egg, into one basket. new hampshire. tomorrow our discussion with jon huntsman. aerndson cooper 360 starts right now. good evening, everyone. new developments in penn state child sex abuse scandal. the hearing for the former football coach at the center of it is set for tomorrow. preparations for a media frenzy began just a couple hours ago. they're closing down streets, roping off sidewalks, getting ready for what would be the first step in maybe the biggest criminal proceeding seen in this small town in pennsylvania in decades. the latest on that in a minute. we begin tonight with yet more evidence of a cozy web of friendships, professional relationships and old school ties that may have kept a serial child molester out of prison on the streets and close to kids. if the charges -- and i say if the charges against jerry sandusky are true, and that will be for a jury to decide, he likely had a powerful network of enablers or at the very least

countless people who had powerful interests in not believing the allegations against him. and yes, tonight that circle grew. take a look. this is the former home of thomas horman, retired penn state chief of police. he was living there in 1998. 1998, remember that year. today he learned his neighbor back then just three doors down was, you guessed it, in the blue house, jerry sandusky. that's jerry sandusky's house there. not only were they neighbors, not only did their kids play and ride bikes together, they worship at the same church. this one called st. paul's united methodist. neighbors and fellow church members back in 1998 -- when the mother of an 11-year-old boy with a sexual complaint against coach sandusky. according to a grand jury report she said it happened on campus at a practice facility, sandusky allegedly touching the boy inappropriately in the shower. the investigation included investigators listened in on a

recorded phone call. chief horman closed the case. according to the grand jury report jerry sandusky continued to bring kids on campus and continued to allege lid molest them for years after that. as for the details of why he closed the case, his department isn't releasing them. the entire university is exempt from pennsylvania's open records law. but former chief horman, he's not the only one with prior connections to sandusky. there's the judge, leslie dutchcot, who released san duchky on unsecured bail. she donated to and volunteered for second mile. there's penn state's legal counsel who served as second mile's lawyer, which fired head coach joe paterno who was grooming sandusky to succeed him who said he wasn't told at the time that his right-hand man was being investigated. wasn't told even though tim curley his boss was brought into the group.

plenty of people in position to stop a child molester if that is in fact what jerry sandusky was. but given the opportunity, none of them did. then there's assistant coach mike mcqueary, now on leave. there are important developments concerning him. his story apparently shifting yet again. you'll recall he told the grand jury he witnessed jerry sandusky raping a boy in the athletic building showers back in 2002. according to the grand jury report, he first called his dad, then joe paterno, then later talked to tim curley and gary schultz. he took issue with that account. he claimed, quote, i did stop it. not physically but made sure it was stopped when i left that locker room. now, according to cnn contributor sarah ganim another version of his store is appearing. she quotes what a family friend told the grand jury. this friend sat with and listened to mcqueary as he recounted what he had just seen in the locker room. the friend told grand jurors

that mcqueary did not, in fact, witness the rape itself. mcqueary told him he heard sex sounds and the shower running. then according to his account, a young boy stuck his head around the corner of the shower stall and looked right at mcqueary as an adult arm reached around his waist and pulled him back in. seconds later mcqueary saw sandusky wrapped in a towel leaving. jeffrey toobin and sunny hostin of "in session" on trutv and criminal defense attorney mark geragos who is here in new york. jeff toobin, the fact that now there is this basically third version of what mcqueer may have seen, why are there all these conflicting stories if this is testimony to the grand jury? >> people tell conflicting stories. mcqueary has been vilified for not having taken more steps to stop this rape or to report it, so it would not be surprising if in recounting it subsequently he describes his role in a somewhat

more heroic way. so i am not at all -- it is also true just in the nature of criminal investigations when people tell their stories multiple times they tell it in different ways. it's always a problem for prosecutors. it's not necessarily an insurmountable problem, but clearly mcqueary will be a difficult witness for the prosecution. maybe still believable, but -- >> if he said one thing to police in 2010 but said another thing back in 2002 to this guy who heard his story the first time, that would seem to be a big inconsistency. >> that's a huge inconsistency, and that's part of the problem with the way this thing has been presented so far. they did the summary of the grand jury testimony. they didn't put out what was actually said. the prosecutors did that. a whole lot of stuff we don't know about. one of the reasons why i've railed against this saying there's all kinds of evidence. until tomorrow we haven't seen anything. we don't know anything that's been cross-examined yet. but i will tell you if he's told

