fracture will go 30 impoverished parents have with respect to their children. >> why did she choose west baltimore? one at johns hopkins university and i was affiliated with the institute for politics with the great institution. recently i set out to do some research in baltimore in both neighborhoods and to the publication of a very important book by william julius wilson, he'll will send out harvard then at chicago. it was a book that was published in 1987 called the truly disadvantaged. in that book argued very persuasively and very importantly the part of the problems faced by low income african american had to do with processes that de-industrialization and outsourcing. i was curious to know whether that actually was happening in baltimore because as you know, baltimore was mid-level in the city in the 1970s about 34,000 people were employed by bethlehem steel. by the time i started looking in to this question a much smaller number of people were in lloyd as bethlehem steel had been curtailing operations and moving them to overseas locations. as they try to write in this book, it is not very

you don't know west baltimore. take a look. >> reporter: at north streets unlike yesterday police were clearly back in charge. >> we're dying out here and it's no consequence. >> reporter: they don't like baltimore police here. >> they look at us as a whole so we have to carry around them as a whole. >> reporter: they say they have good reason even before freddie gray died in police custody. >> they designate it a high crime area. they now able to stop anybody for any reason they so choose. >> reporter: nobody will admit for having taken place in yesterday's looting. >> i have a family. i take care of my family. >> reporter: many offered to explain the anger that led to the mayhem. >> when you riot, it's because of the voices that are unheard. >> reporter: baltimore's african american mayor called rioters thugs. >> excuse me my french. ask the lead ers. >> reporter: the clergy said they were surprised by the outbreak. >> you all prove the point that i love yesterday. even though i don't agree with everything. >> rep

>> guest: actually, west baltimore chose me. i was affiliated with the institute for policy studies originally i set out to do some research and baltimore, in those neighborhoods after the publication of an important book by william julius wilson for now at harvard, then a harvard then a chicago. a book that was published in 1987 truly disadvantaged. that book argued very persuasively and importantly that part of the problems faced by low income african-americans had to do with processes of the -- deindustrialization. and i was curious to no whether that actually was happening in baltimore because as you know baltimore was a mid-level industrial city 1970s. about 34,000 people were employed by bethlehem steel. by the time i started looking into this question much smaller number of people were employed by bethlehem steel as bethlehem steel had been curtailing operations and moving them to overseas locations. as i tried to write in this book, it was not difficult to confirm what wilson had found in chicago that deindustrialization,

west baltimore, east baltimore. so i think baltimore is different.que in that there's always a connection to the community. >> mark obviously the "baltimore sun" ran this pretty incredible investigative series about brutality in the department, but there's a lot of folks who say, well you can, you know, point your finger at any major police department in america and turn up something that wouldn't look that different. do you have a sense there's something particular about the baltimore police department or are we just looking at a particularly acute example of the conflicts of modern urban policing and the war on drugs? >> well i think baltimore is a little different than what you just described in their own strategic plan that they put out in 2013. they noted that discipline has never been a priority within this organization. it's a large police department. tlar lot there are a lot of problems in urban cities. there was a lot of heavy-handed officers. the city paid millions of dollars. lot of folks had injuries and questionable arrests. people were

but there are very serious situations going on right now both in parts of west baltimore and also one part of east baltimore. and there's scattered looting in like the west side of downtown et cetera. but we do not have widespread burning and fires and looting. i don't want to give the wrong impression. but what is going on is a very serious situation. >> jamal bryant the mayor has announced that the curfew will begin tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. and already baltimore has had a curfew of 9:00 p.m. for kids 14 and under. and so at 10:00 p.m. tomorrow night, there will be law enforcement authority to simply stop anyone who's out there in baltimore as jane was just reporting moving around in that kind of way. do you expect that to be a helpful element of getting control of the situation? >> well, of course. i want to be optimistic and i'm praying with everything that's in me, as is the larger faith community, that tomorrow is going to be a much more peaceful day as a consequence. tomorrow night at 7:30 in the city of baltimore, we're having an emergency community town hall meeting to see

