to shut down the stock exchange. they also plan to take over the subways, the brooklyn bridge, and even the doorstep of city hall. there s a heavy police presence right there out in the streets, as a you can see. more than 50 people have already been arrested. it s a very fluid situation. tensions running high. meanwhile, on the west coast, as you see, more protests and potential problems. you re looking at live pictures there out of l.a. that is where protesters plan to bring traffic to a halt downtown by occupying a major intersection. we got new information today on the child molestation case against jerry sandusky, coach paterno s right-hand man at penn state. the new york times details a series of incidents over a 12-year period that taken together suggest that university officials knew about sandusky s behavior but kept quiet. also, campus and city police are telling cnn they have no record that mike mcqueary filed a report on sandusky back in 2002. you may recall h
over by the occupy movement in a sense that it s not clear to me that it s the occupiers themselves who have to answer those questions. this may be a time when think tanks and those who think of themselves as political leader vsz to do that work. let s talk about their strategy for a second. we know they re marching to the banks, bank of america, asking people to pull their money out, go to local banks, credit unions. they re getting stuff done now. what about long-term strategy? you re saying you don t necessarily know about a leader. but, i mean, how much longer can this movement sustain itself? well, potentially it could sustain himself for quite a long time. maybe best by not giving itself goals. to the extent they keep saying we re angry about equality. that s sustainable. when you start saying we want a, b, c, you start losing folks who on the want b and c but not a. the fact the anger itself may be sustainable. the bigger question is how does this government react? how do
they have accomplished over the last month and just raising issues to the national level and getting the amount of attention they ve gotten and support, now the question is where do they go from here? i said, what s next? he said they have no plans to issue specific demands. they are just focused now on the expansion. making sure that their occupy movements in as many cities across the country as possible. mara, thank you. let s go ahead and head to chicago which had the most number of arrests this weekend here in the united states. nbc s john yang is there live. john, i understand more protests are planned for today, right? that s right, veronica. it s a fairly small information here. you can only see a dozen people here right now. the site is very symbolic just like wall street. here we ve got the bank of america building that this intersection here in the downtown loop of chicago. straight ahead the chicago board of trade, the big futures and options exchange. across the stree
met with strong resistance from police. we ll show you what s going on. plus, you know j.r. ewing from the 1980s tv series dallas announces a public health battle but larry hagman has no plans to step down. we re all guilty of it, eating and driving. but one community is working to put a stop to it. the occupy wall street movement just keeps getting bigger. more protests inside and outside of the united states along with more arrests. in new york alone, 14 arrests after protesters staged a sit-in in the street blocking traffic. in flint, michigan, dozens of demonstrators protested in front of a bank of america. and in seattle, washington, dozens more remain in a downtown park. just yesterday police in riot gear arrested 41 people there. and in san diego, police clashed with occupy protesters who had formed a tent city, and things got pretty intense. officers used pepper spray to make the demonstrators comply with an order to remove their camping gear. here s salvado
that is booming in this weak economy. it s literally growing. we ll show you what it is. and we ll take you to the place where it s happening. occupy wall street goes global. an important day in the movement today. organizers are taking to twitter to gain support. protesters are taking to the street all over the world. we ll show you where it s happening and what s ahead. we begin with politics. nevada is the next stop on the gop road to the white house. cnn and the western republican leadership conference are sponsoring a presidential debate in las vegas. that debate will take place tuesday at the venetian resort hotel casino and preparations are under way but not all the not presidential candidates will be there. jon huntsman is boycotting the debate saying nevada locked in a scheduling fight with new hampshire moved up the date of its primary. well, we call out all of the candidates to do similarly. they should be boycotting. unless there s a political interest in th