>> he does. >> and it's a sound business decision. go ahead. >> well, i was going to say, none of the employees. of course, any employee being interviewed would say this, but none of the employees say they're looking for other work right now. >> i bet not. that's awesome. carter evans, thanks so much, live from the nasdaq market site. "american morning" continues right now. they are penn state. hundreds of students rallying behind their legendary football coach. critics saying his minimum action taken years ago allowed a child predator to go free. >> i don't even know who this woman is. >> herman cain calling sexual allegations against him is false and saying the democratic machine is out to get him. >> bye-bye berlusconi. he heads for the door as italy deals with crashing debt that

could bring down a continent on this "american morning". good morning, everyone. wednesday november 9th. welcome to "american morning". >> lots of news. new indication that joe paterno's 46 coaching career at penn state could be over in a matter of days or weeks. paterno has been under fire in the wake of a child sex abuse involving a top assistant of his. the board of trustees is launching an investigation saying they are outraged by the allegation. meantime a huge crowd of supporters rallied outside paterno's home last night. he was visibly moved by it. jason carroll following developments for us. he's live in state college, pennsylvania. where has this story gone since then, jason? >> reporter: basically it's not surprising you see so many supporters who are coming out in

support of joe paterno. when you think of this man's record, his stellar record for generation, for so many years here at the cool not surprising that some are coming out to say instead of directing the anger at patterno perhaps that anger should be directed at penn state's president. more later. first listen to how joe paterno addressed his supporters last night in front of his home. >> i want you. i want you guys. it's hard for me to tell you how much this means to me with the kids that are victims. i think we ought to say a prayer for them. tough life when people do certain things to you. but, anyway, you've been great. >> reporter: as you know,

despite all the supporters, there's been many calls for paterno's resignation. a lot of his critics here not just folks at this school but alumni but other people saying joe paterno did what he should have done legally but he didn't do enough morally. his son also spoke last night. listen to what scott paterno said last night. >> any discussion about any strategy has not taken place. >> nothing between the university? >> no discussion between the university or joe paterno. >> he's coaching saturday and the foreseeable future? >> yes. >> reporter: you heard that, ali. he'll be coaching this weekend and for the foreseeable future. we'll have to see about that. ali. >> that was fascinating where he said there's been no discussion between the university and coach paterno and nothing has changed. that statement alone strikes me

as a little bit shocking. what do you know about another victim having come forward? >> reporter: that's interesting. yesterday i spoke to a source close to this investigation. and that source confirmed for me that a man walked into a police station just about an hour from here, ali. spoke to a lieutenant there. told that lieutenant that he too had been victimized by sandusky. if that proves to be true through an investigation, then that would make nine victims. and you remember what the attorney general said, the attorney general said that there is a strong possibility that there might be more victims out there. so, once again a man has walked into a police station just about an hour from here and said that he too was victimized by sandusky. >> the attorney general did specifically say because some of these victims they don't know who they are if anybody out there was victimized they should come forward and they will be interviewed. okay. jason, thanks very much. ay son carroll for us in pennsylvania.

herman cain has a message for anybody who thinks he should pull out. ain't going to happen he said. he's fighting back against the sexual harassment allegations. he said could it be the democratic machine behind the accusations. cain insisted he doesn't remember the single mother from chicago who publicly accused him of groping her 14 years ago. >> i have never acted inappropriately with anyone. period. >> joe johns joins us live from washington. good morning, joe. so did herman cain do enough yesterday? say enough yesterday to save his campaign? >> reporter: no, not yet. i mean, your listen to the sound bite. it's like a blanket denial of all allegations that he behaved improperly. he seemed to believe what he was

saying but the he said/she said quality of the story suggests it's now up to cain's accusers to come forward. the accusers making these claims are reliable is the suggestion. the impulse is to long for some kind of impartial fact finding but these accusations go back more than a decade, it's remote. which brings us to cain's remarks about a lie detector test. in the course 30 second or so he said he would take a lie detector test and then he took it back as quickly as he said it. listen. >> as distasteful as it might be would you be willing to do a lie detector test to prove your honesty in something like this? >> yes. yes. i absolutely would. but i'm not going to do that unless i have a good reason to do that.

>> reporter: not clear what he sees as a reason good enough for him to take a lie detector test. there's a lot of controversy, of course, that varies from state to state on tad miss built of lie detector tests. that's another story. it would be interesting to find out, for example, if he does not know sharon, the woman who asserted he tried to grope her and pushed his face into her lap. >> another woman has come forward. her name and face is out there. she wants to get together with all of these women when a have accused herman cain and hold a news conference. >> reporter: right. karen works over at the treasury department. she's considering releasing details of her claims. she said she received a $46,000 settlement from her sexual harassment claim and she's considering getting some of the other women together who have asserted that cain harassed them as well.

she's a woman cain claimed made some comments about her height and the woman represented by washington attorney joel bennett who held a news conference last week to give details about the case. listen. >> i was standing next to her and i gestured standing near her like this, you're the same height as my wife because my wife comes up to my chin. that's the one gesture i remember. >> my client is a very intelligent, well educated woman. she would never file a complaint about an innocent remark like that. my client is 5'2". she's not the same height as mr. cain's wife. and the incidents that were reported to the national restaurant association were multiple, over multiple days. . >> reporter: so for people who

believes herman cain it's he said/she said but there are a lot of women out there making these claims. it won't go away any time soon. >> doesn't sound that way. joe johns reporting live from washington. herman cain's chief of staff is finding to clear his candidate's name. but he got his facts wrong when he claimed that the son of ka n karen -- >> we've come to find out that her son works at "politico". the organization -- >> have you confirmed that? i've been hearing that all day. you've confirmed that now, right? >> we confirmed it with he does work at "politico" and that's his mother, yes. >> except that's not true. josh tells cnn he is a former "politico" employee who left the

news organization in 2010 and he is in no way related to cain accuser karen crashhour. >> election day 2011, a controversial ballot measure going down in defeat. voters rejected that personhood amendment to the constitution. it would have defined life as beginning at conception and therefore make all abortions in that state illegal. in ohio voters repealed a law limiting the collective bargaining rights of state and local employee unions to bloat ohio's republican governor john kasich that championed that measure. ohio voters approved allowing the state to opt-out of health care mandates. and russell pierce was defeated by fellow republican jerry lewis. the recall election was seen on arizona's controversial measures

targeting illegal immigration. a race for governor decided in two states. mississippi lekts phil bryant. also kentucky a democrat steve bashir wins a second term. real concern about the financial is a biflt italy which is europe's third largest economy. this morning the price italy has to pay to borrow money is up to 7%. that's the rate at which other countries have had to seek international bailouts and italy's staggering debt crisis has cost berlusconi his job. he announced he'll resign after italy's next budget is passed. what's the situation in italy right now? >> reporter: well there's very little clarity and that's the reason why traders are selling off these bonds and we're seeing these yields go higher. berlusconi didn't get a majority

in parliament yesterday. he acknowledged that. even thoe won this vote and this is the vote on public finances that has to get pushed through, these are the austerity measures that need to be enacted, even though he won that vote he lost his majority, went to the president and it was announced late last night that he would be standing down. but we don't know when. we don't know what will happen after that. that is the problem here. berlusconi says he wants to push this budget through the senate. that could be as late as the beginning of december. and then there will either be a coalition government formed here in italy by the president or there could be another election and an election really is something that italians do not need at the moment. listen, it was a really chaotic day yesterday here, ali. an interesting shot on the front page of the left wing newspaper here. this is the piece of paper that berlusconi had in his hand yesterday during the vote. let me just tell you exactly

what it says. right at the top there it says 308-8. he needed 316 for a majority. he got 308 of lawmakers to vote for him yesterday. but eight stood against him and you see the word traitor written right at the top of that piece of paper. he goes on to say turn around vote acknowledgment, tender my resignation president of the republic as a solution let's move on. that's when berlusconi acknowledged it was all over that he really needs to step aside. he's a very powerful man here. he said yesterday he would go to that vote and look his betrayers in the eye. what an uncomfortable vote that must have been for some of his lawmakers who voted against him yesterday. >> when we were together last week in cannes we were discussing greece will pale in comparison to how influential

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no comment. >> now is your chance to talk back on one of the dig story of the day. should joe paterno resign? legendary college football coaches are gods. joe paterno, penn state university administrators are powerless in the face of his 409 wins and all the money that comes with him. mr. paterno retire at age 84. joe paterno decides what joe paterno does. paterno was informed back in 2002 coach sandusky was seen having sex with a young boy. but paterno said the minimum required by law. paterno cancelled a press conference on tuesday due to the ongoing legal case but we caught up with him. >> you guys got a lot of good questions and i would like to answer them but i can't now. i'm sorry.

oil have another one soon. >> patterno is beloved. for 46 years of teaching his players about life as well as football. >> i think you've got a tremendous impact on a kid. you're not teaching them facts you're teaching them things about character, teaching them thing about success, teaching them what it takes to get along with other people. >> patterno is known for running a clean program. you don't hear about paying players or falsifying s.a.t. scores. but now his reputation may be harmed. s.a..com columnist writes. we don't know who is legally guilty but several prominent employees at the state university are morally guilty and one of them is joe paterno. should joe paterno resign? facebook.com/er andmorning.

