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Drama. a self-proclaimed muslim cleric, apparently inspired by isis, holding 17 people captive in downtown sidney, australia. it all came to an explosive end with a series of flash grenades and a barrage of bullets. the gunman and two hostages are dead. we're covering all angles of the breaking news with our correspondents, our guests. full coverage coming up this hour. cnn's anna coren in sidney has the latest. >> reporter: police storm a cafe in sidney, australia filled with hostages held for nearly 17 hours. stun grenades are thrown into the building. gunfire erupts and the battle lasts for...

The police barricades gloenare marines dressed in uniforms. olson served two duties in iraq during which he turned against the war and began speaking out. other protesters are nearby when police decide to act. >> we were in the intersection and it was actually fairly calm. and then all of a sudden the explosions went off and the tear gas was all around us. >> protester ernest doty is there. >> it got very violent very quickly. it just got really chaotic. >> in addition to tear gas, police also fire bean bag projectiles and flash grenades. both considered non-lethal crowd control measures. >> p...

I could not do that. aside from me getting shot, the thing in my mind was they were shooting flash bang and people trying to help me. i couldn't belief this was happening in the united states of america. >> for those involved, the actions of police and scott's injury only strengthened their commitment to the movement. >> from that day on i became way more involved in the occupy movement. i actually bring a tent down there the next day and i stayed there for about two weeks. >> well, i think occupy is revolutionary in terms of how it effects human protests. because a lot of people were at the e...

Boy, if you go down the coast to san francisco, a much different picture because the protests there turned very violent. some 200 people actually stormed a building owned by a church. you see that. there were people on top of the buildings throwing bricks and pipes at police officers on the ground. police for a time gave up trying to get those protesters out of that church building. they eventually did take that back. listen, now, to the police. >> there were acts of violence against officers who were here on the scene as well as some of the demonstrators. one demonstrator was seriously injure...

bring it back to this live picture. chad myers, now to this. the rich are getting richer in america. new video of a baby rescued from the rubble and twitter war with the taliban. time to play reporter roulette. the new report contains the top 1% making more money and that's not the case for middle class. where does it come from and what does it say? >> you're absolutely right about that. this came out of the congressional office. it looked at how much income here in the u.s. has grown from 1979 to 2007. you know what it found? that the wealth gap is big but it's getting even bigger...