we had $140 million winner in powerball a couple of years ago in d.c. and the winner want d to remain anonymous and set up an l.l.c corporation and that's how the money was delivered to that particular winner. >> huh. so quickly, 20 seconds, is it legal -- i guess this is different state by state, but is it legal to have someone be a front for you, the winner? >> the front would have to be a legal set up trust and that's the only way to do it. >> okay. buddy, thank you so much. i appreciate it. and here we are, top of the hour. watch this. rolling on at the top of the hour, hour two, i'm brooke baldwin. claims of an affair taking a toll on herman cain's campaign. he's reassessing his run for the white house. also, dr. conrad murray gets a lecture and a sentence in the death of pop star michael jackson. and it's day two of egyptian's historic elections.

and david mattingly, we'll begin with you. herman cain says he's reassessing. the word reassessing, what exactly does that mean and how long do they reassess? >> he's had to pause and reassess in his campaign before during setbacks. but this time it's a huge setback. this woman in georgia coming forward and saying that she and herman cain have had a sexual relationship, an affair for the last 13, almost 14 years. now, that is something that definitely give his campaign pause. so they are stepping back. he's maintaining his appearances for the moment. he might be reconsidering what interviews, grants in the near future. but at the same time, a top ranked official with that campaign tells cnn that they are looking at what's going to happen to the contributions, of course, without money the campaign can't go anywhere. >> of course. and i remember after the initial sexual assault allegations a couple weeks ago, he said that his campaign funds actually went

up. but if you look at the polls since then, his numbers have dropped and his momentum has dropped. what will it take for him to quit? >> well, he would definitely have to dry up. that's a no-brainer. but this woman coming forward, a single mother of two, she's had this long-term affair with him, if more affairs come out about that, right now it's a he said/she said. he says she was a friend. he says it was an affair. >> i have to ask, because this woman coming forward is quite different than the previous two women. this is an allegation that she had an affair with her can cane for years. why come out now? >> she felt the story was going to get out there and it was in her best interest for her to come out and tell her story. and that's what she did,

breaking the story to a local affiliate and now having implications in this race. >> david mattingly, thanks. conrad murray sentenced for his part in michael jackson's death. the judge threw the book at him. casey, we're talking maximum sentence? >> reporter: yeah, he threw as much of the book at him, brooke, as he could. because of severe overcrowding here in california, the four year sentence, he will only serve two of that, perhaps even less. he will serve that in l.a. county jail, not in penitentiary. the defendants had asked for dr. conrad murray to be sentenced to probation based on his life's history of helping poor patients out and what they call an ex am rather life. and the judge said, no way, because of the actions before, during, and after jackson's death. he talked about a pattern of

lies and deceit and lies and then giving him this drug propofol and then abandoning his patient and then dr. murray, since he was convicted of this crime and tv interviews has shown absolutely no remorse. it was actually felt like the victim himself. and blamed the victim. so clearly the judge very upset with dr. conrad murray's actions both before and after this trial. brooke? >> given all that the judge said to him today, casey, this blistering verbal attack that you described, what was the reaction in the courtroom to that? >> reporter: while the verbal attack -- while the judge was delivering his reasons for sentencing him to maximum, there wasn't much of a reaction. but right after the judge said there was a maximum sentence, i turned around behind me and looked at the jackson family. la toya jackson was smiling broadly. jermaine jackson had his head bowed and was nodding silently to himself. but i do want to point out that as dr. conrad murray entered the

courtroom before he was sentenced, his girl frenltd, nicole alvarez, blew him a loud kiss and then he blew a kiss back to all of his supporters, brooke. >> okay. casey wian in california. next with reporter roulette, let's go to jim clancy just above the banks in egypt. i understand over the course of the next hour you have witnessed this spasm of violence in cairo. if you can, tell me a little bit about that and the context of what appears to be thus far a largely peaceful election process. >> reporter: yeah. context, brooke. exactly that. these elections have gone so peacefully and make everyone here in egypt proud. we saw the reverse of that in tahrir square where the credibility of the protesters have been undercut by the

