emily member of the gahmgamma sigma sigma sorority, mourning the loss of emily and her mother, emily growing part of the chapter and she embodied the spirit of gahm -- gamma sigma sigma. emily always put other before herself and cared deeply for all of those in her life. so again we know that three americans were on board that flight only two so far have been identified, mike, alex. >> there is no foul play. just mention right after you say no foul play, one of the pilots can't get back to the cockpit. something going on here. something bad going on in that airplane. why could could the pilot not get back in the cockpit? waiting for information. daylight over there. so probably just after 1:00 over there. so looking into that. that's big. >> last night, some of the roommates of emily they were talking about her and it was great to see they were saying she is someone who like to see people happy and remember her yesterday. >> odd somebody from our area being on that play. one ooh people on the airplane, three americans, two from our area. all right we will stay on that. 6:06. >> east coventry township police looking foreman who they say carried out strong arm ro

sigma sigma sorority, saying they are mourning the loss of our beautiful emily and her mother. emily was integral part of the growing chapter and the group went ton say she embodied the spirit of gamma sigma sigmas a person and friend, emily always put other before herself and cared deeply for all of those in her life. and it is believed that there was a third american on that flight, that person has not yet been identified. lauren chris? >> jennifer joyce, live on the drexel university campus, thank you. >> all right, so let's go to. >> this of course you are recognize don tollefson. yesterday was the sentencing for him. yes, he will spend the next two, four years in prison. jury convicted him of felony money laundering, fraud, and theft, after more than 200 people came forward saying he sold bogus trips in the name of charities. tollefson also has to pay back $164,000 to his victims. tollefson plans to write a book on substance abuse and a book about his life for that matter, so he can pay back his victims. he decided against a plea deal saying he wanted his story told. don tollefson as you well know is a fox 29 former employee. >> hack attack affecting several new jersey schools. >>> c

sigma sigma. >> they said she was an integral part of you growing chapter and embodied the spirit of sigma sigma, she put everybody before her self and cared deeply for everybody in her life. she works for allen hamilton in d.c. and worked for the pentagon. >> in a statement the selke said we are deeply saddened by the loss of emily and yvonne selke, they meant so much to so much. they live in this home outside of washington, where today the neighbors learned that yvonne and emily were among the dead. >> i'm sure they had no idea something like this would happen. it's a real tragedy. >> tonight the selke family is asking for privacy and prayers. live in university city, i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you sara, our coverage of this story continues on our website at 6abc.com you can read more about emily selke and see a slideshow of the pictures of plane crash as well as video from the scene find the story now at 6abc.com. >>> this is the way it looked early this morning as flames attacked the fabricators plant in bethlehem nearby reads were told to stay inside and the powe

sigma sigma sorority, and they are put up a statement we are mourning the loss of our beautiful emily and her mother. emily was integral part of the growing chapter. the group went ton say she embodied the spirit of gamma sigma sigmas a person and friend emily always put others before herself and cared deeply for all of those in her life. it is believed that there was a third american on that flight, that person is not yet identified. >> coming up on a 06:00. east coventry township police looking for a man who they say carried out strong armed robbery, 12 year old girl, happened outside gymnastics center. caught the suspect as he walk into the center, this is on route 724, friday afternoon police say he left the center then forced his way into a mini-van in the parking lot where a 12 year old girl was inside. they say he struggled with the girl allegedly pull her out of the van, stole bag from inside. parent are just stunned. >> parents sit in their cars, so a loft eyes out here you know? i'm always out here my daughter's inside. so, very shocked. >> here's the scariest part. >> this guy, evidently is still out there. he got away in a dark colored new err model honda odyssey. >> sentencing scheduled today fo

