. >> reporter: matt millen broke down on espn. joe paterno's son scott called reports prematured there are no discussions about retirement. he did not say if his father would be back for what would be his 47th season. >>> the sexual abuse scandal at penn state university is unnerving lots of parents. parents have attachments to school authorities. what happens when they can't be trusted. what questions should be asked. first, talk to your children about appropriate boundaries and find out the organization's policy on child sexual abuse prevention. how does the program screen staff. it should not just relee on criminal background checks but use written applications and perm interviews to learn about previous experiences someone has working with children and to identify potential warning signs. how do they monitor interactions between adults and children and how do they handle allegations of sexual abuse. what training does staff receive about preventing child sexual abuse. stay tuned for the latest on the penn state sexual abuse sc

. >> reporter: a former paterno player, matt millen, broke down on espn. >> i get mad.nd it's -- if we can't protect our kids, we as a society are pathetic. >> reporter: tonight, after the penn state students were done rallying in front of paterno's home -- >> joe paterno! >> reporter: they moved onto the campus. you think he lived up to his own code of ethics? >> we're going to have to live with that. >> reporter: as they sang, members of the penn state board of trustees were meeting to discuss the fate of joe paterno. abc news has learned a decision about whether paterno will get to keep his job could be made in the next 24 to 48 hours. for "nightline," this is dan harris in state college, pennsylvania. >> our thanks to dan for that. >>> and just ahead, it was election night. we have some results for you. and also truth and lies on the campaign trail. her can main's fiery comeback in the face of harassment accusations. [ female announcer ] investing for yourself is a necessity. i find investments with e-trade's top 5 lists and use pre-defined screeners to work smarter

. >> lavar, i want you to listen to matt millen, his response to this, in a word, he's disgusted. >>et mad. and it's -- it's pretty disturbing. this is more than just a program. this is more than a football legacy. this is about people and if we can't protect our kids, we, as a society, are pathetic. >> lavar, mike mentioned you're a valuable member of the penn state family and the footballen community, also a parent. i'm guessing that's the tug-of-war that goes through your mind. >> really there is no tug-of-war for me. i've listened to what everyone has to say and listening to someone that i look up to, and matt millen, who came before me, one of the people who was in the lineage of linebackers that played at penn state, i listened to what even what wise has to say, again, i'm in total agreement with both in they're sentiments protecting these children is what's most important. but what that being said i have to make sure that it's clear that within reason, i don't think that it's a forgone conclusion as mike stated, i think what i saw on a different angle with this, i don't know e

. >> reporter: meanwhile, a former paterno player, matt millen, broke down an espn. >> i get mad.s -- if we can't protect our kids, we, as a society, are pathetic. >> reporter: abc news has learned a decision about whether paterno will get to keep his job could be made in the next 24 to 48 hours. this is dan harris, in state college, pennsylvania. >>> we also learned overnight that the coach at the center of the scandal, jerry sandusky, is no longer allowed to be alone with his own grandchildren as a result of a court order. >>> today is another deadline day in the nba's ongoing labor struggle. the players say they will ignore a 5:00 p.m. eastern time deadline to accept the league's latest offer. instead, they are hoping to meet again today with team owners to discuss revenue-sharing proposals. commissioner david stern says if the deadline goes by, the next offer will include proposals to benefit the owners. >>> now, highlights from a game with both teams scoring more than 60 points. and it was not basketball. we get the details from espn. >> more m.a.c. football on espn2. toledo

matt millen played for penn state in the lay '70s and was also on the board of the second mile, that is the charity sandusky started for at risk kids and where prosecutors say he targeted his victims. >> it makes you sick to see that this could happen to this level. >> reporter: it's a black eye on the university and its legendary coach who may be forced to wrap up his last season with the nittany lions. drew levinson, cbs news, state college, pennsylvania. >>> in other news, the man accused of masterminding the attack on the "uss cole" 11 years ago will be arraigned today at guantanamo bay prison. abd al rahim al nashiri has been confined at secret cia prisons and gitmo for nearly a decade. he is the first prisoner charged with a war crime since president obama took office. he is accused of training the al qaeda suicide bombers who ran the "cole" with a boat carrying explosives in 2000. 17 sailors were killed and 37 others wounded. >>> a new greek government will be announced today in the wake of the european debt crisis. prime minister george papandreou agreed to step down to resol

matt millen, a former paterno player, now an espn analyst, tears up on the air. >> i get mad. and it's -- this is more than a football legacy. this is about people. and if we can't protect our kids, we, as a society, are pathetic. >> reporter: in the midst all of this, we're learning more about one of the alleged victims of jerry sandusky, the 15-year-old boy who set this all in motion by bravely coming forward. the boy's mother spoke to local reporters. >> very proud of her son, because he had to stand up to this giant, the football god and he stood up to him and said, this is wrong, it's going to stop. >> reporter: but back now to joe paterno. right now, as we speak, there is a rally going on in front of his house. students who support him. meanwhile, abc news has learned a decision could be made about whether he gets to keep his job within the next 24 to 48 hours. things moving very quickly here tonight, diane. >> and you'll be covering it. thank you, dan harris. >>> and now, a long-dreaded headline about iran and nuclear weapons. after a decade of debating whether iran wou