success of the elections. now, they say they are happy but, boy, you take a look at the streets, video that was shot earlier, somebody among the protesters decided to get rid of all of the street vendors, they were bad for the image and atmosphere and instead of asking them to leave they didn't want to ask them to leave well the rocks and the bottles flew in tahrir square. i didn't see any evidence of the police or military being there at all. what we had here was protesters against street vendors. not really thought through well on the protesters part. the second day of voting went just as smoothly, maybe even more smoothly than the first here in cairo and across egypt. we are told -- i was at one voting station tonight along with the supreme forces, the general praised the election

workers, said everything was fine. i talked to the election workers and they told me that they saw a turnout of about 50% -- a little better than 50%. so things went very well in egypt today. a lot of people happy. >> changes slancy, i want to as about women. the long lines of women seemingly wanting to vote. muslim fundamentalists could win power at the ballot box? >> reporter: well, i was there at the polls tonight as they closed, 7:00 here in kcairo. i can tell you there was five, seven, ten women voting for every men. they say they've been oppressed for decades. what they want to see is a parliament that reflects all of the country and one in which the islam mists don't have a majority that could impose lifestyle questions, lifestyle issues on the entirety of the women in egypt.

christians are concerned about that, muslims that are liberal are concerned about that and i they they are voting together. back to you, brooke. >> jim clancy in cairo, thank you. and now to chad myers. you were talking about snow possibly in the east and we got it. >> but we still have bread and milling on the shelves. we're okay. >> but we saw some reports of multiple inches and that's not fun to drive in. >> the roads were about 35 degrees and so the bridges were a little slick. >> not so bad? >> not so bad. we call it the dirty snow man event. >> dirty snowman? >> there's not enough snow and you've got leaves in it. >> how are you trying to make a snowman with three inches of snow? >> pardon me? >> three inches of snow? >> yes. this is the south. come on, you haven't seen my son

make a snowman. may only be a few inches tall but it's still a snowman to him. arkansas saw the first snow of the year. not an early breaking snow event but still early and at times if hu to drive in it, maybe not so pretty. let's get to the event here. from western ten knee so parts of memphis and mississippi and alabama, that's where the snow really was. now it's shifting on up into michigan and indiana. and this is the area that could get slick tonight because it's cold enough to be slick. denmark, 5 inches of snow, paragould, four, wilson, 3, covington, three, and jackson, three. we get very bad fres for, let's say, michigan and wisconsin of how we cancel school with one or two inches of snow. >> what did we call the snow

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well, american airlines says it's business as usual as they file for chapter 11 bankruptcy. they report a profit just once in four years and the company's ceo says there's a lot of work ahead to get the expenses in line with the rest of the industry. let's go live to london to richard quest. i know you spoke with the ceo of american airlines today. what happened? >> basically, everybody else did the hard work of cutting costs through bankruptcy protection. united and delta, northwest, and continental and united got together. us airways, delta with northwest. and the net effect of that was all their competitors, the prices of their costs went down except fuel.

and poor old american airlines was on its own. now, american has been beavering away for many years, trying to get an agreement with pilots and flight attendants, getting costs down. finally, it just couldn't do it fast enough or deep enough without the big bang solution. so that's why tom horton, the new chief executive, told me today it was a decision they took reluctantly. >> the folks at american have worked very hard and honorably to avoid that path over the last decade. but it became clear to us that that gap was too wide, it became unten nanl, it was time to address it and turn the page and put the company on a path towards success for the future. >> richard, here's my question. i can imagine there are people out there with a ticket for american or what have you. will my ticket still be good?

>> all right. just to be absolutely clear about this, so there's no doubt, i'm going to ring the bell. i always have on the desk here just to draw attention, there is no question that your ticket is good. go to aa.com and look for the frequently asked questions about the restructuring. the ticket is good. the frequent flyer miles are good. the planes are good. i don't want to sound like i'm doing a commercial for american, but i think american travelers and flyers are well used to this. they continued flying united in bankruptcy. they continued flying delta in bankruptcy. some will remember their days of eastern and the first continental and all those. so flyers do not need to worry. i think employees of american have longer term worries to look out for in terms of wages and benefits. but this was necessary. american for every seat mile

they tha flethat they flew, it costing them a penny more than every competitor. you can't run an airline like that. >> so what kind of worries should the employees have and obviously american has to get competitive quickly. how do they do that? >> they do it through a bankruptcy reorganization. every contract, every lease, every wage negotiation, every labor agreement is reopened and negotiated or imposed through the auspices of the bankruptcy record. that's how it's done. it's done based on the idea that nothing is sacrisect. so union leaders and nonrepresentatives will be looking at what they expect. will the mention plan survive in its current guise? what givebacks will be required to flight attendants and pilots? this is months down the road. this isn't happening tomorrow.

