all involved in the traveller movies. that s huge. clarence wooten, a serial entrepreneur. this is a guy who built a company before the do the-combust, sold it for close to $30 million and launched two more companies where he s hiring people. so our kids need to know these role models exist so we can start shaping who they look up to as future stars. let me hand this thing over immediately at the top of the hour to fredricka whitfield. are you in a hurry? not really. arkansas doesn t play until 6:00. want me to stick around? a little football later today, arkansas, can t wait for the boxing. the fight tonight. i m a morning guy. the fights don t start until 11:00 midnight. be a vampire during the day and sleep during the day. shouldn t be a problem. another big game today, we re talking about penn state s football game. all this on the heels of that sex scandal that is certainly overshadowing the university and overshadowing today s game involving former assis
we ll let you hear what they all had to say. and a major league baseball player pulled from him home in the middle of the night by armed men, but now we re told he s been found alive and safe. [ chanting ] and have you ever seen kids this excited about taking a test? not just any test. we re talking about the a.c.t. or s.a.t. equivalent. an entire country shuts down to do everything they can to help these students ace the tests. we re taking you to south korea this morning in our passport. let s start on the campus of penn state university. you remember, it was just a couple of days ago thousands of students were getting together on the campus, and they were rioting. well, last night, thousands of students got together at state college, pennsylvania, for this. a candlelight vigil to support the victims of the sexual abuse scandal. now, this is the same place, the same spot, where this vigil is taking place, is exactly where students were rioting in support of fired foot
greece can t do that, many people fear it would then go bankrupt. it would be very, very difficult for the euro to survive, greece to survive in the euro if it goes bankrupt. banks could stop lending to each other, recession could come back to europe and especially in that the u.s. market just think what happened after lehman brother s collapsed in 2008. jim boldin, thanks so much. analysts say a bankrupt greece would also drag the economies of european countries beginning with italy and spain. in this country for the second time in less than 24 hours, an earthquake shakes central oklahoma. the latest one hit right before midnight eastern time measuring a record 5.6. it was centered near sparks about 45 miles from oklahoma city. having an earthquake right now. our lights shaking quite a bit here. it is calming down as another earthquake has just hit. i still hear a few lights rattling in our studio. and we will we still have our see our duratran back here still
alabama. it s tonight. get that early start then. that s what it s all about. t.j., thanks so much. we begin, it is a very sad day but at the same time a life is being celebrated, sad day for 60 minutes and many of us who have loved watching andy rooney for so many years close out that program. rooney died last night from complications following minor surgery. he was 92. rooney got his start as a writer in the army and spent nearly 60 years at cbs, half of them on the air. he always thought of himself as an ordinary guy that simply wrote about what he saw and read what he wrote. his colleague lesley stahl called him our poet lawiat. here is how he signed off the news magazine a few weeks ago. a writer s job is to tell the truth. i believe if all the truth were known about everything in the world, it would be a better place to live. i know i ve been terribly wrong sometimes, but i think i ve been right more often than i ve been wrong. i may have given the impression th
haul. more than 700,000 are without electricity there. utility crews are out right now assessing the damage. connecticut light and power says all of the cities and towns its services were impacted by the storm and us it could be a week before all power is restored. cnn crews working every angle of this major storm. susan is in new york, chad meyers in pennsylvania and jacqui jeras is in the severe weather center. let s go first to new york city. the metro area there. fun for some, a nightmare for others. that freak winter storm gave one family a jack-o-lantern snowman in new jersey. a couple of miles from the hudson river and downtown manhattan. let s go to manhattan where we find our susan candiotti. the snowfall has caused a lot of headaches there, although the sun is finally shining behind you? it s beautiful here, but i think everyone would agree when you re flying during the winter, there can always be problems. there were problems and it isn t even winter yet. most of