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Davis. nonviolent protesters sitting on the ground. their arms linked in a show of unity. and campus police officers spraying pepper spray, essentially pointblank, directly into their faces. the protesters do not fight back. 11 protesters were treated for injuries. two had to be hospitalized. an investigation into the incident is under way and the schools chancellor is facing intense pressure over her supervision of the schools police department. in new york, where the occupy wall street protest...

By now youve probably seen this video shot friday at the university of california at davis. nonviolent protesters sitting on the ground. their arms linked in a show of unity. and campus police officers spraying pepper spray, essentially pointblank, directly into their faces. the protesters do not fight back. 11 protesters were treated for injuries. two had to be hospitalized. an investigation into the incident is under way and the schools chancellor is facing intense pressure over her supervisio...

Essentially pointblank, directly into their faces. the protesters do not fight back. 11 protesters were treated for injuries. two had to be hospitalized. an investigation into the incident is under way and the schools chancellor is facing intense pressure over her supervision of the schools police department. in new york, where the occupy wall street protests began two months ago, pepper spray has been one of the nonlethal weapons of choice for police. recently weve been hearing unconfirmed repo...

1990s. >> its the ipod. you had the jonas brothers on the show the other day. id rather watch them on tv. people have the ipods plugged into their brain. literally if you have more than 85 decibels for more than eight hours, youll get hearing damage. one out of six kids were found to have hearing damage in 2005. thats a very large number. >> no kids should use ipods? >> no, look, i think its adequate. when a family tells you, turn offer the computer, lower the volume where you can hear it normal...

Preemptively try to get ahold of this before the crowd shows up. i know theres been a challenge to a controversial crowd device they wanted to use. what happened there? >> reporter: that is the lrad, long range acoustic device or sound canon. it can be used as a public address system or sound canon producing ear-splitting levels of sound. the court has just ruled because it had the ability to produce long-term hearing damage, the judge has just ruled that the police can use this device as a publ...

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Rick rick mouth not in the studio today. at a tone that 500. do you have your ear plugs. >> you have to. if have you ever been to one of these races if you dont have ear plugs you will have hearing damage at the end of it incredibly loud and cool. nascar biggest event daytona 500 and that is this weekend. all kinds of changes to the sprint cup. thats their chase towards what ends up being the grand prize winner at the end of the year. well talk about that we have miss sprint cup coming up there ...

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