and good morning to you. this is your a.m. wake-up call for wednesday, november 16th, from the time warner center in new york, i m carol costello. here are this morning s top stories. a penn state assistant coach fighting back this morning, saying i stopped jerry sandusky. coach mike mcqueary reportedly e-mailing former teammates and speaking for the first time about the alleged child sex assault he says he witnessed. wall street protesters allowed back into their home base at new york zuccotti park. a judge saying no more tents or generators allowed. occupy members saying it will only make their resolve stronger, and they plan to shut down wall street tomorrow. president obama arriving in australia this morning. he s expected to announce that he s boosting the u.s. military presence there as china eyes a bigger role in the pacific, but the white house saying this isn t a turf war. let s get a check of the forecast now, shall we? jacqui jeras is in this morning. good
street. and facing dozens of counts of child abuse, coach jerry sandusky speaks out in an interview and denies he s a interview and denies he s a pedophile. captions by vitac www.vitac.com in a predawn raid, occupy wall street protesters were driven out two months after they started camping out. a court is deciding whether they should be allowed in. let s go to poppy harlow. what happened in zuccotti park and what happens next? well, wolf, at about 1:00 a.m. this morning, hundreds of new york city police officers raided the park behind me. completely cleared it out of occupy wall street protesters. i was here from 2:00 a.m. on. there were clashes in the streets from protesters and the police. the scene now, this park is surrounded by protesters and supporters of the movement waiting for a result from the courts. the hearing going on right now. what happened is this morning, a new york state supreme court judge issued a ruling saying it was illegal for the protesters
said in a broadcast interview and congress is being urged to have new laws sandusky, in a shocking interview with bob costas, the former coach admitted he, quote, horsed around with boys in the shower at university s complex. sandusky insists he s innocence of the 40 sex crimes detailed in indictment against him. how would you define the part you played? what are you willing to concede that you ve done that was wrong and you wish you had not done it? well, in retrospect i, you know, i i shouldn t have showered with those kids. you know, so that s it? yeah. i mean, that s what hits me the most. are you a pedophile? no. are you sexually attracted to young boys, to underaged boys? am i sexually attracted to underaged boys? yes. sexually attracted, i enjoy young people. i love to be around them. i i no, i m not sexually attracted to young boys. the new york times today reports perhaps as many as ten more victims have approached authorities since sa
matter, penn state university. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. but first, a stunning new shift in the republican race for the presidency. our new polls shows gingrich gained 14 points since october. that puts him in a virtual tie for the lead with mitt romney. herm yan can dropped 11 points. that puts him in a battle for third place right now with rick perry. ron paul and michele bachmann follow with jon huntsman and rick santorum rounding out the field. herman cain s plunge comes as he struggled with allegations of sexual harassment going back pour than a decade. now herman cain s wife is speaking out, but she isn t the only one. cnn s joe john says tracking the latest developments for us. and there have been many joe, what s the late snef. with herman cain losing status in the polls, the latest person to talk about the sexual harassment controversy happens to be a man. it is a case in the court of public opinion where proof, illusive. herman cain says
plus, herman cain clashes with reporters again. mr. cain, the attorney for one of the women who filed the sexual harassment complaint don t even go there. i can ask my question? no. because can i ask a question? where s my chief of staff? please send him the journalistic code of ethics. cain says he is not talking about sexual harassment claims against him. reporters, though, have not stopped asking. plus, they say they d rather die than have someone cut off their beards. we take you to an amish community where thieves are trying to steal the hair right off the faces of amish men. we re at the top of the hour. 8:00 a.m. here in atlanta, 5:00 a.m. in glendale, arizona. wherever you may be, we are glad you are height here. oklahoma s unsettling saturday. it started with a moderate strength earthquake that ended last night with the largest recorded quake in state history hitting the exact same place talking about lincoln county here. video you are see