. >> reporter: matt millen played in the late 60s and 70s. >> it's pretty disturbing. >> reporter: millen was also at the charity sandusky started for kids, and is where they said he started. >> makes you sick. to see that this could happen at this level, if, in fact, that has happened. >> reporter: it's a black eye on the university and its legendary coach, who may be forced to wrap up his last season with the litany lions. >>> and today, another potential victim is coming forward. the man is in his 20s. and he said he knew sandusky from the second mile charity the coach founded in 1977. >>> fear and anger in frostburg. a student is dead. another in jail for murder. and now, there is more information about the chaotic scene the night of the killing. denise is in the newsroom. >> reporter: the cumberland times student is reporting the scene saying an ambulance did not respond quickly enough to the stabbing scene. sean a. liggens is charged with stabbing courtney mccoy sunday. mccoy died at an off-campus apartment at a house. there was a crowd of about 150 people there. frostburg police sa

. >> matt millen played for penn state and was on the board for second mile. that's the charity sandusky started for at-risk kids and where he targeted his victims. >> it make you sick to see that this could happen to this level. >> reporter: it's a black eye on the university and its legendary 84-year-old coach. >> joe paterno! >> reporter: who may be forced to wrap up his last season with the nittany lions. in state college, pennsylvania, drew levinson, wjz eyewitness news. >> reporter: the coordinator on paterno's two national championship teams. >>> chaos as a community mourns a prominent college student steps from the state university campus. we are learning more about the out-of-control crime scene. wjz is live at poly, in west baltimore, where the victim graduated high school last year. mike hellgren has unfolding developments. >> reporter: there is a deep sense of pain both here and in frostburg. by some accounts, there were as many as 150 people when it turned violent, making it difficult for even first responders to do their job. >> reporter: police

he has an army of supporters including former 49er and raider linebacker matt millen who played for paternon the late '70s. he got emotional today about the situation on espn. >> i get mad. and it's, uhm... [ breaking up ] [ pause ] >> it's pretty disturbing. >> it makes you sick. >> hundreds of fans staged a rally outside paterno's home tonight. he asked them to say a prayer for the victims in this tragic situation. and when asked if he was still the football coach, paterno said, quote, now is not the time. >>> the raiders have little time to dwell on sunday's loss to denver but quarterback carson palmer told me today he is thinking it's a positive not a negative. >> it's probably better to playwright away after a loss like that than it is a win where maybe you like to savor it for a few more days, huh? >> if you took a poll in the locker room we were tired and sore we would have played on monday night after that sunday game. have a bad taste in your mouth like that after a loss is always motivating and this team is very motivated to win. >> reporter: despite losing his first start palmer

here's former penn state legend matt millen today on espn. >> to be honest with you, and you can probably hear it, and i apologize to you, i get mad. it's -- it's pretty disturbing. it makes you sick. to see that this could happen to this level, if, in fact, it has happened, then, you know, there's a part of me that, like i mentioned earlier, just viscerally, you just want to go take care of it yourself, which is what i've always done and which is the wrong thing to do. but this is more than just a program. this is more than a football legacy. this is about people. and if we can't protect our kids, we as a society are pathetic. >> that's one criticism of his decision to stay on until the end of the season. the other even more so is the decision back then, nine years ago, when the coach first heard allegations from a graduate assistant that paterno's former assistant coach, jerry sandusky, was in the team locker room raping a 10-year-old child in the locker room. sandusky is now charged with 40 counts of child sexual abuse involving eight minors over a 15-year time span. until today he was

matt millen played for penn state in the 1970s and was on the board the second mile. that's the charity sandusky started for kids and is where they say he targeted his kids. >> makes you sick. to see that this could happen to this level. >> reporter: it's a black eye on the university and its legendary 84-year-old coach. >> joe paterno! >> reporter: who may be forced to wrap up his last season with the nit 18 lions -- nittany lyannes. -- lions. >> paterno says his father plans to coach in the game saturday against nebraska and he will stick around for the long haul. >>> a police officer tries to make a drug bust. but instead, he's dragged two blocks by a pickup truck. vic is in the newsroom to explain the violent confrontation. >> reporter: right now, the officer is being treated. and police are still looking for his attacker. he was hurt this morning as he tried to stop a pickup truck at north monroe street. as he reached into the vehicle, the driver sped away, driving the officer around the corner. the officer fired his gun twice, but his bullets didn't hit anyone.