sigma sigma national service sorority. her mother was with her and died in the plane crash. we spoke with one of emily's friends. >> she wanted the best for everybody. she made everybody feel important. that's why everybody loved her was because she made you feel important and that's hard to find in people these days. >> emily and yvonne selke are from virginia. yvonne selke was a u.s. contractor you can count on nbc 10 and nbc10.com as we continue to follow developments on this breaking news as the investigation intensifies into the deadly germanwings plane crash. you can get updates on air and on our nbc 10 news app. >>> pope francis is coming to washington. about an hour ago, the white house press secretary announced that president obama and the first lady will meet with the pope in september. his visit to the white house coincides with the world meeting of families being held here of course in philadelphia. taking place the week of september 22nd. pope francis will be here september 26th and 27th. you can count on nbc 10 for new information on the papal visit and its impact on the region. >>> now, your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> warm wet and windy weather. as the saying goes march winds, april showers, lead to may flowers. something like that. we're tracking showers and thunderstorms moving into the area. here is a live look at the center city philadelphia. you can see where the rain and the storm are right now as we take a live look at the radar. nbc 10 first alert meteorologist bill henley is here now with the forecast. did i get that right or may flowers? >> right on target. we have the wind helping to warm things up. but also coming with the wet weather. we have been tracking the showers for the last couple of hours and thunderstorms too. thunderstorms have already rolled through delaware and this line of showers is just crossing millville, through cumberland county and heading to the northeast quickly too. northeasterly at 50 miles an hour. it looks like it is going to be moving into atlantic county with some heavier rainfall. the rainfall rate more than an inch and a third per hour and some of the heavy showers to gloucester county they're also moving quickly to the northeast. so rain is starting to come down in philadelphia. 51 degrees right now at philadelphia international. that's a lot warmer than it has been lately. and we will go considerably warmer this afternoon. it is not going to be an all day rainfall. we'll see some scattered showers, 60 degrees by 1:00 with breaks in the rain. 65 degrees at 4:00. and still in the 60s when we're likely tracking some showers and thunderstorms that will be moving in from the northwest. and that is going to writebring our temperatures down into the 60s by 7:00 and falling overnight tonight. extended future weather taking you through it hour by hour when i come back. >> we'll see you then bill. >>> a man convicted of killing a young man over a pair of headphones has been sentenced to life without parole. last month the jury convicted arkel garcia of second degree murder charges in the death of christian massey. garcia shot and killed 21-year-old massey in november of 2013 and the overbrook section of philadelphia and police say garcia wanted to steal massey's beats by dre headphones. a judge handed down a sentence this morning. >>> a philadelphia judge postponed sentencing for christina regusters. she was convicted of taking a 5-year-old girl from an elementary school, bringing her to a home and raping her. whenever she is sentenced, she could face life in prison. >>> and new this morning, police in state college say some of the women pictured nude on a penn state fraternity's private facebook page have come forward. authorities also say some of the members of kappa delta rho are now cooperating with the criminal investigation. the frat was suspended for a year and ordered to reorganize by its national organization. >>> philadelphia police are investigating a home invasion in point breeze where a woman says the intruder choked her. police are calling it a strong arm robbery and they say it happened around 4:00 this morning on south chadwick street. the victim told police the attacker asked her for money and then grabbed her by the throat. her husband said she is doing okay. police say in the end, the intruder did not take anything from the home. investigators are still trying to figure out how the attacker got inside that house. >>> and police are looking for two men who drove away from a home invasion robbery in west philadelphia. this happened around 11:30 on north constoegia street. investigators say the man robbed and pistol whipped the man inside his home. the victim was taken to the hospital but is expected to be okay. the intruders got away with a tv, playstation and some video games. >>> don tollefson was once the highest paid sportscaster in philadelphia. this morning he's getting ready to serve two to three years behind bars. he was convicted of scamming people by selling bogus sports packages and pocketing the money. judge ordered him to pay back more than $160,000. >>> happening today, a hearing in philadelphia will take a closer look at governor tom wolf's moratorium on the executions in pennsylvania. members of the house judiciary committee who oppose the ban are holding the hearing at city hall at 2:00. they'll listen to testimony from the families of murder victims. the state supreme court is deciding if the moratorium is legal. >>> also happening today, family, friends and fans will come together to remember eagles legend chuck bed narknarik. there is a private mass for family and friends tomorrow. the hall of famer known as concrete charlie died over the weekend at the age of 89. he played offense and defense for the eagles from 1949 to 1962. >>> and now to the race for mayor in philadelphia. a judge ruled yesterday that former state senator milton street can stay on the primary ballot. there were questions about his eligibility to run because of claims that he hasn't lived in philadelphia for three years as rehred by law. street is one of six candidates vying for the democratic nom nation. the others are lynne abraham, nelson diaz, doug oliver, jim kinney and anthony williams. jim rosenfield will moderate the first debate ahead of the may 19th primary. at the kimmel center on tuesday, april 7th. watch it here on nbc 10 of course. if you have a question for the candidates, let us know. you can submit them right now at nbc10.com or through the nbc 10 app. >>> camden city schools announced a shake-up in leadership at five of the lowest performing schools and up with of the oldest school buildings is shutting down. the whittier school building is more than 100 years ole. and will close for good. educational nonprofits best known for operating charter schools, will take over leadership at those five schools. education officials say only one out of every five students in the camden city school district performs at grade level. >> we don't give them the opportunity that they are due, then we're failing as leaders. through this partnership, we're build ing building real signs of progress. >> you may remember last month in philadelphia there was plenty of public outcry when they considered granting charters to some of the same groups now expanding in camden. the schools to be transformed in camden will not become charters. the district calls them renaissance schools, still neighborhood schools run by the school district. >>> and we continue to toll breaking news breaking developments concerning the crash of the germanwings plane in the french alps. we're learning more about the co-pilot alone at the controls who intentionally sent that plane into the doomed descent. >>> plus assessing the damage from deadly tornados that swept through parts of oklahoma. >>> storm system that caused those tornadoes is heading our way with a chapsnce of thunderstorms for later today. already tracking storms and much warmer temperatures. the hour by hour forecast when we come back. >>> jesse jackson jr. is now on his way to a halfway house in washington, d.c. after being released from an alabama prison this morning. jackson was picked up by his wife, children and parents. the reverend jesse jackson and his wife. jesse jackson jr. began serving a 2 1/2 year sentence at the prison in 2013. he pled guilty to illegally spending $750,000 in campaign funds on items like furs and vacations. he'll serve the remainder of his sentence at the halfway house. >>> and prosecutors could rest their case against boston marathon bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev. yesterday, fbi agents testified they found bomb components in his family's apartment similar to those used in two bombs that exploded near the marathon finish line in 2013. tsarnaev's lawyers admitted he and his older brother tamerlan detonated the bombs but say tamerlan was the mastermind of the attack. >>> we could find out tomorrow whether italy's top court will uphold a guilty verdict against amanda knox or send the trial back to another appeal. yesterday, the panel of judges delayed their decision by two days. knox and her former boyfriend were convicted and later acquitted of murdering knox's roommate. last year an italian appeals court upheld the original guilty verdict. >>> a line of tornadoes spewing storms moved through oklahoma last night killing one person and injuring several others. this morning work crews are out trying to restore power to homes and families are seeing the damage done to their property. gabe gutierrez has an update. >> reporter: it has been a quiet tornado season here in tornado alley until last night. this is the doughnut shop or it used to be a doughnut shop here. it is the hardest hit area of oklahoma. at least one person was killed in a mobile home park not far from here. three people were injured in that mobile home park. one of them critically. several dozen homes were destroyed near here just west of tulsa. so it is also a gymnasium where there are 60 to 70 people trapped inside. firefighters rushed in and were able to take out -- rescue the young girls and amazingly no one was injured. today, governor mary fallin is touring parts of the state and is assessing the damage. tens of thousands of people were left without power here in tornado alley. tornado season had gotten off to a quiet start until last night. gabe gutierrez, nbc 10 news sand springs, oklahoma. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. >> foggy start is what we had this morning and now fog is still in the area. eased off a bit, we're tracking some showers and thunderstorms rolling into the area. a threat that will be with us not only during the day, but especially this evening. a one-day warmup today into the 60s this afternoon. we get a break in the rain and the clouds thin out a little bit. we could be closer to 70 degrees, but it is a one-day warmup. it will turn winter-like as we head into the weekend. already warmer for the year. we look at the pocono mountains at 45 degrees. trenton is 48. and just last couple of minutes, dover has warmed into the low 60s and that's where philadelphia is going. right now it is clouds over the city and rain too. you see the wind has died down for now. but there is a southerly wind blowing and that's not only helping to wind the tarmemperatures up. riding in on the wind is the wet weather that we're seeing stroll through the area through philadelphia. that's mainly light rainfall but heavier showers in south jersey moving into atlantic county right now. we have seen some wet weather in cape may. the showers and potential for some thunderstorms, in fact that's lightning strike that just popped up now in upper cumberland county in new jersey. showers to start with. will be coming our way later today. there is more wet weather to the south. and also there you can see the showers and thunderstorms moving through norfolk right now and into eastern carolina. that's going to be here this afternoon. and then this evening, it is this line of showers that will give us the possibility of thunderstorms for this evening. noon time 57 degrees in philadelphia. clouds will thin out. they'll break, 3:00 this afternoon. 64, still some showers in delaware and south jersey and we're watching this area to the north and west that will be moving in during the evening hours after some areas could reach to near the 70 degree mark. showers roll through during the evening and that drops our temperatures by tomorrow morning. it feels pretty chilly once again. for today, warm breezy winds gusting to 20 miles an hour and high temperatures in the middle 60s to near 70 degrees. don't get used to that however. here is a sneak peek at the weekend. saturday morning, 4:00 32 degrees in doylestown. philadelphia 34. cold enough for snow. and that is a possibility saturday morning. there is a chance of some light snow. not a big storm here. and with temperatures above freezing not expecting to see accumulation. a dusting at most on colder surfaces. and by afternoon time changes over to rain, a light rainfall and 40 degrees. chance of that on saturday. mostly cloudy skies, 40 the high temperature, but a big improvement sunday up to 50 degrees with bright sunshine. and then things turn a bit warmer too. seven-day forecast coming up in the next half hour. >> thank you, bill. >>> scaring you into quitting. >> smoke caused my lung cancer. >> that's the hope of a new ad campaign. smokers show the effects of what they say is the harsh reality of years of smoking. >>> and this picture says it all. more exciting news about leah still and her brave battle with cancer. >>> this is nbc 10 news. >> the centers for disease control is set to launch a new set of ads next week aimed at getting people to stop smoking or never start in the first place. erika edwards has a preview and a warning, the images that you're about to see are graphic and may be disturbing to some viewers. >> smoking caused my lung cancer. >> reporter: by now, most people have seen or heard of the graphic anti-smoking ads from the centers for disease control. >> so i was legally blind. >> reporter: what many may not have heard is an explanation of the damaging effects of cigarette smoking put quite like this. >> before they put that needle in your eyeball, look as far away as possible. >> reporter: that cringeworthy tip is from marlene, one of the long time smokers featured in the cdc's new tips from former smokers campaign. she's describing her treatment for macular degeneration. smoking doubles the risk for the condition, a fact she wishes she would have known when she picked up her first cigarette at age 18. >> it was devastating to me when i found out that i could lose my central vision. whoever thought that smoking could do something like this? >> reporter: other ads show men and women with colorectal cancer who must use ostemy bags to collect their waste. the testimonials are gruesome and honest because that's the way to reach smokers. >> we can't be too cautious because the smokers absolutely said we want to know what it will be like if we get this because that will help motivate us to quit. >> reporter: according to the cdc, it is working. other tips campaigns prompted more than 100,000 smokers to quit for good. erika edwards, nbc 10 news. >>> good news this morning about a little girl waging a big battle. last week we reported the scans show leah still is cancer free and we just learned that the biopsies confirm it and she is officially in remission. her father devon still, tweeted this picture late last night and shows him with leah giving a peace sign and puckering up of course. he said in his post when i look at my daughter all i can do is smile and hug her. it was not easy but every day and every treatment leah fought like hell and kicked cancer's butt. the 4-year-old girl was diagnosed with a rare form of stage 4 cancer last june. she's been receiving treatments at children's hospital here in philadelphia. devon says leah will need more treatments to make sure that the cancer cells don't return. i had a chance to sit down with leah and devon a few months ago and you can watch that interview and our impromptu dance party if you wish on nbc10.com. >>> we continue to follow breaking news. tuesday's plane crash in the french alps now appears to be deliberate. new details into the investigation as a nationally known aviation attorney in our area weighs in on what may have been going on inside that plane's cockpit. >>> i need some advice. >> and taking it to the top. the third grader who decided her problem was a job for the president. what she wrote in a letter that got her an invitation straight to the white house. >>> now, your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> the old english poem march winds and april showers bring may flowers. dark and gloomy out there a little bit. live look at philadelphia's boathouse row showing how gloomy it is out there. at least we're getting a little break from the cold. that's good. it is the kind of day where you might choose to trade in your heavy jacket and gloves. you can see where the rain and storms are right now. they're moving eastward there. almost kind of northish. we take a live look at the radar, the first alert meteorologist bill henley here to explain all of that for us this morning. hey, bill. >> don't see too many umbrellas in that video you were showing. today is the day to carry one. we have rain see a few rain drops on the lens of the camera on top of the comcast center. rain clouds, you can see the rain sweeping past the camera right now. still some fog around in the pocono mountains. not as thick as it was and rain showers moving into the mountains. a little bit of snow left on the ground. this is the view from shawnee along the banks of the delaware river. temperatures are already in the 40s in the mountains. on our way to the 60s in philadelphia. already in the 60s in parts of delaware. and warm air is surging into the area and bringing with it the showers and thunderstorm activity that is now moving into burlington county. that's fast moving shower activity with quick moving heavy downpours. you'll see showers at 1:00 and at 4:00. won't be an all day rainfall. these showers will be on and off. that will be allowing our temperatures to warm into the 60s. and still quite warm at 7:00, we'll be watching for thunderstorms moving in from the northwest at that hour. and then the cool weather, maybe even cold as we head into the weekend. show you how long that lasts with the seven-day forecast when i come back. >> all right, bill. checking our top stories now, we now know pope francis will head to the white house during his september visit. the pontiff will meet with president obama and the first lady. his first visit coincides with the world meeting of families being held here of course in philadelphia. >>> and police say some of the women pictured nude on a penn state fraternity private facebook page have now come forward. authorities also say some of the members of kappa delta rho are now cooperating with the criminal investigation. the frat was suspended for a year in order to reorganize by its national organization. >>> and philadelphia police are investigating a home invasion in point breeze where a woman says the intruder choked her. the victim told the police that the attacker asked her for money and grabbed her by the throat. her husband says she's doing okay. police in the end say in the end the intruder did not take anything from that home. >>> we were following breaking news overseas. a french prosecutor now says the co-pilot intentionally caused the germanwings plane crash that killed all 150 people on board earlier this week. according to the prosecutor the co-pilot sent the jetliner into a dive into the side of a mountain in the french alps. here is what we know now. the co-pilot has been identified as andreas lubitz a 28-year-old german. germany's top security officials say there are no indications he had any terrorist background. french prosecutor says the co-pilot refused to open the door to the cockpit. his breathing was normal throughout the final minutes of the descent when he intentionally put the plane into a dive. the ceo of lufthansa spoke just within the last two hours through an interpreter. >> --his performance was without any criticism, nothing at all was striking. >> the crash killed all 150 people on board. >>> meanwhile, police were seen outside of the house in germany that is believed to be lubitz's home. the co-pilot according to the faa, he had a sinal engine private pilots license. the faa issued him that license in january of 2012. it had restrictions. it had -- he had to be proficient in english and it had to be accompanied by his german pilots license. nbc 10's monique braxton is live this morning. you spoke a local attorney who say nationally known aviation expert and he's weighing in on what has happened with germanwings. tell us what he's telling you. >> reporter: it was very interesting. aviation expert arthur wolf talked to us about the lufthansa owned germanwings flight and posed some questions to us. among them why would someone leave the cockpit during a short flight? why is there no restroom in the cockpit? like in some airplanes that fly longer distances. he made this observation. >> what i'm also concerned about is why there was not someone else to take the place of a pilot outside the cockpit as there are in every u.s. flight. >> he points to flight attendants who go in for example, to prevent a terrorist attack. he also says airlines may, in the future moving forward, have to also investigate the flight crew's psychological background much like they do in looking at job experiences as well as getting job references. no doubt we'll stay on this investigation and follow it and have the very latest for you coming up in our evening newscast. live for now from the airport, monique braxton, nbc 10 news. >>> the city in germany it mourning the loss of 16 high school students and two teachers who died in the germanwings plane crash. the mayor and head of the school went to the town hall to sign the condolence book. classes were canceled. the group of students were returning from a week long exchange program in spain. >>> and three americans are among the crash victims. one graduated from drexel university in 2013. emily selke, a music industry major and vice president of gamma sigma sigma national service sorority. her mother yvonne also died in the crash. we spoke with one of emily's friends. >> she wanted the best for everybody. she made everybody feel important. i think that's why everybody loved her was because she made you feel important. that's hard to find in people these days. >> emily and yvonne selke are from virginia. yvonne was a u.s. contractor you can count on nbc 10 news and nbc10.com as we continue to follow the developments on this breaking news as the investigation intensifies into the deadly germanwings plane crash. you can get updates on the air and on our nbc 10 news app. >>> now to breaking news out of delaware county. the superintendent just finished talking to the media about a woman reported missing in august of last year. 25-year-old amanda guio disappeared in august of 2014. she is a known drug user and has no contact -- had no contact with her family since she disappeared. police now believe she may be the victim of foul play. amanda's

