morning in politics. listen to this. word we are just getting that could further boost newt gingrich s still-surging campaign. the influential new hampshire union leader newspaper has now endorsed the former speaker. they have thrown their support behind him now for the republican nomination for president. they have put out their endorsement in today s paper. let me read you a bit from it. and it says, and i quote, republican voters too often make the mistake of preferring an unattainable ideal to the best candidate who is actually running. that candidate is newt gingrich. new hampshire, as you know, holds the first in the nation primary. that s happening a week after the iowa caucus. so gingrich who has seen his campaign surge over the past several weeks actually is now picking up an influential endorsement. he has moved up in the polls in new hampshire as we know, going up to the double digits but still it has been mitt romney who has been surging and had at least 40% i
workers burning off the beaks of chicks without painkillers. it shows one swinging around a bird with a rope. the undercover footage comes from its facility in colorado. it produces the eggs for mcdonald s. 27-year-old nathan runkle is the executive director for mercy for animals, a company he founded when he was 15 years old. they re dedicated to preventing cruelty to farm animals. to know that this abuse was taking place for mcdonald s and egg mcmuffins and appalls pea. we re hoping the company steps up to the plate and makes meaningful policy changes. after they were exposed mcdonald s vowed to stop buying eggs from this company. they say based upon recent information, we re no longer accepting eggs from sparboe. this is not a food safety issue for our menu items. we can assure our customers that eggs in our entire supply chain meet mcdonald s high standards for quality and safety. the president of the company put a message on website. it s fired four people and orde
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