new details in the child sex abuse scandal the syracuse. bernie fine's third accuser taking him to court after the d.a. says no criminal charges will be filed. when all of his staff left and he was tanking out i predicted he would have another run. >> a guy that nose a things two about doing battle with newt gingrich tells us why he would never count him out. the dangerous road out of iraq. we are on the move with the 82nd airborne in steel fortresses designed to get them home live on this "american morning." and good morning to you. happy day before friday. december 8. christina and ali have the morning off. here with alina cho. >> former syracuse basketball coach bernie fine about to be hit with a civil suit by a third accuser who claims fine molested him. lawyers for zach thomaselli will announce the lawsuit later this morning. federal authorities are still investigating his allegations to determine if they are credible. a state prosecutor says the two original accusers are credible. bernie fine won't be charged with sexually abusing bobby davis and mike lang because new york's statute of limitations expired. the d.a. says he was trying to broker a deal with fine when the audiotapes of fine's wife and an alleged victim emerged. >> before the feds got involved in this case, i met with bernie fine's lawyer and with bobby davis' permission i suggested the following scenario. i have proof bobby davis is telling the truth. the lawyer didn't seem surprised by that. bernie fine -- acknowledged bobby is telling the truth. bernie fine can say all the lawyerly things lie like, going into counseling and save my marriage, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. that's irrelevant to me. had has to affirm those things. he has to resign from his position at syracuse university. with the knowledge we will come to investigate. and the lawyer and i, you know, went back and forth and we were fairly close to a resolution with those stipulations. >> fitzpatrick also talks about what the fine's nanny revealed about their marriage. more with gary tuchman's interview. jerry sandusky could be let out of jail again today. he was arrested yesterday on sexual assault charges involving two new accusers. one who says his cries for help were ignored. jason carroll is live in pennsylvania for us this morning. good morning, jason. >> reporter: good morning to you. jerry sandusky denies the new allegations just as he's denied the previous ones. he now faces a total of 52 charges related to sexually abusing young boys. for the second time in two months, jerry sandusky, former assistant football coach at penn state, was hauled away in handcuffs facing charges of child sex abuse. a new grand jury finding two more alleged victims, identified as number nine and ten, claims sandusky abused them as children. both say they met sandusky through his second mile foundation. they claim he took an interest in them and inviting them to his home for meals and on outings and gradually engaged in sex acts with them. number nine was between 11 and 12 years old when he first met sandusky in 2004. he testified that over three years he often visited sandusky's home and slept over in a basement bedroom. there he says that sandusky forced him to perform oral sex. tried to rape him at least 16 times. at times succeeded. the victim testified on at least one occasion he screamed for help, knowing that sandusky's wife was upstairs. no one ever came to help him. alleged victim number ten, foster child, says sandusky had oral sex with him and fondled him in a pool on the penn state campus. is an does can i's attorn-- san denies the new allegations. >> he maintained his innocence. >> reporter: the new charges follow what prosecutors say was a similar pattern sandusky followed with the other eight victims identified in a previous grand jury report. grooming them with money, gifts, and taking them to penn state games. the new accusers say that sandusky often told them he loved them and not to tell anyone. and this morning, sandusky remains in jail. bail is set at $250,000. if he's able to make bail, some of the conditions include that he will be subject to house arrest, he will to wear an electronic monitoring device and will not be able to have any contact with any victims or any witnesses. and no unsupervised visits with minors. his preliminary hearing is set for tuesday. >> jason carroll reporting live for us this morning. thank you. newt gingrich is the clear gop front-runner with less than an month to go before republicans start voting in iowa. the former houser is was all but forgotten a couple of weeks ago but now in iowa, take a look at this. a new cnn/time orc poll shows gingrich up by 13 points. ron paul and mitt romney are in a tie for second place. yesterday i spoke with bill clinton, the comeback kid himself, about his one-time political rival, gingrich. curious to know what you think about newt gingrich being at the top of the polls. >> not surprised. one of the -- one of the journalists reminded me the other day when all of his staff left and he was -- you know, tanking out, i predicted that he would have another run. that he would come back. and i honestly had forgotten it. i have it on tape. he is first, resilient. secondly, he's always thinking. and he's -- got a million ideas. i mean -- and some of them are good and some are horrible. >> reporter: do you think he's the strong nest the field? >> i don't know. i don't know. but -- in both our party and in theirs, very often the strongest person for nomination is not necessarily the strongest person in the general election. it is a mistake to underestimate romney. >> coming up next hour at 7:00 a.m. eastern time, we will have much more of my interview with former president clinton. find out what he thinks about mitt romney, jon huntsman and chelsea and hillary. newt gingrich spent time with our wolf blitzer yesterday. gingrich, who experienced both highs and lows during his political career, acknowledged he is