we will take you live to lower manhattan to zuccotti park in about 60 seconds. ex-penn state coach jerry sandusky admitting to showering with young boys but denying he's a pedophile saying he's only guilty of a serious lapse nl judgment. we'll have more on that in a moment. >>> herman cain has his own oops moment, gives a shaky answer to reporters about president obama's libya policy that included a very long pause. the campaign saying it was taken out of context and blaming a lack of sleep, but critics saying it's another sign he's clueless on foreign policy. >>> let's head to atlanta and get a check of today's weather, meteorologist rob marciano in the house. good morning, rob. >> good morning, carol. rough weather yesterday across the midsection of the country. one report of tornado and hail and wind. today that focus is going to be sliding the the south. the system itself is pretty big. here is the radar. it stretches into the northeast, will affect some of the areas north and east into new england and slicing back through texas. that's where we are seeing t

was occupying zuccotti park all day what were their demands. and i don't think they issued any prayer ok well jokes aside what you know what happened in court today and and and and i understand that just in the last catch in the live blog in the live stream from from the from the protest site that the the the people are back in the park now it's being reoccupied but what happened in court so what happened what was essentially the restraining order was denied but the argument coming from lawyers and mayor bloomberg lawyers was essentially the stats the protesters are welcome to stay there for twenty four hours they just can't camp out so essentially don't even argument returns. well and and i understand that there's a debate over whether or at least an hour ago i was hearing a debate over whether sleeping bags are allowed or not that they weren't specifically prohibited but you're nodding your head you have some information on that. just that the discrepancy is ongoing the lawyers in their press are after the judge issued his ruling told us that

here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture the many city that was occupy wall street in zuccotti park is now a shell of what it used to be but the ninety nine percent movement seems determined to prove that maybe location isn't everything and protesters all across the country to municipal elections and now lawmakers on capitol hill americans are taking a stand against corporate personhood so are the days of treatment for the nation's most powerful corporations coming to an end. you need to know this zuccotti park remains occupied at this hour but who knows how long it can go on that's because after yesterday's objection in court ruling forbidding occupy wall street demonstrators from bringing any tents tarps or camping gear into the park there are serious doubts as to whether or not the occupation can continue especially as the weather gets colder without tarps and tents and setting up medical centers setting up kitchens setting up libraries setting up communication centers finding more places to sleep all that stuff that made occupy wall street a self-sustaining community is gon

this is where cancer opted in zuccotti park police tore through the occupy wall street encampment to the big protesters camped out there now the massive arrest comes after police were told by the owner of the park the clear pecan due to health and safety concerns in manhattan judge just moments ago ruled protesters cannot return there with their tents mayor bloomberg has been keeping armed police and the parks as the city works out the legal battle this comes as the occupy wall street movement approaches its two month anniversary let's take a look now at some of the signature characteristics that defined the movement that two months in a little began on september seventeenth protesters are fighting corruption corporate greed and income inequality to name a few their motto we are the ninety nine percent they're protesting against the top one percent which they say lobby to make themselves rich or at the expense of everyone else and the movement also prides itself on being leaderless decisions are made instead by a people's assembly they've garnered support from left leaning celebritie

and they're back in zuccotti park. of scuffles a little earlier in the day, but as our mary snow was reporting to me just within the past hour, that things had dramatically calmed down after 100 arrests were made earlier in the day. but now things have changed in a dramatic fashion from some of the pictures we're seeing and what mary snow is describing. mary, go ahead and continue to describe what you're seeing. we're kind of at the mercy of this camera shot that is moving around right now and giving us, mary, specific views of what's happening down there on the ground. we can hear the chaos around you and see just a bit of it right now as well. >> reporter: yeah, and what we're hearing, t.j., and i'm not right in the middle of this, so we'll try to get more information about this, but it sounds like there may have been an altercation between a protester and a police officer and that's when this latest trouble started. and right now, what i'm seeing in front of me is the police are trying to put up these barricades aga

