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it's now a strange international custody battle. >> she was a 2010 cover of time magazine. she tells us what is keepking her from having surgery and what she sees in the mirror. >> thanks for joining us. the g-8 summit is over and president wam turns his attention to afghanistan. >> not so civilized outside. >> cameras rolled.

this is chicago today. people in the crowds have mostly been behaving but five men are now in custody for allegedly planning to cause damage. more on the actual summit in a moment, let's go live. >> police are pushing away from the united nations, away from the nato common area. i don't know if you know the live feed outside. pushing the crowd back. some of them are resisting. some of them are throwing bottles and other objects.

will the chicago police don't push? we have a number of people that have gotten down on the ground and refusing to move. they are scream iing at the officers. so far for the most point, they have been pushing people with their baton. it is one of those situations that could get ugly very, very quickly. >> we're going to stick with this for a moment. look at that picture. really the near south side. police were strong arming them.

we showed the video of the van going into the crowds. what has been the response as we look what's been the response from the police department? >> that incident where the person hit by the car, they were a professional protester. they say the officer driving the van, they believe that they were caught up in that scenario. that is the ultimate clash of relief. water is being thrown into the crowd of police officers and seeing a number of people arguing and screaming into the ears of these officers.

not much in terms of movement. there is a chaotic situation for the police. >> these pictures are coming from our chicago affiliate. we will not go far away. let's look at new video just into cnn. >> to viewers who are joining us live in chicago, what you are looking at, police in combat

gear, chicago police versus protesters there. what we are showing really the police pummelling some of the people in the crowd. this has been -- this happened within the last ten minutes, all of this. police just pummelling those people in the crowd. do we know what was behind that? >> get us to push the protesters away from the barricades that have been set up to protect the summit area. results of that is what one man was pushing against the other, people are going to go down. the chicago police officers have riot gear and they have their night sticks with them. a lot of people here are claiming they were injured. a handful of them were just speeding up and screaming, claims that his friend got his

teeth knocked out. right now we are seeing the police moving back. the order has been give on the allow the protesters a little bit more room. they are just moving back slightly. we're not sure the strategy or not. clearly, if you are looking at the officials, out of the ground here. because of the chaotic nature of it. >> i wouldn't doubt that people are hurt. if anyone could see that video and the way the people were being pummelled, i don't know what they did, if they did anything to instigate that to set the police off, but from our vantage point here it just looks like the cops were wailing on the people there in the crowds with their night sticks. so, no doubt that people were hurt.

it's incredible to look at. i'm sure that police want to get these people off the street. they set up barricades. we do in this country have a right to protest. it's disturbing to look at, ted. >> what happened was the order was given for people to back away thaz were pressing up towards the police barricade. so police are arguing, well they have disoh bayed a direct order to stop. this is what began the order to basically push the crowd back. that is the ugliness that you saw on that of the chicago police department saying we have ordered them to disband.

>> now they are getting into a little bit of a fight with one of the officers here. >> we're hearing the background noise there in ted's phone. ted, just from knowing what is going on from living in chicago.

how many people are we talking about in this crowd? >> i say here we duo. >> reporter: i don't know if you can see this or not. >> we can see it. >> reporter: seems like another order was given out. a bucket was thrown to hit the police officers. a lot of people are actively challenging police at the line.

it is sort of in the background. >> not a lot of dedication with police to the protesters. they just seem to be holding their ground. they have a surge. >> we don't know what set the cops off but it is disturbing to see this. ted, what are they upset about?

>> the group is a fragment. you have the anti-war folks. you have people with specific beefs with nato that have come to chicago. and you have what police have called professional protesters. and the people are here that want to just cause trouble. earlier, about a half an hour before, there was a ceremony of iraqi and afghanistan vets who threw their medals back. a lot of the classic stereo typical kids in black, ski

masks. there are other folks well, they seem that they were taken care of. >> standby. we're not going go far away from the pictures. we want you to standby. let's talk about the reasons that the protesters are in chicago, the summit hosted by president obama and attended by a wide spectrum of world leaders. many others with a strong interest especially in the near future of afghanistan. jessica joins us in chicago. i would imagine that you are far away from that. it is disturbing to see. but let's talk about the president and what he is doing this weekend. working hard on diplomacy there. >> that's right. before the summit even kicked off. afghanistan is dominating this meeting and it's so important that before the summit began, the president sat down with

afghan -- president karzai. he thanked the u.s. taxpayers for everything the taxpayers have done for afghanistan and said that the afghans will no longer soon be a burden to the u.s. and assured the president that afghans will be ready to take over the combat lead when it's handed over. the president vowed that the u.s. will not cut a hasty exit. sheer what the president said. >> we would provide support for the national security forces that have made excellent progress over the last several years. and also painting a vision post 2014 in which we have ended our

combat role. the afghan roll as we understand it is over. but our commitment to friendship and partnership with afghanistan continues. >> why is it so important? all of these nations are facing enormous economic pressure. part of the reason we are probably seeing so much protest outside. there is just tension around the economic pressure. here in the next day and a half, the u.s. and these nations will be talking about the commitment, how much financial commitment the nations are able to give to the effort between now and 2014 and what kind of military commitment will make after forces are with drawn. >> listen, afghanistan, that is the center of things. there are other things besides afghanistan that are part of things to talk about.

