the son of u.s. transportation secretary, ray lahood. the u.s. warning it could jeopardize u.s. aid to egypt. a drug bust in new york. a mail processing center intercepting 35 pounds of copane cane, worth $2 mill million. the u.n. insisting none of its staff implicated and believing that the drugs were sent by accident. penn state basketball arena was flooded to pay tribute to head coach joe paterno. players and studented recalled the impact on the school. paterno was 85 years old. greta: tonight, chilling pictures, life boat, spilling out of the wrecked cruiseship, moments after it ran aground. we will have a close look at the horror of passengers. it was absolute chaos off the coast of italy. the photos show life boats sailing away from the partly
welcome back to morning joe. time for some sports. coach joe paterno was laid to rest yesterday after tens of thousands of penn state fans gathered and lined the streets to celebrate his life. but the debate over his legacy continued even inside the memorial. 12,000 people packed the penn state basketball arena to pay final respects to the long-time iconic coach who died on sunday of lung cancer at the age of 85. speakers at the ceremony included former players from each decade of paterno s nearly half century career. but it was his long-time friend, nike founder phil knight who made the most news on thursday. knight brought the crowd to its feet by offering a staunch defense of paterno s handling of the child sex abuse scandal that rocked penn state. gave full disclosure to his superio superiors, went up to the head of the campus police and the president of the school. the matter was in the hands of a world class university and a
through the naples area, daytona beach to orlando, light rain. that rain will sweep through south florida later on today. so the forecast today, it s an umbrella day for many areas on the east coast. it can be 61 degrees today in new york city. this is usually the peak of winter. mild around the rest of the country, cooler air with light snow up in the northern plains. there s no weather highlights. everything looks calm and tranquil. great. no real big story. 61 in new york. it s almost like the climate is changing. there s rumors about something like that going on. bill, thanks so much. coach joe paterno was laid to rest yesterday after tens of thousands of penn state fans gathered and lined the streets to celebrate his life. but the debate over his legacy does continue. 12,000 people packed the penn state basketball arena to pay final respects to the iconic coach who died on sunday of lung cancer at the age of 85. speaker at the ceremony included former players from each
players. today, thousands are expected at a public memorial for paterno. it ll be held at the penn state basketball arena. tickets were made available on tuesday and gone within hours. the arena holds 16,000 people. all right. we turn to some much, much lighter sports. twitter connecting strangers. in this case, chad ochocinco of the patriots and the speaker of the house, mr. john boehner, the two as we told you yesterday had an online conversation a couple days ago after ochocinco live tweeted the president s state of the union address where he publicly wondered, a, who that guy over the president s left shoulder was, it was speaker boehner, and then wondered why boehner wasn t clapping along with the speech. yesterday ochocinco tweeted, hello, mr. boehner, hope you re in better spirits today. remember, i love you, kind sir. the speaker responded, thanks, and good luck in the super bowl, we ll see you in the playoffs next year, go bengals.
all times. students and alumni spoke about coach paterno. i ve been here probably about an hour. just to pay our respects to the great man. just to say my good-byes, say my respects. he was a big part of our family. he was probably the icon of what an outstanding coach is. joe schooled us in the game of life. he was grooming us to be men and productive citizens and good fathers and good family members. bigger than football players. today thousands are expected at a public memorial for paterno at the penn state basketball arena. tickets made available on tuesday morning and gone within hours. the arena holds 16,000 people. much, much lighter sports news, leave it to twitter. chad ochocinco and the house of representatives john boehner.