football but for some reason most of the attention falls to college football and someone like james franklin. >> about half of them are four star recruits, when ben franklin took the head coaching job he vowed to dominate the state he did well in pa. and his recruiting class rank the fourth in the country by espn. they signed 6'4" four star receivers including johnson considered one of the top 20 wideouts in the country and john from depaul shool both are happy to be headed to happy valley. >> we know we are going to be the underdogs and everybody looks like we are nothing and we'll go out early and prove our point from the beginning and show we are out here to play and do our thing. >> what do you think the future of penn football looks like now? >> it looks great, this could be the class that changes everything. >> we want to do that, bring penn state to what it used to be. >> we did a nice job and i'm please, we have added depth and added talent and we have good fits. >> temple making a major splash today too. signing one of the big of the recruits in school history, t.j. simmons a four s

. >>> national signing day for high school football player james franklin said he wanted to dominatetate in recruiting. he did that (e9ñ take a look at penn state's war room here. he said the nittany lions got the top ten players, the best recruiting class in 11 years. only ohio state had a better day in the big ten. >> yeah i don't like being behind anybody, in anything. but yeah we did some nice things. getting guys like john reed not only is he a great player and a great person and a great student coming from an unbelievable family, but comes from a great high school program. >> you said it. from st. joe's prep the best recruit in our area john reed. he will play defensive back for the nittany lions. another prep player headed to michigan to play for jim harbaugh. john runnion jr. the son of pat schermer kyle schermer, there he is going to vanderbilt. look at this. this is just ridiculous. richard green tonight going for the green. playing in a pro am in australia. this is a par 4. doesn't look very impressive. the ball is going to go into the bunker. but watch, it comes right ba

. >>> i'm john clark, when coach james franklin arrived at penn state, he said he wanted to dominate the state in recruiting. he did that with his recruiting class today. this is penn state's war room. he says the nittany lions got seven of pennsylvania's top ten players. he says it's the school's best recruiting class in 11 years. only ohio state had a better signing day in the big ten. >> yeah i don't like being behind anybody in anything, but, yeah, we did some nice things. but getting guys like john reed, i mean not only is he a great player and a great person and great student, comes from an unbelievable family but comes from a great high school program. >> yeah the nittany lions got the best recruit from our area, john reed from st. joe's prep, playing defensive back. the best defensive player according to rivals.com. john runyon jr., whose dad played for the eagles also. la salle quarterback kyle shermer is going to vanderbilt. temple got one of the better classes in their conference they got running back t.j. introducing longhorns bold flavors, bold price for $12.99. the fire

. >>> penn state head football coach james franklin has said he wants to dominate the state when it comes to recruiting. now that the sanctions are over penn state had its full recruiting class since 2011. # one young talented student athletes are heading to state college. one of the new lions is saint joe prep cornerback john reid "eyewitness news" at the prep as reid and five teammates signed commitment letters including john daniel runyan and like dad, he is headed to michigan. he will play at virginia. dylan delewis going to colgate. tom johnson and jake strain will be teammates at princeton. prep won back to back state titles. best of college in college fellows on the field and in the classroom. >>> temple owls got 19 letters of intent including a couple of four star players. new owls including tj simmons from lakeland florida and kareem ali from timber creek high school in sicklerville, camden county. congratulations, gentlemen. erika? >> thanks, ukee. >>> still to come we will visit today's biggest business stories. but first here's what is coming up tonight on cbs-3. >>> we could

. >>> james franklin promised to donovan mcnabb 98 the state in recruiting when he took over bill o'brien. they had first full recruiting class since 2011 ranked 12th in the nation. 11 kids from pennsylvania including five from our area. >> we take great pride in the high school coaches and the players in this state. we think we can very very successful with mares from pennsylvania and from this row john. so i think that's very very important for us moving forward. >> temple they get 19 letters of intent includeing a couple four star players tj simmons from lakeland florida and kareem ali from timber creek hoy school in sicklerville new jersey. >> i'm just here so won't debt fined. i'm just here so i won't get fined. >> you know what, the league said they will not fine marshawn lynch because did he fulfill his mode ya obligations at the super bowl. that lat that he wore met league requirements because it was made an by inform fl approved company and wasn't team colors. we'll be right back with more news. ♪ >>> new at 11:00 o'clock tonight the upper darby high school wrestling team shows t

