>> sunset shooter. a real life gunman unloading on a driver. hear what the gunman told the man videotaping the shooting. abuse of authority. new sex abuse allegations. this time the head of the organize is accused and where so? the war on religion and christmas? >> people first of all are so afraid to be political correct. >> t.d. jakes speak out on that, politics and his fellow pastor's divorce and sex misconduct allegations. paying tribute. remembering families who celebrate the holidays without their loved ones who died in combat. our fallen heroes. it's all right here right now on cnn. >> tonight los angeles police are trying to figure out why a gunman started to shoot at passing cars in hollywood. >> oh, my god. this is at sunset and vine. one of the well most intersections in los angeles. police shot and killed the gunman. he's identified at 25-year-old tyler greene. during the rampage people on the street scrambled for cover. >> he was shooting pap car drove by and he shot into the car. cars started to swerve and braking and so then at that point i kind of ducked down behind the water fountain and ran into the bank and they locked all the doors. >> this video was shot by christopher johns from his apartment. johns was able to distract the gunman which may have saved lives. we'll play the entire video for you up until the moment police say they shot greene. >> there's a madman in the streets. oh, my god. your all right? there's a madman just shot people. he's shooting people at will. he's shooting people. he's shooting people at will. there's a madman. there's a madman. madman. hey you [ bleep ] madman. [ bleep ] hey. shoot me. shoot me. come on. [ inaudible ] why don't you come up here. come on up here, buddy. come here. stop being -- come on up. let's do some [bleep] come on. i love you. i love you. i love you. i love you. shoot at me. i love you. i love you. i love you, man. kill me. i want to die. please kill me. i was just going to jump. i thought about you. i thought about a man shooting. you came. you came from god. you came from god. [ inaudible ] i don't have any, man. i'm so sorry. >> call an ambulance. >> i'm so sorry. >> call an ambulance. >> i'm so sorry, man. i thought of you and you came aunt shot people. i thought of you just now. [ inaudible ] take him out. take him out. take him out. take him out. take him out. >> yelling at a deranged gunman may seem to be a foolish thing to do and i asked christopher johns about that. that's what he said. >> down there at point blank range at the shooter they were going get shot. they were helpless being avoid to get killed. me i'm four stories up. if i can direct the attention tore me, any gun shots he shoot at me i have an opportunity to get out of the way. i don't know. i just made a calculation and i thought it was a good one that if any attention i could take away from the people in the street, you know, put it on me, i could probably save my own life and save other people's in the process. >> unbelievable that nobody died in this, chris. there were people who were injured. he was shooting point blank at cars and holding a gun. explain to the viewers how he was holding the gun and hiding until the cars got right up on him. >> yeah. he was holding the gun kind of methodyally and mechanically, waving around. it looked like anything that was moving. you know you could see the red car go by, pop he shoots it. i'm screaming out anything i can. i told him that he was an angel sent from god to kill me. i said that's what his mission was. i would stop at nothing to get his attention and get it towards me. luckily nobody died. i don't know if i could have done anything more. but i wasn't at any moment afraid of somehow being shot or killed or wounded. i was worried about the people on the street and i had a much better opportunity to avoid death from my vantage point. >> he did engage you in conversation, discussion for ammunition. did he ask you for another gun? he wanted you to call an ambulance and asking for more ammo. >> yeah. i said kill me. please kill me right now. i'm prepared to die. because i thought that if i could engage him and at the same time, you know, make him feel like i wanted to die and kind of take his power away from him. somebody in that situation they gain their power over people by, you know, they have a gun and they can take your life at any moment. >> he never told you why he was doing it, right? >> no. we didn't get like really deep. i was just saying crazy things and i wanted his attention. he didn't shoot any round at me. some of the people in the build, mad. hey, why your trying to get us shot. i said if we were near the windows looking we would have an opportunity to, he's turning our way and pointing the gun at us to get out of the way. >> when i spoke with an lapd certificate arrogant earlier, she said johns did the right thing he was not in harm's way and could have ducked. he did save lives. as information