vanderbilt university's campus police have stumbled upon suspicious surveillance video. video never seen publicly before tonight. a young woman, helpless and half-clothed. in the clutches of football players being dragged unconscious through a dorm hallway after a night of hard drinking. but what actually happened? typical college hijinks or a crime? campus police go to the pros. digital forensics investigator chad gish and sex crimes detective jason mayo of the metro nashville police. their alarm bells go off immediately. >> i didn't know what happened. but i thought something did happen. >> it didn't take a whole lot of investigation skills to understand what we thought we had on our hands at that point. >> reporter: and what did you think you had? >> sexual assault. >> reporter: mayo parades a who's who of vanderbilt students in for questioning, beginning with the 21-year-old woman in the video. the honor student has no memory of what happened after fireball shots and mixed drinks at the tin roof bar, and no recall of any assault. how often do you have a case where yo

decades in prison, found guiltile of sexually assaulting a female student in a dorm room at vanderbilt university. and this evening, a new case a star swimmer now charged at another school. abc's ryaon ifthe new focus on the culture of college campuses. >> reporter: the defendants sat in stunned silence as the verdict was read -- >> we the jury find the defendant cory lamont batey guilty. >> reporter: former vanderbilt university football players cory batey and brandon vandenburg -- >> guilty of aggravated rape. >> reporter: both found guilty an on-campus sexual assault. the victim in court every day. >> reporter: the jury -- who had been shown cell phone video evidence of the rape -- taking just three hours to find the men guilty. the profession prosecution argued vandebburg batey and two other former players brought the unconscious victim who was casually seeing and inging vandebburg to his room after a night of heavy drinking. saying while batey and another man sexually assaulted the woman, vandenburg egged them on. >> i remember waking up in an unfamiliar room. >> reporter: the prosecution re

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two summers ago, a female vanderbilt university student was drugged and then was carried unconsciouso a university dorm room, dropped like a heap of garbage, according to the prosecutor, and then she was sexually abused in horrific ways by more than one person. and the abuse involved penetration, rape, rape involving a bottle, laughing, slapping to the point of bruising her and other horrible things that are so bad i can't even broadcast them on television. how do we know this? she was unconscious, right, how could she know? she didn't. but the event was captured on cell phones, cell phones on three of the four suspects in the case. and yesterday two of them, two of the four former vanderbilt university football players who were charged in the case, were in fact convicted of rape. >> in regards to mr. vandenburg, count one, we find mr. vandenburg guilty of aggravated rape. >> yeah, shaking his head, no. but the jury said yes. so his co-defendant, cory batey and this man, brandon vandenburg, were convicted on several counts of rape. vandenburg was convicted on additional counts of tam

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that's part of the defense for two vanderbilt university athletes on trial for rape. >>> plus exclusive details inside an epic journey of triumph. climbing their way to the top. agonizing details from the men who made the climb of a lifetime. how they almost didn't make it. >>> and now, jen and angelina have more in common than brad pitt. why the oscar snubs are causing quite a stir. >>> first, the "nightline 5." >> . >>> number one in 60 seconds. >>> good even. thanks for joining us. it's a familiar refrain. accusations of campus rape following a drunken night of partying. two former vanderbilt football players pleading not guilty to sexual assault. but there's a twist. their lawyers pointing a finger at the hard-core college party culture. but that is really a defense against charges of rape? here's my "nightline" coanchor byron pitts for our series "crime and punishment." >> reporter: tonight, a different campus, different names. but we've seen this before. a toxic mix of binge drinking and bad behavior. the central question facing one of america's most prestigious colleges. the men

as two former vanderbilt university football players face decades in prison after they were convicted of raping an unconsious woman in her dorm room, we look at a new film premiering here about sexual assault on campus. it's called "the hunting ground." >> the first few weeks, i made some of my best friends. two of us were sexual assault to before classes even started. >> i would to the dean of students office. i said, i want to make sure that you don't want to talk to anyone. >> then we speak with california senator barbara boxer about the bill dylan with sexual assault her plans for retirement and and what she supports president obama's war. >> i don't support going to war. i support president obama's plan to not do that. but to make sure we can help people fight against this terror group, which is so frightening and so frightening to humankind. >> then this week, egyptian forces killed 18 protesters as they mark the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled dictator hosni mubarak. we will speak with prize-winning film makers jehane noujaim and karim amer who document of the egy

