disturbing allegations against their classmates and this case highlights a legal loop hole that has many around the area calling for change right new on "eyewitness news", the hazing scandallal unfolding, at conestoga high. >> i'm ukee washington. i'm nicole brewer. prosecutors say this all involves the school's football team, tonight, three students face charges, and coach is suspended. "eyewitness news" reporter walt hunter broke this story in february and is live tonight at chester county d.a.'s office in west chester with the disturbing charges, walt. >> yes, nicole very disturbing. district attorney says of all of the charges now faced by three conestoga seniors they are not charged with hazing. the reason hazing under pennsylvania law, only applies to actions at colleges, not high schools. there is a law, proposal in the works to change that in the meantime d.a. talk about the homophobic hazing rituals at conestoga and about the violence of the alleged

attacks. >> away from the football field inside the locker room at conestoga high school the district attorney says football team conducted a hazing ritual on the same day every week, for at least the past four years. giving it homophobic name, no gay thursday. >> you would have an older kid come behind a younger kid and put his genitals on top of the young are kid's hid head. >> reporter: coaches and teachers, in where to be seen in the locker room. >> the locker room was there to do what they wanted, when they wanted and how they wanted. >> reporter: but during hazing on in gay thursday, october 15th of last year, the d.a. says, the bullying, blossomed into criminal violence, and a 14 year-old team member allegedly stripped, held down screaming, as he was assaulted with a broom handle. >> that order was, this exact quote: shove a broom up his bleep. kid reported that the victim

was yelling and screaming. but he did not have a friend in that locker room on that have afternoon. >> reporter: where hogan asks were the coaches. >> if we had coaches in the locker room, i guarantee you in of this would have happened, and the first time in gay thursday came up, it would have been put down. >> reporter: district officials e mailed the statement reading in part head football coach has been suspended from all coaching responsibilities pending the outcome of the school investigation. together we remain steadfast in our commitment to a positive climate in all will school programs. meanwhile, the d.a. says that his investigation is still moving forward and he asked anyone with any information on alleged hazing, to contact his office. >> this is just bullying. it is in chester county and we will not stand for bullying. >> reporter: the district attorney adds that while the

name no gay thursday is clearly homophobic, he is not prosecuting this as a gay hate crime, because he says that the motivation in this had nothing to do with the victim's sexual orientation, that victim the d.a. says is not gay. live from the district attorney's office in chester county i'm walt hunter for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> conestoga high school community is reacting to these disturbing allegations, "eyewitness news" on the chester county campus where news of no gay thursday ritual shocked many. students spoke to us and reactions were milk. >> we're all just disgusted by the rumors, and you know what has been going on. >> physical contact that they said, in the police report, i know this didn't happen. >> honestly i'm in the sure if this is all true. >> reporter: several parents did in the want to be on camera told us they are disturbed especially since police say adults, including head coach, never knew about no gay thursday. stay with "eyewitness news" for very latest on the hazing investigation.

when we are not on television we will have have continuing coverage the at cbs philly.com. well, police now have a suspect in the deadly beating of the cook in south philadelphia a police are searching for this man, they say he goes by the name of noel, and was in the kitchen working before police say he slashed the neck and beat 64 year-old thoung thoung nguyen. it happened at lee's cafe and bistro on fifth and washington. if you have any information, you are urged to contact the police. now a developing story, there are concerned about the savetive of drinking water near two former naval bases. investigation is underway at naval air station joint reserve base willow grove and naval air warfare center in warminster. fire fighting foams used at base might be the source of cancer causing chemicals. they were found in about 100 wells near property there. congressman pat meehan, mike fitzpatrick and brendan doyle want to know how navy handled discovery of those chemicals. horsham air guard station