it started all out in central west baltimore, my district. but unfortunately, it's continued to spread in different areas throughout the city and even going into baltimore county. >> in terms of the mayor's response tonight she's saying this is a small group of criminals responsible for the violence tonight, violence which obviously doesn't solve anything. nobody's fighting her on that. but there does seem to be some disagreement as to whether or not this is outsiders who aren't from these neighborhoods who are taking advantage of the situation in order to just be destructive or whether this is an uprising that is community based, that is people who are rising up in their own community, expressing their own rage maybe not in a constructive way. >> violence never brings justice. you know we saw earlier today that's continued to grow and spill out in other parts of the city is young folks. and i do not condone or prove anything that they have done. however, you know a lot of these folks, a lot of these young folks feel completely disenfranchised

it started all out in central west baltimore, my district. but unfortunately, it's continued to spread in different areas throughout the city, and even going into baltimore county. >> in terms of the mayor's response tonight, she's saying this is a small group of criminals responsible for the violence tonight, violence which obviously doesn't solve anything. nobody's fighting her on that. but there does seem to be some disagreement as to whether or not this is outsiders who aren't from these neighborhoods who are taking advantage of the situation in order to just be destructive or whether this is an uprising that is community based, that is people who are rising up in their own community, expressing their own rage maybe not in a constructive way. >> violence never brings justice. you know, we saw earlier today that's continued to grow and spill out in other parts of the city is young folks. and i do not condone or prove anything that they have done. however, you know, a lot of these folks, a lot of these young folks feel completely disenfranch

there are others we're told in the west baltimore area. as you mentioned, national guard is activated. we haven't seen troops on the street but we're told they are out here. and state police and hundreds of others joined in baltimore city police department and trying to put down any disturbances that may erupt. as you know on streets of west baltimore tonight. >> when you think about the threat that this all started at 3:30 in the afternoon. and it is continued through out the night. where you are now. getting into early morning hours. and what went wrong. the police should have been prepared for this. they did prepare for it and you said in an earlier news conference they weren't prepared for the onslaught of looters who outnumbered them. they back aid way and held things in check. but they didn't check enough because so many things did go awry. >> i'm not going to second-guess how the police department or the city handled the situation, but i can tell you it did spy rl out of control quickly with a lot of locals and mostly young people th

bu right now our eyes are once again locked several blocks away in west baltimore. crowds have been growing in the street throughout the afternoon against the backdrop of a large police and national guard presence. as you can imagine, after last night, tensions are high. our team has fanned out across this city. let's get right to nbc's peter alexander to begin our coverage. peter? >> lester, good eve to two atf teams are en route here to help investigate more than 140 cars set on fire 15 buildings burned and the news announced by the police commissioner at least one rioter fired shots at officers last night. all this as the city's mayor vowed to return baltimore to normal. tonight baltimore is a city under lockdown. state and local police teamed up with 1,000 members of the national guard trying to keep an uneasy . hoping to avoid a repeat of last rioting. i thi this can be our defining moment and not the darkest days that we saw yesterday. >> r explosion of ve followed e funeral for 25-year-old freddie gray who died while in police custody. young people many of th

baltimore, lester holt. >>> a special fwenk to our viewers in the west. a tense and fragile baltimore as we come to you standing across from some of the still-smoldering rubble from a fire that may be related to the violence yesterday. it's still under investigation. but right now our eyes are once again locked several blocks away in west baltimore. crowds have been growing in the street throughout the afternoon against the backdrop of a large police and national guard presence. as you can imagine, after last night, tensions are very high. our team is fanned out across this city. we want to go right to nbc's peter alexander to begin our coverage. peter? >> reporter: lester, good evening to you. as night falls, a different feeling, just a few short hours dancing in the streets and people were hearing the music of a marching band and also chatting with police who have been arriving here over the course of the day now in baltimore in force. tonight baltimore is a city under lockdown. state and local police teamed up with 100,000 members members of the nationa

i want to say there are similar scenes like that in this area of west baltimore. we noticed numerous sides, some fires burning. you know most of the city is fine. we've driven through downtown. very quiet. it's fine most of baltimore but this area of west baltimore is still hot. there are people angry and lashing out at police and media. >> are you injured rick? >> no. no. we're fine. >> i guess it just sort of happened quickly. you didn't realize it was coming on you. >> our job is to cover what's happening we got out to do that. we parked the vehicle, hand a camera and microphone i'm happy to talk about why they're upset. but they didn't want to talk. they just wanted to yell at us and throw things at us. they made it difficult for us to do our job. >> rick i'm glad you're safe. thanks for checking in. when you find a place to report let us know we'll get to you. >> this is in the same area. we have protestors yelling and screaming at us. and folks who caused this destruction never articulated to us what they're angry about. it helps to get a sense of the amount

