Herman Cain Accuser Wants to Speak Out; President Obama Prepares for G-20 Summit; Deadly Duck Boat Crash; Reno Air Show Crash Lawsuit; Miracle Landing in Poland; Crack Offenders Eligible for Release; Wisconsin Pot Bust; Train Track Rescue
COSTELLO: And welcome back to AMERICAN MORNING. When President Obama arrives for the start of the G-20 Summit in France tomorrow, he wouldn't be going to get the rock star treatment he's enjoyed in the past.</s>ROMANS: With Europe's economy crumbling, the Obama administration has already made it clear that it doesn't plan to offer a hand out anytime soon. Here is Chief White House Correspondent Jessica Yellin.</s>JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When the president meets with world leaders at the G-20 Summit, keep this in mind. What happens in Europe, doesn't necessarily stay in Europe.</s>BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: The biggest head wind the American economy is facing right now is uncertainty about Europe, because it's affecting global markets. If Europe is weak, if Europe is not growing as our largest trading partner, that's going to have an impact on our businesses and our ability to create jobs here in the United States.</s>YELLIN: France and Germany have just outlined a plan to rescue Europe's debt strapped nations. At the Summit, those leaders will be pressed to fill in more details and explain where they'll get all the money their plan requires. The answers to those questions matter.</s>KEN ROGOFF, FMR. CHIEF ECONOMIST, IMF: If Europe goes into a deep recession, it will hurt us in many ways. Their direct effects, we trade with them. But much more importantly it will shake confidence. It will hurt our financial sector and take our very, very slow growth and possibly push us into a recession.</s>MARTIN BAILY, FMR. ECONOMIC ADVISER FOR PRESIDENT CLINTON: If Europe really were to have a continuing crisis or a worsening crisis, it would be very hard for the U.S. to avoid a double dip recession ourselves.</s>YELLIN: And a recession would not only hurt the economy, it could wound the president politically.</s>JAMES CARVILLE, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: If there's a recession -- if the recession is caused by something in Europe, it's caused by something in Asia, it's caused by something here, people are not going sort through it and sort of go, well, gee, thay's -- you know what I mean, they'll tend to blame the people in charge and the president who's in charge.</s>YELLIN: But given America's economic slowdown and the political stalemate in Washington, there's only so much the U.S. can do.</s>ROGOFF: Everyone at the G-20 wants their picture with President Obama. He's the central person everyone is looking to. But I don't think the United States can simply dictate the terms of an agreement the way it might have been able to 30 years ago.</s>YELLIN (on camera): Expect to hear plenty of questions about what will China, the U.S. or the International Monetary Fund will play in financing Europe's rescue. So far, the Obama administration's position has been Europe has to finance its own rescue. Jessica Yellin, CNN, Washington.</s>COSTELLO: Just about 30 minutes past the hour now. Herman Cain accuser may want to talk, tell her side of the story. She's telling CNN -- actually her lawyer is -- is telling that she wants to share her side of the story. The attorney saying that she has a different view of what happened back in the 1990s when those sexual harassment claims were filed. But, of course, she's bound by that confidentiality agreement. "The New York Times" says one of the two accusers was paid a year's salary in the settlement.</s>ROMANS: The FBI and federal prosecutors are now joining the investigation of a failure of financial firm led by former New Jersey Governor John Corzine. Sources close to the case say MF Global is unable to account for some $600 million in customer's money. MF Global filed for bankruptcy on Monday. All right. It's 30 minutes after the hour. Here's what's new this morning. A tugboat pilot responsible for a deadly river crash in Philadelphia that killed two Hungarian students had been sentenced to just about a year in jail. You're looking at new video shown in court for the first time showing the barge driving right over the tour boat.</s>COSTELLO: Oh.</s>ROMANS: Sending 37 people onboard into the river. The NTSB found</s>CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The family of a spectator killed in a plane crash at the Reno Air Show has filed a $25 million lawsuit. The suit claimed the crash wasn't freak accident and blames the pilot for being reckless and race organizers for an</s>ROMANS: A Boeing 767 carrying 226 passengers from Newark, New Jersey made a dramatic emergency landing on its belly yesterday. The worst off Poland. The landing gear malfunctioned, but the pilot put the plane down safely. There wasn't a single injury. At 8:40 Eastern, we are going to joined live by Captain Sully Sullenberger here in AMERICAN MORNING. He's going to tell us why it this landing presented a much different challenge that he faced over the Hudson in 2009.