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italy s prime minister. i want to start with jason carroll. jason, we know today s weekly news conference with the legendary joe paterno canceled. the new york times reporting that he has days, maybe weeks numbers. what are you hearing? well, for one thing, let me tell you just literally, we have a comment from joe paterno, caught up with him outside of his house, i m reading this for the first time. i know you all have a lot of good questions. i want to answer them. we re going to have more of his comments coming up. also, i can tell you with regard to that report that he would be stepping aside or retiring. his son, scott paterno, tweeted something a few hours ago basically saying those reports were premature, according to his tweet. we live in the world of twitter now. no discussions about his retirement. that is what we re being told now at this point in terms of whether or not joe paterno for his role in all this, whether he will step down. as you know, he was ....
he s a fascinating guy. all right. thanks very much, kyra. all right. let s get you up to speed for this thursday, november 3rd. investors on wall street are watching what s happening in europe and we re keeping a close watch on the markets and your money. stocks open higher after a decision by the european central bank to cut interest rates right now dow is up 94 points, but every little cent counts at the g-20 summit in france. president obama met with french president nicolas sarkozy to discuss the european debt crisis. i think it s no surprise that we ve spent most of our conversation focused on strengthening the global economic recovery so that we are creating jobs for our people and stabilizing the financial markets around the world. the most important aspect of our task over the next two days is to resolve the financial crisis here in europe. the big part of the debt crisis is the drama playing out in greece. prime minister george papandreou called an eme ....
and tonight, some camel horn. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett outfront tonight. markets plunged today. 297 points for the dow. the two-day drop, as i indicated is close to 600. 573 points. it s a big story and we are covering it tonight. but first, we re starting with some breaking developments regarding herman cain. tonight, a report that one of the women who accused herman cain of sexual harassment wants to speak out. the washington post getting everyone s attention after posting a quote from the woman s attorney who told the post, it s very frustrating that herman cain is going around bad-mouthing the two complainants and my client is blocked by a confidentiality agreement. he s asking the restaurant association to release his client from that agreement. it has been a gut-wrenching 24 hours for herman cain. allegations that he sexually assaulted two women have his campaign back on its heels. actually wasn t the allegations or the fact that the women rep ....
occupy wall street demonstrators are taking their message where the money is. that is the banks. protesters plan to march on the offices of five major banks. today, they say they re going to deliver hows of letters to top board members of bank of america, morgan stanley, wells fargo, citigroup and jpmorgan chase. wall street ceo who says he s part of the 1%, confronts the occupy protesters who say they represent the 99%. demonstrators argued that the wealthiest 1% of americans keeps getting richer while the other 99% struggle. peter shift and a camera crew went to the park in new york to challenge him. no. we re in the 99%! wouldn t you like to get into the 1%? you don t want more money? if i offered to put you in the 1% right now and i would pay my share and get rid okay, hold on. immediately, immediately! investors are taking a step back after yesterday s huge rally. well, the dow fell 25 points in early trading. right now, it is up six points. it is ....
i want to start with the trial of dr. conrad murray. hugely significant. so you and your family and the world to try to go through the process of this trial, we work out what really happened to your brother, michael. as we approach the start of this trial, what are your feelings . my feelings are this is something this has been long awaited for. it is up to the point there has been a lot of speculation and hearsay. i think that we are all going to it is not going to bring closure but give us a clear understanding of what happened and the fans and public as well as ourselves need to know what happened, what took place. there are so many things that happen that we weren t aware of as a family we were kept away. do you think that conrad murray was sole will you responsible for your brother s death? my gut feeling is there are a lot of questions to be answered and we don t know yet. until the trial unfolds and we sort of get the facts, weather they will come to t ....