the flashlight into your bag to make sure you're not bringing anything in that you're not supposed to be. so they are doing that. and the things that they're looking for are the things that the protesters are not supposed to be bringing into the park. sleeping bags, personal belongings, any type of camping equipment. the things that would allow them to set up an encampment here in the way that they have been for the last two months. >> nbc's mara schiavocampo. thank you, appreciate it. one of our producers, arianna jones, was in lower manhattan last night, and these are the scenes that she caught on her camera. arianna, good to have you with us. tell bus what you saw down there. what was the mood of the crowd? how intense was it? >> when i got down there, i couldn't get within a two-block radi radius. they'd already formed kind of a police barricade. they were all in riot gear. they were pushing all the people that weren't still defending the actual park itself, they were pushing them back, basically saying we weren't even allowed on the sidewalks, it was a pedestrian area, you risked being arrested. people were pretty upset. there were people crying. but i was actually impressed