Broadcast live from 9:30 Monday night until 4 a.m. Tuesday morning, was the chaos in a small mid-west town.

                We saw it as it was happening.  Rioters shooting wildly into the air and looters smashing bottles, they just stole from a liquor store, into the heads of photographers. 

Two pizza places, two markets, two auto supply stores, a drug store, a clothier, a beauty supply store, a title company and storage facility were among the 25 fire-damaged businesses in Ferguson, Missouri that night.

                At least 10 incoming flights to the St. Louis airport were diverted because of fear that hooligans firing guns into the air might endanger the passengers and crews of flights trying to make it to the "Show Me" state.

                One person was carjacked late Monday while driving through the protest area then struck with his own car when the thief made a getaway.  Area hospitals reported 13 injures, including two gunshot wounds.

                Protesters hurled rocks and other objects at, well, anyone.  CNN correspondent Sara Sidner was even struck by a rock while she was reporting live on air. 

                Police found the body of a black male in his 20's on Tuesday morning who had been shot and burned near the site where Brown was shot.

                At least 61 people were arrested in Ferguson.  Charges against the detained protesters include gun possession and felony unlawful assembly.

                It was hard to believe the carnage was unfolding live as you watched.  Without the captions, viewers may have thought they were viewing violence in a third world country. 

                Shortly after 9 p.m. on Monday night, the announcement was made.  A grand jury of nine white jurors and three blacks found no grounds to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the August fatal shooting of unarmed African-American teen, Michael Brown. 

                There were some peaceful protests, but the violence in Ferguson shattered the images of marchers calling for justice.  Right there, live on our TVs, calls for calm from national leaders and the mother of Michael Brown competed with scenes of confrontation.  Scenes that went beyond predictions and could have been declared prophesy.

                The timing of the announcement of the grand jury's conclusion and the very public build-up to that announcement left many expecting violence.  Some even planned for it; rioting as a planned event – predicted and prepared for.

                What was lost in the violence was the power and meaning of the peaceful protests.