. >> reporter: former students at vanderbilt university facing decades in prison for the sexual assault of another student, a 21 year old female. >> i remember waking up in another room. >> reporter: one defendant's strategy involved blaming his behavior on the crazy culture like on jersey shore. >> they see shows like jersey shore and think it's funny. ands they shows glorify drinking and section. they glorify promiscuous sex, acting out, multiple partners. >> reporter: the prosecution keyed in on three pieces of evidence, surveillance video, testimony from a co-defendant. >> i don't recall that. >> reporter: and images of the assault. they claim surveillance video shows the victim being by vandenburg to his the four allegedly laugh during the assault. >> vandenburg is alleged to have passed around condoms to encourage other people to have sex with this woman he was presumably dating at the time. so as a legal matter even though there's not an allegation vandenburg engaged in a physical act of rape that night. the authorities believe his actions, his intentions his comments, all become

. >>> two former vanderbilt university football players face long sentences this morning.he jury convicted the men of rape and assault tuesday in connection with a group attack in a dorm room. daniel nottingham reports. >> guilty of aggravated rape. guilty of aggravated rape. >> reporter: it took a nashville jury just a c of hours to prosecute two vanderbilt football players both found of aggravated rape and sexual battery. prosecutors say they laughed and took photos as a group of men defiled a female neurosurgeon student. >> did you consent to any of the acts? >> absolutely not. >> did you consent to any photographs be taken of you? no. >> reporter: he brought his 21-year-old unconscious girlfriend back to his dorm room on the night of the attack. one witness testified that vandenberg even flew to california to destroy information on his cell phone. they cited a college culture of excessive drinking and promiscuity. >> they're good boys. >> reporter: prosecutors read a statement from the victim. >> i'm thankful that the criminal justice system will hold the defendants re

has already pulled one of its super bowl ads days before >>> two former football players at vanderbilt university were convicted of rape on tuesday. the former -- a former student said the two players attacked her inside a dorm room. she said one other player took photos but did not participate in that attack. the other player as well as the victim say they don't remember the assault. both players, though, are now facing decades in prison. >>> university of virginia sorority sisters have been told to stay away from fraternity events this weekend. saturday is bid night. it's a traition dl night for parties -- traditional night for parties and it's the first big night since suspensions were lifted. some women say on campus they describe the move as sexist and irrational. >>> godaddy is pulling one of its super bowl ads following an uproar on social media. the ad features a cute puppy separated from its family. and when the ad ends, the puppy goes back into the owner's arm who is happy. the catch is the owner is happy because at the just sold the puppy on a website that was built by godaddy. the com

. >>> two former vanderbilt university football players face long sentences this morning.he jury convicted the men of rape and assault tuesday in connection with a group attack in a dorm room. daniel nottingham reports. >> guilty of aggravated rape. guilty of aggravated rape. >> reporter: it took a nashville jury just a couple of hours to prosecute two vanderbilt football players both found of aggravated rape and sexual battery. prosecutors say they laughed and took photos as a group of men defiled a female neurosurgeon student. >> did you consent to any of the acts? >> absolutely not. >> did you consent to any photographs be taken of you? no. >> reporter: he brought his 21-year-old unconscious girlfriend back to his dorm room on the night of the attack. one witness testified that vandenberg even flew to california to destroy information on his cell phone. they cited a college culture of excessive drinking and promiscuity. >> they're good boys. >> reporter: prosecutors read a statement from the victim. >> i'm thankful that the criminal justice system will hold the defendan

