we're getting late word that protests at california universities have taken a new turn as police clear out angry student whose took over a campus building three days ago. but protests over rising fees don't show any signs of ending soon. plus the fight to pull people out of the ocean after a ferry packed with hundreds of passengers sinks. and one step closer to health care reform. what's next on washington's agenda for that bill. thanks for joining us at hln. we start at the university of santa cruz where that student takeover of a campus building has ended peacefully. about seven students avoided arrest when they surrendered. they had taken over the administration building three nights ago after the regents board approved an increase in fees. campus police presented the protesters with an ultimatum, vacate the building or face arrest. he said the students did leave voluntarily. the resolution of that situation doesn't necessarily mean protesters are ending their efforts any time soon. i-reporter daniel fontaine sent us this video from inside a building at the uc davis campus. fontaine works for the davis center as a producer. he says core members of a similar protest at ucla are regrouping and will meet tomorrow to set a form of action. senate democratic leaders have a week to enjoy the holiday and prepare for their next battle. their victory yesterday took all 60 votes in the deck crammic ka was. every republican senator voted against it. the senate is in recess until next sunday and that's when the fight over changing the senate plan begins in earnest. they will offer amendments to modify that part of the overhaul plan. senate republicans all oppose the public option. >> i think this bill is a disaster for our country. president obama said that it would be under $900 billion. it is not. president obama said it will not add to the deficit. it will. president obama said no one would lose the health care that they have, and they will. this is a terrible bill. >> all of us have made sure this bill pays for itself. we're embarking on something very new and very important, this health care bill, and we've all committed that it be paid for, something that hasn't happened in ten years. that is no longer business as usual, that's one of the reasons why this bill is the right way to go. >> the white house praised the senate for moving the health care plan forward. press secretary robert gibbs says the senate is one step closer to providing stability and security and expending quality health coverage to those who lack it. at least 29 people are dead and more are missing. a ferry went down in high seas that morning. so far rescuers have pulled more than 240 people from the water. the ferry sank 90 minutes into a trip. in recent years hundreds have died on fehrierries that connece islands. >> where were you when the shots rang out in dallas 46 years ago today. a former marine lee harvey oswalt was arrested for crime but he was killed before he could stand trial. a government commission headed by chief justice warren concluded he acted alone. no word yet on what caused a radiation leak at three mile island power plant. a spokeswoman said it happened while workers wither doing some maintenance work yesterday. she said the reactors were either shut down or offline so there's no danger to the public. fewer than 20 workers were contaminated but the spokeswoman said the amount of radiation they were exposed to was well below the limit. in 1979 this power plant had the worst nuclear accident in the u.s. >> the alleged ft. hood gunman will be confined in a hospital for now instead of being moved to a military prison. at a hospital hearing yesterday the magistrate ruled there was probable cause that major nidal hasan committed the shooting spree that killed 13 people last month. his status will also be changed to pretrial confinee, which means the military can move him to another hospital or jail. but his lawyer is not happy with the status change. >> there was really no immediate need, no compelling government interest to have to change his status. the manner in which we treat major hasan will directly affect the manner in which i think our system of justice in the military is going to be ultimately viewed. >> hasan's lawyer wants to make sure his son's medical needs are attended to before any proceedings. he's been at brooke's medical center since the shooting. he is paralyzed from the waste down. a major military exercise got under way today and it says it's designed to protect against any air attack, but especially against the nuclear facilities, and this comes just days after iran refused an international compromise about its nuclear program. president obama told iran there would be consequences if it didn't accept the plan. thousands of ultra orthodox jews are protesting the giant chip maker intel's decision to work on saturdays at its jerusalem saturday. police were expecting the demonstrators and confronted them when they arrived at the intel facility. a police spokesman reports some instances of violence and several arrests. israel says its warplanes retaliated for a rocket attack from gaza. israel's military says the plane struck two weapons factories and a tunnel used for smuggling. some rocket fire hid israel from gaza yesterday. they said they agreed to stop firing rockets after the attack. gaza is run by hamas and its borders are mostly sealed off. but israel says they still get weapons through underground tunnels. they're cleaning up the muck that a floodwaters left behind in northwest england. some people returned