we are awaiting a news conference from new york city mayor michael bloomberg. we are hearing it is terrorism related. more information, though, coming in ahead of that news conference which is playing about 21 minutes from now. i want to go now live to our new york city newsroom from laura engel is standing by with some of the details that are starting to come in. laura. >> hi, harris. we are monitoring all the local reports right now. what we can share with you is apparently this was a man who was arrested yesterday here in the new york city area. he had a plan, according to our sources to build and detonate a bomb in new york with they say government workers, returning military personnel and elected officials as the target. again we are waiting for this news conference for confirmation on all of this once we hear it from mayor michael bloomberg, commissioner kelly and the manhattan district attorney, cyrus vance. we understand the defend is jose. they are describing it as a lone wolf scenario. he lives in new york with his mother. again, in 20 minutes we've g

will join michael bloomberg in the press conference.t to go anywhere because we want to know what is going on leading up to the thanksgiving holiday. let's talk about the weather. it is from minnesota. the state's first major snowstorm of the season left up to a foot of snow in some places. state trooper had to guide a snowplow through the traffic jam on 94. a wreck shut down the highway for about two hours. now the snow is moving out and rains are moving in. unbelievable, jackie. it is the first snowstorm. don't expect the first snowstorm to be that big. think it will be a little snowstorm. but this, leading up to the thanksgiving holiday, may provides some travel woes for a lot of folks. >> it will take a little bit to melt the 12 inches. so a little freeze going on. minnesota will be a problem. the system that caused the snow is stalling out. it is producing severe weather on the southern end of it. we have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect which includes dallas-ft. worth. large hail, damaging winds is the primary concern here. u

. >> if you were just joining us, we are still watching now mayor michael bloomberg here in new york city make the announcement both here and in new york, on the post and to the world that they have arrested a 27-year-old al-qaeda sympathizer. they are laying out their evidence against this manthey say they had to move in quickly on him yesterday because he was getting ready to do what they call drilling the holes for bombs, that there were targets here in new york city. we've been monitoring this for the better of twelve, thirteen minutes. you see the commissioner of police, ray kelly, at the podium now. he's taking questions from local media here in new york about exactly what evidence they have taken from this man's apartment in northern manhattan. what we know about him, his name is jose pimental. we've learned he's an unemployed native to the dominican republic, a convert to islam, a u.s. citizen. made his friends and family nervous over the last year or so that they have been watching him with talk about want to go change his name to osama husein in honor of what he called his

their fracking endeavors next and what republican governor is happy to oblige and what did mayor michael bloomberg learn from former egyptian president hosni mubarak you for clearing out zuccotti park in the lineup the answer coming up in tonight's delete. the. last week environmentalist movement scored a big victory when the white house pushed back a decision on the trans national he stone x.l. pipeline already the company building the pipeline trans canada has agreed to reroute the pipeline to avoid some environmentally sensitive areas but while the environment might be saved in this instance there is very much still out on that it's in danger in ohio governor john k sick who got shellacked at the polls last week and saw his signature anti-union law repealed went ahead with another very unpopular initiative in ohio fracking in state parks despite so. seventy percent of ohioans opposing drilling on public lands he says argued that his state will not quote walk away from a potential industry and work and looking like a six campaign contributions you can see why he's not walking away from the oil a

so last night completely unannounced new york mayor michael bloomberg sent in the police to clear out the protesters out of the car the park and this time the mainstream media decided not to ignore it what was happening and they actually gave it a little bit of coverage this morning so by wall street protesters were thrown for a loop at one morning when police called for surprise so we could totally cleared out so called the park so they're out of fish or headquarters maybe shut down for now but that is not stopping hundreds of occupy wall street protesters there were. we were caught in the middle of some of them here on between protesters and between police officer michael bloomberg saying the first amendment does not give anyone the right to take over a part of a can't work taking place there one hundred arrests overnight according to the new york city police department the new york judge issued a restraining order that would seem to benefit the protesters a court issued an order prohibiting the city from enforcing laws that were put into place after they started off the park not on

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a judge has upheld mayor michael bloomberg's ban on bringing sleeping bags or tents to zuccotti park and camping there overnight. legal analysts expect occupy wall street to appeal the decision. the verdict comes 15 hours after police evicted demonstrators from the plaza due to concerns about public health and safety. mayor michael bloomberg says it's also an issue of fairness. >> there is no ambiguity in the law here. the first amendment protects speech; it does not protect the use of tents and sleeping bags to take over a public space. >> reporter: although many protestors left quietly, some refused to leave and were arrested. >> disobey your order! disobey your order! >> reporter: it's not just new york police cracking down on demonstrations and enforcing public park rules. there have been similar moves in oakland, california, and elsewhere. now, the question is whether the movement will start to lose momentum, or will today's legal decision drum up more public support? already a series of gatherings are already planned for thursday, the two-month anniversary of the movement. >> t

new york mayor michael bloomberg said the camp had become a health and safety hazard. there have been reports of businesses being threatened and complaints about noise and unsanitary conditions. >> reporter: tents and tarps were confiscated. the park's stone steps washed clean. beth joy has been participating in the protest for three weeks. >> it makes me sad to know that they're attempting to crush an idea but you can't crush an idea in one square block of manhattan. >> reporter: but in the last week, officials in portland, denver, and oakland have evicted protesters from occupy campsites. in an interview with the bbc, oakland mayor jean quan said she consulted with other mayors about a course of action. >> reporter: quan's remarks have stoke it had suspicion of protesters who were there's a coordinated effort under way to end the occupy demonstrations. was this a preemptive strike? >> i assume so but it was badly calculated because it's only going to galvanize us. we're only going to be stronger because of this. >> reporter: we asked mayor quan's office for more deta