sigma sigma sorority. the sorority posted this picture of her on its facebook and twitter feeds. and this is reaction from one their neighbors just moments ago. this is about 45 minutes outside washington, d.c. >> real shocking. life can be over in a flash, you know. they were good people. the mom probably had 30 more years left. the daughter probably had, like 40 50. shocking it can be over like that, you know. >> emily's sorority sisters also posted this message. we're mourning the loss of our beautiful alumni. emily and her mother were aboard the plane from barcelona to dusseldorf that crashed yesterday. emily served as our membership vp and she was an integral part of our growing chapter. she embodied the spirit of gamma sigma sigma. as a person and friend emily always put others before herself and cared deeply for all those in her life. emily will be greatly missed by her fellow sisters. please keep emily, her mother and their family in your thoughts and prayers during this heartbreaking time. and john cox is we me and tom costello in our news room. tom, john just pointed out the very careful briefing from the french aviation official to all questions about the possibility of an attack from the voice recorder information. he said, i have zero information on that hypothesis. >> yeah i think it was very clear that he was trying to avoid hypothesizing on any scenario whatsoever. other than to say that the wreckage is not in any way consistent with a midair explosion. that seems obvious that this plane did, in fact crash into a mountainside. and it appears the plane was on a very deliberate and programmed descent all the way down. and there was no deviation from it. the flight went straight into a mountain. i