one story that is dramatically different, if you say on one hand i saw a sex hand, on the other hand, i saw somebody who peeked their head out and i saw an adult arm, you couldn't get more diametrically opposed and that's a major problem. >> a problem not just in whatever evidence there may be against sandusky but also two other people have been arrested. penn state officials basically because of what mcqueary informed them of. but if he did not inform them that he saw a sex act with just a more general vague thing, then it seems like the charges against them could be tossed out. look, i don't think that what he's saying is that inconsistent. i don't think we're hearing different versions, we're hearing different pieces of the entire puzzle. what we need to look at is what he told the grand jury. >> we don't really know -- >> we don't know. >> we have a summary of what he said. >> well, the summary is by a prosecutor. you can take that and 25 cents

and buy a cup of coffee. >> we have heard this alternate version. >> conveniently left out. which is exactly what you normally have. >> we're going to hear tomorrow, we're going to hear tomorrow. and the bottom line is this is why witnesses of sex crimes don't want to come forward because they become vilified, because they're scrutinized and mike mcqueary is as much a victim. >> why are you a victim if you say on one hand i saw a sex act and somebody's been arrested and two guys, as anderson say, have also been arrested for not reporting that. >> he said he heard something and he saw something. what if they have ten kids. >> i don't see mcqueary as a victim at all. here is a grown man who is seeing very clear evidence if not actual evidence of a sex -- of a child being raped and all he does is tell his dad -- >> but now maybe all he heard was slapping sounds and, you know, which he interpreted as

one thing and didn't actually see anything but saw this boy peek his head around. >> you know what? do more. this is too serious to say, well, i'll talk to my dad. err on the side of protecting children. >> he didn't only do that. he did speak to -- >> we don't know what he did. >> paterno -- >> but he did do more. >> but the version that this other person that's now -- that's been revealed by this other person is much closer and would gibe with what san duskdus saying, this ridiculous term horseplay. should an adult be horseplaying with a child naked in the shower? obviously not. but he's turning all the showers on running around, that could gibe with what this other person is saying mcqueary told him. >> what makes this particularly problematic for the prosecution is that for this incident, as far as i'm aware, the prosecution doesn't know who the boy is.

obviously, the most important testimony in this case would be the victim, the alleged victim. apparently we don't know who the alleged victim is here. and in the other instances the alleged victims will testify and you don't need a mcqueary. >> and tomorrow the other victims -- all of them? >> ten of them. that's extraordinary. >> i don't think they'll do it in one day. >> i agree. >> it's hard to put ten witnesses on particularly about a complicated, embarrassing, awkward set of facts. i would imagine this would go several days if, you know, if there really are -- >> so mark, what would happen? there's the testimony tomorrow and whether it goes a couple days or not, what happens then? >> the judge will decide whether or not there's enough evidence to send this thing for trial. that's a probable cause proceeding. at least in california i always joke if my client is breathing, he's going to get past that and they're going to hold him for a probable cause proceeding. nobody expect anything dramatic where this thing is going to completely unravel and it will

get dismissed. i think what will happen -- i think frankly it's a lot more potentially damaging for the prosecution in terms of locking in testimony and then having at least the cross-examination if it turns out that a lot of the thing that have been said that are out there in the ether aren't true, the prosecutor is going to start back pedaling. i've seen that happen before. >> and this is why, again, and we've said this before on this show, lawyers say do not talk to the media, do not do interviews because it puts alternate versions out there that can then come back on cross-examination. >> even witnesses who are trying in good faith to tell the truth tell things different ways. their memory changes, they're nervous. so every time you tell a story, you risk opening yourself up to cross-examination. and that's why prosecutors always say keep your mouth shut. >> but i think we can't underestimate the fact that ten young men are going public at a public hearing to talk about something that young men and

