i'm don lemon. thank you so much for joining us. we're going to begin with new details in the child sex abuse allegations against the former head of the athletic union. robert bobby dodd was dismissed from his post about a month ago. that's according to a pr firm hired by the aau firm hired to

take care of this crisis. dodd denied the allegations when confronted but the aau saw fit to tell dodd to leave his post and not return. george howe, they must have found something to force dodd out. do we know what that was? >> reporter: don, at this point that does seem to be the case. in fact, we are learning new details as we examine the time line of events. how long did this group know about these allegations before making the call to contact police? now, what we do know is that two men spoke publicly to espn outside the lines to share their story about the alleged sexual abuse that happened back in the 1980s when the men were teenagers. what we learned is that a third person may have also contacted

that group with similar complaints but it all goes back to the timeline. on november 7th and 8th, this group apparently received anonnous e-mails about a source only known as shrimp breath. again, it took a little over a month before the group decided to call the police. we asked the group's hired spokesperson, ron sacks, exactly why it took so long. listen. >> there was no specificity about an individual that they could contact. no name, no phone number, no hard address. neither was there an offer in those e-mails or phone messages to be contacted. they did what they thought was responsible. in retrospect, anybody could quarterback second guess it. if they knew more, they would have called the police sooner. they are very comfortable, they called the police when they believed they had adequate information to verify a need for a police investigation. >> reporter: and, again, sachs makes the point that this group

decided to remove dodd from his post just days after getting these allegations. also, they hired a pr firm to look at all of the information and then make the decision whether to contact police. but, again, dodd no longer the president of the aau. they brought in a new interim president and say that they have not had any contact with him so far. don? >> and we have been reporting that dodd was having cancer treatment. did the aau let dodd go before or after they found out that he had cancer? >> reporter: well, there was some confusion, questions about that. and what we've learned, according to sachs, is that the board learned about the cancer diagnosis after, after they made the call to remove him from his post. again, they say that dodd informed them and we may -- we learned from him that he may have already had surgery. that's what we learned from them recently. >> do we know where he is, george? >> reporter: that's a good

question. we've knocked on several doors here in memphis and checked in orlando at a home where dodd lived or lives at. at this point it's still unclear where he is. but an active investigation right here in memphis. we should learn more from memphis police and expect to hear from them tomorrow about where they are in this investigati investigation. >> george howell, appreciate it. thank you. former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky will have a preliminary hearing on tuesday. there he will be confronted by accusers with harrowing stories of rape and molestation. long-time penn state coach joe paterno lost his job because of the sandusky scandal. now we're learning paterno is back in the hospital with a fractured pelvis. he apparently fell in his home last night. paterno is also undergoing

chemotherapy for lung cancer. in los angeles, we're learning a little bit more about friday's shooting rampage in downtown hollywood. >> oh, my god. are you all right? >> this is sunset and vine. it's one of the most well-known intersections in the world. police shot and killed the gunman soon after this video was taken. he's identified as a 26-year-old. his name is tyler breen. the l.a. times reports that his exgirlfriend said that they had recently broken up after four years of dating. she said he recently started taking pharmaceutical drugs and had been very stressed out. this video was shot by christopher johns. as you're about to see, he's able to distract the gunman which may have saved lives. we're going to play the entire video for you now, up until the moment police fatally shout

breen. >> there's a madman in the street. oh, my god. are you all right? there's a man mad that just shot people. he's shooting people at will. he's shooting people at will. there's a madman there's a madman. hey you [ bleep ] shoot me. shoot me. come on. hey, come on up here, buddy. come here. stop being a [ bleep ]. come on up.

let's do some [ bleep ]. come on. i love you. i love you. i love you. shoot at me. i love you. i love you. i love you, man. i want to die. i thought about you i didn't have any, man. i'm so sorry. >> call an ambulance. >> i'm so sorry, man. i thought of you and you came and you shot people. i thought of you just now.

