also cnn contributor sarah ganham, reporter with the patriot news. whose won a pulitzer prize for her coverage of the sandusky trial. also jeffrey tuoobin. one of the most powerful witnesses was accuser number one. what about his testimony? what did you hear today? >> reporter: based on the courtroom reaction, anderson, it was extremely come peming np is an 18-year-old man. when he walked into the courtroom he looked vulnerable. quite frankly, he looked scared. when he sat down and began to testify he really became emotional when he described the abuse that he says began in 2005 at the hands of jerry sandusky mostly occurring in the basement of sandusky's home. he said it always began the same way. started with a back rub. he went on to say, quote, after rubbing and cracking my back, putting his hands down my shorts and blowing on my stomach he had -- he paused for a moment. then he broke down and began crying. before he could finish he looked directly at jerry sandusky who was sitting in the front of the courtroom. jerry sandusky looked at him. then

cnn contributor sarah ganham on the story and she's been ever since she broke it for the "harrisburgews." we've just learned something that a lot of people here find pretty surprising. can you hear me okay, sara? did we connect with you? >> reporter: yes. >> you can hear me okay? >> reporter: yes, sorry. >> that's okay. we are live and we are connected. >> reporter: what we're learning inside is about 30 of the last 40 people that were interviewed as a group are now individually talking to the judge and to jerry sandusky's attorneys and prosecutors moving forward with this jury selection. what we know so far is that about 14 of them have ties to penn state, have either worked there or retired from there. four knew jerry sandusky, two knew his wife, two worked for the second mile. and what they're doing basically from this pool that started about 220 people is whittling it down, trying to get 12 jurors from this county, which is very -- a lot of ties to penn state, a lot of ties to the penn state football program, the charity that jerry sandusky started. and they're working to try to