sigma sigma say the at a sorority on campus they put this message on facebook. say the at a chapter is mourning the loss of our beautiful emily selke and her mother. they were on board the plane from barcelona to duesseldorf that crashed yesterday. emily served as our membership vice-president while in zeta and she was an integral part in our greg chapter. she embodied the spirit of gamma sigma sigmas a person and friend emily always put others before herself and cared deeply for those in our life. >>> definitely our prayers and thoughts go out to her family. >>> no one word if drexel will hold a memorial service or a vigil for emily when students return from spring break. lucy? >> all right, dave. breaking news right now deadly storms are slamming into oklahoma and arkansas. authorities say at least one person has died and several others are hurt. listen to this. cell phone video captured the sirens going off in tall is. tornado has nearly destroyed a mobile home park and that is where the one person who we know of died. witnesses are reporting several other tornadoes across the area and back here at home on your radar, that same system is about to bring rain here. scott williams, we have chance of storms tomorrow? >> yeah, that's certainly right, lucy. but nothing like what the folks are dealing with this evening in arkansas as well as oklahoma. let's look at ultimate dopp

sigma sigma sorority. today, her sorority sisters posted this photo writing "emily was an integral part of our growing chapter. she always put others before herself and cared deeply for all in her life." jane carter has lived in the selkes' neighborhood for 36 years. >> i'm still kind of shocked. i'm still kind of shocked. we're just a small little community and i'm very sad. kevin: it's unclear why mother and daughter were flying from spain to germany. family home sitting quiet tonight. >> live every moment that you can. that's the only thing that i can say. i'm sure they didn't have no idea that something like this was going to happen. it's a real tragedy. and i hope they find out what happened. kevin: so far, the selkes have only released a written statement in which they said our entire family is deeply saddened by the losses of yvonne and emily, two wonderful, caring amazing people who meant so much to so many. we're live in nokesville this evening, i'm kevin lewis, abc 7 news. leon: conflicting information on the crash. they were reporting that the cover of the second black box had been found with nothing inside. but investigators later disputed that fact at a press conference. as ryan nobles reports, the french government is looking for a full accounting of what went wrong. >> a black box has been found. at this very moment it's being worked on. ryan: the president of france chancellor of germany and the spanish prime minister visited the region where the plane went down. investigators are trying to determine if the crash had anything to do with terrorism. something b.e.a. the french version of the ntsb has yet to rule out. many of the gaps won't be filled until they're able to get information from the two black boxes. the cockpit voice recorder has been found but badly damaged. >> we need to know what the pilots are doing, what they were saying if they were communicating. ryan: meanwhile, the grisly task of recovering the human remains continues high in the french alps. it won't be easy. it could require d.n.a. checks that may take several weeks. this as the families begin the grieving process hoping for answers in this terrible tragedy. in washington ryan nobles abc 7 news. alison: and developing now. the army has charged sergeant bowe bergdahl with misbehavior before the enemy and desertion. >> misbehavior before the enemy by endangering the safety of a command, unit or place carries a maximum potential penalty of a dishonorable discharge, reduction to the rank of e-1, total forfeiture of all paying allowances and possible confinement for life. alison: you'll remember he was held captive by the taliban for five years before his release last year. he was freed in that controversial prisoner exchange involving five members of the taliban. bergdahl is accused of walking away from his unit in afghanistan in 2009. an upcoming hearing will determine if bergdahl will face a court-martial. leon: let's check on the weather here this hour. rumbles of thunder could be shaking parts of the area tomorrow. but at least it's going to be warmer. alison: that's right. let's get to our chief meteorologist doug hill in the stormwatch weather 7 center. sounds like a pretty spring like day tomorrow, doug? doug: we get these march, april still kind of fall back to winlterwinlt er -- winter pattern and get a preview of spring and fall back again. here in arlington high above the belfort furniture weather center. 53 degrees outside right now. few breaks or bright spots in the overcast but generally cloudy skies across the region. it's a small batch from the waldorf moving northeast, should cross over through charles county into southern prince george's and calvert county before long. we'll have a complete play of this kind of pattern early tomorrow morning. temperatures, low to mid 50's. a little cooler to the north, already just west. already in the 60's. and that's a preview of what's coming our way. tonight, cloudy. should be some fog overnight and a little rain for the morning hours in spots. skies will brighten through the day. we can hit highs 74 degrees by the afternoon and then through tomorrow evening showers and some gusty thunderstorms all a possibility. the strong cold front moving this way. we'll look ahead to the next seven days for you in a couple of minutes. alison: see you then. meanwhile, this is just in from prince george's county where we've learned the school system says students will be in class next thursday. this is to make up some of the time lost to snow this winter. school will be out two hours early april 2nd and the 3rd through the 10th will still be spring break. so student had seven snow days in prince george's county this year. this system will be extending the calendar until june 23rd. leon: everybody knows that mother nature did a number on the roads across our area this past winter and today, the district launched its annual push to try to fill up the cracks and craters out there. pothole palooza comes with a promise to get the potholes patched fast. stephen tschida is following repair crews for us this morning. let's check in with him and see how things are going. how is it looking out there? stephen: we are in the thick of pothole palooza. we're tagging along with this repair crew all day. check it out. we have a puddly pothole right here. this year because of some improved technology and some new avenues of approach to potholes they promise to get these fixed faster than ever. the pothole tiller is on the road along with an army of workers. ddot is tackleing potholes with the same aggressive strategy it uses to clear snow. >> try to avoid. stephen: pothole palooza is a rite this spring. this winter left roads potted or pitted. mayor bowser: i think it snow or sleeted every one of those 10 weeks. stephen: crews will work seven days a week 10 hour shifts and they're getting help from improved technology. this will aid in tracking and guiding the crews and the operation now is under a unified command center. the goal to get a pothole repaired within 48 hours of a report. instead of the former timeline of 72 hours. >> happy. real happy. >> because they -- wear and tear on people's cars and stuff. stephen: back live now. giving you a real close look at how they are repairing these potholes. now, ddot tells us that in the two weeks leading up to pothole palooza, they filled in more than 7,000 potholes. by the time pothole palooza wraps up they expect to fill more than 12,000 potholes. reporting live stephen tschida, abc 7 news. leon: maryland's new governor was among those trying to get a casino to national harbor today. larry hogan was on the tour of the construction for the new m.g.m. casino the last of six planned casinos in the state. he did a status report of the entire project coming up at 6:00 tonight. alison? alison: we have new information tonight in the arrest of that university of virginia student that made headlines all over the country. today, terry mcauliffe ordered that all alcohol beverage control agents be retrained on the use of force, cultural diversity, community policing and interaction with youth. the executive order comes after martese johnson was arrested last wednesday. photos of that 20-year-old covered in blood were broadcast and published all over the country. well, an impassioned plea today from the widow of a local lawyer found murdered in a d.c. hotel room. brianne carter is live in northwest washington with the new information on this case. brianne? brianne: alison it has been nearly two months since david messerschmitt was found dead inside a fourth floor hotel room here at the donovan hotel. and not only tonight are we hearing from the wife we're also hearing from police who are now saying the person seen in that surveillance video is a woman. >> the world has lost a good person. brianne: through tears, kim vuong, the wife of david messerschmitt today spoke out for the first time since her husband was murdered last month. >> my husband and my best friend in one day, i lost the most important person in my life. and the man i loved so much. and i have no answers. brianne: back on february 10th authorities say messerschmitt, seen here on this facebook page was found stabbed to death inside a fourth floor room at the donovan hotel. according to a search warrant obtained by abc 7 credit cards, condoms and clothes were also found in the room. at the time, police released this surveillance video of a person of interest. today with enlarged images from that video, police said they believe the person is a woman. today, vuong standing beside visibly upset members of david's family urged people to take another look at the video. >> if you don't recognize that person of interest or have any information about the crime please contact the police. even the smallest details could help. brianne: and back here live police are saying tonight they are following a number of leads and looking into a number of different things including whether or not david messerschmitt may have been on any app prior to he was found murdered inside of this hotel room. now, at this point, police are also telling us this is still a very active and ongoing investigation. up to $25,000 being offered for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in this case. reporting live brianne carter abc 7 news. leon: new developments in last month's shooting at frederick high school. they have filed charges against 21-year-old brandon tyler and 19-year-old chandler davenport. two teens were injured in that shooting outside of a basketball game february 4th. police would not comment on a motive but they would say there's a gang connection and the victims and the suspects knew each other. alison: coming up on abc 7 news at 5:00 memorial mess. we'll have reaction to the photo of two kids playing on one of the national mall's most emotional memorial. leon: a little later, what investigators found in the boston marathon bombing suspect's apartment that prosecutors are using to build their case. alison: researchers raise concerns about pollution and pregnancy. brad: i'm brad bell in western maryland with a 2-month-old bear cub. stay with us. we'll alison: from cargo to hero. check out this video of two elephants helping keep a tractor-trailer from flipping over. this happened in louisiana. police say the truck was carrying three elephants when the driver pulled off the road and got stuck on a soft shoulder. so he unloaded two of the elephants and they helped him keep the truck from tumbling into a ditch. leon: that's what every car needs a tool kit with an elephant in it. alison: we've