Mayor Bloomberg will be holding a press conference scheduled for 8 a.m. with NYC police pommissioner Kelly and Fire commissioner Cassano and Sanitation Commissioner Doherty this morning. We'll be following it live.
Scott Olsen, the Iraq War veteran and Occupy Oakland protester who sustained a skull fracture Wednesday after a police threw a projectile at him, "has woken up and is lucid as he awaits surgery," The Guardian reports.
Scott Olsen, a two-tour Iraq War Vet and now a critically-injured Oakland Occupier, is recovering.
Two polls, one of millionaires and one of everyone, have both found 68 percent support for a millionaires surtax.
Scott Olsen survived two tours in Iraq, but is in a hospital with critical injuries because of a confrontation between Occupy Oakland protesters and police.
Hundreds of police gathered at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in Oakland at around 3 a.m. on Tuesday and in two-and-a-half hours, the two-week old tent city was gone.
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