the family of joe paterno turns the tables and the new lawsuit coming out today. >> new this morning the company that makes the popular apple gadgets has new competition. >> new video shows torrential rains in texas >> covering fremont, palo alto, not bay and all the bay area this is abc7 news. >> good morning, on this thursday. well look at the camera looking down on the city, a gorgeous shot. a few low clouds. it will be lovely. and warmer. grab a jacket for right now. mike nicco will explain in a couple of minutes. >> the family of late penn state football coach joe paterno will join former players and coaches and university officials in suing the ncaa to get the sanctions against penn state overturned. they slapped the university with a $60 million fine and a four year ban from bowl games as punishment for the sandusky child abuse scandal, the follow assistant coach now serving a 30 to 60 year prison term for child molestation. >> apple appears to rely on a something for mobile devices, for years they is come from china, a taiwan company, a troubled company, and this is video of

is how to jump on these people and demonize them and all the rest of it and for some people like joe paterno and oscar pistorius they deserve to be jumped on and criticized and all the rest of it but the fact that they were built up so high in the first place should give us pause. also gives us stories like manti t teo. was his crime? making of a girlfriend because he was a devout mormon who didn't want to tell his teammates he had never met her before and his price for that since then looks like not only will cause to millions of dollars in terms of getting drafted but he has to endorse a series of interviews with nfl executives asking the question are you gay? d like girls? which is illegal for them to ask but is apparently what they are asking on interviews which does reveal recodified sanctified homophobia in the national football league and he hasn't held himself because when he was interviewed by katie couric she asks are you gay and to me there are only four answers to that question. yes, no, none of your business, or on weekends. that to me is of good way to answer is that. his respo

the family of joe paterno will sue over landmarks against the were also banned from playing in bowl games due to its inability to address sexual abuse allegations. the lawsuit claims they rushed to judgment and skipped to due process. the family wants to over turn the process and they could plead guilty as soon as next week. am his client took a plea deal in order to consider a massacre. if he is accused he will face life in prison. >>> the brother of fowler pled not guilty in connection with the death of his sister. the boy spoke only once when asked if he waved his right to a speedy trial. this they still have a lot of stuff available. >> we know there is 14,000 hours involved in this case. >> he is accused of stabbing his sister 21 times and the boy was a loan and blamed the stabbing on an inn truther. >>> the vietnam memorial blackened things. it was stolen from last january. they replaced it with a he can similar design. >>> a group of high school students are leaving for a trip to italy and it almost didn't happen. since then they have been working to set up a 17 day tour. the cost

. >>> on costas tonight, the attorney for penn state's late football coach joe paterno saying they are filing a lawsuit against the ncaa. it seeks damages for the freeh report on the former assistant coach jerry sandusky. >>> summer job hunting? lebron james wants applications for his website internship. qualifications, you have to work well on the team, speak spanish and live in ohio, south florida, or new york. >>> forget match.com. that's what quincy pon dexter is saying. he starts "who won miss tennessee this year"? lawson tweets back, hi, heard you were looking for me. he says, totally single? she said, you got it. an audience waiting after all that. >>> 20 minutes pass in this struggle. the field gets sowet they postpoen that game. >>> then the french open. his dad says, why don't you help me out? here's a bag here. almost bigger than he is. that didn't stop him from giving some john hancocks on the way out. >> announcer: "early today" is brought to by just for men. keep your edge. >>> just ahead, kate upton fires back at victoria's secret and david beckham shows his softer side.

. >>> and the family of joe paterno tries to clear the name of the late football coach. who the family blames for some of the troubles at penn state. >>> u.s. lawmakers on a mission in russia. the questions they are asking about the suspects in the boston marathon bombings. ♪ (alarm clock buzzer) ♪ (announcer) friskies. now serving breakfast. >>> new this morning, a man charged with killing a british soldier in a suspected terrorist attack is due in a london courtroom today. last night scotland yard charged 22-year-old michael adaybreak wally -- adabawali with murder. police arrested him and arrested a second suspect at the scene. rigby's death was the first suspected terrorist attack on british soil since the london subway bombings in july of 2005. >>> the u.s. soldier accused of killing 16 afghan villagers could plead guilty. a staff sergeant says his client took the plea deal in order to avoid the death penalty. last year's massacre is considered to be one of the worst war crimes in the war in afghanistan. if approved, he will face a life in prison sentence. >>> a con

