up of mostly 20-somethings, they're angry about fat wall street paychecks, war, environment, you name it. the protests have been going on for three weeks now and now have spread to other cities. americans absolutely fed up with congress. new numbers leave no doubt that a washington post/abc news poll found just 14% of the public approves of the job that congress is doing. congress's lowest rating ever. amanda knox says right now, she just wants time with her family. knox is home in seattle today for the first time in four years. she went to italy for college studies but ended up in prison for murder. >> reminding me to speak in english because i'm having problems with that. i'm really overwhelmed right now. i was looking down from the airplane and it seemed like everything wasn't real. >> knox was serving a 26-year sentence for killing her roommate and appeals court overturned that murder conviction on monday. u.s. ambassador susan rice is calling it an outrage, she walked out of the u.n. after china and russia blocked a measure targeting syria. she said that would rather sell weapons to the syrian regime than stand with the people who want freedom. you're seeing pictures there of a brutal crackdown of to protests. the u.n. resolution condemn the crackdown on those protesters and opened the door to sanctions. the u.n. said that 2600 syrians have been killed since march in those protests. wildfire once again threatening people and property in bastrop county, texas, about 1,000 acres are burning today. fires forced 30 families to leave their homes, it was just last month, when a huge firestourm destroyed 1500 homes in that county. a new york congresswoman said that it's time to look at limits on helicopter traffic over manhattan. now, you're looking at this scene a crash on tuesday killed an australian tourist who was celebrating her 40th birthday. three other passengers and the pilot survived. witnesses said that the helicopter belly flopped right into the east river right after takeoff. >> i thought that i was going to see people bobbing up and down in the water. there was no one. just those two struts pointing towards queens and then they popped up. i honestly think they went down to rescues the others and they were like look -- >> since 2005 five helicopters have crashed into the east river surrounding manhattan, killing 10 people. unbelievable, would you believe that explosion did not hurt the firefighters? they were going inside a burning restaurant in franklin, ohio, boom a back draft ripped the doors and the windows. that's when the fire suddenly got a burst of energy. when someone opens a door or window typically. here's your chance to talk back one of the big stories of the day the question today, could occupy wall street become a new political party? carol costello has more from new york. carol, what we heard about the tea party at first is they didn't have an organized leadership, they weren't sure who was speaking for their organization and people are talking about this protest movement, becoming somewhat of a model of the tea party. >> reporter: absolutely. the tea party was a grass roots movement. suzanne, ever since the don of the tea party, they have yearned of a revolution of their own. how better to get than railing against wall street. >> that's the end result of banker overplaying their hand. they were already filthy rich. >> moore is lending his hand to the movement. the movement has spread to other cities with the help of facebook and twitter. hundreds of people have been arrested. we see some protesters dressed like zombies. they're attracting allies. including union. clout, money, anger at the powers that be, it kind of sort of sounds like the start of something. although protesters don't consider themselves political animals. >> we don't want to be, you know, a left political group. we don't want to be a political group at all. we want to be a group that calls for activism. if this continues to grow, suddenly, people will have the same power that, you know, lobbyists have. >> heads up, wall street, even fox news.com, this could be more than a move from the left. could occupy wall street become a new political party? 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>> yeah, i would say that there's no physical evidence whatsoever to link either amanda or raffaele to the murder. the italian police went in and took a lot of evidence and unfortunately they arrested amanda and her boyfriend before allowing the dna to be processed. all of that evidence taken from the place the victim was killed, all points to rudy guede. >> joining us now is a criminal defense attorney, how is it people that watch this trial came to opposite, very different conclusions and even different verdicts when it came to amanda knox. >> you know, it's fascinating. we see such poll rising opinions on it. part of it is social media. we're seeing legal sagas played out in a way that's never happened before. more so than amanda knox or troy davis, which was a big debate a couple of weeks ago here in georgia, it's the overriding concept. it's more like a social moray. if you're opposed to the death penalty you're going to jump on the band wagon we should not execute troy davis this is an american girl done wrong by the italian justice system, you're going jump on that band wagon. you're supporting a theme of a miscarriage of justice. we can get behind that. with the avent of social media, therefore, i'm going to get behind this stance, we now have social media where people can get on facebook and tell millions of people at the same time what they think and they're not even familiar with the facts of the case. >> let's talk about the cult of personality, how much played a role those in seattle, the friends in amanda knox, painted her as this all-american girl next-door girl type. italian prosecutor painting her as a demonic character. >> what happens is, you have people who truly, truly get entrenched. they love her. that's their perspective nap's why we have the adversal system. so, when you have those positions and you entrench in them, then you get on social media again, people who have never met amanda knox, but think how dare they lock up an american girl in a foreign country that's the concept that they're fighting against, we don't like unreliable evidence that dna shows one thing and another expert says, no it doesn't, the dna you said that came from the victim could have come from rye bread. >> if amanda knox, if she had tried here in the united states and not over in italy, would it have been different? would people have rallied to her cause and thought that she was innocent if she was not overseas for instance in >> i think we still have seen those same polarizing, here in the u.s., that dna would never had passed muster t er ther in place. in the first trial, this could have come from rye bread. as opposed to a prosecutor saying. here you have this american she-devil that they're calling foxy knoxy, clearly she's guilty of something. here in america, you would have had a much harder fight. the second witness who placed them, the only witness who placed them was a heroine addict. >> all right, holly, thank you so much. appreciate >> it thanks, suzanne. texas governor rick perry doesn't let the e-mail pile up in his inbox. his staff destroys many of them after seven days. we'll introduce you to a man who's fighting to make perry save thousands of e-mails. he says that it's a push to open a secretive government. 