but tom foreman, we will get back to you in a little bit. om mentioned kyung law talked about the people of the community and how they will gather tonight. ke young, before i leave you, i want to talk to you about president barack obama will be speaking 7:30 eastern time from here in aurora after he visits with the families. kyung law, back to you. what can you tell us? >> well, i can tell you that the setup is still happening despite the fact that we have had quite a bit of rainfall here, don, at the prayer vigil and the setup is going on. they have 2 1/2 hours before the scheduled start of this, and we will start to see the entire community come together, the governor, the mayor, and victims, and victims' family members and friends and the first responders all gathering in this square behind me to try to begin that process, a difficult process, don, of taking the step beyond the shooting. it has only been two days, so it is going to be a lot of raw emotions here of people trying to, you know, get over this, but it is going to certainly be a

but we want to get to cnn's tom foreman. tom foreman back in washington for us and has the day's other headlines. what do you have for us? >> we've been tracking all day the developments expected tomorrow at penn state university. and this evening a source tells us that significant unprecedented penalties will be leveed against the school tomorrow, including at least $30 million in fines. the punishments follow the release of a report slamming the school's former leaders including coach joe paterno for ignoring suspicion of child abuse by former assistant coach jerry sandusky. today the school removed a statue from outside the stadium. earlier i spoke with susan candiotti about the penalties. >> penn state football faces what they're calling unprecedented penalties that are "well beyond what has been done in the past. however, the school will not face the so-called death penalty that would've meant no football this fall. but in some ways, these penalties will be worse than the death penalty, an outcome worse for current play

tom foreman takes a look at tom cruise's role in the church of scientology. >> reporter: when it comesscientology, tom cruise may be the famous defender tearing into matt lauer over the church's repudiation of psychiatry. >> do you know aterol? do you know ritalin? do you know that ritalin is a street drug? do you understand that? >> the difference is this was not against her will, though. >> i'm asking you a question. >> i understand there's abuse of all of these things. >> no, you see he's the problem. you don't know the history of psychiatry. i do. >> reporter: although cruise joined scientology in the 1980s, over the past decade his public identification with the group has been much more pronounced. he's explained his beliefs on talk shows, in the press. and scientology meetings featuring cruise with his "mission impossible" theme playing in the background and the star giving a military salute to a scientology leader have appeared in videos like this one posted by radaronline. >> i think it's a privilege to call yourself a scientologist and it's something you have to earn because s

here's cnn's tom foreman. >> reporter: when it comes to scientology, tom cruise may well be the faith'st combative faith defender. >> do you know what ritalin is? it's a street drug now. do you understand that? >> the difference is -- >> no, matt, i'm asking you a question. matt, i am asking question. >> there's abuse. >> you don't know the history of psychiatry, i do. >> reporter: although he joined scientology in the '80s, over the past decade, his identification with the group has been much more pronounced. he's explained his beliefs in the press and the star giving a military salute to a scientology leader -- >> i think it's a privilege to call yourself a scientologist. it's something that you have to earn, because a scientologist does -- he or she has the ability to create new and better realities and improve conditions. >> reporter: many of his statements underscore a central lesson of the faith, that its followers can accomplish great things. >> when you drive past an accident, it's not like anyone else. when you drive past, you know you have to do something about it, because you

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now to better explain this, let's bring in tom foreman to break it down for us in terms you can understand. >> this is what you need to watch out for this weekend. the fbi went after this virus called the dns changer through a thing called operation ghost click. why do they call that? this virus targeted 4 million computers worldwide, 5000,000 in the us. if you click on it, it took you to another site. you go to itunes then on a site that looked like it where they might steal directly from you. they were stealing ad space. they ripped off $14 million this way. they were eastern european criminals according to the fbi. they were picked up. the virus is still out there. that's the danger. the big problem comes on monday, when if this is inside your computer, there's a chance you will find you cannot get on to the internet at all. so, what can you do about it? some of the biggest names on the internet have been trying to help. facebook sending notices to people whose computers act like they might have been infected letting people know maybe there's a problem. what to do if you think you have

let's go to cnn's tom foreman. he's been piecing together exactly how all of this unfolded minute-by-minute, tom, tell our viewers what you learned. >> wolf, this is where it all happened, folks, a theater outside of the mall in downtown aurora. specifically it was theater number 9 where the midnight premier was underway. take a look at these nirms up here. around 12:37, 12:38, something like that, that is when there was a moment in the movie which many people say was kind of loud, one of your witnesses said maybe not, maybe that was in another one. in any event, that is when they saw a man in black walk in wearing a bullet proof vest and gas mask. they say he tossed a canister in the room that began hissing and spraying what police suggest may have been tear gas or pepper spray. witnesses say the man then shoots into the ceiling. and then begins firing into the crowd. police will later say that he had an ar-15 with him. this one is disassembled. you can see that. he also had a 12-gauge shotgun. and they'll say he

