minutes. a high-speed chase. but this leadfoot suspect is a fellow police officer. and triumphant return of a paralyzed football player. number 52 is inspiring his teammates. we promise he ll do the same for you. it s all right here, right now on cnn. good evening. i m don lemon. thanks for joining us. those stories and more, but first we re starting with some breaking political news. herman cain s campaign for president under scrutiny tonight over a report that could tarnish his image. a restaurant s chief lobbyist, at least two women complained of inappropriate behavior, specifically suggestive sexual behavior. both women reportedly left the association with payouts in the five figures and agreed not to talk about it. revelations are the first serious setback for cain at a time when some polls show him leading the race for the republican nomination. cain is confronted with the allegation sunday in washington. you won t tell me who they are. that s like negotiating
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
do this. they have to come up with a conclusion. and evidently, they ve made almost no progress. and one of the biggest time wasteers, senator john kerry. evidently, he makes speech after speech in aspirational tones where people s eyes glaze over. one of the things that a lot of people talked about last night, herman cain s 999 plan. there s a story out this morning, i just saw it on national review on line in their corner blog, it says that steven moore, the wall street journal guy who is on this program a lot and on the channel a lot, he helped herman cain with his plan. he realizing now that the 9% sales tax is a nonstarter. what steven moore is suggesting to the cain camp is change that 9% national sales tax to a 9% payroll tax. it would still be lower than what we re paying now. and then you wouldn t have to worry about the national sales tax and we saw all the candidates pile on mr. cain last night on that. will he change his plan? stand by. very interesting.
the surge has been through debate and tv commercials. the campaign of mitt romney, rick perry and ron paul key early states and nationally dwar the cain camp, which admits struggling to catch up organizationally, while he tried simultaneous to extend the hype speed in the poll no denying thed 9-9-9 plan has buzz. discount airlines borrowed it and urged people to buy cut-rate vacation flight now. after meeting with donald trump in new york today, michele bachmann trashed cain s 9-9-9 plan to alter the existing system and create 9% income tax and 9% national sales tax. you don t give congress a new revenue stream. they spend all the money and then some. congress is just a big money-eating machine. cain has been reluctant to identify the top ide visors. the tax plan was developed not by economist but an ohio wealth manager and
understood that we had arrived at a big moment for the nation. perform romney by contrast leaves the impression that the country has arrived at his big moment. chris han, your thoughts on that. like you said, 75, 77 percent of republicans consistently say they don t want mitt romney. cain has risen through the polls. let s face it, he s the only one on that stage who has personality, it s stunning and is uplifting in its ways. i think his 999 plan is a path to disaster for this country, and now that he s at the top of the polls you ll start to see people focused on what he s trying to do in his plan. let s face it, this guy has made a living selling things in this country and done a very good job at it so he s got a nice, simple plan that people can listen to and understand. that s what s helping him. martha: and definitely connecting with folks out there. that s why we re seeing these numbers for him. but the big question for him, and if you re in the cain camp at this moment, you r