. >> reporter: west baltimore is also referred to as the other baltimore. it's not on the tourist map. >> people here feel where's the disconnect? leaders say they were surprised by what happened yesterday. >> i think that's a pile of crap to be honest with you. they know what's going on. this isn't anything new. >> reporter: they've elected their own to office but they're disappointed by the result. >> excuse my french. ask the leaders. the leaders is us right here. >> reporter: they don't like baltimore police. >> they look at us as a whole. >> reporter: they say they have good reason even before freddie gray died in police custody. >> they designated the area as a high crime area. they're now able to stop anybody they so choose. >> reporter: he's a school teacher, father of two boys, helping clean up the streets today. he doesn't condone the violence yesterday he understands it. >> people are angry. i get why they're angry. i think some of their anger has been misplaced misdirected. >> on context i think there's a big us versus them meant -- mentality. w

in baltimore, where this is happening, this is centered around activity in an area west of baltimore to the west of interstate 83 when runs through the middle of the city out towards the pennsylvania line as well. this is all happening to the west of that. this is a predominantly african-american community on the west side of baltimore. the mall itself was closed down earlier today a decision made to close that mall with regard to what they were calling a surge, a purge of people showing up in protest. they knew that was going to happen and as a result they closed down that mall itself. the mall actually has some large retailers in it. a target. it's been revamped in recent years and an attractive place for people in the area to shop and this area close to the baltimore zoo. lots of families out and about and this is a border area to that situation. and we've been watching police respond to this area in west baltimore where they already have had a very significant presence there. we are told several officers have been injured at the scene today from before when we saw them having obje

arrested. >> reporter: this is bruce johnson in west baltimore. you no longer have to just talk about the tension here, you can actually see it. that's the police barricade in front of the precinct for west baltimore. police are on that side of the barricade, the community on this side. this is the sandtown winchester area of baltimore, a shooting in the middle of wednesday and no one seems all that surprised. freddie gray was arrested blocks away on april 12th near the gilmore housing project. he died in police custody. again the people who live here say while they're angry they're not all that surprised. >> before freddie gray we had anthony anderson, tyrone west, a young man by the name of george king who was tased to death at the hospital while he was strapped to a gurney. >> what we want to happen, we want all those prosecuted for murder. >> reporter: young people with no jobs and seemingly lots of times are frustrated. some of the cops on the street also feel they need answers now and want to begin the process of mending fences with the comm

thank you. >> thank you chris. >>> hundreds of people are gathered outside the cvs drug store in west baltimore that watched that place get loot and burned and we've been watching a peaceful parade protesters marching and dancing on the streets. our msnbc's thomas roberts joins us now from baltimore. thomas? >> chris, i think you can see and hear me right now. i'm talking to one of the people that have come out today. darryl, you were talking about the fact that this is a line of people behind us that have gotten it -- it's a lineup in front of the police and right behind them is the police front. >> right, and so what we're trying to do is to stop any of theage traitors that are coming out toishing the police on and myself and fraternity brothers and everyone else out how to try to assist mayor and to stop the violence to stop the egging on of the police. they are out here trying to do their job, and so they have -- some folks have decided we're going to take this as an opportunity to destroy our community. hurt people hurt people and there's a lot of people that's hurt in the community so wha

i can tell you, i was able to get around east baltimore, west baltimore, massive crowds in west baltimore. that is just adjacent to the cvs which you saw burned last night. that's the cvs where you saw some of those rioters cutting the hose to at least help put out that fire at that cvs. massive crowds already there, here this afternoon. so far, being in touch with police they haven't reported too much in terms of any kind of rioting thus far. at least what i can tell you what i saw. peaceful protesting happening in the city of baltimore. in fact some people joining in a circle of prayer. here's what we know as far as the city is concerned -- now under a state of emergency. today, schools closed. a couple of federal offices will be closing early today. a mandatory tur few fewer than eight hours a-- curfew fewer than eight hours away. i'm told what we're looking at a helicopter. and you have the governor of maryland here. and i believe i actually saw this helicopter not too long ago here in the beautiful blue skies of baltimore. taking a look touring the damage touring the destruction. the

