IT HAS BEEN DEPRESSING TO
COME INTO WORK.
IT HAS BEEN DEPRESSING TO START
OVER.
JASON: FINANCIAL RECOVERY HAS
BEEN COSTLY IN A TIME TANGLED UP
WITH POLITICS.
IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED THAT IT
HAS COST THE CITY AND THE STATE
$50 MILLION TOTAL.
FEMA
DENIED DISASTER AID, EVEN
AFTER AN APPEAL FROM THE STATE.
MARYLAND REQUESTED ABOUT $19
MILLION FOR PROTECTION AND
PROPERTY DAMAGE.
BUT HE MUST AND I'LL -- BUT
FEMA
POSTEN I'LL LEFT MANY ANGERED.
THE COST TO REBUILD IS
STAGGERING.
DAMAGE TO BUSINESSES WAS
ESTIMATED AT $9 BILLION.
WE ARE ON A STORY HERE AT
MULBERRY AND MLK.
THIS IS A RITE AID.
JASON: ANOTHER PHARMACY
AFFECTED, RITE AID.
THE COMPANY SAID THE STORE
SUSTAINED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE
DURING THE UNREST.
NOW, SIX MONTHS LATER, THAT RITE
AID THAT WAS LOOTED HAS
REOPENED.
MARYLAND CONGRESSMAN, ELISHA
CUMMINS, JOINED FOR THE GRAND
REOPENING OF THE STORE.
THAT ALL END STATE LAWMAKERS SAY
THE REOPENING SEND THE MESSAGE
THAT BALTIMORE IS OPEN FOR
BUSINESS.
AFTER WITHSTANDING
LOOTING AND
FIRE, HEAVY MACHINERY WILL BE
NEEDED TO TAKE DOWN THE CBS
,
THIS PHARMACY WAS ONE OF THE
MOST RECOGNIZABLE SYMBOLS OF THE
APRIL RIOTS.
IT BECAME KNOWN AS THE EPICENTER
OF UNREST.
DOZENS OF EMPLOYEES WERE
DISPLACED, PATIENTS HAD TO MAKE
ARRANGEMENTS TO GET THEIR
MEDICATION.
CBS HAS VOWED TO REBUILD IN THE
SAME SPOT.
WE ARE IN THE PROCESS
OF
FIXING THE BAT THAT HAPPENED --
THE BAD THAT HAPPENED.
MAYBE NOW THINGS WILL RUN
SMOOTHER.
EVERYONE HAD TO MOVE TO
DIFFERENT PHARMACIES.
JASON: CBS
--
CV SAYSS THEY ARE
COMMITTED TO THIS LOCATION.
A WILL REOPEN BEFORE THE END OF
THE YEAR.
ONE LOCALLY OWNED DRUGSTORE ONLY
HAD NEIGHBORS --
THE KEYSTONE
PHARMACY ROLLED UP THEIR SLEEVES
FOR A WEEK TO REOPEN FOR
CUSTOMERS WHOSE HEALTH DEPENDED
ON IT.
IT IS LIKE THE EXPERIENCE OF
OPENING UP A BRAND-NEW
DRUGSTORE.
JASON: THE KEYSTONE PHARMACY HAS
A STORY OF RESILIENCE.
EMPLOYEES AND MYSELF WORKED
VERY HARD TO GET IT BACK UP
AFTER THE DEVASTATION ON APRIL
27.
4:00 -- WE CLOSED THE STORE
AND ON THE WAY HOME I HEARD THAT
THEY WERE INSIDE THE CVS,
LOSING.
THEY MOVED
DOWN TO THE STORE
AROUND 6:00 ON THAT MONDAY
NIGHT.
ON TUESDAY MORNING, WE FOUND A
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT STORE.
IT HAD BEEN VANDALIZED AND
BROKEN INTO.
THERE WERE PAPERS ALL OVER THE
PLACE, DRUGS EMPTIED OFF THE
SHELVES.
IT WAS LIKE
A HURRICANE HAD HIT
THE STORE.
BUT SHE WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN
IT LOOKING AT THE STORE TODAY.
MAYBE YOU WOULDN'T EVEN HAVE
KNOWN IT A WEEK AFTER, BECAUSE
THEY WERE REOPENED.
THERE YOU GO.
IT IS
CRAZY HOW IT WENT DOWN
LIKE THAT.
IT WAS NUTS.
JONATHAN IS AN EMPLOYEE HAS
BEEN THERE SINCE THE BEGINNING.
AFTER THE PREVIOUS
LOCATION
BURNED DOWN IN 1997, HE HAS
STAYED STRONG.
STAYS STRONG FOURTH 30 YEARS.
THEY ROLLED THEIR
SLEEVES UP
AND DID WHATEVER WAS REQUIRED TO
GET THE STORE BACK IN
OPERATIONAL CONDITION.
WE WORK TOGETHER.
THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO
DO, TOGETHER.
TEAMWORK MADE A DIFFERENCE
FOR THE STORE AND ALSO FOR THE
PEOPLE THEY SERVE.
I DIDN'T REALLY KNOW WHERE TO
GO.
I AM GLAD THEY OPENED BACK UP.
SIX MONTHS LATER, DOWN BUT
NOT OUT.
ONTO THE NEXT DAY AND THE NEXT
CHALLENGE.
ONE OF OUR
MANTRAS IS JUST TO
KEEP MOVING.
THAT MOVEMENT
CONTINUES AND
IF HISTORY IS ANY INDICATION, IT
WILL KEEP CONTINUING.
JASON:
CONSTRUCTION AND CLEANUP
CAN HAPPEN RELATIVELY QUICKLY
COMPARED TO THE NEED TO RESTORE
TRUST WITH THE POLICE
DEPARTMENT.
KEVIN DAVIS RECENTLY SPOKE WITH
WBAL NEWSRADIO ABOUT IMPROVING
HIS DEPARTMENT AND THE
RELATIONSHIP WITH RESIDENTS.
AFTER THE RIOTS, WE SAW A
HUGE NUMBER OF
-- WE SAW POLICE
OFFICERS GOING ON AND SAYING
THEY WERE DOING THE LEAST NUMBER
OF POLICE WORK THEY COULD.
IT FEELS LIKE IT IS OVER.
I LOOK AT THE NUMBERS
AND THEY
ARE BACK TO CLOSE TO WHAT THEY
WERE BEFORE THE RIOTS AND THE
UNREST.
BUT UNLIKE A TYPICAL WORK
SLOWDOWN, THE OFFICERS HAD A
DEGREE OF PTSD.
THEY SAW 168 OF THEIR FELLOW
POLICE OFFICERS GO THROUGH SHOCK
TRAUMA.
AND THE ANXIETY ASSOCIATED
WITH
THE RIOTS AND THE INJURIES AND
THE LACK OF PREPAREDNESS REALLY
GAVE EVERYONE A MOMENT OF PAUSE.
THE CITY NEEDS TO WIN AGAIN.
AND IT CAN'T WIN AGAIN UNLESS