cnn's jean casarez has that. >> the fall from grace of a living american legend 50 years in the making. bill cosby's alleged questionable behavior had gone largely unnoticed for decades, but why does it seem to have hit center stage only now? this round started off, believe it or not, as a joke. back on october 16th, comedian hannibal burress says something that goes viral. >> i have a successful sitcom. that's great, bill cosby. >> later the twitter paged asks him to meme cosby. that begins a flood of allegations from women who say they were sexually assaulted by cosby. many claim they were drugged. the first to come forward publicly, barbara bowman. >> i never saw any drugs, but i would wake up completely confused, half dressed and knowing that my body had been touched the without my permission. >> also speaking out, joan tarshis. >> we went up to his bungalow afterwards. he made me a drink. very shortly after that, i just -- i passed out. i woke up or came to very groggily with him removing my underwear. >> reporter: tarshis says in 1969 she voluntarily saw cosby again when he invit

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cnn's jean casarez looks at how journalists may have failed to cover the scandal over the past years.er: for years, their stories have been out there. >> i didn't really talk about it much. nobody was believing it. >> people did not want to believe our story. >> i finally said, i can't live in fear for the rest of my life. are you boston it has only been in the last month that the stories and the graphic detail have gained traction. cosby's attorneys have denied these allegations. >> and the next thing i remember is being on his couch with him taking my clothes off. >> my next memory is feeling drugged and him having sex with me. >> reporter: what too many so long? turns out the accusers may not have been the only ones reluctant to tell the stories. mark whitaker who used to work for cnn in his 2014 authorized biography of bill cosby doesn't touch the topic. and whitaker didn't bring it up in a recent appearance right here on "cnn tonight," just weeks before the scandal blew wide open. >> he has been a pioneer in so many areas. and "the cosby show" was so big that people forget all th

jean casarez tells us how the bizarre story unfolded it and resulted the son being reunited with hisfter being missing for four years. >> reporter: in jonesboro, georgia, an emotional reu general fo reunion in the making after he was finally reconnected with his mother after police found him hidden in his father's home. >> we opened the compartment where he was and i saw him and asked him to come forward and he was horrified and he retreated away from us until he knew that those people weren't around him. >> reporter: the discovery was made on friday night after police received a tip asking them to check the home. authorities did not find the boy during that first visit and people inside told them they had no information on the child. but during a second search, the boy reportedly was able to contact his mother who told police to look behind a false wall. one of the officers involved opened it up and the reaction once he finally realized he was free. >> he couldn't thank us enough. he just kept saying, thank you, thank you, thank you. just overjoyed that we had found him. >> reporter

jean casarez has details. >> reporter: with camille cosby stepping forward in defense of her husbandaughter is attacking her father's accusers. "there will always be jealous, vengeful and crazy people out there to break anyone down. "his daughter defended his character telling "access hollywood" he is the father you thought you knew. "the cosby show" was my today's tv reality show. thank you, that's all i would like to say." >> the fact that again women are being used again put out front to take the hit for him is very, very disconcerting. >> reporter: camille cosby remains silent even as the number of alleged victims continued to grow. now camille has come out describing the man she met in 1963 and married a year later as a kind man, a generous man, a funny man and a wonderful husband. he is the man you thought you knew. a different man has been portrayed in the media over the last two months. it is the portrait of a man i do not know. camille cosby has a history of defending her husband. when awe sum jackson was convicted of extorting up to $40 million from cosby in 1997, claiming

we'll see. >> jean casarez, thanks as always. >>> u.s.icials now investigating a manufacturer accused of a dangerous defect that led to the largest child seat recall in u.s. history. more than 6 million seats were recalled earlier this greer. graco could face a multimillion-dollar fine if federal officials find the company delayed notifying regulators about faulty seat buckles. rene marsh has more. >> good morning, carol, they could face a $35 million fine. the investigation is into the timeliness of essentially reporting the defects in the harness buckles for certain car seats. federal regulators routinely investigate defects but it's really rare for them to investigate the company's timeliness of reporting the problem. so here's what the problem is. there's a difficulty in unlashing the harness buckle. you're looking at them there. parents complained they've had to in some cases cut their children out of the car seat or remove the entire car seat all together. the question now, did graeco know about the defect sooner but turned a blind

camille cosby has released a statement and cnn's jean casarez joins me now. what does she say? as being a kind and generous and a funny man. she also says this -- a different man has been portrayed in the media over the last two months. it is the portrait of a man i do not know. it is also a portrait painted by individuals who organizations who many in the media have given a pass. there appears to be no vetting of my husband's accusers before stories are published or aired. an accusation is published and immediately goes viral. and anderson, as you know, we are responsible journalists. we do preinterview process. we do a vetting process before anyone goes on our air. >> bill cosby's wife, she compared the allegations against her husband to the "rolling stone" article about rape at uva. right? >> she does. so it's very aware that she is knowledgeable about what is in the news cycle right now, and she talks about that we all followed the story of the alleged gang rape at the university of virginia and the fraternity house. she talks about the story being heartbreaking but ultimat

