the surge just in time for an election year. and scientists find earth s evil twin far, far away. the size is right, but strange life might sizzle on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com all right. good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, december 21st. i m christine romans along with my friend ali velshi. i have to tell you. i m excited of the news of the new planet. it s different. not a political log jam. not pay rolle troll tax plan. new planets! we ll tell you all about it this morning. love it. other space cases. washington first. washington s dysfunction could mean less money in your pay cze paycheck yesterday. rejecting the payroll tax cut. and president obama during a surprise visit to the briefing room raled against this. the house republicans referred to what they re doing as high stakes poker. he s right about the stakes, but this is not poker. this is not a game. this shouldn t be politics as usual. kate bolduan live in w
the impossibility of making a generalized statement about it. as we re seeing with zach tomaselli, he is the young accuser who came forward against bernie fine. zach tomaselli is now facing criminal counts, 14 i believe, in the state of maine because he has admitted to being an abusive camp counselor to a young man, a young boy. are we to believe that this is nature versus nurture because in a lot of instances pedophiles have been abused themselves and they pass on that type of behavior through instances like we re seeing with the zach tomaselli case. that s true but i think the most important point to emphasize about that is the vast majority of kids who are abused do not become pedophiles. when we talk about the most interesting research out of this, the fact that the psychiatrist, one of them saying there is prevention. what are they saying could be done to label this before you act out on it? how do you prevent something like this if you haven t acted
the microscope for his time as ceo of bankrupt brokerage firm mf global which misplaced up to $1.2 billion of investor money. corzine expected to tell a house panel he has no idea where the money is and will apologize for what happened. corzine arrived at the capital, the first former senator to be subpoenaed by congress in 103 years. we want to move on to developing news out of allegheny county, pennsylvania, where a civil lawsuit is being levelled against former syracuse university assistant basketball coach bernie fine. the accuser in that suit is zach tomaselli who claims fine sexually abused him during a 2 thoou 2 road trip to pittsburgh. tomaselli was 13 at the time and the sole complainant. the former penn state football coach jerry sandusky spent the night behind bars after being arrested on new
scholar to reporter. this is your am: wakeup call. and good morning to you. this is your am: wakeup call for thursday, december 8th. from the time warner center in new york, i m carol costello. here are the top stories. one of bernie fine s accusers is expected to announce he s filing a lawsuit in civil court. zam tom selly accused the former basketball coach of sexually abusing him in a pittsburgh hotel room in 2002. the fda hearing evidence about whether the birth control pill is dangerous. the government looking at side effects including claims about an increased risk of blood clots. there are allegations the drugmaker bayer hid evident of risk. heavy rain and wet snow coming down in the eastern united states. check on your flights to. let s get a check on today s weather. jacqui jeras is in atlanta. good morning, jacqui. good morning, carol. the good news is, things are looking a lot better in about five hours. so as we progress throughout the day things will
let s talk about what he gets bailed out. we do know that just about half an hour ago his wife left his home which is located about 20 minutes from now. not sure if that s any sort of indication in terms of whether or not he might be released soon. currently being held on $250,000 bail. if he s able to post bail, don, he ll be unvery tight restrictions. he ll essentially be under house arrest. he ll have to wear an electronic monitoring device while he s under house arrest. in addition to that, he ll not be allowed to have my contact with victims or possible witnesses in the case and another condition of his bail would be he d not be able to have any unsupervised visits with minors. don? we re hearing, jason, that there s going to be a hearing next tuesday, what do you know about that? yes, of course, that s going to be the preliminary hearing, don, as you know, and i think what might be interested in that is that that would be the first time that jerry sandusky would com