good morning. it is thursday, november 10. well tomorrow to american morning. if you went to sleep early last night or at all, everything is different this morning. it really is. first crash of the titan penn state football coach joe paterno out after 46 years as the head man in happy valley. paterno was fired along with the university president over a child sex scandal involving paterno s former assistant jerry sandusky. the decision came hours after paterno said he would finish out the season and then retire. instead penn state s board of trustees brought the hammer down. the past several days have been absolutely terrible for the entire penn state community. but the outrage we feel is nothing compared to the physical and psychological suffering that allegedly took place. effective immediately, dr. spannier is no longer president of the university. in addition, joe paterno is no longer the head football coach effective immediately. penn state students spill flood th
out for the first time about some shocking revelations that cremated remains of american war dead were simply dumped in landfills. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com it may have been the most awkward 53 seconds of the presidential campaign so far and certainly the most widely seen. texas governor rick perry s brain freeze during last night s republican presidential debate was the most viewed video on youtube in the united states earlier today. if you haven t seen it, you re about to as we look ahead to what happens to rick perry s campaign now. jim acosta is in auburn hills, michigan. the scene of perry s monumental stumble. how does he recover from this? wolf, after last night s debate and rick perry s meltdown in michigan, the candidate and his campaign seem to have a new strategy. get the voters to laugh with him and not at him. commerce, education and the what s the third one there? let s see i
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
the republican debate live from rochester, michigan. starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern on cnbc. as we go to break, an eye on the markets as the closing bell approaches and the worries in europe are now hitting wall street hard. veterans are real-life heroes. but when they come home, they don t want a parade; they want a job. the postal service employs more veterans than any other civilian employer. but congress is debating a bill that would force the postal service to fire tens of thousands of vets, close post offices, shut mail processing plants, and disrupt mail delivery. drastic cuts won t fix the postal service and aren t needed. tell your representative to vote no on house resolution 2309. it s time to deliver for our veterans and america.
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