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good morning and welcome back. minding your business, stocks closed higher yesterday but stock futures are trading much lower this morning. dow futures are down 200 points right now. why? because of the instability in europe where markets are down

particular focus on italy where bond yields reached 7% this morning. that's the level at which other countries have had to seek international bailout, investors say a danger zone there for italy. back in the u.s. more help wanted for a change. employers posted more jobs in september than at any other time in the past three years according to the labor department. at the end of september there were 3.4 million job openings. we now know 40,000 people shifted their accounts from big banks to credit unions this past weekend as part of that bank transfer day according to the credit union national association. the movement caught fire after bank of america agreed to scrapped their debit card fee. the head of the hedge fund was find $3 million. the biggest s.e.c. fine levied against an individual.

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this should never have happened. and it must never happen again. >> never again. the attorney general grilled about a botched gun tracking program. what he had to say to the family of a murdered border patrol agent on this "american morning". welcome back. we're crossing the half hour now. your top stories and there's lots of them. he hasn't been charge. not a target of the investigation. but joe paterno may not survive the child sex scandal that involves one of his top assistants. supporters rallied outside of paterno's house. paterno's son calls reports of his father's retirement premature. >> herman cain said all the allegations of sexual harassment against him are false and he's willing to take a lie dedebtor

test. he said the democratic machine is out to get him and he has a message for anyone who thinks he should abandon his bid for the white house. it ain't going to happen. . voters defeating the so-called personhood initiative that would have define life at the start of conception. if passed it would have out lawed performs of birth control and abortion. congress grilled eric holder about the gun running program demanding who will be held responsible for an operation that toledo the murderer of a u.s. bore terrify patrol agent. >> reporter: more than 30 republicans in congress are calling on him to resign over a program that allowed hundreds of ak-47s and other illegally bought guns to stream into mexico. attorney general eric holder now says this about operation fast and furious. >> this should never have happened. >> reporter: that doesn't spare holder from intense grilling by republicans who are fur over a

february letter from holder's aides to chuck grassley. that letter says atf makes every effort to interdict weapons that have been purchased illegally and taken to mexico. >> who will be held accountable for allowing a letter to congress with a statement that many people in the justice department knew was false? >> well, again, i have to dispute with due respect the assertion that people in the justice department knew it was false. >> hoerld says he thought that letter was accurate at the time but now regrets it was sent. but the most pointed exchange came over the murder of bore terrify patrol agent terry. >> have you apologized to the family of brian terry? >> i have not apologized to them but i certainly regret what happened. >> have you even talked to them? >> i have not. >> would you like to apologize

today for this program that went so wrong that took the life of a united states law enforcement agent? >> i certainly regret what happened to agent brian terry. i can only imagine the pain that his family has had to deal with, in particular his mother. i'm the father of three children. >> holler said it would be a mistake to tie terry's death directly to fast and furious. i caught up withholder as he left the hearing. >> when are your going to speak to terry's family and apologize. >> i caught up with senator cornyn who said the program after holder's answers were not acceptable. he's not at the point of calling for holder to resign. >> like that movie castaway. seven missing sailors were strand on a desert island.

a coast guard dropped supplies and food until rescue crews could arrive. the men were on their way to cayman island last week and got lost. everybody is a-okay this morning. >> no word on whether the professor and mary ann was lifted up? >> it was short but pretty darn sweet. listen, first. that was supposed to be a 20-minute fireworks show. but it was over in 50 seconds in scotland on saturday. hundreds of fireworks going off at once. it was a technical error that caused the entire computer operated show to ignite at the same time. >> there was the big finale. >> it was awesome but then it was done. >> costly for 50 seconds. >> if you went back to the car to get something out of the trunk you missed it. >> fun to watch. for the organizers hoping for to it go 20 minutes.

>> rob marciano is in the "weather center". >> you got to get out there by hand. old school. 50 seconds. good morning. listen. some fireworks happening across the mid-section of the country. early snowfall for iowa and wisconsin. this storm brought the severe weather the day before yesterday with that incredible video that one tornado but several reports of tornados across arklatex region yesterday. no injuries. heavy snow from parts of iowa up through wisconsin already several inches of snow on the ground. this is an area that doesn't see significant accumulating snow really until the mid. december. so another unusual snowstorm this time for the midwest and western great lakes. three to six inches in parts ever iowa, six to nine in parts of northern wisconsin. winter storm warnings are posted. ahead of this system, very mild. indian summer like temperatures especially across the northeast after snowstorms. 66 degrees in new york city. beautiful day yesterday.

again today. 73 degrees expected as a high temperature in atlanta. this is alaska. this is a huge, huge storm impacting the west coast of alaska from nome. winds are gusting over 80 miles per hour. and we've got huge storm surge with that. tropical storm sean with 50 mile-per-hour winds not going to impact the u.s. this didn't impact the u.s. either. that asteroid came close. high powered telescopes got a good glimpse of it shooting past the earth at 30,000 miles an hour. we'll be extracting. >> it looks like a big potato. >> if you were to make an asteroid, atari, it looked very similar that we used to shoot down. >> what kind of a camera gets that? how to you take a picture. 30,000 miles? >> radar telescopes receiving radiation, radio waves from that

thing. >> incredible. >> fancy stuff. >> very interesting. >> rob just took a shot of a potato in dark light. >> that works too. >> put it through photo shop. rob you wouldn't do that. thank you. >> just ahead on "american morning" legendary coach joe paterno survive the sex abuse allegations that is rocking his campus. many are asking should he survive. we'll give you three ways to make your money work four. it's this morning's,000 speak money. it's 37 minutes past the hour.

it is 40 minutes past the hour. welcome back. penn state may be setting the wheels in motion to bring joe paterno's 46 year coaching career to an end.

fans and students shoe support for paterno with an impromptu rally outside of his home where the coach talked to the crowd. listen. >> we want joe. >> and i want you. and i want you guys. it's hard for me to tell you how much this means for me. you know with the kids that are victims. whatever they want to say i think we taught say a prayer for them. because, you know, tough life when people do certain things to you. but anyway, you've been great. >> our reporter has been covering the story. welcome. >> reporter: thank you. >> so kind of clear this up for us, because the "new york times" was reporting that the board of

trustees has already worked on a exit plan for joe paterno. his son came out and said we haven't heard anything about that. so what's going on? >> reporter: well, you know, a source tells us that the paterno's fate will be decided by the end of the week. board of trustees, however, they issued a statement last night pretty late about 10:00 that said that they were going launch this investigation, they are meeting on friday and the governor is expected to be at that meeting. so i think that we might have to wait and see what happens friday. however, paterno in one of his several statements yesterday kind of impromptu statements outside of his house where there were swarms of people and supporters he said he may make a statement today. that's a possibility too. and other than that, you know, his press conference yesterday was cancelled. and we were learning that it was coming from the office of the president and the board of trustees actually made that decision for the office of the president so it seems like they might be taking some of the president of the university's

power away from him too, slowly but as we said as this week goes on they are taking over. >> yeah. the board of trustees. i mean you have to believe that some action will be taken against the president of that university but going back to joe paterno, it's his kind of way to kind of ignore what the university wants him to do anyway. so if he wants to speak do you think that joe paterno will ignore what the board of trustees want and just come out and make that statement sometime maybe today? >> reporter: i mean, you're correct joe paterno is known for saying what he wants to say and when he wants to say it and sometimes the opposite not saying what they want him to say when they want him to said. yeah. i think if joe paterno wants to talk today he'll talk today. and i do think that he wants to talk because yesterday when his press conference was cancelled one of -- you know, one of the things that was circulating on twitter and coming from his son is he wanted to hold a press conference and they were searching for a new location to

do that. he could be holding a press conference off campus today. that's a possibility. >> we saw all of those students at his home last night cheering in support of joe paterno. how much support is there, really, for joe paterno to resign? >> reporter: you know, the mood on campus has shifted from monday, sunday and monday to tuesday and today. i think that initially people were just hanging their heads and sad and didn't know what to think. yesterday there was a lot more vocal support for joe paterno. but there's also a lot of people who still disagree with what he did and aren't sure what to think and then there's a vocal group of people who are calling for him to step down. so, there are people who are supporting him and sure they are definitely loud. last night there was a mob of about, i would say more than 1,000 students who circulated from the center of town to old mean which is where the

president's office is to beaver stadium and back and they did that three times until about 2:00 in the morning when they were down to 200 people. the police came out. there were barricades broken. so, there were people in that crowd on both side of the issue. people who are supporters and people who are not. >> the emotion was so high. i was watching espn they were interviewing a very popular penn state player and went on to be the gm of the detroit lions and analyst for espn. they were interviewing him about joe paterno and he broke down in tears and started crying. people love this man. >> reporter: it's true. you know that was actually -- i watched that interview and that was hard to watch. i was really surprised. and, you know, but that probably sums up what a lot of people are feeling. they really don't know what to think. it's taken them a couple of days to get their heads around, how big this is, how bad this is and

they are just tremendously hurt. they feel tremendously betrayed. and the degrees of that hurt and betrayal are different and everybody -- there's a lot of opinions here on campus. but if you have to sum up what the feeling is here that's it. >> it would be interesting to see if joe paterno holds this press conference on his own. people want an explanation. this man is a hero and he's helped out so many students through penn state and you kind of want his feet not to be made of clay. so i guess we'll see what happens later today. many thanks to you, sarah. it's also a story about leadership because he's a man who is a leader. corporate executives look at him and his style of leadership and what -- he's a leader to children, to fans, to people who are sports fans to people who are at penn state and aren't. one of the things people are saying this morning was there a failure in leadership here? did we think that joe paterno was a leader that he is not? >> i was thinking a lot about

his generation. he's 84 years old. these things, you didn't think about back then. you know, maybe it's just so outside of his comprehension that one of his coaches could actually be doing this over a long period of time. you know, he went -- he did what he was supposed to do. he went through the chain of command and told the athletic director what he knew and then he probably said, maybe he said i can't believe this is happening because this is not in my realm of reality. >> doesn't joe paterno have the power to say there's something wrong i want him out. i want him wrong. >> he retired shortly after that. he's effectively out of the football program although continued to use the facilities. it will be interesting -- i want to hear joe paterno. i want to hear what he has to say because it will be interesting. it will be fascinating. >> until he does give that press conference, the words joe paterno can't be uttered without people saying -- >> agree.

