where the park is cleared and now it is the protesters who are occupied with a critical question, what now? new york police moveded in overnight with a notice where occupy wall street had been encamped since november 17th. they tore down tents and arrested more than 100 people who refused to leave on their own. they planned to open zuccotti park as long as nobody try to live there. but the judge rule the city has no right to block tents or campsites so police are keeping everyone out. a live report from poppy harlow in a few minutes. the former penn state assistant football coach accused of molesting boys, says, i m quoting, i shouldn t have showered with those kids. in a phone interview with bob costas, his first public comment since his arrest, jerry sandusky says he s horsed around with kids after workouts and enjoys young people but isn t sexually attracted to them. sandusky s lawyer says the man at the center of a devastating scandal is a big overgrown kid himself. a
race. but just minutes from now, cnn s elizabeth cohen will join me now live right here with the high cost of not ensuring everybody. the pennsylvania charity founded by the former penn state assistant football coach accused of child rape needs a new ceo. the long-time head of the second mile has resigned in hopes he says of restoring faith in the organization s volunteers and staff. the group put a top to jerry sandusky s involvement with children in 2008 when he told them of one allegation. it s also come out that the judge who freed sandusky on $100,000 bail against the wishes of prosecutors has herself been a second mile volunteer. cnn has tried to ask her some questions but she has not responded. today the occupy movement is a lot less occupy, a lot more movement. police in oakland, california are carrying out an vic order handed down saturday after somebody ended up shot to death allegedly by a resident of the occupy campsite. tents are being cleared, demonstrators
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
rapes of young boys allegedly by a former assistant coach and allegedly covered up or at least ignored by other penn state officials. we get the latest from our mary snow. reporter: two days after ousting its president and former coach joe paterno, penn state s board of trustees announced today that it is forming a committee to investigate the failure surrounding the reporting of sex allegations by jerry sandusky. the board of trustees says no resources will be spared. they will have independent counsel and investigative teams saying there are no restrictions on the scope or activity of this committee, this as a new interim prefz penn state rodney ericsson addressed the board about moving forward here at penn state. i accept this new leadership role under circumstances that i never could have imagined. it has been truly difficult to comprehend the terrible nature of the allegations that were revealed in the attorney general s presentment last week. my heart aches for the
victims and charges could be coming. this is moving far beyond sandusky and threatens to taint the golden legacy of head coach joe paterno. joe paterno s tenure as a coach will be over soon and penn state is planning his exit. the time cites two people briefed on conversations with penn state officials who says the board of trustees has yet to determine the timing. if this is a sign of anything, paterno was scheduled to hold his weekly news conference about an hour ago. reporters including our jason carroll were there ready to ask paterno about sandusky, the rape and abuse charges and what paterno knew. that news conference was canceled. instead penn state issued this statement saying due to the on going legal circumstances centered around the recent allegations and charges, we have determined that today s press conference cannot be held and will not be rescheduled. so the big issue still remains who knew what for how long and how was the situation with sandusky dealt with? p