he's apparently upset with the rockland legislature.ty legislature cover up retaliation." he's been hanging 75 feet down from the bridge. the protester sitting on that sign is -- the sign is suspended from the bottom of a ladder hanging from the span. we're going to follow that. not exactly sure what his beef is. who he is. how strong that rope is or whatever he is used to fashion this sign and swing. it is a bit dangerous to be that high. that water is cold. we'll continue to check on that to find out exactly what's going on. and if there is some effort to get him down. how they are exactly going to do it? we'll let you know. >>> here's your chance to talk back now on some of the big stories of the day with people still waiting for their power to be restored in connecticut, today's question -- should utility companies be penalized for not restoring power in a timely manner? carol costello, live in new york. i'm sure overwhelmingly people go, heck, yeah, especially if it is winter and you're cold. >> you'd be surprised. we are getting s

that's in rockland county. the former government worker was hanging from a harness attached to a rope ladder. the man had a sign accusing rockland county officials of a coverup and retaliation. a county spokesman says that man was fired from his job because he couldn't get the job done. traffic was backed up for miles in the area. the man eventually dropped into the hudson river and was home on board a waiting boat. some dramatic new video surfaced of the confrontation between occupy d.c. demonstrators and people attending a conservative political event friday night. >> five demonstrators were hurt, and today, a few dozen people took to the streets to protest how police handled things. andrea mckaren is live with what uncovered today. andrea. >> metropolitan police chief has issued a statement saying the aggressive nature of the occupy d. c. protest last friday night warranted a change in police tactics to ensure public safety. we know that five demonstrators were injured, but until now, we have not seen what s

a spokesman for the rockland county executive says at this point we don't know who he is. we hope he comes down. and that's at this point really all we know about this protester hanging that sign there. but again you can see the live picture on the right side of your screen is the traffic that is backed up on that bridge. the left side of your screen is the protester. the protester there holding a sign hanging from the bottom rung of a ladder holding a sign talking about some sort of government cover-up. it's a 24-foot long blue banner with some yellow lettering that reads rockland executive cover-up retaliation. can't really make out what that means. but we can certainly tell you what it says. we'll keep our eye on that and our eye on the situation on the bridge and we'll pass along any new details as they become available. >>> time for the "your business" entrepreneur of the week. nina is using high-tech marketing to engage customers at her new york-based garnet wines and liquors. scanning the company's qr codes with their smart phones, her customers can learn about wine

rockland at largo. there's your full list right there.hat's where you'll go to vote. >>> finally tonight, the redskins could use some extra help, right? how about kevin durant? you know, he's trying to find something to do during the game day lockout. there's him all dolled up in his redskins gear. there's a redskins blogger that asked us if they would have him play in the resounding 81% who said yes. it sounds like the redskins nation is a little desperate. they've got him all in his gear there and he kind of looks like a football player, but maybe that's just his head. >> yeah, maybe. [ laughter ] >> they need whatever they could get. >> will it be a good football weekend? >> yeah, we'll let anybody play. >> exactly. >> cooling down the redskins. >> all right. we'll be ready. >> cbs evening news is next. good night.

police identify him as an exemployee of rockland county who is upset about his disability. >> magic johnsoning two decades living with hiv. he put a famous face on what is still a deadly disease and now johnson is ramping up his foundation's efforts to fight hiv and aids. >> wow, what a blessing. >> reporter: after 20 years living with hiv, basketball legend magic johnson has a message. >> i'm living but, people are still even today as we speak getting this virus. >> listen to this crowd. >> reporter: in 1991 in the middle of a super star career that included 5nba championships, johnson stunned the world. >> because of the hiv virus that i have attained, i will have to retire from the lakers. >> reporter: magic's announcement put an athletic face on hiv. brought diagnosis to a public attention to a disease that was thought to be deadly. new medications help johnson beat the odds and even head back on to the court. johnson was treated using a so called cocktail mixture of anti hiv drugs. >> what he gets in terms of his therapy is typical of what most american patients receive. so he is not t

in rockland county, new york, some parents will not let their kids walk alone to the bus stop.lame bear protection laws increased development and our sweet delicious garbage. while attacks are still pretty rare, if you not careful a bear could come along and swipe your trampoline. and now to the southeast newsroom. the bears are swiping trampolines now. >>reporter: keep your trampolines indoors, bear hunting is way up in recent years. but what has changed the past 4 years is it is regulated. people would just open fire on any bear they saw to get rid of a potential nuisance and experts say with legal hunting of bears, it could slow but not prevent the gradual migration to the suburbs. so get used to them. >>shepard: the question is what should those in the suburbs do to protect themselves? >>guest: wild life experts say if the bears are just passing through a suburban neighborhood they cause for problems. it is when they decide to hang around, and experts have these suggestions. >> if you know you have a bear in the area, take precautions to make the pet food unavailable. store

was hanging from the center span of the bridge this is 54-year-old michael davit, a disgruntled rockland county employee. he tied a ladder to his dodge ram pickup truck, which he parked on the side of the tappen zee bridge, climbed down about 75 feet, hung a banner out, wore himself an american flag bandana and sipped on a thermos, stripped down to his t-shirt and underwear. he feels he was wrongly terminated from his job. he previously worked for the department of mental health as well. >> this is quite a way to make a statement. >> it seems like if you're going to hang a banner with some kind of protest message on it it would be read by more people maybe if you hung it from a building. >> but it wouldn't get nearly as much media attention. at one point there were four to five helicopter circling from above. carrying this live. he was hanging there for about three hours. police began to lower his ladder down to the water. and before he could get to the boats, he took a digger. he jumped. police are throwing him life buoys and he was like, no, off he goes and he began to swim away. polic

