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 be improving but it will be a slow go of it. the radar picture, we're looking at about prove dense towards boston and northward, the rain and a little freezing mix and the snow into the interior parts of the northeast. dried up in new york city. d.c., things are looking better. you're dealing which the cold conditions. five to nine inches total, the heaviest snowfall accumulations and, of course, i-95 eastward, everybody dealing with some of that rainfall. and we've got a secondary cold front which is making its way behind this thing. that means a reinforcing shot of cold air, just what you wanted to hear, right? 37 today in chicago, 21 in minneapolis and the 40s in the northeast, carol, that's pretty much where you are right now. the temperatures will be falling this afternoon. >> well, i knew reality would hit sooner or later. >> this has been a long time coming. >> it has. thank you, jacqui. >> sure. just hours after the d.a. announced he will not charge ex-syracuse basketball coach bernie fine for alleged sex abuse of young boys one of his accusers is expected to announce he is filing a lawsuit in civil court. zach tomaselli has accused fine of sexually abusing him in a hotel room in 2002. tomaselli, 13 at the time of the alleged incident, is expected to speak at a news conference later today. yesterday, prosecutors said bernie fine cannot be charged in criminal court only because the statute of limitations in new york state has run out, not because there isn't enough evidence. the d.a. spoke to our gary tuchman in an interview and said an au pare in the fine household had no doubt something was going on between fine and his first accuser bobby davis. >> did your impression that au pair is convinced that bernie fine had a sexual relationship with bobby davis while at the snous. >> no question. she didn't witness any molestation, but clearly body language, affect, wait they talked to each other, the way they acted around each other, the conversations she had with lori fine, no question that -- >> for example, when it came to bernie, what did she say about the way bernie fine acted that made her know they were having a sexual -- >> the way they would do things, watch it tv, the way they would suddenly disappear together. >> and what did lori fine say to her? >> lori fine had numerous conversations with her, and the gist of the conversations were, i don't have the right parts for bernie. clearly indicating and you recognize the hearsay implications of this, but clearly recognizing that lori fine was of the opinion that bernie fine was gay and they were leading two separate lives under the same house. >> the au pair that worked there said lori fine talked to her, a 16-year-old girl, about how she didn't have the parts for her husband? >> it was difficult to listen to, but that's exactly right. >> in the meantime jerry sandusky could be let out of jail again today. excuse me. police arrested the ex-penn state coach yesterday on sexual assault charges involving two new accusers, one who says his cries for help were ignored. sandusky faces a preliminary hearing on tuesday where his lawyer will have the chance to question some of his accusers. florida a&m band director julien white will keep his job for now. the school is holding off on a decision to fire him until an investigation is completed into the suspected hazing death of drum major robert champion. white is now on administrative leave with pay. the school is also taking back the dismissals of four students. investigators in georgia say a suspected child killer is off the streets this morning. 20-year-old ryan brunn will be arraigned on charges he sexually assaulted, stabbed and beat a 7-year-old girl to death. investigators say he's a maintenance worker at an apartment complex where jorelys rivera lived and apparently was killed 40 miles north of atlanta. her body was found nearby in a trash bin. investigators had suspected her killer either lived in or had access to the building and they had good reason for that. holley firfer has been covering the story and joined erin burnett last night with new detailsp. >> it was a tip from somebody in the apartment complex that actually led them to ryan brunn. now remember back on friday when they started canvassing the apartment, law enforcement told us they were focusing on somebody they thought who lived or had access to the apartment complex. a couple of things which transpired when they found out on monday where they found her body in a trash compacter. first of all you need a key to use the trash compangtser. the only people that had keys were maintenance people. secondly, there was evidence, blood and a mattress found in an empty apartment building next door to where jorelys lived. who would know about that, somebody who lived there or had access to the apartments. they canvassed the neighborhood, asked residents for anything they saw and someone came forward and said there was a maintenance guy that started about a month ago. he start on november 7th. he supposedly was living in the apartment complex with somebody else. we're told by a neighbor, the property manager's son. and that he was very friendly, he was seen around, but they didn't really know him that well. so when gbi and the fbi and the sheriff's