maureen: this is taking place in the west side of baltimore. it's to keep protesters from going further downtown there are also calls for the christian men as well as members of the nation of islam for the men to come downtown and form human shield to keep people from going downtown to continue the protests and agitation. it's getting a little darker outside but still a lot of daylight left. so it's very -- we're all able to see all of this activity very very, very clearly. leon: this is not a protest. they have been unloading the cell phone store. this is north fulton avenue between west north and westwood avenues. traffic is moving through the area. there's been no cordening off by police and not seen any response by any official vehicles of any kind. it's going on very methodically. maureen: it's quite a scene. it's quite a scene. if i was going to speculate which is not a good thing to do but this is the type of situation in which if people get too agitated they can start a fire. they can start fights and it could become a much worse situat

reporting from west baltimore. re to talk about coming up at 6:00, including the consequences. there's a price to pay for what's in place out here on monday. not just here but i downtown baltimore. >>> it has been one of the most shared videos on social media during some of the violence on baltimore. a mom smacking her son upside the head after she caught him participating in the rioting there. some people are calling her mother of the year. and she shared her thoughts on cbs this morning. >> and to see my son come across the street with a rock in his hand, i think at that point i just lost it. >> you recognize the baggy sweat pants? >> i recognized them. he did have the hoodie on, and he did have the facemask on. but it was something about those sweat pants he had on. >> he clearly had -- respect and fear of you. because as you were pushing him and doing that sort of right hook you had -- [ laughter ] >> he was backing off. what was he saying to you? >> mom, mom, mom! okay mom okay mom. and i was pretty much just t

this is west baltimore.er thing that's different, in ferguson folks will tell you how angry they were at the police. i spoke to some folks today who were angry about their existence here in west baltimore. saying they felt neglected, they felt isolated, they felt that the city officials had long abandoned them. one young lady said it's not about freddie gray. it's not about what happened last night. it's about money and the people in this community don't have any. she said people were talking about go get your kids. they said their parents aren't there so the kids are left to their own. that's what we're dealing with here. that's the sense you feel. in about 15 minutes we're going to see, you know how strongly people want to come out and express themselves. be it anger at the situation, anger at the police whatever it is, but the police are ready. during that press conference earlier, they said they will be enforcing that 10:00 curfew. that's the fact. they're going to enforce it. how vigorously we'll see. >

no big fires being reported in west baltimore this evening. we're also getting word from prince george's county police they have a contingent of officers who are now in baltimore. several of their officers are along the perimeter backing up the baltimore city police officers and unfortunately, they are reporting that several of officers have been hit by rocks and have sustained some minor injuries. as far as that c.v.s. that we're looking at right now, there's no police -- i guess police are just now -- just now arriving on the scene. it's been an hour since the looting started. alison you were talking about it appears to be in the same neighborhood where that police car was set on fire. it is just around the corner from that location. north avenue and pennsylvania avenue. but now, police on the scene and the looters appear to be dispersing so that's the situation. the latest that we have here in the newsroom. back to you guys. leon: thank you, horace. get back to us once you pick up some more information. as we sit here and watch the police ex

take a look here in west baltimore and west pratt street.hop destroyed, looted overnight. you can see it is a mess to say the very least and frustration is not even the worst of what people are feeling. they say it is beyond frustrating what is happening in their town, in their community. i talked to a lot of business owners who say they have come down just to take a look and to survey the damage hoping that their business is not the next business to fall victim to a lot of this destruction people saying that folks are taking advantage of the situation. when that happened, a fire broke out. we talked to an eyewitness who said this fire broke out around the same time as the store was looted. however, it rekindled early this morning. we first showed you pictures in the 4:00 hour with flames, bright orange flames shooting out of the roof and firefighters working foofer r feverishly to -- working feverishly to try to bring those flames under control and try to douse water on to the flames. the fire has now been out for i would say for about a go

i'm in west baltimore right now. we have team coverage for you this morning. darcy spencer is also here in baltimore. first, though we want to talk a little bit about the funeral service that happened yesterday for freddie gray. his family of course honoring his memory at a service before all the violence broke out here yesterday. we can show you some of the images there as they spoke kindly about the 25-year-old who was -- who died here. there were also some social media messages that were up on big screens during the funeral services black lives matter. the clergy and community leaders at the service spoke about getting some answers but keep the peace. >> i want you all to get justice for my son but don't do it like this here. don't tear up the whole city man, just for him. it's wrong. >> a response investigation that's thorough complete real unbiased. >> the expectation is that the u.s. attorney -- the attorney general, loretta lynch will conduct a thorough investigation into gray's death along with the other agencies that are investigating here. again, righ

