a week of twists and turns in the race for the republican presidential nomination. with two of the candidates in a very hot spotlight. herman cain facing accusations of sexual harassment and rick perry stumbling badly if the latest gop debate and now struggling to recover. cnn s jim acosta is watching awe of this unfold. so what s going on right now? there are certain there is certainly a lot at play. certainly. there is an unromney and his name is newt gingrich. take a look at new polls that came out, first the let s look at the first poll first. mitt romney on top 23% and then newt gingrich at 19%. he has moved into that unromy position. he is sliding it with herman cain. and then you see ron paul and rick perry. this poll, we should note, is interesting in that it was taken in part after the gop debate on wednesday night when rick perry had that big oops moment. so that potentially has hurt him in this race for the gop nomination. now to the cbs poll which also confirm
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 sai
out for the first time about some shocking revelations that cremated remains of american war dead were simply dumped in landfills. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com it may have been the most awkward 53 seconds of the presidential campaign so far and certainly the most widely seen. texas governor rick perry s brain freeze during last night s republican presidential debate was the most viewed video on youtube in the united states earlier today. if you haven t seen it, you re about to as we look ahead to what happens to rick perry s campaign now. jim acosta is in auburn hills, michigan. the scene of perry s monumental stumble. how does he recover from this? wolf, after last night s debate and rick perry s meltdown in michigan, the candidate and his campaign seem to have a new strategy. get the voters to laugh with him and not at him. commerce, education and the what s the third one there? let s see i