first my investigation of a situation i found unacceptable. you might be surprised to learn that on any given night in this country more than 100,000 veterans, men and women who fought for their country are literally sleeping on the streets. more than 8,000 in los angeles alone. what surprised me more is that there s a plot of land, nearly 400 acres that was donated. it s free just to build a home for vets. it would have ban life saver for one vet i met in los angeles. you are young. how old are you? 22. almost 23. almost 23. you are from this area originally? san fernando valley. just up over the hill. fresh out of high school, robert signed up to fight for his country. what makes an 18-year-old join the army? i wanted to go to college, make something of myself. the army said they would pay for it. there s a contract. i will serve my country but then my country will serve me. that s kind of what i was hoping for, yeah. where did it fall apart? it began to f
long time. her identity, obviously, hidden there. that appeared on good morning america. she s talking about former penn state football coach jerry sandusky, once a top assistant and possible successor to the legendary joe paterno. he s now facing a 40-count indictment. the allegations detailed a nauseating 23-page grand jury report. in it, the boy whose mother you just heard from is known as victim number one. according to the grand jury document, victim number one testified that ultimately sandusky performed oral sex on him more than 20 times through 2007 and early 2008. but even though he s called victim number one, he s actually the last in a long line of alleged victims that stretches back to the 1990s. we have detailed the abuses, especially two alleged incidents, one in 1998 and one in 2002. the first, a series of fondling incidents was reported to campus and local police as well as university officials and pennsylvania s child welfare agency. ultimately, nothing m
all involved in the traveller movies. that s huge. clarence wooten, a serial entrepreneur. this is a guy who built a company before the do the-combust, sold it for close to $30 million and launched two more companies where he s hiring people. so our kids need to know these role models exist so we can start shaping who they look up to as future stars. let me hand this thing over immediately at the top of the hour to fredricka whitfield. are you in a hurry? not really. arkansas doesn t play until 6:00. want me to stick around? a little football later today, arkansas, can t wait for the boxing. the fight tonight. i m a morning guy. the fights don t start until 11:00 midnight. be a vampire during the day and sleep during the day. shouldn t be a problem. another big game today, we re talking about penn state s football game. all this on the heels of that sex scandal that is certainly overshadowing the university and overshadowing today s game involving former assis
before we do that, we want to run through the evidence. there s a lot of evidence suggesting that so many people so early on knew so much about such revolting allegations, yet seemingly did so little about it. tonight joe paterno is out, so is the university president, he s out. last night a lot of students did a lot of venting about that on campus calling for joe paterno to play one last game this weekend. they overturned a tv truck, chanted one more game and the university cheer we are penn state. the past few days a lot of people have been asking what is penn state. overnight joe paterno looked and sounded like the image he enjoyed for so many years, the no-nonsense, academics first do the right thing approach. he told protesters to go home and hit the books. go get a good night s sleep. study. we still have things to do. the phone call put me out of it but we will go from there. good luck, everybody. thank you. we love you! thank you. thank you for everything. o
i m erin burnett, outfront tonight. the group of 12 taxed with axing $1.2 trillion from america s deficit. last night, we brought you what was frankly a breakthrough. the architect of the plan told us he would support an increase on tax revenues on some of the wealthiest americans. today the top democrat said toomey s plan didn t go far enough. we came to the table to begin with and every day have said that for us it s extremely important. this whatever we end up with at the end of the day is balanced and fair and has real revenue on the table. we still haven t seen from the democrats is a plan that deals with our structural debt crisis that actually solves the problem. this bickering is pretty sad because $1.2 trillion is not very much and it means this issue is going to come back really soon again. so can the super committee step it up? tonight, we go to the front lines with our strike team. that s the group of 20 enstraw praer ins, ceos and investors that i picke