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scandal hits happy valley. a former penn state football coach facing child sex abuse charges. now two school officials are forced to step down, accused of lying to a grand jury to cover up the alleged crimes. a transfer of power under way at this moment in greece. the embattled prime minister agrees to step down in order to salvage that countrys bailout and prevent its debt crisis from infecting other nations, but are the markets ready to breathe a sigh of relief yet? when does hum...

This happened to a protest on march 9 which of course was after hosni mubarak had stepped down, but when the protesters were pushing for more reform saying that the pace of the changeover with the military running the country was too slow. and what happened for the first time, you saw the military actually target protesters, and you can see it there, and they went in and arrested, and they arrested hundreds actually, but there was a group of women that were taken into custody, and 17 of them, an...

the photo and tweet were quickly deleted. representative weiner is denying he posted the photo, and says it was a prank by a hacker. we caught up with the congressman again today to get some more answers. but this is what he said. >> arent you concerned someone is looking at your sensitive information? >> im going to return to working on the things i care about. i participated in the story a couple of days now, given comments on it. this is a distraction, and im not going to let it dis...

Resigned. the president is set to address the nation tomorrow. hopefully hell explain. im joined by the correspondent for the middle east. reema, explain this to me. what does he hope to achieve by this? >> it would have been great or big news if the president had stepped down, but today, its the government that has resigned. this government has been in place for the past eight years. a lot of expectations of this new government. it has not been decided yet who will lead the new government in sy...

When the quake hit. today, he told us what it was like. >> the closer you got to the center of the city where susan was, the worse and worse things got. the roads were cracked open, water flooding here, no electricity, multiple injuries, that kind of thing. so it was like a scene of a disaster movie and you kept thinking im going to wake up and this is not going to be real but unfortunately it was. >> president obama has ordered the justice department to stop defending the constitutionality of t...

Bahrain and across egypt today. >> and the white house has reprimanded bahrain for its harsh crackdown on protesters. abcs lama hasan has the latest live from cairo. hi, lama. >> reporter: good morning, rob and vinita. its still early in the morning here but we are expecting a big turnout later today in cairo. pro-democracy protesters have planned a million person march, a victory march to celebrate new egypt and egypt without hosni mubarak as its leader. its been a week since the former preside...

So, you know, particularly, if you look at my statements, i started talking about reform two weeks or two and a half weeks before mr. mubarak ultimately stepped down, and at each juncture, i think we calibrated it just about right. and i would suggest that part of the test is that what we ended up seeing was a peaceful transition, relatively little violence, and relatively little, if any, anti-american sentiment or anti-israel sentiment or anti-western sentiment. and i think that testifies to th...

>> regardless of whether he steps or stays, remnants of the regime will stay. his departure would be a major symbol to the -- >> where would he go? >> stepping down, one way or another. >> i dont think he wants to -- >> if the protesters managed to get him to step down that would be a strong symbol. >> stepped down. i think we are finding people moving to something here in the center. thank you for your expertise. good luck with the book. >> "the longest war." >> my new friend, thank you for joi...

Members are not taking each marks. the effect is to say there is a lot of problems with the system and it needs to be fixed and we are not going to take ear marks until it is fixed. >> your decision was a temporary ban. >> we refused to take ear marks because the system is broke. >> we had a moratorium about a year ago. >> chris: we have less than a minute left. congressman van hollen i want to ask you one question that involves ethics. when congressman foley stepped down, the democrats demanded...

Here. we took a significant step in our conference and said we will not be seeking any ear marks. a total ban on ear marks this year. whether chris says democrats make the rules and not republican, fine, republican members are not taking each marks. the effect is to say there is a lot of problems with the system and it needs to be fixed and we are not going to take ear marks until it is fixed. >> your decision was a temporary ban. >> we refused to take ear marks because the system is broke. >> w...