he apologized for not doing more about ray rice. nfl responded by revamping its player conduct policy and adding staff to handle discipline issues. safety on the field has been a priority. if -- efforts have been made to compensate former players. i spoke with roger goodell at the nfl office in manhattan. you have the job that you always wanted. you have a job that many people consider the best job in the world. especially if they are football fans. but it has been a tough year since july. what have you learned for yourself? for this league that is important for all of us to know? roger: it has been a tough year in many ways. we responded in a very positive way. the changes we have made for the personal conduct policy personnel that are around us that help us make it or decisions. and also, to get away from a complete reliance on law enforcement specifically to domestic violence issues, sexual assault issues. charlie: meaning initiate your own investigations? roger: not only initiating but carrying it through. not in conflict with t

the whole ray rice issue was a microcosm of what's wrong with the nfl.y are completely disconnected from the consequences of this sport they are engaged in. they are socializing young men into a culture of violence. is it at all surprising that you see the kind of corollary social damage surrounding players that we see? not at all surprising. they are off on this 19th century trajectory. it is fundamentally out of touch with the rest of us. emily: your friend and podcast partner bill simmons called be commissioner of the nfl a liar. espn suspended him. was that the right decision? malcolm: it was totally the wrong decision. if a sports columnist in a podcast can't exercise free speech. calling him a liar is not like it came out of nowhere. one reasonable conclusion from the whole ray rice saga is that the commissioner of the nfl knew about the existence of the videotape and was lying about it. i'm not saying that is what he did but it's a reasonable conclusion. i thought that in the course of expressing their opinions, sports columnists are allowed to dr

you know who else wasn't on the clock, ray rice when he punched out his fiancee in an elevator. o.j. wasn't on the clock. the late marge shot who owned the cincinnati reds, she get suspended for using the n-word. she wasn't on the clock either. if you're in the public eye and in journalism have a responsibility to conduct themselves have been when they're ticked off and we've all lost our temper, in some private situation. >> howie, those are all excellent examples. you brought illegal, ray rice, brought up marge shot that was a racial slur, ethnic slurs when it came to donald sterling. you can go on and on. racial, ethnic slurs is you're gone. that's it. if you do something illegal, yes, you're gone, that's it. but if one person is mean to another person, and we don't know whether both sides are being mean to each other, does that go into a gray area that i don't know if we want to go into. your personal life is your personal life. and if you're being mean to somebody we don't know whether she was provoked, is my bottom line. >> i don't think britt mchenry should lose her job o

and you have to reach harder so how did you handle this idea of people who thought that tape of ray rice had to be somehow -- maybe you have seen it even though you say you haven't -- somebody else had seen it. maybe they hadn't. maybe it was lying around. at that time, there were a lot of people who said there is no way that the nfl would not have had its hands on that tape. >> well, charlie i think the best way of doing sit getting somebody whose integrity was unquestioned, that was independent, and give them full ability to look into anything they wanted to look into. phone records, texts mails anything that could have helped them determine whether that was the case. and what they found was we didn't hesitate we didn't see the tape, either one of those issues and so that was something we needed to be able to go through to make sure that our clubs knew that that wasn't the case, they knew our general public knew that wasn't the case. and i believe director muller did that in a way that is beyond reproach. >> rose: and his conclusion was there was no tape here? >> well the conclusion is

especially in the wake of the ray rice and adrian peterson cases.for the first time according to reports it appears that the nfl will have a female referee. her name is sarah thomas. she has 20 years of experience, including nfl preseason games and college games. the nfl is expected to make that announcement sometime next week. >> that is so cool. she's so tiny. she's going to be amongst all those football players good for her. >>> now turning to the box office. "furious 7," did you make it to the movies this weekend? it won big at the box office. the latest installment of the "fast and furious" franchise speeding across the finish line its opening weekend with a whopping $143.6 million in ticket sales across the u.s. that is a franchise best. the movie unseated previous april recordholder "captain america: the winter soldier," which brought in $5 million last year. "furious 7" is dedicated to actor paul walker who died in a car accident while the film was being made in 2013. >>> california's governor ordering mandatory water restrictions as the sta

. >> you know it's bad when ray rice is your voice of nonviolent reason. he's not a leader.ek cowering mouse crumbling under the weight of political correctness. they add voe indicated their authority to preserve their own power. they don't have the guts. eric? >> so they should not worry about what the president uses the word thug or we use the word thug. it really doesn't matter. the "n" word doesn't matter. 66% of african-american kids are growing up without a father in the household. that is what they should be talking about rather than -- >> i was going to say, they have this -- if i was press secretary, cross the line from protester into what? what can you say? and maybe we need a new word if you could come up with one or something. >> kimberly? >> i really like -- i haven't been in love with ray lewis in the past but i like what he had to say. he took stance and tried to reach young people and said don't do this. they are only hurting themselves. you can see the frustration and passion in his voice. all they've done is cut more funding to schools, to other things beca

