good evening, everyone. tonight, as more accusers comes back, there s more news on the penn state scandal. protesters here in new york. like pictures from zuccotti park. the verdict came down as dark descended this evening. the tents were removed and protesters allowed to go back in to get their personal belongings. the new york state supreme court overturning an earlier ruling on this and we are going to have the latest on this breaking story and the implications from the park tonight. but first, we have developing news in washington. the co-chair of the super committee charged with cutting america s deficit said just moments ago, quote, we are in the hours to go. and the countdown is on. this is important and we are watching. the panel of 12 has got eight days, four hours and as you can see 58 minutes i and 11 seconds and counting to make a deal that cuts america s deficit. if there is no deal when this clock hits zero, our economy will be hurt. your interest rates may go
of american news does something i guarantee you ve never seen him do before. when we come back, i want to ask you if you ve ever been properly in love. but don t answer now. this is piers morgan tonight. there s been a tumultuous year in the middle east with governments falling in tunisia, egypt and libya. unrest is rocking the region. in the middle of it all israel. joining me now is shimon peres, the president of israel and the author of ben-gurion, the political life. it s been an extraordinary year. how does israel feel about all these uprisings throughout the middle east? what is the collective mood at the moment? i think it s a change of generations more than the difference of culture. there are 220 million arabs in the middle east. 20% of them are young, from 19 to 26. they are more educated, more modern and they are the carrier of the revolution. but it s a disorganized revolution. one of the most important things i would imagine for israel right now is
women claimed he sexually harassed them. he s now polling at 14% among republicans, down from 25%. that is pain. and his pain was not mitt romney s gain. romney also dropped 2 percentage points, although he s still in the lead. the man who s getting the game, newt gingrich. he is the only candidate up and it is big time. it s better than when i was at 4. this is the most volatile race of my lifetime. you can say that again. gingrich went on to say, who knows what the polls are going to be two months from now. and there s something to that. before there was cain, there was rick, who dropped from 32% to 12. a drop of 20 percentage points. and before there was rick, there was michele. she dropped from 14 to 6. tonight, herman cain is betting that someone he s known for 46 years can turn it around for him. that s his wife. to hear such graphic allegations and know that that would have been something that was totally disrespectful of her as a woman, and i know that s not the
they need you every day. and what he says now about the intelligence that sent this country to war in iraq. the chemical weapons presence, the nuclear program and the biological program was wrong. that s the summation of it. it was wrong. colin powell for the hour. this is piers morgan tonight. for many americans colin powell is still the face of the modern military, retired four-star general, the first and only african-american to serve on the join chiefs of staff and to secretary of state to george w. bush. he s man of many accomplishments, and he s here to talk about a cause close to his heart, the state of america s military veterans. general colin powell joins me now. general, welcome. thank you very much, piers. thank you for welcoming me to this extraordinary building. we re in the national war college. you were here 35 years ago. i graduated 35 years ago. that s hard to believe. we just had our 35th anniversary. this place has a great deal of meaning f
and continue to persist in the roadway you may be subject to use of force including chemical agents and impact weapons. chemical agents and impact weapons. we have been watching the pictures all afternoon. and police have been clearing these parts. this is late last night. police in portland, oregon have been warning protesters to leave their encampment. these are live pictures from koin. right now the demonstrators are blocking a street. they seem to be daring police to arrest them. sam adams, the mayor of portland, is live via telephone. as we look at the live pictures, can you tell us why you are taking this action now? well, we the encamp mentes for occupy portland is just a block away and we had a series of increased drug overdoses, we had to bring people back to life. we had an arsonist that used a camp camouflaged for his work, 20% increase in crime surrounding the encampment and the organizers of the encampment themselves issued a statement a week or so ago sayi