>> greece can't do that, many people fear it would then go bankrupt. it would be very, very difficult for the euro to survive, greece to survive in the euro if it goes bankrupt. banks could stop lending to each other, recession could come back to europe and especially in that -- the u.s. market just think what happened after lehman brother's collapsed in 2008. >> jim boldin, thanks so much. analysts say a bankrupt greece would also drag the economies of european countries beginning with italy and spain. in this country for the second time in less than 24 hours, an earthquake shakes central oklahoma. the latest one hit right before midnight eastern time measuring a record 5.6. it was centered near sparks about 45 miles from oklahoma city. >> having an earthquake right now. our lights shaking quite a bit here. it is calming down as another earthquake has just hit. i still hear a few lights rattling in our studio. and we will -- we still have our -- see our duratran back here still shaking here in oklahoma city. we do not know the epicenter as it just now happened. >> more on that quake in a moment. in connecticut now, more than 100,000 homes and businesses are still without power. more than a week after a freak snowstorm paralyzed the northeast. the governor sent national guard troops to help utility crews and he is asking the state attorney general to investigate the power company which promised to have the lights on by midnight tonight. back now to oklahoma where the ground has been shaking this weekend. a record 5.6 magnitude quake hit near sparks overnight, less than 24 hours earlier, a smaller quake hit closer to prague. michael siden with koco got an early look at some of the damage. >> reporter: this is the epicenter just take a look here, you can see broken glass littered all over the kitchen floor of this two-bedroom home. we're finding stuff like somebody just dumped out the kitchen cabinets. what i want to show you as we move through this house, you see all that broken glass all over the kitchen, coming into the living room, i want you to take a look at this. you see this brick that's coming through, the top of the roof, that is actually the chimney. this earthquake shook this house so hard the chimney collapsed, came through the roof and if you get a better look out here you can see where a piece of the chimney actually collapsed on an outside bench. now fortunately the homeowner and his wife were not hurt. they were just getting ready for bed. and that's when they describe their house just rumbling, pictures falling off the walls. the good thing is, though, a lot of people out here were familiar with the tornadoes but not the earthquake but the homeowner here tells me they do have insurance. those assessors as the sun starts to rise will be out here, assess the damage. but again, the biggest fear right now, is that aftershock that we've been feeling all over the state could come and force this chimney to come crashing down to the floor. >> wow. scary moments there in oklahoma. jacqui jeras with us now. so, lots of aftershocks, typically after a pretty sizable quake. is that the case here? >> that is the case. they go down in magnitude. that's the good news, we think this is probably the biggest one they're going to be having at this time and there have been a ton of aftershocks. as many as 30 or so have occurred and that's just in the last 24 hours or so since that initial 4.7 which was very early on saturday morning and then the bigger one happened just before midnight last night. there's the location of both of them. close to each other. and the dots that you see on the map, those are all the aftershocks that occurred near them and the color coding just has to do with how recent they are. it has nothing to do with how strong they've been. the red one is the most recent. an most of the magnitudes of these by the way are about 3.0 or so for the aftershocks. when you talk about something like a 5.6, that's what we would consider a moderate earthquake and it will cause some damage to buildings, but usually not major damage. only one report of somebody injured. they happen to hit their head on the wall but i understand everybody is okay. that's the good news. what's considered about a 3.0, the aftershocks that's minor. when things are unstage like the chimneys maybe something hanging by a thread, just a little shaking can cause some of the problems. you might say oklahoma, earthquake? what? yeah. it's happened before and there's actually a significant fault line here called the mears fault. that's in southwestern oklahoma. they think this is like 1300 years old and it's been a long time since they've had a major earthquake on this thing. the strongest quake they think, didn't have size ma graphs back then, we don't know 1300 years for sure, estimating between a 6.5 and 6.7 earthquake at that time. we don't think that there would be a big one like the chile quake for that would cause catastrophic damage in places like there. also by the way, just for a quick mention fredricka, this shows you where people felt it. people from texas all the way up into iowa. >> that's a large area. >> and into illinois. >> oh, my goodness. scary stuff. >> a little bit. >> thanks so much, jacqui. now to the child sex abuse scandal rocking penn state university. a former coach for the nittany lions football team is accused of molesting boys. jerry sandusky denies the charges. two school officials accused in the alleged cover-up are expected to turn themselves in tomorrow. our susan candiotti digging into this long list of charges. susan? >> hi, fred. you know, what sets apart