political news go to our website, cnnpolitics.com. live from studio 7, i want to get you up to speed for monday, november 14th. we begin with a new development in the penn state child molestation case. we go to mary snow at the penn state campus. there are new developments now. what do we have? >> reporter: well, suzanne, we hear from the organization second mile, the organization that former coach jerry sandusky founded, the ceo of that organization is now stepping down. jay rachovitz had been with second mile for 28 years. this is an organization exclusively for troubled youth. while it hasn't been charged with anything, the alleged sex victims were from this program, and jerry sandusky had been with second mile up until a few years ago when he stepped down when an

investigation began into alleged sex crimes. in announcing the resignation of the ceo, he quoted a message from a mother who wrote saying, i'm saddened by the prospect of people losing faith in this amaze organization. what you have done -- >> second mile has said it's begun it's own international investigation and has hired outside attorneys and that includes lynn abraham, a long-time district attorney in philadelphia. suzanne, we haven't heard directly from anyone at second mile. we have seen paper statements over the last week, but there's increasing pressure on this group to come out and address these allegations of what happened. again, they're not charged with anything, but this is the group where these alleged victims came from. >> do we suppose that this is just the beginning, mary? there's going to be a domino

effect or the head of the organization is the only one to fall? >> reporter: it's really very difficult to say, because like with so many things in this story, there are so many unanswered questions. so it's really very difficult to say. >> we know they're under investigations, and now, mary, there are questions about a possible conflict of interest actually involving the judge who set sandusky's bail. can you explain? >> reporter: yeah. this is judge leslie dutchcot. and on a bio on on the law firm she works for, it clearly says that she is a volunteer for second mile, and this is the judge that set the bail for jerry sandusky last week. he was released on $100,000 unsecured bail, and there are questions about this and whether she should have, you know, recused herself from this case.

we did reach out to the judge to clear up whether this was a past affiliation, whether she has current ties to the group. cnn has so far not received a response approximate from the judge. >> nary, you've done an excellent job of combing the neighborhood where "sun devils live"s -- sandusky lives. there are a lot of names and he's not monitored and he's out and about. is that right? >> reporter: his house borders the playground of an elementary school at a school for kindergarten through second graders. people in the neighborhood around this school are furious. they didn't realize how close he lived. obviously, they're worried, but they also -- the attention that it's brought to this case. the fact he's around a school and just that there's so many people looking -- including news organizations who have gone to his house. you know, the police have

stepped up patrols in the area, and they are just feuer, though, that he is even out on bail and that is something that they have been -- some of the neighbors have addressing among themselves. >> the naks you talked to, do they see him in the neighborhood? is he walking around? is he inside his home? where is sandusky? >> you know, there have been reports of siting of san dfky over the last week. one report said that he had been in a local store. what we can tell you is we went to his house yesterday. the road leading to his house is partially blocked off now to traffic. we did notice over the past weekend that there have been signs put up in the last 48 hours saying private property, keep off. the police confirmed that someone through a cinder block through his window a few days ago. so, obviously, somebody appears to be at that house. >> excellent reporting.

obviously, we'll get back to you as this story develops. thank you very much, mary snow. the u.s. supreme court is putting president obama's controversial health care reform front and center on the calendar. the high court announced this last hour that it will take up challenges to president obama's health care overhaul. the main issue is can the government force individuals to buy health insurance? we'll have much more on what this could mean for you as well as the president in the 2012 election. we are looking at more scuffles, more arrests, more chaos. that is the growing trend now at "occupy" protest sites around the country right now. >> get back. get back. get back! get back. >> you see pictures in denver. 20 protesters arrested over the weekend after a clash that left an officer with a twisted knee and another hospitalized with a blow to the head. that officer was later released. "occupy denver" is firing back.

protesters say cops on the scene threatened to break their teeth. so here's the scene in portland yesterday. police swept three two city parks and arrested two proesters. the mayor says it comes after a 20% crime in area crime. in philadelphia the city is ramping up police presence after a woman said she was sexually assaulted in one of the tents. gop candidates facing off this time tackling foreign policy, national security issues. well, they're all talking tough about iran, amid new allegations that the country is now developing nuclear weapons. >> the president should have built credible threat military action and made it very clear that the united states of america is willing, in the final analysis, approximate if necessary, to take military action to keep iran from having

a nuclear weapon. >> maximum covert operations to block and disrupt the iranian program, including taking out their scientists, including breaking up their systems, all of it coverting and all of it deniable. >> i would not entertain military op opposition. i'm talking about helping the opposition movement within the country. we could deploy our ballistic missile defense capable warships strategically in that part of the world. >> the wife of republican presidential candidate herman cain is speaking out. she defends her husband against accusations that he sexually harassed at least four women while he was head of the national restaurant association in the late '80s. gloria cain spoke to fox news channel in an interview that airs tonight. >> to hear such graphic allegations and know that that would have been something that

was toeltally disrespectful of r as a woman. i know that's not the person he is. he totally respects women. >> herman cain has consistently denied sexually harassing anyone. his former company does acknowledge settling claims with two women, however. the man accused of norway's deadliest shooting spree has been ordered held for another 12 weeks. the judge told anders bravick. he's accused of gunning down 77 people in oz low in july. spectacular lift-off this morning in a snowstorm. >> three, two, one. >> lift off. lift-off.

>> one minute into the flight. >> the russian rocket with an astronaut and two cosmonauts on board now on the way to the international space station. it docks on wednesday. the academy award goes to oprah winfrey. the media empress won an honoree oscar last night. it goes to those who promote hope and good will in the film industry. oprah was given three standing ovations, not surprising, before she got emotional saying she hadn't even prepared a speech. more now on the big story of the day is president obama's signature piece of legislation, and its fate now in the hands of the supreme court. we're talking about health care reform and the decision by the high court to take up challenges to the law. i want to bring in jessica yellen at the d.c. bureau. jessica, is the obama administration reacting, first of all, to the court's decision to take on this case? >> reporter: hi, suzanne. yes. the communications director has pult out a statement saying in

part we are pleased that the supreme court has agreed to hear this case. we know the affordable care act is constitutional and are confident the supreme court will agree. administration officials, suzanne, are cheered that three of the lower courts agreed with the white house and that the courts -- that the law's individual mandate should stand at least for now. in two of those cases they were very conservative jurists who upheld or agreed it should stand for the time being. they feel there's a good chance this court will also do so. the swing vote likely again is justice kennedy, who is often the swing vote on the court. so they think based on his history that he will likely side with the law and uphold the manda mandate, the most controversial piece of the law. between us, you never know with the supreme court court,