trying to pick up some of the debris here at this intersection at pennsylvania and north and west baltimore is somewhere some of the violence. the cvs that was looted and burned is right here at this intersection. as you mentioned the maryland governor says he's in contact with the city of baltimore leaders and the white house. he has moved his office from annapolis to baltimore here. into show you some video, late last night, hogan says he talked with president obama about the situation here in baltimore. hogan says he call the national guard up to help police as a last resort. >> look people have the right to protest and express their frustration. but baltimore city families deserve peace and safety in their communities. >> the governor called in the national guard after people set cars on fire they looted businesses they threw bricks and cinder blocks at police officers and even at some fire vehicles as they tried to fight some of the fires here in the city. all this rioting and destruction unfolded in the moments after freddie gray's funeral. the family asked -- they asked some of the p

the other baltimore, west baltimore and east baltimore, and the neighborhoods on the news, haven't fared so well. this weekend, those two baltimores came in conflict. tense moments around camden yards. orioles postponed two games today, facing a third postponement. they took a novel approach. kasie hunt was there to record a historic day. >> beautiful look at baltimore downtown on a glorious spring day, about 74 degrees, sun shining, it is so pretty outside. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: they usually chant " " "let's go o's," but today o meant zero. it's unprecedented in the history of baseball. >> it's unprecedented. and it's not ideal. you know we acknowledge that. the comfort of our fans and public safety are paramount concerns for the orioles. >> reporter: fans shut out of the stadium as a helicopter circled after days of civil unrest in baltimore. >> i think that the people that ride -- rioted it wasn't the right thing to do you but they made it clear, things need to change. >> reporter: tensions running high after freddie gray died in police custody. >> we're not giving it back. >> reporter: ou

make is, if you are watching this and you are not familiar, with the baltimore area, this is west baltimore and, this is a mail. this is a minority majority city and 60% of the population, with some other pockets and 60% in baltimore is african-american. >>> let me help you understand what is going on here, the relationship between the police and, particularly the african-american community is you a pauling and there's a very good reason for that. the records show this, they have a very very bad record of roughing up young african-american young men and they are arrested and before that, there was an stop and search you know, rule, implemented here by a previous mayor, and a lot of people think that was the start of the huge distrust between the authorities and the minority community. and there are when you talk to people, there are numerous incidents young men being hauled out of cars, and salded, and made to strip and, thrown into the back of these police wagons and, just minute, down to central baltimore having interviewed a lawyer, who specializes in suing police, he sued many of them,

in parts of that town in west baltimore, there are parts of baltimore that were burned in 1968 that have yet to recover even to this day. there is a cvs pharmacy that serves so many people in that neighborhood. that was set on fire. peter doocy and his crew are out there. what have you seen so far. >> reporter: things are improving quickly. 5 1/2 hours ago our crew was getting set up for a live shots behind this police line and there was so much gunfire that we could hear. and there were so many people still on the street running right up to the police lines testing their limits seeing how much ground they could gain that it was not safe to be there at 4:00 in the morning. but now, you see the police are here keeping everybody safe. but nobody is here harassing them at this hour. and people are actually here cleaning up the streets. we have seen people with brooms and snow shovels. we have seen people going in and out of the different store fronts that were looted and police have been letting people go through to clean up. things so far improving. but now we have to wait and see what hap

this time, protests erupted in the west baltimore neighborhood where gray was first arrested for making eye contact with a lieutenant and then running away. on monday night, governor hogan declared a state of emergency. today baltimore's public schools , are closed and a curfew is in place from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. mayor stephanie rawlings-blake addressed the city monday night. >> what we see tonight is very disturbing. it is very clear there is a difference between what we saw over the past week with the peaceful protests. those who wish to seek justice those who wish to be heard and want answers, and the difference between those protests and the thugs, who only want to incite violence and destroy our city. amy: earlier on monday thousands gathered to pay their respects during freddie gray's funeral, including elijah cummings, the delegation from the white house, the family of eric garner, the staten island man who died after new york city police officer put him in a band chokehold. this is gray family attorney billy murphy. >> most of us are not here because we knew freddie gray bu