young women never want to talk about, child sex abuse. and i think when you look at this case -- >> we don't know whether they're going to -- >> we don't know, number one, what they're going to say. >> they're going to say they were sexually abused by jerry sandusky. that's what they're going to say. >> that's not true. because in fact sandusky's attorney has come out and said actually the versions of several of these boys, they've had cordial relationships with sandusky and actually back up sandusky. we actually have no idea, as mark keeps pointing out, this grand jury not even testimony. >> -- they wouldn't be called by the prosecution unless they were going to talk about child sex abuse. >> we're going to be very surprised. >> let's see. >> interesting discussion. nice to have you here, mark. mark geragos, sunny hostin, jeff toobin. add us to your circles, follow me at twitter@anderson cooper. i'll be tweeting tonight as well. mitt romney now says he's the front-runner, but do his claims always fit the truth?

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a lot of big developments to talk about in the presidential campaign tonight. it is getting really interesting. several rough moments today for mitt romney who is now admitting he's no longer the gop front-runner. keeping them honest. a quick check on things that politicians say that often sound like facts but simply aren't. two examples from the debate over the weekend. two claims that came up wanting when we put them to the test. newt gingrich responded to an allegation from michele bachmann that he and mitt romney favor cap and trade. >> a lot of what you say isn't true. i helped defeat it in the senate through american solutions. it is simply untrue. >> keeping them honest, that is simply untrue. whatever you think of cap and trade, it is an nivtive of

letting market forces lower the cost of emissions. here's what gingrich said on "frontline." i think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with the trading system much like we did with sulfur and if you have a tax incentive program for investing in the solutions, that's there's a package that's very, very good. that's something i would strongly support. factcheck.org turned up congressional testimony from two years ago in which the former speaker said he would support it if it was accompanied by incentives for nuclear power and clean coal. there was this from mitt romney. >> let's not forget, only one president has ever cut medicare for seniors in this country and it's barack obama. we're going to remind him of that time and time again. >> keeping them honest, that's not true either. according to factcheck.org, the 1997 balanced budget act which was passed with bipartisan support and signed by president clinton called for cuts over two

year. national public radio spoke with the health care economist for the conservative american enterprise institute. when it comes to medicare we've had a series of cuts year after year, decade after decade. romney's statement also fails to fit -- fall -- excuse me, fates to fate the facts. that interview aired last night. listen to what he said he thinks republicans have been up to lately. >> i think that when i came into office in 2008, it was my firm belief that at such an important moment in our history there was no reason why democrats and republicans couldn't put some of the old ideological baggage aside and focus on common sense, what works, practical solutions to the tough problems we were facing. and i think the republicans made a different calculation, which was, you know what? we really screwed up the economy. obama seems popular. our best bet is to stand on the

sidelines because we think the economy is going to get worse and at some point just blame him. >> now, that's a popular talking point for democrats these days, but it's a pretty loaded charge. it implies that republicans are happy to take this country's economy to its knees so they can take the white house in november. again, a popular talking point, but no facts presented to back it up. let's dig deeper with james carville and rich galin who served as press secretary when newt gingrich was speaker of the house. james, what do you make of what came out of the debate on sunday? newt gingrich has to know he's a republican front-runner, he'll be under a lot more scrutiny, he has a record of supporting cap and trade. for him to claim otherwise doesn't seem an astute political move. >> i guess it isn't. but when you say something like this and have a huge audience, then you try to clean up after that, lost interest and who knows. but i doubt if he'll suffer very much for saying something which was obviously untrue and, as you pointed out, it was a

conservative idea, the idea of milton friedman who is a conservative icon, if you will. so just like the individual mandate was a conservative idea. so i'm a little flummoxed why he wouldn't want to embrace it and become toxic over that. so he out and out dnd something that he'd clearly done. >> do you think that newt gingrich will be the nominee? >> i never thought so before. i'm shaken a little bit. but i think he's getting ready to have a very rough couple of weeks. i think the republican establishment, whatever that is, a lot of people in the republican party are very concerned about this. and i think today we saw a taste of what's coming. i think more and more's going to come. and it's going to be a pretty rough couple of weeks here. >> rich, two new polls today show newt gingrich still in the lead in iowa, but with the lead seemingly slipping, you used to work for gingrich, do you think he'll end up winning the nomination? >> i do not think so. let me correct one thing. it sounds like a small thing but

