less than one year ago on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. it s friday, december 23rd. i m deb feyerick an with alina cho on this american morning. good morning to all of you out in. so glad you re with us. up first, an early christmas present for 160 million americans. the house is expected to vote today on extending the payroll tax cut that divided washington for weeks. house republicans caved yesterday after a lot of arm-twisting by president obama who stead was the disgust of the american people that broke the log jam. boehner saying his side still wants a one-year extension but saw the political reality. we have fought the good fight. i talked to a number of members over the past 24 hours who believe that, hey, we don t like this two-month extension, we don t like this reporting problem in the senate bill, and if you can get this fixed, why not why not do the right thing for the american people, even though it s not e
outfront tonight arrested again. former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky arrested for the second time. police handcuffed him and charged him with sexually abusing two more boys from his charity the second mile. sandusky was arraigned in court and unable to post $250,000 in cash bail. he remains in jail tonight. sandusky is now charged with sexually abusing a total of ten boys but he continues to deny all allegations. sara ganim is in state college tonight and has the latest on the story. thanks for being with us. his attorney told us working on it overnight. he was arraigned too late in the day, that s what his attorney said it was a 3:00 hearing and by the time they could get something together, he was going to have spend the night in jail and hopefully post in the morning. it s $250,000 cash bail put up property or put up cash. he has to post the whole amount not just a percentage. if he s able to post he is going to be out on an electronic ankle mon
assistant basketball coach. zach tomaselli claims he was fondled when he was 13 years old. he plans to discuss these allegations very shortly. going to bring you his remarks live. we should note, however, that shorts are questioning tomaselli s credibility based on records from the syracuse basketball team s travel as well as hotel. also tomaselli announced this week he is going to plead guilty to sexually assaulting a boy in maine. the syracuse district attorney says he can t prosecute bernie fine for allegedly molesting two former ball boys. that is because the statute of limitations has now expired. bobby davis and mike lane claim that they were sexually abused during the 1980s. the d.a. does say he believes both guys are telling the truth. he told gary tuchman a nanny who worked in the fine home had suspicions. she didn t physically witness any molestation but clearly body language, affect, the way they talked to each other, the way they acted around each other, the c
outfront tonight arrested again. former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky arrested for the second time. police handcuffed him and charged him with sexually abusing two more boys from his charity the second mile. sandusky was arraigned in court and unable to post $250,000 in cash bail. he remains in jail tonight. sandusky is now charged with sexually abusing a tote ol of ten boys but he continues to deny all allegations. sara ganim is in state college tonight and has the latest on the story. thanks for being with us. other attorney told united states he s working on it overnight. he was arraigned too late in the day, that s what his attorney said it was a 3:00 hearing and by the time they could get something together, he was going to have spend the night in jail and hopefully post in the morning. it s $250,000 cash bail. he c put up property or put up cash. he has to post the whole amount not just a percentage. if he s able to post he is going to be out
arab emirates. we re really standing about 50 miles from iran, where u.s. officials called an escalating conflict with america urgent. an interesting word. iran claims it shot down an american drone in a looks a lot like the one you see on your screen. it s an rq 170 cen continual. it s a drone that s so secretive it s image can only be found on a few websites. it comes with the most sophisticated spytek nolg there is. it was used in the killing of osama bin ladin. if that s true, the technology could be in the hands of iran and other countries. this weekend leon panetta called iran an international pariah. we re hearing headlines left right and center here, the clock ticking on iran, getting a nuclear weapon. which is something nobody in this region looks it forward to. so far, recently we ve had israel threatening to bomb iranian nuclear facilities. iranians attacking the british embassy. you had countries like british, france and the netherlands taking out their ambassador