defended a controversial $535 million government loan to a california solar panel company that eventually went belly up. the solyndra drama continues. >> reporter: continues, and will for some time. the president when asked about that, jonathan silver, the man who has been heading up the loan program, which, of course, is the controversial part of this program, because of a guaranteed loan that was given to that solar panel company that president obama visited, and that went belly up in august, that's really what all of this stems around. well, he has resigned, and to listen to the department of energy we're hearing from secretary steven chu, he's saying jonathan silver, the man who testified before congress about this controversy recently. he was already leaving, had been told in july before news broke of solyndra filing for bankruptcy that he would be going into the private sector. so you're hearing from sort of the executive branch this was already going to happen, but you're hearing from republicans who have been very critical of this program, they're sort of drawing some causality here. that's up for debate right now. meanwhile, president obama defended the decisions that were made by his administration for this half billion dollar loan yesterday during his news conference. here's what he said. >> now, we knew from the start that the loan guarantee program was going to entail some risk. there were going to be some companies that did not work out, solyndra was one of them, but the process by which the decision was made was on the merits. it was straightforward. >> reporter: and president obama has said previously that you have 20/20 hindsight, certainly, but he was defending yesterday this loan guarantee program overall saying that overall it had been a success, but certainly, guys, this has been an issue for the administration undermining definitely the president's emphasis on renewable energy and now you have republicans, despite jonathan silver resigning, saying that it's not going to be enough to satisfy them. >> and the white house saying that 20/20 hindsight is always perfect, except the bush white house declined to extend a loan to the same company. is that right? >> reporter: yeah. one of the issues here -- and there were warnings. one of the things we realize as documents have come out that there were warnings that were going to some of the president's top advisers, there were concerns, even from people who had an interest in the solyndra, in this was a company dealing with about $100 million in assets, yet this was a loan for more than $500 million. i think one person advised a white house adviser, that, you know, that's good for us, but i'm wondering sort of why you're doing this. a lot of people said there were red flags that were missed, but what we're hearing from president obama, defense of the program overall, that this has been going on for weeks and is expected to continue. >> thank you, brianna dealer. biehler. the movement has gone national. the message spreading like the hottest viral video and people aren't laughing any more. >> it started out like a joke. >> how are they not like the tea party? some of them you know, smoke, and have pants made out of pot. >> reporter: it's swelled into a nationwide movement, mostly peaceful, but certainly p.o.'d. >> we got sold out. >> reporter: and ready to eat the rich. >> this is the zombie march. this is the breakfast. >> reporter: from 1,000 protesters on wall street it's gain momentum and spread to tens of hundreds of people from new york to los angeles and dozens in between, even across borders and oceans. people are angry they're running second place to profits. >> we want jobs, and we want them now. >> reporter: that the quality of life plunged while the rich get super rich and the taxpayers bail them out. >> politicians can be bought. political influence can be bought through political donations. >> reporter: in los angeles, protesters took over a bank of america and were arrested. and in philly, thousands broke out in their battle cry. we are the 99%. it has some big wigs on wall street looking out their windows, and now the white house is paying attention. >> obviously, i've heard of it. i've seen it on television. i think it expresses the frustrations that the american people feel, that we had the biggest financial crisis since the great depression, and that's going to express itself politically in 2012 and beyond until people feel like once again we're getting back to some old-fashioned american values. >> reporter: still getting organized ain't easy and it's too early to say whether these protesters will become a political force, a tea party from the left. same frustrations from the other side. but there's plenty of time until next november. >> 24/7, if necessary, 365. we're planning on snow. we're planning on summer heat. >> one unwanted affect of all of this, the protest is actually costing taxpayers money. the new york commissioner, new york city police commissioner, ray kelly saying its cost his department $2 million in overtime already, and that tab will likely rise in the coming days. it's nobel week culminating with the nobel peace prize in oslo, norway. awarded to three women. ellen johnson sirleaf, leymah gbowee and tawakkul karman. liberia's ellen johnson sirleaf is the first elected in all of africa. the laureate dedicated this to the arab spring activists. men told for years not to neglect prostate cancer screenings, now cnn learned a task force is about to recommend just the opposite, that men not get screened for the disease. cnn the senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us from atlanta. elizabeth, who's making this recommendation? this is is confusing. >> reporter: it is. the same group that told women in their 40s not to get mammograms. we talked about it many times on the year. a huge brouhaha. now the same group is telling men not to get prostate cancer screening saying the screening does nor harm than good. in other words, men are finding cancers that are so small they never would have caused them problem, but then the treatment they then feel compelled to get is causing them problems. so the u.s. preventive task force is set next week to recommend a derating for psa screening. carol? >> okay. so what's a guy to do? what are you supposed to do? armed with this new information? >> reporter: you know, carol, it's a very difficult decision for a man whether or not he wants to get screened, because on the one hand, there is a chance that he's going to find one of these relatively unusual fast-growing cancers that could kill him, but there's a much bigger chance that he's going to find a cancer that never would have caused him any problem, and if he treats that cancer, he could become