i don't think skinny will everen used in the same sentence as mario. unless he was with the skinny chick. >> mario, it's been a pleasure. thank you very much. >> thank you very much for having me. having me. that's all for us tonight. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> right now, on cnn, bloody war. more than a dozen troops killed. how? a passenger car packed with explosives. where. >> reporter: kabul. a military convoy. who? the taliban. tonight, the u.s. response. and under fire. syrian jets pound a major city. thanks open fire pulverizing buildings. the explosive video in minutes. plus -- a band keeps a promise after this horrible stage collapse. tonight, their tribute performance.

and funny man darrell hammond gets serious. >> beating, being electrocuted. >> how childhood abuse and his personal demons led him to the mental war all while taping "saturday night live." it's all right here right now on cnn. >> all right, thank you so much. i'm don lemon. those stories and more. first, occupy protesters in denver, colorado face to face with riot police. police say they used nonlethal agents including mace and pepper balls when the protesters tries to enter the state capitol. this is from affiliate kusa. more than half a dozen people were arrested. police say one officer knocked off his motorcycle and two others were kicked in the head in the confrontation with demonstrators. but one protesters says it wasn't like that.

>> only thing that happened is they asked us to take a tent down. some kid was standing too close to them. they started attacking everybody, spraying people with mace. we did nothing. this is supposed to be a peaceful protest and they're attacking us like we're in a third world country. >> let's talk to tanner, one of the demonstrators at today's confrontation. thanks so much for joining us. are you okay? >> yeah, absolutely. i avoid the police as much as i could. >> tell us what you saw. you took this picture we're seeing now, right? >> yes, yeah. the police sent in their riot police to take down a tarp that was in between two trees. and then one of the senior officers fell on to one of the protesters and they essentially wrestled on the ground for a bit and then the police used pepper spray and automatic rifles with pepper spray bullets at protesters. >> were the occupy denver folks

trying to rush or get into the capitol? >> no, absolutely not. i was actually leading that march, and we were just wanting to speak on the steps of the building. >> so they said you tried to get in. police earlier said you tried to get into the capitol and they had to use these methods to prevent you from doing it. >> that's just quite frankly a lie. we continued with our march and we wanted to give an open forum to talk about the issues. on the steps of the capitol. and they refused to let us on the steps. >> were you hit at all with any pepper spray or hurt at all in the confrontation? >> i was personally jabbed in the stomach with one of the batons and had a police officer grab me and push me back. i was not hit with any of the spray. >> did they give you any warning before it happened? >> before they came in to get down the tarps, they did not. >> okay. tanner spendly, we're glad that you're okay. we'll talk to lieutenant murray of the denver police department. he's going to join us now by

phone. lieutenant murray, was -- he was there earlier today when that happened. again, they were saying one of the officers was rushed. another one they said -- two others were kicked in this demonstration. and we heard from tanner spindley earlier. he took that picture you saw of the man on the ground. let's go to lieutenant murray. lieutenant, what happened? one of the protesters said that the police just started rushing the occupy demonstrators and shooting them with pepper balls and using harsh force. >> well, that may have been his perspective. what happened was after protesters refused to comply with a lawful order, we went in to take down their tent and several officers were attacked. officers responded with force and had to call other officers in. i'm not sure what your witness's perspective were. but certainly the officers were attacked. >> so they're saying they were not trying to get into the capitol because the initial response from the denver police

department was that they were trying to get into the capital and therefore, had to go to these means. lieutenant murray, can you hear me? >> i can hear you. can you hear me. >> we had protesters going up onto the capitol property. state police -- so that's exactly how this whole thing started. >> what do you think of what the police department did, if you look at the video of the officers, do you think that they were in compliance with rules, normal rules used in thisization? >> absolutely. and i think you have to look at the restraint the officers used. one of the things i don't know your viewers are getting into full perspective, anytime at all you hear people yelling and getting in the officers' face. vocal response. clearly our officers acted professionally and didn't act in any way that caused them to

