in the abstract, you can complain about big brother and how this is a potential program run amok, but when you actually look at the details, i think we have struck the right balance. that was president obama yesterday defending his administration s controversial data collection efforts, as referenced there, as you heard to big brother, brings us to today s flashback. big brother, made famous by george orwell s novel 1984 , the book about a government always watch willing was published 64 years ago today n 1983, just a few days before the actual year 1984, here s what nightly news had to report about orwell s predictions. onlily, it was called the last man in europe, a science fiction tale by a little known english author, george orwell. just before his book was published, orwell decided to change the title, took the year he wrote it 1948 and reversed
bullets and smoke grenades. more than 100 protesters were arrested after they entered a ymca there. oakland s mayor says there s no excuse for this behavior. it s time, i think, for the occupy movement to take a stand on whether this behavior, this kind of behavior that has nothing to do with the 99% movement, can should be tolerated. protesters say it s not over and plan to continue today with what they call a rise up festival at an area park. on the east coast, washington, d.c., an occupy protesters have been warned to stop camping in two parks near the white house or they could be arrested. athena jones joins us from one of the parks, mcpherson square. when are they going to start moving people out of that area? that s the thing, fredricka, according to the national park service they put up this release on friday to indicate some of the violations the demonstrators here, the rules they ve been breaking since early october when they set up tam camp here. know arou
brockovich gathers soil samples from the neighborhood. eight months after a monster tonight ripped through a missouri town destroyed homes, lives and even a hospital, today, renewal, hope and healing. all right now in the cnn newsroom. big developments in a medical mystery in upstate new york. environmental activist erin brockovich is joining others trying to figure out what s going on in the town of leroy. more than a dozen students from the same schools are suffering from uncontrollable verbal outbursts and twitching. brockovich discussed a possible cause, but dr. drew pinski friday night on our sister network hln. there was a very serious train derailment that caused one ton of cyanide to spill and 45,000 gallons of tce. the actual location of the site of the derailment is four miles from this school. four miles from the school, a massive train derailment with spectacular exposure of known carcinogen s and toxins. there is a map. how did that then become an issue f
with pepper spray. the people did not want to shut down the museum. we did not want to inconvenience tourist but engage in a dialogue using our free speech rights. we never got past the metal detectors. security came rushing out. bum rushed us like a line of football players. corralled and pepper sprayed the first round of us. three people were detained. so the occupy movement first took root in lower manhattan three weeks ago. susan candiotti spoke to people who came from near and far to see it for themselves. reporter: eating a bowl of cereal after sleeping under the stars, this retiree and her teenager grandson took a bus from detroit to camp out with occupy wall street. tell me what this is like. you have this tarp. this is home. for a week, choosing to sleep on the ground under a blue tarp, mainly with young people in a public park. why was it important for you to come here and bring your grandson? i felt the need to show support to the movement. the poli
way, the dinosaurs would be able to nibble on trees. they have plenty of dinosaurs in california, believe me. if a bird is dumb enough to go into a glass, it s nature s way of not belonging here anymore. it doesn t see the buildings! why doesn t it see the buildings. there s a lot of see through buildings in california with glass on both sides. they think oh, i m going to fly right boom. as jerry seinfeld made famous, he said you would think even if you think you don t know what to make of it, at least you should look out for the other bird coming directly at you. for the birds watching right you no, if you re flying through the frisco airspace, follow another bird. yes! let that be your first one to hit and falls to the ground. there you go. 13 minutes after the hour. president obama not exactly he helping the poll numbers of fellow democrats except for senator joe manchin. most interesting part of this story, dick morris on this story next and have you