he put his hand on my leg under my skirt and reached for my genitals. he also grabbed my head and brought it toward his crotch. mr. cain said, you want a job, right? i asked him to stop and he did. >> cain told abc's jimmy kimmel that the allegation is false and he got angry watching it with his staff. >> they could see steam coming out of my ears and the feelings that you have when you know that all of this is totally fabricated, you go from anger, then you go, you get disgusted. you try to control yourself to make sure you watch this thing all the way through. i was listening very closely and then when it was all over with i said, well, i know what we got to do because there is not an ounce of truth in all of these accusations. >> so we're also going to be listening very closely and bring you cain's news conference that is live at 5:00 p.m. eastern. joe paterno is going to face a barrage of questions about the penn state sex abuse case. that is happening today. the legendary football coach is meeting reporters in the next hour. we'll bring that to you live. jerry sandusky an assistant coach to paterno for three decades has been charged with molesting eight boys. a grand jury report says that paterno was told about an incident involving sandusky and a boy back in 2002. paterno says that he reported the allegation to his bosses but he never called police. so how much time does dr. conrad murray serve for michael jackson's death? well, his lawyers plan to ask for probation, maybe a little time in county jail for the involuntary manslaughter conviction. murray was handcuffed, locked up, after the guilty verdict was announced. well, the sentencing that is set now for november 29th, jackson's family couldn't be happier. >> michael loves everybody out here. i love him. we all love him. guess what? he was in that courtroom and that's why victory was served. >> justice was served, yes. it wasn't enough time, though. >> we're actually going to talk about the case with a criminal defense attorney later in the hour. on wall street despite trouble in europe the dow is back up above the 12,000 mark. thanks to the rally yesterday, right now the dow-jones is down by four points. president obama is in pennsylvania today. that's where he is going to be talking about his jobs act and early childhood education. later in the hour we'll have that as well. but everybody is talking about the comments that he made last week in what he thought was a private conversation with french president nicolas sarkozy. according to reuters, sarkozy called the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu a liar and president bush, well, sorry, obama did actually shout him down, hot mike caught the whole exchange. we have more on that coming up. this takes some guts. want you to check it out. this is storm chaser aaron brody driving toward a monster tornado. this one touched down in tipton, oklahoma yesterday. emergency officials say thankfully no one was hurt but one building was destroyed. at least three others damaged. so check it out. get out your telescope. an asteroid the size of four football fields is flying by today. planetary scientists say there is no need to worry. it is passing between earth and the moon's orbit. now, asteroids, this size, come close to the earth about once every hundred years. try to catch it. former boxer, boxing heavyweight champion joe frazier has died. he was battling liver cancer. smoking joe as he was called fought muhammad ali three times, beating him once. the third fight, the thriller in manila, considered one of the best of all time. a statement from ali today says the world has lost a great championship. i will always remember joe with respect and admiration. my sympathy goes out to his family and loved ones. here is your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. in light of the latest allegations against republican presidential candidate herman cain today's question is cain's accuser's statement a game changer? well, carol costello is joining us from new york with more on that. a lot of people thought a face, a name, identity going public now that this could really work against cain and really change the game here. >> it could. that's the basis of our question this afternoon, suzanne, after days of blaming the media, rick perry, and all those women named anonymous, herman cain can at last point to an accuser with a face and a voice. sharon bialek, a former national restaurant association employee, accuses cain of groping her sexually in 1997 when she asked him to help her find a job. >> initially, i went into this hoping every hope of hopes that herman would just step forward. actually that was my primary goal, just admit it. step forward, admit it, and move forward. >> bialek says she is ready for the media onslaught and it's already begun. >> i assumed it was bialek, but gloria allred says her name is bialek. as in bia-a-lik. >> bialek is also criticized for her choice of lawyers. gloria allred a celebrity whose last client was a porn star who received sexual texts from former congressman anthony weiner. herman cain is denying bialek's claims and fired off this statement, and i quote. just as the country finally begins to refocus on our crippling $15 trillion national debt and the unaccept bli high unemployment rate, now activist celebrity lawyer gloria allred is bringing forth more false accusations against the character of republican front-runner herman cain. but bialek's claims go beyond sexual harassment. cnn's legal analyst jeffrey toobin says bialek's allegations amount to assault and he says cain may never recover. so the talk back today. is the cain accuser's statement a game changer? facebook.com/carol cnn, facebook.com/carol cnn. i'll read your comments later this hour. >> carol, i guess we'll all watch and see what cain has to say himself later today at his press conference, whether he can actually address or answer some of the issues that have been brought forward. i imagine that's going to change the game as well. yeah? >> oh, yeah. because i think that cain's critics want him to go allegation by allegation and tell people exactly what he was accused of and why he's innocent of those accusations. so we'll see what he does in arizona at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. >> all right. thank you. here is a rundown. some of the stories ahead, first the name, a face, right, to the accusations that are now public. how the herman cain presidential campaign is responding after one accuser tells her story. plus, tell us how you really feel. open mike catches french president sarkozy and president obama