>> damage has been done to him. no question. we'll take a quick break. 40 minutes after the hour. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] our nation's veterans are real-life heroes. but when they come home, they don't want a parade; they want a job. the postal service employs more veterans than any other civilian employer. but congress is debating a bill that would force the postal service to fire tens of thousands of vets, close post offices, shut mail processing plants, and disrupt mail delivery. drastic cuts won't fix the postal service and aren't needed. tell your representative to vote "no" on house resolution 2309. it's time to deliver for our veterans -- and america.

49 minutes after the hour. here's what you need to know to start your day. an extraordinary show of support for joe paterno. fans and students rallying outside of his home as a sexual abuse scandal involving paterno's former assistant threatens to end his career. herman cain say he's not

abandoning his bid for the white house. he called four women's accusation of sexual harassment false and insists he'll take a lie detector test if he has to. italian prime minister silvio berlusconi is on his way out. he agreed to resign after losing his majority in parliament. this is only a test. one huge test. the federal emergency alert system will have its first nationwide test today at 2:00 p.m. eastern. just like the ones that interrupted your shows for decades only this time the first time the test has been done across the entire country. heavy d died yesterday. he rose to fame with hit singles and collaborated on albums with my kaenl janet jackson. he was 44. nancy had a great run. nancy grace was dismissed from the ballroom competition. one week short of the

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welcome back to "american morning". we're teaching you how to speak money this week. today we're talking about markets. to achieve your financial goolgs you can't hoard your money in a mattress. >> anybody who has tried to invest money by putting it in a bank knows you're not getting a return. we want to begin by laying out exactly what you can invest in. we're going to give the three main categories. cash or it's equivalent.

bonds and stocks. >> let's talk about cash. cash equivalents are highly liquid, safe investments can be converted into cash quickly for you to live on. these are savings deposits, u.s. treasury bills, cds, money market mutual funds. risk is low but sore the returns. >> the only real risk of those kinds of investments are inflation. if inflation rises higher than your interest rate you lose money. right now inflation is substantially higher. >> you can put money in a cd and losing money. next are bonds. these are basically loans. when you hear us talking about the bond market you're talking about this whole world being market. you're lending money for a fixed rate of return. pretty straightforward. it has ain't rate and when fund will be paid back to you. >> three kind of bonds. corporate bond, bonds of companies that need to borrow money. mun approximately and treasury bond. credit rating of the entity you're buying determines the

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investments and ride out the markets ups and downs you can be successful. >> that's the coordination. that's what to invest in. tomorrow we'll talk about how to invest in these things. these three concepts you're now speaking, mutual fund, exchange traded funds. >> this is in our brand new book, "how to speak money." >> carol there will be a quiz for you during the commercial break. >> knew you were going to say that. i was paying attention. i can't wait for tomorrow because how to invest into those things and like be safe and all that kind of stuff. >> and not get burned. i'm more conservative and he's more risky. that's where we duke it out. >> we asked you to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. the question this morning is should joe paterno resign. this from chris. i don't think joe paterno should resign. it would really be sad if he was forced to resign. blame the person at fault. this from sandra if he reported the abuse to higher ups and he

did nothing he should have resigned and raised hell. there's no way he can say he didn't participate in the cover-up given the power he has. this from michael. put yourself in a parent's shoes and imagine joe paterno saying this to you. yes i know your son was raped. i was told after it happened. but i didn't do it in a told my boss. i realize that police were not contacted but die my job. is that good enough? this from david. without having the same information as the grand jury has how can anyone pass judgment on joe and honestly answer the question. keep your comments coming. facebook.com/americanmorning. we'll read more of your thoughts later and we'll be right back. it, i'll be right back. they didn't take a dime. how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money ? if your bank takes more money than a stranger, you need an ally.

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an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier whizes by the earth. good morning. it is wednesday, november 9th. welcome to welcome morning. saw a picture of that asteroid. may be the size of an aircraft carrier but it looks like a potato. it missed earth. everything else is grim this morning. >> that's true. let's start with penn state because up first the clock may be running out on joe paterno's 46 year reign as penn state head football coach. the school cancelled his news conference. the board of trustees plans to investigate this growing scandal and that board is reportedly trying to manage a paterno exit strategy. hundreds of students and supporters held a rally on

campus late last night. paterno's son said his father does not intend to resign and plans to be on the sidelines on saturday when penn state takes on nebraska. jason carroll is live at state college, pennsylvania. some are actually wondering about that. will joe paterno show at that game? >> reporter: according to his son he'll be there and it was fascinating to see the outpouring of support that started here on campus at penn state, carol. and then moved to the paterno home not too far from here. hundreds of students and supporters showing up in front of that home. joe paterno pulled up in a car. got outside. was very emotional and then he addressed the crowd. i want you to take a listen. >> we want joe. >> and i want you. and i want you guys. it's hard for me to tell you how much this means to me, you

know,. with the kids that were victims, whatever they want to say i think we ought to say a prayer for them because, you know, tough life when people do certain things to you but yeah, you've been great. >> reporter: so you heard those chants, we want joe, we want joe. we heard some of those chants here at the university as well. but despite all that there are a number of critics, including students, faculty, alumni who say joe paterno did not do enough legally, obviously he did what he was supposed to do in terms of reporting that allegation of that sexual assault of that 10-year-old boy to his superior. morally that's the question did he do enough? there's been a lot of critics who say he should have stepped down. there's at that report he would have backed stepping down but his son scott came out and said no way. take a listen. >> any discussion on strategy

has not taken place that's advising joe. >> nothing between the university. >> no discussion between the university and joe paterno. >> is he coaching saturday and the foreseeable future. >> yeah. nothing has changed. >> coaching saturday and for the foreseeable future. carol, you know was interesting about this as well is a lot of folks are saying that this, all of this anger seems to be directed at paterno because he is the face of penn state football. this is the man that everybody knows president but some of these people are also saying if you want to direct anger that anger should be directed at penn state's president. they say the buck really stops with him and what's interesting about that is that tonight the president was supposed to attend a fundraising dinner with his wife. that was cancelled. he won't be doing that. perhaps that's some indication that he's feeling the pressure as well. >> unfortunate for joe paterno the guy accused of doing these

terrible thing was part of the football program. we got word from a local reporter too, jason that joe paterno may well hold a press conference today sometime, even if the board of trustees doesn't want joe paterno to speak out, joe paterno kind of does what joe paterno wants. >> reporter: well, everybody knows that here that this is a man. he is his own man. he said last night and in fact he actually said before last night he said yesterday afternoon when we caught up with him here at penn state very briefly he said he wanted to speak, and said that he would try to arrange something. that was joe paterno himself. then scott paterno said last night in front of the home they are trying to arrange something offsite. we'll see if that happens. >> jason carroll reporting live for us this morning. coming up in just a few moments, roxanne jones will tell us why joe paterno has to go.