as t was clear, as of today, everything stays as is. but american's labors costs are about $800 million more than the industry. it's over 32% of the costs of the airline. getting those down will be essential if the plan is to succeed and, unfortunately, that will mean that employees at american will feel the brunt. but between you and me, brooke, they know this is coming. >> they knew it was coming. they rattled off a bunch of airlines. they've been through this. they filed for bankruptcy and they have since emerged. is there any reason to think that the same won't happen to them? >> absolutely not. i can't say it faster or frequently or often enough. if i'm proven wrong on this one, suspend us. the fact is, continental went through bankruptcy years ago. u.s. airways went through it twice. united went through it for the best part of three or four years. delta went through it before

northwest and northwest was in bankruptcy while merging are delta. so flyers are used to the idea that bankrupt airlines do reorganize into the protection of the courts. american perhaps should have done it sooner. they should have done it more aggressively. they shouldn't be penalized for the fact they waited until now. >> well, obviously best to american and hopefully we won't have to see your suspenders any time soon. thank you live from london for us. presidential candidate herman cain is quote, unquote, reassessing his campaign after allegations of sexual harassment and now an affair have surfaced. what this means for the race for the white house, coming up.

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herman cain's white house hopes are in jeopardy at this hour. he is quote, unquote, reassess saysing continuing his campaign. now as there is an alleged 13-year affair with ginger white. cain talked with wolf blitzer just before her story broke. cain says the woman was a friend, but absolutely nothing more. >> someone who was supposed to be a friend but obviously they didn't see it as a friendship. >> and when you say "friend," i'm asking -- these are awkward questions. was this an affair? >> no, it was not. >> there was no sex? >> no. >> none? >> no. >> and if this woman says there is, she's lying? is that what you're -- >> well, wolf, let's see what the story's going to be. >> just a couple weeks ago, two women publicly accused cain of sexual harassment. he has strongly denied those allegations. he expects cain to make a

decision after reassessing over the next couple of days. let's go to jim acosta now from tampa with our 2012 political update. mitt romney picking up some key endorsements in florida. this is huge for the much coveted hispanic vote. >> reporter: you know, that's right, brooke. while the campaign train is jumping off the tracks, mitt romney has been flying at a comfortable cruising rate for the last couple of weeks. take your pick, whether it's herman cain, rick perry, michele bachmann. mitt romney has basically kept to a strategy of just focusing on the president and picking up endorsements along the way. as you mentioned, he was down in florida picking up key american-cuban leaders and he was playing to the crowd, you could say, and a factory used to process fruit which is a big industry down in florida, romney promised to fight for what he

considers to be the cause of freedom in latin america. here's what he had to say. >> right here, so close to our homes and the changes could lead in either direction, either positive or negative, this is not a time for us to retreat from our principles. this is a time for us to stand for freedom, for liberty, for those who oppose those things, to stand committed to the things that keep american the hope of the earth. >> reporter: now, romney was peppered with a few questions after the news conference but he was asked about the dnc ad that came out this week, brooke. as you know, it's accused the former massachusetts governor as being a flip-flopper and has even taken his comments out of context. it's a charge that the romney campaign was very familiar with. last week, as you know, they

came out with an ad accusing the president of all sorts of things and using some of his words out of context. mitt romney was asked about the dnc act today and he said he basically took it as a sign that he's doing well on this campaign. he said the president of the democratic party, bring it on. brooke? >> quickly, jim, we know romney is in florida. his rivals are concentrating on both iowa and new hampshire. what's the strategy for being there? >> reporter: you know, florida is still kind of an early voting state, brooke. they vote at the end of january, brooke. so after you go through iowa, new hampshire, florida is coming up next on the calendar so the strategy might go inside the romney campaign okay, let's say he doesn't win iowa but will win new hampshire. there's a new poll showing newt gingrich well ahead in that state so florida would be a crucial pickup for governor romney to say in this race and to stay in that front-runner

role. and so florida is very key to their hopes at this point, brooke, if they want to win this nomination. >> jim acosta in florida. thank you. she was 16 years of age when she was forced to be a prostitute. now she's a young woman and she wants the rest of us to know what football legend lawrence taylor did to her. plus, new information in the case of the young man who went missing after her appearance on "the people's court." we're on the case. at liberty mutual, we know how much you count on your car and how much the people in your life count on you.

