Let me go outside the building. Maggie Vesp, I want to get to you because we're looking at those protest pictures live coming into us now. We understand that some of those demonstrators have taken down a barricade outside. What's going on?

It just got put back up, Halley. In fact, I'll let you push past me once again. Our camera guy can zoom in here. Chicago police restoring that secret service barrier that some protesters were able to push down. Then if we can pan over to the left, we have what we can tell it appears to be two people potentially arrested by police in riot gear. I want to be clear, the vast majority of this march It was peaceful. We had roughly 6,000 people marching through Chicago's West Side. They called themselves the Coalition to March on the D&C, and this is largely a pro-Palestinian protest. But this is where it got hairy, and we'll zoom back in here. You can see they're trying to put that fence back together. But this just speaks to the anger and the fury that we're seeing here out on these streets. People want to make their voices known with the D&C, by the way, just a block and a half that way. You can see the United Center in the background. They say they want from Democrats a promise to support a ceasefire in Gaza. They want from Democrats a promise to push for an end to the United States support of Israel.

They say if they don't hear that from Democrats, if they don't hear it from the vice President, then the Democratic Party as a whole can't count on their votes. Perhaps a large faction of the left to vote for them come November. They say this is really an ultimatum they're delivering to the vice President and to the party. Chicago police has been tasked with it. We can just move over again and keep tabs on this, has been tasked with keeping this peaceful. They're the only police agency, despite 17 others being here to secure buildings. They're the only one who are dealing with protests and trying to keep the peace as demonstrations move through the city. So Chicago police out here, again, some of them in riot gear, but a lot of them not at this point, trying to restore the fence and keep things calm. This has been one of just two or three flare-ups this afternoon. But again, obviously, people who got here are angry, Halley, and they're not going anywhere from what we can tell anytime soon.

So, Maggie, just because it's a little tough for us to get a sense of the scale and size of these demonstrations, can you help put that in context? We're just seeing it, obviously, on these little screens from a couple of cameras that we have out there.

Yeah. So basically, we've got something happening over here. They just broke down another part of the fence. While we point at that, I'll tell you, Chicago police quantified it earlier. They said roughly 6000 people out on the streets. Obviously, we have a small group from that 6,000 out here dealing with the fences and fighting back against police. Again, most of it was peaceful, but the crowds that we saw here earlier today were several thousand easily filling several blocks of Chicago's West Side, Halley.

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