piece of the empire state building. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." and good morning to you. this is your "a.m. wake-up call" for wednesday, november 30th. from the time warner center in new york, i'm carol costello. here are this morning's top stories. herman cain now reassessing whether to keep his campaign going after a woman named ginger white accused him of a 13-year affair. cain denies that he cheated on his wife, but a top campaign staffer telling cnn that cain admitted the ongoing sex scandal has taken its toll on his family. bernie fine's second accuser, mike lang talking about the abuse he says he suffered at the hands of the former syracuse coach. in the meantime, syracuse university head coach jim boeheim says he isn't worried about losing his job over the scandal. and it could be a wild ride on wall street today after standard & poor's downgraded the ratings of several major u.s. banks. the agency saying it's changing the way it looks at financial institutions. let's head to atlanta to get a check of the weather. rob marciano is back. good morning, new dad. >> -- a little different for me nowadays but good to be back with my cnn family. good to see you, carol. we have interesting weather, that's for sure. the past couple of days have been zany. cold air dipping down to the deep south. northeast, your heavy rain. and the cold air will be coming in behind this thing. but record highs yesterday again. and heavier across connecticut and the northeast. that will be coming to an end. the colder air will move in. look at the comma-shaped cloud. you see the cold air blasting down to the south. just how chilly is it across the south? it's cold right now than it is in new york city and atlanta. 38 in atlanta. 33 degrees after some snow yesterday in memphis and 48 degrees in new york city. we will see temperatures, obviously, slowly rise. but it will be a much cooler day today across the northeast than it has been the past few days. we'll talk more about flight delays and action out in california for those socal folks staying up late with us. carol? >> thank you, rob. >> all right. breaking news to tell you about. the eviction of occupy l.a., the camp, is now under way. this is a live look. this is what it looks like around city hall. you can see hundreds of riot police are moving in. by some counts, there are more police officers than protesters. this comes 48 hours after demonstrators were ordered to leave. police also issued several ten-minute warnings throughout the night. and those warnings were essentially ignored. sandra endo is live in downtown los angeles for us this morning. sandra, is it peaceful so far? >> reporter: so far, carol, it's remarkably calm right now. as police go through the camp, they're dismantling the tents have been in place for nearly two months now in front of city hall. they have established a perimeter around this area, blocking off streets. there's cops in riot gear. the fire department is here. we've seen the bomb squad. and let me show you over here, carol, police in hazmat suits are methodically going through the encampment because protesters have obviously set up tentd ten tents and brought in their stuff. as this all went down, as you mentioned, protesters did get a warning that this raid was going to happen. that eviction was going to be clear. a lot of the protesters, hundreds of them, swarmed into the streets. well, that is when cops raided the park and went into the encampment and basically took it over. we were in the thick of things had this all happened. and initially things were tense. there was a little pushing and shoving, but so far, so good. things seem to be peaceful. then those protesters who denied the order, who wanted to be arrested because of their cause, they all went into the middle of the encampment, sat down, linked arms, and they wanted to get arrested. we were right there watching this all happen. the police methodically had a strategy. they made sure sections of the park inside the encampment were blocked off. and they made sure the media moved out as well. there was a camera that was a pool camera showing these arrests. and obviously, one by one, they pulled out these protesters who were arrested. and from every witness account we could see, it was very peaceful and calm. we also saw those cops in hazmat suits shake down these tents and then collapse them. and that is a process they're going through right now. obviously, it's going to take some time because there are hundreds of campers inside this occupy protest camp. so clearly, this will be a long process throughout the night. we see police helicopters going overhead right now. but, again, protesters were warned as of sunday midnight that they would be violating a city law that they could not be protesting overnight here in front of city hall. carol? >> all right, we'll check back with you. sandra endo live in los angeles for us this morning. a few weeks ago, he was the gop front-runner. now the herman cain campaign may be in its final hours. a top campaign source telling cnn that cain is now reassessing whether to keep going after a woman said she had an affair with him for 13 years. a decision could come in a few days after the campaigning -- after the campaign finds out whether