breaking news for you this morning, the eviction of new york's zuccotti park now under way. police are moving in. the mayor saying the people in the tents have got to go for now. a medical break through, reviving a part of your heart that's dead. a stem cell treatment that has the potential to extend or save the lives of millions. and target target. tens of thousands of employees upset they will have to miss thanksgiving so christmas can start early for shoppers. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." good morning to you. this is your a.m. wake-up call for tuesday, november 15th from the time warner center in new york, i'm carol costello. here are this morning's top stories. breaking news to tell you about, wall street protesters told to pick up their tenths and leave. the new york police department moving in to kick them out overnight as cities across the country begin to say the camps are too dangerous and too disgusting. we will take you live to lower manhattan to zuccotti park in about 60 seconds. ex-penn state coach jerry sandusky admitting to showering with young boys but denying he's a pedophile saying he's only guilty of a serious lapse nl judgment. we'll have more on that in a moment. herman cain has his own oops moment, gives a shaky answer to reporters about president obama's libya policy that included a very long pause. the campaign saying it was taken out of context and blaming a lack of sleep, but critics saying it's another sign he's clueless on foreign policy. let's head to atlanta and get a check of today's weather, meteorologist rob marciano in the house. good morning, rob. >> good morning, carol. rough weather yesterday across the midsection of the country. one report of tornado and hail and wind. today that focus is going to be sliding the the south. the system itself is pretty big. here is the radar. it stretches into the northeast, will affect some of the areas north and east into new england and slicing back through texas. that's where we are seeing the severe weather rite now. severe thunderstorm watch in effect for parts of south central texas mostly in the form of gusty winds and some hail. a few severe thunderstorm warnings now. more gentle rain moving across the allegheny and over top of the appalachians in through upstate new york and eventually into new york and i-95 corridor later today as that front pushing off to the east. there keys your threat for severe weather. mild ahead of the front. temperatures will be slow to come. 67 in d.c. still relatively mild in new york. laettner the program, about 15 minutes, we'll talk about how much cooler it's going to get once this front comes through. carol, back up to you. >> it will really seem like actual november. >> yeah, get you in the mood for thanksgiving. >> that's a good way to look at it. thank you rob marciano. >> you bet. more about the breaking news now. a very tense situation in new york's zuccotti park, home to the original wall street protesters. police moving in overnight to kick them out. the mayor claims it's only temporary. the mayor's office tweeting early this morning that occupants of zuccotti park should temporarily leave and they can come back after the park is cleared. one protesters posted they are too big to jail on the occupy new york city website. the protesters calling it an nypd raid on their website. this comes two days before protesters threatened to shut down wall street on thursday to mark the two-month anniversary of the movement. poppy harlow is in lower manhattan now. poppy, are things peaceful? >> reporter: carol, i'm having a hard time hearing you. i assume you're asking what is happening down here. tension has escalated. ive i've been here since 1:30 in the morning when i got a call from a protesters saying the police were evicting him. what you're looking at is hundreds of protesters, supporters of the movement. we're just a few blocks from the new york stock exchange, about a block and a half from zuccotti park. you have protesters on this side. also a number of new york city police officers in full raid gear. this barricade is where the dividing line is. carol, what happened is the protesters were woken up in the middle of the night, about 1:00 a.m. they were told the city needs to clean the park. they were given a flier of brookville properties who owns the park, saying there's an increased health and fire hazard. we need to clean the park. you can come brack if a few hours. the sentiment by the protesters is that they do not believe they will be allowed back in the park to protest. we're told they won't be able to bring in tents, i don't want be able to set up and live there, if you will. this is a huge sea change in the movement. i will tell you i was walking down nassau street, all of a sudden about 200 protesters came running towards me. there was this increasing momentum in the last hour or some right now they are deciding whether they're going to stay here or whether they're going to move elsewhere. increasingly tense in the last hour or so. as people will start funneling in here, we are in the middle of manhattan down by wall street. as the sunrises, it's going to get very, very busy down here. >> poppy, just to be clear, zuccotti park itself, have the protesters cleared out of