good morning, i m john muller. i m diana perez. here are some of the top head lines we are following this morning on world news now. jurors in the george zimmerman trial listen to a series of police interviews in which zimmerman himself gives details of the night he killed trayvon martin. we ll have more on the case in this half-hour. the faa investigating a close call between a spirit airlines flight and skydiving plane. spirit jet had to nose-dive 1,600 feet over michigan when the plane got too close. passengers went into a panic. the plane did land safely. nsa leaker, edward snowden asked 21 countries for asylum. he accuses the united states of using citizenship as a weapon. after his passport was revoked. federal judge in court, dismissed three lawsuits against former elmo puppeteer kevin clash. the men said they were abused as teens.
heather: well, as 2012 winds down to a close, we re looking back at the big scandals that med headlines all around made headlines around the world with. arthel neville has more. infidelity, abuse, and tax dollars thrown out the door. 2012 had many surprising names caught smack in the middle. not even elmo or the head of the cia were immune. from tour de france to tour deshame, lance armstrong s name is tarnished over doping allegations that haunted him for much of his cycling career. he is stripped of all seven titles. hulk hogan gets his hands outside the ring. his sex tape going viral this year. elmo puppeteer kevin clash resigning after 28 years, accused of having sex with underage boys. 9 clash 9 clash 9. and 9/9/9 all but forgotten. herr maine cane herman cain
correlate the results to the end and we ll see whether they will agree or whether there s any dispute. there s a lot riding on this, of course. martin fletcher live in tel aviv. thank you. new allegations involving former elmo puppeteer kevin clash. it tops our look at stories around the news nation today. a third lawsuit accuses clash of having sex with an underage boy. the latest accuser said he began a relationship with clash back in 2000. he was 16 years old at the time. a spokes woman for clash says, quote, mr. clash believes this lawsuit has no merit. a fast-moving storm is going across the mid-atlantic today. heavy rain, sleet and snow is hitting several stalts from west virginia to massachusetts. hundreds of car accidents have been reported throughout the region. many schools have closed. the powerball jackpot just got sweeter. the prize for tomorrow s drawing it s tomorrow? we have to get a ticket. it s now a record $500 million,
thanks a lot, jim. moving on to other news this morning, the man who has given life to a sesame street s elmo for a generation is now stepping down after new accusations that he engaged a sexual relationship with an underaged boy. 24-year-old cecil singleton claims elmo puppeteer kevin clash sexually abused him when he was just 15 years old. singleton decided to come forward after hearing another man level a similar accusation against clash. a part of me feels sorry for him. because before any of this happened, i respected him. i liked him. i wished him nothing but the best. i assumed i was a unique circumstance. i did not know that this was something that he did habitually. singleton has now filed a $5 million lawsuit against kevin clash. now, as for clash himself, he is not commenting on the lawsuit but says he is leaving sesame
states. i know susan rice, worked with her in the john kerry campaign in 2004. she has the skill and the judgment to be secretary of state if president obama wants her to be. it s unfair? completely unfair. it s a tough town and lots of people want to be secretary of state i suspect. and the press has a role to play here, but at the end of the day i think if barack obama, who s just been rere elected, would like susan rice to be his secretary of state, she will be. steve, chip, happy thanksgiving. happy thanksgiving. also making news this morning, investigators say they re questioning people in connection with an explosion that killed two residents and virtually leveled a neighborhood in indianapolis. police say they have served search warrants, although they haven t made any arrests yet. sources are also telling the indianapolis star that investigators believe gas was intentionally leased into one of the homes and that blast may have been sparked remotely. elmo puppeteer