wolf? >> brooke, thank you very much. a looming deadline and the super committee, as it's called, and a new poll just released showing a dramatic shake-up in the republican race for the white house. get this, newt gingrich, the new front-runner. and is the taliban playing any role in libya as herman cain suggests? susan wright is just back from a surprise visit to tripoli. >>> i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." we're live here at constitution hall, here in the nation's capitol, where in just a little bit more than 24 hours, the republican presidential hopeful will face off for the first time in a major debate on national security, foreign affairs and the economy. he will be mod rating the event co-sponsored by the her kaj foundation and american enterprise institute. on the eve of this critical contest an eye-popping shift? the republican con taft. a new cnn poll just released minutes ago, shows newt gingrich on top of the republican pack for the first time. look at this wp 2

i'm wolf blitzer. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> as controversy swirls around him, republican front-runner, herman cain, went behind closed doors with republican lawmakers on capitol hill. just a brief respite from the storm that has blown over previously undisclosed sexual allegations. earlier today, cain suggested some sort of conspiracy is at work, but he insisted he will prevail. >> there are factions trying to destroy me personally as well as this campaign. but there is a force greater, there's a force at work here that is much greater than those that would try to destroy me and destroy this campaign. and this journey to the white house. and that force is called the voice of the people. >> cain may face a new round of controversy. one of his accusers apparently wants to go public. brian todd has been investigating this part of the story. what are you learning? >> wolf, the wheels have been set in motion for that. we're now one step closer to one of cain's

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i'm brooke baldwin, we will it ton follow this story with my colleague, wolf blitzer. wolf? >> thank you. happening now, breaking news. >> dr. murray, you are charged in count one of this felony. >> he is not breathing? >> yes be he is not breathing sir. >> you did unlawfully and without malice kill michael joseph jackson, a human being. >> anyone there? >> just the doctor, sir. the doctor is the only one here. >> i told the truth. >> is all bs. dr. murray is the fall guy. >> this is involuntary manslaughter. >> he is not responding to anything. >> maximum penalty for this offense is four years in state prison. >> daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. >> i am a innocent. i definitely plead not guilty. >> in just minute, we'll find out the verdict in the manslaughter trial of michael jackson's doctor. more breaking news, a fourth woman is now making allegations of sexual harassment against republican presidential candidate herman cain. she is speaking out about them in explicit detail. lots of news happening today. we want to welcome our viewers in the united

now to wolf blitzer. "the situation room" starts now. >> pakistan's prime minister warns that everything about his country's critical relationship with the united states has changed. tension reaching a disturbing new level in the wake after nato airstrike that killed two dozen pakistani troops. also, the democratic national committee inserts itself in the republican presidential primary hoping to take on the candidate who may pose the greatest challenge to president obama. we are talking about mitt romney. herman cain is live with us here in the situation room this hour. we will talk about what is behind declined in the recent polls. criticism of his 9-9-9 tax plan and much more. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in the situation room. >>> he's the only candidate whose been consistently at the top of the polls in the volatile republican race for the white house. that has mitt romney increasingly targeted by president obama's supporters. now in an unusual move, the democratic national committee is targeting romney

wo wolf? afghan capitol today as tribal elders met with the president of afghanistan, hamid karzai, in kabul. for now, nato and afghan forces are waging war where ever they find the enemy. even on twitter. nick is taking a closer look at how nato and the taliban spokesman with trading insulting online. >> after a decade of lethal combat, nato and the taliban are now fighting over something else. last word. on twitter for months now, the coalition press office an apparent taliban spokesman have been slugging it out. first, they cot personal over claims nato has afghan mercenaries. how the dialogue elevates. look, nobody takes you seriously. everything you type is wrong. just stop. >> that's why they picked you for this job. i wasn't here, you didn't have a job. >> neither side wants to talk about it on camera, or show the face, but they seem compelled into this on going war of words. when nato said -- had this in mind. nato admits this is a war of perception and taliban's information front is g