operates on the willow grove site. officials at horsham said in a statement when the base discovered that we were over the limit we seized to supply potable water. we briefed everyone about what happened and we posted warning signs every where about not using that water. insults and personal attacks, dominated last night's republican presidential debate and whether you are a democrat or a republican, pretty much everybody can agree that what we saw on that stage in detroit was out of control. >> lying ted. >> breathe, breathe. >> when they are done with the yoga can i answer a question. >> i hope bee don't see yoga on this stage he is very flexible you never necessity. >> debate maryland rate or did challenge donald trump on his policy positions but many outlandish moments that are making headlines today. it has been a wild presidential campaign and we're not even done with the primary yet. so it got us thinking what do people visiting america from other countries think about all of this. our own alexandria hoff

decided to find out. laurie and beth, thought 3200 miles might provide a brief separation from american politics. >> fifteen or 20 conversations on how crazy us americans are. >> reporter: after a week on a island they now know better. >> they say a debate is on. we said yeah, we know, we could have watch it? but no. >> over in brussels there is a tremendous amount of interest in the election. it was top news story pretty much every day. >> i do not vote here but do i watch with interest and somehow to me it is a sleazy campaign if i can say. >> reporter: this man fridays new zealand where he says residents can be apathetic about their own system of government but jet trump and clinton are names that they necessity well. >> some of us, are knowledgeable about trump and

clinton but again... unaudible. this is the president's last term. >> it is surreal, movie scripts. >> reporter: while these terms are being used abroad countries with multi party systems are not strangers to a political spectacle. >> in our country we also have people that are more on the extreme right or extreme left, either way, so things happen like that also. so, it is not so unusual. >> reporter: word circus has been tossed around, so it is fair to point out back in 2010 an a actual circus clown ran for office in brazil, with the slogan what does the federal congressman do? i don't know, vote for me and i'll find out. he was elected and has been successfully representing his district ever since. reporting from philadelphia international, alexandria hoff for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> very interesting. within the last hour ben carson has officially

suspended his presidential campaign. the retired neurosurgeon made the announcement at conservative political action conference or cpac. earlier carson said he saw no path forward after failing to win a state on super tuesday. just four g.o.p. candidates remain. scott pelley will have much more on campaign 2016 tonight on the "cbs evening news", that is coming up at 6:30. well, 15 days until spring and we're told folks down the shore hope this is last snow they will see. storm system that pushed through the area dumped several inches on the boardwalk in ocean city cape may county today. crews cleared a path for these who wanted to take a stroll right there on the board. the snow was perfect for snowballs, that is "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan creating a snow man on the boardwalk but heavy snow made for perfect snow man making conditions. we are looking forward tie march warm up. >> yes, we are. >> but not before a weekend hiccup. kate bilo is outside on the

skies deck to explain. how is it looking and shaping up. >> it will be a whole lot better then it was this morning as we just saw the shore got hit with heavy band of storms starting to intensify off the coast. major storm but it is a general miss for us, shore got hit in the city, certainly not enough to make snow men. the lets recap our snow amounts first and foremost. down the shore high is six and a half inches in cape may. atlantic city set a daily record of snowfall four-point 36789 lindenwald 2.7. wilmington 2.7. new daily record there. in philadelphia just shy of an inch, .9 inches fell with this system and that is pretty much gone from the city right now. you can see where the storm is, impacting coastal massachusetts, cape cod, nantucket, places like that but as we zoom out we will show you next hiccup this weekend. i circled tonight red moving through wisconsin at the moment, just a weak clip their could come through late tomorrow night the in to sunday morning and bring chance for stray rain or snow shower. it is cold enough for a few

flakes to fall tomorrow night. in fact temperatures already dropping, 30's all across the region, 39 in philadelphia, 33 in atlantic city and just 30 in mount pocono. after a bit of the chill i february week-like weekend we will talk about may-like temperatures next week. start of march has been a wild ride so far and promises to be even more so as we make a run for 70's next week. i will have all those numbers and when it warms up and when it turns wet when i join you inside. >> kate, thanks very much. >> students from audenried charter school stem program got a firsthand look at their future. the students who are all interested in the world of public health took a tour of the health connection center in north philadelphia. they learned about career opportunities in the medical field and how technology impacts the way health carries accessed and provided. >> that is where it all starts, beautiful. still ahead tonight, the road to recovery. >> my wife has a love again

and we have a great relationship again. >> how this war hero says new research helped him recover from the devastating injuries that we could not even see. and jobs in pennsylvania, new plan governor wolf is taught to go fight unemployment in the keystone state, pat. nicole, sixers are in desperate need of the win, they lost ten straight and they are missing a few key contributors tonight. we will give you injury updates tonight. plus phillies have had some fun in the afternoon sun in clear water today, and then they walk off we will tell you who did it in sports.

