good morning to you. it is thursday, november 17. ali velshi has the day off. i'm 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 sandusky's 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. sandusky's words led new people to come forward. sandusky charged with 40 counts of sexual abuse involving eight boys he met through the charity, on "360" last night, anderson cooper spoke to the mother of one alleged victim, victim number one in the indictment. she says it was hard for they are son to watch the sandusky interview. >> he was very upset about it. he said i watched it after that. he said he cried. i said, why with s he crying? he said because i'm afraid he might go free. >> he is afraid sandusky might go free? >> yes. >> the mother says she wants to see is an does ski can i speuoed the rest of his life in jail. sarah joins us live from penn state, pennsylvania. jerry sandusky interview that bob costas had on nbc, it upset so many of his alleged victims they are now coming forward. you talked to an attorney about this. what did he tell you? >> reporter: he actually said he believes that jerry sandusky was trying to help himself but what happened was many alleged victims have now come forward. some dating back to 1970. that's the time frame of which -- in which sandusky began his charity, second mile in state college where grand jurors have said that he found his alleged victims. so this attorney who is a very prominent state college attorney dealing a lot with victims' rights, known for that, said he spent yesterday in and out of the kitchens of people who are now grown adults who are saying they were victims, too, and they are contemplating whether or not they are going to go forward to police looking at what happen medical the last two weeks, looking at what allegedly happening to victim one with the teen boy still in high school, who is being bullied, as the -- as the psychologist told us yesterday. they are talking to this attorney trying to decide if they are going to move forward with this but is saying that they have several multiple victims who watched that on tv and it triggered this response they wanted to come forward and talk to somebody and in some cases it was the very first time they were telling their story. >> what really struck me about when i read your article, that some of these victims who are coming forward now, this is the first time that they told their secret to anyone. >> reporter: yes, you know, i -- i think that's something that -- that's consistent with this case. we found that there were a lot of missed opportunities. a lot of instances where people didn't say something. and this attorney did also tell me that there were opportunities in these people that he talked to yesterday where they tried to come forward and they made some kind of signal or started to say something and weren't believed or in some cases he even said that they were silenced or told, you know, to go away. >> you say that and that's certainly -- that gives context to what one victim's mother told anderson cooper last night and describes this conversation she had with her son's principal after her first sort reported sandusky. let's listen. >> i said i want to you call the police, call children and youth, you know, i said call the police right now. i said it three times. call the police right now. and i said -- they said no, you to think about the ramifications of what would happen if i did that. her son is dealing with the ramifications now. standing up to sandusky, family was told not to then, but now somehow he found the courage, he and his mother, to come forward. no small feat. >> reporter: well, you know, i think that this has been a really trying time for a lot of the victims. you know, they have been dealing with this for several years. and now the way that it unfolded has been really traumatic and almost second victimization. you know, i think this is very hard for them and they are all dealing with it a little bit differently. a lot of them are turning to counseling. there's a lot of services, counseling services, that have come forward and offered free services to those victims. some of them are turning to each other. they are all dealing with it in their own way. >> just a little more on the topic of keeping this quiet at penn state. these allegations against jerry sandusky. there is a "new york times" report this morning that they write that much of second miles travel and expense records from 2000 to 2003 are simply not there. they are missing. second mile, then didn't return requests for comments on the report but you have been looking hard at second mile for some time now. how suspicious does that sound to you? >> reporter: well, i think what we are going to find is what the governor here said last week is that the a.g.'s office, attorney general's office, will have to look at that charity, what they knew and when they knew it. we have h a source tell us earlier this week thatting a second mile official did express to a person of authority some kind of concern about jerry sandusky's behavior as far back as 2008. so it is, you know, it is not clear. it is too early to tell exactly what they knew and how much they knew, and who in the organization knew if it was, you know, rumors that everyone knew about it and talked about or if it was actual fact that the people knew. you know, so i think we have to wait a little bit. you know, this is an ongoing