been looking forward to this next story coming up much the mayor department of natural resources wants to keep tabs on the state's black bear population. leon: that's right. so each spring agents fan out to find bear cubs and their mothers and they tag the bears for future monitoring and today, they were out near deep creek lake and maryland bureau chief brad bell went along with them. brad: deep in the hole in a hillside along a cold mountain stream a black bear has given birth. state biologists have been tracking this 12-year-old bear with a radio collar for more than half her life. today, it's time to change the collar and check her cubs. with mama tranquilized, the cubs come out of the den first. >> this little bear cub right now is about 2 months old and she's clinging to me tightly. you can see, it is a bear. look at the claws on this paw. the greatest concern, they say, at this point is trying to keep them warm. brad: it takes two to pull the bear from the den. the veterinarian checks her out. >> she looks great and looks very healthy. brad: the three cubs are weighed and get ear tags. the maryland department of natural resources bear program keeps track of 21 female bears, the only way they say to monitor the help of a growing population. >> back in the 1950s there were almost no bears at all in maryland. now here we are with a very robust regional bear population. brad: more than 1,000 is their best estimate. bear habitat is expanding, too. the reproducing bear population has reached poolesville in montgomery county and in the years ahead it's expected suburban bear sightings will grow more common. >> these animals are really tolerant of people if we can just learn to be tolerant of them. brad: he's hoping that sharing the glimpse of these creatures in this way will help people better accept the possibility of a bear in the backyard. in maryland brad bell, abc 7 news. alison: brad looked pretty comfortable snuggling up with that bear. now. leon: in a few years, the whole bear's paw will be that big. alison: warm tomorrow? doug: a little taste of spring. for one day, we'll take it for sure. let's get started with our coverage. let's look at current conditions. gray and damp out there. 54 degrees at reagan national airport. actually only four to five degrees below average for this time of year. making progress there. sotherly wind at 8. at the moment we have a couple of moments of light wind and showers moving across the potomac river into areas of southwestern and prince george's county. from mount vernon eastward and moving through brandywine crossing potomac into calvert county. a few more. that should be that. tomorrow morning, few more showers as the leading edge of the warm air arrives. with the cold air we've had and cold ground and warmer air coming, fog is a possibility through the overnight and early morning hours as well. as far as numbers, a big difference when you go from west to east. north and east especially aberdeen and harford county maryland, 43. 54 at reagan and then you go west of the mountains and it warms up a little bit in the mid 60's. that's the warm air that will head our way. tonight, temperatures will drop but not that much. in fact, temperatures holding steady. only de-gropping. maybe only dropping a degree or two tonight. patchy fog is possible as well. what's happening in the west right now gives us a clue of what may be happening tomorrow. and this is an area of much warmer temperatures. 81 in little rock. 75 at nashville. 76 in charleston. this wedge of warm air is developing ahead of the next cold front that will have a profound effect on the weather and may arrive with thunderstorms in some areas by tomorrow evening. in fact, right now, we're looking at areas of showers and storms in parts of the central and southern plains as we're starting to see the warm air collide with the cold air and as part of that, i want to give you a live look at the weather bug network from tulsa, oklahoma. 76 degrees and look a thunderstorm in progress. it's moving out of frame but a pretty healthy thunderstorm indeed. very indicative of a spring pattern change. so tomorrow, we get a little activity in the morning. some showers and then as we get through the afternoon and evening hours we'll break into the sunshine. this is 6:00 a.m. what it may look like for showers in the area. as we get through mid morning and afternoon, we'll pop into sunshine and get the sotherly winds to push us into the 70's in many areas. and then tomorrow evening, 7:00 8:00, 9:00, this line of thunderstorms and rain showers may move through with gusty winds. start to turn cooler behind this for the day on friday. and turn much colder around these parts by the day on saturday. so we'll warm it back up. again, this is just the painful slow process of transitioning to winlter weather patterns, spring weather patterns around the mid atlantic and the rest of the country for that matter. tomorrow morning, some fog and some light rain in the morning. we'll break out into sunshine. 66 by midday. 72 to 74 by late afternoon or evening. and then the showers and storms will be a possibility. we'll back it off by 20 degrees. count them. 20 by friday with morning showers. clearing late in the day. saturday, breezy. partly cloudy. highs only 40 to 44 degrees. sunday warmer near 50 and then a nice warmup monday, tuesday and wednesday back into the lower 60's. alison: ok lots of changes every single day. moving in the right direction. thank you. leon: absolutely. moving on now this morning i had a great chance to go and hang out with some wonderful people today. we had -- we celebrated the scan of their 13th annual prevention awards luncheon. we'll see a group that is all about stopping child abuse and neglect. wonderful folks and they honored five different award winners from the various counties in the area. amazing people doing some amazing work to help kids and save them from abuse and teaching families how to do it on their own. wonderful people. alison: great job. all right. you might remember the song "i can't drive 55". well still ahead, how one car company wants to help you maintain the speed limit at all times. leon: and a little later, food and friendship that turn some lives around. alison: first, here's a look at what's coming up tonight on abc. alison: "7 on your side" with a health matters report now. according to a new study, a pregnant mother's increased exposure to air pollution appears to be linked to changes in the brain and behavior of their children later in life. scientists aren't sure why this link is so prominent and they admit a larger study is necessary. but it does raise concerns about the invisible effects that air pollution might have on those that smoke. they are giving a former u.p.s. driver another chance to prove her claim of pregnancy discrimination. peggy young of lorton sued the atlanta based package delivery company after she says she was forced to take a leave of absence or risk her pregnancy instead of being offered lighter duty. today in a 6-3 vote in favor of young, the justices threw out lower court rulings that rejected her lawsuit. leon: word tonight that celebrity chef jacques papen is recovering from a stroke. the 79-year-old was at his home when she started noticing symptoms. it was a minor one but enough to cancel an appearance in d.c. scheduled for this friday. he was able to cook some soup this morning and she expects her dad to make a full recovery. the u.s. senate special committee on aging heard testimony on combatting alzheimer's disease. the former restaurateur and her husband were among those who smoke. smith closed her union station restaurant after being diagnosed with early onset alzheimer's. >> this has been something that's very new to me because i've been so healthy for a long time but i've never had anything like this. but what i'm going to do is i'm going to fight. leon: last november smith became disoriented and spent the next 17 hours wandering around new york city. the department of health and human services have set a goal of preventing and effectively treating alzheimer's by 2025 e. alison: gary bettman was on capitol hill discussing the importance of hockey in higher education. members of congress as wellf will join part of their team to face off against lobbyists in the seventh annual congressional hockey challenge. all proceeds go to the nhl's thurgood marshall college fund. leon: coming up on abc 7 news at 5:00, going in a different direction. what sent teenage girls in a tizzy about one of the biggest boy bands. alison: dishonorable behavior? we'll take a look at the controversial swirling on line after this picture of kids climbing on a national monument. reporter: a former member of congress seems to be living a mystery life in dubai and his friends are concerned. i'm sam ford. that story is coming up o leon: a call tonight to help the wife of the district's first congressional delegate. friends tell abc 7 news that walter's wife is on the verge of losing the family home the home that has been in the family for 50 years after he traveled overseas and has not returned. sam ford explains how all this happened. >> walter if you hear about us and know about this, we want you to come home. sam: friends of d.c.'s 82-year-old former congressman walter fontroy told reporters they haven't seen him in three years. he's in dubai, they think, but they know he's in bankruptcy, his northwest d.c. home is in foreclosure over a $650,000 loan and they're seeking donations to save it for his 80-year-old wife dorothy who lives there. >> these funds will not go to congressman himself. they will go to his wife. to help her while she deals with whatever -- this is obviously more traumatic for her than it is for us. sam: he was a top aide to dr. martin luther king d.c.'s congressman for 20 years and pastor of new bethel baptist church for 50 years and he was in libya to see muammar qaddafi when rebels killed qaddafi. he was feared dead too. he returned to d.c. and then went to dubai to work on world hunger he told friends. >> he just believes he's so close on this mission. so close. sam: there are media reports he may be avoiding the u.s. because of a bench warrant involving a $50,000 bounced check. his lawyer rejected that. >> did you tell him there's like a storm brewing over here? >> he knows that. sam: barnes said he last spoke with him three days ago. reporters had many questions, why is he broke when a 10 term former congress member gets a pension? are there health issues involved here? his friends could only say they don't know. reporting from northwest washington, sam ford, abc 7 news. alison: we know two of the 150 people who died in that germanwings plane crash are from nokesville, virginia. yvonne selke worked as a contractor at booz allen hamilton for the last 23 years. her daughter emily graduated from drexel with a major in music industry. she worked back here in alexandria and also served on the executive board of the guama sigma sigma sorority. virginia governor terry mcauliffe is ordering a complete retraining for the commonwealth's alcoholic beverage control agents. this comes after that high-profile arrest of martese johnson in charlottesville. state police are already investigating that arrest. and for the first time police narrowed the search for a person of interest after a lawyer was murdered at the donovan hotel just last month. they now believe the person seen on surveillance after david messerschmitt was found stabbed is a woman. according to a search warrant obtained by abc 7, credit cards condoms and clothes also found in that room. leon: jurors in the boston marathon bombing trial saw more potential explosives material found in the alleged attacker's home. among the items recovered from dzhokhar tsarnaev's apartment, b.b.s, nails and pressure cooker parts. they say that his brother tamerlan who died in a gun fight with police was the mastermind. alison: nigerian officials say boko haram kidnapped

