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 for the
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, catcher
good morning. it is thursday, november 10. well tomorrow to american morning. if you went to sleep early last night or at all, everything is different this morning. it really is. first crash of the titan penn state football coach joe paterno out after 46 years as the head man in happy valley. paterno was fired along with the university president over a child sex scandal involving paterno s former assistant jerry sandusky. the decision came hours after paterno said he would finish out the season and then retire. instead penn state s board of trustees brought the hammer down. the past several days have been absolutely terrible for the entire penn state community. but the outrage we feel is nothing compared to the physical and psychological suffering that allegedly took place. effective immediately, dr. spannier is no longer president of the university. in addition, joe paterno is no longer the head football coach effective immediately. penn state students spill flood th
taken from there in a straitjacket. his childhood with an abusive mother and troubled father. why did you feel differently about your father? i think because he he tried. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. it s been a long two years for michael jackson s family, but now with the conviction of dr. conrad murray on involuntary manslaughter, they re speaking out and they re angry about a documentary about michael s doctor. jermaine jackson is michael s older brother. jermaine, the family, understandably, pretty innocenced by the revelation that conrad murray has been cooperating with this documentary for several years now, apparently. tell me how you all feel. we re very angry. we re angry because dr. murray is a liar and he had his chance in court, he was tried by 12 jurors and they found him guilty. so anything he says is really irrelevant. he had his chance to stand up. he is a coward. he s a liar. he didn t stand up in court. plus, this had to be for m
and so it s with great respect that i speak of him and proud to say that i worked for him. it s been a seismic cascade of events since last weekend s arrest of a former penn state defensive coordinator on charges of raping and molesting a number of other boys. two of the university officials are charged with failure to report those crimes. paterno is charged with nothing, but says he wishes that he had done more than simply tell his superiors what an assistant reported to him back in 2002. i want to go now to penn state campus and cnn s jason carroll. jason, we know it was a pretty rough night last night. what s been the atmosphere on campus today. reporter: things much, much calmer out here today. vast difference from what was experienced out here last night by many. so many of the students trying to get a handle on things today. just about half-an-hour ago some students gathered just behind us here trying to speak out, trying to speak in terms of the victims. but just a