home to find everything covered in brown sludge. one woman said water marcs were six feet high across her living room walls. the floods have killed at least one person and more heavy rain is expected today. scientists will tell you genetics determines a big part of your life, but thanks to a new law, your genes will no longer determine whether you can get a job or insurance coverage. >> it was a terrifying few minutes as a 19-year-old girl waited on the phone with emergency operators while thieves broke into her house. eventually police were able to get her out of the house, but take a listen to this. >> they're coming as fast as they can come, okay? stay calm for me. don't scream. if they try to come through the door, what i need you to do is push a button and tell me, push a button so i can hear the tone but i don't want you to scream. >> luckily myself and the officer were in the area. we got there, i tapped on the window. if she didn't have the phone she may have thought it with us the bad guy and we may have never gotten her out of there. >> even though they were able to get her out of the house, they weren't able to keep the thieves from robbing it and so far they have not been caught. trapped for two days in a ravine. 17-year-old seemed to disappear. her friends and family began thinking the worse. they spotted a tree off the highway that appeared to be freshly damaged and they found courtney trapped in her car 40 feet down. >> we got to her. as i'm going down, i'm familiar with her and the family. i said, courtney, we've been -- you know, we've been looking for you. she said, i've been right here. it just was a big relief. it was a big relief for all of us. everyone did a great job. >> courtney was a little scare and thirsty and she was taken to the hospital with a few broken bones but is expected to recover. her friends said she swerved off the road to avoid a deer. a man in north carolina has been sentenced to life in prison for scaring a woman to death. on friday a jury found # 1-year-old larry whitfield guilty of causing the death of a 79-year-old woman by kidnapping her. he was looking for a place to hide after a failed bank robbery last year. he broke into her home. she died of a heart attack when she saw him. a bishop in rhode island is asking patrick kennedy to stop tanging communion because the congressman supports abortion rights. he told him he's not a good practicing catholic. he's confirmed he's asked kennedy to not take the sam rahment. he can't stop kennedy from getting it elsewhere. a new law will make it harder fehr or insurers and employers to base you on genetics. when it's fully enforced they will not be allowed to consider your genetic position. fire, or determine promotions based upon genetic make-up went into effect. the law, supporters say, will give people more peace of mind about using genetic tests for medical treatment without worrying that the results be used against them. it's the most sweeping federal antidiscrimination law in nearly two decades. scientists say they've made a huge breakthrough that could help end food short averages around the world. they've completed sequencing the corn gee nome, meaning they've mapped its genetic structure. it will provide higher yields. cover is the top crop grown in the united states. it's used in everything from breakfast cereal to tooth past to shoe polish, even ethanol. our sister network cnn hosted the annual heroes event. the star-studded event featured the top ten cnn heroes. anderson cooper named the 2009 hero of the year. >> it's my great pleasure to announce the 2009 cnn here of the year. the cnn here of the year is efren pen aflorida. >> he started a push car he uses his classroom as a way to keep kids from joining gangs. >> each person has a hidden hero within. you just have to look inside u you. and search it in your heart. >> it's going to be a great show. if you want to see the heroes all-star tribute, it will premiere on cnn on thursday night at 9:00 p.m. >> some things people post on twitter is out of this world. that's especially true for a tweet of the year. where he was when he posted 2009's top five nominations. sure ♪ ♪ she's sent here from heaven and she's daddy's little girl ♪ a special wake-up call for the space shuttle "atlantis." the song "butterfly kisses" in honor of astronaut bresnick. his wife gave birth overnight. while most expektant dads wait on pins and needles, he spent time installing outside of. he says both mom and baby abigail are doing just fine. a tweet from outer space has been nominated at tweet of the year. astro_mike is nasa's first astronaut to twitter before, dur, and after the mission. his first tweet from space is one of five competing in the 2009 open web awards, and that winner will be announced next month. how much of your life have you posted online? photos, blog posts, tweets, status updates? but if you ever wonder what happens to all of that when you're gone, brian schrader from our affiliate in north carolina had that very question. >> reporter: she's 9 months old and her mom and dad have posted a lot of pictures on facebook. it prompted tommy and his wife april to think about the big questions like how to take care of the family if one of them dies. but they also started to think about how they would handle their facebook and e-mail accounts. >> april knows the list of passwords that i rotate through frequently and i know the ones she uses. >> reporter: it's a question many of us will have to face. what kind of legacy do we want to leave behind on the web? >> you have a very rich