on "costas tonight" the attorney for penn state's late football coach joe paterno says they are filingit against the ncaa. >>> summer job hunting? lebron james wants applications for his website internship. qualifications? work well on a team, speak spanish or live in ohio, south florida or new york. >>> and a tweet for a date for pondexter. she responds back by saying hi, you were looking for me? he goes oh, totally single? ditto. date? she responds we've got an audience waiting apparently. >> the french open, michael laudrup wins his match and his son there to congratulate him. while he is there, he says can you give me a hand? cute. that didn't stop him from giving his john hancock. >> thank you very much, richard. >>> time to dig deeper in our top politcal stories. joining me now is syndicated columnist problem franken. attorney general eric holder later today will be meeting with several major news organizations to talk about the leak investigation. why is he doing this? what can we expect from the meeting? >> he's probably doing it because of all the bad publicity. some major new

we hold joe paterno to a higher standard.of it. now we hear something that would have creeped us out that happened in 2001. whether or not there was a rape that took place, he is showering with a boy after hours in a university building. if you knew only those two things about a person, wouldn't you disassociate yourself from that person? wouldn't you say i run this football program. he doesn't have an office here anymore. he doesn't have premium football tickets anymore. >> he was on the sidelines with the boys which for me, how could paterno not look down the sidelines and see sandusky and put those things together? it is all conjecture. you wonder how -- >> could he have known everything in the grand jury report? that is not realistic. did he know the full extent of sandusky's on going activities? i don't think so. those things would have set off alarm bells for most of us to say jerry sandusky no longer sets foot on our property and no longer can use any of the prestige of penn state in connection with his own name. >> ba

the family of late penn state football coach joe paterno taking action against the nac -- ncaa filing a lawsuit hoping to overturn sanctions handed down to the university over the jerry sandusky sex abuse scandal. the sanctions base on a report by former fbi director include a four year bowl ban, $60 million fine and scholarship reductions and vacated 111 wins from paterno's record. >> the giants and a's wrapped up the bay bridge series this afternoon. giants trying to avoid being swept by rivals. giants down 1-0. two run score. giants going ahead 2-1. later in the sixth, one goes to the gap in left center. sandoval score z sharks cleaning out their lockers today starting summer vacations earlier than hoped. sharks lost in game seven of the playoff series with kings on tuesday night. team teal has got big decisions to make. does management keep this core group together after making playoffs? or major trades trying to shake things up in an attempt to achieve the ultimate goal? still ahead at 4:00 a mermaid mockumentary. the film that fooled people into believing mermaids exist. >> firs

cause a lot of problems because some of the people who have been godded up over the years include joe paterno, lance armstrong, oscar pistorius. and there's no journalism that says who really are these people? how did they amass this power, this following? instead, you don't know where the sports journalist ends and where the sort of corporate pr release begins. and you can see great evidence of this just down the road in beaverton, oregon, at the nike facility. i think we could possibly take a moment to pity the poor people at nike or not, but we could, because in the last year they've had to change the name of their lance armstrong fitness facility, they've had to change the name of their joe paterno child care center -- [laughter] >> that's true. and they've also had to take down from their web site their oscar pistorius commercial which, if you know about it, was oscar pistorius looking at the camera saying i am the bullet in the gun, and then him bursting forward. and this is the problem, though, it's like you build people up without any sort of regard for who they are politically, who t

the late joe paterno family, several members of the penn state or trusties, faculty, for players and coaches are behind a lawsuit. in july the ncaa announced sanctions against the university. they included a $60 million fine, as well as the four year ban from bowl games spirit pennsylvania gov. tom corbett already filed an antitrust lawsuit in january against the n.c.a.a.. he claims it's punishment for the university are overreaching and unlawful. >> the florida chapter of the council of american islamic relations is calling for an investigation into the shooting death of a man who knew one of the boston marathon bombings suspect. ibragim todashev was shot at his home in orlando last week while he was being questioned by the fbi about his relationship with tamerlan tsarnaev . reports now surfacing says todashev was on unarmed when he was shot. meanwhile, his widow is speaking out. she says her husband and tsarnaev were only acquaintances. >> the council was know if excessive force was used or whether todashevs rights were violated. the medical examiner has ruled the death a homicide.

