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where the park is cleared and now it is the protesters who are occupied with a critical question, what now? new york police moveded in overnight with a notice where occupy wall street had been encamped since november 17th. they tore down tents and arrested more than 100 people who refused to leave on their own. they planned to open zuccotti park as long as nobody try to live there. but the judge rule the city has no right to block tents or campsites so police are keeping everyone out. a live report from poppy harlow in a few minutes. the former penn state assistant football coach a...

Future behavior. psych 101 says the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. we look at what somebody's done in the past, we look at the statements they've made. we look at are they moving in a direction of taking some type of action? in this case, he bought a weapon, of course, he had a car. he had made statements about the military. and now he's driving to the east coast where he has no purpose to go whatsoever. if i had those dots, alex, that you're talking about, they would have -- you know, they would have told us this guy's a potential threat. but even if we knew that, if you ...

By our nature optimistic? but is there any system that can -- can the israeli guy, can any government in the world define an angry lone wolf and tell the difference between somebody who's angry and somebody who's willing to do this? >> the answer is, many times we can't. we try to measure, we try to assess threat based on what the individual rights. psych 101 tells us the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. but you look at somebody like this who had been a ceo of two software companies, he's lost them, been through a couple of bad marriages, he's been through many financial cha...