discussing israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. not so flattering. then enjoy it while you can. yeah. there's been a drop in gas prices but experts don't expect it to last. and also, michael jackson's personal doctor spends his first night in jail but how long are they going to keep him? we'll find out what is next for conrad murray. and a deer doesn't bother wer the front door at this atlanta area restaurant. take a look. presidential candidate herman cain holds a news conference. that is happening today to respond to the latest allegations of sexual harassment against him. a fourth woman has leveled charges against cain and went public with her story. mary snow joins us from new york with some of the details. mary, tell us, cain's accuser talked this morning about her decision to come forward. she's already getting some criticism because of that. what did she say? >> suzanne, she said she fully expected scrutiny and that she has braced herself for it, calling herself, her words, a tough girl. sharon bialek is a single mother living in chicago and she also says that her teenage son played a part in her decision to come forward even though she'd face scrutiny. i expected it and i still knew i had to come forward. my biggest concern and my biggest fan is my son. and actually the night before that i was about to do this, i called him. he was with his dad. and i said, nick, what do you think i should do? because he knew about this. he had heard me speaking to dpl gloria. he is 13. he said, mom, you have to do the right thing. i think you need to tell on him. and that's out of the mouth of a 13-year-old, so that confirmed it for me. >> now, the cain campaign is also questioning sharon bialek's motives for these accusations that they say are completely false and they are saying that because she has had a history of financial troubles, filed for bankrupt bankruptcy, she has filed for bankruptcy in the past, partly she says because she had bills, medical bills associated with her late mother. but she insists that she is not standing to profit by coming forward. she said she wanted to give a voice and a name to these accusations and speak up publicly for other women who could not or chose not to come forward. suzanne? >> and cain is holding a news conference this afternoon. what do we know about how he is responding to her allegations? >> well, we saw him publicly last night appearing on the jimmy kimmel show and he is, you know, saying that all these accusations are false. take a listen to some of what he had to say last night. >> i was listening very closely and then when it was all over with i said, well, i know what we got to do because there's not an ounce of truth in all of these accusations and my team is putting this stuff together. that's why i'm willing to do a press conference tomorrow to set the record straight. >> and that press conference will be taking place later this afternoon in phoenix and also, suzanne, the campaign had questioned, you know, why she's come forward now, sharon bialek and also saying there is no formal complaint, no record of this. bialek has said that she did not go to the national restaurant association back in 1997 she said because she no longer worked for the organization, that she had been fired about a month before this alleged incident took place. >> all right. mary, thank you so much. we'll be keeping a close eye on this story. herman cain is a story that's just not going to go away. now his campaign is in full damage control mode. last night as we mentioned abc's jimmy kimmel live, cain said he is now ready to confront all of the allegations. >> i will talk about any and all future fire storms because here is one thing people don't know about herman cain. i'm in it to win it and i'm not going to be discouraged. [ cheering ] >> joining us to talk about how cain is handling the scandal, what he needs to do to move forward, our cnn senior political analyst david gergen and, david, good to see you. cain continues to assert that all of this is not true. so do you think that is a strategy that's going to work when he confronts all the questions later today, this afternoon? >> a strategy of dismissing the accusers accusing him of bad faith, conspiracy, that strategy has not worked for him so far and i do not think will work as yet a fourth woman comes forward. the only strategy i think at this point and still may not work is to work through each individual allegation, try to provide the facts as he knows them, stay calm, don't be accusato accusatory, don't go after the character of these women, try to set the record as straight as you can. i think there is an outside possibility and i say it is very outside, that he may leave the campaign today. he may find this to be so damaging, distracting other republicans are beginning to question this and his support may be eroding in iowa as the des moines register reported this morning. in trade interestingly has a 40% chance now he'll withdraw before the end of the year david, you've covered a lot of campaigns. are there signals? are there signs at this moment that he could withdraw? >> no. just the opposite. last night of course with jimmy kimmel he was very insistent that he would set the record straight but at some point you've got to sit down with your advisers and see what you have to say that would set the record straight. if you don't say -- have a heck of a lot to say and if you have any idea that there are more people out there, you may want to cut this off now. i think that is a very low possibility but i don't think it is one we should dismiss. >> what do we think of the fact that republicans now, he's been able to raise some $2 million in the week that this scandal first came about and this news broke. it doesn't seem to me like he is losing a lot of support in his own base and his party. does that seem true to you? >> well, last week he was raising a lot of money. that's at a time when all of the accusers were anonymous and it just seemed to be coming out of the dark against him. now that a woman has come forward and put a face on this, i do think that -- i'm not sure it's a game changer but i definitely think it has changed the dynamics of what we see. again, going back to the des moines register reporting this morning they went back to 15 conservatives in iowa that they polled earlier. 