now on the cbs-3 healthwatch, brain injuries, we hear about them a lot with athletes but they have happen every day in all sorts of the accidents a and they can be difficult to diagnosis and treat. >> some biggest advances are actually happening right here, in philadelphia, and reporter stephanie stahl joins with us more on that, and that is exciting that it is local. >> reporter: very exciting. a a lot of good stuff happening here. we are talking about dramatic brain injuries and concussion, conference today at penn medicine brought together survivors and doctors and a special guest speaker, a war

hero with a message of hope. >> incredibly powerful blast. >> reporter: major been richards survived this suicide bomber explosion in iraq inside this tank that was charred. >> we all experienced these blasts, concussions and impact concussions. >> reporter: war veteran is calm, matter of have fact now almost a decade later as he recovers from two traumatic brain injuries. >> evidence of destruction of the tissue within the brain. >> this is all from the bomb blast. >> reporter: yes. richard says his injuries were invisible but caused serious emotional outburst that took a toll on his family. >> we just never knew when they would explode and become a monster. i was ruining my wife's life. >> reporter: his life has turned around after several cutting edge therapist including electro magnetic stimulation, this shows improved blood flow in his brain. >> the brain can have an ability to rewire. >> reporter: doctor douglas smith the director to have penn's center for brain injuries show research is showing brain recovery isn't limited.

a lot of people are worried that if they don't recover quickly that might be the end of the road but it turns out you can have recovery years after injuries, it may not ever stop, we really don't know limits. >> reporter: doctor smith was part of the penn's mind your brain conference and major richard was keynote speaker sharing with other brain injury survivors, how recovery can work. >> after seven years i have come home and my wife has someone that she can love again. >> the important message is that there is hope. >> reporter: major richard is working with veterans groups, hoping to get other vets, the kind of brain injuries that he had, more advanced treatments, and that are helping to turn his life around. he was such an inspiration today, saying that he has come home. >> that is right. >> with the help of a lot of research going on here at penn as well. >> amazing. >> yes. >> he is doing well. >> exactly. >> stephanie, thank you. kate bilo joins us with our forecast and it is people have the window down you could not even tell.

>> we saw cleve making that snow man. we didn't get nearly as much snow in philadelphia make a snow man. we had an over performer down the shore. the but now we're talking about temperatures over performing heading in to next week. i witt not feel like march but feel like may for portions of next week as we head toward 70. i'm in the hearing that many complaints about it, outside, lets take a look what is going on right now. we will take to you storm scan three. twelve hour loop from midnight to noon. you can see snow that came in, came in fast and furious last night down the shore. what happened, why did they get so much more snow then we anticipated down the shore. what happened was that banding set up earlier in the morning. we talk about a break in the action and then banding setting up around mid to late morning. the you had can see there was in break in the action for the shore and because banding set up earlier in the morning we didn't have influence of the mix with rain. we didn't have influence of that march sun angle with a midday snow you wouldn't have gotten quite as much of an accumulation. thinks through the morning and then it started to move on out

leaving over half foot in cape may. you can see this is far off the coast at the moment and for many of us, especially back inland, who weren't in the banding down the shore doesn't look like it snowed at all. the lets head back to the west. you can see our next system this clipper moving through great lakes. this will get here late testimony night and sunday morning. we will talk about that in a moment. lets talk about winter. so far december was warmest ever, we have had our biggest snow in january, blizzard of 2016, even though it wasn't technically a blizzard. february, temperatures were above average. 3.3 inches in march so far. the just under an inch, .9 fell in philadelphia last night but we are above average. keep in mind we have 12 inches of snow last march. it could still happen. we are in the completely out of the woods just yet. it is not going to feel like winter next week. it feels like 31 in philadelphia a, 25 in atlantic city with the win. here's your weekend hiccup that little system diving through tomorrow night and sunday morning. high pressure takes over. that will drive that warmer air, in from the south and

