we ll look at big stories. give you interesting details and go inside information, only a worldwide news organization like cnn can bring to you every single day. we re going to talk to the leaders and newsmakers and also real folks and challenge some of the conventional looks and issues people are discussing today. the starting point this morning is about changing minds in iowa. just 36 hours before the caucuses begin, and it is a statistical dead heat for first place between presidential candidates mitt romney and ron paul, and that means the race for third is on between rick santorum and rick perry, newt gingrich and michele bachmann as well. the good news for them, more than 40% of iowan voters say their minds could be changed. got some breaking news to get to this morning. police are speaking to a person of interest right now in the los angeles arson spree. even as eight more fires were set overnight, surveillance videotape, show you this, shows the person officers want
could bring down a continent on this american morning . good morning, everyone. wednesday november 9th. welcome to american morning . lots of news. new indication that joe paterno s 46 coaching career at penn state could be over in a matter of days or weeks. paterno has been under fire in the wake of a child sex abuse involving a top assistant of his. the board of trustees is launching an investigation saying they are outraged by the allegation. meantime a huge crowd of supporters rallied outside paterno s home last night. he was visibly moved by it. jason carroll following developments for us. he s live in state college, pennsylvania. where has this story gone since then, jason? reporter: basically it s not surprising you see so many supporters who are coming out in support of joe paterno. when you think of this man s record, his stellar record for generation, for so many years here at the cool not surprising that some are coming out to say instead of directing the a
at the top of the hour here, this is your cnn sunday morning. i m t.j. holmes. thank you for being here. we want to give a special good morning and welcome to the men and women of the armed forces watching now on the american forces network. thank you for being here. thank you for what you do. let s start with what we saw yesterday in new york. an extraordinary scene really. the brooklyn bridge is, again, open this morning after protesters shut it down. police took away as many as 700 demonstrators who had taken to the bridge as parts of a wall street protest. they re calling this thing the occupy wall street. that s what they call themselves. look, they did occupy wall street for a time and other parts of new york city. they ve been gathering in new york for more than two weeks now. this has been a loosely coordinated effort to protest what they say a financial system that favors the rich at the expense of everybody else. this is the biggest disruption we ve seen in the tw
can and we will hope for the best as mom likes to say. we will be covering this very, very closely. as we always do at cnn. in fact, jim acosta takes over our coverage right now in the cnn newsroom. jim, take it away. thanks, guys, very much. good morning, everybody. it is almost here. hurricane irene is curving closer and closer to tens of millions of people. waves and wind already kicking up and the first rains will soak the southeast today. this is a big storm. hundreds of miles across and even from space, it is a monster. an astronaut on the international space station called the view terrifying. we have crews deployed up and down the east coast. reynolds wolf is in kill dils hill, north carolina and john zarrella is north of there. then candy crowley in long island and mary snow and jacqui jeras. reynolds, they are bracing for a direct hit, aren t they? they certainly are. one of the most troubling things about this err area is the how it s susceptible to the