another child sex scandal at a major university, syracuse stunned by allegations. a former ball boy coming forward. the making of a terrorist. an afghan terror group releasen never before scene video inside a training camp. a dry run for a gruesome and deadly attack. clashes with the cops. rage against the banks. a major show of force by occupy wall street protesters in new york and across the country as demonstrators mark the two-month anniversary of their cause on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com oh, good morning to you. happy friday. my favorite day of the week. it s notch 18 besides saturday and sunday, of course. that s what i love about you. i can t help it. ale a has the day off. i m carol costello along with christine romans. welcome to american morning. let s get started with new allegations of sexual abuse at another major university. this time it involves assistant men s basketball coach bernie boeheim. alina cho is with
brenda buttner with more on the story. hi, brenda. you might think wall street wasn t watching the world. all the headlines and wall street goes up? the dow its best week since july. the broad market, the nasdaq, all three u.s. measures made up with the losses during the previous week with japan s radiation scare. since the protests erupted in egypt the dow was up 2%. you might ask what would happen on wall street with good news? put this in perspective. the number of buyers and sellers was very light on friday and stocks have gone very far very fast. since the current bull started running two years ago, stocks have about doubled in value. it would be a fall of 10% would not be surprising. then there are the head winds the market faces. oil heading higher. who knows where the mid east fighting will take it. here at home that means more than gas is going higher, too.
just the people who sell the fish and they are saying that traffic is down some 70% and the reason being is because of this contamination scare, the radiation scare that is not just here in tokyo but obviously near the plants, the fukushima plant, a number of food items have been banned from sale and also from shipment, they include raw milk as well as a number of leafy vegetables, higher levels of radiation were found in those vegetables, so those sales have been banned and that obviously has an effect to the fish because higher levels were also found in seawater off the plant so it all has a knock-on effect and really hurting industry and these people, you know, they re saying not only do we have these fears but their supply is completely gone. the northeast coast of japan. these were, you know, fishing villages, fishing towns that have been completely wiped out.
to that plant now until the morning, and there is also a concern about that black smoke. they said now that anybody downwind of it should stay indoors, even if they are outside the 12-mile exclusion zone. great concern at this time. there is also a radiation scare in tokyo. they ve detected a radioactive iodine in the tapwater there and they are saying it s dangerous for infants. the parents of toddlers are being told to stop using tapwater in baby powder milk. adults have been told that tapwater is still safe to drink. the u.s. defense secretary robert gates says he s concerned about radioactive fallout affecting the 55,000 u.s. military personnel here at this time, many of whom who are helping with the massive relief efforts to help the survivors of the quake and tsunami. the united states is the first nation to ban food imports from
evacuation centers with signs looking for his missing father, mother, grandmother and two cousins. one sign has his family s names. the other one reads, i will come again tomorrow. back in japan where the radiation scare is sparking health concerns on both sides of the pacific, how does today s crisis compare to other nuclear events including 1986 at chernobyl? richard lui has been looking into that. this is complicated stuff. what have you been able to find out? complicated pictures that go back so many years. i want to show you the outer edge of japan s warning zone. they are getting tested right now there to see how much radiation they have on their body. this is before. one resident says it seems there was not too much radiation in his city. take a listen.