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you might think that hispanics are the fastest growing immigrant group in the country but you'd be wrong. a new pew studies shows that asians have surpassed them. 31% for hispanics. 10 years ago asians made up 19% of new immigrants. the number has almost doubled in just a decade. let me bring in deborah faye err rick. a lot of people are talking in our morning meeting about what this means politically, what it means economically. asian immigration way up. it still only makes up 5% of the u.s. population. explain this to us. >> reporter: it's not 5 or 6%. what we're talking about is a...

us. ted, how hard has it been this morning for kids and teachers to arrive at school? >> reporter: well, as you can imagine, fred, it's been a very tough day here. it was a tough day yesterday, too. students came with their parents yesterday to school. they had about 1.5 hours in the school cafeteria, the school classrooms where they could go. there were counselors on hand to talk to. they have changed the school taffe tear yeah. that's where the shooting took place. they changed it in a way that they've painted it. they've changed the way the cafeteria tables are arranged in the roo...

even more throughout today. and herman cain is finally endorsing a candidate. is it going to make a difference in florida, is what people are asking at this point. let's get back to the volley of rocks, bottles, tear gas and gunfire we just showed you. here's more. what you're looking at is what happened in oakland, california, last night as occupy oakland protesters faced off with police. we know as many as 200 people were arrested. we'll get more on the classes and controversy now from patty lee of cnn affiliate ktvu there in oakland. >> reporter: tear gas and flash bombs filled ...

Stuck to them. but they also allowed them to trigger their political, their political savvy. latinos in nevada voted nine to ten against sharon engel. the same thing happened against meg whitdman when she started going after the latino community. so what we're seeing is that immigration is really the catalyst for a political awakening number one. but number two, then they start digging into the issues and try to identify candidates that care about them, that care about job creation, that care about health care and education and taking care of their families. because you have roughly 22 states ...

the violence erupted when a group of coptic christians and supporters of their cause were marching toward the egypt state-run television building. military trucks were set on fire. some of the protesters could be seen throwing rocks. the army says some in the crowd had guns and fired on them. yet witnesses say it was the army that fired on the protesters. the stories may be different but no one can deny this. dead bodies in the morgue. the victims of this weekend's clashes. too many victims to refrigerate, so they are kept on ice. this is the reality in the new egypt, again, too simi...