in washington it's a big thing. i was the press secretary to newt when he was whip. tony blakely was press secretary when he was speaker. but the bigger -- from a tactical standpoint, james and anderson, the republican rules this year are everything will be proportional, all of the caucuses and primaries will be proportional for january, february, march. winner take all primaries cannot begin before april 1st. that almost guarantees, and by design, that this will probably be a long slog. and i just, as we're speaking here tonight, i don't think newt has the underpinning, the money or the organization to be able to go five or six months all the way into california and new jersey on june 5th. >> anderson, just to echo what rich was saying, there's also some evidence at least in the gallup poll that his national numbers are starting to slip. once these things -- if this is

real, i don't know. if the evidence is not overwhelming. but if the evidence continues and they keep coming at him hard, once you start slipping, it's a pretty slippery slope out there. >> yes. let me just say this. six weeks ago herman cain was leading the polls, now he's gone. so six weeks down the road, who knows? >> that's what i just find so fascinating about every presidential race, just that it is a marathon. and somebody's up and seems like the rising star, then a few weeks later, who were they? who was that person? i want to play another moment from the debate on saturday night when mitt romney offered rick perry a $10,000 bet. some people raised a lot of eyebrows saying he's offering such a big bet, maybe it shows how rich romney is or out of touch he is with ordinary americans. let's take a look. >> you were for individual mandates, my friend. >> you know what? you've raised that before, rick. and. >> it was true then. it's true now. >> rick, i'll tell you what,

10,000 bucks, $10,000 bet? >> i'm not in the betting business. >> oh, okay. >> did that strike you as an odd moment, james? >> you know what struck me as romney has all these debates, i don't know how many there have been, eight, nine of them. every debate he holds his cool and everybody comes out and says the same thing, that romney was the guy that could speak better, he was knowledgeable and everything and for the rest of whatever, he's going to be remembered as this moment in this debate. and it's kind of odd, but when you're in his position, you're judged by your worst moment. that clearly was one that he'd give more than $10,000 to take it back, i guarantee you that. >> also 50 bucks to the boys and girls club would have been a much better bet. but romney's got a bigger problem. he's allowed republicans or at least the narrative, as we like to say these days, to be well, newt is doing so well because people think he'll do better debating obama. what the romney people have to do, james, is to get that

changed to forget who will be the better debater, what i need you to think about as you go into your high school cafeteria or into the polling place is i need you to think about who do you trust more sitting behind that desk in that office in that building 15 blocks from where i'm sitting. >> yeah, romney is off his game. and his attacks have changed and his message, he's gotten away away from any kind of message. it was kind of an economic message for a long time. they've got some smart guys over there. but they've got some real challenges. the biggest challenge is these conservatives in combination don't like him, don't trust romney. just daunting to sit down in a campaign and see that your number just never moves. you have sympathy for the guys on the other side sometimes, the consultants, not too much the candidates. but i kind of feel sorry for these guys. nothing they do worked very well for them. >> i think romney's best ally in

iowa is ron paul. >> how so? >> oh. >> i think he's going to do very, very well. and to the extent that the debate help eed perry and miche bachmann, that tends to defuse the vote that was otherwise going to newt gingrich. romney will get his 27, 28% of the moderates in iowa and the rest of it will be more diffused, especially led by ron paul. he may surprise us all. >> before we came on air, i watched a ron paul negative on newt gingrich. i'm not exactly an altar boy when it comes to that kind of stuff, but that's as blistering a negative as i've seen in my life. i don't know who is doing his television, but a well done blistering negative. going on and on and on how effective it is. i'd like to see that in a focus group. there's a lot of charges in one ad. but it was well produced. >> interesting. james carville, rich galen,

we'll continue to watch. syria, security forces recently the crackdown in the city of homs is imminent. more than a year after their son took his own life, tyler clementi's parents are talking about their struggle to come to terms with the loss and how they feel about the upcoming trial.

