sandusky sexually assaulting a young boy in a campus shower. sandusky stands accused of assaulting eight boys. students are coming together, using facebook to coordinate a candle light vigil tonight in honor of the abused victims. less than a day after he was fired as head coach, pennsylvania's two senators say they are dropping their bid for joe paterno to receive the presidential medal of freedom. a major league baseball player kidnapped in venezuela is missing this morning. gunman's snatched washington nationals catcher wilson ramos from his family's home on wednesday night. the venezuelan baseball president says investigators are on the case. >> we are waiting for a solution. we talked with the authorities and they assure us that they're working very hard to solve this situation. we're waiting for that. >> police have found the abandoned car used to abduct ramos. they believe his abduction may be part of a sharp rise in kidnappings for ransom in venezuela. the mayor of oakland, california says it's time for the occupy protesters to go. someone was killed near an area where the protesters are gathered. police do not believe it's connected to the protests but oakland's mayor says the risks are just too great. >> it is time for the encampment to end. i'm calling on the campers to please leave voluntarily tonight. >> a local tv cameraman was taping just after that shooting. someone didn't like that. they punched him in the back of the head. you can sort of see it there. he could have a concussion. and a vermont man died after apparently shooting himself in the head. it happened at an occupy protest in burlington, vermont. police say the man was a 35-year-old military veteran. defense secretary leon panetta says careful consideration would need to be given before a strike on iran's nuclear sites. earlier this week, the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog agency says iran may be developing nuclear weapons. iran says it isn't. one u.s. lawmaker raised concerns that israel might attack iranian nuclear facilities without further steps by the united states or al lies. panetta says a strike could have unintended consequences. >> those consequences could involve not really deterring iran from what they want to do. but more importantly, it could have a serious impact in the region and it could have a serious impact on u.s. forces in the region. i think all of those things, you know, need to be carefully considered. >> panetta added that an attack on iran's nuclear program would only set them back a few years at most. president obama will soon be losing another member of his staff. the "washington post" reports that his personal assistant reggie love, is leaving his position at year's end. he's seen here, the 30-year-old started as a staff assistant in mr. obama's senate office. the white house says love plans to focus full time on school. today's veterans day, yesterday the senate passed a bill to help jobless vets. employers would get up to $5,600 in tax credits for hiring veterans out of work for at least six months. right now about 240,000 veterans are out of work. so far, the bill is the only piece of president obama's job plan to pass in the senate. let's go to meteorologist reynolds wolf in atlanta. reynolds, it is 11-11-11 today. i have no idea what that means to you from a weather perspective. let's throw it out there and see. >> it's time to talk about your forecast. what we'll be seeing is an interesting situation far to the northeast. gusty, windy conditions can be expected. i'm telling you, it's going to keep planes on the tarmac for quite a bit. you have to be patient today. it will be in new york, philadelphia and san francisco, showers expected. in boston d.c. metros, same situation, the gusty, breezy conditions. what we'll be seeing in parts of the southeast, not so much in terms of the wind. today it will be the freeze threat we have, morning lows, 20s to 30s. things will warm up nicely for you into the afternoon hours. with highs going back up slowly. there you go, into the 70s and 80s in a few spots. still in the northeast, snow expected out to the west, especially in parts of the wasatch range and along the coastal range. there you go. that's a snapshot into your forecast. of course we have more coming up. let's pitch it right back to you in new york. >> thank you, reynolds. i'll check in with you later this morning. it was the oops heard round the world. who better to make light of rick perry's debate flub than rick perry himself. here are his top excuses. >> there were three reasons i messed up last night. one was the nerves and two is the headache and three -- um -- [ laughter ] um -- listen, you try concentrating with mitt romney smiling at you. that is one handsome dude. i had a five-hour energy drink six hours before the debate. i wanted to help take the heat off my buddy herman cain. >> okay. [ applause ] >> let's put this stuff in the caboose. the number one rick perry excuse -- >> i just learned justin beeber is my father. >> oh, my god. >> we're working several developing stories athe this hour. it's been two days since an earthquake struck in turkey. rescuers are still digging through the rubble and finding survivors. plus an update on that russian rocket that was headed to mars but somehow got stuck. we'll explain. first, it's time for the quote of the day, goes like this, there comes a time when you have to be through negotiating and we are. who said it? 90 seconds. the answer right after the break. six minutes after the hour. it's his two favorite things in one... burgers and soup. did you hear him honey? burgers and soup. love you. they're cute. 