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good morning to you. it is thursday, november 17. ali velshi has the day off. im carol costello along with christine romans. happy one last day until friday. >> welcome to "american morning." up first this morning, new developments in the penn state child sex scandal. jerry sanduskys tv sbrir this week where he said his behavior with young boys was not sexual abuse, just horse play, may have been the last straw for some of his alleged victims. sanduskys words led new people to come for...

commissioner is 177 demonstrators arrested, and 5 officers injured. but new york mayor michael bloomberg says that isnt the real story. >> so far the real story is there have been, i think its fair to say, minimal disruptions to people and most protesters have, in all fairness, acted responsibly. >> as we said, it is coast to coast. in los angeles, about 300 protesters marched a half mile from city hall to the wells fargo center. crowds gathered in the streets of portland, oregon, thre...

What is concerning to us is the fact that there is not any real certainty on how these processes will be met. >> reporter: green groups and alaska natives who oppose offshore drilling say bp, the bp spill in the gulf is evidence the regulations are not tough enough and anything that erodes their ability to challenge drilling in the courts would be devastating for the environment. >> were part of the ecosystem. once you mess up our ecosystem you will wipe us all out and we dont want that to happe...

Suspicions that fracking might be the process, or one of the processes that was causing contamination. really until now, and even to a great extent now, you know, thats inconclusive. its just the chief suspect. >> do you see any prospect that the states actually could get great at regulating this type of activity and taking care of peoples health and safety? >> well, sure. they could. and there are some states that do. you know, comparatively good job. there are some states that fall way behind....

Nice to see you. what happened? why was there a delay in this important decision. >> this is an uncomfortable one. president obama will anger a big portion of his base with whatever decision comes down. youve got the enviro environmes who dont want it, the labor unions are looking at thousands of jobs. there were protests over the weekend. >> greta: is there a third group? if this decision is a political one, and its just waiting until 2012, im enraged because this is not a game. its a job of re...

Editor rick klein joins us. nice to see you. what happened? why was there a delay in this important decision. >> this is an uncomfortable one. president obama will anger a big portion of his base with whatever decision comes down. youve got the enviro environmes who dont want it, the labor unions are looking at thousands of jobs. there were protests over the weekend. >> greta: is there a third group? if this decision is a political one, and its just waiting until 2012, im enraged because this is...

Charges against him. adam housley is live in the mix of all this outside of the courthouse in l.a. adam? >> reporter: two hours and 40 minutes ago the jury began to decide whether dr. murray is criminally negligent for the death of michael jackson. we know they have take and 15-minute break. but the 7 men and five women are going through the processes of going over one count. thats all they have to decide is one count. after hearing 23 days of argument. and 49 witnesses. as we hear the guilty ch...

I cover redistricting around the country, chris, and i havent seen anything like this, where a governor of any party has gone in and tried to take over an independent commissions process. thats where this is really new and unchartered territory in terms of redistricting. at least in this cycle. what isnt new is that politics is inserted into this process. redistricting is one of the most political processes out there. >> what would be a fair assessment? how many seats did arizona have? it had, w...

Governor technically has a right to impeach the head of the redistricting committee, but this is really unprecedented. i cover redistricting around the country, chris, and i havent seen anything like this, where a governor of any party has gone in and tried to take over an independent commissions process. thats where this is really new and unchartered territory in terms of redistricting. what isnt new is that politics is inserted into this process. redistricting is one of the most political proc...

Some time and learn these issues so he can cover. we want to select a presidential candidate who comes into this process with that knowledge already intact. we dont want someone -- >> its not the case for everybody who walks into this -- >> i would like to assume for an election to the presidency, we would -- the process would produce people who do have that knowledge. >> but sam, he doesnt have that knowledge. >> but the solution is not to take some time and go off and study the issues. >> the ...