espn analyst matt millen, former penn state player, choked up talking about his alma mater. >> it's prettyg. and if we can't protect our kids, we, as a society are pathetic. >> if this is the end it is hard to imagine a worse exit for paterno. he has been head coach for 46 years, won two national titles and largely credited with increasing penn state's endowment from 0 to $1 billion. rob, sunny? >> truly is a god on the campus. what a sad final chapter for him. sad, sandusky, newspapers reporting this morning, he is no longer allowed any unsupervised visits with his own grandchildren because of the scandal. >> wonder where it came from? did his family ask for that or did the prosecutor asks for that? unclear. >> you see ripple effects. unbelievable. to presidential politics and defiant response from herman cain over sexual harassment accusations. cain says he will not drop out of the race and that he never did anything inappropriate in his career. abc's jonathan carl sat down with the candidate. >> reporter: herman cain faced the world with a categorical denial of all allegations against h

. >> reporter: matt millen, oo former nfl all-pro turned broadcaster, broke down discussing the impact of the scandal. >> it's pretty disturbing. it makes you sick. to see that this could happen and if we can't protect our kids, we, as a society, are pathetic. >> reporter: as for sandusky who has professed his innocence a court appearance for today has been postponed for december. police, have confirmed that a ninth victim has come forward. >> sblis this something that paterno survives? >> short term, i think he does survive this. penn state has five games left for the rest of the season. i could foresee a scenario he makes it through the season. long term, next year, i don't see him coaching again at penn state. as far as his towering legacy, this pius figure in college football, that legacy is being rewritten as we speak. >> is it tarnished? >> it's absolutely tarnished, no question. >> thank you, armen. >>> o.j. mcduffie a wide receiver formerly at penn state is joining us. does joe keep his job, in your estimation, or does he become the high profile fallguy in an ugly situation? >>

. >> reporter: matt millen, an all-pro turned broadcaster broke down discussing the impact of the scandal. >> it's pretty disturbing. it makes you sick. to see that this could happen and if we can't protect our kids, we, as a society, are a fake. >> now, earlier this morning i spoke with former penn state all american o.j. mcduffy. he played for paterno 20 years ago and i asked him if he believed that paterno could stay on as head coach. >> it is a terrible situation and it's going to be tough for coach to retain his job. i mean, it's just very ugly and this means nothing compared to what is going on at the university right now. and, you know, joe legally, obviously, did the right thing. morally, who knows. if joe had the chance to do it all over again, he would do it differently. >> is that your belief that he's not necessarily at fault here, but he could have done more when he first found out about these allegations? >> yeah. i think, you know, i think everybody, you know, looking back would do things a little different. i think joe would have little different and, obviously, the other

emotion even spilled on to live television with former paterno player and current espn analyst, matt millentearing up. >> i get mad. and it's pretty disturbing. >> reporter: incredible scene there. also this morning, we're hearing that the scope of the investigation into jerry sandusky is expanding. abc news has learned that the pennsylvania state police are taking calls from more people who say they, too, were victims. meanwhile, we're hearing that jerry sandusky is under a new court order that does not allow him to be alone with even his own grandchildren. robin, back to you. >> that's very telling. dan, thank you very much. >>> and for more, espn's jeremy schaap joins us. just getting back from penn state yesterday. many reporting that joe paterno's resignation is imminent. there's a lot of editorials calling for his ouster, as well as the president there at penn state. what do you think we're going to hear in the next 24 hours or so? >> as dan said last night, the board of trustees was meeting not in person, on the phone. there are indications it will meet again tonight on campus, to di

man and i've talked to many players who know him a lot better than i do including players like matt milleners who not only were recruited and played for him but were associated with him later on as part of the second mile charity which was a very good charity and provided a lot of opportunity for kids. none of them said that they could have seen that side. sometimes you get a vibe there is something strange. i did not in the case of jerry sandusky. >> the name of the book, the perfect season. thank you very much for joining us today. >> thank you. appreciate it. >>> still ahead the charity that we just spoke of there that jerry sandusky founded. a good cause that may have had an evil purpose. >> these predators identify a child, become mentors, they're usually children that have had -- are having a little difficulty. they're at risk children. >> police say sandusky preyed on those children most vulnerable. that story is coming up. >>> each week we are calling on friends of cnn heroes to shed a spotlight on our top ten honorees and their work. as you vote for the one who inspires you the mo

jenna: that is the emotional reaction of matt millen former penn state football player and board membercharity founded by jerry sand r-r. sand shinmoedake the former football coach charged with sexually abusing young boys. as we've been reporting to you penn state coach joe paterno will retire at end of the season, there are calls for more rest eug nations and questions about what some are calling a university cover up in awful this. annie staples is a reporter for sports i will straight, and fred tisi is a former federal prosecutor. there is a legal size to this and also an ethical side to this. that's what you touched on in illustrated.com when you addressed this as a journalist but also as a father. you said there is really no defense for joe paterno in this story. explain that. >> well, basically he got a report the sexual activity involving a grown man and a young boy in a shower in his football facility, and he did run it up the flagpole, so legally he's covered. he went to the ad. but at what point do you try to find out more? i mean that is a crazy thing to hear. won't you want