announcer: from abc news, this is world news now with t.j. holmes and reena ninan. hey, there, everybody, on this friday. we start with the end of an era in south carolina. the divisive confederate flag is coming down from the grounds of the state house. this is happening in a matter of hours now. it will be taken down in a ceremony later this morning and moved to a relic room. in signing the bill governor nikki haley says the flag does not respect south carolina s future. the ncaa commended the move and ended its 15-year post-season ban on hosting championship events in south carolina. here s more from abc s lana zak. reporter: the sun set for the last time on this symbol of the old south. tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m., we ll see the confederate flag come down. [ chanting ] all: take it down. get your last close look at this racist flag. reporter: opponents won their victory over the confederate battle flag as south carolina s governor nikki haley removed it
what do you have to put together? put the legs on and wheels. legs? legs? i feel his pain. i am let s just say this is why i get the calls from brian on christmas eve. ok, a part c is supposed to go into the believe me, i do everything the directions say, it says lay it out and it i do everything and it s still maddening. just buy it regardless of the price, already put together. could somebody come to my house and put things together? one or the other. that would be great. very handy, will be coming up shortly. sure. i can t believe you re talking about your cooler because we re talking about sports right now, penn state and the controversy. should the past athletes pay the price what do you think about this? the big ruling from the ncaa came down yesterday. here s part of it four year post-season ban which means no bowl games. a lot of money. lots of scholarships. $60 million fine.
now learned is the fine of $60 million is the annual grossrevenue, the average gross revenue of the penn state football program. that is one year. it is not about the machine any in this case. the post-season ban, four-year post-season ban. only one other football team gotten a four-year ban. three others got a three-year ban. this is a very long ban on postseason play. how about vacating all the wins from 1998 through 2011. all those wins wiped off the books. joe paterno s wins wiped from his record over that 1, 14-season stretch. there are also cutting 20 scholarships each year for the next four years. basically anyone involved in this football program is feeling big sting from this to say the least. any football player at penn state could leave now and play somewhere else but time is of the essence. martha: they can leave and play somewhere else and stay where they are and get the
disappearance of wife number four is still an open case. we begin with a death penalty for penn state football, well, not so much, but this is definitely going to hurt. just this morning, the university got slapped with a massive penalty that will last for years to come. among the most brutal, a $60 million fine. a four-year post-season ban and a forfeit of all football wins since 1998. you know what that means? joe paterno loses his title as winningest coach in major college football history. all of this in the wake of that child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant football coach jerry sandusky. rumors of the massive fine trickled out on sunday, the same time paterno s iconic statue on campus was wrapped in plastic, covered with a blanket and hauled away. the ncaa just made the announcement in indian apailous. mark mckay was there for it. mark, this is a huge blow to this school. a huge blow certainly to penn state university, kyra. but mark emerate said his org
a missing persons report was even filed. inside this really strange and bizarre story, straight ahead. and power right in your wallet. a new iphone charger the size of a credit card saves you when you run out of juice. we ll show it to you in 20 minutes. newsroom begins right now. good morning, i m zoraid zoraida sambolin sitting in for carolyn costello. penn state faces the stunning blow from jerry sandusky. they face the penalties of the school s cover-ups in the scandal. the penalties are described as unprecedented. steve is in pennsylvania where they re holding the news conference. what can you tell us? we re meeting with the executive chairman of the ncaa followed by a question and answer session in indianapolis, and we re expected to hear penalties on penn state university. one source familiar with the case told cnn what we will hear, that penn state will be hit with fines in excess of $30 million. reports are also circulating that penn state university will lose