reserve bank of chicago. later today they expect to have a general assembly meeting. this is when everyone gets together to talk about what they re doing, make announcements, decide what they re doing. they will march around the loop this afternoon. and, of course, over the weekend, as you say, there were 175 arrests at grant park which is just down in that direction toward the lake, towards michigan avenue. it was people who were decided to have civil disobedience and chose to be arrested out of a group of about 1,000. only 175 chose to be arrested. veroni veronica? john yang, we do appreciate that. let s go ahead and take you across the pond to london. thousands poured into the streets outside st. paul s cathedr cathedral. michelle franzen is there. indefinitely, as we know now,
colleagues reacted to the news of his death in shock. he s a friend of all of ours. he will be missed and i just feel for his family. lost a one of my best friends, one of my greatest teammates. i don t know what to say. i think i m getting old. i ve been through too many of these already. reporter: officials decided not to continue the race. the cars did a five-lap tribute to wheldon as number of wheldon s car, 77, flashed on a pylon above the track. before the race in an interview with extra, wheldon talked about the hazards of his sport. some people look at it as one of those things that you can just do. but, you know, for me, you know, i take it very seriously. there s a lot of responsibility with that. you know, these indy cars travel at around the indianapolis motor speedway at speeds in excess of 230 miles an hour.
movement got its roots in downtown new york city. mara, what is it like there today on the one-month anniversary? reporter: they are marking the anniversary, they said they might get a cake. they are not planning any big event. they did put out a statement saying that while they are gratified about what has happened here they are not celebrating because there is still so much work to do. now, they continue to get support from all over the world. you mentioned the quash donations they ve been getting in, $300,000 they say. but they also get donated supplies. dozens and dozens of shipments every single day, up to 400 boxes a day of things from everything to sleeping bags to pizza. supplies that they then use here to camp out. now, coming off a big weekend for the movement, probably the biggest weekend of events they ve seen yet. a global day of protest here in new york. thousands gathered in times square for what they dubbed an occupation party. we also saw demonstrations and cities al
veronica. look behind me, 200 tents have been set up roughly here in front of st. paul s cathedral. this square occupying this space is nestled all around surrounded with the financial district here in london. very close to the london smokes which was the original december tags where protesters wanted to march over this past weekend. police had barricaded that area so they occupied this space instead. take a look to our left here. again, st. paul s cathedral. they have the okay from cathedral officials to stay in this space. that has helped them sort of reduce the tensions with police. but they also have to make sure that they do not also occupy the space in front and detour tourist going into the cathedral. this area a big draw for the people who just want to see the architecture of cathedral but also where princess diana married. michelle, thank you. and like you ve seen now, these protests have gone global
it s really about him and how he messages himself to the base right now. we re going to have to see what happens next. former rnc chairman michael steele, democratic strategist jamal simmons. big thank you to you both. a lot of questions raised today after the fiery crash that killed popular indy car driver dan wheldon, the reining indianapolis champion. he was killed in a horrifying 15-car pile-up during the beginning of the race sunday. now questions are being raised about the safety of the las vegas racetrack and whether too many cars were in the race in the first place. more now from nbc s george lewis who is in las vegas. reporter: veronica, veteran race drivers say they have never seen a pile-up quite as bad as this one. cars crashing and spinning. some hitting the wall in flames. dan wheldon s car flying through the air. just minutes into the race on the 12th lap of the cars hitting speeds of 230 miles an hour, the tires on two of the cars