unit outside basic training. motive isn't clear. according to a justice department official close to the investigation, federal investigators may have gathered enough evidence to suspect the accused driver wante

worked for a economy in maumee, ohio.tried to reach people from that company and they haven't commented so far. wolf, interesting situation regarding the attorneys. apparently someone in the public defender's office has a connection to what happened saturday and, therefore, the judge viewed it as a potential conflict and picked another attorney. we've tried to reach out to that attorney, charles weber. knocked on his door, called him. he hasn't gotten back to us. interesting information we've gathered overt weekend. learned from justice department officials familiar with the civil rights investigation into the case that officials feel they may have enough evidence to be suspicious that fields may have been trying to send some kind of broader message on saturday when he allegedly struck the people with his car rather than try to harm people. investigators telling cnn he are looking into weth her might have it accomplices's we don't know. just looking into that at this point and we know from records pulled that james fields

the driver a 20-year-old white male from maumee, ohio.ff a weekend of hatred and violence in the city. white nationalists swinging torches. saturday the groups clashed, a state of emergency declared. two virginia state police officers, lieutenant h. jay cullen and trooper pilot berke m.m. bates died in a helicopter crash. president trump speaking to the nation, denouncing the violence but not the white supremacists specifically. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. >> reporter: the governor of the state of virginia said he did have a message. >> and i have a message to all the white supremacists and nazis who came into charlottesville. go home! >> reporter: the man arrested, james alex fields jr., has a bond hearing set for monday. his mother telling the "associated press" she thought her son was going to a donald trump rally. in charlottesville, virginia, i am meghan hughes, abc7 news. >> thank you very much, megan. >>> in the north bay a known sex offender ha

from maumee, ohio. so he is facing charging according to martin kumar, superintendent of the county regional jail. this young man booked into jail this afternoon here in charlottesville. you know, one other thing we need to tell but are some arrests that have been made. three young men have been arrested in connection with the violence. two are 21 years old. troy dunnigan, charged with d disorderly conduct. a man from gainesville, florida, has been arrested for carrying a concealed handgun. two of the three arrests were from people from out of state. the governor and mayor have both alluded to their belief that many of the people who came here to cause trouble came from out of state. as for the white supremacist who came here and held a rally which started all of this, we've been asking all night local police and authorities if there are still some of those people around in any numbers around the charlottesville area and if anything is percolating tonight. so far, no word of that. they don't know if any

from maumee, ohio. he has been arrested and booked in a local jail. he is charged with one count of second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding, and one count of failure to stop in an accident which resulted in a death. in addition to that, three people have been arrested in connection with the demonstratio demonstrations. two are young men from out of town. and the governor and local mayor here have told us that a lot of people they believe who have come here to cause trouble did come from out of state. civil rights investigation has been launched but the justice department into the incident here behind me. and one man faces a second-degree murder charge. brian todd, cnn, charlottesville, virginia. >>> todd on the scene, thanks for the report. cnn spoke to a reporter who heard from the mother of the man suspected of driving that car into a crowd of people. >> he told her last week he was planning to go. he had taken the day off work. she described it as an alt-right rally. she said she was unaware of the extremist nature or as far as the

he moved with his mother to maumee, ohio, a suburb of toledo, earlier last year, and then he moved out of his mother's house about six months ago. he told his mother he was going to drive charlottesville. she says she had no idea that he was going to be involved in anything violent. she thought it was some sort of a rally to support the president. so she said he didn't arrive this with intent to do this. and that's one of the questions for investigators, steph. they'll look at whether this was planned in advance or whether this is just something that boiled up inside of him and he decided to d this on the spur of the moment. they'll also look at if it was planned, whether other people were involved in helping him plan it, steph. >> put that into perspective, what this mother thought he was going there for, a trump ral lish rally, and this was the result. hours after the rally, numerous protests were held saturday and sunday, peace demonstrators from new york, l.a., and other major cities across the country gathered together to reject white nationalist ideologies and remember hetd eheat

from maumee, ohio.e is arrested and booked in a local jail, charged with one count of second degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and one count of failure to stop for an accident that resulting in death. in addition, three people were arrested in connection with the demonstrations, two are young men from out of town, and the governor and local mayor here have told us that a lot of the people they believe who have come here to cause trouble did come from out of state. so investigators here are still piecing through what happened. civil rights investigation has been launched by the justice department into the incident here behind me, and one man faces a second degree murder charge. brian todd, cnn, charlottesville, virginia >>> u.s. attorney general jeff sessions released a statement about the investigation into the violence there in virginia. he said, the violence and deaths in charlottesville strike at the heart of american law and justice. when such actions arise from racial bigotry and ha

the 20-year-old drove to virginia from his home in maumee, ohio.van cleave has a look at the suspect's background. good morning. >> reporter: good morningle people who knew fields as a child say he used racial slurs and was a fan of adolf hitler. police say he is likely to appear in court from a video conference in jail. he's at the center of a investigation. seen her in a sense deleted facebook photopolice say he drove his car into a group of protesters and two stopped cars, killing one and injured at least 19 others. >> i knew he was going to a rally. >> reporter: hisot bloom learned of his actions through a reporter. >> i didn't know it had to do with white sprelupremacists. i thought it had to do with trump. >> reporter: here he's seen. >> he looked off, that 1,000-yard stare. >> reporter: photographer kyle pedro stkz pedrozia took this photo. >> thought he might be a follower, but obviously not. >> reporter: fields grew up in kentucky and moved to ohio with his mom. he unioned the army but left after four months for not following standards. >>

drove the virginia rally from his home in maumee, ohio.van cleave has a look at the suspect's background. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. people who knew fields as a child remember a young man who used racial slurs and appeared fond of adolf hitler. today he is facing a host of charges including second-degree murder. he is set to appear before a judge via video conference from jail. james alex fields jr. is at the center of a civil rights investigation as he sits in a charlottesville area jail. seen here in a since deleted facebook photo, police say the 20-year-old drove his car into a crowd of protesters and two stopped car, killing one and injuring at least 19 others. >> i knew he was going to a rally. >> reporter: his mother samantha bloom learned of his actions from a reporter. >> i didn't know it was white supremacist. i thought it had something to d with trump. >> reporter: just hours before the apparent attack, pictures show fields at the alt-right rally dressed in the uniform of a white supremacist group carrying a shield