so, when you moved to maryville, what was it like? >> maryville was great. we were anonymous.resh, we didn't have to be the tragic family. we were just us. >> reporter: but that fresh start and anonymity would soon end so bitterly. trouble began harmlessly enough on a frigid january evening. a sleepover with her friend paige who was in the eighth grade. >> she just came over, we started watching scary movies. >> reporter: they also started drinking. daisy says it was one of the first times she and 13-year-old paige had consumed alcohol. >> i was in high school and everyone was already doing it. so i was like "oh, i might as well try this." >> reporter: weeks before, daisy had already begun texting with a high school senior. a tall and broad-shouldered defensive end named matthew barnett. he was in the cool crowd of athletes along with her oldest brother charlie. here they are together at the prom. but charlie wasn't exactly pleased with all that flirty texting. >> i told him, i was like, "stop texting my sister." >> reporter: you told him to stop texting? >> yeah. and i told h

maybe boyd, dickerson, you see some of that action back to maryville, and charlestown, and harper's ferry, and to warrenton. and still, a little flurry or snow shower for culpeper. so this will be coming across in the next few hours, and likely to see more sun. we're seeing behind the flurries and snow showers, the winds picking up. not bad here, the gusts are just 11 and 12, the winds, instead of being more south and southwest, going westerly, so slight wind shift as the colder air, slightly colder air, returns for tonight and tomorrow. currently, we're still below zero in the mountains, 5 above in oain dc, 30 in orange, it's 25 across the bay, and upper teens for frederick to west minister. still holding well below freezing. and the windchills in the upper single digits. so it's all relative, but it does feel better. you see the hazy sunshine. we're dealing with in dc. 25 degrees, southwest wind at 6. feels like 18, that wind will turn more west/northwest, and pick up player as the upper air feature pushes through. and this is the main jet south of us. when that happens, we stay cold an

we'll have much more on the toll it's taken on daisy coleman, on her family and the town of maryville"20/20." >> thanks. ryan smith has more on this. you know, so much outrage and so much attention paid to the case, special prosecutor appointed. in the end misdemeanor? >> right. that's it. that goes to show you the role of the prosecutor in cases like this, whether it's a local county prosecutor or the attorney general of the united states, you can only bring a case and charges when you can prove the elms of that crime and this prosecutor talked about how there was insufficient evidence to prove a case of sexual assault. >> dig into that a little bit more, the girl is drunk to the point of unconsciousness, just 14 years old. that's not enough? >> no, because this is what i would call a legal catch-22. she's given this alcohol she claims by this young man. she becomes inebriated, blacks out. for the prosecutor trying to prove the case she doesn't have enough evidence and information from the girl about what happened and makes it hard to prove the case. >> daisy and her mom do seem to b

head injuries a day earlier schumacher had been skiing with his son in the french alps result of maryville seen kieran file footage. schumacher was skiing golf pieced in deep snow if we fail and keep his head on a roll. he was wearing a helmet but that wasn't enough to fully protect him from the impact delta said he had suffered severe brain trauma. it is one book going at first he was conscious but he couldn't answer questions get uncontrolled reactions and was unresponsive. the main entries to the right side of the scale. ethan and his will known. there was a massive al pouring of support from friends of friends and colleagues will which is also a gathered outside the hospital in grenoble later in the week on she met his forty fifth birthday friends held a silent vigil for their heroes. a suicide bombing brought the russian city of boca grande early monday morning. at least eighteen people were killed and as a seventeen mo injured when a suicide bomber blew up a crowded house. it was the second such attack in boca grande within twenty four hours. russian authorities believe is the mist m