comes about the possible motive we'll share you. >> happened again. another youth sports leader is under fire accused of molesting boys a long time ago. details coming next. everyone have their new blackberry from at&t? it's 4g, so you can do more faster. so, kathryn, post more youtube videos of your baby acting adorable. baby. on it. matt, ignore me and keep updating your fantasy team. huh? jeff, play a game. turbo-boosting now, sir. dennis, check in everywhere you go on foursquare. that's mayor dennis... of the water cooler. you're the best. liz, rock out to pandora. oh, no i'm an only child. and nick, you shouldn't even be here, you can do everything from the golf course. good? good. [ male announcer ] on at&t, blackberry® torch moves at the speed of 4g. ♪ everyone in the nicu, all the nurses wanted to watch him when he was there 118 days. everything that you thought was important to you changes in light of having a child that needs you every moment. i wouldn't trade him for the world. who matters most to you says the most about you. massmutual is owned by our policyholders so they matter most to us. if you're caring for a child with special needs, our innovative special care program offers strategies that can help. the amateur athletic union is responding tonight to shocking allegations that it's former leader sexually abused two boys. robert dodd who is undergoing cancer treatment was immediately remove from his post. here's a statement from the interim president louis stout. >> i want to make it clear that bobby dodd is no longer president and executive director of the aau. the organization has no continuing contact with him. and he has no continuing association with the organization and its programs. finally, we are urging anyone in the aau community who has information about any incidents of inappropriate behavior or abuse to contact law enforcement and the aau. >> tonight cnn george howell has the latest for us from memphis where these incidents took place when dodd was a sports director at a local ymca. george? >> reporter: memphis police confirm there's an active investigation into the former president and ceo of the amateur athletic union, robert bobby dodd. this investigation started after two men decided to confront dodd and share their stories on espn's "outside the line" claiming that dodd sexually abused them back in the 1980 when these men were teenagers. both say they decided to speak out, given the sexual abuse allegation that are playing out at syracuse university and penn state. now one of the men spoke anonymously to espn but one of the men, ralph west decided to speak on camera saying he was sexually abused at least six times back in the 1980s. just look at what he told "outside the lines." >> i was dead asleep. i don't remember anything but waking up and he's trying to put his hand in my boxer shorts. and i jourp jumped up straight bed and he's laying down there next to my bed. of course i was freaked out. >> how did he get in the room? >> he had a key. he always had somehow had a key to whatever room i was in. >> since the story broke, the aau contacted memphis police. an active investigation happening here. the aau brought on a new interim president and they say that dodd was planning to retire this month, saying he's currently fighting colon cancer. don. >> george, thank you very much for that. in just three days former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky will face his alleged victims in court for the first time. they are expected to testify at a preliminary hearing on tuesday, detailing their claims that sandusky sexually abused them when they were young. this week sandusky was arrested on 12 new counts of abuse involving two new alleged victims. former coach was released on $250,000 bail. earlier i asked the defense attorney why his bail wasn't set higher? >> the bail is to each individual crime. souts n so it's not as if you can say you're charged with 16 different murders and we'll give you 16 different bails. the number is with the crime charge. >> sandusky is under house arrest and must wear an electronic monitoring defense. he's behind best selling books, movies and a church with 30,000 members. after the break, bishop t.d. jakes and i talk religion, sex scandals and what some call the war on christmas. it's hard for my crew to keep up with 2% cash back on every purchase, every day. 2% cash back. that's setting the bar pretty high. thanks to spark, owning my own business has never been more rewarding. [ male announcer ] introducing spark the small business credit cards from capital one. get more by choosing unlimited double miles or 2% cash back on every purchase, every day. what's in your wallet? this guy's amazing. bishop t.d. jakes is one of america's best-known pastors. his church, the potter house claims more than 30,000 victims. his media empire includes radio, television and film productions and numerous best-selling books. his latest "the