suzanne. >> this really was a signature issue for the president, health care reform. i imagine that either way this goes, it's going to have a huge impact on his re-election bid, because either he gets' big win or a big loss. how do you see it? >> absolutely. you were there. it was the signal achievement of his first year in office, and if the individual mandate, that crucial piece of that law were struck down, it would be a major blow to the white house and to the president. it's likely that the decision would come out in the summer of next year, not in the fall, which would be the final stretch of the campaign. so the timing could be better than worse for the white house. keep in mind we have a new cnn orc poll out today that shows that support for the individual mandate is growing. 44% of americans approved of the individual mandate back in june. now 52%. so that's a sign that americans are increasingly on the president's side with this. i'll tell you, suzanne, if the

court were to strike it down, i would not be surprised if you saw the obama campaign make that in its a campaign issue. we already see them gearing up to accuse whoever the republican nominee is of being an extremist. and so if the court decided to go against what three or four lower courts have already dieded, you could easily see them accusing this court of extremism and of moving -- arg using the nation shouldn't move toward an extremist position and that the republican nominee would do that. you can see them use this as part of the campaign. >> at the heart of the issue is the individual mandate, whether or not the government can require americans to buy health insurance or face a penalty. how does the administration defend actually requiring people to have health insurance? >> reporter: well, their legal argument in a sort of nut shell is that not having health care impacts everybody, because if a person doesn't have health care,

they still use the health care system. they go to the emergency room, and then you and i and others pay for it indirectly with our taxes and with higher costs to all of us. so they're not exempting themselves out of the system. they're just making all of us pay more. so asking everybody to buy in or pay a penalty is not -- congress isn't asking them to do more than congress asks people to do with other laws that they pass. that's a simplified version of the argument. we'll see if the supreme court agrees. >> all right, jessica yellen. thanks, jessica. here's a rundown on some of the stories we're covering first. what the supreme court's decision means for your health care and doctors' visits and procedures you have. the angry backlash against bank fees caused some banks to drop them, right? now other fees are popping up. yet another penn state outrage. turns out the judge who released former coach jerry sandusky on bail has ties to his charity.

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for example, children with pre-existing conditions. they can get insurance now. that likely won't be impacted for the moment by this, because that's already in there. let's think about the future for a minute, and so let's take a step back and look what this case means to approximate put it in simplest terms. health care reform said, look, everybody has to have insurance. if you don't get insurance, we levey a against you. people who don't get insurance is young, healthy people. you know what happens if god forbid they get into a car accident? who pays for their care? you and i do. we do. the taxpayers do. this is a way to make that problem go away. another reason is that right now people with -- adults with pre-existing conditions have a really hard time getting health insurance. most of them can't get it at all, because who wants to insure someone with diabetes.

they're expensive. insurance companies say no or charge them a fortune. if you bring in young healthy people and make them get insurance, voila, you can afford it. >> what's the objection to requiring an individual mandate? >> requiring people in this country to purchase something is really, really unusual. i mean, we don't do that in this country. by virtue of living in the united states we force you to either buy something or to pay a fine. we don't do that. some people, it kind of ruffles their feathers. they don't like that. >> what happens if the supreme court says, this mandate is illegal? how does impact you and me and other folks? >> to a large extent health care reform falls apart, and all the people with pre-existing conditions, and there's a ton of them, because it doesn't mch to have a pre-existing condition, all those people with pre-existing conditions were expecting health care reform will solve their problems, it falls apt. you need that individual mandate in order for people with pre-existing conditions to get insurance. you and i have heard these horrible stories of people that

can't get insurance because they have sometimes a back problem. really, it doesn't take much for an insurance company to say, you know what? you're going to be expensive. sorry. go look elsewhere. >> very controversial. obviously, it's what the supreme court is make a huge difference what it ends up doing. >> i think it's unusual. supreme court decisions affect us all. this one really affects us all. >> every single person. elizabeth, thank you. >> thanks. checking stories from affiliates across the country. dozens of people are taking to the streets of new york to rally for tolerance and better security. police are still looking for those who torched three cars and scrawled antisemtic graffiti in a brooklyn neighborhood on friday. worshippers celebrate as the washington national cathedral re-opens. it had been closed for nearly three months. you might recall an earthquake back in august damaged the

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all right. get ready to spend more money. last year a 16-pound turkey was $21. last year half a pint of whipping cream costed $2.60. this year it's $3. total cost of preparing a thanksgiving meal for ten people in year? 50 bucks. ten years ago the same meal cost you just 31. here's another reality check. big banks may have bailed on charging debit fees, but you're getting nickel and dimed in ways flying under the rad dar. alison kosik is standing by. you have 50 cent here and a dollar there. it's all adding up, right?

people started celebrating, but maybe a little too early? >> yeah. put away those champagne bottles, because these banks you can tell are getting more and more creative. sure, they got rid of the obvious debt card fees of $5 for bank of america, but a lot of banks tack on fees in less obvious ways. "the new york times" gives great examples. if you look to replace your debit card at bank of america, they ding you five bucks for that. they charge you 50 cents to sdpoft a check with your phone. td bank charges you to have money wired to your account. most banks charge you to have a checking account, and here's an extra zing for you suzanne. it's not just new fees. some fees were in place. but guess what? the size of the fee is going to grow. suzanne. >> what is behind all of this, this relentless drive to charge

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there are questions today about the judge that set bail for jerry sandusky. judge leslie dutchcot was a volunteer for sandusky's charity, the second mile. that's according to the law firm she used to work for. prosecutors say sandusky used the second mile too meet the boys he's accuse of molestsed. he had unsecured bail and didn't have to come up with cash and she didn't require him to wear a monitoring bracelet. we want to it talk about penn state students, football players, the fans, how they're dealing with all of this child molestation scandal. cory geiger co-authored the book "they know joe." he covers sports for the altoona newspaper. we watched over the weekend and know penn state lost to

nebraska. a lot of people were watching to see how fans and football players and everybody was behaving. what was the mood, do you think, predominantly? >> reporter: it really was a remarkable weekend. penn state president rodney eriksson released a statement thanking everyone here for how they handled the tough times. at the stadium on saturday, the pregame xhoceremony they all met midfield for a prayer, one of the most moving things i've seen in covering sports. i had tears in my eyes watch that scene play out. there was great respect and character shown bit by the penn state community and football players on that day. there was a lot of support in the crowd for them. they played a great game after getting down 17-0. the players on the team caught in the middle they deserve a lot of credit for the character and leadership they've shown. really, it was interesting.