>> herman cain is fighting back against the sexual relations allegation. cain said he doesn't even remember sharon bialek, the single mom from chicago who says he groped her 14 years ago. joe johns joins us live from washington. hi there, joe. >> reporter: you get the feeling someone here is operating in a parallel universe. the question is whether it's herman cain or his accusers. cain went into that news conference and basically denied everything. you can describe it as defiant. he appeared resolved and reasonably poisd. you have to judge whether his performance was believable. he looked like he believed what he was saying. if there were any big takeaways he said all insertions that he engaged in inappropriate behavior is false and he suggested one of the women making these claims against him is troubled, apparently talking about sharon bialek who held that news conference and that she was somehow served up by

democrats even though each and every democratic strategist i've talked to they said absolutely love it if he's the republican nominee for president. so take a listen now to herman cain last night. >> the fact is these anonymous allegations are false and do you the democrat machine in america has brought forth a troubled woman to make false accusations. we are not going to allow washington or politics to deny me the opportunity to represent this great nation and as far as these accusations causing me to back off and maybe withdraw from this presidential primary race ain't going to happen. >> cain says americans want a businessman in the white house but this is a problem for republicans because with all the focus on herman cain, the

party's message is about unemployment, the economy, trying to unseat president obama really are not on center stage at the moment it's all about he said/they said. >> it's not just his message on those things that are not center stage but it's the entire republican field message about those things which is why i think some of his colleagues want some clarity, his competitors and colleagues want some clarity and a resolution. >> drowned out. it's very true. it's as if he's not the only one who has been knocked off of message here because if that's all you're talking about, you know, what about the real issues? it's definitely a problem for republicans. >> joe johns, thang. >> our next guest is a friend and colleague of herman cain, karen kraushaar. cnn contributor and democratic

strategist maria cardonna joins us. you have since spoken to karen since she's been identified. what's happened now? what's the situation that she's in. how is she feeling? >> reporter: as you can imagine, this whole situation has been gut wrenching for her. this is something that she, first of all, lived through 12 years ago and has had to maintain her silence up until now. has not wanted to go public. but clearly has been forced to do so. and she had a conversation with our own gloria last night. he had will talk limitedly. what's she interested in doing is get all the other women together -- >> yep >> -- and to get their stories out publicly. as you can imagine as any woman can imagine it's incredibly humi lie at itting to stand there at a microphone and have to talk

about the lurid details about what happened. and the same way that sharon bialek had to do two nights ago. >> sharon bialek said she will participate in this effort. but, you know, we spoke to her after herman cain's press conference where she referred to sharon bialek. then you watched the press conference last night where herman cain made reference to karen kraushaar. what was your response? what was her response to that? >> well, my response personally was sickening. i felt sick to my stomach, ali because frankly ever since i found out that karen was one of the original accusers, my jaw dropped because my experience with her as her former employer is that she, her credibility is beyond reproach. she always exhibited nothing but the utmost of professionalism. she's a classy individual. incredibly hard-working. the consummate team player. in fact the clip that you all

are playing of her down in miami as she's approaching the microphones was when we were in the middle of the elio gonzalez firestorm and i had to choose somebody on my team that i could trust 100% to be the face of ins iran miami and she was the person i chose. it's important to point out the herman cain's accusations that this is a democratic machine. first of all and i think joe pointed this out, democrats would love nothing than to have herman cain as the nominated person on the republican side. but secondly, these two women including karen are republicans. and thirdly, her work for me had absolutely nothing to do with political strategy, with partisanship. she's a civil servant then and she still is. >> let me ask enthusiast. did you when you hired her hear this story? >> absolutely not. i had no idea whatsoever. i do know that even then she was

incredibly grateful to me for having hired her. she often said to me, maria thank you so much, you took a chance on me u-didn't know me. that's all she said back then. ever since we've been in touch since these allegations have come forward and her name was made public she told me maria you now know why i've been incredibly grateful to you for hiring me out of the national restaurant association because you saved me from this monster. clearly she was talking about her terrible, what she went through with herman cain at the national restaurant association. >> what happens when people bring forth complaints and they become public we start to dig into their past and find out a bit more about them. there's at that report circulating when she was at the ins she filed another complaint, a complaint while she was working there that also did allege sexual harassment. what do you know about that? >> that's not true. i had heard that also. and i talked to karen about that. that part is absolutely not

true. she did not file an additional complaint about sexual harassment. what she did do, though, was, i don't know if it was officially filed but she did complain about a situation where, and this was after i left, ali, where she had gotten into a car accident and had requested the ability to work from home. which is something that when i was there as the head of communications director, i had granted another worker in our office who needed it medically and who was a terrific worker as well, i granted her the ability to work from home. >> right. >> when i left and karen went through what she went through with her car accident she asked for the same courtesy and the same privilege and she was denied it. she filed a complaint when she was told no she dropped it. >> i want to correct my question. i misread that entirely. very specifically did not include a sexual harassment complaint. >> exactly. >> that's right. >> it did not.

>> she did not file a sexual harassment claim. it's a separate claim which you are saying got dropped. >> correct. >> maria thank you very much. maria cardonna is a cnn contributor. she had hired karen kraushaar in her day. in 30 minutes we'll talk about the cain campaign and where i want goes. italy's debt crisis is deepening this morning. the country's borrowing costs soaring above 7%. why is that important? it's the rate at which other countries have had to seek an international bailout and there are big concerns that italy is too big for a bailout. it's the third largest economy in europe and the biggest bond market on the continent. this debt crisis is driving italian prime minister silvio berlusconi from power. he announced yesterday he will resign after his parliament approves a new budget. that spending plan includes austerity measures to keep italy

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. welcome back. penn state's legendary football coach joe paterno may soon be out of a job because of the child sexual abuse scandal involving a former assistant that's engulfed his entire program but he still has lots of support on campus. hundreds of students rallied

around the coach's house last night and rallying around him. but not everyone is cheering. a former penn state cheerleader has joined the chorus calling for paterno to resign. roxanne jones says today i'm putting my pompoms down. i'm done covering up happy valley's secrets. and it's time for others in the program to do the same. why do you want to see him go? >> he has to go. he's the figure head and heeder of the sports program and this has happened on his watch. and it's -- there's some -- we don't know all of the fact yet but there are so many places where his system of excellence and integrity broke down and he broke down. >> he technically didn't break a law. he put this allegation up the chain of command and was done with it. in a world where joe paterno is god, is that good enough?

>> it's absolutely not good enough. he doesn't tell his football team to go out there and do just what you need to do to get by. he's never been that kind of person not on the field and not in the classroom. so because he did just what he needed to do to get by legally, you know, apparently, he knows that's not sufficient. it's not sufficient if you're a father or mother of those boys. not sufficient for a football coach. >> last night when we were showing those pictures of those kids surrounding him and our reporter from the local paper said until 2:00 in the morning kids were marching in support for him. he said we should say a prayer for the children who are victim. many this morning are saying they don't need -- wouldn't need a prayer today if they had an advocate then. how can such a powerful football program with so many grownups who are tuned to excellence, how

could they not stop this. >> they didn't care enough. they put the football program and the money it brought in above the lives of those boys. that's flat out what happened. they didn't care. they covered it up. on a basic flefl you ea child being abused you don't have to be joe paterno to know that something is not right there and you need to stop it. you need to stop it and you need to report it. >> that's what's so shocking to me is that the red flags were flashing for so long and the first boy in 2002 who may have been 10 years old, some may have witnessed a sexual assault now he's a grownup and this is now just coming to light. let me ask you about what other alums are saying about this because we see support on campus for joe paterno and a circling of the wagon and the football

program. outside you're hearing corporate branding experts and people who know strategy and sponsorship this whole program is done. you're going see mass heads roll. this is a massive failure of this entire program. what do alums say? >> it is a massive failure. heads should roll. going up to the president. we don't know what the president knew. it need happen and i want sound like the board of trustees is serious about this it may happen. but i want to caution -- i'm proud that i went to penn state, proud of the education. i did extremely well. >> you say you're tired of covering up for penn state. >> nothing is perfect and this is horrible. but i do think just because the sports program has failed miserably they do need to clean it up but i'm not willing to say that the whole program the corrupt and it's horrible and, you know, that it's bean failure because it has not. it has educated and groomed very

fine young men and women, and you can say that and still say that this needs to be cleaned up, it needs to end and people need to be fired. but it's a wonderful sports program and a wonderful university. >> think that's an important point too that's being overshadowed by a very stunning failure of leadership that we're just beginning figuring out how this will play out. roxanne jones, thanks so much. a great piece on cnn.com. ali? >> good conversation. a potential diplomatic disaster for the white house. president obama caught on tape saying something not so size about a key u.s. ally. you name it. i've tried it. but nothing helped me beat my back pain. then i tried salonpas. it's powerful relief that works at the site of pain and lasts up to 12 hours. salonpas. and here's what we did today: supported nearly 3 million steady jobs

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welcome back to "american morning". it's 30 minutes past the hour. time for our top stories. they came to prays joe paterno. students and fans staged a rally outside the home of the legendary penn state coach whose job is threatened by a child sexual abuse scandal. joe paterno joined the crowd briefly telling the crowd he's praying for the victims. herman cain said he's never been inappropriate with any woman and sexual harassment allegations against him are

false. cain called a news conference yesterday insisting the democratic machine is out to get him and that he will not abandon his bid for the white house. uncertainty in italy is crushing investor confidence. the price that italy has to pay to borrow money is up to 7%. this comes after silvio berlusconi says he'll resign after the next budget is approved by parliament. the white house has a rather delicate diplomatic dilemma. president obama and the french president nicholas sarkozy remember bash israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu during a private conversation at last week's g-20 summit and there was a hot microphone nearby. here's more. >> reporter: an open mic during last week's g-20 summit caught president obama and french president nicholas sar kozzy complaining about israel's prime

minister. "i can't bear benjamin netanyahu. he's a liar." the president responding, "you're fed up with him, i have to deal with him more often than you." the rot didn't exactly come to the defense of benjamin netanyahu, whom he most recently saw at the u.n. in september. it's not surprising says the ambassador to israel during the clinton and bush administrations. >> it reveals the inner feelings of the president towards prime minister benjamin netanyahu. i don't think it's any secret that these two leaders have not gotten on basically from their first meeting on. >> reporter: in an oval office encounter this may further revealed the frosty relationship between the leaders. >> while israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 laws. >> reporter: benjamin netanyahu lecturing a stern faced president obama.

today jay carney would not comment on the open mic gaffe. he stressed the president's support of israel most recently in opposing a vote to give the palestinian authority membership in unesco a move france supported. >> america's commitment to israel's security is unshakeable. >> reporter: it's an embarrassing incident as both the u.s. and israel keep a close eye on regime changes in the middle east and on the growing threat of a nuclear iran. but it may have no real effect on u.s./israel relations. >> it's unlikely that the personality differences that have been highlighted by this mic that wasn't turned off will infect the coordination on iran. if you like, the subject is too serious to be affected by personalities. they agree on the nature of the threat and they also agree on the way to deal with it. that is by ratcheting up

sanctions. >> reporter: of course this does give ammunition to president obama's critic, namely republicans who have said he hasn't backed israel enough. we've heard from the pro-israel group expressing disappointment and saying this was an unpresidential exchange. so some election results including some controversial ballot measures. ohio voters by a 2-1 margin repeel ad new law restricting the collective bargaining rights of state and local employee unions. it's a blow to ohio's republican governor john kasich who championed that measure. arizona voters recall russell pierce the lawmaker that sponsored the state's strict immigration law requiring police to check the immigration status of anybody they stopped. and mississippi voters defeated the personhood initiative that says life begins

at consemg. the proposal could have outlawed abortion and restikted some forms of birth control. a phil brian will succeed hailey barbour. >> in kentucky democratic governor steve bashir was elected to a second term defeating his two opponents by a wide margin. now is your chance to talk back on one of the big story of the day. the question for you this morning should joe paterno resign? let's not mince words. legendary college football coaches are gods. mr. paterno retired at 84. joe paterno decides what joe paterno does. but maybe not now. according to a grand jury report paterno was informed back in 2002 jerry sandusky was sexually assaulting a young boy in the

shower. but he told the athletic director the minimum by law. paterno wants to explain. the university won't let him. >> can you tell -- >> you guys got a lot of good questions and i would like to do it. i can't do it now. we're going try -- i'm sorry the press conference didn't turn out. i'll have another one soon. >> still, paterno is beloved for 46 years he taught his players about life as well as football. >> i think you've got a tremendous impact on a kid. you're not teaching them facts you're teaching them about character, you're teaching them about success, you're teaching them things about what it takes to get along with other people. >> paterno is known for running a clean program. you don't hear about paying players or falsifying s.a.t. scores. not penn state, not paterno. but now his reputation may be harmed. sa.com columnist michael rosenberg writes we don't yet

know who is legally guilty but several prominent employees at the state university are morally guilty and one of them is joe paterno. so should joe paterno resign? facebook.com/americanmorning. i'll read your comments later this hour. >> still to come, herman cain denying he sexually harassed anyone insisting he's not about to give up his bid for the white house. >> the brains of autistic children. could size matter when it comes to this disorder? it's 37 minutes after the hour. [ artis brown ] america is facing some tough challenges right now.

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welcome back. four women now claim they were sexually hard ra lharassed by h. cain insists none of it is true. for anyone who thinks cain should end his bid for the white

house the candidate says simply it ain't going to happen. >> the charges and the accusations are absolutely reject. they simply didn't happen. they simply did not happen. >> all right. so where does the cain campaign go from here. i have two conservatives in the house. let's ask david fromm, will glaze. you wrote part of the wrob with herman cain he's had no executive experience in government whatsoever and that maybe he shouldn't be in the campaign because of this. now we have a new twist that doesn't speak to the executive experience thing, this is a whole other legal of problem. what are your thoughts? >> now he's running for the job he really wants. i don't think he ever planned to be seriously president. this isn't a presidential campaign. he's running for the role of

conservative martyr. the person who is beset by the liberal media, by people who bring him down because of his proud ideology. that's a lucrative role. sarah palin made a large fortune out of it and a game that conservatives are willing to play to the detriment of real world politics and governance. >> he went all in as you like to say in his press conference yesterday. he used language that i want to you listen to because this one stuck out. let's listen to what he had to say. >> with respect to the most recent accusation, i have never acted inappropriately with anyone. period. >> that's a bold and broad statement one that most of us couldn't ever make in life which now inactivities the idea that if he actually ever acted inappropriately with anyone now he's not only dealing with these

accusations but this could make him a liar. >> that wasn't the only example. herman cain made a habit of painting a bold box and say i live in this box. then says i'm over here to the right. he's done it with substance on the border fence and abortion and now doing it in his press conference with these sexual harassment claims. he said he would take a lie detector test. that's a bold claim. it makes dave's opinion and mine worthless. how will that lie detector test come out. >> what would be a better way to handle this? >> that's a great way. i don't know we can look at the politician whose face ad sex scandal and said he had his ts crossed and is dotted. bill clinton's camp didn't decide ahead of the time let's challenge the definition of "is." should the truth be for him or

against him. >> we have sharon bialek who has come forward. and karen kraushaar who she has acknowledged she's the person who was in that initial complaint that we talked about. and they are talking about getting together with the other two women and going public with this. this thing at some point continues to snowball out of control unless herman cain does something to stop it. >> there's nothing he can do to stop it. he's challenged people. he's called implicitly called the other people in the case liars. so they will now step forward to defend their reputations. and will all be transfixed. when you ask the question how should he have handled this? he should have ran for mayor of atlanta or governor of georgia. he should have, had he been serious about a political career gone through the steps that make a political career and dealt with the charges that arose from his business life and earlier place made whatever apologies were necessary, reconciled with people to the extent necessary and done not in the glare of

first time political campaign but in a serious way the people interested in real world politics really have to do. >> ali, i want to challenge david on this one thing. herman cain's fault is not his lack of executive experience in the public arena. he has an impressive resume. herman cain's fault and by the way he has run for office before he ran for senate in georgia his fault is he's completely unrepaired. he has a linebacker of knowledge. that's not a correlation to his lack of experience in the public arena. he's not prepared to deal with these issues. >> if that's meant to be a corrective, if that's meant to be like a feature rather than a bug i'm not sure it's much of one. he's tremendously ignorant. one of the ways you become less ignorant is wielding these kind of public responsibilities and seeking them in a serious way. he's not serious. he's not running for a job. he's running for a place in the

conservative pantheon of personhood. >> the two of you who are conservatives, what does this do for that part of the conservative movement that is doing what you said, david, they are feeling this might be a media attack or a liberal attack on conservative values. do those people who have now in greater numbers been raising money for herman cain and supporting him, is this going last very long or do they fine themselves somewhere else to park themselves >> the air goes out of that balloon very slowly. it took 2 1/2 years for sarah palin to lose altitude. there will be a suspeconstituenr herman cain for a long time. >> there's not another place for this crowd to move to. there will be a circling of the band with a gonzaga. some for legitimate reasons and some for illegitimate reasons. we have a habit in the conservative base of rallying

around people like sarah palin and michele bachmann who for some reason put a charm on the electorate. >> he brought his charm back a little bit in the press conference. >> we'll see if key hold it up. >> carol? >> i was like really into that. i wish it could go on. it may be the key to autism. researchers say the size of the autistic brain may explain what causes the disorder. elizabeth cohen will explain. it's 47 minutes past the hour.

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here's what you need to know to start your day. an extraordinary show of support for embattled football coach joe paterno. fans and students rallying outside of his home as a sexual abuse scandal involving paterno's former assistant threatens to end his 46 year career. herman cain says there's no way he's abandoning his bid for the white house in a news conference he called the four women's accusations against him false insists he'll take a lie detector test if he has to. silvio berlusconi is on his way out. he agreed to resign after losing his majority in parliament. his resignation will take place after italy's next budget is approved. you've heard it on the radio or tv, this is a test. for the first time ever a test of the emergency alert system will be made nationwide at 2:00 p.m. eastern time today. previously the test was conducted by states and local communities never from coast to coast at the very same time.

seven missing mariners were discovered on a deserted pacific island between hawaii and australia. usa coast guard air crew dropped boxes of food until rescue crews could arrive. the men were reported missing last week. everyone is okay this morning. and this is nasa video of that smacking into the earth la night, it's the size of an aircraft carrier and at 6:28 eastern time last night it came within 202,000 miles of our little blue planet, that's closer than the moon. you're now caught up on the day's headlines. "american morning" back after a short break. ♪