the board of trustees to explain why they made their anguished decision to replace this great man joe paterno who made a wrong choice and in his own words words, should have done more. had to do that and the story of how i got it done in a little conference room with the board of trustees working to "new york times" reporters not a dry eye in the ram and they got the story out to about the difficulty of their decision that was probably the toughest thing i ever had to do. >> we have time for one more question. >> actually she just asked my question so i will ask a variation. water some of the other crisis tales? you mentioned one mantra are there other things? what was the audience what can the average reader learn from it? and i know that involves as a brian lamb question. how do you write, organized a workroom in your house dedicated? you're doing a lot of other things. how to right the second of two books? at the kitchen table with may 8 and 14 year-old driving me crazy. [laughter] and my favorite chapter in the book is the one that i enjoy a rising is narrative to tell good stories it is

. >> the family of the late coach joe paterno will join former coaches and players in viewing the ncaa after being slapped with $630 million fine and a four year ban from games as punishment for the child abuse scandal. sandusky is serving a 30 to 60 year prison sentence for child molestation. state officials called the sanctions overreaching and unlawful. >> facebook has a new feature to make it easier to fine the official pages of celebrities and prominent people they want to follow. it is called "verify pages." this is an example, a blue circle icon with white check mark in the middle next to her name so this is her official account, and this is designed to make it easier for user to distinguish between official pages and imposters and it is on twitter, as well, with that little icon. taking a page from twitter's playbook. >> wendy's could be getting close to unveiling a game-changing menu item. here is the bloomberg business report. >> get fraud more corporate wellness programs, the department of health and plume services is giving businesses the thumb's up to make employee who do

. >>> today, joe paterno's family and others will file a lawsuit seeking to overturn the ncaa sanctionst the football program. the program was hit with a four-year bowl ban and scholarship cuts for the jerry sandusky child sex abuse scandal. the family of the late penn state coach will post the complaint on paterno.com once it is filed. he died in january of 2012. his family insists the coach did not take part in a coverup of that scandal. >>> president obama expected to nominate ben comey. it's not clear when the president will formally announce that nomination. >>> oprah winfrey will be the featured speaker at harvard university's commencement today. winfrey was invited because her rise to prominence is one of the great american success stories. >> that will be interesting to hear. she always has inspirational talks for students as well. >> and amazing presence. >> students looking toward their future. >>> a well-known company moves its base away from the bay area. how many local drives are about to be cut.pi >>> plus driving your electric car from coast to coast, new details how acc

the plaintiff includes the family of the late head coach joe paterno. >>> illegal immigrants may soondrive legally here in the state of california. state assembly passing a bill yesterday that would allow people to use a birth certificate, utility bill or even a lease agreement instead of a social security number. in passed, nearly 2 million illegal immigrants will be eligible to get a license. >> people driving, people need to work, people need go to the hospitals and everything, everyday life. >> just going to put a lot of people on the street that aren't financially ready to have a license and when i say not financially ready, i'm saying they are not going to have insurance. >> some lawmakers say giving undocumented immigrants driver's licenses will bring insurance rates down for everyone and may make the roads safer. it now goes to the senate. now they can get licenses in washington state, new mexico, illinois and colorado. >>> 5:39. coming up, nasdaq pays up big time for the botched facebook ipo. >> plus amazing video of floodwaters crashing through a college campus. the damage a

the plaintiffs include the family of the late head coach joe paterno >>> illegal immigrants are a stepto getting california drivers licenses. the state assembly passed a bill yesterday that would allow people to use a birth certificate, utility bill or lease as identification instead of a social security number. the measure could make two million illegal immigrants eligible to get a license. >> people driving, people need working people need to go to the hospital and everything. it's everyday life. >> it's going to put a lot of people on the street that aren't financially ready to have a license. when i say not financially ready, i'm saying they are not going to have insurance. >> some lawmakers say giving undocumented workers driver's licenses will bring down insurance rates for everyone and will make the roads safer. the bill goes to the state senate. >>> inside the actors studio. james lipton one of your favorites reveals his secret past profession. it may surprise you. >> it may. plus, get ready to sweat by prancing. this may surprise you, too. the failed '80s exercise craze that h