said she was not only cyber bullied after going to police, but her family was run out of town of maryville, missouri. the prosecutor moments ago said that coleman and her mother accept the plea deal that just happened today. the accused rapist pleaded guilt tow a misdemeanor charge of child endangerment and coleman is 14 at the time outside of her home, drunk in some 20 degree weather. barnett will do community service and has to apologize to coleman. he had no comment outside the court. >> matthew barnett accepts full responsibility for the conduct and we are pleased that the court accepted his misdemeanor plea and the agreement of the parties. could be clear, the charge to which he plead guilty reflects the conduct for which he should be held accountable. two highly skilled prosecutors from two jurisdictions have independently concluded that felony charges are not appropriate in this matter. further there is absolutely no evidence that political favoritism played a role in the decision. there were no sex charges. as a prosecutor, i tell you i stand here by my oath always. my job is to an

daisy and her family were run out of maryville, a stark example, they say, of victim blaming. online anonymous picked up the cause and the social media frenzy helped reopen the case led by a new special prosecutor. daisy's cousin said the review of the case brought her hope. >> i know she's been so much happier just in the past week knowing that people really believe her and are supporting her. >> reporter: daisy said she was r ready to move forward in the new case. >> are you feeling now better about yourself? more ready to fight this? are you ready to testify and are you ready for what this will mean? >> i have developed a lot thicker of a skin, so i do believe i am ready. >> reporter: that was last fall. last week friends posted these gruesome images on a facebook page saying they came from the second young victim. someone broke into her parent's car and left behind mutilated rabbits. page has said her recovery has been a struggle. >> i had started having a lot of night terrors, nightmares. >> reporter: the special prosecutor says a final report in the girl's case is nearly

this is a live look at maryville, indiana, outside of chicago. it's under a winter storm warning right now. not just for heavy snowfall, but also for extreme cold. our sister station in chicago says tomorrow won't get any warmer than 9 degrees below zero. lot of negative numbers. >> and yesterday on my twitter feed, a lot of friends in chicago visiting had their flight canceled. they can't get out already. >> tough going. >> one of my girlfriends says the weather out there in chicago, at our sister station, you can't ever complain about going on the weather deck, okay? think about what she's dealing with. >> really cold stuff for them. the real issue for a lot of this is once the temperatures get below 5 or 10 degrees above zero, even the chemicals that you use to treat the roads don't become effective at that low temperatures. iciness not only becomes a problem but a lingering problem if they can't even clean up. we may be facing our own dangerously low windchills around here as we get toward monday night and especially tuesday morning. you need

daisy and her family were run out of maryville, a stark example, they say, of victim blaming.pecial prosecutor jean baker was appointed to re-examine the case, who said the justice system worked. >> my job is to analyze evidence. in this case, there was insufficient evidence to go forward on a sexual assault. >> daisy's mother tells cnn she expected this outcome from a prosecutor, saying considering all the evidence that had been lost, destroyeded, tampered with or returns, there wasn't a lot she could do. >> today, i am grateful that the defendant took responsibility by pleading guilty to the charges. i am ready to move forward. >> it has been difficult for daisy to move on though. over the weekend, this last weekend, her mother says that her daughter tried to take her on life after being bullied on facebook. her mother says that instead of coming to the courthouse, she chose to stay by her daughter's bedside. daisy's mother saying she felt the prosecutor did the best she could, but maintains political power was at play here in the original investigation. >>> the consumer ele

an allegation that divided the small martinez town of maryville and triggered outrage far beyond itsr child endangerment for what he says was consensual sex with then 14-year-old coleman before dropping her off barefoot and outside her house on a cold winter night. >> our analysis was after a long trial and after very possibly further dividing a community we were going to end up with a misdemeanor conviction of what we have right now. >> reporter: in a statement, coleman says she's grateful barnette took responsibility and that the incident will not define her. barnette's whose four-month jail sentence was suspended, was initially charged with sexual assault, but the prosecutor dropped the case. >> mr. barnette truly regrets the actions to which he has pled guilty. he'll now focus on fulfilling the terms of his plea agreement. >> the colemans eventually moved after what they say was persistent bullying. ron mott, nbc news, chicago. >>> a massive chain reaction crash near boise, idaho, sent ten people to the hospital. state troopers blamed fog and icy roads for the pile-up thursday th