>> will pakistan. get troops and supplies in and out. it's the easiest way to do that for the u.s. some people want to talk about sire ya that could be brought up on the sidelines and then again a lot of talk about the financial commitment by the other nations to support afghanistan in the coming days. >> all right. it's nice to get to the actual business at hand. we have spent a lot of time covering the protest.

it's really the cops versus protesters. >> chicago police and also state police, illinois state police in full combat gear. there is ap difference between combat and riot gear. they appear to be in combat gear to try to keep the protesters back. we will continue to follow the

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>> back now to chicago. those are police officers who are trying to hold back protesters. they are trying to keep them away from the summit. the president is holding with world leaders now. paul is in the crowd that you are looking at right now. i understand you are being moved back by police in combat gear. >> that's right. right next to the camera, we have it right here. there have been some people who have been struck by batons here as they try to clear the intersection. what happened is about 1800 to 2200 people by police estimates

that converged on this intersection. >> now paul, does it appear to you that police are being heavy handed? or is this business as usual in your estimation when it comes to keeping protesters back and keeping them where they are supposed to be protesting and behind police barricade. >> i did not, myself, witness any beatings. that does not mean to say that it didn't happen. i know that police did use batons. it has been clear that police have shown some restraint. they have been taunted repeatedly by some members of the crowd. there has not been any attempt to charge any of the protesters.

you can see as you look at the picture here. >> hang on, hang on. there is a picture to the right of your screen and coming from the protest tore side is a police barricade that they threw at police. now police are moving that barricade out so the protesters who have been saying that they have been peaceful, that does not appear to be a peaceful act. let's listen. we want to listen to this.

>> you can now see that barricade being put up on a planner. >> and the first -- let's listen to this.

>> this is the chicago police department. >> attention this is the chicago police department. you must disperse to the west. attention, attention. this is the chicago police department. >> here is what is going on here. the police are trying to push these protesters back in a certain direction. and they are doing it through -- by force as you can see by the number of officers trying to push the protesters back. they are standing their ground as best they can in full combat gear. to the left of your screen.

>> thank you for the slide pictures. you wouldn't be get. >> i guarantee you there are protesters coming out every

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news here on cnn that we're hoping not to see near the sight of the nato summit in chicago. this happened just moments ago. i want you to watch it closely. all right? that is illinois state police and chicago p.d. chicago mounted police nearby. they are pummelling those protestors. they are fighting crowds of protestors with batons near mccormick place where the president is hosting world leaders right now. the crowd was trying to push through the police line. protests earlier today were quieter and they certainly aren't quiet any longer, so we've got cnn's paul who is on the phone right now. he's down in the midst of those crowds. paul, what are you seeing where you are? we're hearing the police say, move west, move west.

what's happening now? >> reporter: well, jodon, right now it's stalemates. they're trying to move the crowd to the west and there are hundreds of police officers in full riot gear. the protestors were in the intersection about a block and a half from mccormick place where the nato summit was being held are basically just stopped in their tracks. police are not pushing forward right now. they're not trying to move them out. they have announced over the bullhorn, as you said, to move west, it's time now to disperse, but basically we've got a standoff right here, don. >> the office of emergency management issued a severe weather warning for strong thunderstorms, possibly hail, winds up to 40-50 miles an hour, heading to the loop, which is where you guys are. >> reporter: yeah. >> have you seen any indication of this weather coming through? that may stop some of this in its tracks as well. >> reporter: absolutely, don.

we have seen the skies get dark here as we move into the evening, and we have felt a stray drop here and there. we certainly have heard thunder. so everybody in the crowd is clear that the skies could open up, and people have made reference to that, so they are bracing for the possibility of a storm coming through, and possibly just with changing weather could loosen up what right now is one colossal knot here in downtown chicago. >> you said right now it's basically a standoff. we have seen in waves as we have been watching. it's peaceful, and then the cops stand their ground, the protestors stand their ground, and then it moves one way or the other, usually with the police having the upper hand. so this is a lull now, and then it may fire back up as we've been seeing? >> reporter: that's exactly right. we're just seeing a little movement right now to the west of officers in riot gear.

some of them also are state police marked by green stripes on their helmets. i don't know if they're going to loop around, but one thing that's clear that the officers have done throughout the weekend in chicago is they sometimes will steel off a group of protestors and move them on, and that's a way of dispensing of the crowd and making sure it doesn't get too rowdy, but you can see the signs and the nato war machine of global 1%, et cetera, et cetera, occupy signs, black banners waving. right now with the exception -- well, there is no violence right now and some people are sitting in the streets, but the officers in riot gear are not trying to move them out. >> yeah. we don't have control of this camera because it's our affiliate showing us these