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Sturdier shelter, at least putting roofs over families' heads and not just tents, prepositioning of food and supplies for easy access and perhaps most of all, the philippine military on high alert to take over the relief and rescue operations if necessary. you'll recall that last year in haiyan, you couldn't find a philippine soldier for three or four days after that. so it's been an education process. and people are just, generally speaking, more prepared than they were a year ago. >> don't want to see anything close to the 7,300 killed or missing since that horrible super typhoon of last yea...

Store. one of the busiest stores in manhattan right now and one of the busiest shopping days of the year. and i want to get to washington, d.c. you are looking at boston where there are police and protesters in washington. athena jones is there and protesters are gathering in china town and they want to make it difficult for people to get around, go to an nba game. so athena, what are you seeing? >> reporter: hi, erin. right now we are outside of the verizon center where the wizards are playing the denver nuggets. you can see the shots of people lying down on the ground, they are doing a die...

This is the latest thing. look. the protesters chanting "black lives matter" and "die in" and lying down in the aisles. shutting down one of new york's most popular landmarks at the height of the shopping season. at grand central station commuters had to deal with a holiday die-in as well in the middle of the iconic landmark. as these dramatic protests gained steam, the white house comes under new pressure. the congressional black caucus urging president obama now to make alleged police racism the central tenant of his upcoming state of the union address. and they're pushing the president to i...

Not prosecuting their buddy cops. that's just a reality. >> i want to show images. this is grand central terminal in midtown 42nd street in new york and now we have protesters going into grand central terminal. jason carroll anticipated this is perhaps where they were going to go but if we can, do we have contact with jason? jason, if you're there -- . >> reporter: yes, i can hear you. >> it's a sight to see protesters entering grand central on their own. >> reporter: that's true. >> he's too far underground. >> reporter: anderson, going to see them right back police officers and going by secu...

Good morning. >> reporter: hey, there, good morning, christine. no question about it, these protests gained momentum in their second night and garnered more attention. that has to do with where they're happening. right here in times square. along the west side highway, on the brooklyn bridge where traffic was also being stopped. these protests happening in at least three boroughs overnight from manhattan to brooklyn where there was a so-called die-in which was staged and in staten island where different scuffles erupted. in lower manhattan arrests were made. we know protesters were down there ...