university ignored his complaints about alleged sexual assault hazing and drug use at the kappa delta rho fraternity which is now under suspension. "action news" reporter chad pradelli is live in center city philadelphia. clad, whatever the truth is here, penn state again has to deal with some very unwelcome publicity. >> reporter: yes jim the former student and his attorney paint a culture of booze drugs and hazing but penn state is denying those claims saying he and his family are partly to blame. >> i'm no hero and i'm certainly no martyr but i doubly that penn state can and must do much more and can do it candidly to stop hazing and sexual violence and should commit to lead by example. >> reporter: former penn state student james vivenzio claims he was burned with cigarettes, punched in the face and forced to drink urine while pledging at the kappa delta rho fraternity in 2014. >> they left me no choice but to go to the police before more people pledges and other innocent students got hurt physically and emotionally. >> reporter: he claims he uncovered a private facebook page of kdr m

burned with cigarettes, punched in the face and forced to drink urine while pledging at the kappa delta rho fraternity. >> i never intended to become a whistle-blower but when i saw what was going on and the abuse that myself and others were repeatedly experiencing and that the university was totally ignoring. >> reporter: some have called him a whistle-blower. he also uncovered a private facebook page of kdr members and alumni that allegedly showed male and female students naked and at least one woman sexually assaulted. >> any parent, any student any human being would look at these images and be disgusted. >> reporter: he claims the university ignored his complaints of hazing in 2014 so he went to police in january but the university denies that claim. and released a statement that reads in part neither he nor his family were willing to file a complaint provide documentation speak with state college police or participate in pursuing a formal disciplinary process available to them despite repeated encouragement from university staff. kappa delta rho had no comment about today's lawsuit but

kappa delta rho has been suspended for three years and 38 of the members expelled by the national organizationnn state denied vivenzio's claim saying neither he or his family were willing to file a complaint. >>> a second lawsuit has been filed against st. joe's university in the wake of a hazings scandal involving the women's softball team. "action news" broke the store on april 2. following accusations of lewd conduct and drinking forced on the freshman players by the upper classmen. the most recent lawsuit similar to the first accused the head coach terry adams of doing nothing to stop the hazing and alleging that he actively impeded the investigation by informing the players on the team to "plead the fifth" while being investigating. the university says it is responding appropriately to the concerns raised and the investigation is ongoing. >>> from the new jersey news room the garden state may offer $160 million in tax breaks for a company to move to camden. american water works employs thousands of workers across the country. to qualify for a grant of this magnitude it needs to relocate a

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and the district just adopted a support mechanism for vision sao*er rho, so i hope sal, you and ben have connected and are having discussions around that because this feeds into your intentions. >> commissioner wynns? >> thank you. i want to thank everybody, but and particularly my colliding because i wanted to follow up on two of the things that particularly commissioner fewer talked about so my kids actually went to lakeshore and i was [inaudible] two of the things you brought up the habit of having people park on the other side of the street, it's just really obvious there and then having their kids run across the street, we've had kids hit by cars there years ago even when my kids were there and on middle field and lake merced boulevard which is the entrance and exit into that neighborhood from the big traffic boulevard, there used to be a stop sign. when my kids first went there where now there's a light there wasn't anything there not even a stop sign. at that time when we tried to get a light there they said, well, we can't put a light anywhere unpleasing somebody gets killed, so

james vivenzio says that as a freshman pledge at kappa delta rho, he was burned with cigarettes, forced and exposed to a secret facebook page that degraded women. penn state has suspended the fraternity, but it strongly disputes vivenzio's claims saying he refused to file a complaint or provide documentation. >>> well, it was supposed to create a diving experience in florida waters that would last forever, but, man, it's not going to last five minutes. the $500,000 artificial reef, you're seeing it here, here we go folks, featuring 15 giant sculptures built designed to be sunk off the coast of deerfield beach tipped over, sunk. on top of them crushing all of them, don't know if we're going to give this another try. >> water can be so unpredictable, no. >>> also from florida, a strange encounter in a bathroom at a home in ft. lauderdale. if you're creepy-crawly, it just gives you the iggy-jiggies, then don't listen to this. residents used to seeing iguanas around the neighborhood yeah they hang out in the sun all day, they're not supposed to be indoors, particularly not in the pipe leadi

kappa delta rho has been suspended for three years and 38 of its members expelled by the national organizationies vivenzio's claims saying neither he nor his family were willing to file a complaint. >> 5:52 is the time. up next police nab the man wanted for terrorizing women in a south philadelphia neighborhood. >> and the renewed push to find a missing delaware woman abduct fred her home. home-- abducted from her home. we will be right back. >> ♪♪ >> welcome back. you're taking a live look here. the skies above cape may had a little rain overnight. what will we get today? could be a little spotty showers out there for some folks. it's 5:55 and 69 degrees. >> philadelphia police are on the hunt for the gunman who shot a 75-year-old man in the back of the head. it happened last night on the 400 block of east indiana avenue in west kensington. the victim had surgery and is expected to survive. detectives are trying to figure out if the senior citizen was the shooter's intended target. >>> a thief may be tired out after all the climbing and crawling he did during a burglary in the kensington sect