. >>> the family of joe paterno files suit against the ncaa.ion violated its own rules by handing out penalties following the jerry sandusky child sex abuse case. the attorneys for the families say the penalties were based on an fbi report and not an independent investigation. fellow plaintiffs include several current and former university employees and form he football players as well. lawyers want the sanctions against penn state reversed including that four-year ban on bowl games and the voiding of all football victories from 1998 until 2011. >>> the former cia dregor david petraeus has a new job in private equity. they have pointed him chairman of the institute. he left after having an extra-marital affair. >>> and jon bon jovi and his band are waving a performance fee for an upcoming concert in spain. the singer tell spanish newspaper that it is a gesture to their spanish fans that have been hit especially hard by the country's severe economic crisis. the paper writes that bon jovi thought about not performing in spain at all but didn't wa

a new development as well from the jerry jerry sandusky scandal and the late coach, joe paterno will. he was fined $60 million and lost from paying their bowl games for four years due to his unable to -- inability to address abuse his family wants to overturn the sanctions and ask for money which they would donate to charity. >>> silicone schools are bridging the achievement gap. 20% of latino students in san mateo and santa clara counties qualify for state universities and 22% of axe students are -- african-american students qualify and that's compared to but he recognized that latino students improved and he said other schools should follow their lead. >> and again they hosted first comment and the group imagine dragons will be the first to perform at the venue and it will be followed by sting on sunday. and at the america's cup races run from july through september and the acoustic curtain has been cut down. >>> the palo alto based company plans on tripling the number of stations next month. they would allow them to drive coast to coast without worrying where to drive them but rig

. >>> the family of the late penn state coach joe paterno is going to sue the ncaa due to the jerry sandusky abuse scandal. they will be party to this lawsuit which is expected to be filed today. it should be noted penn state says it will not be party to any suit against the ncaa filed by the paternos. >>> the sheriff's department in virginia standing by the use of deadly force by two of its deputies at a costco store. employees called police after a woman contractor who was serving pizza slices started acting strangely when she refused to put down a knife she was holding, they tased her but she kept coming at them, they say. at least four shots were fired then if woman 28-year-old scott died. one of the deputies was treated for injuries that may have come from a ricochetting bullet. >>> now the michael jackson trial. stunning new piece of evidence could help determine the outcome of the jackson family's wrongful death suit against concert promoter aeg live. it'sen aerks mail from aeg live's co-chairman barning that michael jackson's personal physician had to get the king of pop in shape to

. >>> the fight over joe paterno's legacy is suing the governing body ncaa. molestation allegations against paterno's one-time assistant coach, jerry sandusky. >>> you may still have to go through a body scanner at the airport but it won't be the kind critics complain is so revealing it amounts to a virtual strip search. it removed all 250 of the more revealing kind of scanners. there are hundreds of scanners still in use. but they have a different technology. wolf? >> good to know. thank you, mary for that. >>> an american woman jailed in mexico, tells cnn how she thinks she was framed. stand by for her exclusive interview about the drug charges and her ordeal, and her husband also is speaking out right now as well. >>> a disturbing new edition of al qaeda's online magazine focusing on the boston marathon bombings. [ male announcer ] need help keeping your digestive balance in sync? try align. it's the number one ge recommended probiotic c" that helps maintain digestive balance. ♪ stay in the groove with align. ♪ need help keeping your digestive balance in s

it crossed a median and then phey looking into whether severhunde a state footba coach joe paterno ande ncaa today. they want sanctioned and pes t ncaa imposed on penn state overturned. those sanctions followed the jerry sandusky child sex abuse case. among those sanctions are four-year bowl ban, deep scholarship reduction, and $60,000 fine. paterno's family says any proceeds that are won from the suit will be donated to charity. mexico on drug smuggling sted charges is dlieclaring her innocence. after appearin in court, the oher seven said she was ock hen mexican military feet an tossed her in jail. abc's lana zach has the latest. >> reporter: these were pictures of happier times for yanira maldonado and her husband gary, a beautiful mormon family joining their two famlies >> i need to be out. >> reporter: in a mexican court, yanira is accused of drug smuggling. impossible, says her family, bringing gifts and photos from home. >> she cried a little bit yesterday when cindy would show pictures on our phone. she'd do a little crying. give the phone a kiss when her pictures were there. >