baltimore. joining me now is nbc's brian mooar. brian, do we have you there? likes like we don't have brian. let's go back to the presser. >> mainly towards the west side of baltimore. we're not going to tolerate that. the police department is not going to stand for that. we're fully deployed at this point. we canceled leave for all our police officers. so they are deployed on the streets as we speak. each shift is fully staffed. we called in outside resources from all over the state of maryland to give us an assist here. we're not going to tolerate this. our priorities right now is to restore order in the city. our priorities right now is officer safety, and the safety of the community. thank you. >> good evening. i am deeply saddened by what's taking mace in the great city of baltimore. this reminds me of 1968 when the riots were taking place after the assassination of dr. martin luther king where people were destroying their own stores and properties in their own community. this is unacceptable. this is not what freddie gray's family wanted. they asked that there be no protest marches or anything of that nature today, and the organizers of thos

but if you drive through west baltimore where we were yesterday, it doesn't look like it's reaching out there. >> that's right. it's sort of a derivation of of trickle-down economics of the '80s perhaps. if you look at baltimore in the '80s and early '90s, it was going through the rejuvenation, dollar house program in federal hill harborplace, camden yards, all of which by the way were controversial at the time. >> yep. >> public referendums that were fairly close, state legislature votes that were close. and because of the bravery of certain politicians, those projects were pushed through. and if you look at as you say, the periphery of the baltimore inner harbor it's wonderful. if people come here as tourists they're completely safe. there's no crime problem here in those areas if you're a tourist. but if you live in poor neighborhoods in baltimore, because every criminologist study you look at the overwhelming majority of crime is perpetrated by poor people on other poor people not poor people on middle clas and wealthy and the elite. so the problem is not on the inner harbor. the pr

rows of state police with their riot gear that we had seen in the last couple of days here in west baltimore. last night baltimore leaders, including congressman elijah cummings urged protesters to go home and make take 10:00 p.m. curfew. new this morning information there our news partners at "the washington post." we are hearing from the man who rode in the police van with freddie gray. according to our news partners, the 39 yearldz man says gray was -- 38-year-old man says gray was banging his body against the wall. he believes gray was, quote, trying to intentionally hurt himself. be reminded the prisoner could not see freddie gray. they were separated by a metal wall. we already know that police violated their own policy by not strapping him down to the bench. we'll have much more coming up including a summit by civil rights leaders who are now talking about what they can do to move this city forward. we're live in west baltimore, delia goncalves, wusa9. >>> happening today, catherine hoggle the woman accused in the disappearance of her two young children will be here in montgomery coun

it shows more than 2,000 people are at the clean-up at the cvs that burned down in west baltimore. nbc 4's aaron gilchrist is there and you can follow his updates on twitter. and while the focus has largely been on the violence and the aftermath of those riots in baltimore, we want to show you this one video of a dance party that broke out just blocks from there. this is a man doing some michael jackson moves right in the street and on top of a truck at one point. this apparently happened at the same time as the fires were burning in baltimore. many of the protests in the city have been peaceful. we're back in 60 seconds. >>> tyson foods is working to eliminate human antibiotics from its chickens over the next two years. the poultry giant says it's concerned that widespread antibiotic use can lead to drug-resistant germs. tyson says it will phase out antibiotics in its chicken flock by 2017. the company also plans to explore doing the same in its beef pork and turkey operations. >>> super fans of the royal couple were given a sweet treat this morning. william and kate sent danishs t

baltimore city. right now, we're seeing unprecedented type of violence throughout the city. mainly towards the west side of baltimore. we're not going to tolerate that. the police department is not going to stand for that. we're fully deployed at this point. we cancel leave for all our police officers. so they are deployed on the streets, as we speak. each shift is staffed. we called in outside resources from all over the state of march maryland to give us assistance. we're not going to tolerate this. our priorities right now is to restore order in the city. our priorities right now is officer safety and the safety of the community. thank you. >> counsel president? >> good evening. i am deeply saddened by what is taking place in the great city of baltimore. this reminds me of 1968 when the riots were taking place during the assassination of dr. martin luther king where people were destroying their own stores and properties and their own community. this is unacceptable. this is not what freddy gray's family wanted. they ask there be no protests marches or anything of that nature today and the organi

this is what people see when they take the trains in baltimore. the west side. e side of the city that has exploded. the side that has been begging for change since the baltimore plan. since that time it has been replaced only by more tough times. all this in a city that has not managed to change as the world around it did. >> final sale. >> at your neighborhood montgomery ward store. >> the mass monthdomry distribution center died when america discovered shopping malls. and the economy showed signs of strain in 2004 it employed more than a thousand people. a month later another thousand jobs from lost. those jobs left and never returned. betrayal runs deep in this city. in 1983 battle mother's colts football team packed up and left town. the team left in the dark of the night. it never returned. baltimore by the numbers tells the whole story. the unemployment rate in baltimore is 8.4%. it is 5.5% for the rest of the country. among blacks in baltimore it is even worse. for every ten people you see walking these streets six are looking for jobs. most of those peop

these are live pictures there, there is mayhem here west baltimore. we'll see a police news conference to begin immediately. during that we're hoping to get an ex-plan why the police are standing and watching this happen. we can only assume the police have reasons for standing back. do they not have man power?

