As CNN coverage from Ferguson moved into the 10 p.m. ET hour, Anderson Cooper passed off to Don Lemon, who appeared on camera wearing a gas mask on his forehead. Within moments, canisters of gas were thrown into the streets as police moved in and pushed away crowds of protesters. Chris Cuomo, who was live with gas flowing toward his camera position, threw back to Lemon, who was wearing the mask over his face–gas swirling in the air behind him–and was unable to continue. He asked for water.
Moments later, Lemon again was unable to resume anchoring the hour, heard on air saying “I need IFB. Someone make a phone call.”
Shortly after that, Lemon and Cuomo gathered at the same location, only to have what CNN’s crews on the street called teargas, but police insisted was only smoke, dropped directly at their location: