>> reporter: and now she's on a mission to make sure young minority girls feel the same way. through her work with organizations like the boys and girls clubs. she hopes to encourage dancers of color to be true to themselves. >> she taught us that even if we're different, if we're unique, we can be just as equal as anyone else. >> reporter: copeland says the first step is to follow your dreams. >> the message i want to send to them is just that anything is possible if you truly are passionate about it and give it your all. >> good for her. copeland's next performance at the american ballet theater will be this summer. you got to catch it. she's also designing a dance wear line for curvy balance reas. "cnn newsroom" continues right now with t.j. holmes. >> you going to tell me something about curvy ballerinas? >> you got to caught that one. how do you turn that? >> always appreciate that,

suzanne. you have a good weekend. hello to you all. i am the aforementioned t.j. holmes in today for randi kaye. let's start with allegations at a university but we are talking about a different university this time. we are talking about syracuse. listen to this now. associate men's basketball coach bernie fine is on administrative leave while police investigate claims of child molestation that now date back to the 1980s. two step brothers say fine touched them inappropriately when they were ball boys for syracuse. but a 2005 investigation by the school found no corroboration, no evidence. the brothers are speaking out now, spoke to espn last night. >> probably when i was in sixth grade, 11, 10 years old, and he started trying to touch me and things like that. you know, and honestly, i don't even remember if i thought that was what was supposed to happen.

you know, i know i cringed up and didn't want it to happen and i was very, like what's going on. it was just -- i just remember being disgusted in a sense, you know. but that's when everything -- when he started to touch me, my private. >> fine denies he did anything wrong and the school's head basketball coach said fine has his "full support." let's turn back to those allegations at opinion state pe. we are learning more about jerry sandusky. some of this abuse may have started decades ago. several decades telling cnn they are representing more potential victims, some claiming the abuse dated back to the 1970s. sandusky has denied all charges against him. we'll go in-depth and how the penn state cases are opening floodgates at scandals at other colleges and universities. news out of another

university campus. this is just tragic. this is out of oklahoma state. they are saying they have lost two "incredible life forces." that is how they are describing the loss of the oklahoma state women's basketball coach, kurt budke, and assistant coach miranda serna. both of them died yesterday in a plane crash in arkansas. they had been on a recruiting trip there. the oak state president came out a little bit earlier and talked to reporters. >> it's our worst nightmare. the entire osu family is very close, very close indeed, and to lose anyone, and especially these two individuals who were incredible life forces in our fami family, is beyond words. >> now this comes after oklahoma state just marked the ten-year

anniversary of another tragic plane crash. that was back in 2001 when ten people died in that plane crash. they went down in a colorado snowstorm. all ten of those people who died were affiliated with the oklahoma state men's basketball program. let's turn now to the occupy wall street movement. well, month number three now. starting with a bit of a lull, some might tell you, a day after raucous demonstrations, marches and clashes, also run-ins, that was on the two-month anniversary. things quiet today, no arrests overnight in manhattan but 245 during the day, the official count of arrests yesterday. dozens more in cities across the country. thooes these so-called occupiers say they represent the bottom 99%. a new polls it is more than 29%. majority of americans say the movement shares their values. interestingly enough, the exact same percentage say the same about the tea party. the man accused of firing shots at the white house is now charged with trying to

assassinate president obama. the suspect has been identified as 21-year-old oscar ramiro ortega from idaho. federal officials say he once told friends that the president was the anti-christ and that he needed to kill him. he is accused of firing shots at the white house last week and was arrested wednesday in pennsylvania. judgment day today for the man convicted in the death of three people following a sweat lodge ceremony in arizona. self-help expert james arthur ray faces up to nine years in prison at today's sentencing. a jury found him guilty of negligent homicide in june. three victims died after taking part in a sweat lodge ceremony that was organized and led by ray two years ago. the food and drug administration says it is rev e revoking the approval of the drug avastin as a breast cancer treatment of. fda commissioner saying the drug is not safe and effective for that type of cancer. the administrator also says the drug carries a risk of severe

bleeding and heart failure. drug will remain on the market as an approved treatment for certain types of colon, lung, kidney and brain cancer. hip-hop star heavy d being laid to rest today in new york. family members and celebrities attended a private funeral in mt. vernon to pay tribute to the rapper known for hits like "the overweight lofvers." he was just 44 years old. heavy d collapsed in his home. a blockbuster in the video game world. another record breaker. sales of more than $775 million in the five days following "call of duty modern warfare 3" release. the five-day sales record surpasses movies, books and other games. first it was pen state -- then the citadel, now we're

hearing about syracuse. also new information about the allegations against former penn state assistant coach jerry sandusky. also coming up, her fiance died in afghanistan. now she is honoring his name by completing his mission. madelyn cates will join us live next. but first, regis philbin wrapped it up today. 28 years on "live today," he had a look back at his time in daytime television today on this final show. in the audience today, a lot of people, long-time friends, former co-host kathie lee gifford was there as well. than makes him today's rock star. >> this is the last chance i had in this business to make it here in new york and i came back a little bit late in my life to make it all work. i guess it was fate that it would happen this way and it did. 28 1/2 years and we've had a wonderful show and a great time.

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for nearly two weeks now we've been reporting about the horrific allegations of child rape by a former assistant football coach at penn state. we are learning now that the alleged abuse by jerry sandusky may have started decades ago. also today, a new report of alleged abuse involving another big college sports program. a long-time associate basketball coach at syracuse university is now on administrative leave.

bernie fine is accused of using ball boys for the team -- abusing ball boys for the team in the 1980s and '90s. rich lewis is a columnist at the sentinel in carlisle, pennsylvania. he writes that the penn state scandal has opened the floodgates on alleged abuse cases at colleges and universities. rich joins us now. rich, thank you. we read your opinion piece but i was just talking to you in the break, you wrote it about the penn state scandal possibly opening the floodgates. but then as soon as you wrote it, as soon as it was posted, what happened just hours later? >> well, i wrote the column on wednesday afternoon with the information that i had available to me then and i knew about the incident at the citadel so that added a little weight to what i had been thinking and the column appeared in print, was pub accomplished on thursday morning and thursday night i heard the first news reports about the incident at syracuse which is not exactly the same kind of incident but close enough to make what i had said in the

column seem even more plausible than i had feared. >> what is it about -- i guess is it the nature, the culture of athletics? what is it about schools and these athletic programs that maybe put something in place that would allow allegations and abuses like this to take place? what is it about the culture and the campus? >> well, i got the idea for the column from other things that i had been reading that were suggesting that there was something unusual, maybe even unique, about the culture at penn state. that just didn't seem right to me. so i stepped back and i wondered, well, what were the real underlying conditions here that allowed this to happen. and it struck me that you basically had men in positions with great influence over children, you had institutional leaders who had great stakes in protecting the reputations of those institutions, and you had

closed networks of people who all knew each other and might be reluctant, for example, to say anything negative or report anything negative about a long-time colleague. and it became very clear to me that these conditions exist at most, if not all of the colleges and universities across the united states, and not just in their sports departments. >> last thing to you, rich. i know you weren't trying to make a prediction in your opinion piece here, but will this -- i guess the floodgates, that you speak of, at penn state now and syracuse and what's happened at the citadel, people admitting we made some mistakes and should have maybe done more in the past, will this cause maybe some of the universities to go back and take a second look and get out ahead of the stories now so we might see th s universities take it upon themselves and do something about it. >> i can't imagine a more uncomfortable group of people than colleges or university presidents the day after the penn state story broke worrying

if there perhaps had been something that they had overlooked. there were two other very powerful forces in play now. a big story like this attracts interest from reporters and reporters are now recalling perhaps rumors or reports that they had heard and looking into them in a much more aggressive way than they might have previously. then secondly, as many experts have testified, once a victim of sexual abuse comes forward, it encourages other victims to come forward. so the schools are looking, the reporters are looking and the potential victims have been encouraged to actually speak up. those three things coming together suggest to me that we may be seeing a lot more cases in the coming weeks. it's not a prediction because i hope that it's false. but it is a bad feeling about what might lie ahead. >> rich lewis, an interesting read from "the sentinel" in carlisle, called "penn state scandal opens floodgates."

certainly hope that's not the case but again your piece proved awfully prophetic hours after it was published. >> thank you, t.j. penn state has taken the interim tag off the title of now penn state university president rodney erickson. is he committed to staying on as long as needed. under normal circumstances a national search would occur but this is not occurring at this time. they say the current situation which is obviously unprecedented, the board has taken this unusual action to name the president who they believe will lead us forward. some penn state taking the interim tag off the man you have seen -- in a lot of press reports, see his face on tv quite a bit as he was being a spokesperson while penn state was going through this certainly terrible time for their campus but they have now taken the

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it takes in. states have to do this, not the federal government. this has come up before but not since 1995 has it actually been voted on by both houses of congress. today the house tries again. this vote was part of the debt raising deal that also created that super committee. we'll get more on that in a second. in the '90s the measure twice came within one senate vote of passing but even then three-quarters of the states would have had to ratify it. passage less likely now. as far as that super committee goes, two numbers loom above the rest. five, that's the number of days remaining to come up with a plan. also, 1.2 trillion. that's the size of the savings required. you're still a little fuzzy on what's supposed to be going on? we've got another number for you. a little super committee 101. here's our kate bolduan. >> reporter: super committee's formal name is the joint select committee on deficit reduction. classically complex in the only way that congress can do it.

the reason it's been given the nickname of "super committee," if you will, is many believe that this committee has super powers. they basically can bypass a lot of the procedural hurdles that legislation often runs up against as it tries to make its way through the house and sen e senate. the super committee was created during the debt ceiling debacle over the summer. it was created to basically do what congress could not do during the debt ceiling negotiations, which was find bigger deficit savings in order to help the country stabilize its debt. there are 12 members on this committee. 12 lawmakers. evenly split between the house and senate, democrat and republican. they were all appointed by the leaders of each chamber. they bring a range of experience, a range of

backgrounds and a range of political motivations, if you will. the deadline is tight. the committee has until november 23rd right before thanksgiving to reach agreement. it does not have to be unanimous within the committee. it has to be a majority of the members on the committee that have to reach agreement, and then it is sent to congress to both chambers, the house and the senate, and congress has to vote on it by december 23rd. the general areas of where they're focusing are in spending cuts, you know, taking a look at government programs and seeing where spending can be reduced, taking a look at mandatory spending, if you will, that's basically entitlement programs. big one being medicare and where they can find savings within that. and another flip side of the coin is also revenue and that can be -- that is often considered by many as the idea of tax increases. and so you can see that there is

a lot of politics. these are very politically charged issues. >> what if they fail? well, if they don't pass the plan, or even if they do and congress does not fapass it, th some spending cuts will kick in. stay tuned. again we have five days to go. it was ruled accidental but now there are new questions about the drowning death of actress natalie wood. the case is re-opened. but will investigators find the evidence they need? a live report next. also, a couple torn apart by tragedy will be brought back together in spirit. madelyn cates' fiance was killed in battle. what she's doing to honor his service. she'll explain it next. stay with me. but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny nose. [ deep breath] awesome. [ male announcer ] yes, it is. that's the cold truth!

the 1981 death of actress natalie wood was a shock, a tragedy. but was it a crime? at the tiime investigators said woods' drowning off catalina island was ruled accidental. there will be a news conference at the top of the hours and we'll have that for you live right here on cnn. this much we do know -- woods' sister and the captain of the yacht woods was sailing on the night she died have long insisted the real story wasn't being told. each point to a nasty fight between wood and her husband, robert wagner, who was also on the boat, as was the actor christopher walkin. captain dennis davern told his story in a 2009 book and just last week he was talking again in the "cnn newsroom." >> christopher and natalie were sitting on the sofa and within a

split second robert wagner picked up a wine bottle and smashed it on the coffee table and yelled out "what are you trying to do? blank my wife?" cnn's kareen wynter with me now from los angeles. why are they reopening this case? do we really know? >> reporter: well, they have obviously, t.j., explosive new information. as you mentioned, we are await tag press conference. it will take place behind me at the top of the hour. so far officials haven't said exactly who this information could be coming from. you heard from the former captain of that yacht that natalie wood, robert wagner, one of woods' co-stars, christopher walkin was on back in 1981 the night that she died. but could it have to do with these explosive new claims? here's what's interesting. davern has come forth before to basically shed light on what happened that night and while investigators back in 1981 ruled