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. >>> a jury in tennessee convicts two former vanderbilt university football players of rape. cory beatty and brandon found guilty of raping a 21-year-old former neuroscience student in 2013. the jury rejected their claims that they were too drunk to know what they were doing. and that a college culture of birch drinking and promiscuity tour plame for attack. the jury deliberated for three hours before the verdict was announced. the two now face decades in prison. >>> caught on camera in brazil a motorcyclist drives right into a sink hole. you see the sink hole swallowed the bike. fortunately the man riding it walked away unhurt. a broken water main is to blame for this hole in the street. >>> a florida cat comes back from the dead and shows up at his own are in's back door in tam p florida g veterinarians did actually pronounce bart the black and white feline dead after he was hit by a car. bart was then given to his owner who then buried him in the backyard. but to everyone's surprise bart later showed up on a neighbor's doorstep. it turns out the cat dug his way out of his

wednesday two former vanderbilt university football players were convicted of rape just latest high profile case highlighting the issue. >> they started to reveal in some respects ugly he will in meant of collegiate life. >> reporter: joe mcgettigan and dennis mcandrews are experts in legal issues surrounding campus sexual assault. they say colleges are examining the problem more in part because of new department of education rules mandating certain steps in investigating and reporting crimes. at the university of pennsylvania, a new sexual violence investigative officer starts on monday, his soul job investigating cases of sexual assault and thursday a penn state task force issued new rules for report ago salt and sharing how it is punish. implementing those changes can be expensive, hiring staff members that require more resources, for bigger schools like penn state and here in upen absorbing some of those costs can be easier but for smaller and mid sized schools the challenge is far tougher. >> many of the other schools are lagging behind not far lack of will but lack of resources. >> re

. >>> todd light is leaving to take a job at vanderbilt university. >>> and it is official florida state quarterback and former heisman winner jameis wins exton is turning pro. he issued a statement through his dad. winston will be one of the topics in the draft in doubt about that despite his off the field issues. erika, back to you. >>> thanks ukee. still ahead on "eyewitness news" we will update the sony hacking scandal. we will be right back. >>> we're following wreaking news a house fire in the ogontz section of philadelphia claim the life of the disable veteran in his 70's. the flames broke out around 1:30 object roselyn street. fire fighters battled both the fire and dangerously low temperatures. >>> two police officers are critically injured in the shooting in a suburb of paris france. day after 12 people were gunned down at offices of the satyrical publication. one teen is in custody in that attack, a manhunt is underway for two other suspects brotters with links to al qaeda. >>> another tough weather day around here. the temperatures will not get out of the 20's. if you see som

. >>> new tonight, two vanderbilt university players have been found guilty of rape and assault.cutors say the two took photos as a group of men raped a student in 2013. they tried to deflect the blame. >> i think if you look in these boy's hearts they are good boys. >> i'm thankful that the criminal justice system will hold the defendants responsible for their violent crimes. >> they face decades in prison when they are sentenced in march, two other former players pleaded not guilty to rape charges, their trial dates have not yet been set. >>> police are searching for an individual they call a person of interest in a robbery that was captured on camera. police say the incident took place last saturday night in the 1100 block street northwest, investigators want to hear from anyone who might solve this case, they are offering a reward of $10,000 if you have any information. >>> the smithsonian branching out to great britain. they london secured $50 million to build it in the park. it would be the first international facility. >>> and today the u.s. holocaust memorial museum marke

. >> pelley: late today in nashville, a jury convicted two former vanderbilt university football playersraping a woman in a dorm room. brandon van didn'tberg and cory beatty face dozens of years in prison. the evidence against them included photos and videos of the attack in 2013. defense attorneys tried the blame vanderbilt for a culture of binge drinking and promiscuous sex. the measles outbreak that started at disneyland grew today to 87 cases in seven states. most of them in california. nearly all of the patients had never had a measles shot. in california parents can opt out of having their children vaccinated with a doctor's okay, like the doctor ben tracy met. >> this measles outbreak does not pose a great risk to a healthy child, and, quite frankly, i don't think it poses any risk to a healthy child. >> reporter: dr. jay gordon is a pediatrician in santa monica california. more than half his patients have delayed vaccinating their children for measles or decided not to. if somebody with measles walked into your office 90% of the unvaccinated people that come into contact with the