identity, a very rich digital identity of who you are. >> reporter: they have created the digital bee beyond, a blog exploring what happens to your digital assets after you die. assets like all of those family pictures that people post on facebook. >> these are family heirlooms, these are things that survivors want to keep forever. >> reporter: but many of those sites are pass word protected and there may be aspects of your digital life you don't want others to know about. >> whatever you put out on the internet has the potential to outlast you. >> you're not going to be there to be able to be honest with somebody the world and say i want you to delete this account. >> reporter: romano says you need to pick someone you trust to be your digital executor. >> and thanks to brian schrader for that report. one piece of advice he got, when you given your executors your pass words and online accounts, make sure they have instructions how to retrieve valuable files from your computer's hard drive. the roads will be a little more crowded this weekend but the airways will not. they'll take to the roads during the holiday travel period. that's up more than 2% from last year. aaa expects about two and a third will take to the airlines. so how about a few more turkeys for your thanksgiving menu? well, our joy behar has a few for you and she even has some interesting guests, too, and, of course, laughs along the way. put some joy into your thanksgiving afternoon. turn into "the joy behar show" from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m. right here on hln. teen vampires are taking over this weekend as the latest movie in the twilight series debuts across america. our i-reporters are sharing their movie reviews with us. hear what they have to say about "new moon." we're getting late word that protests at california universities have taken a new turn as police clear out a campus building they took over days ago. but protests show no signs of ending soon. plus a fight to pull people out of the ocean after a ferry packed with hundreds of passengers sinks. and one step closer to health care reform. what's next on washington's agenda for that bill. thanks for joining us at hln. i'm holy firfer. we start where the students of a campus building has ended peaceful peacefully. the students had taken over the administration building three nights ago after the regents board approved a # 2% increase in fees. a school spokesman tells us campus police presented the protesters with an ultimatum, vacate the building or face arrest. he said the students did leave voluntarily. the resolution of that situation doesn't necessarily mean protesters are ending their efforts any time soon. i-reporter daniel fontaine sent us this video from inside a building at the uc davis campus. fontaine works for the uc davis tv station as an executive producer. eventually all the students were removed from the building as well. fontaine said core members of a similar one are regrouping and will meet tomorrow to consider a plan of action. he said their main goal is to get a meeting with top administrators. senate democrats have a week to enjoy the holidaying before they prepare for their next step. it took all 670 votes in the democratic caucus. every republican senator voted against it. the senate is in recess until next monday and that's when the fight begins in earnest. some don't support a public option. they will offer amendments to modify that part of the overall plachblt senate republicans all oppose the public option. >> i think the bill is a disaster for our kintry. president obama said it would be under $900 pl. it is not. president obama said it would not add to the deficit. will. president obama said that no one would lose the health care that they have, and they will. this is a terrible bill. >> all of us have made sure this bill pays for itself. we're embarking on something very new and very important, this health care bill, and we've all committed that it be paid for, something that hasn't happened in ten years. ha's no longer business as usual. that's one of the reasons the bill is the right way to go. >> the white house presented senate with moving the plan forward. press secretary robert gibbs says the senate is one step closer to providing stability and security to those with health insurance and extending quality health coverage to those who lack it. at least 29 people are dead and more than a dozen people are missing in a ferry accident off the coast of sumatra. it went down in high seas this morning. so far rescuers have pulled more than 240 people from the water. the ferry sank about 90 minutes into a trip between two islands near sumatra. in recent years hundreds of people have died in accidents on the ferries that connect the indonesian islands. this is one of those "where were you" days? where were you when the fatal shots rang out in dallas 46 years ago today? president john f. kennedy was killed as his motorcade passed through the city. lee harvey oswalt was arrested for the crime but he was killed before he stood trial. a commission led by chief justice warren concluded he acted alone. no word yet on what caused a radiation leak at three mile i lend. a spokeswoman said it happened while workers were doing maintenance work yesterday. she said the reactors were shut down or offline so there's no danger to the public. fewer than 20 workers were contaminated but the spokeswoman said the amount of radiation they were exposed to was well below the regulatory limit. in 1979 this plant had the worst nuclear accident in the