grace mann served on the board of feminists united. police have charged her roommate steven vander briel with her murder. police have not commented why he might have done it and feminists united say it has no ed mann's activism or the threats on yip yap were connected to her murder. >>> an emotional plea from the wife of a missing howard university student who seemed to simply vanish yesterday morning. that student is a 33-year-old man working on his doctorate and he texted his wife yesterday from campus, but after that nothing. garrett haake is live on the howard u campus with the latest on the search for lance buckley. tonight, garrett, what do we know? >> reporter: buckley is supposed to graduate from howard here saturday. yesterday he came up to pick up a couple of pieces of paper and texted his wife around 10:15. that was the last time anyone has seen or heard from him. amy buckley could barely keep upright as she stood before the cameras today and begged her husband to come home. >> i just want you home, baby. i love you. you're

the members of feminist united say the trouble started last semester when the school's rugby team was suspended for a chant that glorified rape. when the president of feminist united wrote about the issue in the campus newspaper, members of the group were blamed for the team's troubles. threats of assault and violence began to appear on a social media group called yik yak. one was so fearful she ended up seeking inging counseling. >> reporter: i don't know if the person threatening to hurt me lives across the hall from me in the same apartment as me. because it's anonymous, you don't know who's threatening you. >> reporter: feminist united leaders asked the university to block yik yak on campus but they were told that would infringe on free speech rights. university officials tell me they responded to every direct incident every threat against these women that they were told about. news4 at 5, why feminist united members fear that grace's death could be linked to this history of threats. >> new information is out about the investigation into grace mann's murder last month. search warr

that is not in this complaint. >> reporter: feminist united members asked the administration to block the app but were told that could infringe on free speech rights. >> i'm not exactly 100% sure why feminist united expects yik yak to be shut down by the university. i think it's more of a yik yak issue. >> reporter: university officials issued this statement -- "while we disagree with many of the details and content in this morning's press conference we share the ultimate goal of main taking a safe environment in clab with campus partners." at the university of mary washington julie carey, news4. >>> fairfax county is asking for input to help guide the future of the county's bus network. the transportation department will hold public workshops through may and june. in order to get some feedback about the plan for the fairfax connector. the county is planning to expand bus service over the next ten years. the first meeting will be held next tuesday at george mason university. >>> a big change coming tonight for a place that's housed sporting events and concerts for decades. we'll tell

. >> reporter: feminist united members were joined by national leaders a they announced the filing of the title ix complaint against the university of mary washington. it alleges administrators didn't do enough. >> the administration was flat-footed and it was slow to act. >> reporter: the trouble started last semester when the school's rugby team was suspended for using a chant that glorified rape. when feminist united's president wrote about it in the campus newspaper, her group was blamed for the team's suspension. threats like this showed up on yik yak. dandies about to kill a sblef or two. and going to tie these feminists to a radiator. feminist united members asked the administration to block the app but were told that could infringe on free speech rights. one of those specifically targeted was grace mann who was a very vocal activist for feminist united. she was killed last month. her housemate charged with her murder. >> i don't know if her death had anything to do with these threats. i hope it did not. but she had been mentioned by name on yik yak and i know she was scared. >

. >> reporter: students and members of the feminists united at the university of mary washington say administrators failed to protect them from sex- based cyber assaults and threats of violence. >> it is inexcusable that this administration said they will not act. >> reporter: the students say some 800 threats against them appeared on the social networking site yik yak over the past two semesters. >> people gave out the location of our members and threatened to rape and kill us. i was terrified. i did not know if the person sitting next to me in class had just threatened to hurt me anonymously. >> reporter: lydia michaels says grace mann was also targeted with rape on yik yak. three weeks ago mann was strangled in her off campus resident. housemate steven vander briel is charged with first degree murder. he was a former member of the rugby team. in november the rugby team was recorded singing a violent chant. >> raping, really being violent towards women and kind of joking about it in a sing songy way. >> reporter: zachariah kronemer was the student who recorded the chant and showed

. -- feminist united discussed its complaint during a news conference. we will have more on their complaint tonight on abc seven news starting at 4:00. lumbar liquidators is suspending all sales of its chinese made flooring. the justice department is seeking criminal charges against the company, saying that they sold the flooring knowing that it contained a dangerous levels of formaldehyde. lumbar liquidators said they spent millions on a program to ease concerns. they face more than 100 pending class-action lawsuits related to that flooring. a u.s. appeals court in new york ruled that the national security administration's collection of american phone records is illegal. the three-judge panel said the data collection exceeds what congress has allowed under the patriot act. they declined to block the program saying it is up to congress whether and under what conditions it should continue. a busy week in the race for the white house with three new gop candidates. sam sweeney sat down with presidential hopeful ben carson to get his take on the situation in