. >>> two former football players at vanderbilt university face decades in prison.ay convicted brandon vandenburg and corey batey of raping a former student insides a dorm room. vandenburg broader an unconscious 21-year-old woman he had been seeing back to his dorm room after a night of drinking back in 2013. as the assault occurred the player took pictures and sent them to friends. two other former football players are still facing charges. >> it's 5:53 and up next hear how the snow helped track down a suspected burglar in delaware county. >> breaking overnight a woman leaps from a burning building in the suburbs. hear from her in a live report at 6:00 a.m. >> ♪♪ >> snowfall if last week gets credit for helping solve a burglary spree in delaware county. police set up an undercover operation saturday morning in drexel hill. someone had been breaking into more than a dozen homes and cars on foss avenue. detectives say they spotted 24-year-old stevenore. footprints led them to him and his girlfriend. >> they were serious. they were on a roll and people were home in be

two former football players at vanderbilt university have now been convicted of rape. >> the jury took just three hours to deliberate deciding the two men now 21 years old were guilty of the drunken dorm room assault in 2013. the assault occurred as one took pictures on his cell phone and sent them to friends. the victim who sat there every day thanked prosecutors. the two men face decades in prison. two others accused former players still face trial. >>> turn to san francisco now. police are trying to track down a gang of thieves behind a gold heist. three masked robbers rammed an suv into the lobby of the wells fargo museum and held the security guard at gunpoint and stole 10 ounces of gold and sped off in another car. they were not originals from the gold rush as the thieves may have thought. they're worth about $13,000. >>> and caught on dash cam, a stolen police car, a 27-year-old suspect who police handcuffed placed in the backseat of a police cruiser outside pittsburgh managed to jump into the front seat turn on the siren and sped away while still handcuffed. she led police on a

joining me now, jonathan metzl, professor of psychiatry at vanderbilt university.ry college and veteran of the iraq war. alicia quarles, correspondent for e! news and jeremy skahill author of "dirty wars the world is a battlefield." did you actually like the movie? not the controversy, the movie itself. >> i actually liked the movie itself. i've got to say, full disclosure, i interviewed clint eastwood, i've interviewed bradley cooper several times, i interviewed chris's real-life wife and sandy miller who plays her and i like the movie itself because it's very different from the book. the book is controversial. the movie, clint cut out a lot. he cut out 44 pages of dialogue so it's hard to get everything that's in the book in the movie in two hours. this is hollywood. and also bradley cooper said this is not meant to be a political film this is meant to be a film telling a soldier's story. >> okay. so that moment this is not to be a political film i think is right where the angst lies jeremy the idea that you can tell a story about this particular moment and it ca

a jury tonight finding two former football players from vanderbilt university guilty of raping a female student. the attack taking place inside a dorm room. one ofthe defendants taking photos. the jury dliberring for three hours before announcing its decision. >>> overseas tonight, and to a powerful moment remembered that happened 70 years ago. the images of auschwitz from above are haunting. showing just show sprawling the camps were. so many prisoners freed by soviet troops 70 years ago today. but not before more than a million lost their lives. on this somber anniversary, many came back. survivors with their families. ten years ago, 1,500 kur vie vors came. now, fewer than 300. they're advancing age. one survivor saying the greatest debt we have today is to pass on the memory of their lives to others. their will to live. four of those survivors and a photograph of those young faces, their own. children who witnessed and survived. children back then 70 years later, still remembering tonight. >>> and there is still much more aheaddad on "world news tonight" this tuesday. breaking news

the alleged crimes all happening on the campus of the prestigious vanderbilt university.ilt university football players brandon vandenburg and corey batey, stone-faced in court monday. the two teammates now co-defendants, both charged with aggravated rape and sexual battery against a female student in june of 2013. >> the alleged victim laying in the hallway of gillette dorm. >> reporter: on monday detectives describing the alleged attack which they say the young men recorded on their smartphones. >> this is corey batey with his shirt removed. his pants removed. >> reporter: jurors saw one video, too graphic to show the rest of the courtroom but on it you could hear laughter during the alleged rape. >> reporter: investigators say vandenberg texted some to his friends and searched google to find out if police could retrieve dethreatted photos. the victim vandenberg's girlfriend a neuroscience major. >> that day had such promise for her. >> reporter: prosecutors claim surveillance video shows him carrying her to her dormroom. baity by his side. >> within two minutes she was

