sitting on the floor. one group even pitched a tent inside the bank. many protesters are college students from san francisco state and u.c. berkeley. they say they are protesting escalating scenes. police say the people that are arrested will be charged with trespassing. they will be taken to jail and processed. that can take several hours. it s been a peaceful protest that continues at this hour, and there are some street closures in the area which is making the evening commute a slow one for workers trying to get home. again, police are arresting protesters that took over a bank of america branch in san francisco. back to you. okay. very good. we ll check in with jean later on in this newscast. the big question is what is next for san francisco s occupy encampment at justin herman plaza? the camp is vilgt a long list of health and safety codes and cannot continue to grow in size. as tracy grant shows us, the mayor told protesters they must be in compliance with the ci
afternoon. the mood there is quite different than before. a lot of the campers i talk to say the events of the last two days are beginning to weigh on them. the peninsulas the encampment has fewer tents. we had meetings and prayed and talking and expressing our feelings. a lot people felt like, is it the time to go? a murder happened last thursday when a young man was shot to death feet from the encampment. also at the plaza, a visibility police presence. the order covers snow parks where more than a dozen tents are set up. some say they re ready to leave if police comb. they can run us off. fences around the city parks now. reporter: the city says it is opening a winter shelter at the old oakland army base for occupy campers who are homeless. my first reaction is also sound like a concentration camp. reporter: for some oakland residents there are hopes the encampmentments will be cleared out soon. she says she understands the original message but has had enou
the two earlier notices is this declares every other major park in oakland off limits to occupy campers. for many supporters it serves as a signal that it will be raided soon. there is no need to force an eviction. nothing will be resolved. the situation will only get worse. he is a member of the green party. he and the former oakland city councilman has proposed a public forum between all parties, the city, the occupy yes, sirs and the business and residents. there is a process that needs to be developed in order to avoid the debacle of the police coming in to move the camp away. with a raid he believes is imminent, he says people need to talk. these are in someways two groups of people who don t understand each other, don t respect each other, don t respect each other s process. so that is a recipe for disaster. reporter: while the proposal of a public forum is debated by the camp, some occupy yes, sirs have decided to leave before a raid takes place. they say
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first, let s get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. more than 3 million homes are without power after an out of season winter storm dumped record snow up and down the east coast over the weekend, leaving at least 11 people dead. 750,000 without power in connecticut. 650,000 in the state of massachusetts. and more than 500,000 in new jersey. connecticut governor writing in a tweet yesterday, this is the largest number of outages connecticut has ever experienced. plan for power not to return for prolonged period. that from the governor of the state of connecticut. as for new york city, it was the largest october snowfall since the civil war. maintenance crews are hard at work, removing fallen down bravenls and electrical wires as schools in several states are expected to remain closed for days. all this winter weather before we even hit halloween. let s go to bill karins for the latest. how come power outages? it wasn t a ton of snow. yeah, just has