once kickoff started, it was kind of just another college football game to be honest with you. you really wouldn't have known a whole lot else was going on after kickoff. >> it's important to point out the prayer was for the alleged victims and those who suffered sexual abuse. tell us how this focus is changing now. i notice it's now off joe paterno, the big deal last week he was ousted, now on to jerry sandusky, the guy actually accused of this sexual abuse. >> reporter: that's really where the focus needs to be. a lot of the frustration and anger here in the penn state community is because so many of the people here, including the students, have said to me and said to many other people they think too much focus was placed on joe. joe was the big name here and the face of penn state for so long, and they've said or many have said, this needs to be about jerry sandusky and not joe paterno. there's a lot of frustration here about all of that.

it's good we're focusing back on sandusky, because clearly he's the main villain in all of this. >> cory, paterno seems to have disappeared. does anybody know where he is? is he still on campus or at his home? >> all indications is he's still in his home. he lives about a mile away from the football stadium, and a lot of support for him. over the weekend people showing up at his house and very emotional for jay paterno on the football staff. as far as we know, he's still at his home. i'm not sure how he's handling it. he's not spoken much since this has come about. yeah, he is still around. >> cory, you mentioned something. you said it was pretty much like a football game, a regular football game after they had gotten over the prayer and the reflection there. things were turned upside-down on that campus, and a lot of classes -- some were canceled and some focused on the scandal. are things back to normal there in terms of classes and tests

and that type of thing? does it feel that way now? >> reporter: i'm not sure that things will ever get back to normal here, at least for a long time. i mean, this whole community has been rocked by this. it's really just all these stunning turns of events. i know a lot of class time was spent last week. i talked to a couple of professors who said they talked to many professors here who spent a lot of time on this last week. the plan is to get back to focusing on regular class work. this isn't going away anytime soon, so i imagine the students and professors will continue to talk about this to a large degree. as much as possible and starting with saturday's football game, because, again, this is such a huge football area. as much as possible the people here are trying to get back to some sense of normalcy. >> thank you so much. we really appreciate it. president obama is a huge football fan, and he calls the penn state situation heart-breaking. he told reporters it is time for

soul-searching. he spoke after wrapping up an economic summit in hawaii. >> i think all institutions, not just universities or sports programs, have to step back and take stock and make sure that we're doing everything we can to protect people who may be vulnerable in these circumstances. we're headed to space next. that's where an unmanned spacecraft was headed before it got stuck in earth's orbit.

now for a situation in space, not with a crew that blasted off this morning but with an unmanned russian spacecraft. it seems like they're stuck in earth's orbit now. chad, is this serious? >> it is. it's $170 million satellite that they were going to -- spacecraft they were sending to mars to land on one of mars' moons and pick up soil and come back to earth. that's what this was about. unlike some of the things we're doing now and not unlike the saturn 5 that had to go to the moon, the russian spacecraft had different stages. stage one rocket worked and got into orbit. stage two was supposed to fire. nothing. >> wow. >> click, click. nothing. they can't even talk to it right now. >> what does this mean? is this dangerous? is it radioactive? are there materials flying around that shouldn't be close to us? >> it's a couple hundred miles still in space and coming down.

it's falling. it's losing its orbit quickly like all the other sat tightell have lately. better find out what chicken little is doing for christmas. this will eventually come back down with ten tons of toxic fuel. if the fuel remains liquid, it will burn up in the sky and be fine. not great for the sky or atmosphere, but it's okay. if it comes down as a big block of solid fuel and make it down to the earth, then you have 11 tons of toxic radiation heading somewhere. >> nasa is stegt up -- >> curiosity. it's an automobile-sized rover. one of them is still going. >> i was going to ask you about those. what happened to those things? they're still running around, right? >> i believe that energizer puts batteries in that. it keeps going and going.

this thing has been fantastic. opportunity still walking around finding things, but curiosity is on its way to what they think is a rock outcropping where there may have been some erosion. what will make erosion? sand, but wind but water as well. if they can prove there's been some erosion with this curiosity spacecraft as they drive it to the outcropping, we'll see if mars sustained life. >> it might have been water and maybe little martians really? >> little amoebas maybe. >> there is life elsewhere. we know. thanks, chad. >> you're welcome. president candidate rick perry has been poking fun at himself for the last week and the blunder he made, but hasn't stopped the late night comedians getting their laughs. here's how the cast of "snl" took on perry's brain freeze. >> all three now, ready, commerce -- i only know one now. oh, god.

>> maybe you have it written down in your notes. >> good idea. yeah, yeah. i'm such a messy marvin. debates are hard, right, guys? >> make it stop. somebody make it stop! >> really trying here, guys. >> both cards are blank! >> look, maria, can we just move on. i want to be president, but not like this. herman cain's wife is defending him against allegations of sexual harassment. mark preston is live from the political desk in d.c. what are we hearing from gloria cain now? >> we raent heard anything from herman cain's wife since these allegations came out several weeks ago. in fact she set down for an interview on fox news' channel. they did release a clip of it, and let's hear what gloria cain had to say.

>> and i know that's not the person he is. he totally respects women. >> so there you have gloria cain right there, suzanne, rebutting the allegations that, in fact, her husband sexually harassed a handful of women that have come out and said so. this comes in addition to a new offense by the cain campaign. in fact, just a few hours ago i received an e-mail from the cain campaign. it was eight pages long where it not only tauts mr. cain's fund-raising success and his standing in the polls but attacks the liberal media for shoddy journalism. of course, we're all looking into the story, suzanne. >> mark. tell us a little bit about michele bachmann. she has complained about bias about how she was treated over the weekend debate. now she's trying to turn that to her advantage? >> sure. in fact, she's trying to raise money off an incident that occurred saturday night down in south carolina at the cbs national journal debate. now, at this debate there was an

errant e-mail that was sent to one of michele bachmann's staffers. in the e-mail it acknowledged prior to the debate now that michele bachmann wouldn't get very many questions. what the bachmann campaign did with that is they charged into the spin room, which is the room where all the reporters and campaign aides meet afterwards to talk about the debate, and charged bias against cbs and, in fact, what they also did with that is sent an e-mail out to all the supporters. in that e-mail, of course, they asked for their supporters to give financial contributions to help michele bachmann get out her conservative message. we will see michele bachmann at the next debate. the cnn debate that takes place next week and our co-sponsors are part of that, suzanne. >> we have to mention, too, cnn's wolf blitzer will host that republican debates two nights from thanksgiving on november 22nd. this is the first debate to focus exclusively on on national

security and foreign policy. don't miss this one. this is cnn republican national security debate, november 22nd, 8:00 p.m. eastern. as always, go to cnnpolitics.com for the latest political news. some republican presidential candidates say president obama's ban on water boarding is a threat to national security. dan lothian asked the president to defend his position. that's up next.