for james franklin it is like christmas morning. two shiny new presents are right here glassboro's jujuan johnson wide out caught 42 passes for 804-yard and nine touchdowns. he will be join, with his buddy just down the street paul the sixth irving charles who scored ten times. he is part of what es pn says 14th best class in the the country. >> we have a great class coming up. this should be the the class that changes everything. we want to do that. we want to bring penn state to what it used to be. >> i'm really pleased. we have added depth, we have added talent. i think we got really good fits. >> and how about st. joes prep, six members of the bakhtiyor state championship football team signed to play at the next level including 6-foot five 280-pound john daniel runyan son of the former eagles great who will attend his dad's alma hatter michigan. >>> finally tonight a goat went on a lamb in bridgeton, new jersey. >> oh, boy. >> but could not escape long arm of the law. police officers posed with, the riley billy have after findin

james franklin thrilled about i new nittany lions we are thrilled about the way this played out. a lot went into it by our support staff and players and for the most part we did a nice job, among our area, johnson paul is going and he has been dreaming of this moment for a long time. >> i was looking forward to this since eighth grade year, i was praying being able to make the right decision and get to this point, it's a relief and i know my journey just began and i'm soaking it all in. >> at glassboro high school jonathan signed up to be his buddy's teammate at penn state and his brother a running back at rutgers, he is 5, signing his letter too. >>> penn state comes to play temple on december 25th and owls welcomed 19th new athletes running back t.j. simmons from lake lakeland, the first four star recruit had offers from penn state and ohio state and penn state, he is the highest ranked owl's recruit in history, why not up a coach said. >> temple university and temple football is well respected, we are not a tier two program we are a program that people see on tv and go to bowl

. >>> coming up at 6:00 we'll hear from penn state's head coach james franklin on how good a class he got today. what a day the nittany lions had. for now, i'm john clark 37. >>> today is a day designed to highlight the importance of getting girls involved in sports. athletes like sara hughes went to capitol hill to talk about the positive impact sports can have on women. >> sports help kids not only get more active and be part of a team, but helps them off the field and develop other skills like self-confidence. >> they reduced the number of ways to reduce concussions in student athletes. >>> after such a mild day today, now we are tracking snow showers for early tomorrow morning. it does look to be on the lighter side. i don't think everyone will see them but we'll see an area of snow try to move in in the morning hours and more bitter cold meaning very cold temperatures combined with some very strong winds. this will be here after the snow tomorrow so ending out tomorrow it will feel like single digits. into the weekend we'll be watching an area of rain and snow move in. i'll show

penn state's james franklin was making his call except he called the wrong guy. >> what?. >> well i think you guys got the wrong player coach. i'm a big fan of you, coach. i'm a huge fan, coach. >> awesome. good to see you. we're trying to track down shareef. >> i think you might have is the wrong number coach. >> he's calling me! >> you got eligibility left? >> oh, man. no i think i might be done, co >> looks like he's driving too. probably took over and took it. what a cool moment for him. >> great moment for him. >>> on our broadcast tonight, american hostage mystery. isis is claiming the death of a 26-year-old woman from arizona. they say she was killed in an air strike in syria, but a lot of doubt is being raised about possible isis propaganda. >>> a flood emergency in the american west. several states slammed by way too much rain way too fast. homes flooded, highwater rescues on the road. and in the east more snow on the way. >>> moment of crisis, what we've learned about that deadly commuter train disaster like the ordered at that crossing that were never completed

he rectifies it when james dice, benjamin -- dies benjamin franklin provides for the education of james the very end there's the big one, he had tolerated and compromised on slavery. of course, he feels this is an error, but very old to, late in life -- i think he was about 80 -- he becomes the president of the society for the abolition of slavery. and his last great piece, he always wrote hoaxes and jokes and parodies, was a piece called the speech by the divine of algiers which was about a leader in algiers explaining why he was putting white europeans into slavery in algiers, and it was palleting all the arguments, but also ridiculing. it was a brutal piece against the arguments that were being made in congress to justify slavery. so this is how he tries to rectify a deep moral error. and when you get to the compare and contrast franklin and jefferson, you know, jefferson never quite gets it -- jefferson's from virginia, franklin's from pennsylvania maybe it's a little easier. but still as brilliant as jefferson was he doesn't get to that same moral place that ben frank does of being

