deanna durante has been following the story all day long. how did these allegations come to light? >> reporter: the district attorney says that boy's father went to police in the fall and then the investigation began. and tom hogan says his investigation revealed a hazing culture here at the school that goes back four years at least. >> this is a simple case about ignorance, violence, and a shocking lack of supervision. >> reporter: the district attorney hogan says his investigation revealed a hazing culture by foot!all team members that extended to other student athletes. he says in the boys locker room students were free to do whatever they wanted because no one was looking. >> the fresh men might be ordered, the sophomores ordered to strip down to their underwear, and clean the locker room. they also had a tradition of on no gay thursday doing what they called blessing each other where they would use their hand to smack another kid on their back

side or on their back. >> hogan says kids nicknamed the day as no gay thursday, he says it was on a thursday back in october where three football players took the hazing into an act of violence. >> three seniors holding down a freshman and violating him with a broom stick. >> the students have been charged with assault and other crimes as juveniles. the district now says it's investigating a'd placed the head football coach on leave. investigators say the culture goes back at least four years and some students avoided the locker rooms or even quit sports for fear. >> i don't think it's a fair reflection of the conestoga body as a whole. i think this was a freak thing. >> students are surprised by the criminal charges. >> what did you think was happening? >> okay, no, i didn't know anything was happening, i heard the phrase no gay thursday, i had no idea that it was going on here. >> reporter: the district attorney says that all of this was happening inside locker

rooms with no adult supervision, he says the investigation reveals that the coach's offices were away from the locker room and students could do whatever they wanted inside those locker rooms. deanna durante, "nbc 10 news." sky force 10 live over breaking news in north philadelphia. police are on the scene of a shooting. it's happening at broad street a'd allegheny avenue. we're told a man was shot after a possible argument on a septa bus. we get them. the sounds of the season could be heard in delaware county today after some snow fall. salt trucks were out making sure the roads remain clear in chester. there is shoveling to do down the shore where parts received several inches of snow. nbc 10 was in cape may where a fresh blanket covered sidewalks. >> let's head out for a live

look at the scene in cape may. no flakes falling, plenty of sunshine out there. and a lot of what fell has melted but there could be a refreeze tonight. first alert meteorologist sheena parveen is here. >> we've seen a lot of wet sidewalks and wet roadways from the snow that fell, then quickly was melting this morning. so that is going to be freezing tonight. those areas that have not dried up with temperatures dropping below freezing. the storm system that brought it, it is moving offshore and going to stay that way. tomorrow we stay dry but now we have another small weather system heading our way. it's a small clipper system, not heavy precip in it but come @rc early sunday morning we could see showers out of it. right now temperatures in the 30s, mostly mid to upper 30s across the area. so if you are about to head out soon keep in mind that all of these numbers will be dropping below freezing tonight and that's going to give us the threat of the icing. so, as we go overnight the feel likes temperature with the

breeze we have will be down about the mid to low 20s with the temperature below freezing especially by 11:00 p.m. that's when we have the threat of icing into early tomorrow morning. i'll show you the timing of the showers come early sunday, and also a big spring warm-up into next week. that's straight ahead. thanks. look at today's snow at the shore. this is ocean city and the ground was coated. you can track the weather any time by downloading the app on your smart phone or tablet. south philadelphia now, the killed a cook in the kitchen of a restaurant. in the past few hours police they want to speak to. a person nbc 10's george spencer is live in south philadelphia. george, who is the person thev are looking for? >> reporter: denise, this is a co-worker of the victim, we have been in touch with philadelphia police throughout the day and watched as homicide detectives went door-to-door look forge surveillance video in this

neighborhood. tonight we know the co-worker of the victim is at the center of this case. he is the last person to be seen with the victim at this restaurant before she was found dead. right now philadelphia police want you to take a cloáq look at this photograph of their person of interest. who goes by the name noel. he was working in the basement kitchen of lee's cafe and bistro with the victim. 54-year-old thoung nguyen before she was found dead. it happened last night when a food order never came up, the owner went down to the basement to check, and discovered her dead of a deep cut to her throat, the kitchen was in disarray and noel was nowhere to be found. we can tell you at least five other restaurant customers were here having dinner as this crime occurred. seems áhey and several other employees 0en the dining room level of this restaurant never heard any of the commotion as the murder unfolded in áhe kitchen in the basement here.