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yelling at a deranged gunman may seem like a foolish thing to do. i asked christopher johns why he did it. >> people down at point-blank range of the shooter, they were

going to get shot. they were helpless to avoid being killed. me, i'm four stories up and if i could avert it towards me, any gunshots that he would shoot at me, i would have an opportunity to get out of the way. so i thought -- i just made a calculation and i thought it was a good one that any attention i could take away from the people in the street, you know, put it on me, i could probably save my own life. >> he was shooting point-blank at other cars. explain to the viewers how he was holding the gun, sort of hiding it until the cars got right up on him? >> yeah, he was holding the gun methodically, it looked like anything that was moving, you know, you could see the red car goes by, pop, he shoots it.

i told him that he was an angel, sent from god to kill me. i said that was what his mission was. i would stop at nothing to try to get his attention and get it towards me. luckily nobody died. i don't know if i could have done anything more but i wasn't at any moment afraid of somehow being shot or killed or wounded. i was worried about the people on the street and i had a much better opportunity to avoid death from my vantage point. >> he actually did engage you in conversation, even asking you for ammunition. did he ask you for another gun? no, he asked you for an ambulance and more ammo. >> yes. i told him to kill me. i said, please, i'm prepared to die. i thought if i could engage him and at the same time make him feel like i wanted to die, it would kind of take the power away from him. somebody in that situation, they gain their power over people,

they have a gun and they can take your life at any moment. >> he never told you why he was doing it, right? >> no, no. we didn't get really deep. i was just saying crazy things and i wanted his attention and he didn't shoot any rounds at me. >> well, chris -- >> some of the people in the building are mad. hey, why are you trying to get us shot. i said, well, if we were near the windows looking, we'd have an opportunity to -- if he's turning our way and pointing the gun at us, to get out of the way. >> when i spoke with an lapd sergeant, she said that johns did the right thing because he wasn't alt harm's way and he probably did save some lives. it's one of those things that makes you ask, what was he thinking? during last night's gop debate, he tried to make a bet with rick perry. what was that all about? we'll break it down with our political experts. that's next. with roc®retinol and antioxidants. lines, wrinkles, and sun damage will fade. roc multi-correxion. correct what ages you.

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one down, 2300 more to go. i'm just joking. just one more debate to go before the january 3rd caucuses. we've had a dozen debates so far. last night newt gingrich and mitt romney went at it. >> let's be candid, the only reason you didn't become president is because you lost to teddy roosevelt. >> that was pretty brutal.

there was more where that came from. let's talk about the debate and the final sprint of the primary season with two of our favorites. radio host lenny mccallister is in chicago and maria cardona is in washington for us. that was a good line from newt gingrich. how do you think he did overall? >> i think he did quite well. the interesting thing is that romney needed this debate to be a game changer because his strategy of laying low and of going into this process as the front-runner and then not wanting to rock the boat at all, that whole process has been a game changer for him and the exact opposite direction that he wants it to be. so this debate for him needed to be a game changer and it wasn't and the problem is, that momentum is now in newt gingrich's side and he is now

the front-runner. mitt romney did absolutely nothing at all to change that. in fact, i think he hurt himself with some of the comments that he made last night. >> lenny, let's follow up on that. newt had to fend off tough questions, including one about his personal life. how do you think he did? >> they handled it very well. i think everybody tried to come after newt. he handled it well. he said, listen, i'm contrite. i went to god about this. even the comments about the palestinians. he took it from a perspective of, listen, this is where i was coming from as a historian. i was correct as a historian. you can act that way and not from a gop political perspective. i think he did that and did not rock the boat and came out of the whole situation as being the clear front-runner and don't be surprised if the lead in new hampshire starts to shrink for romney. >> so people are talking about when romney and rick perry argued over romney's views on health care reform and challenged perry to put his money where his mouth is.