a realist. there is still a chance something could derail his run. >> is it possible? i guess. oernld, i led a very long career and i have a very public record. and i think people are coming to decide that they like substance and like somebody who actually has balanced the budget, reformed welfare, cut taxes, gotten it done for real. so i think that there's probably a little more resilience in my support than in some of the other folks who made a run at this. >> deputy political director paul steinhauser. he is live in washington for us. good morning. >> good morning. >> so, you know, this is -- a little bit of -- not quite an about-face but a little different stance than when he was newt and not newt. right? >> so much has changed in this race. we have seen so many candidates go up and down. now newt gingrich is soaring. you showed us the brand-new number in iowa. take a look at new hampshire. their primary and look at this. . this used to be mitt romney country. he had a huge lead in all the polls. down to 9 points now in our brand-new poll. gingrich really on the rise in new hampshire and look at ron paul, congressman from texas, nls a strong third place. let's move to south carolina. they vote next. first southern primary about 11 dies after new hampshire. look at that. newt gingrich, overwhelmingly lead over everybody else in new hampshire. fast forward on to florida. this is the fourth state to vote. they vote on the end of january, 31st. there is gingrich again with a very, very large lead among all the other fields. >> you know, given what you know about polling is this a wide enough lead that it will hold, do you think, paul? >> anything can happen. we saw rick perry go way up and come way down. same thing with herman cain. why is gingrich -- why is gingrich rising? that's the big question now. our poll kauts it is because of tea party support among people that say they are tea party supporters and likely to vote in the primaries and caucuses. they are going for newt gingrich in a big way. to your point, anything can happen. our poll also indicates in all these states we polled in, about half of the people say you know what, i'm still likely, possibly could change my mind. >> all right. paul steinhauser, thanks so much. ten minutes past the hour. here's what's new this morning. attorney general eric holder can expect a grilling on capitol hill this morning. he will appear before a house committee investigating the botched operation fast and furious. it allowed weapons to go across the border to drug cartels. would guns were found at a murder scene of a border patrol agent. the program was fundamentally flawed. jon corzine expected to hit hard-hitting questions when he is called to testify this morning. lawyers are trying to get to the bottom of the firm's rapid collapse and what happened to the reported $1.2 billion in customer funds that appears to be missing. parts of the northeast getting an early -- late taste of winter, spring lately. reality hit an about-face. >> that's pictures are proof of it. just nasty conditions in north carolina with heavy snow and then the wind really making things worse. you can see how it is just whipping the snow across the streets, make it difficult to keep it clean. things are definitely on the icy side for everybody heading out the door and heading to work this morning. now, the good news is that this is a really fast moving storm. take a look at the radar picture in the last three hours we had rain in providence. that's already gone. and so we are just looking at northern new england, still dealing with the rain and snow aspect of this storm. the wind is going to stick around across much of the northeast. at least throughout the early part of the day. we have two cold fronts that we are dealing with. the second one is going to bring in a reinforcing shot of cold air. winds have been amazing, causing damage, too. point juniper island, 79 miles per hour. that's greater than hurricane force. that will cause problems at the airports. new york, boston, philadelphia, major delays. under an hour for new chicago, detroit, and miami. that cold air with the wind combined making it feel colder than the temperature you are seeing the on the maps today. >> i know. like a rude awakening. waking up this morning. thanks a lot. >> still to come, new clue this morning in the search for a possible serial killer. copping up, what police say they found while scouring a beach near new york city. road out of iraq still paved with danger. martin savidge hitch ad ride on a u.s. military convoy. occupy wall street versus chris christie? think the shouting chased the new jersey governor off stage? think again. this one is really good. we will show it to you. 13 minutes after the hour. progresso. it fits! fantastic! 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>> no. their story is -- no. it is interesting. last few weeks police told us they believe gilbert is not connected to those others and here's how the local police commissioner explains all of that. >> this may abyoung lady that ran into the brush in a hysterical state and fell down and expired for some reason. >> so now police will dry out that pocket book and see what clues they may be able to get. >> what? >> from the cell phone. >> she calls 911, she goes and knocks on someone's door and believes she tripped and died accidentally? >> it truly sounds unbelievable. but police say they believe this and this is what they are putting out there publicly. remember, at first, they found a man and a toddler along with the victims and thought there was more than one killer but the man was wearing women's clothes eventually tying him to the sex business as well. one of the women is related to the toddler that was found, possibly his mother. these theories can change. >> what i want to know, though, is if this -- if this latest case is not linked to the others, what does link all of the others together? 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