stories. hello everyone. i m don lemon. you re in the cnn newsroom. we re going to get you up to speed on today s headlines. former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky is under suicide watch this hour in pennsylvania s center county jail. sandusky will be sentenced in about 90 days. he had no reaction and kept a blank expression after last night s conviction on 45 counts of child sex abuse. a full update on today s developments just minutes away. and this is just in to cnn to the severe weather center. they are tracking a new tropical storm in the gulf of mexico right now and some of the other bands are creating a threat of tornadoes in southwest florida. tropical storm debby is packing winds of up to at least 39 miles per hour. the storm has an uncertain track and could threaten anywhere from texas to florida in the next 48 hours. we ll update you. a bloody wave of violence continues in syria this evening as dozens more people have been killed. at least 75 p
storm force strength. you can see just to the exterior of the storm we had 17-mile-per-hour winds and the wind speed now being clocked at 60. we re likely to get this as a tropical storm very soon. we re waiting on the advisories. once we have that we will be able to get a much better picture. this is the current spaghetti model plot. we call it that because the lines look like spaghetti. they actually indicate quite a divergence and where some models are taking the storm, westward to texas or to the eastward into florida. it s really interesting. you don t even see anymore that are going straight to the north. they re going one way or the other depending on whether the storm will get picked up by a trough to the north and steered in that direction. all indications are that s likely what will happen because you can see a lot of strong winds right now are to the north and east of where the storm is located. we re already getting stronger winds in the new orleans area. heavy ra
he was killed. whether he had official protection is something i can t tell. what do you think? really difficult to say one way or other but where he was, how could he have been without some knowledge. that s what a lot of people suspect. all right. let s talk about u.s.-afghan relations. right now you ve had some successful, i think, meetings with the president of the united states. but a lot of americans as you know, and you look at american public opinion polls, they re concerned that they want the u.s. out of afghanistan, about 70% say it s time for the u.s. to come home, the u.s. is spending to keep 90,000 troops, $2 billion a week in afghanistan, $100 billion a year. why is this money well spent? we have already agreed on a process of transition to afghan authority whereby afghanistan will be looking after itself and after its security and the defense of the country almost entirely by 2014, and that s also the time that the american forces and other forces wil
her husband the prominent scientist and he says he was out of town at the time. she doesn t remember. we re digging deeper. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he s faced a barrage of attacks on his business record with democrats portraying him as a job-cutting corporate raider, but mitt romney is opening up about his time at bain capital and vowing to cut the jobless rate. let s go to our national political correspondent jim acosta and he has the latest. the way the day started it seemed that mitt romney was going to stay away from the subject of bain capital, but as it turned out he is taking the issue head-on. reporter: it was a day when mitt romney s campaign event, this one being a speech to a latino business group took a backseat to responding to campaign attacks on the democrats favorite subject bain capital. the american people are interested in not so much the history of where i was at bain capital or that
the admiral garrard huber reports that coalition forces flew another 75 missions targeting qaddafi s tanks and weapons, but it s not a war. jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. any change in strategy over the last couple of days, jen. we can report that no tomahawk missiles were fired last night. essentially that fafs the operation is over. they won t fire more tom tomahawks unless something changes and they are needed. they fired 162, in total, and as one official put it, there are less expensive means to go after what remains of those air defense sites, shep? shepard: today, the defense secretary gates predicted that the u.s. could turn over control of the operation by the end of the weekend. there has been a lot of predicting but not any action yet. that s right. another source, another defense source said that it would happen sometime by tuesday. so, definitely they are in a hurry to turn over command and control in the coming days. but secretary gates was clear that they d