." >>> good evening, i'm tom foreman in for erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, the transparency tornado. president obama's team is ripping into mitt romney for what they call an appalling lack of transparency. they say he's hiding things about his past, his businesses, his finances, and they're hitting hard with a new web video on a tax attacks from the vice president himself. >> he wants you to show your papers, but he won't show us his. >> democrats have been demanding more financial disclosure from romney for weeks, and suggesting that he's got secrets he's keeping from voters. listen. >> this is the most secretive candidate since richard nixon. >> mitt romney plays by a different set of rules and keeps secrets like other things he keeps secret. >> governor romney has released his tax return for only one full year. critics say even his father release 12 years of returns when he was running for president in 1968. romney also holds off-shore bank accounts in switzerland, the cayman islands and bermuda. to be fair, those accounts could be com

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tom foreman is watching. what are you seeing from opening ceremonies?siderably less than 40 million, but i have a great view. this is the u.s. team lining up, sent in by one of the members of the swimming team. team outside with the banner getting ready to go in. this is the flag bearer for the team, mariel zagunis. sending in lots of things. look at this group, my favorite picture so far. do you know who this is? the u.s. men's basketball team. they will never look like this ever again on this planet! that's them all lined up here. here is don harper, gold medallist hurdler, seated with james harden, and you can see the athletes there, cooling out in their room, not at the ceremony, why? because they compete tomorrow morning, right there, michael phelps and nathan adrian, of the swimming team, watching like we do. my living is more posh than that. see how they do in the morning. beyond that, low a jones, checking security system. the athletes are doing a great job getting us in contact with what's going on. hope solo, in her way kind of the bad girl of

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom foreman coming up in this half hour comments made yesterday by joe scarborough have sparked a new debate over the handling of autism spectrum disorders in america or so-called .

our tom foreman has been keeping an eye on the action. tom, how did the usa do today?nt to say to you again, this is a spoiler alert. if you don't want to know who won, look away, turn your sound down for about three minutes you'll be covered, but it's going to happen now. don't be mad at us if you keep the tv on. fix it if you want to. look at what was happening over there if we move forward into this game. you can see -- i'm going to give you the first two minutes of it. here goes a timer. and we're off and running. let's take a look at the competition out there. in the skeet shooting competition, this one matters. this guy right here. vincent hancock, 23 years old from georgia, u.s. army staff sergeant. and he took the ld. second time. he did it in beijing as well. kimberly won for the women. that's a sweep for the u.s. when it comes to the notion of getting the gold in skeet shooting, which is a good thing to do. hold on, i'm having trouble with the olympic team here. that's a good thing to do. you know they have a huge problem with wild skeets in britain. the wome

tom foreman has more on the worldwide religion and the front and center role that tom cruise plays in be the most combative celebrity defender tearing into matt lauer. >> do you know that ritilin is a street drug. >> i'm asking you a question. >> i understand there's abuse of all of these things. >> here is the problem. you don't know the history. i do. >> reporter: although he joined in the 1980s, over the past decade it's been much more pronounced he's floodplained his belief on talk shows, in the press and scientology meetings with his mission impossible playing in the background and giving a military salute to a scientology leader have appeared in videos like this. >> i think it's a privilege to call yourself a scientologist and it's something you have to earn. he or she has the ability to create new and better realities and improve conditions. >> reporter: many of the statements underscore a central lesson of the faith that its followers can accomplish great things. >> when you drive past an accident, it's not like anyone else. as you drive past, you know you have to do something

cnn's tom foreman has been investigating. tom, take us inside what was clearly designed to be a death trap, that apartment. you've been looking at how it was all assembled. >> yeah, wolf. this is really one of the great mysteries of the story. exactly what was the configuration inside this apartment. i want to talk about what we do know. look at this video from a few days back when authorities were trying to get in to this place. they were looking through the window moving very slowly. all explanations are because inside they were being met with an array of different explosives and triggers and potential problems. what do we know about what was inside that apartment? well f you look at this diagram here, it gives you some idea of what we're pretty certain of at this point. in the middle of the room were about 30 of these canisters, each about the size of a softball. this is the same sort of thing they use for fireworks displays that shoot up into the air. these we believe were packed with black powder. now, the way they were p

i'm tom foreman. "anderson cooper 360" starts right now. >>> tom, thanks very much. good evening, everyone. we have breaking news about congressman jesse jackson jr. who hasn't been seen in weeks. there is word tonight after more than a month of utter silence about congressman jesse jackson jr.'s medical condition, there's been a lot of rumors as well as reporting that's just flat-out wrong about what's been going on with the congressman. tonight, his doctor says he's being treated for what's described as a mood disorder. our kate baldwin is bourque working her sources. we're going to try to get to the bottom of this. it's very unusual for a sitting member of congress to disappear for weeks without any explan in addition. but before we get to that, we have a 360 exclusive. now, for months, as you know, we've been covering the investigation into the fast and furious gun running operation. tonight, the mother and cousin of slain border patrol agent brian terry, the man you see right there, who was killed in connection with the gun running operation, they are speaking o