st louis to name a few and new york's zuccotti park the heart of the movement also clear for the firsttime since the movement began now many worry what's next for. occupy d.c. so one of the first things they did here is to clear this part of the park protesters tell me they've moved their tents closer to one another if they've condensed their efforts because they want to stay focused they want to stay organized i think there's a chance that some of the protesters on the other occupations around the country could wind up here on k. street because this is one of the last places a very few clashes with police in washington christine for the r.t. . so to have this syria get shutouts r.t. asks who's pulling the strings the arab league is taking a tough start on one of its own investigative outside influence in the decision to suspend syria. and the ban so you spacecraft safety brings its crew to international space station what's been no ordinary mission to getting a live update in a few minutes. a new number crunching leaders in greece and italy are getting it into the country's financial

machine was used against the activists that remained in zuccotti park in addition it's been very hard for the process and for members of the media to get to zuccotti park because as this week began new york city police department they had put barricades up all around zuccotti park to prevent the media or and anybody else from possibly coming in is not at least what is being reported and that's the way that it's being perceived if there is also as i mentioned reports of arrest reports of conflict between some police officers an octave is there were we had we do have images of the tents that have been in zuccotti park with these activists have been sleeping those ten tents being torn down by police officers and being literally carried out of the park with the activists saying these are our homes are not even explaining to us why why you're doing this now of course this is coming just two days ahead of a massive protest that's being planned to take place here in new york city on the seventeenth that was more than two months anniversary of the occupy wall street protesters now on the prot

was that those activists of the occupy activists can return to zuccotti park but without their sleeping bags without their tents without their tarps ultimately city officials have won this round because they have made life a lot more inconvenient for the occupy after this. 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 they get by the market go up to sleep because this is the momentum we did speak with some of the activists that can take a part of the work part. because what occurred at the stance of this campaign is not giving up it is maybe even inspired by the resistance that recently big force in american two month anniversary they say that the city can expect many more demonstrations throughout the spring freedom works i am urging. on the social injustice which the occupy movement is campaigning and it is hitting that young the hardest of the american students close to a trillion dollars in loans well in the hands of debt that's missed. decades of economic neglect is leaving the next

hundreds of police officers dressed in riot gear descended on zuccotti park and present it the activists that have been camped out there with the letter ordering them to temporarily evacuate the park and after this we're told that all the tents were going to be improved by the police officers police claimed it was a health issue and not the park needed to be inspected new york city police commissioner ray kelly was on scene for this episode as it unfolded this is the first time a new york city police commissioner has been president as police officers and occupy wall street activists. you know been confronted face to face this is been going on for two months but clearly this is the pinnacle of all the tension that has been taking place in new york city for the past eight weeks the protesters were told that they were would be allowed to return to the park but not with their property then when the police proceeded i with the evacuation we saw tents being violently ripped down ripped apart removed from the park the peaceful optimists that were there some were being dragged out of the park th

state farm. >>> looking at live pictures from zuccotti park. awaiting a ruling by the court on whether the protesters will be aloud to go back in. the middle of the night, the police came in and removed them. many of them under lots of arrest. now, we're waiting for a judge's decision whether those protesters will be allowed to go back in or not. we should get that decision fairly soon. we're all over this story. >>> other news we're following including some political news. as some of his republican rivals stumble, newt gingrich is surging. he's moved from back in the pack to becoming a front-runner. jim acosta caught up with him on the trail in iowa. jim is joining us now. how did he react to this new status, jim? >> wolf, newt gingrich says his recent rise surprises even him. when we sat down with the former speaker, he said this candidly, last summer was the worst time of his political career. that was when his senior staff resigned, but all of that is now behind him. meet the gop's latest fresh face. newt gingrich. >> yesterday afternoon in

protesters out of camps in zuccotti park eyewitnesses claim pepper spray and tear gas were used on demonstrators seventy of whom were arrested the raid followed a pledge by activists to heighten action this coming thursday to mark two months since the movement began artie's maria port i was watching the events unfold in the big apple she joins us live with more so a lot of arrests have been made what are the latest developments well the latest developments matt is that right now five hours after the new york city police department made a precedented surprise of the occupy wall street headquarters activists are being allowed back into zuccotti park what has happened in the past five hours is probably from a scene arguably from a bad movie because this began with hundreds of protesters many hundreds of police officers rather many in riot gear descended on zuccotti park handing out notices to the activists from the park's owner brookfield properties saying the park how to be cleared out because it has become unsanitary and hazardous this is according to the property owners now these activists that