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in homs, syria, a massacre could be under way right now. the city surrounded by tanks and trenches, water, electricity communications cut off. food supplies reportedly running low. opposition says residents were ordered to stop their protest of the regime by monday night. it is now after 3:00 a.m. tuesday local time. we don't know what's happening in homs or anywhere else in the country because the syria regime won't let us in, won't give us visas, see for ourselves, won't let international observers in either. they've promised otherwise now too many times to count. the promises coming from this regime are lying. activists say security forces killed 21 people across the country today. fierce fighting in a number of

cities. it is now said that 5,000 people killed since the uprising began. this man was one of those 5,000. we told you his story friday night. he was killed by a sniper's bullet in his own home. the video is still hard to watch. you see the bullet hole. a man points to a pool of blood close by. he then follows the blood trail down the stairs. he continues on saying things like we're not safe, this government is murderous, it's killing people, it's killing its own people. and finally the bottom of the stairs we come upon his body. unbelievably over the weekend it only got worse for the family.

this video of family and friends carrying the body to the grave. watch what happens next. [ gunfire ] >> that is exactly what you think it is. the funeral procession itself coming under fire. [ gunfire ] >> al assad security forces are known to target cemeteries and funerals. you can see how these men are risking their lives just to bury this little boy, bury him with a little more dignity than he had in death. bashar al assad won't let journalists into the country, so we have to rely on accounts like this. syrians that risk their lives to tell what is happening there on a daily basis. it is impossible to make contact

with anyone in the city under siege. but i was able to speak to a medical students in homs. to protect his identity, we're only using his nickname abu rami. they were told to hand in weapons tonight or face attack by government forces. have they made good on these threats? >> until this moment there are 12 people who are killed happen today and a crime happened today, the security forces and the militia army, they killed an entire family here. it is very hard situation here to describe it to you. there are many wounded people. there are many casualties. it is difficult to rescue these injured. >> you have some medical training. you have been treating people. what kind of injuries have you seen? what kind of wounds are you seeing? >> some cases the body were some

organs of the body were cutting off and we couldn't make anything to make this blood stop shedding. and the bullet in straight in the head and the neck. they are shooting directly to gain killing access. this very hard to rescue this action. >> it must be very difficult to not have blood, to not have equipment to save these people's lives. what do they say to you when they are dying? >> it's very hard to explain. you know, in some cases many, many people they died between my hands. and when they say to you when they are almost died they say, oh, please, please help me. if he were a father he said to me please take care of my children, take care of my

family. if he was a son, they say to me please take care of my parents. and when their family comes and see what's going on, they don't say anything. they full of encourage and they will continue this way that they are choose by going everywhere and calling for their freedom, calling for to end this dictatorial president. here in syria, we are suffering from this regime every day. >> abu rami stay safe, thank you. >> thank you. >> it's early morning right now in homs, tuesday morning. we don't know exactly what is happening now. let's check the latest on other stories we're following. tom foreman joins us. >> we begin with the transfer of u.s. troops out of iraq. today president obama and iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki declared the war formally over with u.s. occupation ending on

december 31st. the goal for iraq is long-term success. >> this is a season of homecomings and military families across america are being reunited for the holidays. in the coming days, the last american soldiers will cross the border out of iraq with honor and with their heads held high. after nearly nine years our war in iraq ends this month. on wall street investors hope for a possible solution to the euro zone crisis are fading. the dow fell 163 points. eu leaders agreed to a deal in principle friday, but concrete action is still months away. plus intel announced it will miss sales forecasts because of a hard drive shortage caused by thailand's floods. according to "forbes"

russia's third richest man can afford it. and hockey fans are usually used to seeing hats or occasionally squids if you're a red wings fan thrown on to the ice during games. but look at this at new york's utica college, the teddy bears were flying. fans tossed 4500 stuffed animals out there to give to needy kids. when you're stressed out, running around in your home, a little humor can help. a 4-year-old girl did her best to cheer up her dad with a little prank. watch. >> i am sorry, daddy. >> that's okay, honey. you scared the be-jesus right out of me. >> i'm just going to jump out and scare him. >> there you go, tom, scaring her father. >> we adults need that now and then. >> tom, thanks very much. a lot more ahead. coming up a primetime exclusive.

tyler clementi's parents speak out for the first time since their son killed himself. tyler's parents tell jason carroll whether that roommate has apologized to them and whether they're ready for the upcoming trial. there may be criminal charges filed after a brawl. the markets never stop moving.