this death accidental, it's always been so mysterious, so suspicious, the circumstances to which woods died. she was found with bruises on her body floating in the pacific ocean and so this dennis davern is basically saying that he has new recollection of what happened that night. he suggests that he misled investigators at first by keeping quiet on what exactly happened at wagner's request. he also contends that wagner -- and here's the big thing -- was in fact responsible for natalie woods' death and he said he lied to investigators about everything that happened the night natalie wood died. we're awaiting that news conference. so many questions here. could this man be incriminating himself coming forward, t.j., nearly three decades later to say, hey, i'm going to set the record straight. what really happened that night. i want to add we're hearing from robert wagner. his publicist did release a statement. he's saying the actor's family

fully support the efforts of the l.a. county sheriff's department and trust they will evaluate whether any new information relating to the death of natalie wood wagner is valid and that it comes from a credible source or sources other than those simply trying to profit from the 30-year anniversary of her tragic death. as we all know, there's been a book written, there's some speculation here that someone may be trying to capitalize on this upcoming anniversary. we'll get a lot of those questions answered coming up at the top of the hour, t.j. >> kareen wynter there for us, thank you. reminder to our viewers, that's 30 minutes away from that new information from the authorities out in l.a. on this natalie wood case. we'll have that live at the top of the hour. we turn now to a story of love and sacrifice. a fallen marine's fiance wants to finish what he started. madelyn cates enlisted in the u.s. marines last month just weeks after the love of her life travis nelson was killed during his first tour in afghanistan.

madelyn is here with me now. thank you for spending some time with us. i've read everywhere that you feel like you are finishing what he started. what do you mean by that? >> that's correct, t.j. basically i just have it in me right now to basically finish his mission. he started it and i'm hoping to finish it for him. i want to be able to do that for him. i feel like i would honor him in that way. >> now a lot of people would tell you he enlisted, he went to war, he sacrificed for his country. so in a way it sounds like he did do his mission. what part of you feels it is not complete that he didn't necessarily get to finish? >> well, just the fact that it was such a short time that he was over there and had he so many like plans in the marine corps that he never got to do and he just got started out. he hadn't even been in a year. so i feel like i need to do that for him. i think that he would like that.

>> you ever thought about military service for yourself before? >> oh, no, not at all. not at all. not until recently about maybe a few months ago. >> now how long after his death did this idea really come up and how long did you go back and forth debating about doing it? >> well, i started thinking about it not even a week afterwards, like it just popped into my head. it kind of stuck there. i didn't really say anything for a while but probably i want to say almost two months afterwards is when i finally went to the recruiting station and it just went from there. >> when did you all plan to get married? >> he proposed march of this year, march 20th is when we got engaged and he was supposed to be back from afghanistan february or march time frame. there's no direct time. but whenever he got back we were supposed to have our wedding. we already had it all planned

out. but, you know. >> madelyn, what kind of military career do you want now? is this going to be a long-term thing or have you thought that far ahead in. >> i haven't thought that far in advance yet. right now i'm hoeping to get ino media or paralegal field. if that were a job i think it could turn into a good career, good future. >> madelyn, it is an absolute pleasure to talk to you. i'm sorry these circumstances brought us together but a lot of people have heard your story and they are certainly touched by it. so sorry for your loss but i really hope we can continue to keep up with you and check in with you as you begin his mission as you say but a mission of your own as well. thank you so much and good luck. >> yes, sir. thank you, t.j. bye. just past the bottom of the hour now. we'll turn next to some politics.

sarah palin is saying that congress has been occupying wall street long before anybody ever pitched a tent. now the government is making money off the expense of others and it is all "fair game" and it is all next. also, we are waiting to hear from presidential candidate mitt romney. he's talking jobs and the economy in new hampshire. we'll bring you some of that live straight ahead. but first, a question for the political junkies out there. newt gingrich in the news for fees he earned advising freddie mac but he insisted he wasn't a lob lobbyi lobbyist. so how many former members of congress now work at lobbyists? we'll tell you in a second. [ artis brown ] america is facing some tough challenges right now.

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former members of congress now serve in the so-called shadow congress and in many cases are earning millions of dollars of for their work. they break down to about 90 democrats and 105 republicans. now the occupy movement real ly. studies show senators and representatives are getting richer a lot faster than the average americans. publication "roll call" finds the collective work of congress topped $2 billion in 2010. that's a 25% increase in just two years. "usa today" says there are 250 millionaires in congress. in an op-ed piece in the "wall street journal," sarah palin says, and i quote, "politicians derive power from the authority of their office and their access to our tax dollars and they use that power to enrich and shield themselves." what do you think about that and what in the world should we do about that? all "fair game" for maria

cardona, a democratic strategist from washington, d.c. and will cain, columnist and republican analyst for us in new york. let me start with you. are we learning anything new here? we are starting to talk about this more, maria, but i mean power? money? politics? corruption? i mean this is par for the course, hey? >> well, i mean it is certainly a story that we have seen before in washington but i guess i would draw the attention to two things about sarah palin's op-ed. the first one is in the very first line she quotes peter sweitzer who she says is her foreign policy advisor. he's also her speech writer. he wonder if he didn't write this op-ed in an effort to sell his book. the second thing i would say is, it is a little laughable for sarah palin to be talking about millionaires and billionaires in congress and then the rest of us, quote, unquote, the rest of us. really, sarah? you're not a millionaire by now with all of the speeches you have been using trading on the name that you have been able to gain in politics? so it is a little hypocritical. i will say that what she talks

about, issues that she talks about are certainly issues that we should all support. i'll get to that in a minute. >> will, maria is attacking the messenger there but should we pay attention to the message? >> absolutely. i mean if peter wrote this in order to sell books, great, let's sell books and get this message out. t.j., i i don't think your cynicism is misplaced. here is the deal. this story does not exist in a silo. it is not alone. it joins a course of stories this week from the obama administration sending e-mails for slolyndra to put off their firings until after the mid-term elections or newt gingrich getting her money from freddie and fannie. how do politics whose arrive in d.c. with modest means leave millionaires? i have one -- how do presumably moral people go to washington, d.c. and lose their moral campus?