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erin. >> jean casarez, thank you very much. >>> in front now is eric garner's mother gwen carr. i appreciate you being here. and i know the past day and the past months have been completely exhausting for you and horrible in so many ways. you have had about 24 hours since the grand jury decision. have you been able to make any sense of it, do you accept it? >> i cannot believe that they came back and didn't come back with proorn a -- come back with probable cause to send this case to trial. it was devastating to me. i couldn't even answer a phone call after i heard the decision. and i just wonder, as i've been saying all day and all yesterday, what video were they watching? because obviously it wasn't the one that the whole world was watching. >> which i know is, as his mother, you never chose to watch it in full and certainly i know -- i'm glad you have not. jonathan, we understand now what the district attorney said, first of all, he said, look, i'm committed to a fair, full investigation and that is what he said and gwen talked about the video he never saw and he went through

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my cnn colleague jean casarez joins me with more. this is the first allegation that cosby molested someone so young. tell me where this goes from here. >> reporter: where it goes from here is the complaint has been filed. according to california procedure, you can't just file a complaint. a judge actually has to look at the merit of the case through certificates of the alleged victim and even the defendant and so there has to be, i think, some authenticity to all of this. but it was filed late yesterday in the superior court of los angeles. and her name is in the complaint. judy huth. she says when she was 15 years old in los angeles county, she and her 16-year-old friend went to a park in san marino. and who was there? bill cosby. she met him. he said, let's go to my tennis club. she and her friend did. he then took them to a home, according to the complaint. that's when he began to engage in a game of billiards and told her, the rules of the game are, you drink a beer every time i win the game of billiards. from there, she says the

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jean casarez, cnn, new york. >> all right. thank you very much for that, jean.e bad news for bill cosby. he has a couple of shows coming up at the tarrytown music hall in new york state. shows that were sold out. but so far one in three tickets has been returned for refunds. now i want to bring in tendra seta. he is a professor of marketing at usc and an expert in celebrity branding. also cnn political commentator marc lamont hill. the hits just keep on come. and this one i'm sure you guys saw that emotional interview with janice dickinson we saw a short while ago. datend rah, why do you think it took so long for this story to get this kind of attention? >> you know, don, you're absolutely right. it has been an awful three weeks or so for bill cosby. we've essentially witnessed the disintegration of one of the most loved brands in america, celebrity brands at least. open secrets in hollywood are really not new. you know, we have had them ever since, you know, ever since the industry was born really. it's an industry that is self-proclaimed to be built on smoke a

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jean casarez, cnn, new york. >> jean, thank you very much.nd at the premiere last night of the blockbuster movie "selma" oprah winfrey talked to me about the enormous hack of cnn pictures e-mails and what she has to say may surprise you. here it is. >> i have to ask you, as a producer in hollywood, you hear what's coming out with sony and all of that. what do you have to say about diversity? hollywood? >> what i have to say is i would hope that we would not stand in judgment, in such harsh judgment of a moment in time where somebody was hacked and their private conversations were put before the world. because if we were to look at your computer and everybody else's computer, i try to write everything as though it's going to show up in the "new york times." but there are things that you say in your private conversations with your friends and with your colleagues that you would not want to be broadcast on cnn. so i don't know really the context of, you know, what all those e-mails are. i have had things taken out of context that i said, and i k

jean casarez, appreciate it.ng in bob huber, one of the first journalists to report on the allegations against cosby. in 2006 robert huber penned the article, dr. huxtable and mr hyde. for "philadelphia" magazine. bob, thanks so much for being with us. we've been saying so many of us associate bill cosby directly with temple. are you surprised by this split tonight? >> well, i'm not surprised at all by the split. you could see it coming, but on the way in tonight, i was thinking about it and just feeling really sad because, in a sense, with this split it feels like bill cosby is leaving philadelphia. as you said in the lead-up, he was so connected to temple and so involved and would pop up at temple events and so forth and, of course, was part of the board for so long, this is kind of the end of bill cosby in philadelphia at least in a public way? that's a pretty sad thing. >> so you wrote a profile -- >> i think the answer is probably yes. >> it does seem like he's parting ways with temple here, the ties to the

jean casarez joins us with more on the resignation from the temple board of trustees.learning? >> when you think of temple university, your second thought is bill cosby because he's so associated with this university. as you said, he got an undergraduate degree, he got an honorary degree. he attends their games. he raises money for them. well, we want to show everybody the statement that came out late today. first of all, the statement from william h. cosby jr., and it reads, i have always been proud of my association with temple university. i have always wanted to do what would be in the best interests of the university and its students. as a result, i have tendered my resignation from the temple university board of trustees. and then the response from the university very simply, one sentence. they say the board of trustees seps d accepts dr. cosby's resignation from the board and thanks him for his service to the university. john, what is missing in this is really the elephant in the room, right? the why. he says this is in the best interests of the students an the u

jean casarez joins us with more.'s a fundamental distinction, both legally and practically. >> good morning, let's start with the facts here according to the complaint. complaint was filed yesterday. late at superior court in los angeles, california. 1974, that's 40 years ago. the alleged victim right now is 55 years old. her name is judy huff, she is alleging sexual battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and anything jegt infliction of emotional distress. she was 15 years old and she and her 16-year-old friend were at a park in san marino, california and who was there? bill cosby, he was filming a movie. they went up to meet him. he said how about next saturday you come to my tennis club. she says they went. he took them to a house where billiards were played and he forced her, according to the complaint to drink one beer every time he won a game of billiards. from there he said i've got a surprise for you. he allegedly took them to the "playboy" mansion. she says at that point she had to go to the ba