failed policies to communities like west baltimore and it's not just a baltimore thing, it's an urban american thing. you talk about, you know, everything from the iran contraband all the way up to stop and frisking policies over-polices policies the pipeline to imprisonment. at the end of the day, in these epicenters where you have high proportional amount of poverty, where you have an educational system that fails, when you try to tell these folks they have opportunities everyone else has, this is their frustration. >> one of the things senator, that has been said senator gladden, martin luther king jr. 50 years ago said that these riots that he certainly were against were the voice of the unheard and i think what a lot of people do in the sanitizing of history is that you had the watch riots when dr. king was a live. >> that's correct. >> we act like we didn't have riots -- dr. king had cities that he couldn't talk to. and he himself heckled in certain cities. so we've always had those whose tempers would boil over but it was always because they felt they were unheard. and this is

for now we're live in west baltimore, delia goncalves, wusa9. >>> a consequence of that weekend violence, delia was telling us about, is today will be a day of sweeping up glass and surveying the damage for some downtown baltimore business owner. >> the aftermath of looters smashing windows at restaurants and 7-eleven when protesters became violent. several restaurants including one at camden yartdz were damaged -- yards were damaged. >>> i'm nikki burdine live outside the supreme court where today protests and rallies will continue in preparation for the high court to hear arguments both for and against gay marriage. now, i say continued because these protests have been going on for the past couple of days. the march for marriage on the national mall started on saturday and they are the opponents of gay marriage. they say god established marriage between a man and a woman and the government cannot redefine it. while supporters are hoping for what they call marriage equality. it's all in anticipation for tuesday's arguments. the cases will come from michigan, tennessee, kentucky and ohio

one a day 50+ >>> welcome back i'm thomas roberts here live in west baltimore. reets here. a local woman now a social media sensation is being crowned mom of the year. >> get over here now! >> that's video of baltimore aegs toya graham laying into her son for participating in the riots. the clip has over 3.5 million youtube views. now the single mom is being praised for take no prisoners parenting style and many call it the right response to the unrest. toya first spoke about what mark sparked rereaction. >> that's my only son and at the end of the day i don't want him to be a freddie gray. she went on to say more and violence will not bring freddie gray and his memory any justice so look at her. i thnk a lot of people would say, we need more parents out here that would be going after their kids to get them back in line like that. frances, has social media reaction to this story back in new york city. >> toya gram is all over the place, she sparked a huge response and she spun a #momoftheyear. this tweet on her news appearance, there's nothing like a ferocious ma

and the shadow of the state" african-americans in west baltimore -- professor fernandez-kelly, tell us about west baltimore. >> it was one of the places that in my estimation, most important in our nation current moment but it is an area for surprisingly has received very little attention. i see my research, which is immersive

still so much going on right now in west baltimore. it's calmed down in some areas but then other areas blow up of that maureen? leon: what's unfortunate about that is it's such a waste of police resources to have 100 officers standing think to protect firefighters to put out a building fire when they could be out stopping some of the looting and some of the other mayhem that's under way in the streets right now. tom, make sure you stay safe and keep us posted on what you're seeing there. we were just seeing tom was talking about the people who were looting that c.v.s. store and they were taking prescription drugs. we may have been seeing the same thing in the other camera shot. a man had broke not down the door of the rite aid with their shoulders, shoving their way into the store and began making their way through that facility as well. we'll keep an eye out and see how many more scenes that we see. maureen: let's go to horace holmes that have been keeping in touch with what the authorities in maryland have been saying about this. i

that's the police barricade in front of the precinct for west baltimore. side of the barricade, the community on this side. this is the sandtown winchester area of baltimore, a shooting in the middle of wednesday and no one seems all that surprised. freddie gray was arrested blocks away on april 12th near the gilmore housing project. he died in police custody. again the people who live here say while they're angry they're not all that surprised. >> before freddie gray we had anthony anderson, tyrone