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tyler clementi's parents speak out for the first time since their son committed suicide more than a year ago. he was a student at rutgers when his roommate allegedly used a web cam to stream video of him in a sexual encounter with another man. after that incident tyler jumped from a bridge. the roommate dharun ravi last week rejected a plea deal that would have kept him out of jail. instead he'll go to trial in february charged with 15 counts including hate crimes. since that day more than a year ago tyler's parents joe and jane have stayed silent while they mourn for their son. now they explain why it has just been too hard the talk, why they're talking now and what they hope happens next. here's cnn's jason carroll. ♪ >> reporter: this is how tyler clementi's parents want to remember their son, doing what he loved best, playing the violin. >> we'll never hear tyler play live violin again. we don't want any parent to have to suffer the kind of pain and

devastation that we've gone through for the last 15 months. >> it's a never-ending process. and it kind of ebbs and flows almost like an ocean. it comes and goes, and it's very overwhelming at times. >> reporter: their son tyler was a promising rutgers university student. he committed suicide jumping off the george washington bridge on september 22nd of last year after his roommate dharun ravi allegedly used a web cam to record clementi kissing another man. his parents won't talk about it, but prosecutors say clementi was still trying to come to terms with his sexuality and was driven to kill himself over fear of being outted on the internet. >> i don't understand how somebody could be so cruel or so mean. you're in a new community, you're trying to make friends, and for whatever reason, someone feels that they need to be better than someone else. >> reporter: clementi's last

message written on facebook, jumping off the gw. sorry. >> it was unbelievable to read it. i mean, for a long time, i didn't believe it. i didn't think that he had done that. i thought maybe was kidnapped or he had run away. you know, all of those things. when they found his body, then i was forced to accept the fact. >> i have gone over it many, many times in my head. and i really cannot come up with a -- i guess because there is no good reason for what tyler did. it was something he did do, and it's something that cannot be changed. >> reporter: now the legal battle over who, if anyone, is responsible for clementi's death. ravi's former friend charged with invasion of privacy for allowing her computer to be used to record clementi struck a deal with prosecutors and will testify against ravi. he faces 15 counts including bias intimidation.

the former rutgers computer student once wrote about clementi on the web writing, quote, what if i catch him with a dude? >> this represents the maximum if you accept it. >> reporter: clementi's parents watched as ravi turned down a plea deal. >> you want to know why he rejected the plea. simple answer, simple principle of law, simple principle of life. he's innocent. he's not guilty. >> i mean, this has been their consistent position all along. and we weren't surprised. and we're prepared for the trial. >> reporter: do you have faith that you will receive the type of justice that you're looking for? >> well, i've said from the beginning that what we want is justice. we want accountability. and i have faith in the court system in the state of new jersey. >> we don't see it here and now, we will ultimately see that justice. >> reporter: clementi's room at his parents' home is still very

much like it was when he left it more than a year ago. do you come into this room very often? >> at times. i come and sit, but it usually makes me very sad. so i don't always. >> reporter: clementi's death has brought new attention to the issue of gay teens and bullying. the family receiving support from around the country. but even with all the support, there is still the pain of loss, one made worse the clementis say, by not having at the very least an apology from their son's former roommate. >> ij it would probably help with the process of healing. i think i can work through it without it, but it certainly would make things easier. >> i would characterize it as i'm heartbroken. i'm heartbroken at what happened, and about the loss of my son. and how it happened. breaks my heart. >> so difficult for those parents. jason carroll -- that was jason

