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 schedu