st louis to name a few and new york's zuccotti park the heart of the movement also clear for the first time since the movement began now many worry what's next for occupy d.c. so one of the first things they did here is to clear this part of the park protesters tell me they've moved their tents closer to one another they say they've condensed their efforts because they want to stay focused they want to stay organized i say there's a chance that some of the protesters from the other occupations around the country could wind up here on k. street because this is one of the last places a very few clashes with police. in washington christine for south r.t. . well for the law new york situation is talk to alex for tully's an associate professor of sociology at brooklyn college in new york very good evening you've watched the protests i gather you've seen a lot of fold you've seen their determination to make their mark of now activists will be banned from camping out overnight is that really they're going to stop these people from continuing their campaign do you think. i don't think so i thi

jonathan hunt is around zuccotti park. it is still cleared, right? >>jonathan: it is but there is a sense of anticipation the last few minutes, a marked rise in tension as we await that judge's ruling on whether the protesters will be allowed to come back to this park behind me. look at it right now: you can see inside the park now the only people are orange vested and yellow vested security guards and members of the new york police department. some of them wearing riot helmets and they are obviously all right at this second waiting for that decision. the protesters left this park earlier today and they gathered in other parks around downtown manhattan, but, many of them now are going to move back here in anticipation of that ruling which could come in the next few minutes. >>shepard: jonathan, protesters and journalists are saying the cops were heavy handed. >>jonathan: well, the protesters are saying the cops moved in, very heavy handed fashion, pushing them violently and claims that tear gas cannisters were fired and we cannot independently confir

well at this point the protesters have been allowed back into zuccotti park they are back on to their camp grounds but it is no longer a campground as you mentioned supreme court a state supreme court judge here in new york decided that. occupy wall street protesters can no longer pitch tents inside zuccotti park and they are not allowed to use generators to keep warm nonetheless there was a huge crowd that was standing around the perimeter all day long of sukiyaki park and then finally elite this evening once it got dark the police that were manning the barricades that kept the zuccotti park essentially empty except for the police inside of it the police finally open the barricades let the protesters back in it was a large crowd about a thousand people they were happy to be back clearly they were disappointed with the judge's ruling because the activists that i spoke with feel that the city is doing this on purpose to discredit and try to compromise the occupy wall street movement particularly because it's grown so large so wide so loud in just eight weeks but despite the the raid th

it began at zuccotti park in downtown new york, or lower manhattan and jonathan is there.'t know to they have dispersed and are waiting for the afternoon activities including the subways and the bridges. do you know? >>jonathan: essentially what they are doing is splitting up and taking their message to various points all across manhattan. there are a couple of hundred protesting at the berth police of the movement in zuccotti park downtown manhattan and hundreds more marched north of broadway toward union scare and others are at various subway stations around the citying trying to educate others about the message they are trying to get out but the major flash point in manhattan, likely to come after 5:00 p.m. tonight when the protesters say they will gather in the thousands at city hall and try to march across the brooklyn bridge and you remember well a few weeks when they did that same thing there were hundreds of arrests. that is the me terrible -- that is the potential flash point. >>shepard: this is america. to express yourself in this way is a uniquely american tradi

to the left is new york's zuccotti park. hundreds of protesters have gathered there with a plan, at least, to march across the brooklyn bridge later this afternoon. we are keeping a close eye on all these protests across the country as well as our ireporters who have some amazing pictures and stories themselves. we're going to have more of that after a very quick break. [ artis brown ] america is facing some tough challenges right now. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project in canada, we'll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils and that's a huge breakthrough. that's good for our country's energy security and our economy. but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your w

we're continuing to follow developments out of new york's zuccotti park this hour. police have moved in. they moved in during the early hours of tuesday morning to begin clearing occupy wall street protesters from the park. many began chanting and putting up resistance. they've been using the park as their home base since september now. in a tweet the new york mayor michael bloomberg said the evacuation is only temporary and the protesters can return after the park is cleared. you're looking there at pictures, live pictures. this is not the park, but police have sealed off the streets around the park. we spoke to our poppy harlow about 30 minutes or so ago who said she could get to within about 1 1/2 blocks of the park. we can go back to poppy. she joins us on the line. poppy, tell us what have you been hearing from the people who were at the park at the time about the removal process, and what happens now? >> reporter: that's a very good question, andrew. i've spoken on the phone and in person with a number of the protesters that were in the park, some i spoke with

