Occupy Wall Street Gets Bigger; Occupy Wall Street Gets Bigger
ALINA CHO, CNN ANCHOR: From the CNN Center, this is CNN SATURDAY MORNING. Good morning, everybody. I'm Alina Cho. T.J. Holmes is on assignment. 6:00 a.m. in Atlanta, 3:00 a.m. in Las Vegas. That's where T.J. is right now for the upcoming presidential debate. He'll be with us later this morning. But first, Occupy Wall Street goes global. Protesters taking to the streets all over the world. And in some cities, they're being met with strong resistance from police. We'll show you what's going on. Plus, you know the fact, J.R. Ewing, from the 1980s hit TV series "Dallas," announces a very public health battle. But the actor, Larry Hagman, has no plans to step down. And we're all guilty of it, eating and driving. But one community is working to put a stop to it. The Occupy Wall Street movement just keeps getting bigger. More protests inside and outside of the United States, along with more arrests. In New York alone, 14 arrests after protesters staged a sit- in in the street blocking traffic. In Flint, Michigan, dozens of demonstrators protested in front of a Bank of America building. And in Seattle, Washington, dozens more remain in a downtown park. Just yesterday police in riot gear arrested 41 people there. And in San Diego, police clashed with Occupy protesters who had formed a tent city. And things got pretty intense. Officers used pepper spray to make the demonstrators comply with an order to remove their camping gear. Here's Salvador Rivera of affiliate KGTV.</s>SALVADOR RIVERA, KGTV REPORTER (voice-over): Protesters try to hold their ground as officers try to hold protesters back. "We don't need police" is what they were saying as officers formed a wall and pushed protesters away.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Shame on you!</s>RIVERA: A few minutes later, officers used more than just their might to get a handle on the protesters.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ow! They</s>RIVERA: Some protesters scramble to get water and other liquids to wash away the effects of the pepper spray.</s>DANTE, PROTESTER: And they shouldn't come in here and just do this</s>ERIC HAUSER, PROTESTER: That's not right. We're trying to protect something we stand up for, we believe in, and they're coming in there with force?</s>RIVERA: Eric Hauser says the officers went too far. Only one person was arrested during the confrontation.</s>HOUSER: We're not the violent people. They are.</s>RIVERA: This all happened after officers began removing tents, especially this one, which, according to protesters, held a symbolic meaning. "</s>FISH", PROTESTER: To us that tent represents every house that's being closed, that's being foreclosed on. That tent represents every kid that's going to be out on the streets.</s>RIVERA: Police say they were very patient, but the tents had to come down to prepare for the World of Dance event taking place this weekend at Golden Hall.</s>CHIEF WILLIAM LANDSDOWNE, SAN DIEGO POLICE: We understand that people have a right to protest. But somewhere along that line, people have a right to conduct business. That's what this is all about.</s>CHO: Occupy Wall Street and the discontent behind it has even gone global. Protests are happening today in Europe, North America and Asia. In Japan, about 200 people marched through the streets of Tokyo. One target, the Tokyo Electric Power Company and its handling of the disaster at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. In Canada, organizers have been drumming up support for protests in at least 15 Canadian cities. Thousands of demonstrators are expected to turn out. Two Afghan civilians were killed in a suicide attack on a U.S.-run facility in northern Afghanistan. One official says four attackers armed with suicide vests and weapons tried to storm the base. One exploded his car at the gate. The others tried to rush in. Two detonated their vests, and two were fatally shot by police before their devices went off. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. The son of U.S.-born militant cleric Anwar al Awlaki is dead. A security official says he was killed in a series of drone attacks in Yemen last night. The attacks killed a total of seven suspected militants. Once a key member of al Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula, he was killed in a drone strike a little more than two weeks ago. In Libya, the streets of Tripoli are tense this morning after new fighting between revolutionary forces and pro-Gadhafi loyalists. Watch. Yesterday a group of about 10 Gadhafi loyalists opened fire in a neighborhood that has remained mostly loyal to Gadhafi. Revolutionary soldiers surrounded the area and fought back. Two Gadhafi loyalists and one national transitional council fighter were killed. Prosecutors will ask for the death penalty against a California man charged in what they call a two-minute murder spree. Police say 41- year-old Scott Dekraai shot and killed his ex-wife and seven other people inside a hair salon. It happened in Seal Beach, California. The district attorney said Dekraai wanted revenge for a custody fight he was having with his ex-wife over their eight-year-old son. The ex-wife was a stylist at the salon. The catholic bishop of Kansas City faces criminal charges for failing to tell police about child pornography he found on a priest's computer. Bishop Robert Finn pled not guilty to a misdemeanor. If found guilty, the bishop could face up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. The diocese, incredibly, was also charged. A federal appeals court temporarily blocks key parts of Alabama's tough immigration law, at least until they decide whether the law is unconstitutional. Most notably, the move stops public schools from checking the immigration status of students. But police will still be required to check someone's immigration status when they are stopped or arrested if the officer suspects the person is in the country illegally. And now to a sign of the times. A Chicago suburb may put a stop to drivers chowing down in the car. This certainly caught my attention. The village of Oak Park is considering a proposal that would ban eating while driving. That's right, this has nothing to do with a cell phone. An effort to get distracted drivers to pay more attention to the road, of course. Now, if Oak Park ends up enacting such a law, it would be the first in the nation to do so. "Men's Health" magazine released its second edition of "Eat This, Not That," and it's a list of what the authors call the worst foods in America. Here's what you should not get next time you go out. The worst fast food burger in America, Wendy's Triple Baconator is what it's called. Take a look at that, 1,350 calories, 90 grams of fat, 40 grams of saturated fat and almost 3,000 milligrams of sodium. Now, to give you some perspective, that's as much saturated fat as you'd get in a medium supreme pizza from Pizza Hut. If you're still hungry later on, I'll tell you which chain got the honor of worst fries in America. All right, Bonnie Schneider is in the severe weather center. You're always a good eater, aren't you?</s>BONNIE SCHNEIDER, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes, I'm pretty healthy. I can't -- I was thinking, that's almost calories for the whole day in one burger.</s>CHO: It is the calories for a whole day. Who are you kidding? So you've got a storm system in the Great Lakes that you want to talk about, right?</s>SCHNEIDER: Absolutely. We'll be monitoring that. This one's going to be a big one in terms of wind and waves. Right now in Atlanta, it's a beautiful morning out there. You can see behind me, it's still dark outside. We'll be looking forward to a nice day. Temperatures will be pleasant, Near 80 degrees. I'll tell you all about the rest of the forecast for the nation coming up.</s>CHO: All right, Bonnie, thank you. A huge championship boxing fight happening tonight, but it's this 52- year-old ex-con fighting on the undercard who got a good-luck phone call from, you guessed it, the president of the United States. We'll have his inspirational story in a few minutes.