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   >>> police in riot gear are moving occupy wall street protesters out of oakland right now. they've spent weeks camped out in front of city hall , then early this morning pacific time police started cuffing the demonstrators and leading them away. police are, in fact, telling those who work downtown to put off starting their day. kntv's bob rodell is live in oakland for us. i understand you've had to take shelter in your van. what's going on out there?

   >> reporter: well, there were some people with occupy oakland who had some choice words for us on air so i figured it would be better if we were able to sit in a van. good morning to you, chris. if you look out to the right you'll see snow park , one of two locations of the occupy oakland movement here in oakland . this is by lake merit, about 45 minutes to an hour ago oakland 's finest, you can see them right there, descended on the park and they took away perhaps 10 to 15 protesters. they've been camped out. you may be able to see some of the tents that were here. like i said, this was one of the smaller locations of the occupy oakland movement, the larger location was downtown in front of city hall is what we refer to as frank ogawa plaza where there were 150 tents set up with at least perhaps 200 to 300 protesters. well, about two and a half hours ago there were 200 to 300 oakland police officers who descended on that to shut it down. they gave them an eviction notice last thursday. they started barricading themselves into that area. the police surrounded the park and what was most noteworthy was how smooth the takedown of the plaza was. it took place in about 30 to 45 minutes there were some protesters, several, who came out on their own. we talked to one gentleman who said i don't want to be arrested. i have a family, kids at home. i want to be out of here. then there were a core of protesters who stayed until the very end, i'm going to say 50 to 75. they have been arrested. there wasn't much in the way of violence. one tear gas canister went off. it's not clear if that was opd or a protester, also a bottle thrown, some pushing and shoving. yes, contentious but as far as physical, not so much.

   >> thank you so much for that live update .

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