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children with autism. these researchers looked at seven boys with autism who drowned and they did autopsies on their brain and compared them to the brains of children who died who did not have autism. they looked in one particular area, the prefrontal cortex and that's the area where language and communication develop, all the things that are unusual in autism. what they found is that in the boys with autism, they had many, many more neurons. about 67% more neurons than the boys who didn't have autism and their brains were much heavier. and the thinking is that perhaps what's going on here is that having too many neurons in this area makes it hard for the brains to develop normally. >> so, what does that mean for maybe unlocking the mystery of autism? >> the first question that the researchers asked is, when do these neurons develop? the answer to that is they develop prenatally. they develop when the child is still in their mother's belly. autism is starting, perhaps,

really when a mother is pregnant. it's not a matter they come out and how they are raised and it's really something that starts in utrow and hopefully they can confirm these findings and hopefully this will lead to some treatment for autism some day. >> for the moment, no treatment, not sure what causes it. maybe this gets us further. what is the best advice for parents who are watching this who suspect their children might be on that autism spectrum. >> the best advice for parents is watch your child. if you're concerned your child is not developing like other children bring the symptoms to the attention of your pediatrician. the earlier that you get your child in treatment. the better. don't wait until they're 4 or 5 or 6. if at age 2 they're not communicating the way other children are, pay attention to that. if you go to cnn.com/empowerpatient you'll see links that will show you actual videos of children with

autism and compare them with children who don't have autism and all sorts of links where you can get services for children with autism. >> if you have a good pediatrician, they're pointing this out already for you. asking you questions to assess out in the first couple of years where your child is on the development track, right? >> that's the way it is supposed to work. there have been some concerns that not all pediatricians are doing this and parents raise concerns and some pediatricians say don't worry about it, all kids develop at a different rate. you know your child best. if you feel that something is not quite right here, listen to that inner voice. >> if a pediatrician tells you, he's a boy, he'll talk eventually. stand up, walk out the door and get another pediatrician. >> if you're still concerned, go get a second opinion, absolutely. >> thanks, elizabeth. we asked you to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. should joe paterno resign? this from joanne, if joe paterno

is forced to retire, this will kill him. joe has done so much good for the nittany lions and he is such an incredibly good man. this from eric, he should resign because he failed to protect children when he could have. here's a wonderful opportunity for a large university to demonstrate that there's something more important than football. and this from donna, okay, let me get this straight, no one, i mean, no one called the police on this sick puppy when he was raping that little boy and it's okay and those people cheering him on. i'm sick. where is the support for the child whose life is ruined forever? keep the comments coming. facebook.com/americanmorning. very passionate responses this morning. good hearing from you. >> i got an e-mail can you find for roman's numeral how many telephones in the sports building and why no one picked one up. the crisis watch across the pond. why italy's economy may have just hit the point of no return as the prime minister heads for the door. it's 56 minutes after the hour.

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question of survival. i'm christine romans. with the growing sex scandal at penn state be the end of joe paterno after 46 years after the university's beloved head football coach. herman cain fighting back denying he ever sexually harassed anyone. he is saying the democratic machine is out to get him and he has a message for anyone who should step aside. skipping right to the grand finale. an entire fireworks display goes up all at once on this "american morning." here you go, carol. >> thanks, ali. >> ali is my secretary today. >> thanks for running these off on the copy machine for me, ali. >> it is a wednesday.

you know what happens on a wednesday. it's not monday and good morning, everybody. it's wednesday. >> new concerns that italy could be the next domino to fall because the price that country has to pay to borrow money is up to 7%. >> a lot of people think that is a great thing, but for a government, it's not. this is the level at which other countries have had to seek international bailout. there are concerns that italy's problems are too big for a bailout. this news coming one day after silvio berlusconi announced he will resign after italy's next budget is approved by parliament. what is happening in italy affects the u.s. stock futures are down sharply. dow futures up by nearly 200 points. our other big developing story this hour. joe paterno's storeied career as football coach could it be history because of this child sex scandal involving a former top assistant? >> we love you, joe! of course, still an awful lot of love for him.

hundreds of students and supporters rallied outside paterno's house last night in the face of these growing calls for him to resign. >> we want joe! >> how are you guys? it's hard for me to tell you how much this means to me. you know with the kids that are victims whatever they want i think we ought to say a prayer for them. tough life when people do certain things to you. but, anyway, you've been great. >> that loving support may not be enough to save paterno's job. early on "american morning" roxanne jones a former penn state cheerleader said paterno's reporting sex abuse allegation up the chain of command amounts to a tragic failure of leadership. >> it's absolutely not good enough. he doesn't tell his football team to go out there and do just

what you need to do to get by. he's never been that kind of person, not in the field and not in the classroom and so because he did just what he needed to do to get by legally, you know, apparently, that's not sufficient. that's not sufficient if you're the father or the mother of those boys. it's not sufficient for a football coach. it's absolutely horrible. >> in the meantime, penn state administrators will appoint a special committee to investigate child sex abuse allegations involving that former coach jerry sandusky and charges that school officials tried to cover it all up. >> jason carroll is following the developments for us live in state college, pennsylvania. good morning, jason. a lot has developed since yesterday morning with paterno going out in public for the first time and the possibility of another accuser, another victim. what's the latest on the ground? >> well, you remember yesterday there was supposed to have been a press conference here at penn state and that was suddenly canceled because higher ups at the university put a squash on

that. but joe paterno is his own man and when we ran into him out here yesterday afternoon he had indicated that he wanted to talk and perhaps he would be able to do something later. that later ended up being last night in front of his home as you saw that video. all his supporters coming out and screaming, joe, joe, joe and joe hushing the crowd and telling them that his heart goes out to the victims and that prayers should be said for the victims. there was always a report out there yesterday that perhaps joe was going to be forced to step down. perhaps, ali, before this weekend's game. well, scott paterno came out last night, as well, and said that report is not true. take a listen. >> any discussion has not taken place with anyone that is advising joe or joe himself. that's all i can tell you. >> nothing between the university. >> no discussion between the university and joe paterno. nothing has changed. >> as far as you know, he's coaching saturday and for the foreseeable future?

>> yeah, nothing's changed. >> while a lot of the attention focused on joe paterno, some of that criticism and attention is being focused on penn state's president, graham spanier, calls for his resignation, as well. despite all the calls of resignation, another legal development which is focused, of course, on the center of this investigation. jerry sandusky. as you know, he's accused of molesting eight boys, but i spoke to a source close to the investigation who confirmed to me that a ninth victim has come forward, a man who said he was victimized by sandusky, as well. this falls in line with what the attorney general was telling us on monday, which was basically that give on the fact that sandusky had access to young people for such a long period of time, it stands within reason, at least in her eyes, that there might be more victims out there. ali? >> jason, thanks very much. jason carroll in state college, pennsylvania. herman cain is fighting back. he says allegations of sexual

harassment by four different women are false and never happened and to anyone who thinks he should pull out of the race that is not happening yesterday. cain called a news conference yesterday insisting a democratic machine is out to get him. he doesn't even remember sharon bialek, the single mom from chicago who accused him of groping her 14 years ago. >> i have never acted inappropriately with anyone, period. >> cain says he's willing to take a lie detector test to prove that he's being truthful, if he has to. one of herman cain's previously anonymous accusers has now come forward. a communication director for the treasury department. she calls cain a serial denier and says she has all the documents from the harassment claim that she filed against cain in the late 1990s confirming she received a $46,000 sexual harassment

settlement in 1999 from the national restaurant association. >> kraushaar wants to meet the other accusers. gloria allred the attorney for the victim sharon bialek says she believes her client would be willing to do that. >> believe >> murkowski believes that cain should drop out. and with all the attention being focused on the sexual harassment claims against cain, the republican primary race is virtually fallen off america's radar screen. it could be a real challenge for the party to find one candidate everyone could rally around. our next guest, well, it's up to him to beat that challenge. ryan, joining us from rnc headquarters in washington this morning. welcome. >> hey, good morning to you. >> good morning.

you're dealing with some tough stuff these days. you wauc you watched herman cain's press conference yesterday afternoon. do you think he's effectively dealing with this crisis? >> he's trying to address it and talk about it and i think he has to do that. i think we can all agree on that and allegations are always serious in campaigns like this, especially these kind of allegations, so, he has to deal with them and he said he would continue dealing with them. so, i would suspect that he will. now, i think you know as far as refereeing and saying who can run and who can't run, that's really not the role of the rnc chairman. i said this before, i think primaries are tough and that, you know, if you look at where the president's come himself through a very difficult primary with hillary clinton through the end of june, if you look at most of these new governors around the country, which there's a lot of them, they all came through very tough primaries. i think they work in the end and it's a way that the public vets

candidates, it's what happens. >> this is something different. david said something different. cain is now running as a conservative martyr. if that's true, at what point does that start to hurt the republican party brand? >> you know, i think this is an individual problem that in a campaign that needs to be dealt with, whether, you know, how this all shakes out can change depending on the crisises or what each campaign will deal with over time or in the history over primary battles. i think the way they turn out is that you have a candidate that ultimately survives and that candidate's stronger. and i think you'll have complete unanimity around a republican candidate. you have almost 70 mer % of the american public saying the country is on the wrong track and, therefore, i still see this as a real great opportunity for a republican to be in the white house.