controversial practice of waterboarding back in the spotlight at the gop presidential debate this weekend. some candidates said that president obama was wrong to ban the cia interrogation method that simulates the feeling of

drowning. dan lothian is following the president from honolulu and asked the president about it. dan, great to see you there in hawaii. a little jealous, i must admit. but, you know, this is a big deal. under president bush it was resonate? why is this so important for the president to defend? >> reporter: well, i think because it is a controversial practice as the president himself said, that it doesn't set a good example to the rest of the world when the u.s. is involved in something that, as he toll me when i asked the question, he emphatically said is torture. take a listen. >> if i were president, i would be willing to use waterboarding. i think it was very effective, it gained information for our country. >> i would return to that policy. i don't see it as torture. i see it as an enhanced interrogation technique. >> let me just say this.

they're wrong. waterboarding is torture. it's contrary to america's traditions. it is contrary to our ideals. that's not who we are. that's not how we operate. we don't need it in order to prosecute the war on terrorism. and we did the right thing by ending that practice. >> reporter: what's important to note here is that not all of the republican presidential hopefuls are on the same page. mr. huntsman, jon huntsman, says that it diminishes the u.s. standing in the world talking about waterboarding. ron paul as well doesn't agree with it. and we caught a tweet from senator john mccain. he says he was very disappointed by the statement at the south carolina and gop debate supporting waterboarding.

waterboarding, he said, torture. >> what's up next on the agenda for the president? >> reporter: today is a down day for the president here in hawaii. le doing a campaign fund-raiser. then of course we hit the road again. he'll be making stops in australia next, then headed to bali. the big picture of what will be taking place on these next stops again will be focused on the economy and boosting jobs back at home. >> we know what a down day for the president means. a little time on the beach there, dan. i know you'll be hard at work here. want to bring up one last thing here. i know he is trying to push forward trade agreements with asia. how does he plan on doing that? why is that so important? >> well, it is important because as we've seen what has happened in europe recently, in greece, also in italy, a lot of concern about stability there and not a whole lot of room for growth there. the administration, the president in particular, believes that there is a lot of room for expansion in asia. that's what this was all about,

looking to asia in order to boost trade and create jobs at home and the president came along with some of the top ceos from u.s. companies who also said that they see the asia pacific region as an area for growth. so that is the reason why the president is pushing this so hard in an aggressive way and what came out of the apec summit was this tpp, this transpacific partnership. there was a broad outline agreement on the deal that would essentially drop some of the trade barriers and potentially allow the u.s. to export more and to get more investment from foreign countries in the united states, ultimately leading to more jobs. this is something that again was agreed to in a broad sense, but the president will be pushing forward for full agreement in the months ahead. >> all right, dan. enjoy that down day with the president there. i think i recognize that hotel

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selling syrian leader bashar al assad to step down. it comes on the heels of saturday's vote by the arab league to suspend syria over attacks on protesters. the u.n. estimates that 3,500 people have died since the trouble started back in march, as you recall. want to bring in rema matabi. how much of a boost is this for the opposition group here? >> reporter: well, this is a very significant statement by the king of jordan. first, because it is coming from an arab leader and addressing another arab leader. second, jordan has a border with syria and this is the significance of this statement today. now, it is not clear whether jordan will allow support to the opposition inside syria. the king didn't mention any of this but politically it is a very important statement. >> so let me ask you this. jordan and the arab league are

now turning on assad. what kind of pressure is that putting on the government there? >> it is a huge pressure. however, suzanne, as we are speaking the death toll today, according to activists, at least 13 people killed in syria today. yesterday it was 30. so the question is to what extent is the regime listening to this pressure as we see events on ground, they're not listening much and every day we hear of more people being killed. >> what is the response from assad to this? has he responded at all? today there was a very significant press conference by the foreign minister of syria and he said it bluntly. he said syria is not libya and he also said, all of this is a conspiracy led by the united states and the arab countries. so the regime is still refusing to admit there's real dissent and a call for democracy inside

syria. >> all right, rima, thank you so much. top of the hour. i'm suzanne malveaux. want to get you up to speed. republicans are sounding off about their presidential candidates. latest poll numbers have just come out. our own wolf blitzer joins us from new york. wolf, we just heard from the republican lineup at the south carolina debate this weekend where voters standing now? >> it's really fascinating to see because this is our brand-new cnn poll that just came out only releasing it right now. i want to go through it specifically. our cnn/orc poll numbers. we'll put it up. you see romney is holding relatively steady. he was at 26% among republicans in october. he's now at 24%. look at newt gingrich. he's really jumped dramatically, suzanne, from 8% in october all the way up to 22%. he's within the margin of error

with mitt romney right there. herman cain's slid dramatically from 25% in october down to 14%. rick perry's holding relatively steady at 12%. he was at 13% back in october. but the news out of this has been romney's still on top holding steady, but newt gingrich is showing a dramatic, dramatic improvement. i think he's picking up a lot of the support you see from that herman cain has lost, going down from 25% to 14%. so it is a pretty dramatic change right there that we're watching. remember these are republicans and this is nation -- national. it's not just in the key states, the early states -- iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, or florida. but it does show a trend. is there wolf, looking at those numbers there, i guess the obvious question is whether or not cain has lost some of this support because of those sexual harassment allegations. what do we make of the people who are now moving onward and elsewhere and not supporting cain anymore?

>> well, let's take a look, let's dig deeper. we specifically asked republicans and all americans how they feel about those sexual harassment allegations against herman cain. let's put some numbers up on the screen. among all americans, we asked the question who do you believe -- herman cain or the women accusers? among all americans, 33%, one-third, believe herman cain. 50% believe the women accusers. now among republicans only, a flip side -- 51% believe herman cain, 37% believe the women accusers. but you can see a lot of people, republicans and all americans, they believe the women and i think that probably helps explain why he has slipped so dramatically in the overall number from 25%. he was clearly one of the front-runners back in october going down to 14% losing all that support. these sexual harassment allegations have not helped his campaign at all. fair to say they really hurt him, at least so far nationally in this brand-new cnn/orc poll.