he's protesting something about rockland county politics. that is what is on the banner there.can't. we did see some rescue workers, apparently try to maybe pull him up. they are trying to figure out what to do. they just arrived on the bridge. there are some boats below. he doesn't have a coat on, so janice dean the weather machine out of our fox weather center, jon, just told me that this is excellent weather for a dangler if you're going to have it, light winds, about 50 degrees, clear skies and you have the national news focusing on you. jon: this clearly is not a suicide attempt, but thinks no laughing matter. the people who go over the edge to pull him up are going to be literally risking their lives, the bridge high enough off the water this a fall down to the hudson can be fatal for him or for his would-be rescuers. we'll keep an eye on it. jenna: 140 feet from the bridge to the water, so you don't want to fall. and you probably don't want to rescue that guy either. we'll kind updated on what he's doing. he apparently has a rope in his hands now. it's hard to make out.

four for information visit rockland book festival.org. >> one, the most important lesson is that the most important thing to happen in the united states in the last 10 years was nothing. the last 10 years never saw another successful terrorist attack in the united states. and i think the most important question to ask is why and whether it was worth it. to me the most important decision was one that president bush made as commander in chief and chief executive on the very night of 9/11 which was to treat the 9/11 attacks as an act of war. i think the way we thought about it in the justice department at that time was that if any country had attacked us and the same way on september 11 fsoc qaeda did no one would have had any doubt so the only difference was a qaeda was not a nation-state. and important legal and constitutional issue was could we be at war with a non-nation-state? i think president bush made that decision for the country that night. that was an important decision because once you make that call them big united states can turn to the laws and rules of warfare to deal wi

decided my only option to my impeculiar situation was to join the situation if i wanted to get out of rockland, maine, and do something interesting. so one day i was down at the post office where the recruiters were, and i was going to go see the recruiters. well, the only one that was there was the navy recruiter. and i spoke to him for a while, real nice guy. first class allen, i can remember his name. i told him what i had in mind. i said, i'm going to quit high school and get out of town. he said, don't quit high school. stay in, and i guarantee you'll get a school. i said,ó-tç oh, okay. so i stayed in another two or three months, graduated and went in the navy, and the rest is history. but did choose to be a photographer's mate which is kind of the closest thing that i could think of that i was doing on the outside, and ended up later becoming a diver. >> you talk about what people thought about military service in the 1960s. can you explain how you feel it was viewed then and how you talk about it in your book? >> it was actually worse than what i talk about in the book. after, after i g

. >> rockland county. >> rockland county and you were wondering why isn't the traffic moving?wer for you. there was a guy who was fed up with his local government and he decided what efsz going to do, that's michael davit, who has been described as clearly troubled, he drove his van to the bridge, the middle part of it, lowered a rope ladder and then tied up traffic for miles. he thought the local government was in for him. >> he said he's been ignored and he wanted to get his story out. how he was laid off as a substance abuse counselor and he said it was a vendetta, i guess, and he wants his job back. no one was paying attention to him. so he thought i have an idea, let's hook a rope to the tappan zee bridge and pretend i'm going to jump. >> he's been protesting since 2008 when he lost his job, apparently, at nightly meetings in this county of new york state. that didn't give him the taejs -- attention that he wanted. i find it a little troubling that he was a substance abuse counselor. anyway, that's what his job was. now he's going to be in a little bit more difficulty. di

this guy is really, really upset with the rockland executive legislature because he says they cover up retaliation. what's it his sign is saying. that's the picture of bridge that he is apparently hanging over. we don't see him still there. all right. i'm don lemon. i'll see you back here little bit later on. randi kaye and the "newsroom" continues. >>> don, thank you very much. this is a live picture from harrisburg, pennsylvania where the state's attorney general and police commissioner are holding a news conference on what could be one of the biggest scandals to rock college sports. that is penn state. the shocking sexual abuse allegations against one of its famed former coaches, jerry sandusky and the alleged coverup that followed. that's where a grand jury says penn state athletic director timothy curly and gary schultz, the university's senior vice president for finance and business come into play. both resigned late last night and are about to appear in court to face charges. again, any moment now, actually right now we're hearing from the state attorney general and the police c

that is a westchester, rockland and putnam counties. we still have a ways to go, martha.tha: my neighbor said to me, martha, hello, you work in this business, what is being done to get our power back on. i wish i had an answer for them. do you have an answer, laura. >> utilities companies i have been speaking with them. they're not only using their own crews but in some cases bringing crews from out-of-state to help manage this mess. i spoke with the new jersey central power and light spokesperson they have 22 substations down right now. each substation represents thousands of customers. ron moreno tells me if you don't clec tryst crew in the neighborhood that doesn't mean they're not working on getting power back on at the substation. safety is number one priority for all utilities. >> one of our first priorities is to get out, make the roadways safe. cut down as much of the damaged wires and clear the trees so the roads can be freed up and then we come back and make repairs. >> martha, in new jersey, over 5,000 hazards or wires are down right now. you have to imagine wh