they're underway as well in san francisco, minneapolis, boston, you name it. a number of cities across this country. but lower manhattan, this is where this all began, where it's still pretty strong. right now new york police threw up barricades around zuccotti park, which they cleared of camp sites on tuesday. but late this morning, protesters, they threw the barricades back, and they surged into the streets of financial district. at least 75 people, take a look at that picture. this is what was going on. these scuffles just a short time ago when these demonstrators decided to move the police barricade. at least 75 arrests taking place, including that of a retired philadelphia police captain. also, a woman. a video we have been seeing, a woman dragged bri police. this was caught on a cnn ireporter. take a listen. >> now, we don't know why this woman was arrested, but nobody's being allowed to block streets or trying to enter buildings around the stock exchange without authorization. a live report just minutes from now. we're keeping a close eye on that story and will not be far from it at any point. but also, other nuz to tell you about. the mother of the first alleged victim to come forward in the child sex abuse case against former penn state coach jerry sandusky said her son was a hero. she told our anderson cooper that her son was shocked to learn about other alleged victims. >> oh, he definitely is a hero. he definitely is. he's a great kid. and he really, really -- you know, for a long time he thought that he was the only one, you know? he thought that we were basically just on our own and that, you know, as more victims came out, he started feeling a little bit better about that. >> brand-new details have surfaced about how sandusky allegedly lured kids and about the possible cover-up at penn state. "new york times" investigative correspondent joe becker will have those details for us a little later this hour. also, in just about an hour, an idaho man accused of shooting at the white house is due in federal court in pittsburgh. oscar ortega ramirez was picked up at a hotel. he's expected of firing at least two rounds at the white house last friday night. one hit a window and was stopped by bulletproof glass. another was found on the grounds. no one was hurt. meanwhile, the obama administration defending a move to award half a billion dollars in federal loan guarantees to a solar panel manufacturer. solyndra, you've heard that name plenty over the past month or so. it later filed for bankruptcy, but the energy sector, steven chu, appeared before a house panel today investigating the deal and offered no apology. critics say, though, the white house selected solyndra in a political move. also, the head of the u.n. nuclear agency says he must alert the world to iran's suspected development of nuclear weapons. he said today he wants to send a high-level mission to iran to address mounting international fears over iran's nuclear program. last week an ieae report warned that iran has been conducting research and experiments geared towards developing inin ining a bomb. iran, however, denies that they're trying to make a nuclear weapon. and an update on a story we told you about yesterday. an illinois judge has vacated the convictions of four men in the rape and murder of a prostitute in 1994. the judge says the new dna evidence linking someone else to the crime would probably change the result in a new trial. the state's attorney who opposed the judge's decision can appeal the ruling, re-try the men, or dismiss the charges all together. and the vatican taking legal action to stop an ad showing a photo of the pope kissing an imam. you see that? the ad is part of a publicity campaign by the italian fashion firm benetton. the vatican says the doctored photo offended the dignity of the pope. benetton says they'll pull that photo. and u.s. officials have confiscated at least 17 tons of marijuana after discovering a major drug tunnel linking san diego and teen wijuana. the tunnel runs the length of four football fields. officials say there were no arrests and the investigation continues. and how is your day going? well, the pilot of a delta connection jet, he got trapped in the jet's bathroom. and things, well, kind of went downhill from there. >> yeah, we're 180 knots, 10,000. can we leave the frequence for a minute. we are going to try to, uh, contact dispatch. the captain has disappeared in the back, and i have someone with a thick foreign accent trying to access the cockpit right now and i've got to deal the situation. >> well, that person with the foreign accent was trying to alert the co-pilot about what had happened. instead, the plane made an emergency landing at laguardia and new york. the fbi on hand. the trapped pilot got out in time to settle things down before fire jets were scrambled. we're about six minutes past the hour. a live picture here outside of los angeles. this is the two-month anniversary of the occupy movement. you know it started in new york, but, yes, it has crossed the country, gotten to l.a. and all points in between. a number of occupy rallies today, also a number of arrests as many of these protesters say this will be a day of action, and action we have seen. stay with us. 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[ male announcer ] it's practically yours. but we still need your signature. volkswagen sign then drive is back. and it's never been easier to get a jetta. that's the power of german engineering. get zero first month's payment, zero down, zero security deposit and zero due at signing on any new volkswagen. visit vwdealer.com. and zero due at signing on any new volkswagen. i've tried it. but nothing helped me beat my back pain. then i tried salonpas. it's powerful relief that works at the site of pain and lasts up to 12 hours. salonpas. i tell you what i can spend. i do my best to make it work. i'm back on the road safely. and i saved you money on brakes. that's personal pricing. well, they are calling this a day of action. and in new york city, there is a full schedule. 