>> wolf, i want to talk very briefly here, we should mention that you are hosting a republican debate two nights before thanksgiving on november 22nd, i believe. the focus is on exclusively, right? national security and foreign policy? tell us a little bit about it. >> it is national security/foreign policy. november 22nd, a week from tuesday. it's the day before, by the way, the so-called super committee supposed to either have a deal or not have a deal to cut $1.2 trillion in spending. in deficit reduction for the u.s. everyone agrees the economy is a national security issue right now. the global economy, the u.s. economy. so i assume that will come up as well in this debate that we're co-sponsoring with the heritage foundation an american enterprise institute in washington. 8:00 p.m. eastern, a week from tuesday, november 22nd. the republican candidates will be there and we'll focus in on serious national security, foreign policy issues, whether

iran, north korea, all the big issues of the day will be out on the table as far as we're concerned, suzanne. >> great, looking forward to it, wolf. thank you. three of the republican presidential candidates are now back in iowa. they're campaigning today. you're looking at live pictures, that's newt gingrich's event, iowa. incredibly important, as you know, because it is the state that's going to host the first race of the election year an that's going to happen on january 3rd. that's the iowa caucus. gingrich has two events in iowa today. michele bachmann and rick perry, also stumping in the state. and herman cain is heading to iowa tomorrow to campaign for the first time since allegations of sexual harassment against the presidential candidate. now his wife is defending him. gloria cain spoke to fox news channel's greta van susteren in an interview that airs tonight. >> to hear such graphic allegations and know that that

would have been something that was totally disrespectful of her as a woman, and i know that's not the person he is. he totally respects women. >> herman cain has consistently denied sexually harassing anyone. his former company does acknowledge settling claims with two women. president obama is getting ready for a fund-raiser in hawaii. now this weekend he hosted the apec summit in honolulu. that is where he pushed for some new trade with asian countries. >> since this is the world's fastest growing region, the asia-pacific is key to achieving my goal of doubling u.s. exports. a goal, by wait, which we are on track right now to meet. that's why i've been proud to host apec this year. >> tomorrow he leaves for australia to meet with the prime minister there. the u.s. supreme court is

putting president obama's controversial health care reform front and center on the calendar. the high court announced today that it is going to take up challenges to president obama's health care overhaul so the central issue -- can the government force individuals to buy health insurance? we'll have more on that later with legal analyst jeffrey toobin. more scuffles, more arrests, more chaos. that's is the growing trend now in occupy protest sites around the country. it's happening right now. in denver, 20 protesters were arrested over the weekend after a clash that left one officer with a twisted knee, another hospitalized with a blow to the head. that officer was later released. occupy denver is firing back, accusing the police of brutality. protesters say that cops on the scene threaten to break their

feet. here is the scene in portland yesterday. police swept through two city parks arrested 50 demonstrators. make sam adams says the crackdown comes after an almost 20% spike in area crime. it's getting uglier. in philadelphia, the city is ramping up police presence after a woman says she was sexually assaulted in one of the tents. neighbors are raising red flags about bail for former penn state assistant coach jerry sandusky. his home backs up to an elementary school playground. now a judge did not require sandusky to wear a monitoring bracelet. melissa and carl anderson live nearby with their two little boys and they say it is baffling sandusky is out in the first place. >> at least it alternates between anger and satness really. really, it is a loss of kind of community, wholesale community innocence. >> have you seen more police here in the last week?

>> yes. >> the judge who granted sandusky bail may have a conflict of interest. now according to her law firm's website, the judge has volunteered at the second mile. that is the charity set up by sandusky. prosecutors say the boys sandusky is accused of molesting were from the second mile program. one other note. we have learned today that the ceo of the second mile has resigned after 28 years. he is not charged with any criminal wrongdoing. it is the beginning of a new political era for italy. civil overberlusconi is out and an economist is now in line to be the country's next prime minister. but italy isn't out of the woods yet. monti met with political leaders today to discuss forming a government dealing with the country's crippling debt problems.

justin timberlake is a man of his word. at the marine corps ball in richmond, virginia saturday night. his date -- this corporal who used the youtube to invite him. >> so, justin, you want to call up my girl? i'm going to call you out and ask you to come to the marine corps ball with me on november 12th in washington, d.c. and if you can't go, all i have to say is -- >> how does it go? nothing ventured, nothing gained? good for them. here's a rundown of some of the stories up ahead. first the fate of health care reform now in the hands of the supreme court. going to look into that and other cases on the docket. then, cnn "in-depth." nine frat members arrested for an alleged hazing. we'll look at why victims are so reluctant to come forward. also the new report that says iran is closing in on its first nuclear weapon. what it could mean for the world and the ongoing presidential

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that catapulted this case to the supreme court. i want to bring in our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin who joins us from new york via skype. jeffrey, the court is focusing on two main issues essentially. what are they? >> well, the main issue is whether the federal government can force you to buy health insurance from a private company. that's really the heart of the challenge. >> the justice department's arguments in favor of the individual mandate, how do they justify that? >> well, what they say is health care is a national market. 16% of the gnp is spent on health care. if you choose not to buy health insurance, you are making an economic choice. you are choosing to have the taxpayers pay for you when you are sent to the emergency room. so the choice of whether or not to get health care is an economic choice that can be

regulated by the federal government and the federal government has been involved in the health care market with medicare, medicaid, social security, for decades. this is simply the logical next step, not some new departure. that's the justice department's argument. >> this could impact all of us here. we are talking about a broad approach and the court is focusing on the reach of the federal government, the authority, the power of congress. what would this mean for folks who have health care? >> well, what it would mean is, president obama's plan when it goes into effect in 2014 is supposed to insure 30 million people who now don't have health insurance. they would stay uninsured if this law is struck down. plus, i think if this law is struck down, the whole role of the federal government in health care and perhaps in other areas

might now be considered suspect. it would have a very large implication for whether the federal government can be involved in the health care market at all. >> so, jeff, nothing's happening right now. give us the timetable when the justices are actually going to hear this case and issue a ruling. >> well, it looks like they will hear the argument, they're going to hear 5 1/2 hours of argument which is a modern record in the supreme court. either in february or march. then we will almost certainly get a decision in the last week in june. that's when they decide all their most controversial cases and they haven't had a case as big as this one since bush v. gore. so argument in the spring, decision end of june. >> okay. kind of close to the election there. so everybody's going to be watching really closely. jeffrey, thank you. >> it could be epic. >> absolutely. checking stories from affiliates across the country, dozens of people take to the streets of new york to rally for tolerance and better security.