violate any type of -- >> so lieutenant, i know we're probably -- i think we're having trouble with the lieutenant's phone. you can still hear me, right? >> i can hear you. >> listen, one police officer was knocked off his motorcycle, two others kicked in the head. do you know their conditions? >> yeah, they were -- there was nobody hospitalized. there was one protester hospitalized after he was arrested. >> lieutenant, thank you so much. we appreciate your time. >> you bet. the other major story we're following here on cnn states of emergency tonight in new jersey and massachusetts and also connecticut. an early winter snowstorm has crippled much of the mid-atlantic and the northeast. more than 1 million customers are without power right now. heavy wet snow has split trees and made travel extremely hazardous at least two deaths are blamed on the storm. cnn he's meteorologist chad meyers is in york, pennsylvania, susan candiotti in new york and yak i jars in atlanta for us. chad, is the snow still falling

where you are right now? >> no, don, it stopped. i think that's not the big story now. it's freezing. because what was falling earlier today at 34 was kind of sloppy. now the temperature's dropped below that. what's on the ground is beginning to crust over and now the roadways are getting a lot slicker than they were a couple hours ago. >> all the weight from the snow on the trees and the ice has split maples and bradford pears and different trees around the house. our whole development about 170 homes in the subdivision completely black right now. we're out trying to get something warm and take something back to my wife. >> this is actually better than a month or two ago with the floods. so i think that was actually worse than this. this is just unexpected for everybody. it's been what, since '72 since we had snow in this area? so it's unexpected. but it's almost actually a little bit of a treat, too. hopefully, this is it.

we're done for the rest of the season. >> lost power a couple hours ago. a lot of trees coming down, branches breaking, power lines disrupted for sure. >> and don, i want to take you to the snow. it's very heavy and packs great together. but the heaviness here, this was the problem. earlier today, this tree was completely covered in snow. then we talked about how the wind was going to pick up. what the wind did, it actually knocked the snow off the tree. that's good. i don't believe we're going to lose a lot more power lines tonight. what was basically an empty hotel we checked into about ten hours ago is now full with families that don't have power. they don't want their 2, 3, 4-year-olds at home without power and heat. they have now checked into these local hotels and the restaurant behind us, they expected that to be empty tonight. without power, people weren't cook and came here for a hot meal. >> chad meyers, we've just gotten word, three people dead

because of the storm. 1.million people now without people as chad has been reporting. chad meyers it, thank you very much. the storm is causing a lot of misery among the occupy wall street protesters in lower manhattan. susan candiotti found them hunkered down in their tents against the elements. >> reporter: the medic just came through here. and she herself who is a volunteer is armed with some styrofoam that is supposed to be waterproof. big boards. she is even helping to hand them out to anyone who needs it. >> go away! >> all right. well, they're even offering to give out more things to some people. some people don't want it. we caught up to the medic here. anyone at home? do you guys want to -- okay. >> it just puddles all over the

place. slush from the rain. >> you got to be careful about hypothermia, and frostbite, issues like that when you're dealing with the elements, especially for an extended period of time. >> organizers are asking anyone who can't take the conditions anymore to meet up at one location and then they'll be taken to a homeless shelter. we've also seen some people being taken away by ambulance. >> excuse me. pardon me. >> open up the hole. >> susan candiotti joins us from the park. the office of emergency management in new york sent out a release saying they wanted everyone out of parks because of snow possibly falling, heavy snow on trees. but was the park part of that? >> it doesn't seem to apply to that. they call that an advisory and recommendation for most city parks. but here, this is a privately owned park. the main worry is that a lot of the parks here obviously have

very old trees with heavy branches. fortunately, at this one, these seem to be fairly young trees. so if the branches fell, if they fell at all, i don't think they would do as much damage as they would in a lot of other parks here in the city that have been around far longer than this one. for now, very few people walking around here, don. most protesters are hunkered down in their tents for now. >> looks like they're staying put, as well. thank you very much, susan, we appreciate it. we saw that radar there next to susan. let's talk about that now with jacqui jeras, our meteorologist here. 1.million people without power. >> yeah. >>en an we're told that three people are dead because of the storm now. >> and the danger is still out there tonight. this is going to last into tomorrow morning, unfortunately. the height of the storm is over with for you in places like washington, d.c. into baltimore, philadelphia, new york city maybe till midnight and things will get better. we still have a long ways to go for parts of new england as that heavy snow continues to come

