it s not like detroit which is a vast mine field of unemployment and homes abandoned, but it s so striking. so the question is can the city in concert with the banks develop a program for abandoned homes or somehow resold to city employees, nurses, doctors, anyone liverg in the city and anyone on a city payroll be able to buy one of these homes below market value and get this place going again? you re exactly right. the chicago and sort of midwestern is not like the others that the center is really thriving. rahm emanuel has been bringing corporation headquarters back into the city and there are neighborhoods that are filled up with new tech jobs. and you go out to some of the outlying neighborhoods and they are really suffering. just listening to your last guest talk about the greet
good morning to you. it is thursday, november 17. ali velshi has the day off. i m carol costello along with christine romans. happy one last day until friday. welcome to american morning. up first this morning, new developments in the penn state child sex scandal. jerry sandusky s tv sbrir this week where he said his behavior with young boys was not sexual abuse, just horse play, may have been the last straw for some of his alleged victims. sandusky s words led new people to come forward. sandusky charged with 40 counts of sexual abuse involving eight boys he met through the charity, on 360 last night, anderson cooper spoke to the mother of one alleged victim, victim number one in the indictment. she says it was hard for they are son to watch the sandusky interview. he was very upset about it. he said i watched it after that. he said he cried. i said, why with s he crying? he said because i m afraid he might go free. he is afraid sandusky might go free? yes. the