11 of whom said they were troubled by this, by what this woman was saying. and one of whom said it dramatically changed his understanding of what was going on. people, you know, this is humanizing the story. and of course the graphic nature of it is also i think a lot of people sort of just said, yuk. so we'll have to wait and see. i think the most critical thing he can do right now is to provide facts and in a very lawyerly presentation of what is going on. not this hyperbole, she's this and she's that right. we know the way people react in iowa is very important but also the general public here. there is a new pew research poll, 39% of people have heard about the allegations and think they're true. 24% think they're false. 36% say they're not so sure. this was all before the fourth accuser came forward. do we think that he has credibility here, that he still has standing within the general public? >> well, i think it would have been a lot better had he asked her this last week. i think he would have had a lot more credibility. this is pretty late when you've got four now. but i do think, you know, there's the other side of this and what he may be drawing some inspiration from. you remember the '92 clinton campaign in new hampshire when jennif jennifer flowers came forward but bill and hillary clinton really rallied and he admitted he made mistakes in his life and sort of fessed up. they went on "60 minutes" together and he weathered it. he came in surprisingly well in new hampshire and went on to win the nomination of the presidency. this may not be fatal but a lot depends upon the, not only the facts, but upon the attitude of the candidate and so far he's been sort of wildly swinging at people like rick perry. >> right. >> and accusing rick perry of being behind this and that has given a sense of he is flailing as opposed to sort of confidently and in a wholly professional manner, a presidential manner if you would like, trying to set the record straight. >> okay. >> and move on. that's what he's got to do today if he has any shred of hope of holding on here. >> thank you so much. we'll all be watching at 5:00. the press conference with herman cain. presidential candidate herman cain says he will set the record straight. these allegations of sexual harassment against him, that news conference, 5:00 eastern. and of course we'll bring that for you live. it is the hot mike heard around the world. could it be bad news for president obama? that is the question. a little trash talking from the french president. is that enough to throw a wrench in the american relationship with israel? we'll find out. hey, i'm really glad we took this last minute trip! me too. you booked our room right? not yet, thanks for reminding me. wait, what? fret not ma'lady. i have the hotels.com app so we can t a great deal even at the last minute. ah, wellyesir. dolo free hotels.com app and get exclusive mobi dls. hotels.com. be smart. book smart. it's a hot mike fiasco involving world leaders. according to reuters president obama and nicolas sarkozy were overheard last week when the topic turned to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu things got a little ugly. dan lothian is traveling with the president in pennsylvania. so, dan, we've experienced this. we've covered this many times, that open mike situation where people don't even realize that what they're saying is going, broadcasting everywhere. reportedly reuters is saying that sarkozy called netanyahu a liar. and president obama didn't really defend the guy or disagree with that statement. has the president responded, president obama? has there been any fallout from this? >> look, i think it's a little too soon to gauge what the fallout from this will be. i should also point out that in terms of what's attributed to what president obama said and sarkozy said we don't know the full context of it. these quotes that are being reported are only a snippet in an overall conversation. so i think we have to get a bigger picture of that conversation to really gauge how big a fallout will be. in terms of specifically reacting to this, the white house choosing not to comment on the conversation, this private conversation as you pointed out, but instead the white house spokesman jay carney was asked about this on, in a gaggle aboard airforce one as the president was coming here to pennsylvania to highlight a head start program. and what he pointed out was that the united states and france have not seen eye to eye on this palestinian push for entry into a u.n. agency so i think what this shows is that all of these u.s. allies have unique relationships with israel and those relationships and those feelings don't always fall in line with the u.s. position. >> did the white house offer any explanation for why president obama didn't kind of give a robust defense of netanyahu when sarkozy allegedly called him a liar? >> you know, not at all. again, did not comment on that specific conversation. again, we don't know that perhaps the president did not say something much stronger later on in that conversation. again, we're just seeing a small slice in the terms of the quote that the president supposedly made. >> sure. >> then the growth sarkozy. so at this point the white house not talking specifically about what was said. >> sure. and it's a very good point. we don't have the full context or even the full conversation. it really is just a snippet from what we've been able to glean. but we know that in the past, we know that there has been some tension between president obama and netanyahu. where do they stand now? because clearly, they want to move the talks, the peace talks forward but they have very different ideas on how to do it. >> they really do. i think if you wanted to boil it down to one word is that it is and continues to be a complicated relationship. the quote from the president responding to sarkozy, the president said, quote, you're fed up with him but i have to deal with him even more often than you. so the president sort of pointing out that this is something that he has to deal with on a regular basis. but it is a complicated relationship but the u.s. position all along has been that the best way to achieve middle east peace is for both sides to sit down, have face-to-face negotiations, and this doesn't change that. >> all right. dan, good to see you. thank you very much. well, we are also watching wall street. we're live at the new york stock exchange. tell us how the markets are looking today. >> well, the markets have been pretty much focused on what's happening in italy and that budget vote that did actually get approved but without a clear majority. so there's uncertainty back in the marketplace and that has stocks now trending southward. we've got the dow, the nasdaq, and the s&p 500 all off about 0.5% and that literally happened in just the last 30 to 45 minutes. the