a surprise sweep of the wall street occupy movement in zuccotti park.ing they can return once the park is cleaned but without tents or sleeping

and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture protesters in zuccotti park are being bombarded by an unwelcome group who occupy ors the homeless and drug addicts it barely come courtesy of any p.d. so is this true and if so one of the tactics will be york's finest using the term of the moment the movement and the people's choice and voice finally be heard in the grease. economic turmoil prime minister george papandreou says he will not pay off the bank's tears crashes country without a national referendum so how are the banks going to respond to this. you need to know this occupy nashville patriots got a boost from the courts yesterday as a federal judge struck down a law passed last week aimed at shutting down the occupation of the new ten pm curfew after a weekend of ongoing police raids and mass arrests as the result of this new law u.s. district judge alito trotter put a stop to the crackdowns ruling yesterday that the state of tennessee could no longer enforce the law after the ruling a legal director of the tennessee a.c.l.u. trisha hertzfeld said the state cannot arbitra

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here is the latest from zuccotti park. >> reporter: the protesters remain here at zuccotti park. some are standing up, others are sitting down, a few laying down though none of them have their sleeping bags, tents or big backpacks around them. the police here putting a perimeter around zuccotti park, making sure protesters who do come in do not bring any of those items. there are also private security guards here making sure the peace is kept many protesters, as you can imagine, decided not to spend the night here. they went to local churches and other shelters. all of this unfolding after mayor bloomberg decided late monday night with little warning to break down this makeshift tent settlement. he decided to have police come here, break down the tents, put them in the garbage and actually keeping the media away from the scene. the mayor saying that was to keep all here involved safe from whatever may have unfolded. over 150 protesters were arrested as a result. again, right now protesters, though, preparing for what was going to be their two-month anniversary of occupy wall stre

zuccotti park was totally cleared. here's the thing. like at cal, like everywhere so far for the last couple months, the protesters are already back. after taking temporary refuge last night in nearby foley square, in the immediate aftermath of the police raid, at daybreak, people came back to zuccotti park and said no matter what happened, whatever specific box they were boxed out of for the time being, they were not going away, they were not leaving. >> on a practical level, what happens now? what's day one, what's day two? >> i'm going to stay here and i'm going to put my tent right back up. we show them that we are not just words on internet screen. we are people. and we are willing to put ourselves in pain and misery to put our point across. >> how important is the occupation to occupy wall street? >> i think it's very important. this is the location, this is the scene of the crime. and we need a critical mass of people. when people get together and they talk face to face and have a library and people are coming down to talk and or

let's remember in zuccotti park be occupy active is built on library of first aid center a cafeterias invention a kitchen a media center so anything that can be removed was removed by police when this all rocked it out one am in the morning police set up barricades making it very hard for any members of the media and the press that want to get down there to work or done a story to witness what was transpiring actually access the site but as i mentioned these these activist the occupy wall street actually is are being allowed back into the park now according to city officials they can continue to be in the park but they are not allowed to bring tents their sleeping bags there for talks there and clearly those conditions are going to meet a very difficult for the activists to comfortably occupy the tower when the winter weather really settles in in the next few weeks and there have been similar raids in other u.s. cities as the clamp down on protesters changing into a higher gear a major it certainly has there's no denying back we saw that there was an evacuation of the occupy camp in o

has occupied zuccotti park and are wondering what their demands are so they have moved back into the park have they taken their tents and their gear along with them i don't know to tell you the truth if that's happening actually as we are speaking right now ok and you know you were there when it all went down when police started the raid tell us what the scene was like what did you see well it was difficult for me because i wasn't actually at zuccotti when the police raided so i came immediately down at about two am and walked around tried to get access to zuccotti but the entire park was blockaded around there's a two block to block radius preventing blockades at each. preventing you know any kind of movement so at each of these blockades i was on broadway there was basically a line of riot cops the streets were lined with police vans i mean i've never seen so many police vans and of course you know the accumulation of protesters increased at broadway so to the n.y.p.d. we basically heard the chanting going on we heard we saw you know from far away two blocks away what was going on