down and those winds stay very, very strong. this map though will show you say by 10:00 tomorrow morning, southern new england begins to dry up. by 2:00, maine drying up. better conditions expects. but the totals have been extremely impressive. about a foot and a half in plainfield, massachusetts. we had pennsylvania about 16 inches. and parts of maryland about 11.5. we'll continue to see problems as temperatures freeze tonight, but very quick melting expected by tomorrow with temperatures back in the 40s and 50s. don? >> thank you very much. coming up on cnn, a nasty day in afghanistan. a suicide bomber hits a military convoy. there apparently are american casualties. and heavy gunfire in one syrian neighborhood. we'll take you to these global hot spots next. [ male announcer ] humana and walmart have teamed up

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a very dark day, four american forces in kabul, several soldiers are believed to be among the victims of a suicide bombing in the afghan capital. cnn's nick payton walsh joins me now with more on this. what do you know, nick? >> well, it appears that yesterday is down the following day in kabul. yesterday a car packed with explosives rammed into a nato convoy. hitting an armored bus known as a whine know carrying a number of fate toe personnel. these heavily armored vehicles

suessed to shift significant numbers of people around the capital. we understand eight civilians were killed, five military personnel killed. the canadian military saying one of those military dead is one of their soldiers. but also a u.s. official telling cnn that will 13 americans were killed. >> so the fashionnalities of the victims yet, are they not completely set on that? do they know for sure, is this the final word on it? s>> reporter: they don't normaly discuss the dead. they let host countries do that. there is a discrepancy between whether these are all americans. there appears to be a canadian death according to the canadian military. obviously a situation still fluid on the ground, perhaps testament to the severity of the blast. >> not the only attack today in afghanistan, unfortunately. >> reporter: absolutely. two others to mention which would have been yesterday here in afghanistan. one up in the northeast of the

country in kunar province. a woman detonating a device attached to her and a second attack near kandahar in the south in which two soldiers apparently were shot when the a man wearing afghan army uniform turned his weapon upon them. the information for that not clear and a senior afghan army official saying the two dead were australian and seven other people were injured. these are not facts they will confirm. >> nick paton walsh in kabul for us. dozens of deaths reported across sir at-bats tonight as security forces go after anti-government demonstrators with lethal firepower. arwa damon has the latest. >> don, the focus of this most recent offensive appears to be the neighborhood in the city of homs according to one activist we spoke to. he said he heard military jets overhead at 9:30 in the morning and thanks began opening fire n

indiscrimina indiscriminately. at times appearing to target people's homes and balconies. this particular neighborhood is well-known as being one of the main epicenters of anti-government activity in the city of homs. has been under siege for weeks now, but it has been one of the major flash points of clashes taking place between syrian security forces and the factors who call themselves the free syrian army. according to the syrian observatory for human rights, 20 loyalist troops where is killed during those clashes and 53 injured. activists also report a number of can't casualties amongst civilians. other parts of the country under heavy military crackdown. it most certainly appears the longer this conflict drags on, the greater the risk activists and the government alike say of the nation fighting towards a

civil war. >> arwa damon, thank you. coming up, snl veteran darrell hammond raw and uncut. we're not talking about his comedy. >> stabbing, beating, being electrocuted. stuff like that. >> he revealed it all to cnn.com and we've got the exclusive excerpts from his interview coming up. exclusive to the military. and commitment is not limited to one's military oath. the same set of values that drive our nation's military

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remember darrell hammond, once part of saturday fight live". you know him for his spot on impressions of president bill clinton. >> you're going to miss me, aren't you? >> so watching his talent has made you laugh. the secret that came out this week hearing about his childhood will make you cry. >> when i was a child, i was a victim of systemic and lengthy and brutality. i mean, stabbing, beating, being electrocuted, stuff like that. with me, i was on as many as seven medications as the one time. i mean, these doctors didn't know what to do with me. there was cutting backstage. there was -- i was once taken to the psyche ward. the week i did the gore debates, i believe i was taken away in a straitjacket. and there's no way that you people know about that.