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football hall of famer face as new round of trouble. he was accused of having sex with a teen and now she is suing him. >> i had a black swollen eye. i did not want to have sex with him. i was crying and instead of comforting me and changing his mind about what he had plans to do with me, he instead acted in

took full advantage of me. >> this is so much more than sex with an underage girl. tell me about it, son sunny. >> this is a law targeting johns and not pimps. often times the johns get off. it's rarely, rarely used in this way and perhaps it will send a message to others that this is not okay even though people think it's the oldest profession in the book, it's illegal and we know that it's not okay and we know that children are often victimized. and so in that sense, i think this is a very different type of lawsuit and it's a very interesting one. >> what is lawrence taylor

saying, if anything? >> you know, what is interesting, his lawyer did come out with a statement and i do think we have a copy of it. and he blames gloria allred. he says, this is all about the media. gloria's intoxication with media coverage for her cases has blurred her vision to uphold the highest level of ethical and moral standards to which attorneys are supposed to adhere. he has pled guilty to these offenses. he's a registered sex offender. and so there's no question that he did, in my view, commit this crime. and we know that she was 16 at the time. so very interesting position taken by lawrence taylor's attorney. >> so lawrence taylor is being sued. but then you also have the man who brought this girl to taylor's hotel room. he was convicted of sex trafficking. he's in prison. is he part of the lawsuit as well? >> he isn't at this time.

he is in prison and serving seven years as a result of child trafficking and taking this child across state lines. but as gloria allred has indicated, he could be sued at a later date. although some are claiming that the reason he was sued is because he was the multimillionaire with the deep pockets. >> you say this time and time again. you've prosecuted sex crimes against children. how widespread, sunny, sex trafficking common in the u.s.? >> it's more common than people think. that's what i speak out at conferences, brooke. it's something that happens every day in the united states. and what i do think is respectable about this lawsuit is that it shines an important light on this issue. it's an issue that we don't talk enough about and i would say it's something that we need to talk more about and perhaps this lawsuit will do that.

open up the discussion some more. >> raise the awareness. case number two, this lone suspect now, this prime suspect emerging in the case of the florida mother who up and vanished after appearing on "the people's court." >> after numerous tips and investigative leads, we are officially naming dale smith, the ex-fiance, as the primary suspect in the disappearance of michelle parker. >> with him being named the prime suspect, this is significant. >> it's extremely significant. oftentimes investigators don't name a suspect, a target of the investigation until they really believe that this person is response nresponsible. because there is wrongfully naming someone in a case like this. my understanding is that investigators are concerned that he refused to take a lie-detector test. they also raided his parent's

home. we don't know what they discovered there but certainly a huge twist. so many people thought this was a random carjacking, that anything could have happened. now we know that the investigators have their suspect. whether or not they can prove the case against them is another matter. >> well, once investigators come forward and say that they have a primary suspect, does that mean that an arrest is imminent or not necessarily? >> not necessarily, although i would suspect that they have done it in such a public way leading them to possible exposure that an arrest is like likely imminent in this case. >> sunny hostin, thank you. the vice president popped up in a rather unexpected place, in iraq today. just as american troops are saying good-bye to their battle posts there. >> been here for a long time. there's a lot of soldiers that aren't here today to see the end. we are going to hear much more from u.s. soldiers headed home the same way many of them came through. kuwait. full of calcium and vitamin d.

