sandusky s lawyers are expected to call their final witnesses today, and cbs news has learned it s likely that the former penn state assistant football coach will testify in his own defense. yesterday sandusky s wife defended her husband. she told jurors she never saw him engage in any inappropriate contact with children. armen keteyian has our report. reporter: speaking in a soft, sometimes nervous voice, dorothy dottie sandusky testified she never saw a single sign of sexual abuse of young boys by her husband of 45 years. time and time again defense attorney joe amendola repeated the same questions. did you ever see any inappropriate conduct? each and every time, dottie sandusky simply answered, no. at one point during her 45 minutes on the witness stand, dottie sandusky said over about a 20-year period her husband would routinely go downstairs to tell young boys who had spent the night good night before bed. but nothing more. did you ever hear a young man yell for help
good evening. and tonight it looks like chaos in egypt. they have no constitution, no parliament. two men are insisting they are the next president. and reports have been swirling all day that the last man in charge, hosni mubarak, is clal though to be fair, he s been gone from egyptian life for some time. once again tonight, tahrir square filled up with people. once again, there s the threat of violence in the largest arab nation in the world. the home to 90 million people fresh from its own revolution, and still tonight not on course. it s also posing a big problem for the united states. we have it all covered tonight, beginning with our chief foreign correspondent richard engel in cairo. and richard, what is going on there tonight? reporter: good evening, brian. egypt s official state news agency reports that mubarak was unresponsive to attempts to restart his heart and is clinically dead. but his personal lawyer told us that mubarak is still clinging to life. either way
sandusky s lawyers are expected to call their final witnesses today, and cbs news has learned it s likely that the former penn state assistant football coach will testify in his own defense. yesterday sandusky s wife defended her husband. she told jurors she never saw him engage in any inappropriate contact with children. armen keteyian has our report. reporter: speaking in a soft, sometimes nervous voice, dorothy dottie sandusky testified she never saw a single sign of sexual abuse of young boys by her husband of 45 years. time and time again defense attorney joe amendola repeated the same questions. did you ever see any inappropriate conduct? each and every time, dottie sandusky simply answered, no. at one point during her 45 minutes on the witness stand, dottie sandusky said over about a 20-year period her husband would routinely go downstairs to tell young boys who had spent the night good night before bed. but nothing more. did you ever hear a young man yell for help
captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening. 228 dead. that is the number of murders this year in chicago, and it s nearly twice as many as the number of americans lost on the battlefields of afghanistan over these last six months. 228, up 35% over the same period last year. there was a time that it was called gangland chicago and maybe that time has returned. the cops tell us it s the gang members who have turned some neighborhoods into free-fire zones. more people were cut down today so we asked our chicago correspondent dean reynolds to give us a better understanding of what s going on in america s third-largest city. reporter: across chicago, nine people were killed between friday and sunday and two more were gunned down just hours ago- - a murder rate of two a day. this is like beirut was in the 70s. it s war. that s why we ve got to keep doing it. reporter: pastor robin hood lives in chicago s north lawndal
client would tell the jury about his own experiences growing up explain some alleged behavior. it was routine for people to get in the showers in jerry s culture. he is going to tell you it was routine for individuals to take showers together. he argued sandusky isn t a pedophile, that he suffers from an attention-seeking personality disorder. but in graphic afternoon testimony, alleged victim four, the first state witness, described how sandusky repeatedly molested him whether in the shower or on a bed. later his mentor would write a letter that began, i know i have made my share of mistakes. however, i hope that i will be able to say that i cared. the now 68-year-old is charged with sexually abusing ten boys over a 15-year period. in all, he faces 52 counts. the lead prosecutor, joseph mcgettigan, promised that eight of sandusky s accusers would take the stand to recall details of the alleged abuse labeling, sandusky a serial pedophile. while the former coach denies all of the charge