>> well, yeah, going back to herman cain for a second, i mean, he's talking about these sexual harassment allegations. let's say that all five of these accusers, these women get together and they hold that news conference and they come out and say, this is what we accuse mr. cain of doing. this is what happened. at what point after that sort of thing happens does herman cain have to step aside? >> well, carol, first of all, i mean, these are decisions that each campaign has to make. you know, i'm not in the decision seat to be able to referee you know, who runs, who doesn't and how a campaign should operate, how they should respond. it's really not the role of the rnc chairman. my role is to make sure that we have a functional, operational national republican committee that is well funded and that can be the support to the next republican president of the united states, which i would still tell you, you know, this president is in peril, the economy is not where it should be and by his own standards, the president should be defeated, by

his own standards. so, you know, all of these things come and go and they will come and go. but in the end, this is going to come down to president barack obama versus a republican nominee and i guarantee you, carol, six months from now, eight months from now, this is going to all be ancient history and we're going to have to have the next conversation, which is who should be the next president of the united states. >> well, let's talk about president obama and maybe some of his supporters because democrats are probably crowing this morning about what happened in the state of ohio. ohio voters didn't like sb 5 which limited collective bargaining rights for public unions and they voted it down resoundingly. is that, how big of a rebuke is that for republicans? >> well, i think democrats should be intellectually honest about what happened last night. i mean, the reality is on issue 2, the reunions prevailed on

issue 2. but on issue 3, on the question in a battleground state, in ohio, we can all agree it's a crucial state. >> let's go back to issue 2 for a second and what happened there and the outcome. i mean, is this a rebuke for republicans? did republicans overreach when they tried to kill off all collective bargaining rights? not only in ohio, but in wisconsin, too? >> well, i mean, not at all. i mean, the reality is, this is about big labor and this is a matter of getting voters out to the polls. but what is your concern, you can't leave out issue 3. what should concern these folks is that on the issues that matter to 2012, the issues that are going to be on the ballot in 2012 which is ohio in a bellwether state. many union workers came out to vote last night. i think we can all agree on that. they did vote down on issue 2, but then they came back on the same ballot on obama care, which is a question related to barack obama --

>> and the individual mandate. >> that came overwhelmingly the other direction and said, you know, i don't like the direction this president is taking us in regard to health care either. >> i think that everyone has to be intellectually honest here as far as what happened. look, wisconsin has already won two separate major elections confirming the leadership of scott walker. you know, you look at the the people running in the state senate in virginia. look at the governor in kentucky. you want to talk about that. yeah, a democratic governor. you know what, he campaigned against barack obama. the democratic chairwoman went to mississippi and said the road to the white house goes through mississippi. >> there was also a conservative measure in mississippi. >> guess what, the republicans won about everything on the ballot in mississippi. the point is, it's a silly thing to say, but, nevertheless, she

said it. >> i don't think we'll agree. thank you so much for being here this morning, we appreciate it. >> all right, thank you. all right, still ahead, thousands of students taking to the streets of london saying they feel betrayed by sky high tuition fees. these are live pictures you're looking at. we have a reporter on the ground. we'll talk to them when we come back. still ahead, fireworks fail or the best show ever. want to see 20 minutes of pyrotechnics. it's caught worldwide attention this morning, we'll show you. ship wreck in cast away. seven men stranded on a desse desserted island. a superstorm of epic proportions. alaska bracing and rob marciano has the details on that. it's 14 minutes past the hour. treat you like a policy, not a person.

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cloudy and 80 coming up later today. rob marciano is in the extreme weather center. good morning, rob. >> good morning, guys. let's look at what is going on in the 49th state of alaska. a superstorm hitting that state, especially on the western side of it. here's some video and give you an idea of what these folks are enduring. looks like a hurricane, except it's snowing, too. winds gusting well over 80 miles per hour. the reporting station from nome has been cuput. we had reports of structural damage and power out and folks along the immediate coastline have been advised to move onshore. because this thing is so long and such a fetch of wind off the be berring sea. look at the size of this thing. go business yond the scope of our actual satellite over 1,000 miles in width. some of this energy will traverse into the northwest as we get towards the end of the week. just be aware of that. little closer to home, a

snowstorm, yeah, but not that much in the way of accumulation or wind. still, for this time of year in parts of iowa and wisconsin, it's really, really early. chicago seeing rainfall here and winter storm warnings are posted for parts of northern wisconsin, six to nine inches there and three to six in parts of iowa. all the snow is moving out. reports of six inches just southwest of des moines. really, it could be early to mid-december before you would see significant accumulating snow. yet another unusually early snowstorm. else where everywhere east of the mississippi. indian summer continues and 65 degrees in new york city. enjoy it, rain is on the move towards the i-95. guys, back up to you. >> couldn't last forever, right? thanks, rob. kind of like the movie castaway, except tom hanks wasn't around. seven fishermen were found somewhere between hawaii and australia. they were last seen a week ago

and then they never showed up, again. a coast guard airmen saw the men frantic. they dropped boxes of food and supplies attached to parachutes and that could tie them over until rescuers could arrive by boat. they're just fine this morning and they are back on dry land. you generally don't want the words fireworks and technical glitch in the same sentence, but this could turn out okay. hear me out. weekend firework show in scotland was supposed to be 20 minutes long, perfectly orchestrated but thanks to a computer glitch all the fireworks went off at once and they were all done within 50 seconds. here it is for your entertainment. >> oh, my gosh.

apparently the crowd took it all in stride. no one booed or asked for their money back. video has gone viral. local congressman says all the publicity is "the best thing that happened to the town for years." >> what a great finale. that's what you wait for anyway. >> if you're watching it, this is great, where is the rest of it? now is your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. the question for you this morning, should joe paterno resign? legendary college football coaches are gods. joe paterno, penn state university administrators are powerless in the face of his 409 wins. and all the money that comes with them. mr. paterno retired 84. joe paterno decides what joe paterno does, but maybe not now. according to a grand jury report, paterno was informed back in 2002 that coach jerry sandusky was sexually assaulting a young boy in the shower. paterno did tell penn state director and that is the minimum

required by law. paterno wants to explain, but the university won't let him. >> you have a lot of good questions and i can't answer them now. i'm sorry the press conference didn't happen, we'll have another one soon. >> still, paterno is beloved. for 46 years he taught his players about life, as well as football. >> i think you've got a tremendous impact on a kid. you're not teaching him facts, you're teaching him things about character and you're teaching him things about success and what it takes to get along with other people. >> paterno is known for running a clean program. you don't hear about paying players or falsifying s.a.t. scores, not penn state, not paterno. now his reputation may be irrevokably harmed. michael rosenberg writes, we don't know who was legally guilty, but several prominent employees at the state university are morally guilty

and one of them is joe paterno. should joe paterno resign? facebook.com/americanmorning. facebook.com/americanmorning. i'll read your comments later this hour. stocks showing big early losses as the time prime minister silvio berlusconi eyes the door. flaws in the apple iphone. we'll have that for you. it's 23 minutes after the hour. ♪ [ multiple snds ng melodic tune ] ♪ [ malennounc ] at northrop grumman, makthworld a feplace. th's value performance. northr gruan.

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it's 26 minutes after the hour. minding your business this morning, the crisis in italy deepens this morning. right now the price that country has to pay to borrow money is up to 7%. that's the level at which other countries have had to seek

international bailouts. this comes one day after italian prime minister silvio berlusconi will step aside after the next budget passes parliament. the concerns on italy, in particular, weighing heavily. stock futures down sharply and dow futures off about 200 points right now. the market for stocks opens at 9:30 in the east, in about an hour. apple's app store may not be as safe as you think. a notable computer security researcher says he was able to get an app past apple's screening process, an app that allowed hackers to gain control of your iphone. it allowed them to steal the photos, read the contact list and send texts. so far apple not responding to this security flaw. soon, you'll be able to knock out your holiday shopping why you wait for the train, plane or bus. what will they think of next? sears and kmart are rolling out virtual shopping walls. the ads feature toys with a qr coat for each item, all you do is scan the code into your cell

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london bracing for a show down on the streets. students protesting tuition hikes and police under pressure to maintain control. something's got to give on this "american morning." good morning to you. welcome back to "american morning." it's 30 minutes past the hour. time for your top stories. embattled penn state football coach joe paterno feeling the love from students last night at a rally outside his home. he spoke briefly to the well wishers saying he is praying for the victims who were allegedly abused by his former top assistant. jerry sandusky charged with

sexually assaulting at least eight young boys. critics say paterno didn't do. the board of trustees meet on friday and they're planning a special investigation. herman cain says he's never been inappropriate with any woman and sexual harassment allegations against him are all false. cain called a news conference yesterday insisting the democratic machine is out to get him and that he won't abandon his bid for the white house. and the white house is not commenting on an embarrassing diplomatic problem for president obama. at last week's g-20 summit an open microphone picked up a conversation that he was having with nicolas sarkozy about benjamin netanyahu. sarkozy is heard saying, "i cannot bear netanyahu, he is a liar." the president responding, "you're fed up with him, but i have to deal with him even more often than you." the office of the french president and the israeli prime minister also not commenting. happening right now, london bracing for yet another

showdown. students coming out to march against tuition fees that have tripled. take a look at those live pictures. they are expecting, what? some 10,000 protesters to show up and, of course, the last time students rallied in the streets because of tuition hikes, there was violence. so, london authorities are hoping things will be more peaceful this time. phil black is live in london for us this morning. good morning, phil. >> student protests here still in the west end of london and there is considerable -- as you say the first major on this issue seems the disruptive process and it is also the best major student protest since the riots that took place in the city over the summer. so, some 4,000 police officers on the streets. you can see them over here escorting the crowd along and

