>>> IF YOU'RE JUST JOINING US, BREAKING NEWS ON PENN'S CAMPUS, PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS ARE BEING ARRESTED, THEIR ENCAMPMENT DISBANDED. >> LET'S GET OUT TO KATY ZACHRY. YOU SAW THE FIRST OFFICERS ON BIKES ROLLING IN ABOUT 5:30, AN HOUR AGO. >> IT'S BEEN AN HOUR AND IT'S BEEN A WHIRLWIND. LOOK AT WHAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW. IN THE LAST HOUR, WE HAVE SEEN A DOZEN OR MORE ARRESTS OF THESE PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS WHO HAVE BEEN OCCUPYING THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA'S CAMPUS. THE WEATHER, IT'S JUST STARTING TO RAIN HEAVIER OUT HERE. WE HAVE SEEN A NUMBER OF ARRESTS, PROBABLY 12 TO 15 ARRESTS. THEY'VE BEEN PEACEFUL SO FAR IN NATURE. HERE'S HOW IT STARTED. AT 5:30 THIS MORNING, AS WE WERE BASICALLY -- I WAS STARTING TO TALK TO YOU FOR MY 5:30 LIVE SHOT, THERE WERE DOZENS OF PHILADELPHIA POLICE OFFICERS ON BIKES WHO CONVERGED ON COLLEGE GREEN WHERE THIS ENCAMPMENT HAS GROWN OVER THE PAST TWO WEEKS AND WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN TOLD FOR TWO WEEKS TO DISBAND, DISPERSE AND LEAVE THIS SPACE. THEY WERE TOLD THAT BY UNIVERSITY LEADERS. THEY REFUSED. THIS MORNING IS THE RESULT OF THAT. FIRST THAT WAVE OF PHILADELPHIA POLICE OFFICERS ON BIKES CAME. THEY FORMED A BARRICADE AROUND COLLEGE GREEN. THEN THERE WAS A MEGAPHONE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT TOLD THE TWO TO THREE DOZEN PROTESTERS WHO HAVE REMAINED OUT HERE IN TENTS TO LEAVE OR THEY WOULD BE ARRESTED. WE DID SEE A HANDFUL OF PROTESTERS RAN FROM THIS AREA CARRYING SOME OF THEIR POSSESSIONS. THE MAJORITY OF THEM STAYED. THEN TWO TO THREE MINUTES LATER WE SAW A LARGE WAVE OF POLICE OFFICERS IN TACTICAL GEAR AND RIOT GEAR. YOU CAN SEE THEM RIGHT NOW WITH OUR CAMERAS OUT HERE. THEY FORMED A PERIMETER AROUND THE ENCAMPMENT AND THEY WENT THROUGH THE ENCAMPMENT AND I WOULD SAY ABOUT A THIRD OF THE ENCAMPMENT, THOSE TENS HAVE BEEN TAKEN DOWN BY THEIR WANDS AND THEIR BATONS. AND THEN THOSE ARRESTS STARTED. THEY'VE BEEN PEACEFUL IN THE SENSE OF THE PROTESTERS HAVE LOCKED ARMS, HAVE GATHERED AROUND THE BEN FRANKLIN STATUE HERE ON COLLEGE GREEN, THEY HAVE HELD THEIR FLAG AND CHANTED. THEY HAVE REMAINED SECURE AS ONE I SHOULD SAY. BUT THEIR CHANTS ARE NOT AS LOUD BECAUSE TWO-THIRDS OF THEIR GROUP HAS BEEN ARRESTED. THEY ARE RIGHT NOW IN POLICE VANS THAT ARE STILL HERE ON COLLEGE GREEN. WE'RE TURNING OUR CAMERA RIGHT NOW. YOU CAN SEE ONE OF THOSE VANS, AT LEAST ONE OF THEM HAS ITS DOORS OPEN. THAT'S WHERE THE PROTESTS WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED ARE BEING HELD. I WANT TO SPIN OUR CAMERA BACK AROUND. IN AN INSTANT WHERE A PROTESTER REFUSES TO GO WITH THE OFFICER, THE OFFICERS HAVE TO CARRY THEM FROM THE STATUE. IN SOME CASES THE PROTESTERS ARE REFUSING TO WALK TO THE POLICE VANS. SEVERAL OFFICERS WILL COME AND CARRY THESE MEN AND WOMEN. THERE IS A GROUP OF PENN STUDENTS WHO BEGAN THIS PROTEST AND THEN IT GREW INTO AN ENCAMPMENT. AS IT GREW, IT GATHERED AND GARNERED MANY MORE PEOPLE IN THE SENSE OF STUDENTS FROM DREXEL, FROM TEMPLE, FROM OTHER COLLEGES AND FROM OTHER PRO-PALESTINE COALITIONS THROUGHOUT PHILADELPHIA. AND RIGHT NOW -- RIGHT NOW, ONE OF THE PROTESTERS HOLDING THE FLAG, SHE WAS REMOVED FROM THE STATUE AND SHE IS LETTING POLICE ARREST HER. AS I SAID, ABOUT 20, 25 MINUTES AGO, POLICE CAME WITH A MEGAPHONE AND A RECORDING WAS PLAYED THAT THEY ARE IN VIOLATION OF TRESPASSING LAWS IF THEY DO NOT DISPERSE AND LEAVE COLLEGE GREEN, THEN THEY WILL BE ARRESTED. EVERYONE WHO REMAINS WILL BE ARRESTED. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. KEITH AND ERIN? >> MAYBE -- YOU KNOW WHAT, IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S A LONE PROTESTER AT THIS POINT. >> THERE MAY BE SOME ON THE SIDE. >> YOU CAN'T SEE TO THE RIGHT, BEHIND THIS POLICE BARRICADE, THERE ARE PROBABLY I WOULD SAY HALF A DOZEN TO A DOZEN STILL LEFT. >> OKAY. OKAY. >> YOU CAN SEE THIS -- THERE'S ONE WHO -- THEY ARE RESISTING ARREST. SOME HAVE NOT RESISTED ARREST. THEY'VE ACQUIESCED AND GONE WITH THE OFFICER. THEY KIND OF REMAINED STONE-FACED AND HAD NO EXPRESSION AND NOTHING TO SAY. THERE ARE OTHERS WHO ARE VERY VERBAL WHO ARE RESISTING ARREST. AGAIN, WE HAVE NOT SEEN ANY VIOLENCE CONTRARY TO WHAT ONE PROTESTER TOLD ME AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THIS, WHEN POLICE STARTED MOVING IN, HE SAID WE'RE HOLDING FAST, WE'RE STAYING OUR GROUND, WE WILL ESCALATE. I SAID WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY ESCALATE? HE DIDN'T TELL ME OR COULDN'T TELL ME OR MAYBE THAT WAS JUST A LINE HE WAS GIVING. NOW YOU SEE ANOTHER LINE OF POLICE IN TACTICAL GEAR. I THINK WHAT WE MIGHT SEE HERE IS -- OKAY. THEY'RE GOING -- RIGHT NOW, THEY ARE LOOKING IN SOME OF THE TENTS THAT ARE STILL UP. I WOULD SAY A THIRD OF THE ENCAMPMENT IN TERMS OF THE TENTS, THEY HAVE BEEN TAKEN DOWN. POLICE HAVE GONE THROUGH THEM. BROKEN DOWN THE TENTS. RIGHT NOW YOU HAVE OFFICERS WHO ARE GOING INTO SOME TENTS. THEY SEEM TO BE FOCUSING ON THIS ONE TENT THAT HAS A GREEN AND WHITE TENT IN FRONT OF US. THERE MAY BE SOMEONE INSIDE. I DON'T KNOW. I CAN'T GET A GOOD ANGLE. YEAH. I BELIEVE THEY HAVE PULLED SOMEONE FROM INSIDE THAT TENT OUT. IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE ARRESTING THEM. I'LL MOVE OVER A LITTLE BIT. AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, OUR COLLEAGUES FROM OTHER STATIONS, WE'RE SHOULDER-TO-SHOULDER REPORTING ON THIS. I WANT YOU TO BE ABLE TO HEAR ME. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN COMING. WE'VE GOTTEN NUMEROUS CORRESPONDENCE AND COMMUNICATION FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LEADERS. WE KNOW THERE'S BEEN COMMUNICATION. MY PRODUCER IS TALKING IN MY EAR ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING. THERE'S BEEN COMMUNICATION FROM THE UNIVERSITY LEADERS WITH THE PROTESTERS, WITH FACTUALLY MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN ADVISING THESE PROTESTERS. THERE HAS BEEN DISCOURSE BETWEEN PROTESTERS AND UNIVERSITY LEADERS AND LEADERS HAVE TOLD THEM IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS YOU NEED TO DISBAND. THIS IS FOR THE HEALTH AND SAFETY AND WELFARE OF THOSE ON CAMPUS. THIS WAS PREVENTING THAT. THIS ENCAMPMENT WAS PREVENTING THAT. NOW, ERIN AND KEITH. I WILL SEND IT OVER TO MY COLLEAGUE, SIOBHAN McGIRL, YOU ARE AT 34th AND WALNUT? >> KATY, WE'RE NOT FAR FROM WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW. WE'RE AT THE ENTRANCE INTO COLLEGE GREEN QUAD AREA. POLICE ARE KEEPING US BACK RIGHT NOW WITH THIS BARRICADE. WE DO SEE THOSE POLICE VANS SET UP THAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT. ONE WITH THE DOOR OPEN RIGHT NOW. WE WERE TOLD ONE POLICE VAN MADE ITS WAY OUT. THESE ARE ON STAND-BY. POLICE OVER HERE ARE KEEPING PEOPLE FROM THIS ENTRANCE INTO THE QUAD. I WANT TO NOTE, I DID SEE PHILADELPHIA'S POLICE COMMISSIONER WHEN I WAS WALKING IN I ASKED HIM, WE HEARD ABOUT THIS LOOKING LIKE A COORDINATED EFFORT BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE UNIVERSITY. HE SAID HE COULD NOT COMMENT ON THAT RIGHT NOW. YOU SEE, THEY HAVE ALL OF THAT AREA BLOCKED OFF RIGHT NOW. I DO WANT TO NOTE THE ROADS IN THE AREA ARE ALSO BLOCKED OFF. JUST WALKING UP HERE I COUNTED A DOZEN POLICE VANS ON ONE ROAD. THEY SAY THEY'RE STANDING BY. A LOT OF THESE ROADS IN THE AREA ARE BLOCKED OFF WITH POLICE LINING THE AREA. ANYONE TRAVELING THIS MORNING SHOULD KEEP THAT IN MIND. WE'LL BRING IT BACK OVER HERE. THIS IS WHERE KATY IS STANDING BEYOND THESE
