after hearing from angry alumni rodney erickson said the school wants to honor paterno but not for his conduct in this matter. tamron? >> thank you. now here's brian williams with what's coming up tonight on "nightly news." >> coming up, in a business where perfection is the ideal, modeling, we're going to

patriot-news" first exposed the scandal back in march, and at the time, current president rodney ericksonas the second in command at the school, but he insists he knew nothing until reading the grand jury report in november. joining me now by phone, sarah ganim, reporter for "the patriot-news" in harrisburg, pennsylvania. sara, people think that excuse is pretty flimsy. >> reporter: yeah, don, what happened yesterday at the announcement for the new head football coach, the one that will replace interim coach tom bradley, who replaced joe paterno when he was fired just a few days after the jerry sandusky scandal began to unfold, so rodney erickson was asked this question by reporters at an intimate question-and-answer session after the announcement. he was asked the question, how could penn state officials, such as yourself, be caught so off guard when this was news that, you know, people in pennsylvania were talking about, and that was re-pubshed in several publications back in march. he said what he has said all along. he said, i did not know penn state was involved in this scandal until

also, eric erickson is here. eric, you weren't part of the previous conversation.r thoughts on tonight's debate. >> i was really surprised how forceful gingrich -- i guess i shouldn't have been. he was forceful in the beginning. he locked in all of the momentum of monday's debate with that first question. there are two questions that have been in the news all week. the one was his marriage. the other was romney's taxzs. romney flailed around tonight. he knew the attack was coming. newt gingrich knew the attack was coming and made it an attack on the media, had the crowd applauding, they booed romney on the tax issue. >> do you think that open, the fiery moment in the debate, maybe won it for gingrich in south carolina? >> every candidate had good points tonight. there were good peaks and good valleys for all of the candidates. rick santorum probably gave out the best attack on gingrich. it's the one every behind the scenes had been whispering around, but gingrich had a good comeback and closed well on romney ffs taxes. all people are going to talk about is taxes, i

. >> i want to check in with eric erickson. you have not been a fan of governor romney and his campaign. how did you think he did and how did you think newt gingrich did? >> they did badly. romney got the better of newt over all. the winners were santorum and paul. largely because they stayed out of the fray. the pej lnt of the runners allowed santorum and paul to shine. so many questions, to wolf's credit, were on domestic policy issue and issues related to florida, instead of domestic issues. rick santorum had the best night of any of the candidates on the stage. >> donna brazile, it seems like this race is going to continue beyond florida. >> oh, there's no question, anderson. florida is very important for republicans. this is the last contest before the all-important debates. there are a couple places, but mitt romney knew he had to come in, he had to look newt gingrich in the eye and stare him down. he did very well, but santorum probably did himself good tonight by, you know, not only standing his ground but taking his fi

erickson says he's not had time to speak with paterno since then. sandusky has acknowledged showering with boys but denied molesting them. >>> an alabama judge has signed an order declaring natalee holloway legally dead. the girl's father filed a petition last summer to make that declaration, hoping it would bring closure for the family. her mother said she opposes the move but will not take legal action to stop it. holloway was 18 when she was last seen during a senior trip to aruba in 2005. no one was ever charged in connection with her disappearance, and her body has never been found. >>> this morning, actress heather locklear is waking up in the hospital. paramedics rushed her to the hospital yesterday after her sister called 911 for a medical emergency at locklear's house. a hospital spokeswoman says her parents are at her house caring for her. locklear stayed overnight for evaluation. no word on what caused that medical emergency. locklear starred in "t.j. hooker," "dynasty," and "melrose place." >>> family and friends held a vigil for a teen

erickson is trying to repair the image of the school following the child molestation charges last night. he laid the blame for the school's crisis on jerry sandusky. he said "it grieves me very much when i hear people say the penn state scandal. this is not penn state. this is the sandusky scandal." >>> now an update this morning startling video of possibly u.s. marines urinating on dead bodiesand a warning, the video is very embrace. graphic. >> have a great day buddy. >> u.s. military is investigating and right now they say the clip appears to show a sniper team urinating on killed taliban fighters. they believe the soldiers could possibly be from the third about a battalion second marine regiment based at camp lejeune north carolina. the video is is authenticated and the men could be charged with war crimes. afghanistan president's is calling for the harshest possible punishment if they prove to be u.s. soldiers. >>> check this out. suspected drunk pilot made a perfect landing. this is not on a runway but in a tree. yes. but no one was harmed. the plane was left to spin in the air he

