>> ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU BOTH FOR 32. AND BACK TO THE BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING HERE IN NEW YORK, THE PROTEST AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AND CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK, MORE THAN 100 ARRESTS IN ALL THE NYPD SAYING THAT THEY'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE. >> AND THEY WILL BE ON THE COLUMBIA CAMPUS FOR MORE THAN TWO WEEKS TO MAINTAIN ORDER. ALL OF THIS AS GRADUATIONS APPROACHING. MEANTIME, CITY COLLEGE HAS MOVED ALL OPERATIONS ONLINE IN THE WAKE OF LAST NIGHT'S PROTESTS. >> EYEWITNESS NEWS REPORTER RAEGAN MEDGIE LIVE IN MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS WITH WHAT WE KNOW AT THIS HOUR. RAEGAN, WHAT DO WE KNOW? RIGHT. GOTCHA. >> YEAH. SO WHAT WE'RE LEARNING IS THAT THE DECISION TO GET THE NYPD INVOLVED HAPPENED YESTERDAY MORNING. LAW ENFORCEMENT, IT WAS DECIDED THAT THEY WOULD BE THE MOST APPROPRIATE TO EXECUTE THE RESPONSE THAT WAS NEEDED. NOW, THE REASON THAT EVERYTHING CHANGED WAS THE NYPD BELIEVED THAT THE PROTESTERS IN SIDE HAMILTON HALL WERE NOT ONLY JUST STUDENT PROTESTS, THAT THERE WERE FORCES FROM THE OUTSIDE THAT WERE ACTUALLY HEIGHTENING WHAT WAS GOING ON HERE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME VIDEO AT EVERYTHING CHANGING. ABOUT 9:00 LAST NIGHT, IT WAS AT 845 AT NIGHT LAST NIGHT WHEN THE CITY RECEIVED AUTHORIZATION FROM COLUMBIA TO SEND NYPD ONTO CAMPUS SHORTLY BEFORE COLUMBIA'S EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS ALERTED STUDENTS TO SHELTER IN PLACE FOR THEIR SAFETY DUE TO HEIGHTENED ACTIVITY ON CAMPUS. THEN, BY 9:00, THE NYPD MOVED IN WITH THEIR HELMETS AND SHIELDS, ENTERING THE PROTESTS OCCUPIED HAMILTON HALL. NOW THEY FIRST ENTERED USING A BEARCAT. AS THE PROTESTERS BARRICADED THEMSELVES INSIDE USING FURNITURE AND ROCKS. ANYTHING THEY COULD FIND TO BLOCK THE ENTRANCES. NOW, ACCORDING TO POLICE SOURCES, ONCE THE POLICE GOT INSIDE, THEY DEPLOYED FOUR SO-CALLED FLASHBANG GRENADES. THEY DID NOT USE TEAR GAS OR ANY OTHER FORCE. THEY WERE THEN ABLE TO LOCATE THE PROTESTERS AND START MAKING ARRESTS. NOW THE UNIVERSITY AND POLICE BELIEVE THE GROUP THAT BROKE INTO AND OCCUPIED THE BUILDING WAS LED BY INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE NOT STUDENTS OR AFFILIATED WITH THE SCHOOL AT ALL. POLICE SOURCES TELL US ABOUT 50 ARRESTS INSIDE THE BUILDING, MOST NOT COLUMBIA STUDENTS. THEY ARE, QUOTE, MOSTLY PROFESSIONALS. MOST LEFT IN THE BUILDING. >> THE QUAD IS NOW EMPTY. THE ONLY THING THAT'S LEFT IS THE TENTS AND THEIR PROPERTY. AND THAT WILL ALL BE CLEARED OUT BY THE SCHOOL. >> THIS IS THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, AS PER CITY COLLEGE, TO LEAVE THE CAMPUS. IF YOU REFUSE TO LEAVE, YOU MAY BE PLACED UNDER ARREST. >> YEAH, YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT. SO AS COLUMBIA'S HAMILTON HALL IS GETTING CLEARED, STUDENTS AT CITY COLLEGE ATTEMPTED TO TAKE OVER A SCHOOL BUILDING THERE. NOW, THE NYPD WERE CALLED IN AND PREVENTING THAT FROM HAPPENING. AND ALSO MAKING SEVERAL ARRESTS. SO THE DECISION TO REACH OUT TO THE NYPD WAS IN RESPONSE TO THE ACTIONS OF THE PROTESTERS AND NOT THE CAUSE. THEY ARE CHAMPIONING. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT POINT TO MAKE. NOW, OBVIOUSLY, WHAT HAD TO HAPPEN HAPPENED BECAUSE THIS UNIVERSITY IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE SAFETY OF THEIR STUDENTS AND THEY WANT TO RESTORE ALL THE CALM NOW STILL TODAY, WE'RE HAVING THOSE RESTRICTED ENTRY POINTS AT THE COLLEGE HERE. SO IN ORDER FOR THE STUDENTS TO GET ON CAMPUS, THEY HAVE TO SHOW THEIR ID AND THE TENT IS SET UP IN BACK OF ME WHERE THEY HAVE TO SCAN THEIR IDS