i'm wolf blitzer. are working on for the next hour. details of a major shakeup at the charity founded by the accused former coach jerry sandusky. >>> also, what we are learning about a russian scientists who helped iranians with their nuclear program. >>> stand by. you're in the situation room. >>> not just students and faculty at penn state devastated by the sex abuse scandal charges against jerry sandusky. the alum are also outraged by the scandal. rick santorum is one of those alums. he is joining us now live. senator, thanks very much for coming in. >> thanks, wolf. good to be with you. >> i want to get to politics and your race for the white house in a moment. but when you first heard about these accusations and they date back more than a decade, covering up you a lenled pedophilia at penn state university of all places, what did you think? >> i felt like i was punched in the gut. i couldn't believe it. you just don't want to believe it. you just can't think that obviously an institution that is y

i'm wolf blitzer. i'm wolf blitzer.he situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we're here at constitution hall in washington, d.c. we're just three hours from now, the republican presidential candidates, eight of them, will take to the stage. i'll be moderating the debate here on cnn. our focus tonight will be on national security and foreign policy. but the candidates will also address the extraordinary economic problems around the world and right here at home. in the united states. and as the obama administration tries winding down the wars in iraq and afghanistan, watch as the chill set in over the so-called arab spring and wonders what to do about iran's nuclear program. how would these eight republican hopefuls handle america's constant foreign policy and national security challenges? let's get a preview what we might hear from jill daugherty. >> well, wolf, it's an extraordinary time. historic events and for some of these candidates new to foreign policy, it was a lot to learn before that 3:00 a.m. p

wolf? >> we'll watch this story with you. how the mighty, in this case, jon corzine, have fallen, at least for now. lisa, thank you. >>> is israel moving toward a strike against iran's nuclear program? why speculation right now at a critical high. >>> plus, thousands of inmates start walking out of federal prisons. why sentences for crack cocaine are being eased here in the u.s. guinea pig: row...row.took one, 8 months to get the guin: ..row. lile cbby one to yell row! guineaig: ro's kof strange. guinig: row...row. such a simple word... row. anncr: t an easierayof strange. save. get online. go to geico.com. get a quote. e u 15% or more on car insurance. >>> rocket engine tested bold headlines that raised the possibility that push could come to shove regarding iran's nuclear program. foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty has been digging into this story for us. is military action at all likely, jill? >> people have been talking about it, wolf. this idea has been raised numerous times

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> we may be hearing any moment now from one of the women who reportedly accused herman cain of sexual harassment. her lawyer is waiting for approval from the national restaurant association, which was once led by herman cain, to issue that statement. you're looking at a live picture. the cameras are set up outside his office in washington, d.c., the office of joel bennett. brian todd is standing by. what are you learning? we're about to hear, we suspect, from joel bennett on whether or not they worked out an agreement with the national restaurant association. >> wolf, we're hearing that something could come soon from mr. bennett within way or the other to let us know if we're going to get some kind of a statement from his client, who is one of the accusers of herman cain. he says his client wants to set the record straight. we believed we could get a statement fairly soon from mr. bennett distributed by him on behalf of his client. what we're not goin

wolfe was a technical advisor on the film. in the real world, viruses-- microscopic pathogens that invade and destroy host cells-- have been jumping from animals to humans for ages. but with the huge increases in modern air traffic, an outbreak in one country quickly becomes a problem for the rest of the world. >> the challenge that we face right now is we're so interconnected that these viruses can spread in a day around the world. i mean, it can go from central africa, southeast asia, they can get to tokyo and they can get to new york city. that's crystal clear. >> reporter: that global interconnectedness was highlighted in recent years with the sars outbreak in 2003, and more recently with the h1n1 swine flu virus that started in mexico. it quickly infected millions. and then there's aids, at a 2009 ted talk, wolfe pointed out that millions of lives could potentially have been saved if the aids virus had been discovered when it first crossed from chimps to humans. >> this photo was taken before the great depression in brazz

wolf? other words, the protesters are not going back until the owners of that park and the city for all practical purposes decide they will be allowed to go back, but as of know, bloomberg and the owners, it's a public park even though it's privately owned, they say they don't want the protesters there, at least for now. is that right? >> well, it's interesting. some color from our producer who is in the courtroom for this all day long. what he sent to us is conversations between the judge and lawyers representing brookfield properties and basically, the message was not that we don't want them in there, the message as i read it, we can't have them in their 24 hours, setting up a tent city, camping out there. it was not saying we don't want them there, it was they cannot set up shop there, if you will. that's the big question is how will this go down? are you going to keep zuccotti park barricaded like this? this is a public park. are they going to keep police officers and private security i