emily was a member of the gamma sigma sigma service sorority which posted a photo and service memoir about emily who always put others before herself and cared deeply for those in her life. emily's linkedin page said she was a community manager for car workplaces in alexandria and was also a lifetime girl scout. peggy fox. >> as peggy mentioned, the family and friends of the selkes declined to comment and asked for privacy and prayers instead. we also learned today the third american was on that flight, but the state department has not released any details on that passenger. >>> tonight french officials say it appears unlikely an act of terrorism or foul play brought down the plane and they should have a better idea what happened the next few days because they found usable audio from one of the black boxes. >> we hope to have a rough idea in a matter of days and having a full understanding of it with all the information coming in from all the other recorded parameters will take weeks and months. >> investigators have started analyzing the audio. so far they don't have an explanation

during her time here at drexel selke was active as vice-president of the service sorority gamma sigma sigma. sorority's facebook page credits selke as an integral part of growing chapter here at drexel and members remembering her as someone who always put others before herself. selke with her mother when her germanwings airline flight crashed the on the trip from barcelona spain to dusseldorf germany on tuesday. one of the young woman's many friend spoke to cnn about the shocking news let's listen. >> i keep saying it is surreal. you always see these things on the news and you think it is horrible but you never know anyone involved. you never know anyone. chances on have that are so slim and even yesterday morning i woke up and on my phony had a text from my friend, i had had breaking news alert about the plane crash and i remember thinking wow, that is really sad. i opened up and went about my day. >> reporter: she was shocked to learn the news that emily was with us no longer. the the university has released a statement, drexel is deeply saddened to hear about the tragic loss of alumni em

she was a music industry major and vice president of the gamma sigma sigma sorority. her mom was also killed in the crash. i spoke by skype with one of her high school friends. >> she wanted the best for everybody. she made everybody feel important. i think that's why everybody loved her, is because she made you feel important. that's hard to find in people these days. >> emily is from virginia. yvonne was a u.s. contractor. >>> new at 11:00, a philadelphia police officer in trouble with the law again. david howard is charged in connection to a murder that happened almost a year ago. it's not his first time being accused of violence. nbc 10's denise nakano is at police headquarters and joins us with more on this. denise? >> reporter: jacqueline david howard lost his job with the philadelphia police when he critically shot a man. now some ten years later, he was brought here to police headquarters to face new charges connected to a murder case. >> they come pointing guns in my face. >> reporter: they arrested david howard today at the home he shared with his 82-year-ol

. >> at drexel emily was the member of a service sorority gamma sigma sigma they said she put others before herself and will be greatly missed. can you see more by going to 6abc.com and see more vote owes and video from the scene in the french alps. >>> tornadoes tore a path of destruction in oklahoma one twister killed a person and injured nine others in the tulsa suburbs yesterday. the national weather center is just starting to assess the damage. a children's gymnastic studio collapsed and firefighters carried them to safety after the storm. >> was scared and all we did was praise god we were still alive. >> tornadoes were also reported in arkansas 80,000 people were left without power. >>> the same weather system is affecting our region on a much smaller scale we are dealing with rain and the chance for thunderstorms. david murphy is tracking the latest at the "action news" big board. >> we did have a cluster of thunderstorms that was not a severe storm but the storms were producing a lot of lightning and we were talking about the importance of getting inside. of course whenever

selke was active as vice-president, of a campus chapter of the national service sorority gamma sigma sigma. selke's family who lives in virginia, also issued a statement that reads in part our entire family is deeply saddened by the the losses of yvonne and emily selke, two wonderful, amazing people, who meant so much to so many. and selke's sorority also had word of praise commemorating her, for her giving service oriented spirit. live from the drexel campus i'm walt hunter for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> all right walt, thank you. >>> meanwhile french officials say it could be days or weeks before remains of all 150 victims from the crash are recovered. investigators are trying to figure out why germanwings flight 9525 lost altitude and slammed in the french alps. they started analyzing voice recordings from one of the plane's black boxes. officials say a it contains usable material but they caution their fine goes will be preliminary. >>> the the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley will have more on the investigation coming up next at 6:30 immediately following this broadcast. >>> we h

she embodied the the spear the of gamma sigma sigma an a person and friend emily put others before herself and cared deeply for all of those in her life. emily will be greatly missed by her fellow sisters of say the at a. police keep emily, her mother and their family in your thoughts and prayers during this heartbreaking time ". >>> students on campus wednesday afternoon were stunned to hear the news. >> definitely is a tragedy. losing someone from your own community and definitely prayers and thoughts go out to her family. >> reporter: now a third american on board that flight has not yet been identified. no word tonight on whether drexel university will hold a memorial or a vigil in emily selke's memory when students return here from spring break. lucy? >> thank you, dave. >>> one person is hurt in a crash involving a philadelphia fire truck. skyfox over third and grange streets in the olney neighborhood and you can see right there that suv on its side side. one person went to einstein. officials are not confirm anything other details about what happened. >>> we got a little few thing g

