major league baseball. one of its biggest young stars may have to sit out 50 games for breaking the rules. yes, the national league mvp now facing allegations of substance abuse in baseball. also, thousands in the streets in russia protesting against the government. now here at the top of the hour, let s start this morning. some of the headlines, the republican presidential debate in iowa. the new front-runner newt gingrich was the target of much of the night. his rivals lining up to take shots at him. mitt romney called him a career politician. rick perry called him out for marital infidelity. almost all criticized his recent comments when he called the palestinians a invented people. we ll have much more on this debate in a moment. also, american forces have left an air base in pakistan and taken their drone planes with them. pakistan told the u.s. to leave the base after a nato air strike killed two dozen pakistani soldiers last month. today was the deadline pakist
threat as well this morning. reynolds wolf standing by. he ll be here in a moment with the latest from there and all over the country. and herman cain is out. so who s in the best position to take iowa and maybe even take some of his supporters? we ve got new poll numbers out. going give us some clues. let s get through some of the morning s headlines now. police in riot gear swept into a portland park kicking out occupy protesters overnight. a number of them were arrested. they had set up camps there after being kicked out of another park by police a few weeks ago. after police cleared the park, city workers came through, tore down all the tent. while they were doing that, the occupy protesters roamed the streets looking for a new place to set up. one of the reasons that i ran for president of the united states was such that i could change washington, d.c., from the inside. plan b is that we are going to have to change it from the outside. [ cheers ] yeah. he moved on
you ll hear what he had to say last night. plus, imagine getting your child s report card and there is an ad plastered at the bottom of it. advertisements are now finding a new place to get your attention. is this a good idea? accepted us your thoughts, as always, on twitter, reading your comments as we speak. or paste it on my facebook page. this is your cnn saturday morning. 9:00 a.m. in fayetteville, arkansas, 5:00 a.m. in honolulu where the president is. let s start at penn state university, two hours away now from kickoff. the first time since 1966 head coach joe paterno will not be leading that team. take a quick look back at what happened last night. students gathered on campus for a candlelight vigil to show support for the victims of the sexual abuse scandal. this is the same place you see students here now that you saw students rioting just a couple of days ago. here is what some of the students had to say at last night s ceremony. it s so important to put the
make no mistake, this is not a vacation. also a new list of seven natural wonders of the world revealed? but what do you think is missing? maybe you think something is missing from that list. welcome to you all from the cnn center in atlanta. this is cnn saturday morning. we are glad you are right here. let s start on the campus of penn state university. look at this. this happened last night. students, thousands of them, came out for a candlelight vigil to support the victims of the sex abuse scandal. this is the same place where students rioted in support of fired football coach joe paterno just two days ago. we are hearing from joe paterno from his son which says my father is experiencing a range of powerful emotions. he is absolutely distract over what happened to the children and their families. he also wants to very much to speak publicly and answer questions. at this stage, however, he has no choice but to be patient and defer to the legal process. he also said the
journalistic code of ethics. yes, cain giving lessons in ethics. says he s not talking about sexual harassment claims against him. reporters have not stopped asking. also, more arrests and violence at several occupy protests around the country. this is your cnn sunday morning. thank you for spending part of your weekend here with us. and a special hello as always to our military men and women watching us right now on the american forces network. thank you for being here, and thank you for what you do. let s start with the ground rumbling in central oklahoma once again. people there a bit unsettled after two earthquakes and a string of aftershocks. got some video here coming in from broken bow, oklahoma. the u.s. geological survey said the magnitude 5.6 earthquake, the largest ever to hit oklahoma, struck just before midnight eastern time. there are reports of damaged homes and buildings, what you re seeing on the video. a highway buckled as well in places. a report that