u.s. the alleged ft. hood gunman will be confined at a hospital for now instead of being moved to a military prison. at a hospital room hearing yesterday a magistrate ruled there was probable cause that major nidal hasan committed the shooting spree that killed 13 people last month. his status will also be changed to pre trial confinee, which means that the military can move him to another hospital or jail, but his lawyer is not happy with the status change. >> there was really no meade need, no compelling government interest to have to change his status. the manner in which we treat major hasan will directly affect the manner in which i think our system of justice in the military is going to be ultimately viewed. >> hasan's lawyer wants to make sure his son's medical needs are aintelligented to before any criminal proceedings. hasan has been at brook army medical center since the shooting. he's paralyzed from the waist down. iranian tv say as may jar aerial military exercise got under way today, and it says it's designed to protect against any air attack, but especially against the nuclear facilities. and this comes just days after iran refused an international compromise about its nuclear program. president obama told iran there would be consequences if it didn't accept the plan. thousands of ultra orthodox jews are protesting the giant american chip maker intel insist tent on working on saturdays at its jerusalem facility. police confronted them when they arrived. a police spokesman reports some instances of violence and several arrests. israel says its warplanes retaliated from a rocket attack from gaza. israel's military says the plane struck two weapons factories and a tunnel used for smuggling. some rocket fire hit southern israel from gaza yesterday. gaza leaders say aed they agreed to stop firing after the attack. gaza is run by hamas and its borders are mostly sealed off, but israel says they still get weapons through underground tunnels. they're cleaning up the muck that floodwaters left behind in northwest england. some people returned home to find everything covered in brown sludge. one woman said water marks were six feet high across her living room wall. police say at least 1,300 homes had flood damage and the floods have killed at least one person, and more heavy rain is expected today. scientists will tell you genetics determines a big part of your life, but thanks to a new law, your genes will no longer determine whether you can get a job or insurance coverage. fire that broke out at atlantic city's famous boardwalk. it turned into a three-alarm fire and took more than 80 firefighters four hours to control those flames. thick black smoke poured out of the pier on the beach side of the boardwalk and several stores including a pizza shop were damaged. one police officer was taken to the hospital. it was a terrifying few minutes as a 19-year-old girl from florida waited on the phone with emergency operators while thieves broke into her house. eventually the police were able to come and get her out of the house, but take a listen to this. >> they're coming as fast as they can cocome, okay? stay calm for me. don't scream. if they try to gain entry into that door, what i need you to do is make sure you push a button and tell me. push a button so i can hear the tone, okay? okay. >> but i don't want you to scream. >> luckily myself and the officer were somewhere in the area. it was less than two minutes i got there. i tapped on the window. if she didn't have the phone, she may have thought it was the bad guy and we may have never gotten her out of there. >> wow. even though they were able to get heather taylor out of her house, they weren't able to keep the thieves from robbing it and so far they have not been caught. trapped for two days in a ravine. 17-year-old courtney tebow seems to disappear this week. her friends and family were beginning to think the worst but an officer with a sharp eye spot add tree off the highway that appeared to be freshly damaged and he found courtney trapped in her car 40 feet down. >> we got to her. as i'm going down, i'm familiar with her and the family. i said, courtney, we've been -- you know, we've been looking for you, kid. she said, i've been right here. it was a big relief. it was a relief for all of us. i mean everyone did a great job. >> courtney was a little scared and thirsty, and she was taken to the hospital with just a few broken bones but is expected to recover. her friends said courtney swerved off the road to avoid a deer. a man in north carolina has been sentenced to life in prison for scaring a woman to death. on friday a jury found 21 krrld larry whitfield guilty of causing the death of a 79-year-old woman by kidnapping her. whitfield was looking for a place to height after a failed bank robbery last year when he broke into mary parnell's home. parnell died of a heart attack when she saw him. a bishop in rhode island has asked representative patrick kennedy to stop taking communion because the congressman supports abortion rights. kennedy tells the providence journal bishop thomas tobin told him he's not a good practicing catholic. tobin confirmed he has asked kennedy not to take the sacrament. church law permits tobin to ban kennedy from receiving communion within the diocese of providence but he can't stop kennedy from getting it elsewhere. a new law will make it harder for insurers and employers to discriminate against you based on your genetics. it's partially in effect. when it's fully enforced early next month, insurers will not be allowed to consider