3:00 today, the plan to occupy the subways. talking trains at all five borou boroughs. also at 5:00 p.m., they plan to take the square. we're talking about foley square here, just across from city hall. and during rush hour, a march to the brooklyn bridge. our mary snow is there in zuccotti park in manhattan. we have been watching these pictures for the past hour or so. give us an update of what it's looking like now, mary. >> reporter: well, t.j., it's fairly calm here at zuccotti park. some of the protesters have left and they've been marching around lower manhattan. for the most part, today has been fairly peaceful. police say that there have been about 100 arrests throughout the morning. and that has been mostly for obstructing traffic or disorderly conduct. there were some tense moments in the past couple of hours here, as some of the protesters lifted barricades that the police had set up, and police came in here. a lot of distrust, t.j., among these protesters of the new york city police, especially after tuesday's eviction, when the police came in, the city said to these protesters they could no longer camp out here at zuccotti park. now, today's protests had been planned, because this is the two-month anniversary of the movement. and that occupy wall street movement started here, right here in lower manhattan. so a lot of this had been planned, but some of the protesters i've been talking to are saying that, really, they picked up steam because of what happened here earlier this week, in new york city. and as you mentioned, there are a number of other protests they plan to have throughout the day, and some of these organizers are saying that, you know, there are a lot of other protests that we don't know about, that they want to catch the city off guard, the element of surprise. they do expect to be out here throughout the day. >> mary snow, thank you so much. i want to bring in mike brooks, who's here with me now. and mike, our security analyst here, let me get the right introhere. when police officers see this, not a lot of clashes, not a lot of violence, but that's a lot of manpower, a lot of time, and a lot of attention diverted from other things going on in the city. >> it's a lot of money. all the cities across the country, t.j., where this has been going on. city governments, it cost money to run city governments, to pay for overtime. and look at all the cities today on the two-month anniversary. again, that's money -- and we talk about the transportation system, the subway system in new york city, you know, the occupy protesters talk about they're the 99% of the people. well, they're part of the 99%, the 99%, they use public transportation to get around. you know, to get to and from different boroughs in new york city. you got brooklyn bridge. last time we saw a clash there, there were 700 arrests. but, you know, this is not taking away -- a lot of people say, you see all the cops down there. is that taking away from our public safety? where you live in the different neighborhoods and different boroughs, no, they have brought in officers to deal with this, they know what they're doing, and they have a strategic plan. >> i'm sure there are plenty of police officer who is agree with the mind-set and the sentiment they're trying to get out of a lot of these protesters. but i've talked to a police officer here in atlanta, and he says, you know what, t.j., my kid's got a game tonight and i have overtime here tonight to spend at the park. there's a clash. it's not the police versus the protesters, in the police officers' minds, you can't help but to think, come on, people. >> absolutely. they were in atlanta, in woodruff park, and they were going to kick them out of woodruff park because they were causing, basically, a nuisance, and costing the city a lot of money. and then new york city said, we're going to let you stay in the park there. so that kind of set a precedent across the united states. but it has been, for the most part, nonviolent. but there is always an element, no matter where you go, that wants to cause trouble. and that's what law enforcement doesn't want to see. because, you know, they don't want to get hurt. they want to go home to their families too, but the public, they also want to keep them safe. we see in new york city, there's so many people down in wall street, very congested area, but now they're spreading out to other parts of the city. and i think sometimes their message is people going, you know what, enough, already, because they don't want to be inconvenienced. and these are people who have nothing to do with the financial community, you know, the financial businesses in the united states. >> what's the potential? a couple of knuckleheads in there, sure, but what's the potential for a couple of knuckleheads to turn this into a full-- hf full-on riot-type situation? >> there's always that possibility. i was with the police department in washington, d.c., handled demonstrations almost every day. you try to maintain your cool, but throw one rock, throw one bottle, that can lead to the crowd mentality. then they start running different polices. what are you going to do? you try to maintain the peace, try to maintain the crowd, but all it takes, as you said, is a couple knuckleheads. >> but we should emphasize, overwhelmingly, it has been peaceful. we saw a couple scuffles, a few people arrested, about 100, they lifted the barricades, but for the most part has been peaceful. >> but the day is young. we're about quarter past the hour now. we're not going too far from these occupy wall street uprisings because they continue as we speak. also today, new details in the penn state scandal. missing files? 