john aft john avlon and also erick erickson, the editor in chief of redstate.com. ruben from "the washington post" and we have at host of "get right" with lenny mcalister. john, want to start with you. i like that insider thing that cnn did but it's not reflective of the polls everybody else is doing including cnn, so what's a girl to think moving into the last 36 hours? are the polls right, the insiders right? >> as you just said, the insider poll is just that, a poll of insiders in the state of what will happen and does reaffirm a lot of the other large polls that is that mitt romney is in poll position. ron paul can't be counted out. his supporters are so intense. caucuses are low turnout high intensity affairs. rick santorum getting the doughnut hole is a surprise. 60% of the turnout last time in 2008 which made mike huckabee the winner -- >> erick erickson, they often say and i'll repeat it that there are only three tickets out of iowa and the third ticket is pretty sought after and most people were assuming that it was going to be either rick santorum vying f

and they argued over hilda erickson.y otto, but she broke off the engagement sometime between christmas and that day, january 10th. and joe hill started teasing his friend about that saying that hilda broke it off because she liked joe better than she liked otto, and according to a letter that hilda later wrote, otto shot joe in a fit of anger. now, hilda added that he felt bad about it immediately afterwards and carried joe to a doctor. and it was at the doctor's office that joe hill said his one and only thing ever publicly about his gunshot wound. he said that he had been hot by a friend this an argument over a woman, but he didn't name otto, he didn't name hilda, and he never said anything else about it. but that's not how history records joe hill received a gunshot wound on that night. what history says is that on the night of january 10th joe hill and otto applequist wore, put on bandannas across their faces and burst into a grocery store, a small mom and pop store in salt lake city, brandishing revolvers. and the

john aft john avlon and also erick erickson, the editor in chief of redstate.com. ruben from "the washington post" and we have at host of "get right" with lenny mcalister. john, want to start with you. i like that insider thing that cnn did but it's not reflective of the polls everybody else is doing including cnn, so what's a girl to think moving into the last 36 hours? are the polls right, the insiders right? >> as you just said, the insider poll is just that, a poll of insiders in the state of what will happen and does reaffirm a lot of the other large polls that is that mitt romney is in poll position. ron paul can't be counted out. his supporters are so intense. caucuses are low turnout high intensity affairs. rick santorum getting the doughnut hole is a surprise. 60% of the turnout last time in 2008 which made mike huckabee the winner -- >> erick erickson, they often say and i'll repeat it that there are only three tickets out of iowa and the third ticket is pretty sought after and most people were assuming that it was going to be either rick santorum vying f

rodney erickson has met with alumni groups the last couple days. entire school itself. several alum challenged erickson about the firing of joe paterno. erickson said it's not his place to apologize to joe pa because he was fired by the board of trustees. >>> operators at the atlanta boat show had to deal with a freak accident and a huge mess. a 200,000-gallon water tank which was part of the boat show ruptured, sending water all over the exhibition. all 70,000 gallons leaked onto the floor, forcing workers with heavy equipment, mops, and squeegees to clean up all that mess. inspectors are trying to figure out why exactly that tank ruptured. >>> and for the first time we're getting a good look at the confederate submarine from the civil war. the "h.l. hunley" had been surrounded by a steel truss ever since it was raised off the coast of south carolina about a dozen years ago. now the sub is strong enough to stand on its very own. yesterday the truss was removed. the "h.l. hunley" was the first sub ever to sink an enemy warship, but it too sank. >>>

all of the conservatives, the red state guy, eric erickson, whatnot, it's good to get romney further. but we conservatives would like to see it even further right. >> kimberly: what about her role and future as well with the republican party? >> andrea: she has a bright future. the best thing for rick santorum is for your boy, from texas rick perry, step out of the race for the other candidates. even if newt gingrich doesn't, it's a benefit. the best thing for santorum is have the other g.o.p. candidates step out, and rally. i do think it even benefits mitt romney to be tested finally. even if he makes it out of this thing. >> bob: i agree with that. >> kimberly: maybe he can get the perry people -- >> bob: first, rick santorum. first, whoever was advancing that thing, announced after everybody went to sleep his speech -- but the web page wasn't set up to take any contributions. somebody said he lost $3 million that one night. that is not his fault. that is a problem when you run a shoe string campaign. as i said yesterday, you can get a bunch of money in. but you don't have the appa