we're also seeing within this crowd, undercover police officers carrying placards and dressed as the protesters. one of the key goals for the police here today is to ensure that this crowd of some several thousand students keeps to the agreed route through the city. but they really want to avoid is stop this group from meeting up with the "occupy protest" movements that is in the center of the city near london stock exchange. these protesters here to try and link up with that group. the police have made it very clear they're not prepared to tolerate that, they're not going to let that happen. but so far, everything has been pretty calm here in london as it stands. back to you. >> we apologize for the nasty sign signal, but you see phil black is walking down the street there and that's probably why it is praking up and the weather doesn't look so nice in london either. those tens of thousands of

students out there. >> young people protesting tuition hikes. we'll see what happens. hopefully it will stay peaceful. a controversial initiative goes down. a personhood amendment to the state constitution that would have declared life begins at the moment of conception. the measure would have outlawed abortion in effect in mississippi and restrictive forms of birth control, too. >> mississippi still has a republican in the governor's mansion. phil bryant won the gubernatorial race defeating johnny dupree. bryant will succeed haley barbour who was unable to run again because of term limits. a big victory for organized in ohio. state and local employee unions. it is a blow to ohio's republican governor john kasich. he had signed the measure into law, but it wasn't scheduled to take effect until after yesterday's vote and now it won't take effect at all. still ahead, so many talented grads and so few jobs.

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jobs plan and some of those measures, it's been a political hot potato, quite frankly, in washington. what do you want to see your government do to provide more opportunity for you, aaron? >> well, let's talk about some of the specifics. so, the american jobs act that the obama administration put forth is designed to basically do one thing, that's create jobs. and there are some provisions in there that relate directly to young adults. so, for example, later this week congress is going to be talking about a part of the bill that actually provides incentives for employers to hire veterans. unemployed veterans and young veterans, for example, have a very high unemployment rate above 20%. and, you know, this relates to sort of the broader issues that we're talking about which are the number one concern for young people regardless of political party and you mentioned this is a political hot potato is jobs and making college education more affordable. you know, we recently did a study called the state of young america with our partner that

looked at all the economic challenges facing young adults and i think, yes, the numbers are startling. 17% unemployment for young adults, but one of the trends that doesn't get talked about is the real potential for this generation. this is a generation that is serving in iraq and afghanistan that is incredibly entrepreneurial and has potential to be great. >> when you talk to ceos, sometimes they say the thing that keeps them up at night is the lost generation of young people that don't have the first and second job when they're 21, 22, 23 that is the basis for them getting the good ideas that will grow companies and grow ideas down the road. when i talk to hr executives, they are actually tremendously excited by your generation because you're an ipad generation. you don't know you can't do it. you've seen new technology come and go, it's institutional almost or intuitive almost technology that generation x or baby boomers have to learn. so, there are reasons to be excited about your generation. but, aaron, interesting you're

going to washington because we may be in an era where looking to government to create opportunity is going to be much more difficult. so, what is your generation going to do to create opportunity yourself? >> well, i think you bring up a great point about entrepreneurship. we did roundtables with young adults everywhere from community college students to young soldiers to young professionals and the thing that we heard over and over and over again was this desire to start a business and this entrepreneurial speared and at the same time also barriers. so, you know, whether it was access to credit or whether it was entrepreneurship, education or student debt. so, we think we can combine these two things. yes, young people can be drivers to our economy and the government can also play a role in reducing some of these barriers. we actually put forth a set of proposals with a partner called young entrepreneur council called the

youthentrepreneurshipact.com and lays out increased capital for young people who want to start a business. student loan for increased entrepreneurs. these are very concrete things that can actually jump start job creation and put young people back to work. >> so, i want to get your thoughts on something quick. a few months ago, the chairman of the president's jobs council and he runs ge, he co-wrote an op-ed that said there are more than 2 million open jobs in the u.s., in part because employers can't find workers with the advanced manufacturing skills that they need. we hear this again and again from corporate america. we know there are 3.4 million job openings over all right now. the labor department numbers just came out. so, are we in this country, is part of our crisis that we aren't training our young people and educating our young people in the right fields? that we have for so long encouraged people to do what they love or want to do and take on a ton of debt to do it, but we haven't focused our young

people on the knowledge-based economy that is going to be the way the country grows going forward? >> absolutely. this idea that there are jobs out there that are not being filled is really a question about american competitiveness and whether we're giving our young people the opportunities to succeed. you look at a program like pell grants that provide young income young adults over 9 million the opportunity to go to college and get that training whether it's community college or more vocational focus. that's a program that is actually creating opportunity and helping to train our next generation. you know, talking about cutting that program goes exactly the wrong direction. we need to be investing in those young people and investing in the american economy so that, you know, not just my generation, but my siblings have this opportunity to succeed and the economy can continue to grow. >> it also raises another discussion for another time, do you just continue to subsidize the tuition bubble, though? are you just taking government moment and throwing it at a

system that is gobbling up our money and throwing it on the debt. i am happy to see that there are some surveys that 77% of all of you guys still think that you can achieve the american dream, that's how we'll end it on the bright note. aaron, thank you so much. aaron smith. thanks, aaron. here's something cool we want to show you, voices from woodstock at "occupy wall street." ♪ that's david crosby and bill nash playing for protesters. they performed two protest songs and encouraged the crowd to keep up the fight. your morning headlines are next. about 45 minutes after the hour. s treat you like a policy, not a person. instead of getting to know you they simply assign you a number. aviva is here to change all that.

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46 minutes after the hour. here are your morning headlines. live pictures of london students storming the streets right now. protesters, they're protesting sky rocketing tuition hikes. police are under pressure to maintain control with the riots over the summer and similar violent protests still fresh in the country's memory. markets open in 45 minutes. right now on track for a big drop in the market open. u.s. stock futures are down sharply after the bond rating rose above a critical 7% level. that is the rate at which other countries have had to seek an international bailout. at a news conference yesterday, herman cain called four women's acuzags of sexual harassment false. embattled penn state football coach joe paterno still has his supporters but after 46 years as the head man in happy valley, he could be out in a

matter of days or weeks because of the child sex abuse scandal involving his former top assistant. locked out players have asked for one last bargaining session before today's 5:00 p.m. deadline. the players snubbed the latest contract offer and all games through the end of this month have been canceled. this is a test, this is only a test. for the first time ever, the test of the emergency alert system will be made nationwide at 2:00 p.m. eastern time today. previously, the tests conducted by states and local communities, never from coast to coast. that's the news you need to start your day. "american morning" back right after this break. [ umpire ] strike 3. you're out!

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diversity. not just in the executive ranks. in the industry. and, you know, there were times as an african-american female i was truly the only african-american female in the room. >> reporter: then left that loneliness to follow her heart. >> i'm an electrical engineer by degree, so, technology has always been at the heart and soul of who i am. but animation and multi-media is my passion. as a kid growing up watching fat albert and cosby kids, i'm seeing something that, you know, mr. cosby created and said, one day, i want to own a company that knows how to do that. >> reporter: now she does. >> the biggest success so far has been the release and launch and shipment of our first console video game, which is the black college football video game experience.

what we constantly kept hearing and seeing in the industry were, you know, not enough content that reflects the urban character and those that were there, they were not portrayed in a very positive, in a positive light. so, our intent was to provide some different type of content into the market segment. >> reporter: up next, a documentary and then -- >> a dance-base, music-based video game on x-box 360 utilizing kinect, playstation 3, as well as wi oori. >> reporter: jackie concedes it's an uphill battle and embraces it. >> i'm an african-american female and every day i know that i've got to get people to see me, to see me and not that i'm an african-american female. >> soledad o'brien, cnn, reporting.

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london students storming the streets right now protesting sky rocketing tuition hikes. police are under pressure to maintain control. there are two groups here. the students that are marching to protest higher tuition and then police are concerned that they are marching toward an "occupy wall street" group when those two merge together they want to make sure it doesn't turn to violence. >> when you saw the camera out, you'd see it is actually quite a large protest. i think phil black was saying, 4,000 people involved in this thing. but you can see something is going on there right now. the camera has moved in a little tighter. >> the last time this sort of protest took place, they had riots in london, right? they certainly want to avoid this this time. >> austerity around the world and the way different governments tighten the belts, they pass the cost on to their citizens and their students aren't happy about higher tuition and paying more for an education in the uk. >> as you can see, the crowd is

to the bottom of your screen and then police you're seeing there. you may not think that looks like a big crowd, mostly police and people interspersed. they stopped the crowd at that point. they're concerned that they're going to meet up with the "occupy" people and that these few thousand people who are meeting up with occupying. >> they expect 10,000 people. we'll keep our eye on this protest in london. we asked you to talk back on a question today. our question this morning, should joe paterno resign. this jaum jay. joe didn't let the system down, the system let him down. he believes in the system and followed its rules by reporting an incident to his superiors. this is from shooter. remember what happened with the duke lacrosse team? let all the facts come out before calling for a guy's head to be chopped off. this from timothy, apparently wins, money and the insanity of college sports trump protecting innocent children. this from michael, powerless?