department were asking around, a lot of people were mentioning this guy, ryan brunn, so his name kept coming you. >> when you're saying he's only worked there a month, it's possible people really didn't have a sense of whether he appeared to be off or looking at children or behaving around children inappropriately. do you know whether he had to go through any kind of a background check before he was hired? >> yes. as a matter of fact, moments ago, we got a statement i want to read to you from the company that manages the apartment complex where jorelys rivera was killed. it says, quote, he was put through an extensive background check that included a criminal and sexual predator background check and he passed. he had to undergo this for both his employment and residency. and according to law enforcement officials, they did not find any criminal record in his past, but they do say they're going to check out every county, every state he's lived to see if there are unsolved crimes or whether maybe it was a sexual crime that wasn't reported. but they suspect there might be something in his past that they just didn't know about. >> investigators say they're now digging through brunn's past to see if he could be connected to other crimes but the suspect's brother told a local tv station his arrest is a big mistake. a deadly chopper crash 30 miles from the las vegas strip. the national park service says five people died when the helicopter went down in the mountains near lake mead during a tour of the hoover dam. sundance helicopters owned the chopper. wall street protesters in san francisco reeling after police took apart their camp and arrested dozens of people. protesters were warned several times to pick up their tents and leave over the past several weeks. authorities took down over 100 tents and were removing shopping carts full of debris from the camp. former illinois governor rod blagojevich sentenced to 14 years for trying to sell president obama's old senate seat. blagojevich said he was sorry in court yesterday, but the judge said that his apology sounded more like one, a politician or lawyer would give. former president bill clinton had a very active and charitable post-presidency. the only person with more on her plate may be his daughter. alina cho sat down with clinton as part of her big stars, big giving holiday special. clinton talks about how chelsea has really hit her stride. >> chelsea, be she's taking an increasingly public role. not just with your foundation, with secretary clinton as well, and now she's at nbc. how does that feel? >> i'm proud of her. i don't know how she's going to do all this. she's teaching at columbia, still involved with nyu where she worked to help them set up their university in the middle east and she's the chairman of the board of the biggest interfaith group co-headed by a rabbi and immam and doing this tv thing and thinking about writing a thesis to get a ph.d. at -- from her old alma mater oxford. i'm really proud of her because she's found her rhythm in life. she likes what she's doing. she believes in it. and that's a good thing. that's what we all want for our children. >> we'll have more of alina's sit down with president clinton throughout the morning on "american morning" that starts at 6:00 eastern time. still to come, set to be a wet and snowy morning along the east coast. we're tracking this latest wintry storm. and controversy over the morning after pill. who should have access to it. we'll tell you who had the final word on this debate. an update on the actress outraged on how she ended up looking on the cover of a men's magazine. she claims her family has disowned her. things can get out of control pretty quickly. so i like control in the rest of my life... especially my finances. that's why i have slate, with blueprint. i can make a plan to pay off big stuff faster... or avoid interest on everyday things. that saves me money. with slate from chase, i'm always in control. financially, anyway. get slate with blueprint and save money. call 855-get-slate today. ♪ my hair is gone ♪ cheap cologne ♪ motor home ♪ i'm the rocket man! 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[ santa ] ho, ho, ho! 14 minutes past the hour. here's what we're following this morning. one of the alleged sex abuse victims of bernie fine is expected to announce he's filing a lawsuit against the former coach today. zach tomaselli claims fine molested him in 2002. as far as criminal charges go, fine is in the clear. the local d.a. says the statute of limitations has run out. the morning after pill will stay prescription only for girls 16 and under. the secretary of health and human services overruled an fda recommendation blocking plan b emergency contraception from being made available over the counter to young teens. right now it's available without a prescription for women 17 and older. in money news, yahoo! awarded $610 million in damages for a lottery scam run by thai and nigerian swindellers. they say they used ya who's logo to dupe people. they stole passwords and other information. ya who may not see the millions because none of the defendants have responded to the complaint. in sports, baseball's big spender. the miami marlins dishing out millions. the club committing nearly $200 million to sign on mark buehrle, jose