good morning to you. this is your a.m. wakeup call for thursday, november 17th. from the time warner center in new york, i m carol costello. here are this morning s top stories. new questions about what police knew and what they knew about it in the penn state child abuse sex scandal. a coach who s taken a lot of heat for witnessing the alleged sexual assault on a little boy and not reporting it says he went to the cops years ago. but two law enforcement agencies are now saying that s not true. the secret service catching up to the man accused of shooting at the white house with an ak-47 that he left at the scene. one bullet was lodged in a bulletproof window facing the south lawn. and severe weather that ripped across the southeast has killed at least four people. the concern now there could be more victims beneath the rubble of some homes. let s check in with meteorologist reynolds wolf. the southeast getting pounded the last 24 hours. a very intense line of storms th
answering the disturbing list of allegations with a denial. i say i am innocent of those charges. reporter: he spoke with nbc news in a phone interview that marks the first time he s publicly faced questions about the eight young boys he s accused of abusing. i have horsed around with kids. i have showered after workouts. i have hugged them. and i have touched their leg without intent of sexual contact. reporter: according to the indictment, the charity sandusky founded helped him prey on young boys. the second mile became his focus when he abruptly retired from coaching at the age of 55. here he is in a 1999 interview with espn. i focused my time on putting together football camps for young kids. reporter: the president of the charity resigned. he s someone else who s been accused of not doing enough. meanwhile, sandusky is out on bail, awaiting his next court date, scheduled for december. are you sexually attracted to young boys, to underage boys? am i sexually attrac
jenna: new fallout this monday morning on the penn state sex abuse scandal. the ceo of the second mile charity, that s the charity founded by former coach jerry sandusky, that ceo is stepping down after 28 years in that position. we re also learning the judge that released sandusky from jail was a volunteer for that very same charity. sandusky is a charged abusing that boy while working for second mile. david lee? reporter: start with the latest developments here. the president and ceo of the second mile charity resigned this weekend. his name is jack rekvoch. he was with the charity for 28 years. he had come under criticism allowing jerry sandusky to continues relationship with the charity sandusky founded after second mile was reportedly alerted by penn state that sandusky was involved potentially with
free on unsecured bail is a volunteer for the charity sandusky founded, the same charity where he allegedly met all eight young boys he is charged with abusing. it is called second mile and announced it s the ceo for the past 28 years has resigned. questions are swirling around assistant coach mike mcquery hired an attorney who is the then grad student who coached paterno and saw sandusky raping a 10-year-old boy. he never told police. here s what the presidential candidate and former senator, also a penn state grad had to say on morning joe. your gut reaction is to take a football helmet and hit him over the head with it. to do something to do something. to walk away is really the it s like i said, inexplicable
rapes of young boys allegedly by a former assistant coach and allegedly covered up or at least ignored by other penn state officials. we get the latest from our mary snow. reporter: two days after ousting its president and former coach joe paterno, penn state s board of trustees announced today that it is forming a committee to investigate the failure surrounding the reporting of sex allegations by jerry sandusky. the board of trustees says no resources will be spared. they will have independent counsel and investigative teams saying there are no restrictions on the scope or activity of this committee, this as a new interim prefz penn state rodney ericsson addressed the board about moving forward here at penn state. i accept this new leadership role under circumstances that i never could have imagined. it has been truly difficult to comprehend the terrible nature of the allegations that were revealed in the attorney general s presentment last week. my heart aches for the