markets are up because of things happening around the world and action happening. that is a good thing. let s turn to los angeles where police have cleared out and shut down the camp set up by occupy protesters. they ve arrested dozens of people who still refuse to leave. about 1400 los angeles police officers moved in after midnight. the camp had been there a couple of months. 200 people arrested. police say the operation was mostly peaceful. another alleged victim speaks out about the child sex abuse allegations at syracuse university. mike lang is his name. s a former syracuse ball boy and he told cnn that the assistant coach, bernie fine, molested him. fine has denied the allegations but yet he has not been charged with any crime. he kept touching me. where? where did he touch you? in my leg and my penis. did you say something to him? yes. i said, bernie, please stop this because i m not that kind. i won t tolerate it. if you don t want me to come over he
mistress is adamant that she s the one telling the truth about what she called a 13-year on and off again affair. in what could be another devastating blow to cain s campaign, ginger white told abc s good morning, america she, quote, can t make this stuff up. during her first interview with waga, white showned phone records that detailed nearly six dozen calls and text messages between her and cain. some as recently as october and even this month. cain denies the affair. as herman cain is reassessing his run for the white house, he is kicking off a bus tour in the key swing state of ohio today. but listen to what white says about cain as president. i was a very casual affair. am i proud to admit to that? no, i m not. do you believe that mr. cain is fit to be president, or should he end his campaign? in my opinion, no, i do not. i honestly do not think that he is, in my opinion, would make a good president as far as i m concerned. this is how cain responded during a
tonight. ratings agency fitch says they re going to downgrade america s outlook from stable. stocks soared on wall street. because the markets closed before that action happened. the dow was up by nearly 300 points. the reason was a wow weekend for the american economy. retail sales surged. that s a fair word. they were up 16%. accord together national retail federation. it was the best kickoff to the holiday shopping season ever. topping off, today the federal reserve said household debt in this country fell $60 billion. the outfront strike team called this optimism, 85% of them said they were not going to go into recession. when the pundits were sure of just that. they ended up being right. can this optimism really last? peter, what s your take of this market rally? will it last? especially because after the markets closed, we got the hit from fitch, the ratings agency, which was expected but is another reminder of the failure in washington. it is about the failure in was
acquaintance but white said they were much more than that, beginning in the late 1990s when cain headed the national restaurant association. unlike the women who accused cain of sexual harassment, white says her relationship with pretty simple and very inappropriate. cain told cnn s wolf blitzer he had no plans to exit the race but today he said he is quote, reassessing. wolf joins me live just moments from now. and moments ago in los angeles, conrad murray was sentenced to four years behind bars for the death of michael jackson, the maximum term and exactly what prosecutors war asking for. convicted of involuntary manslaughter forgiving jackson a anesthetic to sleep. the judge said murray is dangerous and completely without remorse. vice president biden in baghdad this hour. it s his eighth trip to iraq since taking office and almost certainly his last before u.s. forces pull out at the end of the month. he s due to meet with iraq s prime minister and president and commemo
there s something prize sproo izing that barack obama and john f. kennedy have in common. the nba s come home for christmas. are the fans getting stiffed? shaquille o neal on the end of the lockout and his extraordinary 19-year career. 19 years, baby. and the player so good he could only be called magic. the one and only magic johnson on the game he still loves and the causes closest to his heart. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. we ll get to my interviews with shaquille o neal and magic johnson later in the show. i ll ask them what they think of the deal to end the nba lockout. were they as aggrieved as i was about this lengthy delay and the crisis in college sports in america. but first, another herman cain he said, she said story. a woman says she knew he was marry and she tells waga the relationship was, quote, a very inappropriate situation. it was pretty simple. it was uncomplicated. and i was aware that he was married. and i was also aware that i w