jerry sandusky was seen raping a boy in a locker room shower. that s all he was required to do under pennsylvania law. tell the people in charge and let them decide whether to contact police. well, governor tom corbitt told nbc that just wasn t good enough. he says, by law someone in paterno s position should have to call the cops himself. should the law be changed? absolutely. i know that members of both party, republican and democrat, have already introduced measures to make that change. well, corbett is on the penn state board of trustees which fired paterno this week. he also began the investigation against jerry sandusky when he was state attorney general. sandusky is accused of sexually abusing eight boys over a 15-year period. right now, let s bring in sarah ganum. she s a crime reporter for the patriot news in harrisburg. she s at the penn state campus. you have been on this story for years. when it broke, you came on and broke it down and explained it to our
bun definition. sexual harassment is unwelcome verbal, visual or physical conduct of a sexual nature that is severe or pervasive and affects working conditions or creates a hostile work environment. in 1990, 6,000 charges were filed. 20 years later, nearly twice as many. it s not just happening at work or associated with politicians. it s even happening in schools. 48% of seventh to twelfth graders experienced some form of sexual harassment either in person or electronically through texting, e-mail and social media. rick newman is with u.s. news & world report, joining us from washington, the vice president of education and employment at the national women s law center. let s talk first about the statistics. the fact that we are now talking about sexual harassment from lockers and lunchrooms all the way up to a presidential race. absolutely. unfortunately it s the case. the study released just this last week showing that nearly half of boys and girls experience sexual haras
homeowners to refinance high-interest mortgages at these rock-bottom interest rates. who qualifies? homeowners who have mortgages backed by fannie mae and freddie mac. you must be current on your payments. and you ll now be able to refinance no matter how much you are under water on that home. this lifts a previous limit of 125% loan-to-home value ratio. the program also aims to streamline the refinancing process, please, and reduce and eliminate fees. i m joined now by lynnette cox, bob molten and rick newman is the chief business correspondent for u.s. news & world report. the white house says this could mean cheaper mortgage payments. some say as much as 1.7 million. it probably in practical terms will help a fraction of that. maybe 20%, 30% or so. if you look at the previous efforts, that s sort of the range, you know. we have high hopes and we want it to be able to help more, but frankly, even if it does help 1 million, we ve got more than 5 million people who are ou
almost 32 million kids eat lunch at school each day. it s a captive audience. what are we feeding them and who should pay for healthier option snz. first, the middle classes is falling behind. income for the average american family has fallen now for the past three years and is at 1996 levels now. bankruptcy filings by those holding a college degree are up 20% in the past five years. college graduates, the fastest growing group of feeling filing for bankruptcy. and one in six americans lives in poverty. rick newman is from u.s. news & world report. rick, i want to talk about how we can fix this problem. what does it mean for our economy if the middle class is falling behind? can we have a meaningful recovery without having a recovery for the middle class? it s obviously bad news. incomes have been falling, real incomes after inflation, for the last are ten years. that was going on before the recession and the recession intensified that. and this is a national problem. i
europeans and the americans might have to have more central bank intervention into the markets and also said that there have been policy decisions in europe and the united states that have been poor, and then on top of that, that was enough. that was already bad, brooke. then we got some economic reports right here in the united states. slowdown in housing, slowdown in manufacturing, and, you know, not a great report about new jobless claims. basically it all piled on. people ran out of stocks and back into into, you know, safer investments, but, really, it all started in europe. let s go there, richard quest. tell us what you did. we had a pretty awful day on the european markets. the dax in germany, main index in germany was off by 6%. by the close, all the major european markets down 4%, 4.5% and 5%. and the real reason, very much following on your theme, having had fear, worry and concern. now there are facts, and they may not be very strong facts, but as we will show