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>> nope. certainly not for this kind of money. >> reporter: it wouldn't be the last time that rick perry's office would shock john washburn. rick perry defended his e-mail destruction policy like in this memorable interview. >> why not have them stay around longer for the purpose of open records? >> for how long? i said it's seven days. >> do i get, governor, do i get to pick? how about a month. >> you don't get to pick. i say 30 days. >> i don't. >> and that's the opened of the conversation. >> reporter: governor perry went on to say that he didn't want state employees organizing open records requests for people going on fishing escapades. >>. >> president of the united states. >> reporter: after perry announced that he's running for president, john washburn fired up the open records requests again. and the bill for that four days' worth of e-mails. >> $2304. >> reporter: $2300 for four days of e-mail. >> reporter: sfl correct. >> if he wants to see them all it will add up to $210,000 for a full year of e-mail se-mails. >> ed, joins us now, good to see you here in person. any revelations that have come from perry's e-mails? >> let's be clear, washburn has no idea of what's in these e-mails. it's a wide net that he's cast with this. when he did this in 2007, he put in ten requests. he took some donations to help pay for it. he found in one story, one story emerged that from that, a story in texas, underfunded foster care homes and foster care situation there. children in foster care were sleeping in the offices of state employees because they didn't have any place to put them. that story wouldn't have emerged had this not been paid for. >> they have no idea, really. >> this time around, this price tag is much heftier and washburn doesn't think he'll be able to follow through and pay for it. >> that's lot lot of money. hes he going to try? >> he got that letter in the last week and a half. he's in the process of trying to figure this out. lot of back and forth here. he'll continue that. there are other requests, he'll get those responses. he's trying to figure out how he can push it this time around. they're saving the e-mails and protecting everything that we need to save. and we're following the rules that have been in place even before rick perry has been in office. >> absolutely, thank you, ed. the occupy wall street movement is gaining ground after hundreds were arrested on the brooklyn bridge over the weekend. hear why so many are protesting. at bayer, we're re-inventing aspirin for pain relief. with new extra-strength bayer advanced aspirin. it has microparticles, enters the bloodstream faster and rushes relief to the site of pain. it's clinically proven to relieve pain twice as fast. new bayer advanced aspirin. here's what's ahead on the rundown next, they are leaderless and growing. protesters on wall street want to inspire protests across the country. a live report from new york. president rnl republican candidate herman cain says that he can fix the economy with a tax plan he calls 9-9-9. but what is it exactly? 11:40 eastern, scientists are finding ways to make objects vanish. it's not magic it's mirage. wall street protesters are rallying for a third straight week, today thousands of labor union members are joining them. protests have stretched from new york to boston to los angeles, the movement is called occupy wall street. protesters got a lot of messages. one overall point is how the average worker is struggling. last year, ceos earned 343 times more than the typical american worker, that's according to the afl-cio. and chief executives at the nation's fortune 500 companies earned $11 million. where the average american worker made $33,000. so, income inequality, not the only thing protesters are concerned about. susan candiotti is joining us from the protests. you have been covering these protests for days now, what are the folks there telling you? >> you know, these are people who represent various walks of way, people who are students here, unemployed or have been laid off. they have been take up occupancy for more than three weeks now. they represent different point of views. talking about job cuts and benefits that have been slashed. which is why in part, lot of unions are coming here to participate in a demonstration to inject more manpower in this movement. a couple of people who are not camped out but who coordinated their long planned vacation to be here today, four people who are retired, you are in different liebs nes of work, yo worked as an automated manager, why did you feel it important to join in this protest today? >> okay, for one thing, i'm glad that young people are involved in this protest. i'm here because i want politicians, our representatives to know that seniors are also very interested. mature people. i'm here because our representatives and our senators are not listening to their constituents. this wouldn't be necessary if they were listening to us and representing what we want to be done. >> reporter: how do you think gathering here today will get politicians to listen and do something? clearly there's no consensus in washington. >> i think more of our politicians see that the people are totally fed up with what's going on and realize that they're being paid to represent us, the people, the everyday people, not the corporations, and they need to make laws and pass the laws to benefit the people in the country and not big business. big business, yes, it's necessary. but, we are the people who need the incomes, we need the jobs, we need the health care, and it's not happening. it's not happening. >> reporter: there seems to be no solutions offered by this group now and no leader, does that bother you right now. >> no. i think the movement has to start somewhere, okay, and gradually, as you go along, they're refining their goals, making them more