fund-raising is drying up. herman cain was on top of the polls before the two women came out accusing him of sexual harassme harassment. the latest cnn/orc poll taken before the affair allegations surfaced has him at 17%, falling behind mitt romney and front-runner newt gingrich. many other polls also have him in the midteens. cain is denying these latest allegations. he says the woman accusing him of an affair was a friend, a friend he tried to help out financially. the second man accusing bernie fine of child molestation is speaking out to cnn. mike lang, a former ball buy, accuses the former coach of sexually abusing him decades ago. we have this report about the allegations and the investigation. >> reporter: the second accuser in this case is bobby davis' stepbrother, mike lang. mike lang is 45 years old. he says he was a ball boy for syracuse university for about 15 years. beginning when he was in junior high school. he said he did not talk about these accusations because he felt helpless and embarrassed. but he's speaking out now, and he talked to us earlier. he'd invite you to his house. you'd go. you would hang out there. >> right. i'd go over there every day. >> reporter: and most of the time you would just watch tv, or would you study? >> watch tv, rake his lawn, do whatever i wanted to do. it was like my house, you know. >> reporter: so you considered him like a fatherly figure? >> yes, absolutely. >> reporter: but when did you realize that there was something wrong with what he was doing. what did he do to you? >> he touched me. he kept touching me. >> reporter: where would he touch you? >> on my leg and my penis. >> reporter: did you say something to him? >> yes, i said bernie, please stop this because i'm not that kind and i won't tolerate it. if you don't want me to come over here no more, i wouldn't come over here. but if you keep doing it, i'm not going to come over here. >> reporter: but you were a kid and you knew this was wrong. and here's this grown-up man doing this to you. and when you said to him, stop doing that, what did he say to you? >> he didn't say nothing. he'd move his hand and he wouldn't do it for that night. >> reporter: on tuesday night syracuse university had its first basketball game since bernie fine was fired. last week before he was fired, there was an honorary seat left on the bench for bernie fine. but at this game, no honorary seat whatsoever. head coach jim boeheim got lots more applause, but there was no mention whatsoever of bernie fine. this is gary tuchman, cnn, in syracuse, new york. the man identified as victim number one in the jerry sandusky indictment will testify at a hearing in two weeks. that's coming from the accuser's attorney. it will be the first time the alleged victim will publicly confront sandusky. his mother says the boy, who is now a teenager, was recently forced to leave his high school because bullies blamed him for joe paterno's firing. an angry judge throwing the book at dr. conrad murray, sentencing him to four years behind bars for michael jackson's death. saying the doctor is dangerous and has no sense of remorse. >> experimental medicine is not going to be tolerated. and mr. jackson was an experiment. he engaged in this money-for-medicine madness. >> after that scolding, cameras caught murray blowing a kiss to someone in the courtroom on his way outside. whether murray will serve all of that time is another question because of the prison overcrowding problem in california right now. the man arrested in connection with the disappearance of a maryland woman in aruba is a free man this morning. gary giordano's attorney says aruban authorities let him go last night. giordano has never been charged in the case. and the judge ruled he can no longer be kept in custody. the missing woman, robyn gardner, was last seen in august when she went snorkeling with giordano. with $1,000 tax hike looming for many working families, the fight on capitol hill over extending the payroll tax cut is now turning to how to pay for it. the gop for the first time is saying they'll back a one-year extension of the payroll tax holiday, but they're against a surtax on millionaires to offset the cost. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell says the gop will offer its own proposal this week. if congress doesn't act, 121 million families could see an average $1,000 tax increase. pilot, employees and passengers all wondering what now after american airlines became the latest u.s. carrier to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy. the airline says it will continue normal operations honoring tickets and reservations and making exchanges and refunds as usual. rewards programs also expected to remain intact. but it could be a harder landing for american workers. with big changes ahead to paychecks and, of course, to pensions. all of the nation's biggest banks put on notice that the old way of doing business won't cut it anymore. standard & poor's cut by one notch the rating of six of the largest u.s. banks including goldman sachs, bank of america, morgan stanley, citigroup and jpmorgan chase. jpmorgan was the only bank that maintained a positive outlook. s&p says the changes reflected new rules for the world's largest financial institutions. we'll ask christine romans what exactly this means for your money in just a few minutes. still to come, a federal agency comes out swinging against at&t. investigators saying the telecom giant did nothing but lie about a proposed merger with t-mobile. we'll have details for you ahead. and an update from three hedge fund managers who want the powerball lottery. they're revealing what they're going to do with all of that money. and wie'll look ahead to wht to expect today, just a day after protesters stormed the british embassy in iran. it's got tender white meat chicken. the way i always made it for you. one more thing.... those pj's you like, i bought you five new pairs. love you. did you see the hockey game last night? 