. >> philadelphia saw ray rice the, and our brother gone on went to north philly where many residentsver forget what happened. >> i believe in my community that's why i am here. sixty-seven year old harold mccoy, life-long philadelphia and, whose auto repair shop sits near 23rd and cecil b. moore, former columbia avenue. ground zero for the race riots that tore his community apart 51 summers ago. >> after the riot, everything changed. we had nothing in the community but blight, anger frustration and it was a horrible time. >> more than 300 people were injured, and twice that number arrested, in three days of have i lens, and looting over accusations of police brutality. more than 200 stores in what had been bustling commercial district were damaged or destroyed. mccoy 17 years old that fateful summer of 64. >> people who owned the stores, who brought businesses to our community who provided us with needs and wants they left. they left empty buildings, never to return. >> nighted recall in the baltimore riot, high school age vandals philadelphia's mayor blasted their behavior, suggeste

ray rice was suspended for the season after knocking his fiance'.ey let you do whatever you want. and in at least one incident mayweather's girlfriend was taken out on estate cher. mayweather has gotten everything away with but murder so far because the sport is dirty. but saturday night too many people won't care when he fights pacquiao. would not pay me a penny to watch the fight and i hope others won't support a woman beater eat. i'm howard eskin and i've really had it. ♪ >>> have you had it with howard? go ahead unload on him. we want to know. record a video post it to facebook on twitter or instagram and use the #fox29weekend. ♪ >>> straight ahead at six workers rush from a building, two of them flown to the hospital. tonight questions about the chemical that created a very dangerous situation. >>> plus the local man who put his live on the line fighting for our country on the battlefield. now, decades later he's not able to get the benefits he was counting on. how this happened and what he's doing about it. >> fox 29 news in hd brought to you

the power of video is so strong we know that from ray rice and this and politics you've got to meet videovideo. if britt has a chance to rehabilitate herself if she'd gotten up in front of this and talking about how horrible i was, this was you a sml, apologizing by name saying she's going over to meet with her. do anything possible. video of contrition to the highest level, might have given her a chance to have everyone see a different side of britt mchenry as opposed to, of course this side. that did not happen. and i'm just amazed in this video world that we're in michael, that people don't realize the magnitude of the video and the power of it and how it's going to go viral and to in this case if you are britt mchenry you've got to do something ahead of time. where were her advisers to help her? not that it would have mitigated what we saw in the video. it's horrible, but at least moving forward to try to do something positive. >> the company is going to save her because they, too, have put out a statement and here's what it reads in part. parking enforcement is contentious by nature.

i don't think it was the same type of thing as ray rice punching out his fiancee.admitted that he did it, he admitted he was wrong, he admitted why he did it and i think it was a case of adrian peterson getting caught in the tail wind of another case. >> he didn't, even after the the pictures came out, he didn't do any jail time, he pled guilty to a misdemeanor. he was suspected ultimately for half a season. some people say that wasn't a raw enough deal. >> actually, he played one game and then he missed 15 games. and so he got hit pretty hard in the pocketbook in terms of what happened with him in the nfl. and so, when he didn't get jail time, he pleaded down to a misdemeanor, but he got hit pretty hard by the nfl and that's where i think he got caught in the pr spin of what was happening with the nfl and domestic violence at the time. >> now there are policies in place in the nfl. so if it happens, there's pretty much a standard punishment that will happen for individuals. but with adrian peterson being reinstated, some are saying we're minimizing abuse of childr

a series of domestic violence cases including star ray rice. this year's top pick is expected to be jameis winston, a player who has had his own trouble with the law. linsey davis has the story. >> reporter: he's the heisman trophy trophy-winning mvp quarterback. >> jameis winston, florida state university. >> reporter: phone here his championship-winning moves -- >> touchdown! >> reporter: -- as he is for headline-grabbing troefrcontroversies. >> i messed up. >> reporter: that's not stopping him from going to the nfl. the nfl players association telling abc news winston will make roughly $24 million guaranteed for his first four years. >> he looks like he's capable of winning a super bowl. >> reporter: but the 21-year-old is still dogged by his recent past. he was accused of rape while at florida state. he's maintained the sex was consentual. his accuser has filed lawsuits against him and florida state. >> i kind of just want to know like, why me? >> reporter: winston's also been sidelines for making lewd comments and received a civil citation

rays revealed three chemical elements -- lead, antimony and barium. >> if those three elements are present, then that leads me to believe that that particle is actually a primal gunshot residue particle. >> this meant kevin rice'sr was wearing this sweatshirt. was it possible that the killer lived in the auburn manor apartments? >> the decision was made by the supervisors to send those keys out with teams of detectiveso see, or at least rule out, if those keys went to any of the apartment buildings. >> rockford police. >> investigators tried the keys in dozens of apartment doors, a tedious, time-consuming process, with no success. >> the apartment complex, i think it's four or five buildings or six buildings, you know, there's a lot of apartments. that's why they set out with four sets of keys and teams of detectives. >> they were beginning to wonder whether this was a dead end until they got to the bottom floor and finally got a hit. >> they were surprised, you know, to the point they were saying, oh, my god, you know, this key works at this particular apartment here. >> the man inside the apartment was 46-year-old calvin powell, and he was well known to police. >> he's a colorful character. he's got several m