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>> he was upset. he was very upset about it. he said -- i didn't watch it -- i watched it when it was on, and he watched it after that. and he said that he cried and i said, why'd you cry? and he said, i'm afraid he might go free. >> he's afraid that sandusky might go free? >> yeah. >> well, today "the new york times" reporting that several years of files are missing now from second mile, that's the charity sandusky founded for troubled kids. prosecutors allege sandusky used second mile to target victims. "the times" also reporting that investigators worry with there may have been a cover-up by penn state officials. joe becker is "the new york times" investigative helicopter who is following this penn state case and she joins me now from university park in pennsylvania. thank you for being here. and just reading your article, a lot of new details in there that y'all were able to dig up. but do you agree? and i think from reading, a lot of people conclude, there were several times, several stops along the way that sandusky could have been stopped. but he wasn't. >> yeah, we talked to the university's general council at the time, and one of the sort of astonishing facts to emerge was that they never consulted, at least according to the attorney, the university general council before they decided what to do about allegations that an assistant coach, now an assistant coach, that a graduate assistant, had seen sandusky in the showers with a young boy, allegedly, according to him, raping that young boy. he ultimately told joe paterno, the coach, and then was summoned to a meeting with two school administrators. now, the school administrators have a different version of accounts. they gave a different version and not that the coach, the graduate student had seen him actually raping him, but they said that they were told that in one case it was horsing around in the showers with a young boy, in another case, it was that the other administrator was told that maybe mr. sandusky's genitalia had touched the genitalia of this young boy while wrestling. but in either event -- in either event, the attorney was saying that had he been told or consulted before the university decided not to go to the police and simply to take away mr. sandusky's locker room privileges, he would have told them that they had to go to the police. so it's a pretty amazing thing that they didn't bring him in. >> yeah, and jo, so much of the case seems to have come from mike mcqueary, the assistant, that grad assistant, assistant football coach now, but the grad assistant who allegedly saw this happening in that locker room. but it's amazing in the reporting you did, it seems like if they didn't have him, there wouldn't be much of a case. but also, the way that he came about, just an internet posting is how they found him? >> yeah. i wouldn't say that they wouldn't have a case. i mean, they, you know, started off with one boy. they wanted to establish a pattern. they did, you know, have additional witnesses. eight boys are alleged to have been molested by mr. sandusky, but the coach is an impartial witness, right, from their perspective. and the way that they stumbled upon him was on an internet forum. and they said, you know, people were talking about maybe a coach had seen something with sandusky, which investigators, you know, it was a break for them. they were able to find mr. mcqueary, and they said that he was immediately very forthcoming with them and, so it really did help their case. but it is -- what they sort of mentioned to me was just how, you know, if this was out there -- it was on internet forums. >> jo, last thing, what's the significance of missing files from the second mile charity that sandusky ran? >> well, prosecutors served subpoenas on the second mile, and they wanted a lot of different things. names of kids who have been through the program, but they wanted jerry sandusky's travel and expense records. and when they went to retrieve them out of the storage facility, three years were missing. and that was around 2000, 2003. now, ultimately, they were able to find one misplaced year, but the rest are gone. it's hard to know what to make of that, but as one investigator told me, you know, under the circumstances, they the find it troubling. >> all right, jo becker, again, investigative piece in "the new york times" on this. a lot of new details. jo, we appreciate you taking the time with us today. meanwhile, the obama administration and some members of congress have found a new battleground. the school cafeteria. the white house wants more fruit and veggies. congress is trying to pass off pizza as a vegetable! why the political food fight, that's next. also, occupy wall street. we just received a statement from the mta in new york, they manage the transit buses, subway trains, all that in new york city, saying, "we will be monitoring conditions and working closely with the nypd to maintain a safe and secure environment for our riders." we're not going far from this occupy wall street story. as we told you a little earlier, the folks in new york, at least, a couple of things planned, events they plan to march on the brooklyn bridge today. also, they plan to occupy the subways. all of that planned over the next several hours in new york. we're keeping a close eye. stay with us. 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