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>> it's an excellent choice. it's not going to help much, but, i mean, if i had to choose a manager, bobby v. would certainly be top of the list. good morning again, carol. speaking of boston, a little rain there this morning. and after some record-breaking heat the past couple days, sure felt like late summer than early winter for the northeast, hasn't it? and today is december 1st. yeah. we kind of think of today as the first day of meteorological winter, just so you know. temperatures will be dropping behind this thing. cold and windy across the great lakes. speaking of wind, you see delays because of that. also chicago, wind yesterday. strong winds again today. san francisco, los angeles, and las vegas also winds developing this afternoon for the next two days, strong wind event there. we'll talk more about what's going on out west in about 15 minutes. carol? >> it's actually november 30th. >> is it? i need more sleep! >> i know you do. it's okay. >> it's the last day of hurricane season. >> that's good. that's even better. thank you, rob. >> see you, carol. >> see you in a bit. the uk foreign secretary says there will be serious consequences for an iranian mob assault on the british embassy. protesters in tehran stormed two facilities, the british parliament will address the issue today. zain verjee live in london with more. good morning, zain. >> good morning, carol. the british prime minister says that that attack was outrageous and indefensible. the uk is also warning of further serious consequences to the attack. it's not clear exactly what they would be. but the one instant move that the british have already taken, carol, is to pull some of its embassy staff already out of tehran. britain has cut financial ties to iran, the first time it's completely severed ties. anything transactional with any bank, any kind of deal is nonexistent between uk and iran. iran lashed back on sunday. its parliament voted to expel the uk ambassador to iran. so they're both upping the ante on either side. but the iranians, carol, are saying they regret what happened. carol? on another topic, let's talk about the uk hacking investigation. are you going to tell me about the voice of the -- what was her nickname? she had the voice of an angel. >> the voice of an angel. i think that's me. but i'm not quite sure. who you mean. >> besides you. >> the important thing here is that testimony by an ex-"news of the world" reporter accused senior leaders like rebecca brooks at "news of the world," he essentially said that they knew that the phone hacking was going on of celebrities and other really important people and that it was widespread. senior leaders of "news of the world" have said that they didn't know what was going on. and even the ones that indicated they may have an inkling, they seemed to say that they had no idea that it was that widespread. so these are really important allegations. important testimony. what this guy, paul mcmullen, also said was he claimed the public. and he said that they have an appetite for this kind of a market. so the public should take responsibility because they're the ones that want to read the kind of stories that they put out. carol? >> and they certainly do. no, what i was talking about, i know that charla church, when she was a little girl, she was the opera singer. they said she had the voice of an angel. >> right. >> she testified as well. i guess she sang at rupert murdoch's wedding and in exchange supposedly -- go ahead. >> right. sorry. yeah. she did speak out, you're right. and she was upset because she had a family situation at the time. i believe her parents were getting divorced. and her phone messages were hacked. so she did speak out and testify. >> got you. okay. well, it's a disturbing case, though. it just seems to get, i don't know, worse and worse. zain verjee, thanks so much. it's 20 minutes past the hour. topping our money headlines, the link between your 401(k) and yesterday's big bank downgrade. and do you hate being nice just because it's the holidays? a new study proves you are far from being the only one. ver the. vietnam, 1967. i got mine in iraq, 2003. u.s.a.a. auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation, because it offers a superior level of protection and because u.s.a.a.'s commitment to serve the military, veterans, and their families is without equal. begin your legacy. get an auto insurance quote. u.s.a.a. we know what it means to serve. nice, huh? 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