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for a 30-tablet free trial offer, go to cialis.com. and welcome back. let's check in again with tom foreman with a 360 bulletin. >> a funeral for derek crouse was held on virginia tech campus near where he was gunned down. the shooter killed himself a short time later. governor bob mcdonald spoke at the funeral calling him a lifelong public servant. a bloody brawl between xavier and cincinnati could end up in court.

an ohio prosecutor said he'll decide if criminal charges are appropriate for those involved. eight students have been suspended from both teams. four of the cincinnati players apologized today in public for their fans. one broke down. the coach visibly angry said he will not tolerate this type of behavior. >> if my players don't act the right way, they will never play another game at cincinnati. i just told my guys i will decide -- i need to meet with my ad and my president and i'll decide who is on the team going forward. that's what the university of cincinnati's about, period. i told them the way i feel -- i've never been this embarrassed. i'm hoping president williams doesn't ask me to resign after that. >> big uproar in the world of sports. police arrest dozen of protesters who try to shut down ports in several cities, among them on the west coast. they were tied to the occupy movement. and if you missed it live last night, meet the cnn hero of

the year. >> the 2011 cnn hero of the year is robin lim. >> there you go. robin lim was awarded the honor at an all-star tribute hosting by a.c. himself. she's helped thousands of poor indonesian women who had healthy pregnancies and birth through her help at clinics. >> she won an additional $250,000. all the heroes got $50,000 to continue their work. she was so stunned for a long time afterward, i was with her after the ceremony, she was just crying. she could not believe it, she was so thrilled. tom, thanks for the update. now let's check in with piers. >> thanks, anderson. i told you this summer that newt gingrich would be storming ahead as the republican front-runner, you'd probably call me completely crackers. but look where we are now. the i'll ask campaign insiders can the gingrich surge last.

a republican that knows a lot about the rise and fall of a front-runner, rudy giuliani. four years ago he was in the gingrich position and he blew it. and the man who just might run for his old job as mayor, and harvey weinstein. >> piers, thanks. coming up the mayor's christmas card turns head. ♪ ♪ [ engine revs ] ♪ [ male announcer ] oh what fun it is to ride. get the mercedes-benz on your wish list at the winter event going on now. but hurry -- the offer ends january 3rd. [ santa ] ho, ho, ho!

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time for the ridiculist.

tonight we're adding what i like to call a very taxidermy christmas. the mayor has chosen quite an unusual backdrop for his christmas card. someone send this to awkward family photos.com. but i find it less awkward than awesome. it has it all. the mayor, smiling family, snowflakes and the time honored holiday scene of a leopard attacking an antelope. hope you like severed jugular veins. take a look at congresswoman loretta sanchez's card from 2009 signed by both the congresswoman and her cat gretzky. sadly next year the cat was gone but the memories live on forever. it was a tribute to gretzky 1991 to 2010. a lot of people like to include their pets in their holiday cards. here is a card that nbc news

correspondent maria schiavo campo. i don't know what i like better the dog peeing on the christmas tree. look at your photos closely before you send them out. elaine from "seinfeld" had to learn that one the hard way. >> did you look at this picture carefully? because i'm not sure, and correct me if i'm wrong, but i think i need a nipple. >> what? >> see? take a look. what is that? >> oh, my god! >> so when it comes to celebrity christmas cards, you can always count on the kardashians. on her blog -- oh, yeah, she has a blog. khloe writes that christmas has always been a big deal in the family and they always go all out. like this one, chris jenner, kriss kringle, the matching ties and head bands. or how about the easy rider

christmas card from days of yore. you can almost smell the leather. as long as we're going way, way back p this isn't a card but a very festive photo of a very young justin timberlake, garland around his neck and a jacket that shines brighter than the moon. and a christmas box that he's holding higher than he did for his snl video with andy samburg. ♪ i'm going to get you something special, girl ♪ ♪ it's a -- in a box ♪ it's a -- in a box babe >> i think he's funny. speaking of our videos, can we talk about my favorite one of the year, it's the honey badger. let's watch just a little. >> the honey badger has been referred to gi the guinness book of world