watch this. >> you were for individual mandates, my friends. >> you know, you've raised that before, rick. >> it was true then. >> no. >> and it's true now. >> rick, i'll tell you what, $10,000 bet. >> i'm not in the betting business. >> wow, maria, $10,000. the first thing i would say is i don't have that kind of money just to bet. maybe you do. but what was romney thinking with that? >> that would have been the exact perfect comeback from rick perry because it would have shown -- and even the comment itself shows that mitt romney is so incredibly out of touch with what reality is for middle class, working families. twitter last night exploded on this and the hash tag, what can 10k buy was trending around the

world. people were saying, this guy has no idea how we live our lives on a day-to-day basis. $10,000 can buy groceries for a family for a year. it's more than what you pay for a public university in a year. i think that really hurt him. >> unless you have like 19, 20 kids like the duggards. >> right. for the average family. >> have you ever bet anyone $10,000? >> no, i've never bet anybody $10,000 but i bet you the obama administration loved that comment for romney. there's a reason they would like mitt romney to be the nominee because he makes these types of mistakes. they know he's not relatable. they know that the republican base is not in love with him. they do not want to face newt gingrich. when you see these types of gaffes by romney, it's why they want him to win the nomination. if he wins the nomination, president obama will easily get a second term. >> as a democrat, we prefer newt gingrich.

obama cleans the floor with him. so bring it on. >> it's starting to change, maria. >> bring it on, baby. >> i bet you the obama administration -- you were thinking about that one, i'm sure. let's move on and talk about donald trump. officially still going to host a republican debate, at least for now, but it's on life support. just two candidates plan to show up. check out this saturday night live skit on it. >> why do you think so many gop has v decided not to attend? >> it's a question of cowardess versus courage. rick santorum, let's face it, the guy's a real loser. he's a lightweight yet he still has the courage to come. mitt romney, rick perry, they should be ashamed of themselves. >> that's a funny skit. is a trump debate a great idea?

>> no, it's a complete sideshow. it's a bad reality show. that's exactly what trump likes it to be. everything that trump does is about donald trump, has absolutely nothing to do with the presidential process and no one should pretend what it does. i think that newt and santorum -- >> life often i am plates art. what are you thinking? would a trump debate be like what you saw at "snl"? would it accomplish anything? >> i don't know how much it would accomplish. it attracts a lot of attention, a lot of buzz, but does it have real political meat? at this point in time, no. >> all right. thank you, lenny. thank you maria. >> thank you, mom. we've got developing news to tell you about. you know they say home sweet home but maybe not so much. we are taking live pictures from panama city, panama. it's been 22 years since manuel

noriega has been to his home. he's been in france. next, find out why his france back home may not be such a good

one.

let's get you updated on the top stories. passengers relieved from the denver to los angeles flight. forced to make an emergency landing in grabbed junction, colorado, after one of its two engines failed. 125 passengers and crew, none were hurt. a blood bath could be imminent in the security of homs in syria. the government warns of an all-out assault. still, the threats did nothing to stop syrians from protesting today. an opposition group says that 23 people were killed in protests with opposition forces. an earthquake killed two people in southern mexico.

people as far as 100 miles from the epicenter felt the quake on saturday. as many as 50 homes were damaged. there are no reports of deaths in the capital but several areas were left without power. this is the developing news that we're following on cnn. it's out of panama city, panama. former dictator manuel noriega has just arrived back in his homeland 22 years after he was removed from office. you're looking at the airplane now where he came over from france. there are shots of the prison where he is going to be staying until he goes on trial. he was extradited from france after being convicted for the killing of a political opponent in panama in the 1980s. he'll go right to prison but could eventually be placed under house arrest because of his age. he's 77 years old. noriega has spent the last 22 years in prisons for drug and money laundering. we're 90 minutes away from

