long. welcome everybody. welcome to early start. i m ashleigh banfield. good morning. i m alina cho bringing the news from a to c. so weird. we have the alphabet all mixed up. anger, sadness and overwhelming shame at penn state. a scathing report conducted by a former director of the fbi, leaving the school and its legendary coaches shattered. saying joe paterno and top university officials not only hid but empowered a child predator in jerry sandusky. the outrage is spreading so quickly there are calls to tear down a statue of paterno that stands youds of beaver stadium. will more criminal charges be coming? susan candiotti is live in philadelphia this morning. susan, good morning to you. reporter: good morning. yes, you re right. former fbi director lewis freeh laid the blame at the feet of four top penn state officials leaving jerry sandusky free rein to abuse children over the course of almost 15 years. our most saddening and sobering finding is the total disreg
for you. good morning to you, welcome to early start on this monday morning. i m zoraida sambolin. and i m ashlee. it s the kind of heat that makes it hard to breathe and it is still threatening millions of americans all the way from the midwest to the northeast this morning. about 16 people have now died from this heat since thursday when triple-digit temperatures unleashed killer storms that have now left millions of people without power this morning. it s incredible, but look how many states are now dealing with miserable conditions in ohio, 425,000 people are now without power. that s as of 10:00 p.m. last night. it s the same story in virginia and maryland, where hundreds of thousands of people are just waiting for the power to come back on. just a whiff of ac in these extraordinary temperatures. the problem there doesn t seem to be much of a let-up in sight. 20 states are under heat advisory warnings. and now a state of emergency has been declared by the gove
accident. police finding key evidence in the instructor s stomach? and also caught on tape. a scary armed robbery at a dunkin donuts, a customer trying to be a hero but ends up unconscious. how this all went down, all in matter of seconds. up first this morning, big new developments with the chinese activist smack-dab in the middle of a political firestorm. hillary clinton is scheduled to speak about chen guangcheng in about an hour. we learned that chen can apply to study abroad according to a chinese state-run news agency. u.s. officials also say they just spoke by phone today with chen and met with his wife in person. they re expected to meet with chen in a hospital sometime this morning. the blind activist says he doesn t feel safe in china and wants to come to the u.s. he even interrupted a capitol hill hearing yesterday to request a meeting with the secretary of state. translator: i want to meet with the secretary clinton. i hope i can get more help from her. the
they ve repelled the deadly attacks in kabul and three other provinces. the explosions and gun fire have stopped at least for now. the latest on the prostitution scandal. nearly a dozen secret service agents pulled off the job. and the president, not surprisingly, not pleased. i expect that investigation to be thorough and rigorous. ahead, how a complaint from one prostitute in colombia set the scandal in motion. and, yes, that is secretary of state hillary clinton. she was caught on camera, take a look, folks, you don t normally see her had like this. she s knocking down a beer and dancing up a storm at a cuban nightclub in colombia. up first, the alarm after the storm. people in the midwest and plains still reeling from violent and deadly weather. take a look, more than 130 tornadoes touching down over the weekend, many of them in kansas. the governor says 97 twisters were reported there. some of the worst damage, though, was in oklahoma. that state s governor dec
gunned down. the supreme court begins hearing arguments this morning as 26 states challenge president obama s health care overhaul. at the heart of the debate? whether the individual insurance mandate is constitutional. and president obama is joining lead errs of more than 50 nations in seoul, south korea this morning for the 2012 nuclear security summit. the president kicking things off with a stinging warning to north korea. a developing story from afghanistan. nato officials say a gunman wearing an army uniform, an afghan army uniform, killed two coalition members in southern afghanistan before he himself was shot dead. this follows the shooting rampage by a u.s. army soldier that killed up to 17 afghan villagers just earlier on this month. in chile, rocked by a major earthquake, the 7.1 magnitude quake shoot buildings in santiago and triggered a coastal evacuation. three injuries are reported, no major damage however. one minute past 5:00. it s become emotional, i