protesters out of oakland right now. they ve spent weeks camped out in front of city hall, then early this morning pacific time police started cuffing the demonstrators and leading them away. police are, in fact, telling those who work downtown to put off starting their day. kntv s bob rodell is live in oakland for us. i understand you ve had to take shelter in your van. what s going on out there? reporter: well, there were some people with occupy oakland who had some choice words for us on air so i figured it would be better if we were able to sit in a van. good morning to you, chris. if you look out to the right you ll see snow park, one of two locations of the occupy oakland movement here in oakland. this is by lake merit, about 45 minutes to an hour ago oakland s finest, you can see them right there, descended on the park and they took away perhaps 10 to 15 protesters. they ve been camped out. you may be able to see some of the tents that were here. like i said, this was one of t