ima telli compass? focus on the incentives. i'll put this in one last context. siegfried and roy? i can't remember which got attacked by the tiger but let's just say it was siegfried. okay? he gets attacked. we didn't look at that story and go, man, we should have had a better tifrg trainer. the moral of that story was don't mess with tigers. the tiger in this story is the place where government and industry overlaps. reduce those areas and you have less of this ugliness. that means don't invest in the future in winning the future. green energy. all of these issues. that's how you avoid this. >> to his point there, maria, are these -- i guess they have moral failings, we all do. but -- >> sure. >> are these folks -- can we call them good folks if you just talked about morality there, if they are game being the system, gaming us all and frankly, some would tell you engaging in some immoral behavior. >> well, i think we need to be careful to paint everybody. again this is what peter does in this book, to paint everybody

with that broad brush. like i said earlier, there are issues here that we should all pay attention to. starting with -- and here's clearly something that sarah palin does not mention because again she clearly didn't research this. there is legislation right now on the hill called "the stock act" that would actually call for full disclosure, a lot more transparency, a lot more sunlight in terms of the investments that members of congress are making and guess what? the vast majority of co-sponsors of that legislation are democrats. if sarah palin really wants to make a dent in this issue she should pick up the phone and urge her republican friends to support legislation like the stock act. >> forever the good democrat there, maria is. will, wrap this up for me in 15 seconds. >> this is bigger than a moral issue, t.j. it is not just about these guys losing their moral way. you throw these bums out, you'll get a new crop of bums in. you've got to change the incentives in the system. it is not just about a stock act or even this story. reduce the nexus between government and industry. otherwise you'll just have a new

issue next week with new bums next week. >> will, well said. maria, good to see you. i'll see you tomorrow here on "cnn saturday morning." thanks to you both. remember, tuesday night to our viewers here, cnn hosting the next republican presidential debate co-sponsored by the h heritage foundation. 8:00 eastern november 22nd right here on cnn. we are expected to hear from mitt romney at any moment. talking about jobs and the economy. he's at a business in new hampshire. we'll bring some of that to you live when he steps out. that's straight ahead. also, president obama sees a light at the end of the tunnel in myanmar. >> after years of darkness we've seen flickers of progress in these last several weeks. >> to ramp up efforts to keep these flickers, president obama sending hillary clinton. [ female announcer ] lactaid milk is easy to digest.

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tens of thousands of egyptian demonstrators flooded cairo's tahrir square today protesting plans for a constitution that would shield the military from public oversight. the air was filled with shouts of "down with military rule," egypt has been covering by a military supreme council since the ouster of president hose nye mubarak in february. protests are threatening to disrupt elections if demands are not met. hillary clinton set to become the first secretary of state to visit myanmar in more than 50 years. president obama said today that

clinton would visit the country formerly known as burma next month. the visit comes as myanmar's military government is showing signs of what president obama calls flickers of progress towards democracy in recent weeks. one example -- pro-democracy leader aung san suu kyi's desix to take part in elections. she was freed last year after spending 15 years under house arrest. is being tear clinton says she has no illusions about the trip. >> one of the reasons i'm going is to test what the true intentions are and whether there is a commitment to both economic and political reform. i've talk to aung san suu kyi, the president has, we've had many interactions with her through top officials along with many others and there certainly does seem to be an opening. now how real it is? how far it goes? we're going to have to make sure we have a better understanding than we do right now.

>> myanmar's military government has a long history of bloody crackdowns against pro-democracy protesters. the last one was four years ago in which the u.n. says more than 30 people were killed. about a quarter to the top of the hour. we are standing by to hear from republican presidential candidate mitt romney. he will step up to the podium and he's going to be talking jobs and economy. he's in new hampshire. we'll have some of that live for you straight ahead. p n. ♪ with the lowest national plan premium... ♪ ...and copays as low as one dollar... ♪ ...saving on medicare prescriptions is easy. ♪ so you're free to focus on the things that really matter. call humana at 1-800-808-4003. or go to walmart.com for details. quaker oatmeal is a super grain. ♪ it gives me warmth. ♪

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give you a check of some of the stories making headlines cross the country now. first, surveillance video out of albuquerque shows two police officers beating a suspected car thief. this was back in february. they were kicking him over and over in the head. but then, the video also shows

the two officers chest bumping each other and appeared to be celebrating the beating of the suspect. the police chief fired both officers and they could face charges. in his report one officer said he thought the suspect was armed. he was not however at the time but a stolen gun was found in the trunk of the suspect's car. also in nashville, was foun trunk of the suspect's car into ann pageant opened a bookstore and took this step after a border's and another store in her home town closed last year. she explained on "the early show" why she's making a move. >> some things really matter and i think having a book really matters. having a community center and a place to go when i was growing up, i really wanted that for my community.

>> she calls it a gift to her home town. also turning to the east coast now, where soon you may be seeing a holiday message calling santa and jesus myths. yeah, baby jesus, a myth. like this billboard expected to go on the new jersey side of the linco lincoln tunnel and also in florida and it says 37 million americans know myths when they see them. they say it's thought to be thought provoking. these holiday signs are just adding to the war on christmas. also in new york, more than two dozen current and former steakhouse waiters are accused of stealing peoples' identities. suspects used hand held scanners

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going to turn to the weather here in a moment. we're standing by for the event from mitt romney, waiting to hear from him in new hampshire. when he steps to that mike, we'll certainly bring that to you live. good afternoon now to alexander steel, keeping an eye on things. >> good afternoon to you. very quite yet conditions in the

southeast. only warming for the weekend. here's what is happening in the pacific northwest. an area of low pressure is developing in earnest. we're going to watch it move towards the northern rockies and we'll watch it in terms of accumulation, a foot of snow for some of you. gusty winds, gusting 40, 50 miles per hour. serious accumulation. we're going to watch those moving into idaho, montana, very strong winds. as we head into friday night and saturday, we'll see snow in minneapolis, and areas to the west of that. here's the big picture. a winter storm warning through the court ta lane area, billings, and indicating where some warnings and watches and advisories are. the winds with this will incredibly crippling. certainly substantial. the next big storm moving in, you can see in terms of accumulation, we get into this foot range here. through the northern cascades

and rockies, farther east we'll watch this storm move into the northern rockies from tomorrow night into saturday morning. so a snow event coming. but the northeast, southeast, dry skies and warming temperatures for a good looking weekend. back to you, t.j. >> all right. thank you so much. a reminder to our viewers, a couple of things that we're keeping an eye on, waiting for investigators in l.a. to give us an update on the natalie wood case. and there is mitt romney. >> first, just a couple of words, as you know, i spent my life in the private sector. ray, good to have you in, member executive council. i just saw you walk in. any other elected officials that i missed here, introduce yourselves. >> senator booten here. >> glad to have you here. i've spent my life doing what you do in the private something