>> joining me right now is a producer who interviewed him. his name is jarrett bellini. you brought us these clips that have not been seen in public before. i want you to give me the back story because you were supposed to do a cnn segment on comedy and then it made this drastic dramatic turn. >> originally this was supposed to be for our cnn comedy segment. darrell was in town doing his standup act. the owner of the punch line comedy club here in atlanta september me a message saying we'll be there in 20 minutes. you might want to google his book. he wants to talk about it. i thought we would have a few laughs and it quickly turned. >> okay. so i want to see more. i'm sure the viewers do, as well. i want to get his interview and the clips we haven't seen before. this is one where he talks about his present health. >> i'm barely on any meds at all. at all. i'm like on a slight dose of welbutrin which i mean half the planet is on welbutrin because

it makes you happy. i mean, that from zoloft, ativan, klonopin, try an vil, mel la ril. >> lexapro. >> i never did lexapro. >> how did he look to you? his eyes were darting. >> a lot of people mentioned his eyes darting around. i think he was nervous. i think writing about what happened to him is one thing and talking about is another thing. that was early on in the interview. and as the interview went on, he got more comfortable. his eyes were darting less. i think it was uncomfortable for him to talk about. >> let's listen to how he says he's moved on now. >> exacting revenge on your parents is going to be harder than not exacting revenge. the easier softer way is to walk away from it. and find some way to let go of it, which i have been able to do. but it's not like it didn't take a million years and almost a

million dollars because it did. >> how did it cost him a million dollars? is that for beingstutionlized? did he explain that or why his mother abused him? >> i don't know why the particulars from why it cost so much. we can assume it's medical bills. as to why his mother did this in the first place, you know, when he made a point when she was on her deathbed, he starred to think, you know, she was once a little girl and somebody did something to her to make her this way. and he was forgiving to her in a way at the end. and so like i said, he just thinks maybe something happened to her when she was a kid. >> there's never any excuse for abuse. only she would know why she did it. was there something that triggered it when he was a child, if he said something, did something? >> he just said it was something that happened. he didn't want to talk too much about the particulars of that. >> i like this part when he talks about bill clinton and when people ask him to do bill clinton. >> firemen putting out a fire at

my house, do some bill for us. and there was a college student offered to flash me if i would do clinton for her. >> so did you it. >> i said listen, young lady, that is very sick. that is so god [ bleep ] sick. >> he's still a funny man. whaez he doing now? >> right now still doing his standup act. he was in town to do standup at the comedy clubs. >> so here's the thing. as a journalist though, do you believe him? because you sit there and you know you see his eyes. you're there in the room with him. you get a feeling. >> right. we did put in a request for a comment from saturday night live" and haven't received anything from them. and unfortunately, both of his parents have passed away. there's no way to go to them and ask them to back up what he said. so we're kind of forced to take him at his word for it. sitting with him in the same room, i didn't get the impression that he was making it

up. he seemed really tortured by everything. >> he's got a memoir coming out. we will learn a lot of this. but this came out early because it wasn't supposed to be till the push for his book he was supposed to talk about this. you got an exclusive. >> it was a very unexpected exclusive. we didn't see it coming. i thought hey, we're going to laugh, have some fun and pretty soon, i threw my notes away and said all right, let's see where this goes. >> let's hope he's okay. nice work, we appreciate it. lo look@cnn.com. up next, making good on a promise. the band sugarland returns to the scene of a horrible stage collapse and the coast guard captures seven tons of cocaine on the high seas. wait till you hear the street value of this. hey, everyone's eating tacos outside bill's office.

