responsibility to heart. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming our interim head football coach, mr. tom bradley. please raise your hand, and we ll bring a microphone to you. in light of the circumstances in talking about replacing coach paterno, do you have any reservations, or what kind of reservations do you take in the job? the question that now surrounds this program. i take this job with mixed emotions due to the situation. i ve been asked by the university, by the board of trustees, by rod erickson to
the highest standards of conduct. has coach paterno been told he can go to the game on saturday or told to stay away? we did not discuss that matter. you ve talked to a lot of students. what do you want to say to those who think the board of trustees has handled this matter poorly? we handled it the best way we could with the information we had and with the time that was available to us. again, wanting to be decisive, but also wanted to be thorough and appropriately deliberate. others are welcome to their own opinion. we believe we did the best job we could. what would be the harm in letting the coach continue until the end of the season? can you define the term best interest of the university regarding coach paterno? i think i ll leave it to you to describe what the best interest although i would say that the current situation we re in, which by all accounts, has its roots in a certain organization of the university, the situation we are in today is not in the univer
jerry sandusky who is charged with child molestation. effective immediately, joe paterno is no longer the head football coach. effective immediately. that means paterno won t coach the final home game against nebraska. paterno accepts the board s decision but adds, quote, it is going to take some time to get used to. overnig we are going live to penn state. when tom bradley speaks. take a look at those live pictures. greece has a new interm prime minister to avoid an economic collapse. lucas pkcas papademos. . in eastern turkey, rescuers are digging through piles of rubble to try to find dozens of people who are trapped still after earthquake struck last night. at least seven people were killed and this moderate quake hit less than a month after you may recall the major quake that struck the same area killing more than 500. major league baseball s wilson ramos has been kidnapped now at gunpoint. it happened at his family s home in venezuela. the 24-year-old, catcher
a.m. you know what, the end of an era at penn state. the nittany lions have lost their coach of five decades, a university president has been fired and a sex scandal has rocked the campus and this country. last night you saw the students protesting on campus, in town and right in front of joe paterno s home. hey, look, get a good night s sleep. all right. study, all right. we still got things to do. all right. i m out it maybe now. thanks. pray a little bit for those victims. coach. you are a legend, joe! penn state! pray a little bit for those victims. jason carroll in state college, pennsylvania. so, let s talk about how the board acted so swiftly and why do you think it did so? well, i think if you were to listen to the vice chairman of the board that said wednesday was the first time, kyra, that the board really had a chance to sit down and deliberate the entire issue, the board basically saying that they thought in order to have coach paterno out there coachi
and so it s with great respect that i speak of him and proud to say that i worked for him. it s been a seismic cascade of events since last weekend s arrest of a former penn state defensive coordinator on charges of raping and molesting a number of other boys. two of the university officials are charged with failure to report those crimes. paterno is charged with nothing, but says he wishes that he had done more than simply tell his superiors what an assistant reported to him back in 2002. i want to go now to penn state campus and cnn s jason carroll. jason, we know it was a pretty rough night last night. what s been the atmosphere on campus today. reporter: things much, much calmer out here today. vast difference from what was experienced out here last night by many. so many of the students trying to get a handle on things today. just about half-an-hour ago some students gathered just behind us here trying to speak out, trying to speak in terms of the victims. but just a