for. i had the occasion of going to work after i got out of school at the ground level of a consulting business and then over time worked my position of leadership there and then i got the chance to start a business of my own and we started off with, i think, about ten employees and then grew it over time quite successfully. i learned some things about what it was like to work in the private sector and i've had a chance to compare the private sector versus the governmental sector. and they are different. and by the way, what you're doing is harder. people in the private sector have a hard job. because what you do is very unforgiving. you have to balance your budget. if you don't, you go out of business. you have to make ends meet. if you don't, people lose their jobs. you have to make sure that your revenues exceed your costs. if not, you will lose your

investment, your family's investment, the investment of others. jobs, investments, and the ongoing survival built depend on you being successful. in government, it's far more forgiving. in some states, perhaps not this one, ray, senator, no. no. in government if you spend too much money, you blame it on the opposition party or raise taxes or fees or you borrow more money. so you have something which has happened at the federal level, which is really astonishing. we have now accumulated as a nation $15 trillion in debt. it's an unthinkable number. when the president was a senator, he considered the 9 trillion of debt in the nation something that was unacceptable, unpatriotic, $9 trillion. now we have 15 trillion. he will add, by the end of his first term, almost as much debt as all the prior presidents combined. it is simply inexcusable for us

to have this level of mounting debt year after year after year. that would not happen in the private sector. you simply can't do that. now, there are some other -- >> you have been listening to gop front-runner mitt romney talking to a crowd there in new hampshire. speaking to chamber of commerce event there. so that's what is happening now. we have one eye on that. also, have one eye on this event. it's just gotten started. i'm going to pause for a moment so we can listen to it. but quickly, this is the l.a. sheriff's department basically coming forward now and they are reopening the investigation into the '81 death of actress natalie wood. take a listen. >> on cat ta lean na island, accompanied by the caretaker of the boat and fellow actor, christopher walkin. sometime in the morning of november 29th, miss woods somehow ended up in the water and drowned. at the time of the incident, it was investigated by us, the l.a.

county sheriff's department in the l.a. county coroner's office. her death was ruled an accident. as a homicide bureau for the los angeles county sheriff's department, we're always opened to receiving additional information about older cases as well as current cases. we assess that information and deem it to be credible and reliable and if so we act on it. recently we received information which we felt was substantial, enough to make us look at this case. the case has been assigned to two sheriff homicide investigators who will be following up on additional information as well as other additional information that may develop. any questions? >> is robert wagner a suspect? >> no. >> was this verbal communication or do you have physical evidence or physical documentation? >> i'm not really going to comment on the type of

information that we have. the evidence or the statements that we're getting from people. >> on the captains coming forward, a book, what he told you recently, do you have more -- >> we have several sources that have come forward with additional information. we have found it to be credible enough to take a look at the case. >> this is not just in fact the captain? >> anybody sneelse? >> so at this point it's an ongoing investigation. by your criteria that you go by when an investigation is going on, at this point, in this new investigation, can you rule out that she was murdered? >> her death was ruled an accident. an accidental drowning. and that's what it is. our investigation, at the end of it, if it points to something else, then we'll address it. but right now her death is an accidental drowning. >> but can you rule out murder at this point in your investigation? >> it was already determined to be an absolute drowning but the

information we received made us want to take another look at the case. >> are you planning to go to hawaii to continue your investigation there? >> are we planning to go -- >> to go to hawaii and fake a look at the boat? >> we'll go wherever the investigation is going to take us. >> lawsuit tenant, the captain said on national tchl v that he lied to your investigators 40 years ago and will he face any charges for lying to police officers? >> that i can't say. we'll end up probably talking to the captain sooner or later. once we talk to him, we'll assess what he has to say and what happened then and now. >> have you confirmed that most of us probably don't remember what we did yesterday and here we're talking about someone who suddenly recalls what happened 30 years ago at the same time that a book is being released? your thoughts? >> she's asking about someone remembering something from 30 years ago and there's a book being written. i don't know. i'm not concerned with the book. that's not our concern.

just having all right just the media attention that we've received already on this, we've generated calls and people who have remembered things from back then or back then didn't talk to the police and now want to tell their story. so already people are coming forward and want to come forward. >> so there wasn't an extensive investigation back in 1981? >> i'm not saying that there wasn't in 1981. we just want to take another look at the case. >> are you worried that this will be viewed as media-related? >> we're not concerned with the anniversary date. they started coming forward with the information and that may have been the timing. >> is it standard procedure to

contact a victim's family to tell them that they are reopening the investigation? >> robert wagner's family was not issued a statement? >> robert wagner con stakted our office and said that they have not been notified of this. >> that is correct. we're just starting to reinvestigate the case. sooner or later we will be contacting his family. >> any plans to exhume the body? >> what exactly are police doing right now? >> well, you know, we're doing what we do. we will reinterview some people, interview some new people, talk to people, and re-evaluate some of the evidence. >> is there a possibility that it was not an accident? >> like i said, her death was ruled an accidental drowning and that's what it is. until we find something that it isn't, until that time, it's still an accidental drowning. >> by reopening this

investigation, aren't you ensin waiting that in fact it was not an accident? >> not at all. we're saying we are not afraid -- we're not afraid to go out and act upon that credible information. that's what we're doing. >> >> does the new information affect the other. >> i'm not going to comment on that. if you saw something back then and have information about what happened, back in 1981, give us a call at headquarters. >> will christopher watkin be talked to? >> i'm not going to talk about who we're going to talk to about that. >> just for clarification,

outside of the captain information, do we have additional information? >> i'm not going to comment on who has talked to us or told us what. i'm not going to comment on the coroner's report either. i'm not going to get into that. >> is. >> any possible dna -- there's a lot that is happening in the last 30 years. will that assist you? will you use dna? >> we will use whatever we have available to us. [ inaudible. >> i'm not saying that we're basing the case on that but it helps if people know something back then, to give us a call. we'll re-evaluate what they have

to say. we may use it or disregard it. >> any chance that her body will be exhumed? >> i'm not going to comment on that. it's an accidental drowning and that's what it is. just the information that we have, we felt it was responsible. we should be responsible enough to follow up and that's what we're doing. >> if i said i lied to you 340 years og, could the captain face charges? >> well, if they are inhibiting an investigation, yes, they could be arrested or charged with a crime possibly, yes. >> is there plans to charge the captain? he's said on live tv that he lied 30 years og. >> i'm not going to comment on what we're doing to anyone. we just want to talk to people and follow up on the information that we have to further the