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all right. let's go live and show pictures of the shrine auditorium. buzzing right now. about 90 minutes away from honoring cnn's top ten heroes and then narrowing it down to just one. dock has your backstage pass to cnn heroes, an all-star tribute. >> it's been three years since i was actually up on that stage. i never really had a chance to see all what goes on behind the scenes. i'm doc henley and this is your backstage tour. we're at the shrine auditorium in los angeles, california. there are hundreds and hundreds of people that pool together months and months together of

work to make a two-hour show happen. in this room we have media, pr, production going on behind the scenes. this is where all of the magic happens. this is the first time cnn heroes has put on a live show. how does that make it different? >> you're microseconds away from what could be a complete and utter disaster so you've got to get it and get it the first time around. >> nothing goes as planned but that's what makes it interesting and exciting. >> all of the honorees, they have he become so tight-knit. these guys lives are about to change. >> what was it like when you were looking at all of the celebrity faces that will be here? >> i know who you are, you look really pretty. i don't know who you are but i can't wait to meet you. >> they are out doing this work for what they believe in and then they get here. >> 2011 cnn hero of the year.

>> all right. that airs tonight. make sure you tune in. southern california, other parts of the west bracing for a cold, wet start to the work week. meteorologist jacqui jeras is here to explain. we've seed the shrine auditorium. cold and wet out west? >> well, it's coming. the timing is going to be perfect. temperature right now 60 degrees in los angeles. but the rain showers could arrive by about 10:00 or so. hopefully they will bust out of there before the wet weather comes. this is a strong upper level system. so it's going to bring in a lot of cold air with it. we're looking for heavy snow in the mountains. the rain will be heavy at times into the valleys and coastal areas. we could see hail and water spouts. look how this will impact all of the southwest in the middle of the week and then eventually making its way into the nation's

midsection. the snow is going to be really heavy, into the higher elevations. we could see well over a foot and that's going to make travel very difficult into the mountainous areas of arizona as well as into new mexico. you guys are getting hit once again. across the west we are concerned about freezing rain from late tonight through the twin cities through western wisconsin. freezing fog in seattle. so that will affect the morning commute. >> do you have any good news? >> it's gorgeous here. the sun is shining. it's going to be 60 degrees. >> you looked at me like, what's wrong with you? >> i only talk about where the weather is bad. if i don't mention your city, that means it's awesome. >> thank you. appreciate it. he is the force behind best selling books, movies, and a church with 30,000 members. after the break, td jakes talks about the economy, sex scandals and what some call the war on christmas.

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bishop t.d. jakes is one of the best known bishops and his media empire includes the latest

relationship bible, life lessons, i got a chance to talk to bishop jake and started asking him about the war on christmas. >> we're afraid to say anything to each other and i think it's really unfortunate. and there are certainly some groups of people who are anti-any expression of christianity and have been and probably always will be and though that's disappointing, that's what makes america great. we have all of the diversity. >> let's talk about all of the child sex abuse scandals and what has gone wrong in our society and our country when you hear about coverups and things like this. >> you know something, don, this has been going on for years and years and years and it has come

to the surface historically and one in six boys molested in this country before the age of 18 and this is not a new story. these cases with penn state and syracuse, most of the boys we're seeing abused are not highlighted or with big celebrities or with important or prestige yous people. it's down in the trenches where more than 50% of boys are being molested in homes that they know. i don't want to ee pittize these people as evil, even our relatives have access to our children. it's time for parents to really take the sharp wake-up call and build the kind of communication mechanisms with their children so that we can really check to make sure that this is not happening, not only at penn state where we really need to

stamp it out but also in our own homes and communities. >> i have to ask you about bishop eddie long. you're friends with him. he's a fellow pastor. he settled several misconduct cases filed against him. his wife just filed for divorce. your thoughts on that? first, the misconduct allegations. >> well, i think if there was actually misconduct, the young men involved -- and they are older men and i think it's a little different from a 10-year-old who can't speak for himself. when you get these older boys who can make decisions, old enough to drive a car, to go to war, if there sent a deliberate action done here, we can't take a cash settlement when we really want justice done because it leaveses the public wondering