police are still looking for those who torched three cars, scrawled antisemitic graffiti in a brooklyn neighborhood on friday. worshippers celebrate as the washington national cathedral reopens. you might recall it was closed back in august after an earthquake damaged it as well as other historic buildings. and they're digging out western colorado. some places saw near white-out conditions. it was over the weekend. a blizzard that dumped all that snow also brought hurricane-force winds. the phi beta sigma fraternity is suspending one of its houses for hazing. last week nine house members were arrested and charged with severely injuring a pledge. cnn student news anchor carl

azuz takes us in-depth about hazing. >> officials found about this in a round-about way. francis marion university where this allegedly happened is a small university. we are looking at around 4,000 undergrads. it is also a highly respected university. what authorities say happened is at an off-campus event for the phi beta sigma fraternity, a student was paddled so skweerse that it caused temporary damage to his kidneys. he was taken to the hospital and treated and hospital officials talked to the sheriff's department and that's how word got out about this. >> that's terrible. there's been so much attention on hazing. you would think that there is not much of this going on. but how widespread is this in a college environment still? >> there is a reason i'll get to in a minute why you wouldn't think it is that widespread but in truth it is all over the map both in geography and scope. at cornell university earlier this summer a student died of alcohol poisoning there. his mother said that was at a fraternity event and it was part of fraternity hazing that he was forced to drink copious amounts of alcohol.

she says that's what led to his death. then last year at rutgers university there was a sorority that put one of its chapters there on suspension because of alleged hazing there. they didn't give details about what the hazing was in that case but there were details at tulane university back in 2008, an event there where police said that pledges were poured -- they had hot water poured on their backs, cayenne pepper, vinegar, things that burned them. that led to some hospital visits there. i'm talking about events that happen at fraternities and sororities, but it is not just limited to them. it is clubs, organizations, private, public campuses, military colleges, all over the place. >> carl, why is it that students still have the hesitation to come forward,er that kind of slow in trying to help their fellow students and report these things? >> there is a national study of student hazing back in 2008 that offered some really interesting answers to that question. among them the fact that they found 55% of students who are involved in clubs, teams and organizations had been hazed.

but 9 out of 10 students who were actually hazed didn't feel -- they didn't consider themselves to have been hazed. it wasn't reported to campus officials in more than 90% of cases. and then this is the real kicker here. most of the students who were hazed believed the outcomes were positive. either for them it helped them grow as individuals, it might have helped them grow closer to their teammates or to their organizations. that's why whenever you hear these sort of national statistics on hazing, it is probably safe to take them with a grain of salt because we are seeing most cases aren't reported. it is probably much more widespread than we think. >> very subjective. carl, thank you. appreciate it. how do you stop iran from getting nuclear weapons? mitt romney thinks he knows the answer and he's challenging the president, calling the president too soft on national security. and how much the people in your life count on you.

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a damning report from the united nations. iran may now be closer to getting a nuclear weapon than we once thought and at saturday's republican debate, front-runner mitt romney said he's the guy who's going to stop iran in its tracks. >> if we re-elect barack obama, iran will have a nuclear weapon. if you elect mitt romney as the next president, they will not have a nuclear weapon. >> so president obama fired back yesterday saying he's kept up pressure on iran and he's going to continue to do that. >> now is this an easy issue? no. anybody who claims it is is either politicking or doesn't know what they're talking about. >> want to bring in cnn national

security contributor fran townsend to talk about all of this. she's a member of both the cia and department of homeland security external advisory committees. fran, we are talking about obviously the possibility of military action in iran. president obama himself has not ruled out the military option but when you listen to these republican candidates, does it sound like just a lot of grandstanding here or do they sound like they are legitimately measured in what they need to do to make sure that iran does not have control over nuclear weapons? >> well, suzanne, as usual in washington, it is a little bit of both. look, i think there is some legitimate policy disagreements with the current administration and their handling of it. by the same token, we see this in every election cycle. it is much easier to kind of make it sound easy when you're running for office than it actually is to implement those polici policies. let's break it down.

rick perry said he would endorse sanctions on iran's central bank.. that's something the obama administration has decided not do. frankly, if you ask me, that is a good idea. it would really up the pressure. the obama administration's been pretty aggressive in terms of seeking sanctions on the iranian regime and individuals in particular in the revolutionary guard. could they do more by sanctioning the central bank in? yes, they could. that's true, it would increase the pressure. >> what about the kind of rhetoric we are hearing from some of the republicans who are talking about we need to go after iran, we need to attack iran? >> well, look. this is a very -- president obama suggested in his response this is a pretty complicated issue. the matter of striking iran is rife with one overflight -- where are you going to fly from? are you going to get rights from another country to fly over their territory? how close can you get and how effective would that be? you have to take out missile defense. you'd have to bomb multiple sites. you'd have to account for civilian casualties so this is a

pretty complicated issue. it is not impossible and the big question i think for the candidates, the pressure they're putting on the current administration is, are you serious, are you planning for that. i think what we are hearing from sources inside the administration is they're doing all sorts of military contingency planning in case that becomes necessary. >> we heard from one republican, ron paul, who said this sounds vaguely familiar that it's all like the lead-up to the war in iraq and that he doesn't really believe that the intelligence is actually correct. do you think that he has a point here? should he be skeptical about the intelligence pointing towards that kind of aggressiveness towards iran? >> well, let's be honest. i think after the intelligence related to iraq, weapons of mass destruction program that turned out to be inaccurate, but we believe by both republicans and democrats, including senator hillary clinton at the time, i think we're all skeptical of the intelligence. that said, there has been, i can tell you going back to my time in the white house, years of

effort against this program and so i think there's some cause to have some confidence in the intelligence, especially when you couple that with the recent iaea report which concerns how close iran has -- is getting now to having a nuclear weapon. >> fran, just give us a big picture here. obviously you worked under president bush. now president obama is dealing with iran. it seems as if iran is getting stronger and getting closer to obtaining nuclear weapons, not for peaceful purposes. so where is the success? where is the failure in either one of these leaders' ability to try to make sure that this doesn't happen? >> well, i mean there are multiple, i think, missteps along the way. we've had a history of miscalculating iranian intentions. once the united states agreed to civilian nuclear program, it was inevitable that it was going to be difficult to see if they used that civilian nuclear program to then as a launching pad, foundation, if you will, for a weapons program.

president obama i think tried to extend a diplomatic hand early in his administration. that was rebuffed. look at what the iranians have done in terms of target rg the saudi ambassador here in the united states and we haven't had a very strong response, not only the united states but we haven't been able to rally our allies like russia and china at the u.n. so there have been multiple failings and this is a very difficult and trance intelligent problem but we're going to have to be willing to put much tougher measures like sanctionsing the central bank and like credible military force on the table in a credible way as opposed to just ret rhetorically if we're going to see any progress here. >> fran townsend, thank you very much, fran. fran and many other former national security officials support the u.s. state department dropping the terror designation for the rhiiranian opposition group nek. several new details surrounding the penn state sexual abuse allegations. we have learned that the judge who granted jerry sandusky bail had a connection to his charity.

