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new york city councils a massive cleanup operation in the park where they've been camping. say they won't give up as the movement looks set to go global. and the european central bank says it's not done enough and it's time for governments to take the lead in saving the region's economies and spain becomes the latest nation to take it from. them. with more news for you more developments in less than fifteen minutes from now in the meantime the latest sports headlines with dmitri. i know they're welcome to the data and all to it's good to have a company again top stories this hour. and then there will for we preview this weekend some of the rugby world cup. closer and closer to the title in moto g.p. of casey's telling assess the fastest time in practice by his home grand prix at villa park and. into the semi david ferrer advances into the last of the shanghai. world. so huge weekend of rugby lies ahead with the world cup finalists emerging new zealand favorites the all blacks will battle australia on sunday but not before take to the field against france on saturday. report

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wall street protesters have won their first battle after a massive clean up effort by new york city officials was council activist against corporate greed considered it an attempt to undermine the month long rally. couple of at the center of events in new york. thousands at least two to three thousand and they're turning out here in sokoto park behind me the crowd is little bit smaller now they have gone on a protest i don't march near wall street we actually just got reports of a clash with police but the massive massive turnout is really fueled i guess speculation by the police departments by this and a stray shot in the mayors of the destruction here in new york that. with so much media attention so many people they really couldn't afford another instance like what we saw two weeks ago where unprecedented number of new yorkers were arrested as part of the wall street occupy wall street occupation so i think there was a lot of fear that flashes but it happened and part of all of this is the fact that these protesters most of the ones i've spoken to are determined to stay regardless of what the police d

[applause] >> i am a city council member in the new york city. i was here in 1992. at the end of the conference, i was working for the mayor. he said go find anything hill and invite your back for dinner at the mansion. i wanted to thank you for coming that night. >> thank you for finding me. >> you were terrific and as you are today. my question is, we try to stop cyber bullying and any kind of bullying in the schools. i know you are now supposed to be an expert on everything. as somebody who has taught for a long time, do you think as a country we are doing enough to stop the bullying? the you have some other suggestions? >> i think we are beginning to understand the issue of bullying. there was a piece in the new york times about why from people's perspective, why we are being bullied. my experience in terms of dealing with people with workplace issues is that in some ways there is really an analogy that what is going on in the workplace is an extension of the kind of bullying that happens to people when they are in school. as charles wrote today, in a lot of way

city council has offices. about 60 marchers left their encampment press their feelings for the demonstrators who have been arrested in oakland, california; atlanta; and new york city. >> we are marching to our city hall, other places across the country are marching to their city halls to stand in solidarity all over the country and the world. >> in this case the police escorted them to the wilson building and then back to the encampment and were prized by the demonstrators we talked with about being friendly to them. no arrests in dc. >>> the target, the homeless, the alleged attackers teenagers. that's a popular part of down. gary fletcher has lived on the streets of frederick for years, but ever since this summer, it's gotten very dangerous. groups of teens are out there harassing and attacking homeless men and women. bill boyd has seen his friends attacked. >> they pulled a knife out on somebody, like 25 of them, ganged all around us, and then they followed the other people down the creek, and that's when they got beat up and thrown in the creek. >> it's clothing and stuff. they take that and destroy stuff and take knives and cut it up if they can get ahol

building where the city council has offices about 60 marches leaving their encampment to join the occupy demonstrators. in confrontations with police in oakland, california, atlanta and new york city. >> we are here marching to our city halls as many people in occupied spaces across the country are marching right now to their city hall to stand in solidarity with the other occupiers all over the country and all over the world. >> police in this cases courted the marcheres to the wilson building back to the encampment on k and were praised for being friendly to the demonstrators. >>> the target the homeless. the alleged attackers, teenageers. frederick police say it is happening in a popular part of town along carol creek linear park. living on the streets of frederick for years but this summer it has gotten very dangerous. he says groups of teens are attacking groups of homeless men and women. he says he has seen his friends attack. >> they actually pulled a knife out on somebody. like 25 of them ganged all around us. then they followed the other people down the creek and that's when they got beat up, thrown in the creek. >> many they would get our clothing and everything. th