police are now hoping for tips from the public. live in south philadelphia, george spencer, "nbc 10 news." the los angeles police department says retired officer has turned over a knife that he claims was found on the site of o.j. simpson's former mansion. according to investigators the lapd became aware of the knife over the past month but may have been found several years ago. o.j. simpson was acquitted of murder in the deaths of nicole brown simpson and ronald goldman. no matter what the knife reveals he cannot be retried in the deaths. >> double jeopardy would be in place here so we could not charge mr. simpson with the homicide that he's been charged with because he's been acquitted. >> two years after he was acquitted a civil jury found the former football star liable for the two deaths. he is serving 33 years behind

now to decision 2016 coverage. "ttu)jt smaller. this afternoon ben carson announced he is suspending his campaign. 24 hours after another heated debate in detroit, donald trump traveled north to rally in cadillac, michigan. earlier he held a rally in the detroit suburb of warren. michigan holds its primary tuls. marco rubio had sights on kansas. he traveled south to rally in the city of ba)rington. and kansas will caucus tomorrow. ted cruz was the first gop candidate to speak this afternoon at the conservative political action conference. trump backed out of his speech tomorrow because of other campaign events. for the democrats hillary clinton kept her campaign in detroit hour afs the gop debate. clinton and bernie sanders will

debate sunday night in flint, two days before michigan's primary. sanders' campaign today at southern illinois university. about four hours from hillary clinton's childhood home near chicago. the 15th. and complete coverage of the decision 2016 and the discovery of the knife at the former home of o.j. simpson, ahead on "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. that is at 6:30. mayor jim kenney was welcomed with open arms at a pre-k in philadelphia today. he got a welcome note from the kids and a few hugs in west oak lane. lovie lee stars of tomorrow is a pre-k program held in a home on 71st avenue. yesterday mayor kenney pitched his plan to expand pre-k in the city. he wants to spend $256 million over five years to create 25,000 new pre-k seats. >> governor wolf visited a top

employer in pennsylvania as part "táhe governor did a meet and greet with some of urban outfitteráh3,000 employees, at the navy yard in south philadelphia. he joined the company's founder and chief development officer for a tour of corporate headquarters. it started with 600 workers and now has five times as many employees. >> started in pennsylvania, they arq headquartered in pennsylvania. committed to staying here. it's a really big thing to showcase what they are doing. >> this is the governor's first public appearance since he made the announcement nine days ago cancer. sky force 10 over more breaking news, live in north philadelphia. someone police tell us has been hit by a car, this is happening at broad and lehigh. and an ambulance is on the scene. we're not -- we do not know how serious the person's injuries are.

somebody hit by a car. we'll bring you more details as we get them. new information on a fiery crash that killed five co-workers in the lehigh valley. police have identified two of the victims, rosa marine and mercedes castillo. that are car slammed into a tractor-trailer on 222 at the route 100 split in upper map gunky township. all five victims worked at quality packing specialists inter'ational. police say they will use forensic testing to identify the f the victims.ng to identify the from the delaware bureau a court house worker is charged with theft and misconduct after accused of stealing from the court house. police arrested marriana la boy for the crime they say happened over several months while she worked as a case manager. investigators say la boy took money from the court of common pleas clerk office. she is free on bail.

new concerns are raised about the drinking water near a pair of closed navy bases in montgomery county. the bases in question are the naval air station joint reserve base willow grove and the naval air warfare center in warminster. three congressmen have written the navy suggesting the sites may be the source of cancer causing chemicals found in nearby wells. the navy says it's received that letter but not made a comment. now to a battle over princeton battlefield. several groups have joined to face part of a revolutionary battlefield from being developed. the save princeton coalition wants to derail plans for the institute of advanced study to development.nit faculty housing it would be built on land adjacent to princeton battlefield state park. ground. fire emergency, the approaching deadline that could leave a troubled town without a

place to the you were when a home goes up in flames. be dropping below freezing ng to tonight. so we have the threat of icing and i'm also watching showers for your weekend. plus a nice spring warm-up coming.

>> the snowfall from this morning that melted through most of the area so now we have puddles on the sidewalks and the roadways and temperatures tonight will be dropping below freezing. so we have the threat of ice to develop tonight and into early tomorrow. keep that in mind as you are on the roadways. be careful and early sunday we actually have showers moving i. maybe some rain and snow showers with our next small clipper system. i don't think it's going to be for everyone so i'll show you that in a second. aside from that, we look ahead to next week. a warm-up coming in the 70s, it's going to feel like spring seven-day forecast in a minute. 36 in allentown now, so cold out. 39 philadelphia, mid 30s south jersey and delaware, and all these numbers will be dropping these nuhrough ill be dropping tonight. closer to about 11:00 we should be around freezing through the philadelphia area, after that we stay below freezing even into 7:00 tomorrow morning, so we do expect areas of ice to be

developing along this timeframe with those wet roadways and especially areas that each have the slushy spots around new jersey and delaware where we saw earlier more snow than the rest of the area. now the system that brought it is moving away and going to be taking a lot of clouds with it. so clear skies tonight. then into the weekend and this next clipper system is going to start to move in. that wouldn't be until overnight saturday into early sunday. right now it's a fairly small system. we don't expect heavy precip with it but could be giving some of us snow showers. here is a look at future weather. we do stay dry but temperatures will be dropping down. so into early tomorrowñr mornin we'll be below freezing across pretty much most of the area if not everyone. then tomorrow afternoon we stay around the mid to low 40s but dry, then we go into sunday morning, there you see the system approaching so looking at possibly snow showers north and west of philadelphia. maybe a rain/snow mix through the philadelphia aerks but shouldn't amount to much through sunday afternoon we start to clear out and dry up.