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headlines right now, talk about saying the high seas. check out this video of the u.s. coast guard unloading seven tons, 15,000 pounds, of cocaine. the coke was seized off a submersible watercraft in central america and worth roughly $180 million. this haul alone equals roughly one-third of all the land based drug seizures in the u.s. for an entire year. there's good news for some of you. jp morgan chase and wells fargo banks have decide against charging a monthly debit card fee after testing the idea in

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fans say the free concert last night was healing. >> i feel like we're almost like completing something we starred in august. and it's kind of coming full circle and i'm glad we get to finally carry it out tonight. >> the band perform performed in front of a capacity crowd around 1,000. money donated will go to the indiana state fair remembrance fund. an artifact that hasn't seen the light of day in about 300 years. we'll tell you what it is after the break. k on every purchase, every day. 2% cash back. that's setting the bar pretty high. thanks to spark, owning my own business has never been more rewarding. [ male announcer ] introducing spark the small business credit cards from capital one. get more by choosing unlimited double miles or 2% cash back on every purchase, every day. what's in your wallet? this guy's amazing.

oh, having a little fun with jacqui jeras. she was talking about a pirate's treasure brought up from the ocean floor. this week crews recovered a cannon from the pirate blackboard's ship and she's going to tell us about it. >> like when was that? he's looking at my notes from 1716 to 1718 was when he had his reign of terror, but you want to talk like a pirate now, halloween weekend, got to bring the pirates out kind of thing. >> i haven't had any sleep. don't make me be silly. so what happened? >> they brought up a huge cannon. it is one of 13 that they've actually brought up to the surface. this is off the coast of north carolina near buford. beafort would be the wind scale.

it's been hundreds of years since this thing seen or felt oxygen. look how huge it is. eight feet long and guess how much it weighs? 2,000 pounds. >> oh, my gosh. >> 2,000 pounds. amazing. >> that took a crank to get it up there. look at all those barnacles and everything on there. >> it's going to take four 0 five years to clean this thing off and restore it. the reason they wanted to bring this up, there are about 280,000 artifacts they've brought up. they found this thing back in 1987. it's been quite awhile but they wanted to get that particular cannon out because there are things underneath it. everybody wants to know the mystery of blackboard's treasure. are there any clues or lints that they might be able to find. they've found a couple of things. for example, they found some dishes. >> okay. >> they found gold dust, gold dust. >> all that stuff, some dishes, it's worth a lot of money. it's going to go into a plum,

i'm sure. >> absolutely. a lot of this stuff on the display at the north carolina maritime museum. so the rest of it will be restored and put in the museum, as well. >> one of 13 cannons. we're going to go to the sky now. >> did you see it. >> talking about the northern lights. i don't know maybe. i don't know if i'm seeing things or seeing the northern lights. >> i thought i'd just -- we're seeing things in the sky. a lot of people saw that early this week. monday night, tuesday night and some people saw it wednesday night, as well. it was a spectacular show of the aurora bore ral lis. it was seen in the deep south, like 34 states were able to see this in places where you would never see it. my husband is a pilot from atlanta and said i see it over atlanta. i was like what, you're crazy. what's unique about this one and what made this more rare not just because they saw it so far south but because of the red glow. that's what people were seeing from the south. i've had a lot of questions this

week. why is it red? what makes the different colors you see. the red is what happens is when all of these highly charged electrons and particles from the big blast, i won't get too technical on you interacts with atoms. when it hits oxygen, it's green. when it hits nitrogen it's purple and the red is the oxygen high up hundreds of miles bob the earth's surface makes the red. >> we should have asked aurora, your daughter. >> she was named after it. >> i thought i saw it but then i just said maybe i've been overserved and went home. no, kidding. >> stop. >> thank you. good information. we like that. appreciate it. hi, aurora. >> she's sleeping. coming up, i want you to meet 7-year-old bobby montoya. his mother is raising him as a girl saying he likes to wear dresses, have long hair and play with dolls. he also wants to join the girl scouts. we'll tell you about it. ♪

