good evening, everyone, i m erin burnett live tonight from rwanda where i spent the day with former president bill clinton. we talked about a lot of things. he spent some time visiting some projects. some farms and some factories where he had spent a lot of time over the past few years. with the likes, in fact, of nascar famous driver jeff gordon. also i saw the president at a soy factory he s bringing in the countryside. he arrived with his daughter chelsea. shaking everybody s hand and taking pictures with everybody who asked. and he asked a lot of questions himself. whenever i hear somebody say oh, these small farmers, they re just inefficient, they can t generate income, i just decided to see if that was not necessarily true. and so we get em cheaper and better seed and fertilizer, get their crops to market so they don t lose half their income taking it to market. reporter: the president told me that he blew it here. nearly 1 million people died in a horrific genocid
rwanda where i spent the day with former president bill clinton. we talked about a lot of things. he spent some time visiting some projects. some farms and some factories where he had spent a lot of time over the past few years. with the likes, in fact, of nascar famous driver jeff gordon. also i saw the president at a soy factory he s bringing in the countryside. he arrived with his daughter chelsea. shaking everybody s hand and taking pictures with everybody who asked. and he asked a lot of questions himself. whenever i hear somebody say oh, these small farmers, they re just inefficient, they can t generate income, i just decided to see if that was not necessarily true. and so we get em cheaper and better seed and fertilizer, get their crops to market so they don t lose half their income taking it to market. reporter: the president told me that he blew it here. nearly 1 million people died in a horrific genocide in just three months while bill clinton was president of
deliberating 21 hours. and this was the reaction outside the courthouse. [ applause ] sandusky was placed under arrest and booked into the county jail in bellfont, pennsylvania. he was placed in protective custody away from other inmates and is now on suicide watch. susan candiotti joins us with pennsylvania with reaction from the verdict. one of the jurors spoke out. what did he say? reporter: this one juror said they felt all the victims were credible because of the stories that they told about the abuse that they suffered and certainly all of them talking about very similar things over the course of many years. this juror spoke with nbc s today show. we looked at the inconsistencies and some of the testimony. we wanted to reconcile those and make sure that that was, you know wouldn t discredit the testimony. so we worked through those things systematically as a jury. we worked together very well. reporter: in fact, they worked out apparently any disagreemented th
child molestation. what you ll hear him explain in his own words, his, quote, attraction to young boys. also new this morning a boarding school refuses to admit a teenage boy because he has hiv. you will hear the school defend its decision. captions by vitac www.vitac.com let s get you started with the headlines today. herman cain says he will make an announcement on the future of his presidential campaign. this will come in a matter of hours. we are standing by in atlanta to hear it. he is in atlanta today for the planned opening of his georgia campaign headquarters, but instead a lot of people are speculating that he could drop out of the race. as you know this week a georgia woman had said she d had a 13-year affair with cain. he denied it. much more on this coming your way. also country music sin ner mccready and her son were finally found in a closet in arkansas. mccready took off with her 5-year-old boy. her mother and stepfather actually have custody of the y
millionaires to pay for it. republicans say they could live with extending the current rate, but only if spending cuts offset it. last night in the senate both parties plans were voted down so there is work to be done before the end of the year. in california, powerful winds are still in the forecast for parts of southern california. nothing like the winds that did this though. did you see this damage? gusts topping 140 miles an hour were measure in the mountains outside los angeles at 140 miles an hour. that equals a category 4 hurricane. also you can imagine power lines were just no match for some of this. a lot of people, tens of thousands of them, are without power still today. also honda has expanded a previously announced recall to nearly 900,000 vehicles. the problem is potentially dangerous air bags. the global recall affects several cars in the line-up the accord, civic, odyssey, crv, pilot as well, models 2001 to 2003. most of the cars tartgeted are n the new