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here's a rundown some of the stories that we are working on. up next, more on the penn state sex abuse scandal. the ceo of the charity founded by former coach jerry sandusky has now stepped down. then we'll look into why it is so hard for women to doze off. and later, he's definitely bringing sexy back. justin timberlake makes good on a promise to escort a marine to the ball. we've learned today the ceo of the second mile jack raykovitz has resigned after 28 years. former pen sake assistant coach jerry sandusky founded the charity. now he is accused of molesting eight boys from the second mile program. raykovitz is not charged with any criminal wrongdoing. there are new questions however

today about the judge who granted sandusky unmonitored bail. cnn's mary snow is reporting. >> reporter: when he was charged with 40 counts of sexually abusing children, jerry sandusky was released on $100,000 bail. one condition -- the former penn state defensive coordinator was told not to go near children. but take a look where his house is located. this is a playground for lamont elementary school. right over here is jerry sandusky's house and from his back porch he has a clear view of it. the administrators at the elementary school say local police reached out to them following sandusky's arrest. the district's superintendent is quoted saying the school, which runs through the second grade, has taken additional administrative action to ensure our children are safe. to be clear, sandusky's never been accused of harming random children. rather, he is alleged to have molested young boys after developing close relationships

with them through second mile, the charity he founded. sandusky's maintained his innocence. the road to his home is blocked off. and private property signs on his lawn went up this weekend after police say a cinder block was thrown through a window. nearby neighbors question why he is out on bail. >> it baffles my mind. >> presumption of innocence we all like to believe in that, and we do in this country. but i think there is a level of protection that a neighborhood in the community is entitled to. >> reporter: melissa and carl anderson have two little boys. carl was such a fan of sandusky's at one time he had an autographed limited edition copy of sandusky's book "touched." >> immediately alternates between anger and sadness really. it really is a less of kind of community, wholesale community innocence. >> have you seen more police here in the last week? >> yes. >> reporter: the andersons, for one, want to see a stiffer bail. and now a new revelation about

the judge who set the bail. the judge's law firm listed her as a volunteer for second mile. cnn's legal analyst jeffrey toobin -- >> the judge certainly should have raised the issue, disclosed her connection to second mile, so that the parties in the case could decide whether they wanted to ask her to recuse herself. >> reporter: it is unclear whether judge leslie dutchcot has cut her ties with second mile. cnn has contacted her office but we haven't yet gotten a response. mary snow, cnn, university park, pennsylvania. a marine told justin timberlake to cry her a river and it seemed to have worked to get him on a date. we'll tell you how that date work out. also, vogue magazine just named its best dressed female siblings of 2011. the special edition issue hitting newsstands tomorrow. what siblings claim the top spot? is it elle and dakota fanning?

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it just claimed the top spot on vogue magazine's best dressed list -- twins mary-kate an ashley olsen. actors-turned-clothing designers were "kind after no-brainer." that's according to "vogue's" fashion news director. elle and dakota fanning came in second and beyonce and solange knowles claimed the seventh spot. let's talk about the entertainment world, kareen wynter joins us from hln.

hey, los angeles. how you doing? >> i'm doing fabulous. justin may not like this, but mr. timberlake has got to wait a second this morning. that's because, suzanne, he's got some style going on. he's got a twin sister. you belong on that list. yes, you do. suzanne and suzette. >> aren't you glad we don't dress alike? >> beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. forget the olsens. have you my vote! so now we can talk about justin. you asked about mr. timberlake. timberlake says that his experience as a marine's date changed his life. you mayor remember when timberlake was remoting his recent film "friends with benefits," he was invited to this ball. it was on youtube. he was invited by marine corporal kelsey disante.

he kept the promise, he went on the date and he blogged about his experience saying i knew i would have an evening that i wouldn't forget. something i could tell my friends about. what i didn't know was how moved i would be by the whole experience. timberlake says meeting the marines was like meeting michael jackson. can you believe that? and michael jordan. he wanted to express his deepest gratitude to everyone that he met. for her part, she seems like a pretty impressive marine. she competes in mixed martial arts. tough gal. just for fun. and she is reportedly so cool about this whole date that she autographed her picture, a picture for herself, and gave it to justin. >> nice move. good move on her part there. what about oprah? i understand she got an oscar. is that right? >> yes, she did indeed. oprah was honored by the academy for her charitable work over the weekend with a humanitarian award.

the award is given out to people whose humanitarian efforts brought credit to the industry. what a night it was for his oprah. she was visibly shaken but tears of joy. good tears. she accepted the award saying she never imagined getting an oscar for what is part of her calling and remember the color purple? who could forget that film. oprah was a best supporting actress nominee in 1985 for her role in that film. it took her -- let's do the numbers here. 26 years to get her statue but she took it only on saturday night. some people they wait a lifetime and they never get an os star but we are talking oprah. there is nothing that this fabulous lady can't do. >> absolutely. she's going to walk away with all of it. i'm sure. all right. >> so we're holding out. we're waiting for you to begin your clothing line with your lovely sister so that we can honor you. >> i want it to start tweeting and have it catch on? >> that will work? >> you think?

>> you have that midas touch. >> thank you, careen. that's a great segue to whether or not you tweet a lot. right? if you don't you may want to start. today's tomorrow's new rich christine romans talks to experts about the benefits of tweeting and building up your what's called your clout score. look, so i am a 63. my co-author and friend ali velshi is a 65. i'm intent on narrowing that gap and i don't even know how to do it. it is a public score. companies are using it for marketing. people are using it on their resumes. you've even ranked the most influential colleges. is there a way for companies and colleges, the unemployed, to use this to build their brand? >> absolutely. every few years there's some skill that it is important for the workforce to understand. a couple years ago it was just getting comfortable on the internet but now it is about getting comfortable on social and being able to share your message with the world. it is a great way to benchmark your ability to impact your

audience and activate them. if you're a company or just a person, to be able to spread your ideas and products through social media is really important. >> i want to bring jeff in. you cover media and technology for forbes. i checked, have you a score of 58. but i think that when we talk about people putting it on their resumes, it shows you -- people are trying to show how they can harness social media as a business, as a brand, as an image, this whole new arena. it is hard to figure out how to gauge your influence on it. >> absolutely. and i think companies -- it is a great idea to put on your resume or at least sort of tout it in a job interview. i know people are being asked in job interviews how many twitter followers they have. companies are all trying to re-invent themselves for this social era. a lot of times people running companies are maybe older and aren't as kind of fluent in the new social language and so they're extra interested in