what really happened. because of theudicial system that we have today, none of us are -- our curiosities are not resolved. because the only people who really know what happened between the boys and the bishop are the boys and the bishop. we will perhaps never know at this point. but we can use it as a talking point to begin to deal with how we interact with leadership, how we interact with people and what our expectations are of people and i think that will dwell. the most recent information that i have read is that bishop long has taken a sabbatical with his wife to rebuild his relationship. i read due to the pressure of all of the media -- >> yeah, he said last sunday in church he was going to take off time to deal with issues with his family. but his wife did file for divorce and said that she stands behind that. she said that it's irreconcilable differences. >> well, whenever i counsel any couple, i try to see them resolve things, because at the end of the day, above our jobs and our careers, i think family

is really important. and if you have -- >> do you know how he is doing? >> i do not know. i do know that he decided to take a leave of absence until i read it. but i'm hoping that they are using it a time to cut off the phone, the tv, and really rebuild their relationship. for people who have profound -- like me, him, and others, it's very difficult to maintain a private life when you're living in a fish bowl all the time. sometimes you have to cut out all the lights and put your life back together and my prayer is that the longs use that opportunity to get it done. >> his latest book is called "the relationship bible". it's a tough economy season. you've been sending us tweets about how to boost your finances. ahead, our financial expert, nicole lappin, will answer some of your questions. not so fast, nicole. we have other news before you. first, dr. sanjay gupta has

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tweets and nicole, are dollars and treasuries, nicole, the only safe havens besides gold? >> in a traditional sense, the answer is yes. but the wackiness of world markets has made it pretty precarious. let's go through that. gold right now is ridiculously expensive and you have to add the sovereign debt concerns on top of that. you're adding u.s. treasuries. good luck with that any way. you also have the risk of downgrading u.s. debt, which is also eating into the u.s. dollar, of course, and that's not as strong as you would like. oh, my god, where am i going to put my money for a safe haven? a lot of people are saying, look to muni bonds and that's better than the zippo that you're going to get in the money markets or the banks any way. i will say it again, don, your

own as they say on gill lee began's island, it doesn't get any better than diddly squat and zippo. next question. zachary writes this, why more vocal and involved in the eu crisis? >> china to the rescue. china is the only country with deep enough pockets to help europe and also bring the continent together and not only would it help europe, it would help the rest of us and help the rest of us. why haven't you been hearing any of that? they've come out and said, yeah, we have reserves, sure, but

guess what, most of the people have to get our own domestic house in order before we come to the rescues of the europeans. >> all right. this one i think is a very serious question because jeffrey is -- jeffrey says, i am unemployed and maybe forced to take early retirement. i will be 59 1/2 years old until next august. so am i not able to touch my 401(k) until i reach that age unless i incur a tax penalty, nicole? >> that's a really good question and, remember, you can't contribute to your 401(k) until you pay off that balance. of course, if you don't repay that balance, you're going to have a penalty that you're going to incur any way. but there is an upside to this. the money that you will probably borrow from your 401(k) will be a lower rate than you'll get on a commercial loan and remember don and remember jeffrey that

borrowing money from yourself is borrowing money from yourself. when you repay it, you repay it to yourself with interest. >> there you nicole lapin, good answers. >> bring 'em! send them on twitter. >> i don't have to say, you're fired! >> not fired, hired, baby. >> if you want nicole to answer your money questions, tweet her @nicolelapin, tweet me as well, @donlemon, and i'll get them to nicole. thanks, nicole! >> thanks, don. the eu crisis threatens to send the economy back into a decline. in 2008, that's when the stock market started to tank. with history like this, our christine romans asked matt mccall from penn financial group if you should get out of the market before it is too late. >>wear not near the lows now, so we're not in that same type of predicament, was there's a good chance we could have a major