wolf? mother of the alleged victim who triggered the sex abuse investigation is speaking out. she told abc news her son lived in fear of exposing what the former coach allegedly was doing to him. she says he gradually became aware of what was happening and her son would intentionally try to be groundeded to prevent sandusky from taking him out of the high school. her identity is not being revealed to protect her son. >> i didn't even know that he was leaving the school with my child or taking him out of classes. they never told me that. you just can't tell jerry no. i want justice. i want him -- i want him to be locked up. there's no -- there's no help for somebody that does this. not like this. he needs to be put away for a long time. >> the woman's son known as victim one first met sandusky through his program for at risk boys when he was 11 years old. we'll have more on this story coming up later this hour. meanwhile, growing questions this hour about the fate of a major league baseball

wolf? >> there's another story we're following related to newt gingrich. $1.6 million that has been reported he took from freddie mac, the federal mortgage giant that's in deep financial trouble. i suspect you've been looking into it as well. lisa sylvester reported on it earlier in the week, but ths probably going to be an issue? this republican contest. so many republicans hate fannie mae and freddie mac. >> and rightfully so. what did think just get through with saying they need about $8 billion of taxpayers' money? i think gingrich worked as a consultant for them, so was compensated handsomely as most of the people who work for that agency seem to be. >> 1.6 million handsomely. there's no doubt about that. i think we're talking about more than 100 -- $100 billion. that fannie and freddie have needed from all of us -- >> over time. >> over the years, that's right. and they're still losing tons and tons of money. just the other day, they announced they're giving bonuses to some of their e

please welcome nathan wolfe. (cheers and applause) dr. wolfe, you don't have to get up for me.ry nice. all right, sir, you are a microbiologist, a professor of human biology at standford. so you are a smarty pants, also the founder and c.e.o. of global viral forecasting. an independent research institute devoted to early detection of like pandemic, right. >> exactly. >> stephen: okay, you've got a book here. it's called the viral storm, the dawn of a new pandemic age. why don't you flame it something a little more alarmist. like disease kill zone. a virus will turn your blood to dust before the end of this sentence. so where do you get where dow research these viruses. how do you collect them? >> yeah, i mean so, one of the ways to think about what we do is creating museums of virus and blood. >> stephen: kids, we're going to the virus museum. okay, yes. you are a museum of germs and blood. >> yeah. that's us. >> stephen: but how do you get them. >> so we are positioned in, along with colleagues in 20 countries around the world. >> stephen: what countries what are the big disea

that's it, wolf. that information as i stand right in front of penn state university and to many, a beloved joe paterno, as you mentioned, a treatable form of lung cancer. this community still rocks. i had a chance to be on a radio program. it's a weary community and not sure how they're taking this news. they want to be sure to thank joe paterno for all the years he has done besides a scandal. one person got on the phone and said he's done more for penn state than any coach in the country. >> give us a little perspective. you've covered penn state football over the years. so have i. i don't think we can overexaggerate how significant joe paterno's legacy at penn state has been and why this whole development in recent days, tragedy, sexual abuse scandal and resignation, how that has tarnished arguably the most stellar football coach record in american history. >> reporter: again, scandal aside, wolf, to add to your perspective on this, these students i talked to, were so saddened. they love joe patern

look at this lovely couple. >> i was part of wolf's entourage. we call it the wolf pack.e malveaux and brook bolduan and i. this is what life is like when you hang with wolf blitzer, you get the red carpet treatment and people are climbing over seats and hurdling chairs trying to get to wolf. there's bootcy. >> what was that get-up? >> that's part of his brand. >> it is. funk dellic and beyond, are you kidding me? >> we have a lot of stuff coming up later today but we had to revisit our week. >> it was a good time there. wolf, we have the pictures now, we don't have the video of his performance. >> that's right. >> there's a great surprise performance, you'll probably recall from last year he did dougy fresh, he and dougie fresh are tight. they have another routine this year. that's a hint, involves a scramble board. remember this? you'll have to watch this taped performance this sunday after thanksgiving, the 27th. >> fredericka coming up in just about four minutes. >> peace love and soul train. >> she was having a good time the other night. we'll be right back. she's on

