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reporter: i first want to mention the court order you talked about. we got word the court hear something at 11:30 this morning. lawyers on behalf of occupy wall street protesters are saying they will go into court and argue these protesters, demonstrators should be allowed back into zuccotti park with their sleeping bags and their tents. the mayor said while they have closed it for now they will reopen it after they clean the whole thing. but tents will be banned that is the court order you were just talking about. this has been going on for nearly two months. the mayor says he has been tolerant, this has become absolutely unliveable, unsanitary and unacceptable. dozens of people who refused to leave overnight were arrested. in fact up to 100 now, including several who actually chained themselves together to trees using bike locks. city officials warned the demonstrators the park was being cleared and restored and those who did not leave would be arrested. ....
Going on there for the past couple of days. no tents in sight. a ruling late this afternoon is that the city can keep protesters were camping out there. this after hundreds of police officers raided the park in the wee hours of this morning. cops telling the demonstrators they only had to leave temporarily for cleaning the place. but the surprise raid left some protesters panicked. others boldly challenging the police. all my friends are in there. that s my [bleep] home. i don t know, but i m no use in jail. they are taking away everything. we are not leaving. whose park? our park whose park? our park. shepard: some protesters chained themselves to fences using bike locks. police chose chained with cuffs. ....