the board for 12 years of slaves but will audiences find it too hard to watch? good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we ll begin with a new lead today, the money lead. the closing bell just moments ago on wall street. considering the few weeks leading up to now and the threat to our economy that congress just barely avoided by raising the debt ceiling, i think i speak for many of us when we say we needed this. the dow finishing the day more than 20 points up which may not be huge but is way above where we thought it might be and way above where it was hovering the middle of the week. the s&p 500 is a real story, surging into record territory for a second day. you hear that slapping noise out there? that s the sound of palms hitting foreheads all across the country, from those who saw the $85 public offering price for google back in 2004 and said to themselves ah, it s just a fad. today, google s stock price reached the $1,000 mark for the very first time.
bit. of course, newt gingrich at the presidential debates and the rivals, they exchanged jabs, engineer jeers and some jokes last night. even though there had been 723 presidential debates you always get something out of these things. maybe the line of the night. listen to who rick perry decided to compare himself to. there are a lot of people out there, i understand it. a lot of folks who said tim tebow wasn t going to be a very good nfl quarterback and people stood up and said, well, he doesn t have the right throwing mechanisms or he s not playing the game right. and, you know, he won two national championships and that looked pretty good. we re the national champions in job creation back in texas. but i m all ready for the next level. let me tell you, i hope i am the tim tebow of the iowa caucuses. all right, i m going to try to get jim acosta to be honest with me. he s in sioux city, iowa. tell me the truth, jim. when you heard that, what was your reaction when you h
protesters arrested according to an e-mail from outfront from the nypd moments ago. seven officers injured and what the mayor has to say about it. the mayor has to say about it. let s go outfront. captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m erin burnett outfront tonight. the brooklyn bridge is occupied. occupy wall street day of action culminating at one of new york s most iconic locations. you can see it now. people walking across. this is the pedestrian area, which is important to emphasize. doesn t look like there s any disruption of traffic at this time. it all started at 7:00 this morning when protesters descended on the new york stock exchange in an attempt to, quote, shut down wall street. now, in zuccotti park, the original campground, demonstrators clashed with police. they pulled down barricades that were there to block them from entering the area. hundreds of protesters have been arrested. nypd saying 177, at least 7 officers have been injured according to the
what she thinks of demi moore, ashton kutcher breakup and why she s called the anti-oprah. this is a live, uncensored, piers morgan tonight. good evening. breaking news tonight. thousands of occupy wall street protesters marching across new york city s brooklyn bridge. some of the marchers shouting this is what democracy looks like. this is what america looks like. the march comes at the end of the day with clashes with police, mass arrests and traffic jams in lower manhattan. well over 300 people have been arrested and some of the demonstrations are going on across the country and indeed around the world. i want to go straight live to lower manhattan. amber, probably not as big a day as we were anticipating. what would you describe the mood tonight? reporter: well tonight, piers, things have really come down. the marches have come full circle. they started off early morning in zuccotti park. now they made their way back here after hitting up some subway stops. there wa
let s go outfront. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the market slid nearly 200 points today. the reason, fear and uncertainty. fear of europe and fear of the super committee. we are counting down to a huge moment for america on a day our commander in chief was warned china s military is building up with one main goal, taking on america. i ll get to that in a moment. first, the super committee is exactly one week away from its deadline to cut a minimum of $1.2 trillion from america s deficit. today was a day called critical by some lawmakers. the meetings have ended. there is no word on a possible deal. now, nearly 80% of americans don t expect the super committee to do its job. but no deal isn t just a chance to roll our eyes and say, hey, we knew it all along. no deal is bad for america. no deal means rising interest rates down the road and a halt in job creation now. we need a deal, and a deal is not hard to strike. we ve shown one way repeatedly on this show. that