i'm a san francisco resident and a pedestrian asking you to vote yes here today on this vision vao*er rho measure for safer market street. if a member of the public has a complaint against a tnc driver for reckless driving, 311 does not take these complaints. they patch these calls through to the mta who in turn forwards them to the cpuc. 311 does take complaints from the public about cab drivers, thus the accountability standard that cabs are held to is strong, not so for tnc's. please support this measure and vote yes. >> thank you. [applause]. >> next speaker. >> ( calling speaker names ). if there's any members of the public who wish to speak to the mta board who are in room 408 if you could come to room 400 now, please, thank you. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon, directors, iem charles wrath born on behalf of lex si cab, because we are licensed by sfmta, we are accountable if we fail to operate safely, you can revoke our permits, so we understand that it is a privilege for us to operate on any street in san francisco, not just market street. luxor cab urges you to vote yes today

dual pol lets us cut through the clutter and using three scientific metrics - zdr, rho and kdp - we're able to analyze what's going on in the core of the storm cell. in this example, from a thunderstorm near dover, double scan was able to determine the neighborhoods where 1-inch or quarter-sized hail was coming down. those areas are highlighted in purple. along with the hail threat double scan can keep track of lightning strikes -- in this case, 62 bolts within 15 minutes. double scan can also tap into a network of radars throughout the country to highlight other big weather stories of the day. last month, drenching rains caused deadly flooding in texas giving the state its wettest month on record! we tracked that system using double scan. flood rescues became a daily occurrence and several people lost their lives. keeping people out of harm's way is why the technology is so important, and why we take the forecast so seriously. meteorologist cecily tynan has more now, on escaping danger. >> over the past 30 years in the united states the number of deaths due to hurricanes and tornadoes

by the agency and i'm excited about it, engineering and planning is a key component to vision sao*er rho and go a long way in improving traffic goal and getting us to our goal of 0 traffic fatalities in 9 years so thank you to the board and i encourage you to support this today. >> thank you, supervisor kim i appreciate that. >> go back to item 11? >> yes. >> since the item is called, it would be appropriate for staff presenting on this, i know mr. edo was here. >> you made him leave. >> i did, yeah. [laughter]. >> good afternoon, mr. edo. >> good afternoon. good afternoon, chair nolan, members of the board i'm here today, my name is art edo from the sustainable streets division, here too talk to you about the short range transit plan that we're asked to prepare every few years, i'll walk through the purpose of the plan, what it contains how we develop it and ask you for your approval. so, the main reason that we prepare this short range transit plan is to meet state and federal requirements that are channeled through the metropolitan transportation commission, mpc, to have have a plan t

kappa delta rho has been suspends for three years and 38 of its members expelled by the national organizationtate denies the claim saying neither the manor his family were willing to file a complaint. >> methods for a new way to combat crime. officers are leaving door hangers. [inaudible] >> about crime in their area and asking them to call if they have information. burlington police also use more modern tools like facebook and twitter to alert the community. >> if you don't have social media we really need to get back to traditional ways to make sure that the neighborhood is aware. >> it's the old fashioned way of community policing, foot patrol, high presence. >> share information with officers walking the streets and leaving door hangers behind. >>> new this morning a delaware man is charged with his seventh dui offense. 51-year-old phillippe koring was involved in a car crash. no one was hurt but troopers at the scene smelled alcohol on the man and he was charged with his seventh offense of driving under the influence of alcohol. troopers say he had dui convictions from 1987 through 2008.

companies like lift have signed on the taxi division of the sfmta has worked closely on mission vao*er rho as we just heard so in the spirit that uber has spread, i would like to invite anyone who has a cell phone to take it out, leave it on silent and i don't know if this works with the overhead if you have an uber app, please pull it up, click on it and delete it. [laughter]. so, until uber starts to support safety, i want to challenge everybody to choose other methods to get around. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. [applause]. ( calling speaker names ). >> good afternoon, my name is paul valdez, long time mission district resident and a member of the san francisco bicycle coalition, last year i participate ined the community outreach meetings regarding the safer market street project, i want to thank the generous staff at the sfmta to listen attentively to our store ris navigating market street f, when others ask, why do you ride your bike down market street, don't you find it dangerous, i see myself pondering the exact same questions though enjoyable to ride, market stree

forced to guzzle alcohol, some of what james said was the price to pay to join the kappa delta rho. >> it's not an understatement to say i was afraid somebody could die. >> so he did something. he says he took proof of the extreme hazing the drug use and the two secret facebook pages with pictures of the fraternity sexual assaulting women to officials. eight months went by and he never heard from anyone. >> when i saw what was doing on and the abuse that myself and others were repeatedly experiencing and the university was ignoring they left me no choice but to go to the police. >> in a statement to abc news in march they called the posting appalling and inconsistent with the university value and expectations. they suspended the chapter for three years. >> the university knew about this. as long as april of 2014. james waited for the university to take action. it didn't happen. >> the university disputes the claims saying that james wasn't helpful while they were corn ducting the investigation. james flunked out of his freshman year and had to be hospitalized for post traumatic stress