relationship bible life lessons on relationships from the inspired word of god." earlier i got a chance to talk with bishop jakes and i started to ask him what seems to be the annual debate over the so-called war on christmas. >> some people are trying to be so political correct. some people are so anti-expression of christianity and always will be. although that's disappointing that's what makes america great. >> bishop let's talk about these child sex abuse scandals that we've been hearing so much about in state and syracuse and another one today. what is going on in our society, in our country when you hear about cover-ups and things like this? >> you know, something, don. this has been going on for years and years and years. it's just that with social networking and 24 hour media cycles that we have today it has come to the surface in a way it has not done historically. one in six boys molested in this country before the age of 18 and one in four girls this is not a new story. these cases with penn state and syracuse and elsewhere are highlighted. my concern is most of the abuse we're seeing happening in this country is not highlighted. it's not with big celebrities or prestigious people. it's down in the trenches with nearly 50% of boys being molested in homes by people that they know. so i don't want us to demonize these people as the epi torch my of evil at the expense of overlooking people in our communities, our neighbors and relatives who have access to our children. it's time for parents to take the sharp wake up call and build the kind of communication with their children so that we can really check to make sure that this is not happening not only at penn state where we need to snap it out but in our own neighborhoods and communities. >> have to ask you this, bishop. i have to ask you about bishop eddie long. he leads a mega church here in atlanta. he settled many misconduct cases against him. his wife filed for divorce. your thoughts on that. first the misconduct allegations. >> well, i think if there was actually misconduct we have -- the young men involved -- and they are older men. i think it's a little different from a 10-year-old who can't speak for himself. when you get these older boys who can make decisions, old enough to drive a car, old enough to go to war, if there is a deliberate action done here, we can't take a cash settlement when we really want justice done. because it leaves the public wondering what really happened. because of the judicial system that we have today, none of us are curious -- our curiosities are not resolved because the only people who really know what happened between the boys and bishop are the boys and bishop. perhaps we'll never know at this point. but we can use it as a talking point, to begin to deal with how we interact with leadership and how we interact with people and what our expectations are of people. and in that way i think it will do well. look, the most recent information that i have read is that bishop long has taken a sabbatical with his wife to rebuild his marriage and strengthen his relationship i read due to the pressure of all of the media. >> he said last sunday in church he's going to take some time off to deal with the issues with his family. but his wife did file for divorce and she said she stands behind that. she said it was irreconciable differences, that there's no chance of getting back together. >> whenever i counsel any couple, don, i try to see them resolve things because at the end of the day, above our jobs, above our careers and everything else, i think family is really important. >> do you know how he's doing? >> i do not know. i do not know. i did know that he had decided to take a leave of absence until i read it. but i'm hoping that they're using it as a time to cut off the phone and the tv and really rebuild their relationship. for the people who are high profile like yourself, like me, him and others, it's very difficult to maintain a private life when you're living in a fish bowl all the time. sometimes you have to cut off the lights and put your priorities back into alignment. my prayer is that the longs will use this opportunity to get that done. my producer said i misspoke i said 30,000 victims, i meant 30,000 members. t.d. jakes book, "the relationship bible." thank you again, bishop t.d. jakes. from the presidential election to the economy to the occupy movement there's no shortage of opinions when i want comes to politics but we found a voice and you probably never heard before and his rants are heating up the internet. straight ahead meet felonious monk. >> everybody who has a loan to the federal government [ bleep ] don't participate. they are not paying theirs. [ bleep ] i'm not doing what you don't do. you're the leader. you're the leader. you don't pay i don't how aboutspea that? let's talk politics now. the republican presidential hopefuls are debating in iowa tonight just 3 1/2 weeks before the iowa