the sex assault charges against yet another coach is this -- who the coach is, jerry sandusky, who he worked for, penn state, who made a key allegation, an eyewitness who said he saw an attack happen, and questions about a possible cover-up. penn state's former long-time assistant coach jerry sandusky, a figure in that school's program, 67 years old, accused of sexually assaulting at least eight boys some as young as 11 at several locations, including penn state locker rooms. pennsylvania's attorney general said the boys were all part of sandusky's own charity. a mentoring program called second mile that he founded. the case covers 1994 through 2009. also charged timothy curley the penn state athletics director and gary schultz, senior vp for finance accused of failing to report the alleged sex assault of a young boy to police and then lying about it to a grand jury. a key allegation against the retired coach, comes from a grad assistant who testified he saw sandusky having sex with a boy in a locker room shower. reported it to head coach joe paterno. paterno told the university athletic director and paterno is not accused of any criminal wrongdoing. pennsylvania's top prosecutor says the failure of penn state officials to report the allegation to police allowed a suspected predator to abuse more kids. some question what the possible victims in that mentoring program must think now. >> i can't imagine how many now think to themselves, did the coach no he? did joe pa, the great joe pa know his defensive coordinator was keeping young boys in his company and what he was doing to them? that to me, if i'm an abused victim that's what i'm asking today, how many people knew about jerry sandusky in the penn state program? >> now penn state's president issued a statement defending the school and it reads in part the allegations about a former coach are troubling and it is appropriate that they be investigated thoroughly. protecting children requires the utmost vigilance. tim curly and gary schultz have my unkj support. i have complete confidence in how they have handled the allegations about a former university employee. now sandusky surrendered yesterday and is out on bail. through his attorney he denies the charges. >> jerry's very, very depressed. he's very upset. he's very distraught about the charges, the allegations, and the knowledge that regardless of whether he eventually proves his guilt or innocence, people are going to think he did this stuff. >> the two penn state officials are expected to surrender tomorrow and the attorney general says the investigation is far from over. fred, we also have not heard from sandusky's former mentoring program which still exists called second mile. >> so susan, what's the period of time, the span of time that these alleged assaults took place? >> a good decade, at least ten years, and investigators are saying that now that this information is coming out, is being made public, they would not be surprised if they heard from additional alleged victims. >> all right. susan candiotti from new york, thank you so much. commercial flights between new york city and cuba resume today. a charter company in partnership with delta air lines began weekly flights to havana from jfk airport. the u.s. government relaxed restrictions on travel to cuba this year. other international airports in the u.s. are applying to host flights to cuba. gop presidential candidate herman cain, dogged by sexual harassment allegations, are they impacting his spot as the virtual frontrunner? details straight ahead. t employers or employees. not white collar or blue collar or no collars. we are business in america. and every day we awake to the same challenges. but at prudential we're helping companies everywhere find new solutions to manage risk, capital and employee benefits, so american business can get on with business. ♪ [ male announcer ] it's powerful and stylish. it's the world's thinnest 14-inch laptop with internal dvd. but mostly, it helps me combine my two favorite hobbies: watching sports and getting paaaid. you know. 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>> people have been very uncertain what to think. because things have flip flopped so much even over the last week, previously the positions yesterday, actually this morning, the positions of the opposition and of the ruling party were as follows -- the opposition said we want snap elections and we want to sort of cherrypick the terms of the bailout and papandreou's party said we want elections further down the line implement the bailout before elections are do. opinion polls said most people believe that it was right to have later elections, that calling snap elections now would throw the whole process into uphe valg. i think the people are very, very disappointed in george papandreou as a prime minister, they also don't really believe that mr. samaras is the man to lead them either. they're fed up with their politicians for having gotten them into this mess in the first place. i think it will be reassuring for the country and europe to see some kind of unifying consensus agreed across the parties and that's what they're working so hard to try and achieve right now. >> all right. diana magnay, thanks so much from athens. all right. in this country today, marks one year out from the presidential election. gop hopeful herman cain is still being dogged by sexual harassment allegations, but at last night's tea party debate in texas, it sounded like a love fest almost. listen to what his gop rival newt gingrich had to say. >> herman's role in turning around godfather pizza, which he was