protests have taken place. as demonstrations enter their fifth week, you cannot deny these simple facts. it is power in numbers. just look at the scenes here playing out all over the country. but f as this continues, protesters are increasingly being ordered out of public parks by city leaders who say they have rules to enforce. but protesters say it s a ruse to end their protest. in atlanta, occupy protesters have been camping out in a downtown park for the past week but have been ordered to leave by monday. in new york, protesters barely escaped a stand-off with police after being ordered to leave a park in manhattan. mayor michael bloomberg says the company that opened the park called off its decision to clean the park after it was bombarded with calls from public officials who threatened them. occupy wall street protesters seeing this as a big victory. susan candiotti is in new york city in the middle of it all. susan, how are the protesters reacting to this delayed clean
cut, unemployment benefits, tax credits for businesses, protection against bias for unemployed job applicants. despite the president s hard line push to nas bill and tireless national campaign, obama s jobs plan essentially die ted hands of senate republicans tuesday on a key procedural vote. 60 votes were needed. clearly, the votes just weren t there. the president knew it was coming. he now has to rethink and regroup. the republicans don t exactly have a concrete alternative jobs bill to fix the problem. so the big question is what happens now? are we back to square one or do we call it plan b? whatever you want to call it let s talk about it with someone who knows a lot about it chief national correspondent and anchor, john king, joining us live now from washington. hi there, john. so the president, he says that he is prepared to break his jobs bill now into pieces in the hopes of getting parts of it throughsome that the answer here, do you think? it is the only answer b
pro-coptic christian protesters turned deadly. 25 people killed, nearly 300 others wounded. coptic christians are an ancient sect that make up 9% of egypt s population. they ve faced a lot of violence in the recent months but unclear how the violence started sunday night or who is to blame. the violence erupted when a group of coptic christians and supporters of their cause were marching toward the egypt state-run television building. military trucks were set on fire. some of the protesters could be seen throwing rocks. the army says some in the crowd had guns and fired on them. yet witnesses say it was the army that fired on the protesters. the stories may be different but no one can deny this. dead bodies in the morgue. the victims of this weekend s clashes. too many victims to refrigerate, so they are kept on ice. this is the reality in the new egypt, again, too similar to the old. once again the government has imposed a curfew from 2:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. the people of egy
president barack obama and his re-election campaign. the today the president and the jobs act face a critical vote, a important vote in the senate. they are pushing hard to rally support. if you wonder what the president jobs bill could mean for you, here s a brief overview. in addition to other things we re talking about extending the current payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. there also would be new tax credits for businesses that hire people who are unemployed. president obama is in pittsburgh today where he will speak about his jobs bill less than one hour from now. this is an important last minute push was the senate is scheduled to hold a key procedural vote on whether it will consider that bill. white house correspondent dan lothian is traveling with the president and joins us live from pittsburgh. hi, there, dan. is the president preparing for the possibility that his jobs bill may not pass today s test in the senate? reporter: it it does appear that he is.
the west memphis three in their own words. it does something to you when you see something like that. it cracks you inside. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. the case of the west memphis three began in may 1993 when the naked bodies of three 8-year-old boys were found in a ditch in west memphis, arkansas. stevie branch, michael moore and christopher byers had been hog-tied with their own shoelaces. three local teenagers were charged with the crime amid allegations of at a tisatanic r. damien echols, jason baldwin and jessie misskelley. damien was sentenced to death and the others to life in prison. as the years passed, the west memphis three got attention from famous people, last month, after nearly two decades behind bars, echols, baldwin and misskelley walked free. more in a moment on that. but joining me now, damien echols and his wife lorri davis. welcome to you both. thank you. an extraordinary saga, no other way to put this, ending in the most bi