caucuses on january 3rd. earlier today newt gingrich's campaign tried to clarify a comment he made on the jewish cable network. he described the middle east peace process as delusional and referred to what he called an inventive palestinian people. those remarks were condemned by a top palestinian official and the gingrich campaign later issued a statement that reads quote, gingrich supports a negotiated peace agreement between the israelis and palestinians. however to understand what is being proposed and negotiated you have to understand decades of complex history. the return of gingrich revives people who once knew him as speaker of the house. fredricka whitfield has a preview. >> don, newt gingrich is at the top of the political polls and the hunt for the 2012 republican presidential nomination. that means he's also the target of many attacks from the other contends. beginning rich had three marriages and is accused of flip flopping. he converted to catholicism a few years ago. tomorrow we'll take an in depth look at gingrich's faith. join us sunday in the cnn newsroom. >> thank you. we'll be watching. the 24 hour news cycle is full of analysts and commentators. so-called experts giving their two cents on everything from politics and sports to scandals and entertainment. now i want you to listen to a new voice who is saying what i think a lot of people may be thinking. >> to the government. the united states government, $26.6 trillion. all my credit cards would have been cut off. i'm just asking you to balance the [ bleep ] budget. we voted for you all because we were worried about gay rights, marijuana getting legalized. all these other things we were concerned about. road. money for schools. you gat balance a checkbook. this is something every american has to go through. we have to figure what we'll pay. what we need to pay off. >> he's a come tan, a writer and with millions of hits on his youtube channel an internet sensation. i talked with him earlier to get a fresh, new opinion on today's political climate. talk about the occupy movement much what do you make of it? >> it's unique in that i think it started -- i won't say unique but it started from something that every major movement starts from and that's people being displaced. people feeling broke, poor, disenfranchised, marginalized and not having a voice. you step on someone long enough they will stand up. the difference is in every other movement even with your socialist moments which some people are calling this and your -- i don't know what the movement is about. >> you have to admit they are bringing net cats back into fashion? >> i'm glad. it's cold. i wouldn't have had this baseball cap if i knew knit caps were coming back on. >> i made that joke because you're a comedian. you've been heady about these things. i want to see your comedic side. oil give you some words and phrases. president barack obama. >> what's up, chief. >> rick perry. >> nice hair. >> newt gingrich. >> nice jowls. >> mitt romney. >> i'm governor. >> monk's web series stop it b has over 2 million youtube hits. they are inspiring people to do extraordinary things. cnn is honoring them. we're counting down. next you'll meet one of the finalists for hero the year. let's check our headlines. the relentless crackdown in sir dwrorks arab league will meet this week to discuss the crisis. activists say 16 people were killed saturday. among the victims a doctor who the opposition considered a hero of the resolution. the united nations estimates more than 4,000 people have been killed in the recent unrest. in oslo, norway, three women accepted the nobel peace prize today. and immediately dedicated the honor to women struggling for equal rights around the world. the three recipient are from li bench ria, and yemen. >> volunteer s remember fallen u.s. soldiers by laying a wreath. more than 700 state and national cemeteries, dozens of u.s. militaries on foreign soil and all the sites of the september 11th attacks. about 90,000 wreaths were left on head stones at arlington national cemetery. cnn heroes meet hollywood glamour sun night. the top ten cnn 2011 heroes will be narrowed down to one. we go the shrine auditorium. who are we expecting on the red carpet? >> hi, there. actually made our way inside. we have a special treat four. we're inside the historic shrine auditorium. this is where it will take place. the stage looks fantastic. take a look at all the people, the honorees that will take the spotlight tomorrow from a chef, bruno serato who feeds hungry children here in california to derek kayongo, we spoke to him a few hours ago. his nonprofit organization provides soap to basically kids, families in needy countries. more than ten countries. individuals making such a powerful difference in their communities. all of these faces will be honored tomorrow, faces like s dia diane latiker. she has a remarkable story. you wanted to do something, make a difference in your c