a.m. you know what, the end of an era at penn state. the nittany lions have lost their coach of five decades, a university president has been fired and a sex scandal has rocked the campus and this country. last night you saw the students protesting on campus, in town and right in front of joe paterno s home. hey, look, get a good night s sleep. all right. study, all right. we still got things to do. all right. i m out it maybe now. thanks. pray a little bit for those victims. coach. you are a legend, joe! penn state! pray a little bit for those victims. jason carroll in state college, pennsylvania. so, let s talk about how the board acted so swiftly and why do you think it did so? well, i think if you were to listen to the vice chairman of the board that said wednesday was the first time, kyra, that the board really had a chance to sit down and deliberate the entire issue, the board basically saying that they thought in order to have coach paterno out there coachi
retired from coaching in 1999 and founded a charitable organization for at-risk children called second mile. he s accused of making sexual advances on eight young men he met through that program. the charges are piled up against him. sandusky is currently out on a $100,000 bail. on $100,000 bail. his attorney says he maintains his innocence. also involved in this case, penn state s athletic director timothy curly and the university s senior vice president for finance and business, gary shultz. now, pennsylvania s attorney general, linda kelly, made this statement. she said, this is a case about a sexual predator who used his position to repeatedly prey on young boys. it is also a case about high-ranking university officials who allegedly failed to report the sexual assault of a young boy after the information was brought to their attention and later made false statements to a grand jury that was investigating a series of assaults on young boys. penn state s president released
feels like february here in new york city. welcome to american morning. i just can t believe it is november 1st. where does time go? good morning to you. up first, herman cain fighting back against allegations of sexual harassment. problem is, his story just keeps changing. the gop frontrunner is defending himself against a politico report against two women that accused him of inappropriate behavior during his tenure at the american restaurant association in the 1990s. we begin with cnn political director paul steinhauser. so i m trying to think how many times herman cain s story shifted in what, a three hour period yesterday. pretty much. you can say the time was unfortunate, the story braging one day before the republican candidate had high profile speeches and television interviews. start with the national press club. he was there around noon. this is what he had to say. i am unaware of any sort of settlement. i hope it wasn t for much because i didn t do anything, b
winter-like blast, i should say, is causing all kinds of problems. snarling air travel and knocking out power to thousands of people. we re on top of all this for you. cnn reporters and anchors out in forceful our weather anchor chad smirs in pennsylvania. and standing by in the severe weather center. we want to start with our meteorologist out in the field. i spoke to you a little while ago. is it still snowing? reporter: it s still snowing and it is noticeably colder than a couple hours ago. so the slush on the ground right now is starting to turn into ice. and you may say, what are you in the parking lot for? we re in the parking lot where there is electricity. people are literally out driving around, looking for something with power. because their houses are without power. there are so many houses without power in this area, they re getting cold and hungry. they re driving around looking for a restaurant that s open. this happens to be one that s open. this is very heav
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he s plunging in the polls and in need of a boost. will a new plan help rick perry climb back to the top of the republican race? his rival, herman cain, is leading the pack according to a brand new poll and perry is a distant fifth with cain apparently benefitting from his 9-9-9 tax plan, perry today unveiled his own new tax plan and 20 is the magic number. he proposes a flat tax of 20% for individuals and corporations, but in a twist, perry would let people choose to pay his flat tax rate or file under the current system, which he derived. the size of the current code is more than 72,000 pages. that s represented by this palate right over here and the reams of paper. that s what the current tax code looks like. the best representation of my plan is this postcard. this is is size of what we re talking about right here. taxpayers will be able to fill this out and file their taxes on that.