appearance for the birthday party for chechnya s controversial leader. but at least one human rights group is saying it s too little too late today, friday, october 14th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. welcome to today on a friday morning. i m matt lauer. and i m ann curry. happy friday, everybody. take a look at this, this is the scene this morning at a park in new york city, home of the occupy wall street movement. in the last month, the protest that inspired similar actions in at least 190 other cities across this nation, matt. at the request of the zucotti park s owners the city was prepared to order protesters to temporarily vacate that area so it could be cleared and then cleaned, an idea that immediately drew resistance and sparked fears of a possible confrontation. well, this morning the company plans to try to work out a deal with protesters before it begins clearing that park. we ll get the latest in a live report. also a
johansson. cheney says after a while he just became obsessed with the e-mails. listen. it started as curiosity, and it turned into just being, you know, addicted to seeing behind the scenes of what was going on. i was almost relieved months ago when they came in, took the computer. reporter: now, the workal theory was that the hacker was actually trying to blackmail on stalk the celebrities, but the fbi says he never sold the information, that he did it for the thrill s. the way he did it is kind of mind-boggling. the feds say he gathered information about the celebrities from magazines, from are web sites, from following them on facebook and twitter and then began to use that to guess their passwords, and once he guessed that, bingo, he had access to their addresses, their photos, their e-mail accounts. he even set it up where if they changed their password, he d get that too. listen.
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the defense told the judge it is dropping the claim that jackson swallowed the lethal dose of propofol because a study shows drinking the drug actually is not fatal. a florida man accused of hacking into e-mail accounts of hollywood s biggest stars has been released on bond. if christopher cheney is convicted he is likely to spend the rest of his life in prison. abc s cecilia vega has the details. reporter: the case haunted hollywood for nearly a year, e-mail accounts of more than 50 victims hacked, including a-listers like mila kunis, scarlet johansson, and singer christina aguilera. private images, in some cases nude photos, made public. the fbi says they have arrested the man behind it, 35-year-old christopher cheney from florida.
mr. cheney set the victims accounts to automatically forward all of their e-mails to his own e-mail. using these methods, chaney stole not only private and personal photographs of the victims, he also took financial information, movie scripts and conversations that the victims believed to be private. reporter: and, of course, the celebrities want him prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and he s about to be, facing 25 counts including identity theft. he says that he s ready to be punished. megyn: how did they catch him? reporter: they tracked him. they knew about this for a while. megyn: how did they know about it if he wasn t using it to blackmail him? reporter: they got the information, remember, he gave this information didn t sell it, gave this information to celebrity web sites. megyn: oh. creepy. reporter: traced it back to him this jacksonville, florida, and there he was. it wasn t just the celebrities, there were 50 people that he was