sent into when it was a very troubled company and the degree to which and enthusiastic, positive, solutions oriented leader, suddenly changes the team. >> all right. let's bring in will cane, cnn contributor and columnist with theblaze.com. the team, that's interesting. >> hi, fred. >> how are you? so was this a debate or was this kind of like a new alliance between gingrich and cain? >> no, i think it was a debate. it was a conversation that focused on substance and issues and the fact that they agree on many of those issues doesn't mean it wasn't a serious debate. beyond symbolizing somewhat of a team between these two guys i think there's also a really smart strategy going on with newt gingrich right now. >> what do you mean? >> over months this kind of -- i think we've seen a cycle, michele bachmann, rick perry and now hrman cain, rise up to be the alternative to romney. herman cain is encountering trouble, the one man who hasn't gotten involved in the blame game where the campaign blames rick perry for leaking sexual harassment charges, perry says it was mitt romney, the one man who stood above this is newt gingrich. invoked reagan's 11th commandment thou shall not speak ill of another conservative. what you can see him is currying the herman cain fan dom, electorate out there that might move on and put newt gingrich in position to be the next guy to rise up to be the alternative to romney. >> how do you explain when you talk about alternatives, herman cain's campaign can be considered an alternative to what is usually the traditional campaign. nothing traditional about whether the way he's handling the allegations or the way he's handling the press. is there something about his nontraditional ways that best explains his rise in the polls and rise that he is experiencing as it pertains to fund raising? >> not 100%. and not just does that explain his rise in the polls it explains the conservative base's reaction to the sexual harassment claim which has been largely to circle the wagons around herman cain. it's three things, it's herman cain as a man, he's charming, he's funny, he's likable. people want to believe him. it's herman cain as the symbol. what you described. the outsider, brings something new to politics. he doesn't come pressed out of a mold as a policies who gives you canned answers. he says something off the hip like he's winging it. herman cain, this as you just described, kind of nontraditional campaign is totally working in his favor. >> okay. and best example, last night. he kind of shows shoot from the hip, he may be charming as you say and may be very likable, but he agencies also kind of -- he's showing his disdain for the press. take a listen to how he handled the press last night. >> you all listen, if you all just listen, for 30 seconds, i will explain this one time. >> could you sit down for us, sir. >> no, no. >> why not in? it's time for us to trade places, everybody, so mr. cain -- >> it's time for us to trade places. >> see what i mean, you all -- i was going to do something that my staff told me not to do and try to respond. okay. what i'm saying is this -- >> can you -- >> we are getting back on message. >> thank you, mr. cain. >> end of story. back on message. read all of the other accounts. read all of the other accounts. where everything has been answered end of story, we're getting back on message, okay. >> will, i wonder if this is potentially going to backfire, whether his temperament is going to continue to upstage any message that he may want to get out about his campaign? >> yeah. i think so. that's my guess, fredricka. you know, it's almost like this kind of shooting from the hip, this winging it approach that offers so much of an alternative to political campaign comes with an expiration date. we've seen herman cain develop a bad habit of saying things that he has to then back off of and then modifies and puts them back out there. his position on abortion or putting electrified fence on the mexican border ar trading prisoners from guantanamo bay for captured u.s. troops, he's said things, almost seeming like he's unprepared for the question, winging it, had to change it. this has lent some level of charm to his campaign, but it also has exhibited a bad habit that sooner or later will catch up to him. you know, i'm not a psychologist, not a psychiatrist, but why does he continue to appear unprepared? you know, there is a kind of guy out there, successful businessman, which herman cain is, whose confidence level and ability to talk people into things, influence, persuade, exceeds reality. sooner or later you have to prepare, you have to know ahead of time what you're going to talk about. i learned that in this business. >> all right. good points there. appreciate that, will cane, thanks so much. of course, all of you at home want to join us again, 4:00 eastern time when we dedicate an entire hour about the presidential contenders in the 2012 election. will cane will be back to talk about where president obama stands one year from election day now. learning to fight back, women increase their odds of surviving an attack by learning self-defense. that's coming up after the break. ♪ it was the best day ♪ it was the best day ♪ ♪ it was the best day ♪ 'cause of you we make a great pair. huh? progressive and the great outdoors! we make a great pair. right, totally. that's what i was thinking. all kinds of vehicles, all kinds of savings. multi-policy discounts from progressive. call or click today. top stories straight ahead and do you recognize this photo from the '60s? 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