a lot of the businesses looted were new businesses that had returned to west baltimore. they reported new families were also moving in to those areas. these young people have destroyed what was put there for them. and people are predicting it's going to be quite some time before those businesses are filling the need or the want to return to north baltimore and west baltimore. they're putting it so succinctly, these young people have merely hurt themselves. that's where we are right now. police have sealed off the downtown area. not much traffic. very few people because these businesses got wind that business was brewing earlier. there wasn't much of a rush hour in downtown baltimore this evening. >> we've been talking about the baltimore orioles game scheduled to go off at 7:05. word from wnew is that the game is going to be played. wjz is reporting fans have to come through the home plate plaza gate. the other gates to camden yards are closed off. we don't know how or why the decision was made to keep playing. >> we want to go live to the baltimore area. what can you te

at the corner ofd north in west baltimore where ad gathered on each dayday on that corner the libraryf as usual. a community church group set up an impromptu playground with a bounce house and at one point a hot dog stand handing out free hot dogs, a celebratory mood almost a festival-type atmosphere. baltimore schools were back in session. transit was reopened throughout the city today. the governor of maryland today announced that 200 businesses throughout baltimore do remain closed as of tonight but that baltimore is trying to get everything reopened and cleaned up. that said protests continue over the weekend. we'll see if the calm will hold tonight as id did for the most part last night and certainly today. in total, baltimore police say the arrest count today was a total of 16 adults and two juveniles. there have been more than 200 people arrested in total over the past three days. most of them arrested on monday. one of the things we're going to be checking in with tonight is the status of all those peoplearrested, when they're getting out and how their treatment and arrests may

and it's painful. >> did you live in west baltimore, the really tough neighborhood? >> i lived at one point in northeast baltimore and northwest baltimore, i did. and i live outside, we live in the suburbs now. but baltimore city -- >> how did you get out? >> how did i get out? we just worked. and that's the interesting thing. you hit on something. you try to work as hard as you can to stay away from what is anticipated or expected for you as a black person in this country, unfortunately. and it's hard work that gets you out of that. but i'm going to tell you this. i go into that community. my hairdresser is just blocks from penn and north. you know, when i was a kid, there was a nightclub that we used to frequent on that street called odells. the school headquarters is down the street. you also have this wonderful community called bolton hill, a rich enclave of brownstones just blocks from penn and north. and then you also have -- circumstances that an african american neighborhood? >> no, no it's not. no it's not. >> it was gent trified? >> no it's not. but there is

and then there was the scene at the cvs pharmacy store on pennsylvania avenue in west baltimore that was totally vandalized, and eventually del, you saw the young people going in and fashioning homemade bombs and setting that store on fire. the fire department is now working on the fire. the question now moving forward is what happens at night fall in baltimore? it is a story that we will continue to follow for you. we're going to leave you for a moment here with these scenes from baltimore, maryland. my thanks to del, my thanks to dante, the former mayor of baltimore who joined us earlier and the councilwoman and members of the ministerial alliance in baltimore joined us. we'll take a break and come back with al jazeera america in just a couple of minutes. >> protestors are gathering... >> there's an air of tension right now... >> the crowd chanting for democracy... >> this is another significant development... >> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live... al jazeera america gives you the total news experience anytime, anywhere. more on every screen. digital, mobile, soci

buildings were still smoldering in west baltimore as people woke up to ash and broken glass from the k at the damage along with the governor who vowed there will quote, be ov

the other baltimore, west and east baltimore, the neighborhoods we have seen on the news have not faired so well. this weekend they came in conflict with tense moments around camden yards. the orioles faced two postponed games, today they took a more novel approach. >> beautiful baltimore, downtown, a beautiful spring day. it is so pretty outside. >> they usually chant "let's go o's," but today, o meant zero which should have been a routine afternoon game against the white house sox, made history. >> it is unprecedented, and it is you know not ideal. we acknowledge that. the comfort of our fans and public safety are paramount concerns. >> fans watched and cheered from the gates. the team with major league baseball made the call after days of civil unrest in baltimore. >> i think the people that rioted, it it wasn't the right thing to do but they made it clear that we need change here and hopefully that will happen. >> tensions ran high after a west baltimore man, freddy gray died in police custody. outside of the ballpark on sad, saturday protestors. >> fans held in the stadium. official