[ applause ] >> reporter: penn state alumni, questioning president rodney eric erickson. >> the bondetween the administration and the board has sometimes been too close. >> reporter: alumni voiced frustration and missteps. but many people, including 40 questions submitted ahead of time, included outrage over the firing of head coach joe paterno. >> what you did to coach joe paterno is unconscionable. >> i feel that as a university, we turned our back on coach paterno. seems to me that the board should step down and a new one created. >> that statement, submitted online, drew a 30-second applause. erickson told them, they must begin to remind the world about the strong positive messages and successes penn state has to offer, both academically and athletically. >> there are a lot of questions out there, many of which don't yet have answers. there's a lot of emotion out there yet that i know so many of us share. >> i think some of the questions he just can't answer. he's not responsible for some of some of the decisions the board of trustees said. >> other meetings are planned in philad

i refused. >> erick erickson, when i heard that my stomach turned.ese are lies. every time newt gingrich is on the stump from now to the next 26 hours and calista is beside him, people if they now know the story knows she was cheating with him for six years while he was married to mariann and she was a congressional aide. is she a liability on the stump at this point? >> she could be. and it depends on how gingrich does this. for perspective you've got to remember it was marianne who broke up the first marriage. you get attacked for saying that but legitimate question. when people look at that and say we've got one woman who broke up the first marriage upset with the third woman. yeah, this is a problem for gingrich long term. my wife knows newt gingrich's first wife. she was her elementary schoolteacher. she really has a problem with this issue. and i think she speaks for a lot of women when she has a huge problem with newt gingrich and getting beyond this. for men, i don't know that lths as much of a hang-up but more women turn out to vote. that's

joining us live from iowa erick erickson editor in chief of. and rubin red rhett, "washington post." i think it's an understatement to say this is an unsettled field. seven head changes in the last six months. romney has been holding pretty steady here, 24%, 25%. has he reached his ceiling or can he get this conservative base back on board with him? >> i think he will probably go up in the polls. by the way, the des moines river is starting to freeze over. that's how cold it is here. while he's campaigning around the state, you've got to remember romney has been campaigning since 2006, from an average of 23% in the polls to an average of 23% of the polls. >> but do we think that he can increase his conservative base? at the end of the day that's what he's going to need going forward. >> i don't think he can. >> he will be able to increase it some. >> ruben? >> i don't think he k. i think the problem is going to be if you don't like romney to begin with, it's very hard for you to warm up to him just because he's the defacto nominee or even if he

. >> cell phone manager sunny erickson says 2011 was a bad year for sales, reported a net loss of over00 billion euros for the last quarter. the chief executive claims stiff competition. new smart phones have made life hard for the joint venture. sony wants to buy out ericsson's shares and focus more on smart phones. the debt crisis has hit french hypermarket giant carrefour. reduced fourth quarter sales, especially in spain, italy, and greece. and in their home markets of france. the company blamed weaker discretionary spending and promotion costs. the forecast for tehran -- for 2012 is challenging and uncertain. they're reviewing plans for new branches country-by-country. it operates in some 9500 stores in 32 countries. you have got a new development and an interesting story. >> yes, new developments surrounding the affairs surrounding german president christian wulff. on thursday, police in lower saxony raided the home of his former top aide. olaf glaeseker resigned as the spokesmen in december without giving any reason. state prosecutors say they are investigating bribery allegatio

>> i just want to say roland might be right, rick perry's not listening to erick erickson, but kudosfor this, because we all saw that rick perry probably wasn't going to survive beyond south carolina, which meant he was going to drop out shortly after south carolina. but erick did see, there's no point in sticking in through south carolina. in fact, you have a net negative by staying in, showing up with a disappointing last place, having another bad debate. now's the time. i think erick called this really well. >> it was stunning, first of all, for him not to even come out after iowa. i mean, because literally, i mean, he put a lot on it. his whole message was supposed to be tailored to evangelicals in iowa. it got no response whatsoever. so, to go back to texas, then say, hey, i'm actually going on to south carolina, that was still sort of weird there as well. everybody -- show me a politician, i will show you someone who wants to be relevant. and of course, governor perry still wants to be relevant. if he got dusted on saturday and didn't drop out, he would have no relevance whatso