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[applause] >> i am a city council member in new york city. [cheers and applause] i was here in 1992. at the end of the conference, i was working for the mayor. you kindly came back to dinner, so i want to thank you for coming that night. >> thank you for finding a. >> you were terrific and as you are today. we spend a great deal of time now trying to stop cyber bullying and bullying in thes schools. as somebody who has taught for a long time and given your experience, do you think we as a country are doing enough to stop the bullying? >> i think we are beginning to understand the issue of napoleon. there was a piece in the new theytimes at todtoday about why are being bullied. my experience really in terms of dealing with people with workplace issues is that in some ways there is an analogy, that what is going on in the workplace is an extension of the kind of bullying that happens to people when they are in schools. as charles below road today, it is a lot of ways about identity, perceptions of whether someone is a masculine enough, whether

city council is expected to formally adopt the terms of the agreement on october 1th. >> well a protest against wall street turns chaotic and the actions by demonstrators on a new york andmark that led to hundreds of arrests. >>> a battle royal in east bay. the event that drew people from all over and how flynning these things around actually helped a good cause. >>> a mixture of sun and clouds across the bay area and coming up, areas with drizzle first thing in the morning and when the two storms will be moving into the forecast area. look, every day we're using more and more energy. the world needs more energy. where's it going to come from? ♪ that's why right here, in australia, chevron is building one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world. enough power for a city the size of singapore for 50 years. what's it going to do to the planet? natural gas is the cleanest conventional fuel there is. we've got to be smart about this. it's a smart way to go. ♪ looks like it's bumper to bumper on the interstate. i gotta get to cleveland! remove your belt, your watch, your shoes. i wonder what gas costs today. seven dollars for a pillow! an extra bag costs what? i h

city council, a woman of juneau, alaska. who else? where? georgia. who is from georgia? oh, georgia, yes. there is april from georgia. she was our tech person, helping with all the presentations. new york, ok. whoo-hoo-hoo. who else iso elseh, new york, ok, i see you. we have somebody from pittsburg. who else? texas. yay, ok. who else? what other states are represented? oregon. where is maria? maria is from oregon, right? oh, washington state, sorry. who else? ok, good old california. san francisco, daly city, concord, danville, oakland, vallejo, san diego. oh, we have the honorable arlee from san diego. come on, thank you. who else? hercules, california, yay. you know, this evening is really the mayor's reception, the san francisco bay area mayor's reception. did you know that there are three women members of fwn and honorees of the 100 most influential filipino women are mayors in the san francisco bay area? yay. i want to call up here -- come on up here, mayor of hercules, california. she was in the summit in 2006. do you want to tell the story ? >> congratulations to the 100 most influential filipino women. i attended first in 2006. and i was a planning commissioner then and i want

street demonstrations so far the ongoing city council demonstration charging wall street banks has already lasted for almost five weeks or tees off is in new york to follow it for us her report contains some footage of strong strobe light and so be careful if you are sensitive. well we know that about a hundred and seventy five protesters were arrested early in the morning in chicago there were several hundred they were camped out in what was called a grant park they had ten set up very similar to what's been going on all across the country but police officers there have given the order to vacate by eleven pm they have not done so and so we witnessed these officers coming in cutting down tents and of course and portion of the arresting those who would not be king and this is very similar to what we saw develop right here in new york city as we were reporting earlier in times square there were massive standoff between police officers and protesters we saw police officers on horseback riding and right up really well close to where the protesters were scaring people a stomping on some people we saw a united police on scooters sort of going into th

city council is expected to formally adopt the terms of the agreement on october 1th. >> well a protest against wall street turns chaotic and the actions by demonstrators on a new york city landmark that led to hundreds of arrests. >>> a battle royal in east bay. the event that drew people from all over and how flynning these things around actually helped a i couldn't afford my health insurance anymore so i just started wearing this helmet instead... which, you know, it's... to me it makes sense. i mean, it can get awkward sure, when you're meeting new people but i just explain to them that i wear it because i dropped my insurance plan, and they're like wow, this is a smart guy. i mean they don't say that out loud, but... [ male announcer ] we know it can be tough out there. that's why we offer a wide range of plans for a wide range of budgets. blue shield. . >>> a chaotic scene in new york city today as 700 demonstrators taking part in that "occupy wall street" moment moved their demonstration to the busy brooklyn bridge. the demonstrators were trying to walk across the bridge. hundreds were arrested. for the past two weak the demonstrators have staged large protest

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[applause] >> i am a city council member in new york city.eers and applause] i was here in 1992. at the end of the conference, i was working for the mayor. you kindly came back to dinner, so i want to thank you for coming that night. >> thank you for finding a. >> you were terrific and as you are today. we spend a great deal of time now trying to stop cyber bullying and bullying in thes schools. as somebody who has taught for a long time and given your experience, do you think we as a country e doing enough to stop the bullying? >> i think we are beginning to understand the issue of napoleon. there was a piece in the new theytimes at todtoday about why are being bullied. my experience really in terms of dealing with people with workplace issues is that in some ways there is an analogy, that what is going on in the workplace is an extension of the kind of bullying that happens to people when they are in schools. as charles below road today, it is a lot of ways about identity, perceptions of whether someone is a masculine enough, whether someon