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now to a story sending shock waves across the parenting world. about a young boy who wants to be a girl scout. the organization has turned him away. i asked psychologist dr. ald win tart about the case of 7-year-old bobby montoya. >> a boy in colorado wants to be a girl scout and was initially turned away. the mother of bobby montoya,

bobby montoya says her son likes dolls and girl clothes and wanted to join the girl scouts after seeing his sister in it. here's more from his mother. >> i said what's the big deal. >> she said it doesn't matter how he looks. he has boy parts. girl scouts don't allow that. i don't want to get in trouble by my supervisor. >> it was like somebody told me i can't like girl stuff. >> all right. so the is it damaging for the boy that he was turned away? is it damaging that his mother allows him to do this? >> absolutely. >> damaging that his mom allows him. >> first of all, he should not have been allowed entrance into the girl scouts. it's damaging for mom to allow him to express it to that level at this young age. he doesn't know who he is. he's not going to be accepted by boys and girls. so there are a number of kids now that grow up and they want to do things that girls do or boyce want to do things that

girls do. but the problem is, they're not old enough to say that's who they are and identify that way. >> you know what's interesting? i just had this conversation in arkansas a -- i did a speaking engagement there. we talked about this exact thing. i think the little boy wanted to be a princess for halloween and his mom said most of the women in the room said allow him. most of the men said they're too young until he gets older and can express him maybe when he's in high school or college, that's fine. a parent has to be a parent. why would dads think differently? >> it's that ma cho thing. >> it's not just ma cho because there were gay men in the class to said no, don't let him do it. >> you know how society's going to respond. okay, he wants to go to school. he's talking about being teased and bullied, not being accepted. wait till he's older and sure. this is who i want to be, then we can deal with it. the kid's going to be who he needs to be. she is setting him up for a lot

of rejection and that's the part she can't go to school with him. >> that was the consensus for most of the guys. thank you. appreciate your insight. i want to tell you what the girl scouts of colorado said in a statement. that kid who identifies as girls, kids identified as girls "are welcome to join." they're welcome to join. a spokesman told cnn i have absolutely heard of many situations of transgender kids who are absolutely living as a girl. girl scouts shouldn't be any different for them." as a grandmother told the new york daily news that the family will not allow bobby to go back to that troop. a black list anyone would be honored to be on. find out what it is right after the break. endless shrimp is our most popular promotion at red lobster.

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so typically, no one wants to be black listed but that definitely isn't the case with the black list. a new exhibit in washington featuring portraits and interviews from 50 african-americans who have left a lasting mark on the world. look. >> i'm chris rock. >> susan rice. >> tyler perry. >> it's about achievement. it's about people who have done something extraordinary. >> the governor of massachusetts. >> made reproductive endocrinology and fertility specialist. >> actor. >> unemployed. >> the black list was a way to take my portraits and bring them

to life. >> i tell my students i expect for them to go out and change the world. >> almost like talking portraits. not just be the best surgeon but actually change the world. >> that's what i wanted to do. it's not about what they're wearing or anything, it's about the face, it's about the person. >> the word the black list is something that was considered negative. and repurposing that word and shining the light on positive african-americans, i couldn't be more proud to be part of this group. >> this list is not just about the people who were photographed but the symbolic meaning of their lives. >> maybe with my background of what i've done in fashion and socially, i think it was interesting to kind of throw me in the mix. >> you need to have someone like susan parks and someone like majora carter who is an environmentalist and activist to give a range of accomplishment. >> i'm probably one of the least well-known people on this list.

it does show that there are people you may never hear of, but still play an incredible role and have such an impact on how our lives as americans are led. >> there are 50 portraits here. should there be 100? there should be 10,000, of course. and there are millions of stories. >> you can see the black list exhibit at the national portrait gallery in washington through april 22nd of next year. the occupy movement has been camped out in new york for weeks. but what's the end game? we'll tell you next. [ umpire ] strike 3. you're out! [ cheers and applause ] [ playing out of tune ] [ playing in tune ] [ male announcer ] at mcdonald's®, we support the community by giving to programs that bring out the best in our youth... ...because we believe when you feed the competitive spirit...

