there because people see the flashes that go. they re trying to blow a hole in the hull so rescuers can start getting in there is going to make the search and rescue team have better access and make it easier for them to get out. still looking for 29 people who remain unaccounted for if death toll right now is standing at six. there are also stunning new images coming in from under the water today. i want to share that with you. rescuers have to swim through debris in the hull ways. first flat block box has been picked up already and apparently picking up minute by minute betails. since they now located the second black box and divers are trying to retrieve that black box as well. this morning seeing the transcripts of the recorded conversation between the port authority and the captain of the ship. the first time it comes to us from the italian newspaper and the port authority says this. how many people are on board? the captain whose last name is schettino says, 2, 300. kee
and for now at this point, kyra, i ve reached out to some republicans here on the hill. they re reserving judgement at this point. as you know, they frequently talk about wanting smaller government, so on its face this seems like something that they could go along with but, of course, they re waiting right now to see what president obama says. they re waiting to see if there are any catches. you see president obama here doing a couple of things. he s trying to make good on some promises about having more efficient government. he s also trying to put congress in a spot where he says, i m proposing something that you should be on board with and sort of trying to force republicans to say, yes, to that. so watch for what the president is going to say at 11:20, kyra, and then watch to see how republicans react. if they say, yes, this is something we can go along with or if they say is shuffling the deck chairs. we will take the president live at 11 clock a.m. eastern hour. thank
collapse, and black friday gets ugly. very ugly. and the weather may get unpredictable. let s begin in cairo with cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman. ben, you ve been covering the pro military rally there. can you compare for me in terms of numbers and demonstrators that rally to what we ve been seeing in tahrir square since saturday? that pro military rally was maybe one-tenth as many people as are here at the moment. but they say they represent the silent majority. now they want their voices heard. they ve watched tahrir become a political stage, and with so many groups coming out and calling for the military to tep down, other demonstrators are trying to reach the interior ministry. they say the army and this police are the two main pillars. they say the place to determine in the future is not in the streets and in the squares. the elections are due to begin on monday. can you give me a quick update on the three american students? the release is ordered
erin, thanks very much. good evening, everyone. breaking news in the penn state child sex abuse scandal. late word of a new accuser. his lawyer says jerry sandusky raped him back in the 1990s. there may be more new accusers to follow. possiblily as much as ten. some are claiming abuse dating back to material 80s. now those claim ls bear out and the charges are, in fact, true, it means the abuse went on far longer than first thought, and so, perhaps, did a coverup. jason has more on the new accuser in a moment, but we begin with the possibility of a coverup, or a at the very least a deep culture of silence when it comes to anything that might tarnish penn state football and joe paterno. as we showed you last night, the more we try to answer the questions that everyone wants answers to, the more we run into manifestations of the culture, of the eco system, in which everyone knows everyone, and they re all connected somehow to penn state football. start with mike mcqueary who
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