reyes and health bell and have a big offer to one more player. that is insane, jacqui. >> that would field my whole team. >> it's insane. nobody goes to see their games, so this is their big pitch as they come out, we have stars. >> people like baseball in florida. think of the people that go there for spring break and spring training. >> but they don't go to the pro games, they don't go to tampa either. >> maybe this will do it. >> maybe. >> perhaps. baseball seems so far off, doesn't it? >> man, it's cold out there. boys of summer. i'm daydreaming. we're looking at the strong storm system, carol, continues to move across the northeast. we're really just looking primarily at new england for the rain and snow yet this morning. it's from boston on northward. everybody should be done by noon. unfortunately, we're starting out of the gate this morning with likely travel delays because we've got overcast conditions and the winds are really strong. so major delays over an hour possible new york, boston, philadelphia. delays probably under an hour in chicago, detroit and miami, there's your florida city, with some breezy winds expected there as well. but i think those will be pretty minor throughout the day today. outside of our feature in the northeast it's pretty quiet today. a clipper moving through the upper midwest that will bring some light snow showers from omaha to des moines but bring in cold air more than anything else. this cold air will stick around until the weekend. >> i guess it will feel more like christmas. >> get out the if youy coats and boots. >> enjoy that. >> i missed the 61 degree temperatures. >> already. >> it's gone. >> thank you, jacqui. >> you're welcome. >> shamed and disowned by her family, now a bollywood actress plans to sue a men's magazine in india for using allegedly doctored photos of her in a racy cover photo. here's actress veen mallic posting for fhm magazine with a tattoo on her arm with the initials isi, stands for pakistan's interservices intelligence agency. she says she did pose topless, but certainly not nude. >> were you topless? >> si. actually i was, but i was not nude. there's a big difference between topless and being nude. you will see various shoots in the industry that actresses went topless but they were covered like the way i was. there are various examples. i did not go nude. si. >> you had bottoms on? >> bottoms on, i had. and they removed those bottoms by, you know, getting morphed or removed or whatever the technology used. >> fhm says malik new the terms and approved the shoot. pakistan, outraged by the photos. reza sayah has the live in islamabad. such a scandal there in a different way than in the united states. >> yeah. and you know what, i wouldn't say there's outrage here. i think the biggest concern for this actress is the reaction from the family. they're not too happy, but i think it's important to keep it real for our viewers out there. i don't think many people knew about this story here. they cared about it until the pakistani media got ahold of it and then the indian media got ahold of it and the international media got ahold of it and once the racy pictures started appearing on air that's when the buzz was generated, very much generated by the media. there is no widespread outrage here. some people are disappointed here that a muslim woman would take these pictures. others are supporting her. here's a taste of some of the reaction in pakistan. >> she make mistake go there, but i don't think she can do that. as a pakistani. i'm a proud pakistani and i believe as a pakistani she can do it. i think so, this is like a propaganda, but she needs to stay in pakistan. >> so there you get a little taste of the reaction here. again, despite what some people may think, there is no widespread anger, outrage. frankly, most people in pakistan, 180 million people, are hungry, poor, they have a lot more important things to worry about than this issue and despite what some people may think, pakistan/india relations aren't impacted. i think the real story here is that commercial it tv and commercial magazines are thriving even in this region and one way to give viewers and readers is to put an attractive, scantily clad woman on air, in magazine, and people will watch, people will tune in and that's what's happening in this region as well. >> that is one sure way. as far as her family is concerned, we've heard that they've disowned her. >> well, that's what she said. they're not talking at this point, and i think in the grand scheme of things, that seems to be the biggest worry for her, is that her family, obviously, seems like she didn't consult with them, her family is not happy, they're in pakistan, she's in india, they don't appear to be talking and it's not clear where that relationship is headed. >> all right. reza say yea, thanks so much, live for us this morning. the deadline is ticking to extend the payroll tax cuts. still ahead, hear what exactly will happen if lawmakers cannot reach an agreement. it's 20 minutes past the hour. this is your "am: wakeup call." the employee of the month isss... the new spark card from capital one. spark miles gives me the most rewards of any small business credit card. 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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