kappa delta rho fraternity confirmed to abc news yesterday it expelled 38 of its members in the wakembers may face criminal charges. penn state also says vivenzio never mentioned the facebook page to them. university officials say the school learned about that from police earlier this year. robin? >> all right, linsey, thank you. >>> now to new developments in the oscar pistorius case, the blade runner in prison for killing his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. he's set to be freed in august after serving only ten months. this morning steenkamp's parents are speaking out, saying that is not enough. and abc's matt gutman has their story. >> reporter: this morning, the parents of the model and aspiring actress killed by olympian oscar pistorius in his bathroom enraged. the family of reeva steenkamp, a south african law graduate and promising celebrity, lashing out against his likely parole for good behavior set for august. after serving just ten months in jail. her family writing to his parole board "we have forgiven mr. pistorius, however, a person found guilty of a crime must be held acco

. >>> joe rho sato jr.agged lining with researchers whose job it is to keep track of some of them. >> somewhere in the thick woods of marin county's forest knoll is a brand-new family of spotted owls. >> it looks like an owl was perched here. >> in the world of research a family of owls doesn't exist until you actually see them. >> owls themselves tend to be perched very camouflaged next to the trunks of trees. >> reporter: to find and county the owls this research are first puts on her detective hat. >> this would be a good time to perch. and sets aside her bride. >> that's their typical note call. >> reporter: up in the trees cormier and her team shot the shadowy silhouette of an adult spotted owl. what these researchers from point blue conservation science really hope to find are this owl's new offspring. >> we're connecting a study with northern spotted owls here in marin county. there's probably been an owl pershing up here. >> we track populations to assess the health of the spotted owl. >> the group

happened yesterday same day the former pledge turn weiler blower james filed lawsuit against kappa delta rho and the university. it alleges he and other forced to drink mixture of alcohol and bodily fluids. also allegations of sexual harrassments which included secret fraternity facebook page where members allegedly posted photos of nude and unconscious female student. >> there is aim and maybe one of the more disturbing, of young man and young woman both of them passed out in a port a potty with her panties at her ankles. >> the complaint alleges penn state waited too long to takings. how much, the university says in a statement that he would not file a complaint or pursue the formal disciplinary pros what's investigators first met with him. >> 6:15. police will spend the day today at burlington county school after a threat against that school. harrington middle school in mt. laurel, was one of several schools threatened yesterday. police will not check student belongings, and remain in place throughout the day. >> meanwhile philadelphia police are searching for the two armed men who forced

nbc bay areas's joe rho sato jr.checked in with the first artist to build there. >> reporter: any artist will tell us their best work is their next. that's because create activity is about propelling forward. >> my thoughts are ahead of my process, right? hi my name is david. >> reporter: david best is constantly on the move bringing new life to pieces of discarded wood. >> i go behind warehouses and get trimmings and drops from factories. at his home in the hills above petaluma, best and his crew have volunteered, are taking these piles of wood on a spiritual journey. >> building a temple like we have done for a number of years. >> reporter: best is best known for building elaborate and temporary wooden temples, appearing at the burning man arts fest till a forlorn lot in detroit, a field in ireland. >> don't work for knowing, they work for love. >> ten years ago he built a temple and though best preferred looking ahead, the newest piece is looking back. >> they the tenth anniversary, of david best temple marking th

she was four older brothers, rho beenen leroy, donald myself and a younger sister jackie.a community that really cared about her in charleston south carolina. >> we are hearing wonderful things about your sister. god bless you and your family. i hope these next few weeks are not too tough on you all. thank you for joining us sir. >> thank you. >>> i'm also joined by state senator todd rutherford. he talked to president obama and knew the reverend pinckney. sir, thank you for joining us. what can you share with us about your conversation with the president? >> the president called me this morning and wanted to wish condolences on behalf of himself and the first lady for senator pinckney the church family and the community at large. he was telling me then -- this was before the young man was caught -- that all the assistance the federal government could offer would be given to make sure the person was caught. as we know he was. we thank the president for that. the president wanted to make sure we had everything we needed and we do and we're grateful for that. the problem is

announce the latest development surrounding an investigation into the school's chapter of kappa delta rho. earlier this year, james vivenzio contacted the state police department about pictures on the facebook page. >>> a group of low-wage workers at philadelphia international airport will protest at city hall. dozens of baggage handlers, wheelchair attend errants and airplane cleaners plan to hold a sit-in later this morning. they're kuehlingcalling on city council to pass a bill. >>> this morning we've learned that a little girl who fell out of an apartment within dough in allentown has been upgraded from critical to now stable condition. 5-year-old tianna arnett and her 3-year-old sister fell out of a window on friday night. tamara was kill. the window screen was defective and loose. authorities do not expect to file charges. >>> the red cross is helping victims of a house fire in pennsauken camden county and a viewer tweeted this picture from the scene yesterday. workers are providing food clothing and temporary lodging for three adults and a toddler who were forced out of the home no