</s>COSTELLO: More than 12,000 inmates convicted of crack cocaine offenses could be walking out of prison early. That's because Congress voted last summer to lessen the disparities between the penalties for crack and powdered cocaine. The new sentencing guidelines mean 1,800 convicts are eligible for release immediately.</s>ROMANS: A major marijuana bust in Raymond, Wisconsin. Police say they found more than 1,800 pounds of pot worth more than $7 million. The suspect in that case is now being held on $1 million bond.</s>COSTELLO: An incredible train track rescue in Missouri. This dash can video shows the train slamming into a car. There it goes. The car was stuck on the tracks. And only moments before, an off duty police officer noticed the vehicle and managed to pull the woman inside and her baby to safety. They are both doing OK. Not clear how the car became stuck, but police say the woman failed sobriety tests.</s>ROMANS: Now back to the growing Herman Cain sexual harassment scandal. One of his accusers is thinking about going public. This coming as a new poll taken before this story broke. This poll shows he's pulling away as the GOP front-runner. The Quinnipiac poll shows him leading Mitt Romney 30 percent to 23 percent. That's outside, well outside the poll's margin of error. Our Brian Todd picks up the story from there.</s>BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Christine, Carol, we may be about to see this story blow up even further than it already has. One of the women who has allegedly accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment is indicating she wants to go public. Her attorney says she wants to break her silence. She's upset about what Mr. Cain has said about this case since the story broke over the weekend and does want to come public with her side of this saying that Mr. Cain is not telling the truth. The attorney for this woman who is not named, the attorney named Joel Bennett says, he is going to approach the National Restaurant Association where both Mr. Cain and the women worked in the 1990s. He's going to approach them to try to get them to release this woman from her confidentiality agreement. This is what Joel Bennett said to CNN's Anderson Cooper "360" last night.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Does she believe that Mr. Cain is not telling the truth?</s>JOEL BENNETT: Yes.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Can you elaborate?</s>BENNETT: It's little difficult because there were two women who filed complaints at the time. It's unclear which one he's speaking about all the time. To the extent he's made statements that he did never sexually harassed anyone and there was no validity to these complaints, it's certainly not true with respect to my client's complaints.</s>TODD: And again, Joel Bennett has said he is not formally asked the National Restaurant Association yet to release this woman from the confidentiality agreement. He would like the group to take action on its own. We have contacted the National Restaurant Association for response to this. This is what this group says in a statement quote, "We have seen media reports saying that Attorney Joel Bennett is publicly making requests on behalf of a former National Restaurant Association employee. Mr. Bennett has not been in contact with the association. If we are contacted by Mr. Bennett, we will respond as appropriate." Mr. Bennett has told CNN that he's not contacted them. He wants to wait until he meets with his client. We're told that could happen as early as today. He needs to get a copy of that confidentiality agreement, which he says his client is going to provide him. Now in the meantime, Herman Cain himself has apparently injected the question of race into this or at least he was asked about race and made a pretty strong implication. This is an excerpt of an interview that he did on Fox where this question was raised.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think that race, being a strong, black conservative has anything to do with the fact that you have been so charged? If so, do you have any evidence to support that?</s>HERMAN CAIN (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I believe the answer is yes, but we do not have any evidence to support it.</s>TODD: Of course, Herman Cain leading most polls right now for the Republican nomination for president. In the meantime, we are told that since the scandal broke over the weekend and into Monday, on Monday, Herman Cain raised a record amount of money for his campaign. The campaign says it raised more than $400,000 after a political action committee sent out an e-mail soliciting funds in light of these revelations. So Mr. Cain doing well financially since the scandal broke, $400,000. The single biggest day of fundraising since the campaign began we're told by the Herman Cain campaign --- Christine, Carol, back to you.</s>ROMANS: All right, Brian Todd. Still to come this morning in AMERICAN MORNING "House Call," Dr. Sanjay Gupta examines a new study linking alcohol and breast cancer even for light to moderate drinkers. That story, right after the break.</s>COSTELLO: Plus, if you're heading to Starbucks this morning, there is something new on the menu. It has nothing to do with caffeine instead it's all about putting Americans back to work. The CEO is talking to CNN about his jobs plan.