GENE RANDALL, CNN ANCHOR: Police here in Washington are trying to head off protests that could disrupt a key meeting of tomorrow's International Monetary Fund and World Bank session. Kate Snow is covering the story for us -- Kate.</s>KATE SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Gene, we're outside the headquarters of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Now police are now saying that there could be as many as 10,000 people out here tomorrow as they try to disrupt the key meeting of the IMF ministers. A group called the Mobilization for Global Justice is spearheading this whole campaign. They're a sort of umbrella group, a loose-knit group of environmentalists, labor-rights workers, human- rights workers. Earlier this morning, they themselves were shut down. Although they're the ones pledging to shut down the IMF and the World Bank meeting, the protesters themselves were shut down when fire marshals went into one of their headquarters. It's a warehouse they have just a short distance away from where I am. They were meeting there -- they were meeting there and they had been using that as a center point or a gathering point. Now they were very angry when the police went in. They said there were fire code violations in that warehouse and that that was the problem and that's why that warehouse was shut down. We do expect them to show up here again tomorrow. Many events scheduled for today, as well. Events scheduled all over town, as they prepare for this larger protest. Last night, police also confiscated some materials that they say they think the protesters were planning on using in tomorrow's events, things like PVC pipe that they thought the protesters would use as they link arms to try to battle against the police. Police certainly on the lookout for that kind of thing and prepared for anything that might happen -- Gene.</s>RANDALL: Kate, thanks very much. And for our viewers, that video you just saw was from Seattle, it was definitely not from Washington. Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNmoney.com The Web
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