and ktvu's john sazaki has been there. >> reporter: take a look at 14th and broadway, city hall, that is close if you include everybody up on the broadway. probably close to a thousand people, folks waving their signs, this one says that war equals peace, of course there is some irony used in that sign. but this is -- where -- frank as you said, ground zero, i think a lot of people were referring to it as the epicenter of this occupy oakland movement. this is where everybody has kind of been staging before going out and -- going after the banks, trying to shut those down, going after the port, trying to shut it down. we have had upwards of 5000 people in this area at any one time. right now it is less because most of the people are at the port right now. but these folks are all claiming to be part of the 99% opposed to the 1% and the banks, believing that the banks took advantage of the bailout and then didn't help the people of america in the process. so there is a great deal of enthusiasm still going on here, although right now it is quite a bit -- quite a bit more mellow if you wil

among them, our reporter john sazaki, what is happening right now? >> reporter: i tell you, they're going in all directions from this area here at 14th and brooklyn. there were about 2000 people, including everybody up and down broadway, out in front of city hall, et cetera. so these people have been really rallying from here, going to the banks and i guess they went to whole foods as we talked about earlier in the show. and they just announced at the podium over there, that the first wave of marchers who headed towards the port actually reached the port. about 3000 of them as we showed you with news chopper 2. and according to folks here they have been surrounding the port in an effort to totally shut it down. as i told you a few minutes ago there is another wave of folks who are heading down there. so who knows when they will be there? the folks here are calling for anybody who is in a car or who has a car, to head down there as well to help out with the blocks that they're trying to put in place at the port. so still, a very, very fluid situation