franklin gothic condense. and photographs from the front of the news. since the first i.s.i.l. video came online showing the beheading of james foley. groups output has become grew some. at the beginning of this jordanian pilot moaz al-kasasbeh burnt alive, and footage of 21 coptic christians beheaded in libya - the first material filmed outside i.s.i.l.'s territories in syria and iraq. each propaganda video placing more into the fray. for the past three weeks nigeria joined in. the output - it was a narive of a war and revenge. this material made by those who know, beyond it is an organization hard to ignore. there's an intensifying battle and propaganda that has defined the latest wore in the middle east. the starting point this week is egypt. >> are we now seeing holy war against a religious component. >> every video that we are getting from the islamic state is more intense, more dramatic. it is overpowering. >> journalists and reporters want to demonstrate the horrific nature. this is something that comes out of hollywood almost. the media recognises the drama in this. and its news. it has to be covered. >> in a campaign being

and if you know the story of that, the legend goes that james madison said that ben franklin looked atndered, because on the back of the chair is a half-rising sun. and he wondered if the message was that the sun was rising or setting. and madison says that franklin said at the end of their time together, he believed that the sun was indeed rising, just as our country was. today, i believe we need to go back and look at the founding principles of this great principle, not to go back in time. don't confuse that. but to use that as a guide as go down the path to provide/x"w a brighter future for our children and our children's children and those yet to be born. we need your help moving forward. we need your help making america great again. if we can do it in wisconsin there's to doubt we can do it across america. thank you for letting me come out and share with you. [ cheers and applause ] >> thanks, governor. governor walker. governor walker. ned ryan, american majority, board member of the american conservative union. would like to know, should you become commander in chief how would y

and if you know the story of that, the legend goes that james madison said that ben franklin looked at the chair day after day and wondered, because on the back of the chair is a half rising sun. he wondered if the message was that the sun was rising or setting? and madison said at the end of the time together, he believed the sun was rising, just as our country was. not to go back in time. don't confuse that. but rather to use that as a guide as we go down the path to provide a brighter future for our children and our children's children and those yet to be born. we need your help moving forward. we need your help making america great again. if we can do it in wisconsin there is no doubt we can do it in america. thank you for letting me come out and share with you. [applause] >> thank you. thanks governor. governor walker, ned ryan. we would like to know, should you become commander-in-chief, how would you deal with threats such as isis? >> the interesting thing sometimes people in the media don't understand that as a governor, i actually get a threat assessment from the fbi. without

and you know the story of that t legend goes james madison said that ben franklin looked at that chaird -- because on the back of the chair is a half rising sun. and he wondered if the message was that the sun was ridesing or ing rising or setting. and madison says he believed at the end of their time he believed that the sun was indeed rising just as their country was. and today i believe we need to go back and look at the founding principles of this great country. not to go back in time. don't confuse that. not to go back in time but rather use it as a guide as we go down the path to bailed brighter erer future or our children and their children. we need your help moving forward. we need your help making america great again. if we can do it in wisconsin we can do it across america. thanks for letting me come out and share with you. [ applause ] >>> governor walker. ned ryan. merge majority. would like to know should you become commander in chief how do you deal with threats such as isis? >> well the answer is three things. sometimes in the media they don't understand i get a threat a

james williams the president of fisk university in nashville tennessee. sean, go ahead. >> caller: hello mr. williams. i wanted to say i attended benjamin franklin in boston for a couple of semesters and i just wanted to know what struck me about that school was the racial diversity and not once did i hear anybody talk about the race thing. i had a couple of quick questions in the first one is don't you think the hbcu organization is perpetuating the racial differences and my second question is why aren't you talking about this racist president. [inaudible] post our apologies president williams. >> guest: that's okay, i missed the second part anyway but i will say we have hbcus have never rejected anybody of any color. our notion as i spent to make ourselves available and accessible to all and i would also say while we continue to exist is not to continue to perpetuate any differences or separation but rather it's an opportunity for us to continue to serve our population the same way that i worked at notre dame for many years and i worked at georgetown for many years and they have heritages. they have traditions of serving particular populations