impotent, incontinue nei incontinent and really could kill him. before he goes forward with screenings, if you screen about 1,400 men you'll find 48 men with cancer but only preventing one death, because those other 47 cancers are small and nerve worry have caused the man any problems to begin with. again, if you choose to treat those cancers, you can cause a lot of problems and, carol, the problem is, doctors have a really hard time discerning those fast-growing dangerous cancers from the slow-growing cancers. we're just not there yet. >> have to sit down with your doctor and really discuss this. i'm just thinking -- i want my husband to have those tests ask right? christine is here nodding her head, too, but then you think, what if they find one of those small cancers and what sort of decision will we as a couple have to make? >> reporter: that's exactly the question you should be asking, is what kind of a decision will we as a couple make? you have to think into the future, go to cnn.com/thechart. was a dude to do? the questions to go over with your doctor. not a slam dunk whether or not to have the screening. >> i'm going read it in the commercial break. elizabeth cohen, thank you very much. >> a catchy title "what's a dude to do." cnn.com. and pulling the plug on the monday night football theme after hank williams jr. referred to hitler while talking about president obama. our "talk back" question, was espn right to part ways with the performer? and one man's amazing race. we'll introduce to you an athlete who's planning to run where no man has run before. you won't believe it. it's ten minutes past the hour. can i help you? yeah, can i get a full-sized car? 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>> skepticism is part of human nature, but at the same time, kennedy had a dream to you know, go to apollo with a mission. it's important to put massive action behind your dream. >> reporter: whoa. in addition to his training, prince will speak to students around the country encouraging them to learn more about science and space exploration and a lot of folks are hearing about what he's trying to do mission, including bono. apparently bono told him he was so inspired by what he wants to do, he wants to create and write a song about his whole mission and his goal. so -- we'll see. >> "shoot for the moon." you know? somebody shooting for the moon. >> reporter: literally. >> finding people inspired for him to be able to do it. >> space travel is really where the future is. that's what we're going to be seeing. we're going to see a lot of private companies trying to do a lot of things like thas. >> science, engineering and math, going around and talking to kids about this is an added bone es. >> terrific. thank you so much. as are the detroit tigers. >> is that why rob is awol this morning? >> supposed to be dressed in a red sox uniform, because he lost the bet with me. >> we might have to wake him up this morning. >> let's wake him up just to wake him up on a vacation day. thought he could sleep until 10:00. not so much. >> good morning, jacqui. >> congratulations to the tigers and all the fans. sorry about it, yankees, but how many trophies do they have? >> yeah. a bet in baseball, right, in the american league, and the best in baseball -- they're not anymore. >> money can't buy you anything. isn't that right? >> that's right. don kelly. i mean, don kelly in the minor leagues. hit a home run in yankees stadium. 27 years old. jim leyland talked about kelly and started crying. it was fantastic. >> for carol, sunny and 80 degrees for the next three months i. know. right. great in detroit, though, great across much of the east but it's the nation's midsection that's seeing the lousy weather today. extremely windy from the upper midwest all the way down to the gulf coast. the strongest winds here across parts of minnesota and the dakotas. gusting as much as 50 miles per hour. so high fire danger here today. it's really going to be affecting a lot of your travel. it all has to do with the cold front in the nation's midsection. we will see occasional showers and thundershowers, some severe in the western great lakes. on the back side, very cold. talking about snow. yeah. how much? a couple feet of it before all is said and done between, you know, what happened yesterday and as we head into today and into early tomorrow. temperaturewise, ahead of it it's nice and warming talking 80s across the plains and the east coast looks really, really great. if you have plans to get out leaf peeking, inspiring you, so gorgeous. from the vermont area they're at peak to near peak in the higher elevations and in the valley areas, midstage. a lot of sunshine. get out there. no rain in the forecast for the northeast. a little rain, though, down in south florida, although you don't see a lot of color down there this time of year. just wanted to mention, everybody else -- >> thanks, jacqui. now's your chance to "talk back" on weren't of the questions of the day. was espn right to part ways with hank williams jr. he doesn't care. he was hopping mad and out of there anyway. on his website he blasts espn for stepping on the toes of the first amendment and adds, me, my friends are out here. don't let them kick them in the -- because you're fire and here's why. >> you mean where john boehner played golf with president obama? >> come on. come on nap would be like hitler playing golf with netanyahu. they're the enemy. >> who's the enemy? >> ah -- obama! and biden. are you kidding? the three stooges. >> it's a free country. it's not like hank jr. chairs the republican committee. here's what "the view" said. >> he's a musician. i think of all the football players and musicians that have take an misstep or done something, and what kind of standards are we holding, folks, to when we say, oh, no, you can't say -- listen, man, that's not a good thing to do. so instead we pull. >> kind of sounds like what happened to the dixie chics? remember? natalie mane said the chic was ashamed of president obama because of his stance on iraq, and while they weren't fired, they were blackballed by not only many country music fans but the country music establishment. the "talk back" question today, was espn right to part ways with hank williams jr.? facebook.com/americanmorning. i'll read your comments later this hour. up next, the latest from the michael jackson death trial. why lawyers for the king of pop's personal physician are launching an attack on the l.a. county coroner's office. plus one l.a. woman not just complaining about bank of america's new $5 debit card fee, she's doing something about it. find out what she did that has a lot of people talking this morning. it's 22 minutes past the hour. 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