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>>shepard: live in los angeles, california, several hundred occupy wall street sympathizers are moving in downtown los angeles. lines of officers forced the demonstrators to the sidewalks and businesses are closing their doors. and shutters. los angeles police arrested 23 people without incident. they sat down in a street during a peaceful rally by hundreds organized by the labor groups would had a permit so that is different. two other people arrested separately. the second march at city hall s...

Congress who youre representing. they dont like the way the thing passed. hey, they are the elected representatives of the people and they got shot down when this thing got voted into law. >> right. but thats why we have judicial system in the united states. congress certainly has the right to weigh in, especially those dissenting members of the united states congress, those that opposed the bill. they have the right to go to court, file a brief with the court expressing their view. that is abou...

Better. >> monthly unemployment will probably come in at 9.1%. the numbers we got today on jobs not good. saying that the increase in people being fired this past month, 200%. private the payrolls, though, increased 91,000 according to adp. mixed results. i dont think you will be all that happy when you see the friday numbers. >> shepard: the willis report airs river weekday afternoon at 5:00 eastern, 2:00 pacific. >> a small antigreed protest that started a few weeks ago in new york city expand...

united nations got up and walked out right in the middle of a security council meeting. good morning to you. it is wednesday, october 5th. this is your a.m. "wake-up call." im carol kos tecostello live fw york this morning. its a brand-new day in every sense of the word for amanda knox. shell be waking up at home for the first time in four years. she returned with her family yesterday, just one day after an italian appeals court overturned her murder conviction in the death of her brit...

im really overwhelmed right now. interviewing the pilot to try to i was looking down from the get some answers about what airplane and it seemed like everything wasnt real. happened yesterday. >> jason carroll, thanks so much. the woman who died, that was to whats important for me to say be a part of her 40th birthday is just thank you to everyone celebration who has believed in me who has still ahead -- a wisconsin man trying to figure out why governor rick perrys office defended me...

The official african-americans, 16.7%. white, 8.0%. the institutional inequality is dash is a civil rights issue. but at the same time, when you rob people of their right to collective bargaining, which -- labor unions are dealing with, thats a civil rights issue. so -- as you said, that weekend that sunday that they are committing dedicating the president will officially dedicate martin luther king themmial. when dr. king died in memphis on a labor marseilling it was a civil rights issue. so ye...

and some democrats are concerned that this is a, happening too late, and b, that its possible the white house is agreeing to a deal stall essentially jam democrats into agreeing to something that does not go far enough on the issues that they care about, an theyll ultimately be in a position of either voting to agree with their president and raise the debt ceiling or risk default and untenable position in their view. >> untenable in their view. lets dig into the detail. what do we know...

no one is speaking publicly about it, but i have been in touch with some democrats on the hill who are still very upset this evening after that meeting. the bottom line is they have heard these outlines of a possible framework of a deal. and some democrats are concerned that this is a, happening too late, and b, that its possible the white house is agreeing to a deal that will essentially jam the democrats into agreeing to something that does not go far enough on the issues that they c...

Congressional district, a special election to replace jane harmon gives the states primary law. polls open up in the los angeles area district to replace jane harmon. replaced in february. 16 candidates of both parties are fighting it out in a wide open jungle primary. if no candidate clears 50%, the top two candidates regardless of party advance to a july 12th runoff. the assumption is two democrats will finish in the top two. the favorites are split roughly along party lines. you have a beer t...

Lawmakers are having a tough time in washington state, not just washington, d.c. >> thats right. >> here they cant get a budget passed because protesters keep interrupting them. more than a dozen arrested yesterday at the state capitol in olympia, some trying to storm the governors office chanting "less us in" others had to be escorted from the gallery after shutting down the legislature for 30 minutes. its about labor groups, angry about millions of dollars in proposed cuts to state funded heal...