hostile campus environment by permitting ongoing gender based stalking and cyber assaults of feminists united. three weeks ago grace mann, a member of that organization, was killed in our off campus home. friends say she had been targeted with rape on the social media site yik yak. >> i know she had been mentioned by name on yik yak and was scared as i am and angrily as i am. most of all i know she was disappointed in her school for failing to protect her just as i am disappointed in umw for failing to protect me. >> the women say they asked the president of the university to block yik yak and he refused. he had no comment today. >>> the united states is doing a terrible job countering the propaganda spewed on social media by islamic groups by isis, this according to experts who testified in the senate today. >> repi'm scott broom in washington where isis is now using its social media capabilities to make threats against virginia and maryland. the latest threats in a message to crusaders, claims that maryland and virginia are on a target list for an upcoming six month terror campaign claiming

and the fight to maureen: a student group called feminist united plans to file a title ix complaint. there is a news conference tomorrow morning. a growing number of virginia lawmakers support investigation into the plant closing of sweetbrier college. more than 30 members of the general assembly on record calling for an inquiry. they want attorney general mark herring to investigate the allocation of tuition assistant. today he met with leaders to save the school and they will meet on may 18. students got a day off today after a water pipe flooded the school. they blamed it on a leaking pipe coupleer. they are still working on the problem tonight. not clear when the classes will resume. a sewage hill could be stopped sooner than first thought. the sanitary commission expects the overflow to end tonight. clues finish work on bypass to direct sewage away from a damaged pipe. so far 10,000 gallons of sewage flowed from the pipes since sunday. they say most of the wastewater has been contained in a ditch but some reached the local area. still ahead tonig on "abc7 news at 6:00" -- the ab

school of promoting a sexually hostile environment by promoting cyber stalking of members of feminists united. three weeks ago grace mann, a group member, was killed in her off campus home. friends say she had been targeted with rape on the social media site yik yak. >> people gave out the locations of our members and threatened to rape and kill us. >> this is not speech when it's violent threats of saw the and rape and murder -- of assault and rape and murder. >> the women say they asked mary washington's president to block yik yak, but he said he could not because it was a public university and a free speech issue. >>> the wizards announced all- star point guard john wall, the best player perhaps, has five nondisplaced fractures in his left wrist and hand. you'll remember wall suffered the injury in the 1st half of game one against the atlanta hawks sunday. he finished out that game, but when game two roll around, the swelling and pain was too much and wall sat out. wall and the team are meeting with multiple doctors to figure out the best course of action. his status is in doubt tonight. >

student group feminists united is filing the sex discrimination complaint today, accusing the school's administration of refusing to protect female students from threats of violence and sexual assault. >> it is inexcusable that women came to the administration and showed them the kind of vicious assaults that were occurring everyday. amplified because they're online. and these women don't know whether these are classmates making these comments and attacks, whether it's someone in their dormitory. it amplyifyamplifys the fear factor. >> the university says to their knowledge there have been no known reports of direct threats of violence and ignored on campus. this announcement follows the murder of student grace mann, a leading voice on campus for feminist and gay causes. at the live desk i'm kristin wright. >>> temperatures right now in the upper 60s and low 70s. 73 in washington 67 in annapolis. beautiful weather for this evening. here is your planner. plenty of sunshine perfect night for grilling walking the dog, going for that run. 5:00 p.m. a temperature around 80 degrees. that wil

feminists united member julia michaels said they lived in fear ever since the cyber threats happened. threats poured in on the social media after they criticized the men's rugby team for a chant glorifying rape. mann was mentioned by name in some of the threats. >> people gave out the locations of some of the members and they were threatened to rape and ill kill us. i was terrified. >> the administration was asked to block the app but we're told that could infringe on the free speech rights. they take the allegations of gender based violently. >>> police are hoping you can give information on a man who touched a girl inappropriately. they say the man touched the 17-year-old's arm before the girl got into a dodge ram pickup and drove away. it does not appear the man intended to harm the girl but police want to talk to the man. if you have any information, give prince william county police a call. >>> leaders in prince george's county want to combat the issue of absent fatherhood. tomorrow, the county council is hosting a free summit. it runs from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in clinton. att

feminist of such. i spent my life campaigning on issues where i think there's injustices. >> more women are making more money than their husbands. in the unitedn men. where is the disconnect? >> a lot of these women go into companies full of enthusiasm having come out of college and they end up having children and they start to feel that they are not completely wanted in the company and they go off on maternity leave and come back and find their job is not there as it was before or someone has taken the role away from them. i don't think if we leave things as we are, evolution will take a long time before we get 50% men and women in the workplace. >> how do you do it? >> you certainly do it by having debates like we had today. but there is an argument to be said that you do it the standard way which is you actually start forcing it through legally. >> you think the government should require that of companies? >> we've done it with our new hotel division. virgin hotels. we have a predominance of women over men. it's easier to do with it with a new company than it is with an established company. >> so that would be sort of like a quota system a