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sandusky sexually assaulting a young boy in a campus shower. sandusky stands accused of assaulting eight boys. students are coming together, using facebook to coordinate a candle light vigil tonight in honor of the abused victims. less than a day after he was fired as head coach, pennsylvania s two senators say they are dropping their bid for joe paterno to receive the presidential medal of freedom. a major league baseball player kidnapped in venezuela is missing this morning. gunman s snatched washington nationals catcher wilson ramos from his family s home on wednesday night. the venezuelan baseball president says investigators are on the case. we are waiting for a solution. we talked with the authorities and they assure us that they re working very hard to solve this situation. we re waiting for that. police have found the abandoned car used to abduct ramos. they believe his abduction may be part of a sharp rise in kidnappings for ransom in venezuela. the may ....
not like this. he needs to be put away for a long time. i want to go directly to arlington national cemetery where the president and officials have gathered to pay tribute to america s veterans. you re watching veterans gathered there to honor veterans, pay tribute on this very important day at arlington national cemetery. it started the ceremony with a 21-cannon salute that announced the president s arrival to arlington national cemetery. the official party has arrived at the tomb of the unknowns where president obama is escorted by major general liddington of the u.s. army military district of washington. we are just waiting for the playing of the national anthem. and here you see the president making his way with an official entourage. the president will place a wreath at the tomb, the tomb of the unknown followed by taps. and a moment of silence. we are watching the first lady, michelle obama, arri arrive as as the general. she is actually, one of her platform ....
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 w ....
rapes of young boys allegedly by a former assistant coach and allegedly covered up or at least ignored by other penn state officials. we get the latest from our mary snow. reporter: two days after ousting its president and former coach joe paterno, penn state s board of trustees announced today that it is forming a committee to investigate the failure surrounding the reporting of sex allegations by jerry sandusky. the board of trustees says no resources will be spared. they will have independent counsel and investigative teams saying there are no restrictions on the scope or activity of this committee, this as a new interim prefz penn state rodney ericsson addressed the board about moving forward here at penn state. i accept this new leadership role under circumstances that i never could have imagined. it has been truly difficult to comprehend the terrible nature of the allegations that were revealed in the attorney general s presentment last week. my heart aches fo ....
jerry sandusky who is charged with child molestation. effective immediately, joe paterno is no longer the head football coach. effective immediately. that means paterno won t coach the final home game against nebraska. paterno accepts the board s decision but adds, quote, it is going to take some time to get used to. overnig we are going live to penn state. when tom bradley speaks. take a look at those live pictures. greece has a new interm prime minister to avoid an economic collapse. lucas pkcas papademos. . in eastern turkey, rescuers are digging through piles of rubble to try to find dozens of people who are trapped still after earthquake struck last night. at least seven people were killed and this moderate quake hit less than a month after you may recall the major quake that struck the same area killing more than 500. major league baseball s wilson ramos has been kidnapped now at gunpoint. it happened at his family s home in venezuela. the 24-year-old, c ....