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vice president biden is in iraq today. he's there meeting with u.s. troops, iraqi leaders, american diplomats. this is visit number eight for the vice president to iraq and a couple weeks before the almost complete pullout of u.s. forces. only about 150 troops are expected to remain in the country at the end of the year.

most american yints units departing iraq are doing so through kuwait. >> reporter: the war ends several times a day. for captain ben carpenter in texas, it ended on a friday morning after driving most of the night inside iraq. how did it go? >> it went very well. uneventful convoy with is what you want it to be. >> reporter: it doesn't take him very long before he realizes it wasn't just a drive. what does that mean as you make that crossing from iraq into kuwait? >> a sense of relief in some respects, a sense of accomplishment. i know my gunner tapped me on the soldier as we crossed through the fence, the wire there, and he's like, wow, i didn't think that was going to be as big of a deal as it was. but it was something special. >> reporter: karn pen ter first came to iraq during the dark

days of 2006. three yeatours of duty later he feels good about what they've accomplished. >> it feels great. >> reporter: that's a big thing. >> yes, it is. we've been here for a long time so there are a lot of soldiers that are not here to see the end, this company and there's many other companies that are still here do get to see the end and that's something special. >> reporter: so what lies ahead for you? >> well, we finish unloading our equipment and get on a plane and fly home. for me personally, i'll go back and transition back to my family and i'm going to get out of the army shortly and go home. >> reporter: after 8 1/2 years, america's war in iraq is coming to an end, one convoy, one soldier at a time. martin savidge, cnn, camp

virginia, kuwait. >> martin, thank you for that. coming up here, presidential candidates actually getting into the black friday spirit. selling campaign gear at half prices. also, if you can create the whole 12 days of christmas, just how much do you actually think that would cost? we've actually got the numbers. we're going to show you next.

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of the other candidates, if herman cain were to drop out, some of those supporters might flock toward her campaign. let's see what she has to say on that. we've got other issues i want to go through with her, so a lot of talk about with her. we'll have all the other important news of the day with her, including what's going on in iran. big story. iranian storming the british agency in tehran. reminding us of what happened in 1979 when iranian stormed the u.s. embassy in tehran holding american diplomats hostage for 444 days. big story involving iran as well. lots of news as usual. >> as usual. i do just want to go back and have a bit more time with you today. you talked to herman cain yesterday. he's now talking about reasse reassessing his campaign. we heard that after his lackluster performance in the iowa straw poll. how seriously is his campaign really taking what's happened the last 24 hours? >> very seriously.

i've spoken with several sours close to the campaign and they're obviously very, very concerned and no one is more concerned than herman cain himself. he indicated to me yesterday, there would be one moment where you would have to seriously consider dropping out if the toll would be too tough, too hard on his wife and family. he said that. we're going to play the clip at the top of the hour. we want our viewers to hear what he said yesterday, what he's saying today. so there's a lot of news on that front i want to go through. i don't know if you read my blog, but go to the cnn.com/situation room. read what i have to say if herman cain drops out, who wins among republicans, who loses. i've got my own analysis. i'm anxious to hear what you and our viewers have to say. >> the whole transcript of the

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doves. financial group pnc puts out this list every year. cue the song. take a look at how much this stuff costs. number one, partridge in a pear tree, 185 bucks. switch, number two. turtle l doves. you have two turtle doves, $125 each. three french hens. 150 each. four calling birds, not cheap. 520 bucks for a calling bird. rings, gold did pretty well this year. 645 bucks per ring. six geese a laying. 162 per goose. this is what i can't get over. oh, wait. it wasn't the swans. it was the next thing. seven swams a swimming. i thought it was $6300. no? it says 162. whatever. move on. maids a milking.

just $58 a maid if we use minimum wage. nine ladies dancing. that's thot cheap. $6,000. ten lords a leaping. just under $4800 a lord. 11 pipers piping. so, a piper is nearly $2500 and finally, a drummer, 12 drummers drumming, about $2600 each, so total it all, see the grand total for your 12 days of christmas, it is $101 -- $101,119. viola. black friday. s cyber monday. two big shopping events you'd think are free from politics. think again. joe? what do you have? >> you know, this is going to be really -- it's not going to be able to beat that. you may have thought this spending craze between black friday, cyber monday was all

about holiday gift giving, right? also, it is about political donations twochlt of the biggest names in politics got into the act including mitt romney. they held a cyber monday sale, brooke. the romney hoodie normally goes for $50. 40% discount on romney gear if you're so politically persuaded. the "new york post" pointed the story out and also that in order to get the discount on romney's site, you have to give the campaign a bunch of personal information and then they give you a coupon to use. if you think about it though, unlike president obama, romney's got a bunch of hotly contested primaries ahead of him. if he doesn't win, the gear might not be relevant all the way up to general election. sort of a risk. so, the re-election campaign for president obama kicked off this whole thing on black friday, offering 10% off on all purchases of o