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and continue to persist in the roadway you may be subject to use of force including chemical agents and impact weapons. >> chemical agents and impact weapons. we have been watching the pictures all afternoon. and police have been clearing these parts. this is late last night. police in portland, oregon have been warning protesters to leave their encampment. these are live pictures from koin. right now the demonstrators are blocking a street. they seem to be daring police to arrest them. sam adams, the mayor of portland, is live via telephone. as we look at the live pictures, can you ...

clinton. but not the kind of birthday you'd think. on hand, lady gaga, usher and el en ellen de generes. thchlts morning on the national mall, the four-acre, $120 million martin luther king jr. memorial will be dedicated. our athena jones is in the mall right now and joins us now live. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. as you can see, the crowd is building here. in just a little while, this dedication ceremony which was postponed, as you know, from august, will begin. we expect to hear from several civil rights leaders like jesse jackson, like john lewis. also martin lu...

13,000 gay troops were kicked out after their secrets leaked out and the taxpayers spent more than $100 million replacing them. today don't ask, don't tell is no more. repeal took effect at 12:01 a.m., nine months after signing the measure from the waining days of a lame duck congress. gays can now serve openly in every branch of service and all of those discharged service members can try to reenlist. key word, try. turns out repeal is one thing but reality is much different. more on that in our next segment moments from now. more than 22 years after former army ranger and offduty ...

believe me, that is saying something. this has been the worst fire season in texas history, and this is the worst of more than 35 fires burning right now. it's southeast of austin in bass strup county. and 1,000 other homes are threaten threatened. firefighters are attacking on the ground and in the air. and chris welch is in the thick of it. are they making any headway at all? >> caller: not exactly. this is a very bad day for fighting a fire to put it lightly. officials here caution, you know, they asked everybody to evacuate yesterday in the hardest hit areas. this fire continues ...

newsroom" starts with the handsome t.j. holmes. >> i hope erin burnett knows she is getting a great bartender there. kelly takes this seriously and made great drinks for you when i was up there with you guys a couple of weeks. you all do your 9:00 thing. i know exactly where y'all are going there in the time warner center. good to see you all! thanks so much, guys. all right. top of the hour here now. i am t.j. holmes today in for kyra phillips. this hour, unfortunately, we have to begin with the latest bad sign that this economy in this country is stalled. you've been hearing ab...