investigation. >> have you talked to the captain? >> i'm not going to say who i've talked to. >> how has his lie affected his credibility in your investigation? >> i'm not going to comment on his credibility. that's it. thank you very much. thank you. >> okay. so what was that, eight minutes i counted, some q and a with the l.a. county sheriff's department with this open probe into the 1981 death of actress natalie wood. i've got two people i want to talk to. kareen wynter is here but first i want to ask holly hughes, first of 5u8, this was '81, ruled an accidental drowning at catalina island. now suddenly -- and we heard him -- let me pull up my e-mail, more than one source now coming forward as to the impetus to

reopen this. but how unusual is it to reopen something three decades old? >> well, it's extremely unusual and what i find interesting is not just what they are saying but what they are not saying, brooke. they are not going to waste resources opening a 30-year-old investigation unless they believe these witnesses are credible. and in the statements that they've released, even though the credibility clearly they think that these are credible information witnesses or they would not have launched a new investigation. >> okay. so he's not going to comment -- he was asked multiple times by these reporters out there with regard to the credibility of that captain of the splendor who we had on for multiple times with susan malvo who said, look, i didn't tell the truth, robert wagner, according to this man, we would decide what we said or would not say to investigators.

do you see him as credible? >> it depends. you know, is suspicious to me because he's now got a book coming out. it's the 30th anniversary. i need to question, why now? are you telling me that suddenly after 30 years you've grown a conscience? is that what you're saying to me? if all and i want corroboration taken into a court of law. for all intents and purposes, brooke, he's a co-conspirator what he is alleging might be a criminal defendant. >> stand by. i have more for you. let's go to kareen wynter who was there for the news conference. let me back up and say, you frd heard what we didn't hear. why is this being reopened now? >> reporter: well, brooke, that is really the big question. my producer pointed this out

right after it ended. two big facts is that the fact that we've received credible and substantial information. what is really frustrating, hey, tell us where that's coming from. the name we've been talking about all morning long, dennis davern, the former captain, has come forward and admitted, that he lied to investigators 30 years ago. also pointing out that wagner has some cult pa built here. directly responsible for natalie wood's death. >> okay. too bad, we can't hear what you're saying. your microphone is breaking up. the captain, as i mentioned, spoke with suzanne malveaux. take a listen what he said. >> christopher and natalie were sitting on the sofa and within a

split second, robert wagner picked up a wine bottle and smashed it on the coffee table and said, what are you trying to do, blank my wife? and christopher went into the estate room and natalie was so devastated that she went into her estate room and robert wagner followed natalie and they continued arguing in their estate room and i went up on the bridge and i'm turning on the music because i didn't want them to think that i was eefz dropping on their personal information at that time. it was like a lot of physical activity going on in their estate room. >> what do you sneen. >> well, just noises of, you

know, movement in the estate room. >> like vie sflens yelling? >> yes. >> and then the argument went to the upper deck and they argued back there for a little while and then it became silent. >> let's go to the other side of this. this is a statement we got from robert wagner's publicist. they, the wagner family fully support the efforts of the l.a. county sheriff ds office and will evaluate whether new information relating to the death is valid and comes from a credible source or sources other than thoughs simply trying to profit from the 30-year anniversary of her tragic death. the first question out of the gate is is robert wagner a suspect and they said no. he's not a suspect until they have physical evidence to prove -- >> that desomething criminal. because at this point we have

the accidental death ruling on the books, just like the sheriff was saying, we have not reclassified or caused the manner of death. right now we have additional information from unnamed people. we're not going to tell you who they are. we think they are credible enough to reopen this and go forward with it. so what you're looking for, especially if a lot of people think the statute of limitations might have run on anything that the captain could be charged with. >> what is the statute? >> well, murder has no statute of limitations. if it is proven that he held her under water -- >> no bearing. >> none whatsoever. >> the captain admitted that he lied back then. the statute of limitations has reason oun that. but when you're talking about an ongoing criminal conspiracy, continuing to cover up some type of criminal act, then he might still be facing charges. so it's really fascinating that he's taken this leap of faith.

and if he's charged as co-conspirator, you cannot convict anybody on the word of one co-conspirator or defendant. you need additional corroborating evidence. that's what they are going to look for. >> what a story. thank you very much. we still have two hours to go. take a look at what we have. another major college, another major sports program rattled as accusations fly over sexual misconduct and this involves a person of power, a coach. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. stunning video of taliban fighters preparing for an attack. >> if you want god's blessing, be a suicide attacker. >> jim nas particular, gunfire props, a behind the scenes look at how terrorists prepare to die. plus, if you haven't been paying attention, now is the time. five days left for the

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the oklahoma state coach killed in an airplane crash. it went down and budke had just started his seventh season at oklahoma state. also killed, the pilot, former state senator and his wife. we're going to have much more on this story and emotional reaction from the university coming today, in a matter of minutes. also, in cairo, egypt, tens and thousands are demonstrating against this plan that would shield the military from public oversight. protesters want presidential elections to be held next april. president obama sends hillary clinton to myanmar.

the secretary sat down with our own brianna keilar during a stop in bally. >> one of the reasons that i'm going to is to test the true intentions and whether there is a commitment to both economic and political reform. i've talked to aun san suu kyi along with others and there certainly does seem to be an opening. now, how real it is, how far it goes, we're going to have to make sure that we have a better understanding than we do now. also today, more protests in syria. syrian troops killed at least 19 people and amid all of this violence, syria is accepting in

principle, an arab league demand to allow 500 observers into the country. but france's foreign minister says it may be too late. >> our efforts have come to a resolution to that effect in the united nations arab league and to work with the opposition which shows a lot of courage. >> back home, detroit laying off 1,000 jobs by next year. and plant employees in springfield, illinois, started noticing glitches in the system and then last week, a water pump burned out. dhs says it still doesn't know what caused the pump failure. and we're watching the sentencing in a sweat lodge case set to happen any minute now. remember, three people died in

2009 after attending a sweat healing lodge. that man, james arthur ray, was convicted of negligence homicide. faces up to nine years in prison. now this. >> we know they are gone. >> fighting back tears. we mentioned a very emotional oklahoma state university talking about the plane crash that killed two of the school's basketball coaches. new details on that story. plus, do you remember this? this was just a couple of months ago. it was one of the most brazen attacks on a hotel in kabul. now there appears to be men planning that deadly attack. it is chilling. we've got the details. and the backstage story coming up.