so a character like miss piggy was a combination of the designer, bonnie erickson, who designed the characterr, frank oz, who really created the character, and then the writers -- someone like jerry juhl who wrote lots of her lines. so it's a collaboration to get to that final product. >> ♪ dance your cares away ♪ worries for another day ♪ let the music play >> a show that was very special to jim henson was "fraggle rock." that was a show that was designed to get kids to think about being tolerant of each other, to be ecologically responsible, to recognize that their actions have impact on other people in their world, even if they don't have a relationship with those people. so the "fraggle rock" characters were always looking out for each other. >> although he's no longer with us today, jim henson's influence still lives on. >> he really was a pioneer when it came to putting puppets on television and completely changed the way people look at puppets and use them on television. and any creative puppetry you see now is a descendant of jim's work. >> so, thank you all very much. >> it's nice to

eric erickson, is this a story just of newt gingrich being outspent in florida?se went wrong for him in this state? >> you know, a lot went wrong. but i think the advertising has more to do with him than a lot of people want to credit. south carolina was the first race even including the 2008 races where the non-romney candidates were at parity with mitt romney. 15 to 3, 15 to 1? you can't keep up with that. florida is a huge media market. advertising in the state like florida is very necessary. you can't go door-to-door all over the state. if you can't even come close to parity, and that's not close at all, there's no way you can win. >> but also, anderson, we also have to own up to something. that is mitt romney had a strong infrastructure in this state. newt gingrich did not have a lot of money early on, so it's not like he had lots of boots on the ground. the bottom line is, if you're going to have a campaign team on the ground, putting out flyers, going door-to-door, getting volunteers you won't compete. take that with no money, guess what, expect a blowout.

. >> penn state's new president rod erickson said they will pay paterno's legal fees and continue to pay his contract even though he's been fired. penn state wants to honor him for his past service but not, a spokesman says, for his conduct in this matter. michael isakof, washington. >>> a major push tonight by social conservatives against mitt romney. 150 evangelical leaders are rivalling behind one of romney's rivals in an effort to stop him from running away with the nomination. we're in south carolina with the details. >> reporter: as most of the republican field gathered in charleston today, hoping to sway this state's large social conservative voting block at a forum hosted by mike huckabee, rick santorum got a big boost from 150 evangelical christian leaders in texas who today decided to endorse the senate. >> we're obviously going to be in touch with all the people who were there and encourage them to be as supportive as possible within their area of influence. >> reporter: santorum's strong second place finish in iowa was largely fueled by his focus on social issues, importa

university president rodney erickson and the trustees issued a statement. saying we are considering appropriate ways to honor the great life and legacy of joe paterno. charles pittman played for the first team paterno coached. >> his work, his commitment to excellence, what he did for the university, and the thousands of players who played for him, got washed by the wayside. >> paterno's death will have little impact on the criminal investigation of jerry sandusky. paterno did testify before a grand jury but because defense attorneys never cross-examined him, his testimony cannot be used in court. in state college, pennsylvania, manuel gallegus, cbs 5. >>> coming up, who hurts more, men or women? the painful truth just uncovered at stanford. >>> plus, after a remarkable recovery from a gunshot wound to the head, a congress woman is now stepping down. the final acts in office for gabrielle giffords. resswoman gabriell >>> well, we saw a lot of rain over the past few days but now we are starting to dry out all across the bay area. when are we going to see abo

erickson, for instance, the manufacturer of a lot of this equipment, has published documents that shows that their -- how the system works and that there needs to be a signal-to-noise ratio for proper operation of their design for the equipment for the system. and in fact that's what we measured. when we went out and took these measurements in this area, in these neighborhoods, we were measuring the strength of the pilot signal. this is the signal that the phones communicate with that is a reference for the two-way communication that goes on between the phone and the antenna and then we also measure the amount of noise that's in the band, the pilot signal is 10%, so when there is 10 times as much noise, whether it's existing facilities actively using the network or true noise coming in from an outside source, whatever that is, when it reached that point, it is at capacity. and that's what we measured when we went to each of these points, trying to get a representative sample over this area, that at 85% of the points, the noise coming from existing users or perhaps some other source over

donna brazile, erick erickson, mary matalin. >>> we're on google plus. add us to your circles. on twitter @andersoncooper. i'll try to tweet tonight though my hands are frozen. mitt romney said, we're going to win this thing. but just exactly what thing was he talking about? and a surprising admission from newt gingrich talking about his own chances tomorrow later rick santorum takes pride in his staunch conservative views. he's under fire for some of what he said but taking heat from ron paul who calls him too liberal. for sore muscles use new ] bengay cold therapy, it's pro-cool technology releases armies of snowmen masseuse who cuddle up with your soreness >>> let's also check in with isha sesay. new bengay cold the. the same technology used by physical therapists. go to bengay.com for a $3 coupon. can you enjoy vegetables with sauce the same technology used by physical therapists. and still reach your weight loss goals? you can with green giant frozen vegetables. over twenty delicious varieties have sixty calories or less per serving and are now weight watchers-endorsed. tr