during her time here in drexel selke was vice-president of the service sorority gamma sigma sigma. they credit selke as an integrate part of the growing the chapter at drexel and members are remembering her as someone who put others before herself. selke and her mother yvonne died when their plane crash in the french alps from the trip to dusseldorf. one of the many friend spoke to cnn about the the tragic news let's listen. >> it is just so surreal. you always see these things on the news and you think, you know, it is horrible but you never know anyone involve. you never know anyone. chances are so slim. even yesterday morning i woke up, and on my phony had a text from my friend and breaking news alert about the plane crash. i remember thinking wow, that is sad. i opened my friend and went about my day. >> reporter: the university has now released a statement, drexel is deeply sat end to hear about the tragic loss of the alumni emily selke and her mother. our thoughts and prayers where her family and friend. emily and yvonne are two of those 150 people who died when that plane cr

sigma sigma a service sorority on campus the group post add tribute on its facebook page. writing emily always put others before herself and cared deeply for all those in her life. investigators have to fly in by chopper to access the crash sight but the big question, why did this happen? >> we don't yet know what the first link in this causal chain of events was that started this crash. >> reporter: cockpit rice recorder is heavily damaged and new york times is recording one of the pilots left the cockpit and could not get back inside before the crash. analysts are still trying to find out why the jet stayed at cruising altitude for a minute before taking an eight minute decent with no distress call. there was a third american on board we do not know that person's name. the selke family released a statement earlier today thanking people for their thoughts and asking people for their prayers and privacy. we are live on drexel's campus david spunt cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> tragic loss, david thank you so much. you can stay with "eyewitness news" as we track the latest on this plane crash. you can always get the latest on the investigation any time at cbsphilly.com. >>> also breaking tonight a deadly outbreak of severe weather tornadoes touched down in oklahoma and as you can see in these images that have just come into our newsroom there is devastation in moore oklahoma. this is the very same city that was leveled by a twister just two short years ago. officials in tulsa county say at least one person is dead there and many others have been injured in this first outbreak of severe weather this season. this video shows the tornado in moore and you can see the force triggered some small explosions on the ground perhaps transformers that were there. cars and trucks were also no match for the force of mother nature there. some were flipped over on an interstate. >>> i'm in the weather center with meteorologist kathy orr. this same system is coming our way but we don't expect it to be anywhere near as severe, correct. >> that is correct. right now that storm is weakening as it moves through arkansas and the midwest. let's take you back to storm scan3. we'll show you the center of the storm associated with a cold front that's moving eastward but already some severe reports in confirmed tornado reports from places like oklahoma city moore as chris men'sed extending out until arkansas and some of these just really devastating. we did mention one proving fatal already core made dough in san springs destroying a donut shop another one with extensive damage in oh a mobile home area these are weakening as they move eastward. so during the day tomorrow, we expect downpours with these storms. frequent lightning, even some strong winds but the good news is the threat for hail and even the threat for tornadoes is low with these particular storms. here's a look what we do expect for your thursday. showers, some thunderstorms. up to about half an inch of rain ponding on area roads and with any type of thunderstorm, there's always that risk of cloud to ground lightning and gusts at least to 35 miles an hour. coming up we will time these storms. it will ab line of storms that will be moving through we'll show when they'll be moving through your neighbor. in the meantime chris we'll zen it back to you. >> kathy, thank you very much. >>> a woman is injured in a crash involveing a philadelphia fire truck today. the suv that she was driving was knocked on its side by the force of that impact. it happened at third and grange in olney at a four-way stop. now some did report hearing the fire truck sirens at the time of the that crash. tracy martinez took this picture of the driver of the suv being taken away in an ambulance. >> i was just in the living room watching tv and we heard the sirens going real loud and we heard a real loud loud loud bang. we ran up and you saw the car flipped up on the side. >> the injuries to that driver are not life threatening. >>> bucks county judge sentences former sportscaster don tollefson to two to four years in state prison and 15 years probation. tollefson was also ordered to pay back $165,000 in restitution restitution. he defrauded nearly 200 people in a sports charity scam. >> not about the money any more. it's the principal. as long as he can't do it to anybody else any more. justice really has been served. >> tollefson could be releaseed in as little has 14 to 15 months for good behavior and time serve serve. >>> a new jersey attorney and court appointed guardian has been sentenced to prison for stealing millions from elderly clients. the i-team shall hot huffman first reported on this case last year. and she was in court today and has an update on this i-team exclusive. >> reporter: barber lieberman wore handcuffs and orange jumpsuit in court facing a very different life than the one she's used to. >> do i know you? >> my name is charlotte huffman i'm with cbs3. >> i-team exposed lieberman in november. prosecutors say she and three others stole $3.8 million from at least 16 victims and used the money to pay off six digit credit card bills and buy things like this bmw and a luxury condo in florida. >> authorities say the women offered legal and in home services to the elderly then took control of their life savings. >> miss lieberman was the quarterback of this team of exam artists. this is why people don't trust lawyers. >> reporter: how do you sleep at night. >> lieberman tried to hide from our cameras last fall but today there was no place to hide. >> i am truly sorry. >> lieberman gotten years in prison. she's eligible for parole in 3.5. she also agreed to pay $3 million in restitution but all of her victims except one have already died. afterwards her husband said he never knew what was going on. >> my wife is an attorney. she should have never done this. we did not need the money at all all. >> she got what she deserve. she had to go to prison. the crime was a significant crime. >> reporter: others may also go to jail with the help of testimony from lieberman. last week, a grand jury indicted her alleged co conspirators and two others connected to the case. for the i-team i'm charlotte huffman cbs3 "eyewitness news". >>> we also have new information tonight in a three on your side investigation into alleged local used car scams. today the pennsylvania attorney general's office filed a lawsuit against car vision, car vision. vision.com and drive here.com. the businesses operated three dealerships in montgomery county and philadelphia. they're accused of of selling used cars at inflated prices and vehicles that were not road worthy. 130 complaints were investigate investigated. the attorney general is seeking restitution for consumers. >>> tonight prosecutors say they will prove both suspects fired the shots that killed philadelphia police sergeant robert wilson. a preliminary hearing for carlton hips and rah-rah moan williams was delayed today. it's now set for may 20th. in court prosecutors plan to place security video of march 5th shoot out inside the north philadelphia game stop store. they say it will show both men are responsible for sergeant wilson's death. >>> philadelphia mayor michael nutter signed an executive order createing a civilian oversight board to address police involved shootings in the city. the latest incident happened last night in nicetown. that's where police shot a suspect who they say pointed a gun at them at 17th and blah voice. that man did survive. well this happened a day aft the justice department released a new report saying that philadelphia police needed better training in how they interact with the community. >> when you take a close examination of the recommendations for reform within the department, it is clear that changes need to be made with regard to the use of force and certainly lethal force in the philadelphia police department and all across our city. >> the oversight board will monitor the implementation of policy changes. >>> well she may be just six years old but one little girl in vineland is already a hero. >> when her grandfather got sick she jumped into action likely saving his life and she told us her story tonight. clark notice all about 911. >> it's important to call them if it's a real emergency. not if someone stole my crayon. >> on february 22 and she used that knowledge to help save her 84 year old grandfather's life. >> i saw he was not talking right. and then i noticed he said he's feeling all right but he's not. >> wins ton clark suffers from diabetes. asha new his blood sugar dropped and she waved no time. >> i called the ambulance and at first the police came and then the ambulance came. >> her bravery did not go unnoticed. just this week asha received a certificate of heroism from the city of vineland emergency medical service. she is proud but her grandfather is prouder. >> she made me shed tears. tears of joy. tears of joy. my baby saved my life. >> these two make quite a duo and thanks to aisha their love and devotion for one another will continue to shine bright. >> i really appreciate it. i thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> now aisha told us she was was scared. >> sure. >> she knew what she had to do to make sure her grandfather was okay. a wonderful lesson in bravery from a very little girl with a big importance. were a great pair they make. the importance of knowing those three digits 911. >> scratch off lottery tickets supposed to be a pick me up for sick man in pennsylvania but he got a big surprise inside of his get well card. we'll tell you about it next. >>> also, on the way tonight, he was the centerpiece of a racist video and we are hearing from the expelled student for the first time. we'll tell you what he's saying about himself. kathy? >> in the wake of this storm, in the warm air it will be turning much colder by the time we make it to the weekend. we'll talk bout ups and downs in that seven day coming up. >>> and with all of today's technology it's easy to find yourself getting distracted but there's a new device that claims to give you a window into your brain. it will help you get focused they say. just ahead that new technology that colted let you retrain your >>> one of the students who was caught on camera leading a racist chant with his fraternity brothers at the university of oklahoma speaks publicly for the first time today. levi pettitte said he was sorry and embarrassed that he took part in that chant. when the individual crow went viral earlier this month the university closed the school's chapter of sigma alpha epsilon. it also expelled pettitte and another student who was leading the chant. >> bottom line the words that were said in that chant were mean hateful and racist. i will be deeply sorry and deeply ashamed of what i've done for the rest of my life. >> the other student who was expelled parker rice has only released a written statement. >>> the army sergeant bowe bergdahl who abandoned his post in afghanistan has now been charged with desertion and misbehave your before the end knee. bergdahl was held captive by the taliban for five years. last may, he was handed over to u.s. special forces in afghanistan in exchange for five taliban commanders who had been held at guantonimo bay. >>> speeding tickets could become obsolete thanks to new technology from forward for. the automaker's new s max model comes with intelligent speed technology. camera on the car will read speed limit signs and slow the car down accordingly. now, drivers can override the system by pressing firmly on the

