young boys he allegedly targeted over a span of more than 15 years. let s go straight to nancy grace who s been all over this case to try to get a better understanding of all of this. nancy, was this a smart decision by sandusky and his attorney? it was a win-win decision. it was a win for the defense joe johns because otherwise they would have had the case laid bear for the public of the granted it s a closed courtroom to cameras but there are spectators and reporters that can hear what happened and they would have had heard every excruciating detail. to our count, we can identify five alleged victims there waiting in line to testify against sandusky. so they would have given their testimony. the win for the prosecution is that the defense did not get a dry run at cross-examination. this is what i predicted to you yesterday should go down. the state should under no circumstance offer up all of the alleged victims like a thanksgiving turkey, to get sliced up on cross exam.
with mexico, they have plummeted. time to play reporter roulette. susan candiotti, let s begin with you. jerry sandusky waived his right to the preliminary hearing today. do we know why? reporter: well, what a day it s been, brooke. imagine 11 witnesses, including at least four alleged victims who would have taken the stand talk about in excruciating detail being molested and raped by jerry sandusky but they didn t have the opportunity to do so because he waited and, why? his lawyers explain that it was a tactical decision on their part, that, in part, because they would not have had an opportunity to try to challenge the credibility of these witnesses while they were on the witness stand because of court rules, then it just wasn t to their advantage. however, they certainly, it s true, miss out on an opportunity to interview these people, put them on the stand. however, it would have meant that this day would have been filled with the testimony of what those alleged victim
will approve another group of f-16 for iraq because our air force was destroyed completely during the wars that iraq entered into and this is not all. we also need technical equipments related to the security field. these are issues that are being discussed by the concerned people in both countries, between the ministries of defense and interior with our counterparts in the united states and we received promises and facilitations and we agreed on how to make this relationship continuous in the security field because both of us need each other and need cooperation, especially in chasing al qaeda which we started and was not defeated in any way except in iraq and we hope to cooperate with all those who feel the dangers of this organization to cooperate with us as well. our goal is a sovereign iraq that can protect its borders, protect its airspace, protect its people. and our security cooperation with other countries i think is a model for our security cooperation with iraq.
the great their economy. what does this mean? britain is staying on the sidelines keeping some anxiety in those markets. we ll have full details in a minute. we also have details about yesterday s virginia tech shootings. now police say the apparent gunman and victim did not know each other. university spokesman says the suspected shooter was not a student there and ballistics tests confirm that the same gun was used to kill the suspect and a campus police officer. the suspect apparently dye died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. they ve identified the slain officer as deriek crouse. he was 39. married with five children and step-children. police say the gunman walked right up to him and fired. he opened his car door and when they opened it he just fell out towards the ground. and then they immediately started reviving him. then they took off with some sort of automatic weapons. they started running the opposite direction after the gunman. that s so sad. a small vi
unless there is strong action to fix the debt crisis there. well, right now on wall street, what are we watching here? traders closely watching how european heeders are taking on this challenge. the dow is currently up by 38 points. going to take a hard look at what this means for your finances as well as your retirement. what are we watching here? suicide bombers struck two cities in afghanistan today killing at least 58 people. the deadliest attack happened in kabul as worshippers marked a shiite holy day. the taliban suggests nato was behind the attacks to stir distrust between the sunni majority in afghanistan and the shiites. u.s. officials are now confirming a drone that crashed in eiran last week was on a reconnaissance mission involving both the cia and the military. now iran says it shot down the drone, but american officials say that the crew lost control of the aircraft as it drifted into iranian airspace. the sentinel drone, what does this mean? it has some of the