that park? >> yes, completely, carol. we were actually able to make it into the park. it took us three hours to get past the police barricades. we had not been allowed in whatsoever. in the last 20 minutes we made it past the police barricade into zuccotti park. i don't know if we have footage for you. we'll get it for you within the hour. the park is completely cleared out. no tents whatsoever. all that is left are new york city cleaning crews sweeping up. i saw piles of clothes and tents. remains of what was occupy wall street. all the protesters were out of the pacific. i saw a number of of protesters basically handcuffed with plastic restraints. they were being processed by police an loaded onto a new york city police bus. i attempted to talk to them. a police officer moved me aside and said you can't speak to them right now. one of the protesters was plang, she said she hadn't been read her rights. i have to tell you, carol, everything looks very orderly down there. as you can hear right now, one of the police officers next to me is on his megaphone asking the crowd to move to the side of the street. he is saying once the park is cleaned that the protesters will be allowed back into the park, carol. it sounds like within the next hour or so these protesters will be allowed back in the park. they are told they cannot bring tents, et cetera, to set up there and live there as they did before, carol. >> all right, poppy harlow, we'll check back with you at about 30 minutes past the hour. poppy harlow reporting live from near zuccotti park in manhattan. jerry sandusky speaking publicly for the first time since being accused of sexually assaulting young boys he was supposed to be helping. he says he showered with young boys and horsed around with them but is not a pedophile. he was on the phone speaking to nbc's bob costas. >> i say that i am innocent of those charges. i could say that, you know, i have done some of those things. i have horsed around with kids. i have showered after workouts, i have hugged them and i have touched their leg without intent of sexual contact. >> the attorney also spoke to our jason carroll. he called his client just a big overgrown kid. >> i want to wait before we go to that because that's different. but even just in talking about the showering, i think a lot of people have trouble with the idea -- >> i agree. >> -- of a man showering with a young boy. what are your thoughts on that? >> i wouldn't do it. i'm sure you wouldn't do it. >> i would not. >> i would feel uncomfortable doing it. but jerry did that. but that's a far different thing than saying he got showers with kids than saying that he committed these other acts which the prosecution has alleged he did. what's going to come out in this case is that jerry did get showers with kids. >> sandusky, accused of 40 counts related to child sex abuse. charges carry a total of more than 400 years in prison. the attorney saying he's also hoping to identify and interview one of the alleged accuser and the penn state coach that allegedly witnessed sandusky of abusing that boy. herman cain's response totally fell off the rails when asked about president obama's libya policy. he was talking to editors and reporters at the milwaukee general sentinel. listen. >> president obama supported the uprising, correct? president obama called for the removal of gadhafi. i just want to make sure we're talking about the same thing before i say yes, i agree or no, i didn't agree. i do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason. no, that's a different one. i got to go back. i got all this stuff twirling around in my head. specifically, what are you asking me did i agree or not disagree with obama? >> later on cain tried to explain why he appeared to get all mixed up. >> i mean, they asked me a question about libya, and i paused so i could gather my thoughts. you know, it's complimentary when people start documents my pauses. it's one thing to document every word. it was a pause. that's all it was. good grief! >> critics have been all over cain's grasp on foreign policy. he also recently said he was concerned that china is trying to develop nuclear capability when, in fact, china is one of the world's oldest nuclear powers. we'll take you back live to zuccotti park near wall street. as you can see protesters have filled the streets. that's because police have asked them to leave zuccotti park so they could clean the park which city workers did. we saw them power washing the park grounds there a short time ago. protesters fear that police are not serious about allowing them to go back to zuccotti park to set up their tents and tarps to stay there overnight. police insist they're being honest. we're continuing to watch this tense situation in lower manhattan. we'll have more when "wake-up call" returns. see if we can "stitch" together a better deal. that's a hint, antoine. ooh! see what anandra did? 