i'm wolf blitzer. i'm wolf blitzer.room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> for some americans, coach joe paterno is the face of penn state university and now, the coach and his career are now casualties of the scandal. paterno announced he will retire at the end of this season. he said he's absolutely devastated by the allegations against his former assistant coach and two other senior university officials. our national correspondent, jason carroll, is on the campus of penn state with the latest. what's going on, jason? well, wolf, in retrospect, paterno says at the end of the day, he wished he would have done more. i've spoken to the players here at penn state ch they say he did what was best for himself, the team and university. we are also hearing word that the president of the university, his resignation might be imminent and right now, it's best just to take a look back at how this unfolded. >> the allegations of sexual abuse by former penn state defensive coordinator, jerry san dusy, go back to the mid 19

i'm wolf blitzer. i'm wolf blitzer.tuation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> we're waiting for r herman cain to go before the cameras in scottsdale, arizona. any moment now, we expect him to go on the attack. the republican presidential candidate says there's not an ounce of truth to a chicago woman's alleges about sexual s misconduct and his campaign has released a long list of lawsuits. ms bialek became the first to speak out, but some of the other women and the other allegations as we await herman cain. we've got our reporters an analysts standing by, including gloria borger, donna brazile -- i said that, but gloria, let me start with you. it's taking right now even as we speak, a whole new dimension because another woman who made these allegations against him in 1999, she now work it is department of treasury. she's about to go public if she hasn't yet. >> she is, wolf. she is somebody who tried not to go public. and who went through her attorney, joel bennett, who you just had on the show. but now, h

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i'm wolf blitzer. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room". -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> we begin with breaking news on wall street. a dramatic rescue and equally dramatic reaction on wall street. the stock market skyrocketing today on new that is the federal reserve and other central banks are taking direct action to prevent a financial meltdown in the euro zone using the their resources to keep money and credit flowing amid the staggering debt crisis. it's the largest coordinated move of its kind since 2008 when similar action brought u.s. credit markets back from the brink. let's go straight to alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. a banner day on wall street today. >> just a stunning rally. we're ending the day, the dow up 482 points. this is the best point gain for the dow we've seen in two and a half years, this all coming after the central banks stepping in and meeting this relief rally. investors seeing it finally these monetary policymakers get it. what central banks are going to be

connie wolf. she'll join us in a little bit. in the meantime, please meet dr. rachele haverlock. and she's here on a conference. also, she spent a lot of time in the area and she's written a wonderful book called "river jordan." it talks about how the jordan river has been used geographically as a boundary line in the region. welcome. >> thank you. >> so, the book, what is it about? >> well, the jordan river plays a prominent role in jewish life and imagination. it's an important symbol to christians and islam. highway wanted to look at why it's so important in the flee religions and how it came to persist as a really important boundary, location and symbol in jewish life from antiquity. >> just for some who may not be familiar with all of the ways in which the geography of the region is layed out and putting aside what some may call the political issues around the state boundaries between, say jordan and israel, egypt and the region, can we let folks know where does the river jordan actually situate itself? >> it's the lowest river on earth. it flows down from northern mountains

wolf? >> does tom kelley believe cain made any mistakes in this situation? >> kelley said he does a lot of p.r. and branding. he said the one thing he thinks cain should have done better, crisis communication. he said the message could have been sharper. he said, of course you can't plan for this. maybe having a better crisis communication structure in place among the team may have turned things out better for him in this situation. >> i think he's right. thanks, brian. the sexual harassment allegations were first reported in a story sunday night. politico's ken vogel is investigating this and joins us again. thank you very much for coming in. >> pleasure, wolf. >> his story seems to change. i will play a clip of what he said yesterday and then what he said today to hln. listen to this. >> all we know is that they contacted my office and said they had two anonymous sources accusing me of sexual harassment. we said, what details can you give us? they couldn't give us any other than it occurr

c j wilson, unneitherly plays for the wolf pack. yes, the wolf pack scores 42 unanswered point. maryland finishes the season at 2-10 with eight straight losses. >>> virginia hosting virginia tech. the winner would earn a trip to the a.c.c. title game and that would go to the hokie up 7-0. 16 yards, virginia tech up 14. it got worse for the cavs. there goes david wilson. 38 yards, second score of the day. hokies put a bagel on the cavaliers. >>> how about the caps? hopefully some good news but down 2-0 in buffalo when jason chimera, first pen shot of his career, he scores. caps cut the lead in half.