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keeping our eye on the markets today as greece and italy get new leaders. investors are cautious about how these transitions are going to help your debt crisis. right now the dow jones down by 94 points. one investor is not letting the recent rocky market scare him away. that investor, warren buffett.

he reveals he's invested billions in one company this year. poppy harlow is live from new york. so poppy, which one? >> it is ibm. and why this is so interesting, suzanne, is this is a completely uncharacteristic move for warren buffett. he usually sticks to very traditional companies, stays away from technology companies but look at what he disclosed that he invested in since march in big blue. $10.7 billion. 64 million shares. that's about 5.5% of the company. when you look at ibm, this makes sense. it is the 18th largest company on the fortune 500. the stock is the best performer on the dow all year. it is up 28%. this is also emblematic of what we've seen warren buffett do so far this year. the market has been all over the place. what has he done? he's decided to put a lot of his company, berkshire hathaway's can be money to work. he's ramped up investing this year, even given the volatile markets and even given the

situation in europe. you look at the third quarter, that's the most recent quarter. he's invested $20 billion in a number of different companies, including a big chemical here in the united states, he made a big investment in bank of america. even as the market has gotten more shaky he's put more money to work which is very interesting and it is traditional buffett. what's not traditional is investing in a big technology company. >> should we take this as a sign that buffett is more confident in the economy than many other folks out there? >> i think absolutely you should. he spoke about it on cnbc this morning. but he always says be greedy when others are fearful and be fearful when others are greedy. he's also told me numerous times this year that he really does not believe the united states is falling into a second recession. he said the housing market is recovering, albeit slowly. so this is a very, very clear move of confidence, not only in

the broader economy but in the u.s. economy and u.s. stocks. so i take it as a positive sign. >> good. all right then. we'll take it as a positive sign. thanks, poppy. for the first time an airline is fined for keeping planes waiting on the tarmac more than three hours. american eagle which is the subsidiary of american airlines has been ordered to pay $650,000 and shell out another $250,000 in refunds, vouchers, frequent flyer miles, hefty fines that involved 15 flights that landed at o'hare airport in may. o'hare blamed a slow moving storm for causing the back-ups. who's at risk today? >> south of st. louis to columbus, ohio to almost pittsburgh. not a severe weather situation like the spring but not unlike -- because in the spring the warm air's trying to warm up the atmosphere. it wants to get warmer. now fall's coming, winter's coming. trying to push that cold air

down farther and farther south where that warm air can kind of clash. already seeing showers and thunderstorms around detroit, south of ft. wayne. that's not really the area i'm worried about. further to the south, right through here, the air is warming up and a little bit of sunshine. that's where the storms will fire again today. some of them could be very strong. the cold and air, that's always that clash right along the cold front. the front is moving to the east so big tornadoes are possible, though probably not very many of them. they are still possible. look at what happened in colorado over the weekend from the same storm system. frisco, colorado had a wind gust of 115 miles per hour. that's like up toward cat 3 hurricane. obviously some of those people who were hoping to be skiing in that, lifts were getting closed, upper lifts especially getting closed as you can't have wind gusts over 30 or 40 and then be sitting on what turned into a swing as you get carried back up on the lift at some of these ski resorts. that's what happens when you drive a little bit too fast.

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elizabeth cohen joins us to tell us why so many people like ourselves are not really sleeping well. >> what's interesting is not only is it enough sleep, but

women's quality of sleep lower than quality of sleep that men get. >> what's going on? >> part of it is that women get pregnant and you don't sleep very well when you get pregnant. people have little babies. you don't sleep very well when you're up in the middle of the night when you have a baby. years later you hit menopause an often don't sleep very well when you hit menopause. there are a lot of these sort of hormonal things stacked against us. >> what about women that take hormones. >> as many as 1 out of 3 women are taking sleeping pills several times week. i know women who say sleeping pills change their lives for the better. i know others who say sleeping pills didn't go very well. it messed up my sleep. i was depressed or whatever. i think you want to think several times before taking sleeping pills and think is there something else i can do. remember, do you really want to take a sleeping pill for the rest of your life? if not, sort of what's your exit strategy going to be. >> what should women do? are their ways you can help

themselves? >> sure. really anyone can do. women in particular, pay attention. one is get into a sleep routine. go to bed and wake up at around the same time every night. that helps. another thing you can do is you can exercise. that's huge. people who exercise, i know people have said, wow, that made a huge difference. another idea is to avoid bright night lights. even little things like the clock radio, try to turn it around. as you get older brighter lights are going to bother you. also look into whether there san underlying reason for your sleep problem. is it just that are you sort of wound up or there could be some medical reason behind it. and also don't drink caffeine or alcohol in the evening. >> now have you the blackberry and iphone with the big lights. >> yes. i kind of put mine under things. we have more tips at cnn.com/empowered patient. because a good night's sleep is everything. it affects how you function.

it influences whether you get heart disease, diabetes, all sorts of things. >> and it affects your mood. just the way you are with everybody. >> it is hard to be happy and sleepy at the same time. i sound like i'm talking about the seven dwarfs. right? but it is hard to be both of those things. >> thanks, elizabeth. well, with a lot of cities to choose from, you might be surprised to learn which five are being called the coolest, most desirable to live in. coming up at number five, las vegas. number four, dallas. and number three, speak about the weather -- people love seattle. stick around, we'll tell you which two cities the most people are attracted to after the break.

telling i you before the break, city most people found the most attractive to live in -- two cities people most like -- san diego, number one -- new york. love that city. funny though, some people voted new york the least desirable city in america. go figure. you ever hear a politics and think, did he just say that? take a look. >> there are significant differences that still have to be resolved that affect many americans, including that child down the hall there. >> i was told not to mention

football at all. this is why i have skreecret service along. >> i've never work purple today but i lost the bet. >> i'm honored and willing to wear the tie of the university of alabama. >> if you were vice president of the united states -- what would you want the president to assign you to do first? >> well, having studied my good friend dick cheney, i would not go hunting. >> i want to give fair warning to all who are witnessing debate that bipartisanship is about to break out on the floor of the united states senate and can you witness it. >> life's short. can't take it with you.