hint of that this afternoon in a written statement from the acting university president, rodney ericksonhe said we grieve for the loss of joe paterno, a great man who made us greater. the candlelight vigil continues tonight here at beaver stadium. live in state college, pennsylvania, scott broom, 9 news now. >> thanks a lot. of course, we'll hear from scott again tonight at 11:00 on 9 news now. tough for everybody out there. >>> temperatures dropping, rain expected overnight. what does it mean for the monday morning commute? >> bruce, we're seeing some of that mixed precipitation already coming down in portions of virginia. right now inside the beltway we're doing pretty good, a view from the capitol just fine, but temperatures have hovered right around the 30s most of the day. we're sitting around 30, 31 degrees. that pink on the screen is the mixed precip already through culler,ed through fredericksburg and -- through culpeper, through fred burke and it will be streaming our direction. we'll see a milder air move our way monday and tuesday, but before that happens we could be in for a

erickson, for instance, the manufacturer of a lot of this equipment, has published documents that shows

let's check in with alex castellanos, and also erick erickson. they're at santorum headquarters.oks a lot more crowded. looks like a lot more excitement there or energy there since last time we've talked. they've got to be excited about what they're seeing in the polls, and clearly waiting for some of those votes still to come in from the northwestern part of the state, from sioux city and elsewhere. >> yeah, finally voters are starting to outnumber media here. so you can see a little bit of excitement. but there's a lot of good news here for rorp rorm, for example, it appears he's doing well enough that he'll get attacked by mitt romney next week in south carolina. it appears ron paul has done well enough that he's going to get to attack everybody everywhere next week. so we've got a tough three-front war here that has broken out in iowa tonight. and one thing i think we're learning is that that big turnout that m ares were hoping for, were hoping to send a message to president obama that, hey, republicans are motivated. we may not get that tonight. it looks like this is going t

. >> reporter: penn state's new president rodney erickson said that the school will pay the legal fees in the probe and continue to pay out his contract even though he has been fired. penn state also wants to find a way to honor paterno for his past service. but not a spokesman says for his conduct in this matter. >>> to presidential politics now and a major push by social conservatives against mitt romney. 150 evangelical leaders are uniting behind one of his rivals in an effort to stop him from running away with the nomination. nbc's peter alexander is in charleston, south carolina, with the details. >> reporter: as most of the republican field gathered in charleston today, hoping to sway the large socially conservative block, rick santorum got a big boost from 150 evangelical leaders in texas who decided to endorse the pennsylvania senator. >> we're of course going to be in touch with all the people who were there and encourage them to be as supportive as possible with -- within their group -- their area of influence. >> reporter: santorum's strong second-place finish in iowa was la

kevin -- markham erickson will discuss the stop online piracy act and to protect intellectual property act and the protest shut down of websites against this policy. and catherine gallagher talkspr. live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c- span. britain's unemployment figures rose to 8.4%, the highest since january 2006. the jobless numbers were the main subjects during question time with david cameron. this is about 35 minutes. >> questions to the prime minister. of >> i have had meetings and will have further such meetings. >> there is a strong uptick in schools, but is he aware of the enormous differences in funding that puts those schools at the bottom? i welcome the government's moving to the formula, but in the meantime, we look at the serious situation with regard to those schools. >> my hon. friend is quite right. we need to sort out the problem before looking at a funding problem. i believe it is flawed, and that is why we are reforming it. we will happily discuss how we can deal with the problem. the growing evidence is academy schools are not just good for people who go to those scho

the earmarks, the pork, erick erickson's point.that santorum has on spending and domestic policy, not social policy, but spending and economics has a very big government conservative record he will get hit on. >> and a terrible answer on the earmarks. >> and willie, at the end of the day, that's a great irony. you've got the mainstream media looking at santorum -- you talk to conservatives, their criticism is the same as the criticism of mitt romney. he's not a real small government conservative. he's a guy that bragged about bringing the bacon home to pennsylvania. that's not what they want to hear in 2012. >> given all that as you sit here january the 4th, do you see rick santorum in a general election that could defeat president obama? >> no doubt about it. i think he could beat the president in a general election. no doubt about it. i don't know he's going to get there, though. there are a lot of people in manhattan. you haven't heard me say that about a lot of republican candidates this year. in fact, i got scalded by the righ