that was sara ganim updating us.hink what she was saying at the end is actually prosecutors were hoping to bring the venue or bring in jurors from another county but it was actually jerry sandusky interested to have the case tried right in that particular county. we'll see if they're able to, in fact, have a jury made up of people who don't have already an opinion on the case. by the way, sara ganim, won a pulitzer prize for her reporting on this story. >>> got to take a hort break. just ahead, a goej george student faces federal weapons and drug charges. her defense? she likes blowing things up. that sounds reasonable to me. >>> our "get real" a high school football star walks the stage at graduation. kind of get a brutal punishment instead of getting his diploma. we'll tell you why. >>> and the team's heading in. margaret hooper is with us, and penn, welcome, welcome. here's margaret's playlist, coldplay "clocks." ♪ >>> the ramones "i want to be sedated," doesn't that sound relaxing? nice to have you, thanks for be

sara ganim a reporter for the patriot news and she's following the case closely.at the beginning of the case. >> reporter: that's right, that's the amazing part of the story. he's been suspected and been in the news, his mother has been saying for more than a year and even testified before a grand jury that she witnessed strange behavior between jerry sandusky and her son about 1995, 1996 and beyond. and he denied it. he's denied it for more than a year. he denied it when he testified before a grand jury according to jerry sandusky's attorney. we don't have that actual testimony. when this trial started 11 days ago, matt sandusky was sitting with the family with dottie sandusky and appeared to be a potential defense witness. joe amendola told jurors they might hear from matt sandusky. he was even sequestered with other defense witnesses at the start of that trial. now, it was interesting and where things started to seem like they might be changing, is that he broke that squest trags and came back into the courtroom listened to victim number four who mentioned matt

cnn contributor sara ganim is live outside the courthouse in bellefonte, pennsylvania.ry from matt sandusky's lawyers. quote, matt sandusky contacted us and requested our assistance in arranging a meeting with prosecutors to disclose for the first time he is a victim of jerry sandusky's abuse. this has been an extremely painful experience for matt. why didn't matt sandusky in the end become part of the prosecution's case? >> reporter: we don't know why prosecutors didn't call him in the stand. it's my understanding this meeting was after the prosecution initially rested on monday of this week. so the defense was already presenting their case when they had this meeting. that's my understanding. now, they had a chance for a rebuttal case. after jerry sandusky's attorney rested yesterday and they declined to present any evidence. we don't know why that is. however, you know, matt sandusky has been denying that he was a victim in any way of jerry sandusky for many, many months. actually almost a year. and he even testified before the grand jury that's investigating jerry sa

can to keep them from having that kind of access but we simply don't know the answer to that. >> sara ganime continue this verdict watch in the 48 counts that sandusky is facing. thank you, sara, live in front of the bellefonte courthouse. if he is convicted, he could face 500 years in prison. nfrmts a little more than an hour the president of the united states, barack obama, will address the gathering of the latino leaders in florida. expected he will talk about the new immigration policy because of that's a hot topic in that group. he's trying to court the hispanic vote as is his rival mitt romney. just four years ago, at the same place promising hope and change to his hispanic voters but it is all about immigration right now. senator marco rubio has taken to the front of the podium and has been speaking in spannish back to english. he's talking immigration. >> that's why enforcement process are important as part of any reform. i also think we have to reform our legal immigration system. i tell people all the time single greatest contributor to illegal immigration is a burdensome, bureauc

sara ganim is a cnn contributor and a pulitzer prize winning journalist for "the harrisburg patriot newsly three days of questioning. that seems pretty quick for such a high-profile case. >> it's actually about a day and a half if you really look at it, two full court days, and this was a lot shorter than all of us expected, including probably the judge since he had a lotted this entire week for jury selection, scheduled opening statements to begin on monday and yesterday about 3:00, 3:30 they had a jury seated. and they started a little bit late the day before. it really took them only a day and a half to get 12 jurors and 4 alternates. >> are there concerns about the makeup of that jury considering half the jurors and the alternates have penn state connections. is there a concern about that? >> i think a lot of onlookers have been talking about that. it's interesting though, if you look at those who were dismissed who did not make it onto the jury, there were a lot of people, a majority of people who went in and either said they could not be fair because of what they knew about the cas

in the courtroom this morning, sara ganim, who took the stand today?rd who called a hot lynn that the prosecutors set up after jerry sandusky was initially arrested and all of the media attention came about in november. he testified to acts that are similar to what we have heard from the other two alleged victims who took the stand in the previous days. following him late this morning was the first alleged victim who testified that he actually was not forced to perform graphic sex acts on jerry sandusky. what he testified to was much more scaled back, and i have to say on cross-examination, i think that it was the first time that joey amendola seemed to get a little ahead, and got to the point where he got this person to admit that it was not until after he heard that there were other accusers and that jerry sandusky had been accused before and that it evolved. he was good on the stand during direct examination, but when he was questioned by jerry sandusky's attorney, the tone started to shift. >> and what about jerry sandusky? what has his demeanor be

sara ganim, thanks. prosecutors estimate one in three residents attends, graduated from or works for penn state university. >>> well, it's never made it into space, but the space shuttle "enterprise" right now is still making its final voyage up and down the hudson river. live pictures now as "enterprise," we talked a lot about this shuttle, was the first-ever space shuttle orbiter that was built for nasa, and it's making this slow river ride atop a barge heading to its new home in manhattan, and that will be the ""uss intrepid"" sea, air, and space museum. former aircraft carrier, by the way. lizzy o'leary is tracking its trip, smashed shuttle wing tip and all, right, lizzy? >> reporter: yeah. it had a little run in or one of the wings did, just the foam on the edge with what would be kind of a wooden support on a bridge. so it got a little bit dinged up on this trip, maybe fitting because this, as you said, this shuttle has never made it into space. you look at some of its sister ships -- there's the p

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cnn contributor sara ganim reports that matt sandusky talked about alleged sexual abuse at the hands in a 25-minute audiotape to police. but he said he feared perjury charges because last year, he told a grand jury nothing inappropriate ever happened. meantime, the jury is talking. two jurors told salmoneloledad they witnessed. one said jerry sandusky couldn't hide his expressions in court. >> i didn't see anything in the victims toy lead me to think they were not credible. but i also took a look at sandusky while he was watching them testify. and it seemed to me he was kind of reminiscing of the victims. >> what do you mean by that? >> well, he would kind of lean in towards them and pick his chin up a little bit and just kind of -- like he was thinking about the victims and his behavior with them. >> that struck you as creepy? >> yeah. i would say. a little creepy. >> sandusky was convicted on 45 counts. he'll likely spend the rest of his life in prison. soledad, those jurors believed those witnesses. >> yeah, they said very, very credible. that was the interesting thing. and all of

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