now as far as thq snow totals are concerned we could see less than an inch farther north and west with this. so again it's not a big system. could see a rain/snow mix across the philadelphia area. again this is not looking like several inches at this point. tomorrow as well. we look at the warm-up. monday, tuesday and wednesday, the warm air moves in and each day next week it's going to keep getting warmer, the warmest day looks like wednesday, we'll be in the low 70s, and it will feel like spring and it will come with sunshine so it's going to be pretty perfect. tonight feeling like winter. 28 the low in philadelphia, 22 north and west, tomorrow cloudy skies, mid to low 40s so cloudy and cold day to start your but we're dry tomorrow. a few early showers sunday. we'll be watching those closely. then we see the warm up. 72 on wednesday, just a beautiful spring weather. new at 6, their fire department is out of service and now a last minute deal has kept the troubled delaware county

bureau from losing its closest fire company that would respond to an emergency. the colwyn mu(ááák they are not out of the woods yet. >> reporter: megan and ronald are neighbors in column wynn possibility of losing their fire company. >> i have five kids. what's going to happen. >> i think that's crazy. i have a small child, my parents are kr'd of getting up there in age. it's a safety issue. >> reporter: they live across from the colwyn fire company but months t borough has been relying on darby firefighters for response. that might change. >> it's hard to justify to the residents of darby you're paying a fire tax and darby fire patrol 2, but those srssr services are free for another town.

>> the manager says colwyn should pay liability and workers compensation and part of the fire tax if it wants services. dar!y even put it in writing. this letter dated february 4 and served as a 30-day notice. >> our services aren't suspended, t$ey did reach out but it was like the last hour where they reached out to us. we're not -- i'm not going to put the residents of colwyn in danger. >> they said no one reached out. it was the state as part of colwyn's economic development plan. darby agreed to a two-week extension. might have the closest fire service. >> i wouldn't want to the i'm not being paid. >> maurice is the president of the colwv' fire company. it's been out of service for months. three former members face theft charges for misusing funds. >> we had bad apples. you don't throw the whole bushel away. >> he says they have paid the

fire company's liability insurance but not the worker compensation. that's why they are not fighting fires. >> we have guys ready to go out and fight fires but i won't put them out there without work man a man's comp. >> whoever is putting out fires should get paid. >> looks like we have to have somebody from another borough. they don't want to pay their own. >> i hope somebody is going to be around fighting fires in case we need them. just as long as everybody's safe >> harry hairston, "nbc 10 news." >> we reached out to leadership. no one returned our calls or e-mail. we'll check back in two weeks to see if there is agreement to keep darby fire companies working in colwyn. >> i'm amy. coming up a little insight into what it's like for an nfl draft prospect at the combine. more than a little eye opening. 60s

hi, i'm amy fadool. p&ready with outjake they may not have braden. chin will be re-evaluated. he hit his head on the ice last night, he did return for a few but did not play in the game's final six minutes. nfl draft prospect andout jersey native made news on the comcast network breakfast on broad show. he talked about the kinds of questions he was asked at the league's draft combine. >> i think the fal kochbs one

was like do you like men. it was weird i was like you know. no. like if you're going to come to atlanta you got to know that sometimes that's how it is out here whatever you got used to it. i guess he was joking but i guess, ask to see how you react. that was like the first thing off the bat. >> comcast sports contacted the falcons and received this statement. quote, i'm really disappointed in the question that was asked by one of our coaches, i have spoken to that coach that interviewed eli apple and explained how inappropriate and unprofessional this was. i have reiterated to this entire coaching staff and i want to.fn apologize to eli for this even coming up. this is not what the atlanta falcons are about and not how we're going to conduct ourselves. end quote. the sixers host the heat tonight. okafor will miss his third straight game.

the braves. aaron makes a diving attempt on the catch. a little injury because he was pulled from the game after what appeared to be a wrist injury seen grabbing that. michael franco, continues with a home run to left. second home run in as many days. a three-run blast. after giving up eight run, the phillies rally in the bottom half of the inning, hunter the hero. three run jack, the phillies a 12-11 win. that will do it for sports. right back after this.

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us, the news continues with n"nc nightly news" with lester holt. tonight, trump's about face. he reverses what he said just last night in that raucous debate about torture, and it's hardly his first change-up. what does trump really believe? new evidence. the o.j. simpson saga back in the news with a new twist. a knife found years ago on his former estate. y police are only just now testing it for evidence. hotel horror. following days of tearful testimony, a jury will soon decide whether to award erin andrews $75 million after a stalker secretly taped her inside her hotel room. and stopping peanut allergies. what doctors say you could be doing now that might prevent a lifetime of potentially deadly complications for your child. "nightly news" begins