tensions have been building ever since. mary snow is there witnessing the protesters and she s joining us there by phone. so, mary, give me an idea of what the police presence is like and is this crowd growing? it s been a massive crowd this morning, fredricka. down here in lower manhattan in the surrounding blocks around the new york stock exchange. we are on one intersection where there has been pretty much a standoff between police and protesters and there was a barricade up preventing them from going any closer to the new york stock exchange and on the last few minutes we have seen some arrests. people were carried out and how we have seen, also, more police showing up at this intersection where we are with handcuffs. the police got on the loud speaker just a short time ago telling protesters to get on the sidewalk. they have blocked the intersection in this block right near the stock exchange and it s pretty much protesters just kind of in this standoff with police. it