investigation. and it is not -- even close to over. i think, you know, i know it felt like a long time the last two weeks but really hasn't been that long. >> investigators aren't speaking at all that much for understandable reasons. many thanks to you. sfroyts coast to coast this morning are bracing for the occupy movement's day of action. mass protests are planned to mark the cause's two-month anniversary. ahead of today's rallies occupy an fran took its message straight to the tapes. they swarmed the lobby of bank of america. police were called in. it is reported more than 100 people were arrested. in seattle the city's mayor is apologizing to the peaceful protesters who are pepper pepper sprayed by police tuesday night. a pregnant woman, elderly woman and priest were among those hurt. police say they only used the pepper spray when protesters tried to block city streets. in northbound, occupy wall street is planning its biggest protest yet. march owes wall street, subways and the brook lidge bridge today. mary snow, live in downtown manhattan. mary, the -- certainly the protesters are hoping today is going to be a day to recharge their movement after the evictions earlier this week, aren't they? >> reporter: they certainly are. good morning. and, you know, this, of course, comes two days after zuccotti park was evicted. you see some protesters gathering now. it is safe to say there are many private security guards here this morning as there are protesters and take a look at the headline of the "new york daily news." do or die for occupy. its future is at stake. protesters here plan this morning to make a show of force outside of the new york stock exchange. really taking their message to wall street. it is going to be a day of protests, christine. later today they are -- expected to target some subway stations and then go to the brook lidge bridge that has been a site of protests in the past. and the city is bracing, it says, for -- tens of thousands of people to possibly march today. as these protesters take to the street. >> protest -- where do they see their movement going from this point? >> reporter: you know, certainly the occupy of occupy wall street was taken out of their movement the other day with this eviction since they are not allowed to bring sleeping bags into this park, allowed to protest but not stay here. what some of the protesters are saying that this march today had been planned since the two-month anniversary and want to get through this day. then really reorganize. process of doing that, whether or not they have another place and another physical place where they are going to set up camp remains a question mark. >> all right. mary snow, did you cottic park, lower manhattan. thanks. president obama arriving in indonesia in the last hour after reminding the region the united states is still the world's number one superpower during a visit to australia. the president saying america is a pacific power and here to say. brianna keilar has the latest. >> reporter: christine and carol, president obama is the first ever u.s. president to visit australia's northern territory. he and prime minister here highlighting a new military initiative that will see 200 to 250 u.s. marines stationed here in darwin by the middle of next year that will grow to a force of 2500 nonthe coming years. >> let me say first ozziaussie, aussie, aussie. >> reporter: on the military base president obama spoke to australian troops and 50 use marines here to begin joint training exercises. >> now here in northern australia, we will write the next proud chapter in our lives. as the prime minister and i announced yesterday some of our marines will begin rotating through these parts to train and exercise with you and to work as partners across the region for the security we all want. on behalf of the american people. i want to thank the people of this community for welcoming our men and women in uniform. we are grateful for your friendship and we are grateful for your hospitality. >> reporter: the white house chose this backdrop for its historic significance overlooking darwin harbor president obama left a condolence letter at a memorial to the an american ship sung k. eight ships were sunk in all. mr. president met some of the survivors as he met the greatest loss of life in australian waters. darwin's significance is strategic as well. it sits on the gateway to asia where u.s. troops will remind an increasingly aggressive china the u.s. stands ready to defend its asian allies. china recently made a territorial claim to the oil-rich south china sea. home to ship lanes for most of the world's maritime commerce. president obama addressed the relationship with china during his speech to the australian parliament earlier in the day. >> we have seen the china can be a partner from reducing tensions on the korean pen lanes to preventing proliferation. we will seek more opportunities for cooperation with beijing, including greater communication between our militaries and to promote understanding and avoid miscalculation. >> reporter: the next stop for president obama indonesian island of bali where he will be the first u.s. president to attend the east asia summit. and there like he did at the apex summit in hawaii earlier this week he will be working to elevate u.s. economic interests in the asia pacific region. christine and carol? 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