a tweet the new york mayor michael bloomberg said the evacuation is only temporary and protesters can return after the park is cleared. the park has been a tent city since protesters moved in back in october. poppy harlow joins us live from the park. tell us what's going on. >> i've been here for about 2 1/2 hours. i got here at about 1:30 in the morning after getting a call from one of the protesters. the sentiment down here, it's not believed they will be allowed back in the park. they believe they won't be allowed back in. what you see to my right are a number of protesters, other people who woke up in the middle of the night or who came down to witness what was going on. what you see here to my left is a barricade and a number of new york city police officers here in full riot gear. this is the separation line. we're about a block and a half away from zuccotti park where the occupy wall street movement started in september. we have not been allowed past the police barricade. we've tried at a number of locations to get into the park for the last 2 1/2 hours. we have not been told w

property inside was destroyed and the books the food and medical supplies new york city mayor michael bloomberg said the park needed to be evacuated temporarily for health concerns are you concerned that it was becoming up concert and so the park was cleaned out mayor michael bloomberg said that these activists could go back it but not that they're sleeping that stop their chances are making it much harder for them to withstand the cold temperatures in the coming weeks and the op people have been street movement a movement that and marking its two month anniversary on thursday. many people believe that that is the reason why the advice he keep not conducted sweeping because this is the momentum that he did speak with some of the activists that taking part of them were part of the result is somewhat of hurt as it stands still this campaign is not giving up it may be even inspired by the resistance that recently faced the force when it marks its two month anniversary they say that the city could expect that many more demonstrations took up the street freedom or not. but it's certainly been a turb

and michael bloomberg is very quietly going around hiring people including a lot of. people who worked in the hillary clinton campaign and he's a political independent now and you know i think there may be a possibility that he may be mere wanting a third party campaign he doesn't have to you know he does have to go out there and raise money he can just wait for these republican stooges and dunces to knock themselves off and for mr obama to keep on just doing what he's doing which is pretty much nothing and then you know will be in the spring or summer of two thousand and twelve and you know mr bloomberg may present himself as at a very interesting historical threshold moment so we'll see how that works out all right james howard kunstler let me ask your thoughts a bit of a thought experiment here for a second because you mentioned have corporations have the rights of individuals in america this is something that came out actually of the civil rights movements of the fifty's where there was a huge grab power by corporate america is that related to the power given over

second sucking spent in just a week new york mayor michael bloomberg said the. city. some of the behavior of the park tolerated left protesters fearing that new york police preparing to shut down the cards. the occupy wall street movement has cemented its presence here in zuccotti park for nearly eight weeks but now many believe that the city will try to evacuate demonstrators under the pretext of crime new york city mayor michael bloomberg is now accusing these activists of endangering the entire community saying they are failing to report crimes that are taking place here according to published reports the police have arrested seven people at zuccotti park on non protest related charges since early october now some crimes according to reports have been attempted rape and or rape the activists here say that they try to police minor infractions but when it comes to a very serious crime or violence by these activists say they do take reports to the police some media outlets have also reported that it is actually new york city police officers some at least that have enc

property inside was destroyed and the full to the food and medical supplies new york city mayor michael bloomberg said the park needed to be evacuated temporarily for health concerns he was concerned that it was becoming up concert and so the park was cleaned out mayor michael bloomberg said that these activists could go back it but not with their sleeping bags stopped their chances are making it much harder for them to withstand the cold temperatures in the coming weeks the occupy wall street movement a movement that and marking its two month anniversary on thursday. many people believe that that is the reason why the get by the time thing got to be pink because they made for the t.v. momentum he did with some of the activists taking part of the movement now work part time the event is what i've heard as you can see the campaign is not giving up it is maybe even been inspired by the resistance that recently big course when it marks the month anniversary they think that the city can expect many more demonstrations to come. more night. still to come on r t syria as syria gets shut out r.t. takes a

you need it in cleared because it had become unsanitary and hazardous to new york city mayor michael bloomberg said that he supported this decision and i'm quoting when it quoting him he said made no mistake the final decision to act was mine was mine and that's new york said city mayor michael bloomberg taking responsibility for what has been going on for six hours now the city says that activists will be allowed back in the park after it's cleared out but they will not be allowed to bring in tense cars or sleeping bags clearly need this circumstance a lot more difficult for for the activists to occupy the park with it wouldn't or whether approaching but for now hundreds if need be it need be now thousands of activists have marched about nine blocks north to our place called foley square and that is where unions are reportedly good will be showing up within the next hour to join protesters so if anything this have this is maybe a rally even more support for the for the for the movement but at the same time it has been a huge blow and speaking generally about the movement two months on and spr

are you just concerned that it was becoming a concert and so the park was cleaned out mayor michael bloomberg said that these activists could go back it but not that they're sleeping that stop their chance of making it much harder for them to withstand the cold temperatures in the coming weeks the occupy wall street movement a movement that and marking its two month anniversary on thursday. many people believe that that is the reason why the advice eat up and dropped it was sweeping really because this movement is gaining momentum pretty good to be with some of the activists that take a part of the movement that were part of the reason that is what occurred as it stands this campaign is not giving up it is maybe even been inspired by the resistance that recently things force one of marx's two month anniversary they say that the city can expect many more demonstrations about the work i was free for him or not or to. it's been a turbulent two months for the occupy movement christian facade looks at how it started and why it spread so rapidly across the u.s. . you could say it started with a whi