democrats, meanwhile, are now preparing a temporary two-month-long extension. there is a preliminary hearing this morning for two former penn state officials. gary shelton and tim kerley failed to pass on a complaint about alleged child sex abuse and then lying to the grand jury about that. but the focus may be on the man who said he witnessed the abuse, assistant coach mike mcqueary. he likely will be questioned extensively. flip-flopping on his story. that s what they re saying. to iraq where the u.s. military formally declared its mission over. the flag of the forces in iraq was officially retired during a pretty solemn ceremony at the baghdad airport. defense secretary leon panetta honored the sacrifice of the one million troops who served during the nine-year war, including, of course, the 4,500 who lost their lives and the 32,000 injured. think about that for a second 32,000. in an abc news exclusive, barbara walters asked mr. obama
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a tree. while the city plans to reopen the plaza this evening, they say camping will not be tolerated. to observe the law. that it is against the law to lodge. and the police intend to remove them again. the bare kids are going to come down. we re going to walk into the park and somebody s going to put up a tent and it s going to keep going. look up the word occupy in the dictionary. reporter: and you are looking at live pictures from our helicopter. as you can see, hundreds of protesters have gathered at the library that s located at 14th and oak street, about five blocks from where we are. we understand they are rallying at this hour. and they are expected to march back to frank ogawa plaza where they promise to try to reoccupy the plaza. they re also talking about perhaps reoccupying other locations within the city. they haven t said exactly what locations those might be. again, we are expecting marchers to take to the street at any moment and make their way back to
down, one, 57-year-old tim kerley, athletic director, he is going to be on administrativeo administrative leave to deal with his defense, the other, gary shut, interim vice president, he had previously resigned, interim vice president for finance and business, he is now also stepping down. both of these men presumably saying that they did nothing wrong. both of them appeared before the grand jury, this was the grand jury investigating jerry sandusky accused of 40 different accounts related to sexual abuse, they are accused of perjury and failing to report sexual abuse. very quickly, i will tell you that they told the grand jury such things as they believed the allegations amounted to nothing more than horsing around and that the allegations were in the words of one of the defendants not that serious. very quickly, also, to be added here, joe paterno has not been named in any criminal matter nor is he expected to be named. prosecutors say that he was
rolleins, saying a lot can happen. i mean, a lot! in the next 12 months. there s a year to go, there s less than 60 days to go before the iowa caucus, so a week is a lifetime in politics, a month even more so and a year is an eternity. bill: let s enter the eternity, editor of campaign and elections magazine, good morning shane and welcome back here to america s newsroom . i think these numbers give us a slice of what republicans and republican leaning voters are thinking, the first poll, what does it suggest to you? yeah, i think it does go right to that electibility issue, bill, in the absence of a republican field, the gop primary voters have really fallen in love with to this point, you know, they re looking to the person who they think can best beat barack obama in a general election. and right now, that man is mitt romney. you know, he has sort of survived at the top of these poll phos months now by being the candidate who s emerged from a lot of debates sort of un