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[ male announcer ] progresso. 40 soups 100 calories or less. 20 minutes after the hour. this is your "a.m. wake-up call" on cnn. i'm ali velshi. 11:00 a.m. president obama takes part in the wreath-laying ceremony at arlington national cemetery. also today, family and friends remember boxing legend joe frazier who passed away earlier this week. his body will lay in state at the wells fargo center in philadelphia today and tomorrow. las vegas is betting that today, 11-11-11 will be a lucky day. it's predicted 4,000 couples will be using this once in a lifetime opportunity to tie the knot. the death toll in eastern turkey after wednesday's earthquake stands at 19 now. it's the second quake in the area in less than a month. as ivan watson reports, rescuers are working desperately to free dozens of people from the rubble. >> reporter: a dramatic escape, seconds before an entire building collapses. the earth just won't stop shaking in eastern turkey. security camera footage shows wednesday night's 5.6 magnitude earthquake knocking out electricity in the eastern city of vonn and sending three men racing into the street just seconds before the byrum hotel came tumbling down. >> reporter: this is a pancaked pile of rubble, the scene of a dramatic rescue operation that's working round the clock. fortunately rescue workers and heavy equipment were close by to help. they've flooded the area after a much more powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake slammed this region barely three weeks ago, killing more than 500 people. on wednesday, some of these rescue workers became victims of the latest quake. emergency workers pulled this japanese volunteer from the rubble. >> translator: and i tried to open my eyes. but i could not because of lots of dust getting into my eyes. when i finally managed to open my left eye slowly, there was a ray of light, i could see, in what i thought was complete darkness. that light gave me relief and hope to live. that was the light from the computer i was using. >> reporter: she escaped, one of her fellow japanese volunteers died from his injuries. amid stories of tragedy and hope, there's also anger. residents confronted turkish officials on thursday, demanding resignations. riot police charged the crowd, just yards away from collapsed buildings. in the days ahead, there will be more questions about government enforcement of building codes and pressure to resettle hundreds of thousands of people made homeless. but for now, turkey's earthquake survivors are just looking for a warm place to sleep. most of them clearly too scared to step into their own homes. >> ivan watson joins me from van, in eastern turkey. ivan, about 25 buildings collapsed on wednesday. the good news here is that a lot of them were empty because of the last quake. >> that's right. i'm in front of one of the buildings that had residents inside. this was a hotel and sadly, there were volunteers, like that japanese woman we saw, and also journalists. there are two turkish cameramen who were missing, still inside, i'm sorry to say rescue workers have just found three bodies that they're preparing to pull out. the ambulances are waiting right here. the death toll from wednesday night's earthquake has swelled to 19. it has had an absolutely traumatizing effect on the population here, ali. this is a city of about 1 million people. we are in the heart of it. most of the shops are closed. it was like a ghost town last night. people are terrified of going back into their homes. they're sleeping in tents, in makeshift shelters. in eye few of the single story cafes where people feel safe we saw men last night, 3:00 in the morning, sleeping on table tops. i don't know when people will safe to go back into their homes in this region again. >> is turkey getting enough of the aid it needs? do they have enough resources themselves to deal with this rescue effort? >> they've been getting a lot of assistance, the tents have been flooding in. in the surrounding countryside when you drive at know they're like lanterns in the countryside lit up. it's freezing here. there were snow flurries a while ago. and the bigger question, how do you rebuild the city of about a million people when you have eight, ten-story apartment buildings and hotel buildings with massive cracks up and down the sides? the building behind me had been okayed. it had gotten the green light from turkish authorities after last month's devastating earthquake and as you can see, it came tumbling down with deadly results. so people are going to need a lot of support in the months ahead to ever feel safe to come back into their homes and buildings again. >> that's the worst part. there's a tragedy and then there's this fear good what happens next that stops people from moving on. thanks so much for your great reporting. we have a picture of a cop car that goes flying through an oregon man's home. it's all captured on dash cam video. i'll tell you who's at fault here. the person at fault has done this several times before. he's about to do it again. hosting hollywood's biggest night, we'll have that after the break as well. rd. the spark card earns double miles... so we really had to up our game. with spark, the boss earns double miles on every purchase, every day. that's setting the bar pretty high. owning my own business has never been more rewarding. coming through! 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