got a little more information on the tragedy involving the oklahoma state basketball program. as we mentioned a moment ago, the single ingeneral plane went down 45 miles west of little rock. also killed the pilot, former oklahoma state senator and his wife. this reaction from oklahoma state's president. >> well, this is obviously an incredibly devastating event. it's our worst nightmare the entire osu family is very close, very close indeed. and to lose anyone, especially

these two individuals who were incredible life forces in our family is worse beyond words. ann and i were with the family this morning and they need all of our player prayers and support. when something like this happened, god forbid it happened again, we have to pull together as a family we've got to try to do that. i think this is the longest i've gone without tearing up. so gary said, we don't know a lot about how it happened or why it happened but we know that they are gone. and at least from our present. but i know that they are here in our hearts. so i just ask everyone to pull

together and to support each other and the budke family and serna family in every way possible. >> no word yet to what caused the crash. but he had just started his seventh year at the university and they canceled the weekend's game. ten years ago a plane went down with the oklahoma state men's program, including two players. and now you can call it a video diary that shows a suicide bomber's last few hours. it shows men doing gymnastics, others training to bomb the intercontinental hotel in kabul. >> reporter: one of the most brazen attacks to hit kabul. in june, a conference at the

intercontinental hotel was attacked by a suicide squad that killed 11 others. it took special forces to suppress it six hours later. president karzai has this week gathered others for a vital meeting about america's presence here. cnn has gained a unique insight into how that raid was planned. the taliban has posted online a lengthy propaganda video that they say about the seven men behind that attack. this is a display what they want us to see of their skills and planning. cnn can can't profits genuine, only how sophisticated their message and media is after a decade of war. and somewhere else, seems to let insurgents steal military uniforms. one hotel worker speaks about

being a suicide attacker. the prep railingses are elaborate who are they sit those view machine guns and rocket propelled grenades as they get on the roof and use it as a control tower so enemy can't enter easily. the war about perception and victory, the taliban have an increasingly sophisticated voice. the penn state football team getting ready for its first away game since the sex abuse candle broke. ohio state is asking fans in columbus, ohio to put a very specific picture on their facebook pages for game time

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penn state football team will be back on the field tomorrow against arch rival ohio state. there is concern at ohio state about decorum, respect in the stadium. i want to you listen to this message that's been circulating on campus at osu. >> be proud, be respectful. >> let's show everyone that we have the best fans in the land. >> go bucs. >> also want to point out, ohio state football has recently had its own problems. the head coach resigned over alleged violations of recruiting rules, a financial arrangement with a local tattoo parlor allowed players to get discounts

on tattoos. let's go to the ohio state athletic council. penn state, ohio state, huge big 10 rivalry. i spoke to a long-time ohio state fan and she was being a little nice, that some of the fans can be spirited, rowdy. so you tell me what to expect. >> they have played 26 times and this time, the 27th meeting is unlike any of the past 26. they are coming to columbus and since the alleged tragedies came to light a week and a half ago, this is the first game. we try to message sportsmanship 365 days a year. be loud, be proud, make the horseshoe a loud environment for the football players.

>> so from the stadium to high street to the varsity, the message is, be loud, be proud, be respectful. what message are you asking students to put on their pages? >> it's been a social media campaign. we sent out a letter to all of the students here enrolled at osu urging them to remember that this is bigger than football. that it's important to remember the victims and keep the victims and their families in our thoughts and prayers. as part of symbolizing that, we've asked students to change their profile picture on facebook to an image that is the outline of the stayed of ohio. >> and why is it because some of the osu fans can be, empathetic with what happened to the coach months ago but bottom line, this

is not about ohio state. it's about penn state. honoring the victims and remembering the victims and feeling for them and their families and remembering that penn state students and fans love their school as much as we love ohio state and while we should be proud of our school, it's important to be respectful of them as well i appreciate it. now this. >> thank you, brooke. >> so, so mad, hurt, sad, robbed, broken. >> this young woman says that she was date raped and when she told her friends, they said, that was so last semester.

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a woman is on a crusade to change the way that people view date rape. she was in college and she says the boy who did it was a friend. it's a topic that a lot of people don't discuss. but she and her friend turned her story into a documentary. this is just the beginning.

>> this is me. bergen. grew up in a small southern town, dalton, georgia. born the only child to two loving parents, like was pretty sweet. i know, i know. only child, the first thing people think is lonely, social odd balls. i certainly never felt lonely. i grew up with a lot of kids in my age. i have a tom boy in me but not much. fast forward through the physically awkward middle school years to high school. dalt ton high school. cattle country. honestly, i loved high school. i was a cheer leader and the gishls that i cheered were were best friends and the guys that i cheered with were like brothers to me. we hung out on the weekends, went to dances and loitered in the walgreens parking lot when

we were bored and had nothing to do. although i'm not trying to make myself out to a virgin and i moved into an all girl school, joined a sorority and interior designer is my major. i had plenty of new friends to go to football games with, plenty fraternities and go out on the weekends. one being a change in our virginity status. so some of my friend stories were sweet, and romantic and largely disappointing. it was different. it wasn't funny. awkward, or sweet or anything that i ever waited for. my virginity was never given. it was stolen.

>> it was stolen. bergen, welcome. it's a pleasure to meet you. i thought you were and are a strong woman for sharing a story like this. to set it up, as you mentioned, you wanted to wait to have sex until you were married and then all of a sudden this happens in the spring of '07. this was your freshman year, yes? >> yes. >> and so just to set up exactly what happened, this was the spring, you were out with some friends, this guy was a friend of yours. >> exactly. we met my first semester, someone my parents had met, he was just a friend. he picked me up, i wasn't feeling well, brought me soup, hung out several times. i was in a sorority and he was in a fraternity and we were having a st. patrick's day party. we went together and the party was lame so we said, let's go so where else. he was going to pick me up and take me to the next place to meet up with the friends. >> the problem arises when he

says, hang on a second, i left my wallet back at the frat house. >> we walked inside through the basement door, walked down the hall to the third room on the right and he opened the door for me. i walked in and unbe bone is it to me he looked the door behind me ultimately locking me into his hell. >> how soon after that did you fully comprehend what had just happened to you and, b, when did you share it with your closest friends? >> you know, i think the issue when you know the perpetrator, is that it takes a long time for your head to go from friend to perpetrator. you don't -- i knew what happened was wrong. i knew i hadn't consented to that. i knew was very traumatic. you don't naturally go straight to rape because this is someone thaw know. you think that rape is a parking garage, it's in an alley. >> as you mentioned. and it wasn't.