what's happening down at zuccotti park? joining me now from the location in lower manhattan is nbc news correspondent mara schiavocampo. what's happening down there tonight and what is the mood of the crowd after the raid? >> reporter: ed, right now they're holding a general assembly neating which is something they do every night. you may be able to hear shouts from them discussing issues. this is after a very emotional day. a lot of ups and downs today. after the raid early this morning, people were very upset, frankly angry feeling they had been mistreated and treated unfairly especially when denied access to the park after the temporary court order had been issued saying they should be allowed back in the park and back in with their belongings, their sleeping bags, camping equipment and the like. the city decided to keep them out all day waiting on a final ruling on that. when the final ruling came down, the crowd was joyous which is counterintuitive because they actually lost in court. i asked somebody about that, i sai

us has been cleared out and the new york court has banned demonstrators from setting up camp at zuccotti park after their tents were forcibly removed by police activists mounted a legal challenge and your thoughts decided they could only return without their tents or sleeping bags and a point now has the details. the scene here is a pretty park has literally been turned on its head and that's because all the occupied protesters and activists and supporters are standing on the outside of the park behind barricades and in the inside of the park a particular bridge over here occupying zuccotti park are police officers in riot gear police officers in regular uniforms and also what is believed to be private security on behalf of the property owners of the zuccotti park quite a stark difference from the past eight weeks that we've seen hundreds of occupy wall street baptist camps out there creating a community a community that's a get out the message about wealth inequality but of course that community watch shut down to say one am went off hundreds of police officers raided this area docking

the the park was blockaded and we were blocked from zuccotti by about a two block grammar around the park. and what did you see i mean what kind of what i saw was essentially wall to wall where we stand cops riot gear. i've never seen so many cars in my entire life every single parking spot was taken up and all around wall street i mean on it's a temper seventeenth you know the n.y.p.d. blockaded and occupied wall street and essentially you know they had mounted cops on wall street. and you couldn't really get anywhere near zuccotti so there was about a mass of five hundred people that ended up with humiliating applying broadway and they were eventually dispersed by a rush on the part of the n.y.p.d. towards them what's been the reaction from you when the other activists and you plan for any kind of resistance or anything like that well activists is a funny word to me most was these people actually aren't activists they're just normal ordinary citizens i'm not an activist some a citizen yes certainly resistance couldn't dissent yes i mean i think that americans have no choice but to

york has been raided and cleared out by the police hundreds of protesters who've been counted in zuccotti park for two months now been evicted offices reportedly used force to kick out some of the activists with witnesses suggesting pepper spray tear gas was used authorities removed all the tents citing health and safety concerns but the protesters say that's just an excuse to sabotage a massive demonstration they have planned for thursday out is more important i as the latest. here city mayor michael bloomberg says the first amendment protects free speech but not used. to occupy a park and this is why the billionaire mayor says that when activists zuccotti park they cannot bring any up their tents tarts or sleeping that. however the lawyers for the occupy activists say a working order has been issued to allow protesters to green. tents back to zuccotti park forty two reports of new york city judge said that mayor bloomberg bus show cause for the occupy wall street protesters from zuccotti park early tuesday morning when hundreds of police officers dozens of them clad in bright pierre mov

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officially marks two months since the ninety nine percent movement kicked off in lower manhattan zuccotti park and despite mayor bloomberg as midnight raid on the part two days ago the movement is stronger than ever just look at what's happening across america today this was the scene in new york city where thousands took to the streets to literally occupy wall street they were met as usual by n.y.p.d. cops in riot gear upwards of two hundred people were arrested for engaging in civil disobedience and there were more widespread reports of police brutality and injured protesters. and this was the scene in los angeles where thousands of people met at a local bank of america and march through downtown l.a. shutting down traffic mass arrests reported there too and this is what happened in the nation's capital today it's time to shut down traffic and march through the city so needless to say it's been quite a birthday for occupy wall street good me first to recap what she saw in the streets of new york city is lucy capping off a senior t.v. news producer with r.t. america lucy welcome i am sur