japan, one arresuspected of mur reporter: we are learning more about the case. tokyo police were holding him on different charges but now holding him on murder charges, looking to advance their case against this unidentified man, unidentified because he s still considered a minor under japanese law. for the minor of fur dg long, an irish exchange student found dead in a tokyo hotel room, strangled to death. the tokyo police say the only other person in the room was the 19-year-old. they are moving forward on a case against another american, blackston, an l.a. native. we spoke to his attorney and he says the tokyo prosecutor s office has officially charged him with groping furlong s friend on the night of her murder. the attorney says that these charges are not valid, that he intends to fight on behalf of his client trying to get his client off. he does not feel there s any sort of validity to this. the attorney also says that at this point he could face, if found guilty, an
he s taken up since retiring from professional bike cycling. in a statement, he says, i have been notified that usada, an organization largely funded usada intends to dredge up discredited allegations dating back more than 16 years to prevent me from competing as a triathlete and try to strip me of the seven tour de france victories i earned. these are the same charges and same witnesses the justice department chose not to pursue after a two-year investigation. these charges are baseless, motivated by spite and advanced through testimony bought and paid for by promises of anonymity. lance armstrong has never tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs before, but the doping agency said they collected blood samples in 2009 and 2010 that were, quote, fully consistent with blood manipulation, including epo or blood transfusions. what do you make of that? caller: first of all, i don t think saying you ve never tested positive as an athlete really means anything. we ve hea
in a presidential election run thauf weekend. we should tell you that riot police, military personnel have taken up positions outside the court. ben wedeman joins us in just a few moments with the latest on this. as soon as we get ben wedeman, we ll bring it to you. back to the u.s. you know the old saying, when it rains it pours. for the obama campaign it appears to be a gully washer. lately the president has had some bad poll number, some bad headlines, some democrats are expressing doubt about his message and his chances come november. big donors are sitting tight with their money. for mitt romney, several things appear to be going right. he is raising a lot of money and his poll numbers have been getting better. a little more than two hours from now, both men take to the stump in the battleground state of ohio with dueling key economic speeches. they won t be face to face, but you can bet that they won t mince words about each other either. so, cnn s jim acosta joins us
study, here s what he had to say. well, i knew that s why the american people are having such a hard time. that s why the idea of selecting as a campaign slogan forward is object sushd. mitt romney seems to be placing the blame on president obama. there s no doubt that that 40% drop is terrible. but what s lost in the comments is the fact the three years we re talking about are from 2007 to 2010. president obama didn t take office until 2009. so president obama and his supporters say you can t blame him, you have to look at the situation he inherited. you can agree with that or disagree. but in case you think i m siding with president obama here, let me point out that president obama seems guilty of similar tactics. in a new campaign ad he zings governor romney for some bad ads in massachusetts. it could also be blamed on what he inherited when he took office. that is the key to all of this. if you ignored who the candidates were, here s the 2010 figure, $77,300 accordi
we ve got the highlights this hour on cnn. good morning, everyone. welcome to early start. nice to have you with us. i m ashleigh banfield. i m zoraida sambolin. we begin with the shocking and sometimes sickening testimony in the child sex abuse trial of former penn state football defensive coordinator jerry sandusky. we have heard from two alleged victims already, and a third could take the stand later this morning. yesterday former assistant football coach mike mcqueary also testified, describing what he thought appeared to be sandusky molesting a young boy in a shower. and there was tearful, riveting testimony from the man whose accusations helped trigger the criminal investigation. alleged victim number one said that he stayed at jerry sandusky s house more than 100 times as a boy, and he was sexually assaulted repeat lid when he was just 12 years old. susan candiotti is live in bellefonte, pennsylvania. susan, what made victim number one break down in tears on the st