a pipe bomb mailed to the head of the computer department at vanderbilt university in nashville explodes when it's opened by a secretary. she sustains severe burns to her hands and shrapnel wounds to her body. two months later at the university of california berkeley, a package explodes when engineering professor picks it up. he too suffers severe burns and shrapnel wounds. >> usually in bombings or any kind of serial bombing, you can look at victimology and you try and determine, perhaps, people or businesses or something that all of the victims had in common with the suspect or the person who's doing the bombings in this case. with unabomb, none of these people, none of the victims over the years had any connections. >> did they go to the same universities? did they have difficulty with one person and was there a commonality between all the victims? and that was very difficult, because we had literally hundreds and hundreds of suspects. >> there are no incidents for almost two years. then on may 15th, 1985, engineering student and aspiring astronaut john e. hauser is nearly killed when

two former vanderbilt university football players accused of sexually assaulting a female student. victim taking the stand on thursday and abc's steve osunsami has that story. >> what's the neck thing you remember? >> i remember waking up in an unfamiliar room at 8 something the next morning. >> reporter: the alleged rape victim at vanderbilt university finally telling her story to jurors. to protect her identity they're keeping her off camera and altering her voice. >> did you feel injuries at that time? >> i did. i was sore all over. >> reporter: she's now 21 years old working on a ph.d. in neuroscience. the former dance team member says she was drinking that night in june of 2013 saying she met up with former vanderbilt football player brandon vandenburg at a bar before she blacked out. >> had you ever had this feeling from drinking before the way you were feeling that day? >> i never felt like that in my life. >> reporter: vandenburg and cory batey are pleading not guilty. saying that everyone had too much to drink. >> what did he tell you had happened? >> he told me that i had

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♪ sleep train ♪ ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >>> two former vanderbilt university footballe been found guilty of raping an unconscious 21-year-old woman in a dormitory. corey baitty and brandon van denburg violated the victim in multiple and unspeakable ways about a year and a half ago. the victim was on a date with van denburg before the rape occurred. he testified about how he described to her the next day what had happened. >> he told me i had gotten sick in his room and he had to clean it up and it was horrible. he had to spend the night taking care of me and it was horrible. i apologized. i was embarrassed. >> she apologized to him. then later found out what he and his friend had done to her, at least as the jury found it. the victim cried when the guilty investigators were held in court. she was holding back tears as well. she released a statement thank ago investigators and rape advocates. she said quote, finally i want to remind other victims of sexual violence you are not alone. you are not to blame. nancy grace, i want to recognize the victim here. she was amazing

it is a trial involving four former vanderbilt university football players.hey're accused of an aggravated rape and sexual battery from two summers ago. the alleged victim actually took the stand on thursday and began telling her story. she and her friends arrived at a bar in nashville that night. one of the suspects named brandon vandenberg, a man she had been dating, was there. she testified he gave her a blue drink that she only sipped. that was after three other drinks but after that blue drink, she said that was the last thing she remembered until waking up in a strange room several hours later. as is cnn policy we're going to keep her unidentified but we have this sound from the alleged victim's testimony that came yesterday saying that vandenberg filled her in on a memory lapse this way. >> he told me that i had gotten sick in his room and he had to clean it up and that it was horrible and that he had to spend the whole night taking care of me and that it was horrible. i apologized. i was embarrassed. >> but what really happened to that young woman is

. >>> and in new yorkville two former football players at vanderbilt university face the possibility of decades in prison convicted of the horrifying gang rape of a fellow student. after the jury didn't buy their defense. they were just too drunk to know what they were doing? >> count one we find mr. vanderburg guilty of aggravated rape. on count two we find mr. vanderburg guilty of aggravated rape. >> everything about this case was shocking. star athletes at a prestigious school hauling an unconscious young woman into a dorm room raping her repeatedly and brutally. >> within two minutes. >> shooting videos and posting them on social media even as they were committing the attack. >> this is cory beattie with his shirt removed. his pants removed. >> lying to the victim the next day denying that a rape had even taken place. >> what did he tell you had happened? >> he told me that i had gotten sick in his room, and that he had to spend all night taking care of me. >> and when finally confronted, posing a novel defense. they were too drunk themselves to even remember doing it. >> what if