west, temperatures, surged, starting on monday. tomorrow, we will start the day with sun, and then cloud roll in the afternoon. here's that hiccup, a few light rain and snow showers developing, early sunday morning, it starts to clear out and then we will be pretty much over it as we head into sunday afternoon. again this morning was a mess out there, down the shore especially what to expect tomorrow night, little to no accumulation and road will only be wet as a few sprinkles come through sunday morning. then we will go from chill toy balmy. look at those lines lift on wednesday and thursday is even warmer for some but a front will drape itself across the region on thursday bringing the threat for showers, looks like rain, friday, warm next weekend but it does look wet for now, so tuesday, wednesday, are your two ab normally warm days to enjoy. tomorrow's chilly again at 45, and still chilly sunday, cloud think weekend but monday, tuesday, wednesday, it is holy grail of the forecast, right there enjoy it before it turns wet again by end of next week. >> we are jumping into may.

>> yes. >> i'm looking forward to spring. >> me too. >> i'm overall this stuff. >> me too. >> thanks, kate. >> appreciate it when we come back find out where baseball card worth millions have just been

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while windy and cold in fill a will she you pictures of beautiful, sunny clearwater florida where phillies and braves played spring baseball and runs in this game were a plenty. but, it started with an injury. first inning aaron altear injuries his wrist on the dive here. the phillies project opening day right fielder had to leave the game. phillies led nine-two but bull pen imploded. thankfully it is only spring training. the that is darnell sweeney throwing ate way, two runs will score. braves would take an 11 to nine lead. we will go to the bottom of the ninth, two men on for cedric hunter, who?

well, now we know you, cedric, hunter with a bomb to the right, phillies overcome eight walks by the bull pen, and win it, 12-11. sixers are eight-53. they hope, hope to break a ten game losing streak tonight. however they will need to do it without a couple starters. jahlil oak information, nerlens noel and nick stauskus all out but elton brand will get playing time for the first time this year. last night flyers, dropped a game, it was crucial to their playoff hopes they got blown out of the wells fargo center losing four to go into the oilers. one of the worst teams in the western conference. they are now five points behind penguins for final wild card spot in the eat. mark street says now is not the time for flyers to feel sorry for themselves. >> i think it is important that you realize how you play and until you you need to do better and what happened and it is important that we turn

the page and you just to have move on and focus on the next game it was in the our game tonight. we need to be better, but we have a big game coming up on saturday. >> million-dollar baseball card are very hard to come by, what are the odd of finding seven of them. a southern california family found 7tycobb trading card from the 900's in a paper bag in the house of their deceased great grandfather, before the find they were only 15 thought to still exist. i opened old boxes and old bags i find sweaty socks. >> yes. >> in million-dollar card. >> yes. >> that is a lucky break. >> they find bubble gum. >> for sure. >> you got that right. >> thanks, pat. >> when we return a new event designed to improve relationships between community members and police giving people options based on their budget is pretty edgy... kind of like this look. i'm calling it the "name your price tool" phase.

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"eyewitness news" at 12th district in southwest philadelphia for very first, police and community day. residents bonded with officers over food, movies, and even some dancing. the goal of the event is to break town barriers and strengthen community relations. very nice. well, different bang your elbow against something real hard. >> yes. >> right, a weird shiver throughout your body. >> i don't call it humerus at all but hitting your funny bone. >> exactly. >> that is what we will talk about in tonight's good question, pat from abington wants to know why do we call it our funny bone? i will have that answer tonight at 11:00. for now thanks so much for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00. "eyewitness news" returns at 10:00 o'clock at wpsg the c will philly and we will be back here at cbs-3 at 11:00.

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