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they very withstood political criticism forever weeks and living outdoors, as well. but can the occupy wall street crowd endure snow and winter-like temperatures in well, that's a scene in new york's park. that was earlier today where protesters are gearing up for a cold, wet night right now. they were gearing up then and the cold night has set in. earlier i spoke to dorian warren about where the movement is headed, a professor of political science at columbia university. could the bad weather end up doing what police and city officials couldn't, fours the occupy protesters to go home? >> i don't think so. i think as we've seen from the footage earlier today, i think they're committed to staying out there through the snow, through the cold weather with or without generators. i think they're out to stay not only in gua ucotti park but

across the countries. >> we've seen several cities crack down, oakland, california, among the most dramatic. any signs the movement is fading? do you think it's still growing? >> i think it's still growing precisely because people are becoming more and more upset about the response of the police, for instance, to the protesters. i think the oakland incident has galvanized people even more so than it would have if there wasn't tear gas and other perceived forms of brutality against the protesters. >> again, we talk about the weather and what impact that will have on movement as the weather starts to get bad across the country, meaning colder and probably a lot of snow, a lot of inclement weather. there's the radar there. we saw our chad meyers who was out in york, pennsylvania, susan in new york. it looks bad. york got tons of snow, new york about an inch and a half. when you're outside and don't have generators, that makes you cold. as i said, they can always go home but they are choosing to do this. we should be concerned about it.

if it gets really bad, their lives could be at risk. >> yes. >> a lot of people compare this movement to the protests of the 1960s. do you think that's an accurate comparison? >> i don't. i think the more accurate comparison is of the 1890s and 1930s populist movements. those movements had three key features that i think the occupy wall street movement has. the first was a focus on the common man or the common woman against the tiny elite. we are the 99%% mean actually corresponds to that historic historic function of populism of saying we are the common people against the elite. the second element of populism has to do with the demands people make. in this case, the protesters are pointing attention to wall street and saying economic inequality has grown too much and the political system is broken. the third element is to restore democracy, to restore some balance in the political system

so that the rules aren't rigged against those common people that are working hard every day and trying to get by. >> so here's my question. and you know, people say oh, well, you know it doesn't have a concise message. what's the message? what do they really want? in the end, that's what they want. but here's a question at some point, even the tea party just for recent comparison had to take their movement into the political system in order to evoke some change in order to make change. you have to do it through legislation and government. how much of an impact can they have just by sitting in parks all over the country? at some point, don't you have to have legislation make changes in laws, those sorts of things so that the behavior that they believe is happening doesn't happen anymore? >> absolutely. but let's remember actually the good example here is the civil rights movement. the montgomery busboy could the

began in 1955. five years later, students sit-s in on lunch counters. 1961, freedom rides. the big legislative gains didn't come till the '64 civil rights act and 1965 voting rights act. that was almost a decade after one of the key moments that started the movement for civil rights movement. we're only five weeks into "occupy wall street." so i think we need to wait a little bit longer to see how this movement -- will evolve and grow not only in this country but it seems like around the world. >> this day and time with how quickly information gets by, i don't think it should take that long but i think you're right, we can wait a little bit. but we'll see. appreciate you joining us. >> let's check your headlines right now. at least three people have died in a large snowstorm rolling across the northeast. nearly 2 million are without power tonight. close to 20 inches have

fallen in some places. the snow is the wet and heavy causing trees to split and branchs to fall off. states of emergency have been declared in new jersey, massachusetts and connecticut. the cold snowy weather didn't keep a group of lucky kids from trick or treating at the white house. there they are. the president and first lady hosted the annual event two days before the actual holiday and greeted local school kids with goodie bags filled with cookies, dried fruit and m&ms and printed with the presidential seal. there it is, the white house bathed in orange light. celebrating halloween and the little trick or treating ceremony they had earlier this evening. an emotional scene at rutgers university as one of their injured players returned to the football field. eric legrand, number 52, was paralyzed last october. saturday he led rutgers onto the field against west virginia in a