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[ male announcer ] more people are leaving bmw, mercedes, and lexus for audi than ever before. take advantage of exceptional values during the season of audi event. you're looking at live pictures in new york city. these are pictures of protest frers the occupy wall street movement earlier this mork, about 1:00 a.m. eastern time to be exact. new york city police asked protesters to clear out of zuccotti park so they could clean it. the protesters did that. thousands have joined the cause because they fear they will not be allowed to go back to zuccotti park. this, i believe, is at pine and broadway. protesters gathered there, thousands of them, although you can't see them in this picture. police are pushing them out of that area to get them out of the street so that traffic can move. we're following the story, poppy harlow is on the scene. she says there's been dozens of arrests. she sees protesters in handcuffs. we'll check with her in just a few minutes. just to keep you updated, no reports of violence, but we have reports of arrest. this is your a.m. wake-up call. former penn state coach jerry sandusky speaking out, saying he's not a pedophile. she's charged with 40 counts related to sexual abuse. these are his first public comments since the scandal broke. a promising new study is out. researchers found that heart damage may be reversible with stem cell therapy and without dangerous side effects. 16 patients underwent the procedure and showed major improvements in their heart functions. in money news, the transportation department is cracking down on lengthy tarmac delays. american eagles airlines was slapped with a $900,000 fine for keeping passengers stranded on the runway in hours for may. it's the first time this rule has been enforced. in sports, no deal for the nba and this could mean no season at all. the players' union turned down the league's latest offer in a dispute over collective bargaining calling it unfair. the union says they're planning to file an antitrust suit against the nba. rab marciano in atlanta. >> threat for severe weather today across texas, moving into louisiana and points to the east. but mostly staying down to the south. here it is highlighted graphically. one report of a tornado yesterday across illinois and several reports of wind damage and some hail. but the focus today will be across southeast texas. we have a severe thunderstorm watch that's posted for parts of the hill country in south central texas. damaging winds and large hail possible across the i-10 corridor eventually moving east of new orleans. here is the watch i spoke of, west of san antonio as that cluster of thunderstorms makes its way off towards the east, mostly heavier rain, hail and gustier wind with those. the north side of the front stretches all the way to the northeast. that will bring eventually some rain to the i-95 corridor. low clouds in new york city later today. expect delays because of that action. d.c. and philly, if you're traveling, rain as well. yesterday we were all clear as far as travel conditions were concerned. today a little bit more of a mess. as we mentioned earlier, cooler air coming in behind this. on average, 10 to 15-degree drop as to what you're seeing right now. cooldown coming, carol. be prepared. >> we're ready for it. we are. we have the winter coats out. >> at a girl. a first in the arab world. jordan's king appears to urge the embattled syrian president to resign. king abdullah saying that's what he would do if he was in bashar al assad's place. this comes after bloody crackdown on antigovernment protesters which has claimed more than 3500 looiches. zain verjee joins us live with more on this. good morning, zain. >> good morning, carol. dozens more killed in yet more clashes in a brutal crackdown by the syrian government. this comes a day after the king of jordan, king abdullah said that bashar al assad should step down. this is a really big deal, the first arab leader that's come out and said something like this so explicitly. he said this, i would step down and i would make sure whoever comes behind me has the ability to change the status quo that we're seeing. now, that comment was preceded by the arab league taking action. a lot of people thinking this is an organization that's essentially toothless. but they surprised everyone over the weekend by moving to swiftly temporarily kick out syria from the group. at the same time the european union is targeting sanctions on at least 18 lead senior leaders of this country. the question is will he step down? is this going to be the writing on the wall. with more arab leaders jump on the bandwagon here and ask for him to step down. carol? >> what we're thinking is this is how libya went. everyone is wondering, if assad refuses to step down, might some sort of military arc shunl be taken? >> it's interesting because syria's foreign minister actually spoke at a press conference. he said essentially that syria is no libya. he also said over at the security council, you've got the chinese and the russians that would never support military action against syria. that's what he says. who knows what will happen. everything in the arab spring has been so unpredictable. will say can't happen and then it does. we'll have to wait and see. >> zain verjee live in london, thanks so much. still ahead, what would you do if your boss said you had to work on thanksgiving? one worker is mad, he launched an online protest and he's not alone. tens of thousands of people have joined him. steak burger soup. 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