welcome. great to have you here. >> great to see you, ali, good morning. up first, the growing penn state sex abuse scandal's. the university is vowing to find out who or who else failed the victims. right now in state college p.a. they are bracing for game day. the last home game of the year, the first in a half century without legendary coach joe paterno. the small college town swells to the largest on game day and given what we saw on campus two nights ago, police are under intense pressure to maintain control. our jason carroll is live in state college this morning and, jason, i imagine's security hey been stepped up quite a bit? >> reporter: that is true, and the mood on campus, really mixed in terms of how the students are feeling about everything that's been going on. you've got a number of students who are quite frankly, have that same amount of anger that we saw out here on wednesday, but alina, also there have been a number of students who have come up to me who said they were, quite frankly, embarrassed by the rioters who showed up in front of old main in downtown. they feel not enough attention has been focused on the victims. that's why tonight they'll be a candlelight vigil, those students holding that about 9:30 and tomorrow at the game against nebraska you may see a lot of people wearing the color blue for those abused, those who are victims of sexual abuse. the man now at the helm who a lot of people are looking at, tom bradley, the new interim coach, spoke about the challenges he now faces heading into saturday's game. >> we're obviously in a very unprecedented situation that we find ourselves in, and, you know, i just have to find a way to restore the confidence and to start a healing process with everybody and i'm going to try to go about it, i said earlier, mixed emotion and a heavy heart that his has occurred that i'm going through this. >> reporter: and tom bradley also speaking about the victims as well saying he's grieving for the victims and also said that much of the attention should be focused on that and not football, but once again, with tomorrow heading into -- heading into tomorrow's game, especially with all the attention focused on penn state, it's just a lot of mixed emotions going on down here. not just from the coaches but the students, the faculty and the people in the community as well. alina? >> i can only imagine. in football there, an institution and massive business. jason, i know you talked to jerry sandusky's lawyer. has were you able to find out in terms of where they are in terms of developing a defense. >> that's joseph amandolla. the case they're tries to put together. they're in the infancy stages, trying to find witnesses to help jerry san duckie's case and also telling knee jerry sandusky told him that he is innocent of all the allegations and the feeling is that sandusky is being tried in the press, tried out here at penn state, being made out to be a guilty man even without having an opportunity to defend himself. so a lot of frustration on that part as well. >> and very quickly, are you getting a sense at all that the defense team on how sandusky's reacting to paterno's firing? >> reporter: oh, absolutely. very good point. actually, sandusky told his attorney, joseph amandella, that he feels sickened, disheartened about the way things have happened for joe paterno. he looked up to that man. the two were very close for have many year, many year, and alina, he feels as though, he feels responsible in ways for taking down a man who he referred to as "a legend." >> jason carroll live for us all week long in state college, pennsylvania. see new an hour. state representative kevin boyle said the law may have failed the victims. >> we need to toughen this up, the legislation -- the current legislation on the books, because the current law allows for conspiracies, allows for cover-up, and i feel as though if we had stronger legislation on the books, paterno, who i'm sure was lawyered up from the get-go would have reported this to the police and hopefully there wouldn't have been as many as a dozen victims in the last decade. >> the study of fall from grace continues for joe paterno. pennsylvania's two senators are pooling support for paterno. bob casey and pat toomey sent a letter to president obama back in september backing paterno for the nation's highest civilian honor for his dedication to his players and his grades-first philosophy. coming up we'll speak to former major tleeg analyst doug glanville who talks about the code in the locker room. what role did it play in the penn state scandal? speaking out on the air force mortuary scandal. leon panetta is promising to get to the bottom of the mismanagement of the dover mortuary. it was reported that the bodies of military personnel killed in iraq and afghanistan are being grossly mishandled. shocking cases ever missing body parts and remains being dumped in a virginia landfill. panetta is calling for an independent investigation. >> none of us will be satisfied until we have proven to the families who were fallen heroes that we have taken every step possible to protect the honor and dignity that their loved ones richly deserve. >> panetta is also asking the air force secretary to ensure that appropriate disciplinary action is taken. new developments in the solyndra saga, the white house agreeing to release specific documents that will reportedly shed light on what level of influence that obama fund-raiser and solyndra investor george kaiser had on getting a $535 million loan for the solar energy company. the company went bankrupt shortly after receiving the white house loan. the house energy committee issued a subpoena for all of the solyndra documents. the white house at first refused to hand them over slamming the investigation as partisan politic. president obama making an unexpected decision on a controversial proposal. his administration announced it will delay an answer on whether to expand the keystone oil pipeline. mr. obama was expected to approve the project, but it was met with protests from environmental groups. the new pipeline would have stretched through the sand hills area in nebraska. the state department now plans to find possible alternative routes. a final decision on the project is expected in 2013. >> this is a pipeline meant to bring oil from the oil sands's canada. very controversial project. a new greek prime minister sworn in today. harvard economics professor and former banker lucas papademos will lead the government and inherit its debt troubles. promising to institute harsh austerity measures to receive a second bailout from the european union. former prime minister george papandreou stepped down earlier this week. and silvio berlusconi's reign in italy may soon be over. trying to pull the country out of near bankruptcy. berlusconi promised to step down from his post once the economic reforms are passed clearing the way for a new technocrat government likely led by former e.u. commissioner mario monte. live in rome, matthew chance is with us. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, alina. that's right. the parliament voting through later today the financial austerity measure, likely to be passed tomorrow into low by the lower house of the parliament by a special meeting trying to get this process moving as quickly as possible. allows berlusconi to step aside. we could see a new government in place, overseeing this country's economic future as early as the weekend. >> all right. our matthew chance live in italy. matthew, thank you very much for that update. can't beat 'em, join 'em. governor rick perry poking fun at himself on "letterman" after he couldn't name the third agency he would ax the night before at the gop. the rick perry top ten excuses right here. >> actually three reasons i messed up last night. one was the nerves, and two was the headache, and three -- um -- um -- hey, listen, you try concentrating when mitt romney's smiling at you. that is one hand is dude. yeah. 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. that's stuff in the caboose, and the number one rick perry excuse -- >> i just learned justin bieber is my father. >> oh, my god. >> oh. >> i don't know where it gets him politically, but he definitely came up with the funny swing. >> might have a future as a comedian. and was up late watching "dancing with the stars." one of the excuses. all right. ahead on "american morning," protesters disrupting a speech by michele bachmann and forcing her from the stage. hear what the minnesota congresswoman had to say about them. and richard nixon in his own words. audio recordings and grand jury transcripts, what the president told the grand jury about that infamous 18-minute gap on a white house tape. something you have to see to believe pap police cruiser hitting high speeds and then hitting a house. we'll have the incredible dash cam video coming up on this "american morning." life insurance companies treat you like a policy, not a person. instead of getting to know you they simply assign you a number. aviva is here to change all that. we're bringing humanity back to insurance and putting people before policies. aviva life insurance and annuities. we are building insurance around you. thank you, ma'am. you're welcome. gate 40, ma'am ? straight over that way. thank you. you're welcome. would you like the window ? no, i'm fine. thank you, sir. there you go, sir. thank you, sir. have a great trip home. oh, thank you very much, ma'am. would you like some help ? yes. let me get that. have a nice night. thank you, ma'am. thank you, sir. no, thank you. i tell you what i can spend. i do my best to make it work. i'm back on the road safely. and i saved you money on brakes. that's personal pricing. welcome back to "american morning." it was an accident that's how former president richard nixon explained the gap on a white house audiotape to a u.s. grand jury. 45 minutes of audio recordings and nearly 50,000 pages of recordings from the nixon white house were released by archivists yesterday including this story from nixon about an inprompt tu pre-dawn meeting that he had at the lincoln memorial with student demonstrators who were outraged by lis 1970 invasion of cambodia. >> they have not been able to hear the press conference because they had been driving all night in order to get here. i said, i was sorry they missed it and i tried to explain in the press conference that my goals in vietnam were the same as theirs. to stop the killing, to end the war, to bring peace. our goal was not to get into cambodia by what we were doing but to get out of vietnam. >> nixon's 1975 grand jury testimony came ten months after he left office in disgrace, after this famous resignation, this famous wave that you see here. it was released after historians stanley cutler and others sued to have the grand jury testimony made public. for those of you who are historians or interested in that time period, it's rich with all sorts of information about that and very interesting time in american politics. >> we're about to show you another interesting time in politics. >> yes. absolutely. >> incredible videotape. michele bachmann says the occupy charleston protesters who interrupted her foreign policy speech yesterday were disrespectful and ignorant but are respecting their right to speak. aboard the aircraft carrier yorktown where about a dozen protesters suddenly stood up and shut their speech down. she came back about ten minutes later. here's how it all went down. >> talk about that. american consumers -- >> this will only take a minute. >> this will only take a minute. >> we have a message for ms. bachmann. >> we have a message for ms. bachmann. >> -- down -- [ chanting ] >> all: usa! usa! usa! usa! >> thank you, everyone, for your patience. don't you love the first amendment? it's great. we have a great country, and i want to thank you all for your understanding. god bless you. thank you for that. >> not a bad way of dealing with it, i suppose. the protesters were ultimately escorted off the aircraft carrier by police chanting "we are the 99%." president obama will be on an aircraft carrier of his own. his own. a different one. a tradition in parades as americans honor our soldiers, veterans and military family, the president will welcome some vets in the white house hosting breakfast there and later take part in a ceremony at arlington national cemetery. the next stop, san diego, watching the first college basketball game to be played on an active navy aircraft carrier the famous "uss carl vincent." >> i wouldn't mind being there for that. so what's the weather going it be like in washington and other parts across the country? a quick check of the morning's travel forecast with reynolds wolf. good morning. >> in parts of new york, interesting day for you. nome some wind, also a little bit of rain mixed in, too, and plenty of delays also. right to the weather maps. what we've got, in new york, philadelphia, gusty breezes. winds keep you delayed for spots in boston, new york. winds giving delay. under an hour. not as rough in parts of the northeast. out west in san francisco, scattered showers, major delays over an hour time. be patient on a day like today. in parts of the southeast, a slow morning. temperatures a bit below normal, to say the least. in fact morning lows from st. louis to atlanta, 20s to 30s. not quite as cold in raleigh. the outer banks, a freeze watch we're keeping a sharp eye on. weather in the southeast, cool, but a beautiful day. high pressure, nice conditions. chance of showers, again we mentioned in parts of the northeast. out to the west and pacific northwest, snow in the highest elevations. in the valleys expect rain troughs in parts of central california. looks like showers. as far south as san diego, conditions should be okay. in terms of temperatures, day time highs, expect them to be mild in spots like denver, kansas city. 49 your high in new york. 58 in atlanta. 61 in tampa. 61 also in san francisco and back into seattle, 48 degrees. now, out of the atlantic we're keeping a sharp eye on tropical storm sean. at this point, windows at 60 miles per hour moving past bermuda. as it moves, reacting with cooler water and should begin to slowly but surely die out. certainly good news. again, you're going to be -- if you're traveling, expect delays. slick conditions on many roadways in parts of the empire staid building, making the drive from seattle over to buffalo, take it easy on this 1 11/11/11. happy veterans day to you. still ahead on "american morning," college football is big business at penn state. we fwhoe that. in the wake of the sex scandal, how big of a financial hit could that school take? 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