right now. good morning, welcome, everybody. our stastarting point this mor is day four of the jerry sandusky sex abuse trial with three victims set to take the stand. the prosecution is moving at a rapid pays. the state is expected to rest tomorrow. cnn susan candiotti is live at the courthouse in bellafonte, pennsylvania this morning. good morning. three more alleged victims are expected to take the stand today and tomorrow before prosecutors wrap up their case. among them, we expect to hear from one youngster, back in 1988, her mother went to police after she discovered her boy had been showering with jerry sandusky. charges were never filed in this case, but the mother said the little boy was naked, jerry sandusky had bear hugged him and she was worried he might have touched some of his private areas. charges never filed in this case, however, police did eavesdrop on jerry sandusky and they said he told them this, quote, i understand i was wrong. i wish i could get f
we ve got the highlights this hour on cnn. good morning, everyone. welcome to early start. nice to have you with us. i m ashleigh banfield. i m zoraida sambolin. we begin with the shocking and sometimes sickening testimony in the child sex abuse trial of former penn state football defensive coordinator jerry sandusky. we have heard from two alleged victims already, and a third could take the stand later this morning. yesterday former assistant football coach mike mcqueary also testified, describing what he thought appeared to be sandusky molesting a young boy in a shower. and there was tearful, riveting testimony from the man whose accusations helped trigger the criminal investigation. alleged victim number one said that he stayed at jerry sandusky s house more than 100 times as a boy, and he was sexually assaulted repeat lid when he was just 12 years old. susan candiotti is live in bellefonte, pennsylvania. susan, what made victim number one break down in tears on the st
so absurd. people are having hard times in this country. the president needs to go out and talk to people. not just do fundraisers. go out and talk to people in the country and find out what s happening. mitt romney seems to be placing the blame on president obama. there s no doubt that that 40% drop in median net worth in three years is terrible. but what s lost in the comments is the fact the three years we re talking about, the three years the federal reserve study looked at are from 2007 to 2010. president obama didn t take office until 2009. so president obama and his supporters say you can t simply blame him. you have to look at the situation he inherited. you can agree with that or disagree. but in case you think i m siding with president obama here in this tat for tat, let me also point out president obama seems guilty of similar attacks on recent attacks on mitt romney. in a new campaign ad he zings governor romney for some bad ads economic stats in massachusetts
good political battle. they are flying as the fact checkers work overtime. and a top united nations official now says syria is in a full-scale civil war, even as a u.n. report accuses the damascus regime of torturing children and using them as human shields. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. you don t often see a cabinet member subjected to such a harsh grilling. the attorney general eric holder on the hot seat facing republicans furious over a litany of complaints. he held his ground against calls for his resignation. dana watched it all unfold. a botched gun-running designation known as fast and furious to a republican call for an independent investigation into leaks classified leaks, i should say, eric holder knew this wasn t just going to be a regular oversight hearing. he knows he s in congress cross hairs. but what happened was a political food fight. most republicans were tough on the attorney general, but nothing compared to this. there has be
christine is busy preparing a thanksgiving feast for thursday. it s a full week. and ali is preparing to eat one. that s right. so they re off today. i m carol costello along with alina cho. welcome to american morning. first, new details in a plot to plant pipe bombs in and around new york city. 27-year-old jose pimentel, arraigned and made bail an hour ago. a muslim convert to plotted to bomb nypd pa control car, post office and returning u.s. troops and he was doing much more than just talking about it. our deb feyerick is here to tell us more and it appears this lone wolf was acting alone. reporter: absolutely and under surveillance about two years. jose pimentel, 27 years old, preparing as many as three pipe bombs. had he built and executed them properly he could have killed upwards of a dozen people. before arrested the nypd bomb experts built and detonate add similar device. you see it on the screen. they showed it last night. the device was detonated ins