a insureds genetic pre disposition to set rates or deny coverage. yesterday the portion of the law that makes it illegal to hire, fire, or determine promotions based on genetic make-up went into effect. it will give people more piece of mind about using genetic tests for medical treatment without worrying that the results will be used against them. it's the most sweeping antifederal antidiscrimination law in nearly two decades. scientists say they've made a hunch breakthrough that could help end food shortages around the world. they've completed sequencing the corn genome, meaning they've mapped its genetic structure. it will provide higher yields in less favorable conditions. corn is the top crop grown in the united states. it's used from breakfast cereal to tooth past to shoe polish, even ethanol. our sister network cnn hosted its annual heroes event at the kodak that itener hollywood last night. it features the top ten cnn heroes finalists and anderson cooper named the 2009 hero of the year. >> ladies and gentlemen of the year, it's my great privilege to announce the cnn hero of the year. the cnn hero of the year is efren penaflorida. >> penaflorida start add push cart classroom in the philippines to push education to poor children. he uses his classroom as a way to keep kids from joining gangs. >> each person has a hidden hero with within, you just have to look inside you and search it in your heart. >> o', it's going to be a great show, and if you want to see the heroes' all-star tribute it will appear on cn florida on thanksgiving night at 9:00 p.m. eastern. some things that people post on twitter are just out of this world, and that's especially true for one of the nominees for tweet of the year. where he was when he posted one of 2009's top five nominations. sure ♪ ♪ she was sent here from heaven ♪ a special wake-up call this morning for the crew of space shuttle "atlantis." the song "butterfly kisses" in honor of astronaut randolph bresnick. his wife gave birth to their second child overnight. she was overdue by a couple of days and while most, expectant dads wait on pins and needles, he spent time installing antennas outside the international space station during the space walk. he says both mom and baby abigail are doing just fine. a tweet from outer space has been nominated as tweet of the year. mike massimino or astro_mike is the first to twitter before, during, and after a space shuttle mission. he sent out the tweet. his first tweet from space is one of five competing in the 2009 open web awards, and that winner will be announced next month. how much of your life have you posted online? photos? blog posts? tweets? status updates? if you ever wondered what happens to all of that when you're gone. brian schrader from our affiliate in north carolina had that very question. >> reporter: she's 9 months old and her mom and dad have post add lot of memories on facebook. >> there's some of my daughter's pictures. >> reporter: her birth prompted tommy williams and his wife april to answer the big questions. they also started to think about how they would want to handle their facebook and e-mail accounts. >> april knows the list of passwords that i rotate through frequently. i know the ones that she uses. >> reporter: from photos to messages we put on the internet, it's a question many of us will have to face. what kind of legacy do we want to leave behind on the web? is. >> you have a very rich identity, very rich digital identity of who you are. >> reporter: they have created >> reporter: john romano and evan carroll have created the digitalbeyond, a blog exploring what happens to your digital assets after you die. assets like all of those family pictures people post on facebook. >> these are family heirlooms. these are things that the survivors want to keep forever. >> reporter: but many of those sites are password protected, so family members may have a hard time getting to them. and there may be aspects of your digital life you don't want others to know about. >> whatever you put out there on the internet has the potential to outlast you. >> you're not going to be there to push the button, so you need to be able to be honest with somebody in this world and say, i want you to go out and delete this account. >> reporter: laws are still trying to catch up with changes in the dot-com era. romano says you need to pick someone you trust to be your digital executor. the roads will be a little more crowded this thanksgiving weekend, but airports won't be. that's the bottom line from a aaa survey on travel plans. the auto club can projects more than 33 million americans will take to the roads during the holiday travel period. that's up more than 2%. aaa expects about 2 1/3 million people will take airline flights during the long weekend. that's more than 6.5% from last year. so how about a few more turkeys for your thanksgiving menu? well, our joy behar has a few for you and she even has some interesting guests too. and of course, laughs along the way. put some joy into your thanksgiving afternoon. tune into "the joy behar show" from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m. eastern thanksgiving day right here on hln. teen vampires are taking over this weekend as the latest movie in the twilight series debuts across america. our i-reporters are sharing their movie reviews with us. hear what they have to say about "new moon." y8 they said it would never last. but it's been two months, and you're still going strong. glade lasting impressions. 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