ms. sawyer will be here this evening. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. joe paterno and doing the right thing. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. all americans should be horrified and a bit sad by the situation unfolding at penn state university. 84-year-old legendary football coach joe paterno has been fired after 46 years at penn state for failing to take aggressive action against one of his former assistants whom a grand jury has indicted on 40, 40 counts of child sexual abuse. paterno says he notified college officials when he was told. jerry sandusky was seen molesting a child but he did not call the cops. and the coach should know that is unacceptable. very simple. if you see or you hear about any child being physically abused in any way, you have an obligation, an obligation to aggressively protect that child. that means that penn state assistant

ms. with diane sawyer, abc. at the printer bomb plot, abc news, investigates. in ruins, anderson cooper, cnn. earthquake in haiti, nbc nightly news with brian wilson. iraq, a long way out, nbc nightly news with ryabrian williams. >> unbelievable work, all, but the emmy goes to anderson cooper, 360. >> excepting, charlie moore, executive producer. >> we have heard there is maybe somebody alive buried in there, a 14-year-old girl. finally, after being trapped more than 18 hours, and man digs a small hole. she is alive. she is finally free. >> this street is covered with people who died in the earthquake. there is nobody here to recover the bodies. [applause] >> thank you so much per charlie, our senior executive producer, has gotten shy. he has asked me to talk. i am a correspondent with anderson cooper, 360. we're so honored by this. i want to thank everybody i have worked with at cnn. i also want to thank our bosses, who got us out the door minutes after the earthquake, spending whatever it takes to get a great story. i also want to thank the people of haiti. 3

reading the book is mental, i was more impressed with the dignity and courage of tom sawyer, atticus finch, also ms gregory peck. and i was astounded by the injustice of that era. at trial was 75 years ago. for those of us who observe the legal system to write about it, we are still confronted with injustice and inequality in the system that often convicts innocent people, send them to prison and even executes them. unlike many, i cannot say that atticus finch and spared me to costco. i don't know what i was thinking when i went to law school. but i do recall 30 years ago stint in a courtroom in a small town in mississippi a rookie lawyer way out of my league defending a black man charged with murder looking at all-white jury. and i kept thinking, what would atticus do now? what would atticus do now? if he or seder secretly writing my first novel, i was drawn back to "to kill a mockingbird" for the incredible storytelling ability of harper lee for the timeless themes of injustice in the loss of innocence for the humor. posterboard lee harvey the character of atticus finch. adheres after my first bo