>> it was not. and when you know who it is. >> this just happened to me? >> yes. >> we pulled up speaking of people you know and it's not an image of who you thought it would be. i want to share this with some of you. one in every four college women will be sexually assaulted and an alarming 84% of those women know their attacker. finally, 57%, more than half of those rapes occur on a date. so you knew this guy. you mentioned he didn't look like a perpetrator. the other part of the dock meant tree that really got me is, you finally share this with your friends and your friends say to you why are you so upset about this? that happened last semester. are you serious?

>> it seems so unreal and then when we take a step back and look, i think you can see where these attitudes come from. when you look at the education on college camampuses, don't dr strangers and don't go out into the world and be raped. then when this happens, you say, what did you do to not prevent it. i think women are taught that they can do something to prevent this from happening you. this is a stranger. you don't have the trigger on the mace when you're hanging out with your friends. so i think it's a self-defense mechanism that perp pet waits. so you finally decide to do this dock meant industry, you have another friend in the documentary who is also a victim as well and you both decide to share your stories because you want to change the culture on college campuses. but how, how? >> i want to change the dialogue. you know, it's not enough to say

that we're talking about it because as we're seeing right now, universities are not talking about this. there's a big push to protect the image. it's easy for kids to say, this doesn't happen here and it's being brushed under the rug. we need to incorporate education not just geared towards women but women and men. we need to say, to prevent this from happening and put the accountability on the rapist instead of the woman being raped. >> i want to watch one more piece. >> sure. >> let's watch this. >> no one point blank called me a liar. they spoke as if i shouldn't have been accusing him at all, rather questioning the reality of my own assault. at least you knew him, someone said, or that was last semester. we're over that now. one friend even told me that it really wasn't rape because when guys get turned on, they just can't control themselves. >> okay. final question. you've talked a lot about being paralyzed by your rage in the beginning. are you still paralyzed?

are you still mad? >> you know, i think it would be a different story if he walked into the set right now. but, no, what has happened to me, i've put into a comfortable place. i've channelled my anger. i'm more mad now that i was at a university -- that i was a victim of this and didn't realize and that was never taught. i knew so much about alcohol poisoning and other problems that are horrible and happen on college campuses but to be a victim of this and because i knew him, not understand what ha happened to me, not understand what my resources were, that's what makes me mad and that's what i want to change. >> luckily you sitting here with me, it's something to come. let's stay in touch. bergen, congratulating on almost graduating from college. >> thank you. the most powerful group of lawmakers in washington trying to decide how to cut america's debt. still, no deal. but could the next 24 hours be a turning point? wolf blitzer is back in washington and he's got the

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all right. the countdouchb is on for the supercommittee to come up with a deal for the deficit. wolf blitzer is back at home for the 2012 political choice. let's talk super committee. can this committee really strike a deal by the end of the weekend? >> they can but it's going to --

it's looking increasingly unlikely that they will get to that $1.2 trillion level. because the democrats keep insisting that there has to be tax increases. republicans are reluctant to do that. the republicans keep saying, there's got to be cuts in entitlement spending, social security, medicare, medicaid, and there's changes in that. that's part of the compromise. will there be enough -- you know, more than six of these members who are willing to go -- 7-5 vote. you're going to need some people who are willing to break, if you will, respective parties' base, on the republican side, no increase in taxes. on the democrat side, no cuts in the entitlement spending. if there is a 6-6 tie, there is no deal, then the frustration, as you know, goes into effect. the automatic trigger starting in 2013.

not in 2012. they can even revive that. there's not a whole lot of hope that they are going to have a deal by next zens here's the thing and you've covered washington for years. they have said, they have known about this november deadline for a number of months. we saw what happened play out over the summer with the debt ceiling debate. i mean, why wait until the 11th hour? is this political theater? what is this? >> there is a lot of political theater going on. this is politics and we're going into an election year. let's remember, they went into the last moment over the summer before there was a closing of the government that they didn't close the government on raising the debt ceiling. they had a deal, they waited until the last minute to get that deal finally done. now they will presumably go on to the last minute on wednesday as well, see if they get a deal or no deal again. they go into the automatic trigger.

they start cutting and won't be any cuts for at least a year and they can also make changes. so it's not a dreconian as some are thinking. it underscores the gridlock and poisonous atmosphere where it's so hard to get democrats and republicans to work together on these sensitive subjects. >> you talk to people, i talk to people and so many americans are frustrated by that. >> they will and it should be. >> wolf, this debate that you are -- what's the word? i'm blanking on the word. >> i'm moderating. >> it was a late night. >> tuesday night. >> tuesday night. >> tuesday night, 8:00. >> 8:00. >> it's going to be in washington. >> >> historic and when was the last time that a presidential debate occurred in the nation's capital.

when was the last time that the presidential debate happened right here in washington, d.c.? we'll have the answer in an hour. and i'm back with you in the cnn "newsroom." how is that for a tease? >> it sounds perfect, wolf blitzer. see you next hour. thank you very much. now, remember this? ashton kuch cher, demi moore, talking about how strong their marriage is. cut to today, she has filed for a divorce and he is talking about their plans to divorce. when we come back, we will hear from them and now. next. my sinus symptoms come with a cough

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all right. got some news just in from penn state university and the ncaa. like everyone else, they have read the grand jury report, disturbed by it. so right now the ncaa says they are going to be evaluating the key word here, the university's responsibility with regard to those specific questions to the university about its am plication of ncaa bylaws. taking a look at some of the leadership there, that's the news from the ncaa. we'll stay on that. also, now trending today, six years marriage and months of speculation about ashton kutcher's alleged infidelity and now demi moore says, it's time to move forward with her life.

she wrote that as a mother and wife, there are certain vows she holds sacred and she wants to move on. in the meantime, he says, i will forever cherish the time i spent with demi and marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately, they fail. >> the couple sat down with piers morgan back in april and talked about the marriage and being in the tabloids constantly. >> when you got married, there was still a lot of lynn nicks w cynics who said, it's not going to last. >> not only that, it was written that it was purely a publicity stunt. it's a pretty long -- >> pretty long-winded -- >> how long have you two been together? >> eight years. >> yeah. >> do you -- do you feel like having the last laugh of those who mocked it? >> well -- >> well, i feel like anyone who is sort of engaging themselves in tabloid press as fact will, you know, always have