A suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan today
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: This hour in the</s>CNN NEWSROOM: Trying to stay warm and trying to get home. An early snowstorm leaves millions without power and thousands more stranded. "Occupy Seattle," what's it like to spend the weekend with those camping for a cause? You are looking at all of those pictures on the screen. And sweet victory in St. Louis -- the Cardinals celebrating there World Series championship with a parade right through the city streets.</s>LEMON: But we're going to start with this, this hour. I'm Don Lemon. Thank you for joining us. More "Occupy" protesters are taking up space in jail cells. Dozen of arrests in the last 36 hours.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We got you. We got you, you hear me?</s>LEMON: Their message -- fighting corporate corruption -- maybe getting lost in the mayhem. These scenes from Austin, Texas that you are looking at. Police there say they took in 38 people who refused to leave city hall. Portland and Denver saw the same story. Protesters refused to move out so police say they have to move in.</s>CROWD: Let them go! Let them go! Let them go!</s>LEMON: Well, these clashes played in a park in northwest Portland. Two dozen people were arrested there by police in riot gear. And in Denver, occupiers show off their wounds from pepper balls in a faceoff at the city civic center.</s>LEMON: Denver police are saying they were forced to fire. They ended up making 20 arrests on Saturday night. In total, more than 80 arrests of protesters who say police used too much force.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Only thing that happened is they asked us to take a tent down. Some kid was standing too close to them. They just started attacking everybody, spraying people with mace, arresting them. We did nothing. This is supposed to be a peaceful protest and they're attacking us like we're in a third world country.</s>LEMON: But officers say they give protesters multiple chances to follow the rules. You know what, though? Not all the occupy events this weekend ended with arrest and police in riot gear. CNN's Patrick Oppmann live in Seattle for us. So, Patrick, you followed protesters there overnight. You are finding they are developing a real culture of their own.</s>PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's absolutely true, Don. Just look here behind me -- hundreds of protesters camping on this quad at a community college. None of this was here yesterday. The protesters were in a downtown park like where many other parts of the country. Police told them they need to leave. So, they marched here and occupied this quad, setting up tents, bathrooms, kitchens -- you name it. They really created a little community here. The school administration initially said they weren't welcome here and then back down. So, basically, as long as they don't wear out the welcome, they are here. They said that police have let them be for the time being. They are not confident, though, that will remain the case. They got a legal committee that's headed by a law student who can't pay his bar fee. So, he is teaching people how to protest. How to defy police without getting into some those altercations we saw. And they created an iPhone app, Don, in case they are arrested. They can hit one button and it will ping all those friends and families, let them know they need to be bailed out, Don.</s>LEMON: So, folks there are connected. I think all of the occupiers are connected there on social media. They had their cell phones. So the people there, are they aware -- I want to ask you this -- are they aware of what happened to their fellow demonstrators in other cities?</s>OPPMANN: Well, I was here last night, Don. We were following the arrests in Portland, what took place in Austin, Colorado. A lot of these protesters move back and forth. They have friends. They have been inspired by people in some of those other communities. You know, we're on the other side of the coast from Wall Street, from Manhattan, but the sentiment feels just as strong here perhaps as anywhere else in the country. People say they were planning on staying in this park, come what may for weeks and months to come, Don.</s>LEMON: Patrick Oppmann, appreciate your reporting. Thank you. And make sure you join me later when we get a frontline perspective of the occupy dilemma. City officials who support the right to protest but can't ignore the simple laws of curfews and permits. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is going to speak with us live at 10:00 Eastern. He actually closed the park and he kicked some of the occupiers out. We're going to talk to him. In the meantime, a tragic story out of Africa features what could be a dramatic twist involving an American citizen. Reports from Somalia say two suicide bombers launched an attack Saturday in Mogadishu. It is unclear how many people were killed or injured. But a Web site associated with the al-Shabaab Islamist movement, which is linked to al Qaeda, says of the bombers was an American of Somali descent. The FBI has not confirmed the report. A Somali diplomat at the United Nations tells our affiliate WCCO that the suspect was from Minneapolis and identified him as Abdel Ism Ali (ph). He also says al-Shabaab enjoys support from some elements of the Somali community in Minneapolis.</s>OMAR JAMAL, SOMALI DIPLOMAT: As far as -- you know, he left here in 2008, November the 4th -- I think right before the election or after the election of Obama -- and he got married. He was militant on the street fighting. And it is another, he engaged in combat with Somali government. There's sympathizers and support and basically I think one can cause</s>LEMON: U.S. officials say at least 20 young men, most of them Somali Americans, have travelled from Minneapolis area to Somalia in recent years to train with al-Shabaab. The death toll is now official from that suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan on Saturday -- nine Americans died, five civilians, and four U.S. troops. The blasts also claimed the lives of two British civilians, a Kosovo national, and a Canadian soldier. Four Afghans were also killed when a car packed with explosives struck an armor bus in Kabul. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Syria's president meanwhile warns his country will turn into another Afghanistan if the West dares to intervene. Speaking to Britain's "Sunday Telegraph," Bashar al-Assad defended his army, saying it is only fighting terrorists. But this video appears to show soldiers brutally beating suspects in their custody. CNN can't confirm the authenticity of the video. New video also seems to show the scars of shelling in the western city Homs. Opposition activists say 11 people were killed as the military pounded that city on Saturday.</s>LEMON: Hello, winter. The Northeast gets blasted with an early snowstorm and more than 4 million people are now without power. Hundreds of passengers trapped on planes for hours at a time due to the storm. Isn't there a law in place to keep that from happening? Live reports from across the snow-covered area, two minutes away.