mr. piazza would still be alive.r charges. >> they make you drink a lot of vodka in a short amount of time and the idea is, "he's okay." "he will sleep it off." >> he fell down the stairs. >> not only did they try to have people not call 911, theyn found text messages trying to lie about it. people are going to go to prison. this is obviously a horrible situation and no one should diee when they try to join a fraternity. fraternities do have positive impacts on campus life, socially. they do volunteer work, networking and fundraising. they do have to look in the mirror and when things this happen. these things should never happen. i feel terrible. >> the liability of the university as well. >> dana, he died of traumatic brain injuries. the parents now saying we don't want this to happen to other young people. it happens with some regularity. >> they are very brave and courageous. there are 18 men who could have made different choices. they chose to join the united states military, instead of doing this, what they are

mr. piazza was the exception, not the expectation. ttorney did not respond to our requests for comment. in the days after piazza's death, prosecutors say text messages between uncharged pledges acknowledge they participated in a hazing ritual. one pledge writes the gantlet, dude. it's like technically hazing. a second responds, like, if you think about it, it never would have happened if they didn't forcefully get us hammered. that's just how people will look at it. a third pledge asks later on, how will you describe the gauntlet to police? a fourth responds. i am just hoping we don't have to. >> a fll it would have taken iso have one person stand up and have the courage to do the right thing. >> reporter: the eight fraternity brothers being arraigned today are looking at lesser charges. evidence tampering. reckless endangerment. the others are facing more serious charges, they were arraigned on friday. they are looking at invol intun manslaughter and assault. the assault could get a maximum sentence of 10 to 20 years. >> disturbing st

mr. piazza's ultimate death is abseptemb absent. what happened to mr. piazza, was the exception. messages between uncharged pledges acknowledge they participated in a hazing ritual. one pledge writes, the gauntlet, dude, it's technically hazing. a second responds, like, if you think about it, it never would have happened if they didn't forcefully get us hammered. that's how people will look at it. a third pledge asks, how are you going to describe the gauntlet to police? a fourth responds, i'm just hoping we don't have to. >> the fraternity psychology is about taking orders. it's about knowing when not to challenge power. all it would have taken is one person to stand up and have the courage to do the right thing. >> reporter: the eight in court today face lesser charges in reckless enendangerment. aggravated assault carries a maximum sentence of 10 to 20 years. >> stephanie, thank you very much. >>> switching gears now. the weather, mr. roker. >> our weather isn't changing much across the country. it's starting to break down. we have one more day of cool temperatures for the nor

mr. piazza was the exception, not the expectations. they did not respond to our question for comment. messages between uncharged pledges acknowledge they participated in a hazing ritual. one pledge writes the gauntlet, it's technically hazing. a second responds if you think about it it never would have happened if they didn't forcefully get us hammered. that's just how people will look at it. later a third pledge asks how are you guys going to describe the gauntlet to police. a fourth responds i hope we don't have to. >> the from teaternity is about taking orders. one person had to stand thing. >> the eight in court today face lesser charges of tampering with evidence. eight of the 18 are looking at aggravated assault and involuntary manslaughter. aggravated assault has a maximum sentence of 10 to 20 years. >>> a look at the weather now. >> that's right. we've been talking about this omega block. it's starting to break down. we have one more day of cool temperatures for the northeast. above average highs for the plains. here in the northeast today new york city going to be about 8 deg

i want to mention, we're doing the interview with mrs. piazzatalking about her son on mother's day, it was yesterday. so it was incredibly difficult. they were incredibly strong to do it. in our next half hour they'll open up about what punishment they think the boys charged in this case should face and they're going to tell you what we should tell our own children about that. >> heart wrenching. >> underscoring that penn state -- nobody showed up, that was just one more thing. >> heartless. >> we look forward to that part of the interview, we want to switch ears, not easy to do but we have to get to our weather report. >> we have severe weather in the plains stretching from minnesota down to as hail, upper midwest may see a few tornados and tomorrow we up the number to nine million from minneapolis to san angelo. we'll watch the system push out from the plains into the midwest. a second round moves in tuesday and then again into wednesday. that's what's going on around the country, here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> good mond

mr. as we finally hear the 911 call in the case. court documents show timothy piazza fell several times eventually landing face first in a stairwell before the fraternity called 911. in the call, fraternity member, ryan mccann calmly tells the operator his friend is unconscious, but makes no mention of him falling. >> was he breathing? >> he is breathing.cohol involv? >> yes there is. >> we'll get somebody over and leltd t us know. all told. 18 fraternity members face 200 counts some involuntary manslaughter and assault. piazza died at the hospital of traumatic brain injury. doctors estimate he consumed a life threatening amount of alcohol. >> new round of severe storms its building in the west. triggering tornado warnings overnight in new mexico. look at the radar. you can see, those storms, that dumped hail and snow over southern california, now moving into the central u.s. severe thunderstorm watch issued for the colorado plains, with the threat of very large hail, damaging winds, and even tornados. this was the scene in denver. coors field. forcing rock yaez to po

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