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by there the city council also supports the occupiers even the mayor just a few days ago sent down ponchos to protesters when it was raining. this is very different than places like new york where the mayor mayor bloomberg has said it time and time again that he's concerned what could come out of this he says it could even be riots or in boston where we saw just a few nights ago brutal crackdowns by police so i want to take a look at the movement through the eyes of needle lopez she is a protester at occupy l.a. she's in our studio there in los angeles right now either nina give me your take what are you been seeing over the last few days in terms of this movement on the west coast. a lot of. a lot of really beautiful community everything that's been built thus far is kind of incredible and it's a little bit different i suppose in the movements that are going on in other places because we don't have the police matelote to deal with so it's nice not aspect also a lot of a lot of people standing up for what they believe in tell me this you know a lot of people look at this movement and they say you know i get it the people in new york are angry at wall street people in wash

new york. 47 minutes after the hour. eyes are on gadhafi's hometown. zain verjee from london. the battle still being fought in sirte. how important is that city to their national transitional councilhat they're saying when the fighting in sirte is over and it falls they will declare a transition and libya under moammar gadhafi is over. symbolic because sirte is the last bastion for the stronghold supporters for moammar gadhafi fighting. that and bani waleed. there were members saying when sirte falls and libya is in a transitional phase after that happens that they don't even want to stand but this is so crucial, sirte because it is so symbolic. >> so an the world to kim jong-il's grandson. a facebook celeb he was. what about this? this very closed society and the grandson on facebook? >> yeah, the hermit kingdom, the world's most secretive country but guess what, there is some kind of a facebook scandal going on whether it's a school facebook page or his own facebook page, kim jong-il's grandson has this facebook page and the south korean media are reporting this and they have been picking over his blog and these pictures, apparently he's 16, he likes american movies. he also lik

what we tried to do in new york city, but the program has been suspended because of budget cuts, but we asked the city councilfigure out a stipend for each teacher which they would used directly for supplies for kids. even with that, teachers were paying $2,000 out of their own pockets for their kids. that is who we are. host: christine, republican line. caller: i was in pennsylvania, have lived through a teachers strike. i have also been fortunate enough to have kids graduate from public and private school here. i can tell you the difference. the private school teachers make very little money, less than half the salary of public schools. my neighbor happens to be a public schoolteacher, makes a six-figure salary, teaches second grade in the public- school system, and is not allowed to tutor children on school property. she has to do so in the public library or in the child's home. she charges $60 an hour. i had a child taking ap calculus in a private high school in the area, falling behind, and the teacher had a six-hour session in her home for free. that is a private school teacher. my son could not attend

council for an american-efficient economy. snappy music there. california dropped to number two, followed by new york and oregon. >>> we've seen arrests this week in oakland and some other areas as cities crack down on those occupy protesters. in new york mayor michael bloomberg says there are no plans to move the protesters out. as mary snow reports, police are cracking down in a different way. >> reporter: an unexpected wake-up call for occupy wall street protesters. >> city law does not allow for the storage and use of generators and fuel in a manner that threatens public safety. >> reporter: new york city firefighters accompanied by police showed up to inspect and remove generators and fuel containers the city says are a fire hazard sitting among the hundreds of protesters camped out in new york. both the city and protesters say there were no resistance. among people like nicholas isabella who shot this video, it's raised suspicions. >> i think the city, while they publicly say we're allowed to be here, internally they're trying to find ways to wean us out. this is their way of doing that. >> reporter: new york city mayor michael bloomberg during an interview said the generators an

city council back in 94. and he was so faithful to you. he was everything they needed came to me in the right time. we defied "the new yorkrs and applause] and so, i walked away from the campaign and the successful election knowing it is not the power, if the prominence. [applause] and so what i would ask of all of you today is, pray for all of us in elected office. we are up against a titanic struggle right here and now. last week in our foreign affairs committee, we voted to define the u.n. population control, the $50 million. [cheers and applause] and if you could hear the arguments on the other side, you would have a sense in you will notice from which you here come a of opera begins. beyond not in the cr debate, what astounded me about continuing resolution debate early in march was that the white house and the democrats drew the line in the sand about the funding plan parenthood. they would've defended our military before they would it defunded land parenthood. that is the titanic struggle that we are up against, but two different visions for this nation and the two very just completely up to approaches on how we sh

what we try to do in new york city was we had a program that has been suspended because of the budget cuts called teachers choice. we asked the city council to figure out a stipend for each teacher which they would use directly for supplies for kids. they were paying $2,000 out of their own pockets for kids. that is who we are. host: a call on the republican line. caller: i live in pennsylvania and lived through a teachers' strike and it brings the neighborhood to its knees. i can tell you the difference between public school and private school. private school teachers make very little money, less than half the salary of the public school teacher. my neighbor happens to be a good teacher and happens to be a -- makes a six-figure salary and teaches in the public school system and is not allowed to tutor children on school property. has to tutor them in the public library or at the child's home. charges $60 an hour. i had a child who is taking ap calculus in a private high school in this area, was falling behind and the whole class was falling behind. the teacher had a six-hour session in her home for free. that is a private school teacher.