and all aboard for basketball. after playing a major role in burying osama bin laden at sea, aircraft carrier carl vinson is back home for the big college basketball matchup right there on the flight deck. history in the making early on this friday morning, this history in the making early on this friday morning, this november 11, 2011. captioning funded by cbs and good morning on this friday morning, november 11. it s 7:00 a.m. on the west coast i m chris wragge. i m rebecca jarvis. we begin with the presidential race where herman cain is still going strong according to a new cbs poll that came out just this morning. more voters support him than any other candidate. he is at 18% right now compared to 15% for mitt romney and newt gingrich. rick perry is behind them. jan crawford has the latest on the race. good morning, jan. good morning, guys. republicans will be here tomorrow night for their next debate which is hosted by cbs news and the national journal and al
rapes of young boys allegedly by a former assistant coach and allegedly covered up or at least ignored by other penn state officials. we get the latest from our mary snow. reporter: two days after ousting its president and former coach joe paterno, penn state s board of trustees announced today that it is forming a committee to investigate the failure surrounding the reporting of sex allegations by jerry sandusky. the board of trustees says no resources will be spared. they will have independent counsel and investigative teams saying there are no restrictions on the scope or activity of this committee, this as a new interim prefz penn state rodney ericsson addressed the board about moving forward here at penn state. i accept this new leadership role under circumstances that i never could have imagined. it has been truly difficult to comprehend the terrible nature of the allegations that were revealed in the attorney general s presentment last week. my heart aches for the
and so it s with great respect that i speak of him and proud to say that i worked for him. it s been a seismic cascade of events since last weekend s arrest of a former penn state defensive coordinator on charges of raping and molesting a number of other boys. two of the university officials are charged with failure to report those crimes. paterno is charged with nothing, but says he wishes that he had done more than simply tell his superiors what an assistant reported to him back in 2002. i want to go now to penn state campus and cnn s jason carroll. jason, we know it was a pretty rough night last night. what s been the atmosphere on campus today. reporter: things much, much calmer out here today. vast difference from what was experienced out here last night by many. so many of the students trying to get a handle on things today. just about half-an-hour ago some students gathered just behind us here trying to speak out, trying to speak in terms of the victims. but just a
and so it s with great respect that i speak of him and proud to say that i worked for him. it s been a seismic cascade of events since last weekend s arrest of a former penn state defensive coordinator on charges of raping and molesting a number of other boys. two of the university officials are charged with failure to report those crimes. paterno is charged with nothing, but says he wishes that he had done more than simply tell his superiors what an assistant reported to him back in 2002. i want to go now to penn state campus and cnn s jason carroll. jason, we know it was a pretty rough night last night. what s been the atmosphere on campus today. reporter: things much, much calmer out here today. vast difference from what was experienced out here last night by many. so many of the students trying to get a handle on things today. just about half-an-hour ago some students gathered just behind us here trying to speak out, trying to speak in terms of the victims. but just a