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a college basketball game ends in a brawl and a feel-good winner brings home theheisman. let's go behind the sports headlines with jon wertheim,

with "sports illustrated." and here's this week's, featuring mike krzyzewski and pat summitt, the sportsman and sportswoman of the year. not a lot of sportsmanship yesterday at the cincinnati/xavier game. take a look. so, sir, give us the background on this brawl. why are they fighting? and is anyone going to be punished for this? >> not as much as you'd think. this was an inner city rivalry in cincinnati, xavier, and university of cincinnati have had this rivalry. in the days prior, there had been this trash talk on the radio and on twitter, and it continued during the game. what we saw, xavier ended up winning the game, which became irrelevant, but what we had here was basically this sort of combustible moment. when we saw how quickly trash talk, which we think is sort of innocent and part of the game, can quickly metastasize into something ugly. at the end of the game, this had

been building for days, two players were face-to-face, and then in a matter of seconds, if you whatch the video, it's amazing how quickly happened. it was this ugly, ugly brawl. >> the whole thing got worse when an xavier player was unapologetic after the game, but by today, the player had a change of heart. here's the player's comments from last night and just a few hours ago. listen to this. >> that's what you're going to see from xavier and cincinnati. and we was -- we got disrespected a little bit before the game. guys calling us out. we're a tougher team. we're grown men over here. we've got a whole lot of gangstas in our locker room and we went out there and zipped them up at the game. that's what we just did to them. we're not thugs and we're not bad kids here at xavier university. we're all going to get degrees and we're incredible young men and i really apologize for what took place yesterday. >> okay, so we hear that. but really, jon, how serious of an incident is this? can it tarnish the schools, or

does this just make it more interesting for the fans and just sort of riles things up more and makes it more exciting? >> sadly, both. this rivalry will be covered even more next year. i thought this was ugly stuff. and after the game, the coaches talked tough, they said this was really a chance to teach a lesson. they did teach a lesson. the suspensions ranged from one game to six, which is not a whole lot considering this is assault and battery. so it was ugly stuff. and you know, unfortunately, this is what -- here he said he was disrespected, and it's amazing how many bad acts in sports are triggered by somebody feeling as though they haven't been given their credit, they've been disrespected. that's what happened yesterday. and you know, who knows what's going to happen going forward. but six games for cold-cocking someone is pretty minimal in my book. >> and i don't think that "disrespected" is even a word. so let's move on. let's talk about a positive story in college sports.

a new heisman trophy winner. why is robert griffin iii at baylor such a popular guy? >> if you watched the presentation last night, it spoke for itself. as you said, this has not been a great year for college sports. here we have a heisman trophy winner, he's on the dean's list, both his of parents are in the military, wants to go to law school. such an endearing, outgoing guy. and even if you saw him for the first time last night, which many did last night, he just sort of exuded good guyness. andrew lock is a good, worthy candidate as well, but it was nice against this backdrop of what we've had in college sports. >> doesn't he wear like crazy socks? >> superman got the call last night. sometimes it's spongebob. no, you just listen to the guy. he comes off incredibly well, just an endearing guy who is very serious, but has a quirky side as well. he stole the show last night. >> that's good.

that's good. as we say, we hear so many bad stories, so it's fun to have a good, quirk qy guy. the spokesman today gave a statement to cnn, and he denied a, quote, intentional violation, intentional violation of the rules did you notice that, jon? how big a deal is this? what is an intentional violation? >> we're all waiting to hear from braun and not a spokesman. this is a very big deal. this is the first time -- this guy won the national league most valuable player award a few weeks ago. this is a new era star, this isn't one of the old guys testing positive. and you know, we'll have to see what he says, but not once has a positive test been overturned. there's never been a false positive in baseball. so ryan brunn looking at a 50-game suspension. on the one hand, it's good. it shows that major league baseball's testing has some teeth if they get a player of this magnitude, but a player like ryan braun, in his 20s, this is bad, bad news