sigma sigma and remember as someone who always put others before herself and cared deeply for all those in her life. our entire family is deeply saddened, the selke family writes about the loss of yvonne and emily selke two wonderful, caring, amazing people who meant so much to so many. >> reporter: again, emily is being remember for her service oriented spirit today. this campus community continues to mourn the loss of that young woman and they continue to oner about how exactly that plane went down. reporting live at drexel university jan carabao for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> stay with "eyewitness news" as we continue to cover latest developments in the germanwings plane crash. if you cannot watch us on air, follow us on line at cbs philly.com. >>> we're following a developing story this morning the first batch of the severe weather in the tornado sees than has proven deadly. at least one person is dead and several others injured after tornadoes touched down in oklahoma and in arkansas. correspondent don champion has the latest. >> there it is, tornado on the ground. >> reporter: tornadoes hit during evening rush hour wednesday ripping apart buildings. >> devastated. totally devastated. >> reporter: doughnut shop lisa jenkins owned in sam springs outside tulsa is now a pile have of debris. >> it is just so sad, sheetrock and wood. we will rebuild. it will happen. give it time. >> reporter: not far away at least one person was killed when a tornado plowed through this mobile home park several others were injured. the neighborhood is new barely recognizable. >> yes. >> reporter: same storm hit as dozens of children were in a gymnastics class. they all took cover in the basement just as the roof was ripped off. fire fighters carried the shaken children out afterward. >> i was scared and all we did was pray to god that we were still alive. >> reporter: to the south in the town of moore near oklahoma city a small tornado damage homes wind blew a tractor trailer over have the just two years ago this powerful tornado killed 24 people here. on wednesday many like scott pierce took cover in new underground storm shelters. >> we were pack in there and we were happy. >> reporter: before this week only two dozen tornadoes had been reported this year during a period when 120 are typical. don champion for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> happening today, would the man convicted of kidnapping and molesting a five-year old girl will learn her fate. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch joins us outside the criminal justice center where cristina regusters is charged for a sent tones day. >> reporter: good morning. prosecutors say the the entire incident lasted some 19 hours and today cristina regusters could face life in prison. more than two years after prosecutors say that she kidnaped and raped a five-year old girl cristina regusters returned to court, this time to learn her fate. on a january morning in 2013 regusters check the girl out of class at west philadelphia's bryant elementary telling school staff she was the girl's mother. surveillance video from the school and second source shows regusters described in a head to toe covering. in court the jury heard from the victim who recalled being stripped naked blindfolded, stashed under a bed and sexually assaulted with a sharp object. she thought her abuser was a man but prosecutors argued it was regusters. good samaritan later found the girl abandon at an upper darby play ground wearing only a t-shirt, dna from that shirt helped link her to regusters. again, she's facing life in prison at this time. her defense will likely count their and go for a lower sentence pointing out the fact that she was victim of sex abuse of a child at the hand of her father. they are sentencing set to start at 9:00 this morning. we are live from center city i'm just continue finch for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> also in court today a preliminary hearing for accused penny pack park rapist. police say robert palin tack two women in the park several years ago. detective used dna to find palin in a wisconsin prison last year. the the judge will decide if there is enough evidence to put palin on trial. >>> we will find out today if flashy new billboard will come to center city. city council is voting on a plan to buried huge billboard. catalyst outdoor advertising showed us what those signs would look like. if they are approved one will be built outside the pennsylvania convention center, the other would go across from reading term will nal market. a plan to put another sign at broad and locust was already done. >>> your time is 5:09. another fraternity shut down the bad behavior that force that had fraternity to be closed. >>> plus an suv knock on to its side after a crash with the fire truck. we will let you know how that driver is doing this morning. >>> miss would go man found hundreds of miles away from home, she claims that she was kidnaped but police are not buying her story. why they say it was one big hoax. >>> don't leave home without your umbrella this morning katie lets you know when rain is expect to arrive when we do traffic and weather together on the three's so i was video chatting with my girlfriend. we haven't been together long but... she just says it. i love you. my heart is racing. so i say it right back. i love you too. and she freezes. not actually but the video chat. and i'm like, "did she even hear me?" i am so relieved i have verizon. i panicked, tried to unfreeze it and hung up. we are so much in love. she never called me back. join us and save without settling on the largest, most reliable network. >>> a fire truck and suv collide injuring a woman in philadelphia the the force of the impact knock that suv check this out on to its side. the the crash happened yesterday at third and grange in olney in a four way stop sign there. some reported hearing the fire truck sirens at the time of the crash. the tracie martinez took a picture of the driver of the suv before being taken away in an ambulance. >> we were just watching tv and we heard sirens real loud and we heard a real loud bang. we ran outside and saw the the car flipped up on the side. >> injuries to the driver are not life threatening. >>> don tollefson will serve two to four years in state prison following his conviction in the sports charity scam. a bucks county judge ordered the former sportscaster to 15 years probation. tollefson also has to pay back $165,000 in restitution. he was found guilty of defrauding 200 sports fans out of $340,000 of travel packages that never materialized. >> it is not about the money any more but just the principal. as long as he cannot do it to anybody else, justice has really been served. >> reporter: tollefson could get out in four to 15 months for good behavior and time served. >>> right now 5:13. lets talk about the storm system heading our way. >> nicole it will be a a storm that brings us a milk bag depending on the time of the day at least initially this morning. fog is really your primary concern. it is patchy in nature. not everybody is dealing with that in any given neighborhood right now but you may run into it depending where your travels take you. later this morning wet weather will be out there for us. as we take you out first and foremost to storm scan three there is some moisture to work with here but it is not over our area yet. you can see a southerly component evident by tracking these little pockets of the rain and this will roll in our area would i say nine or 10:00 a.m. is when it gets underway. here is your cold front or leading edge of it. once we get this through we will see a nose dive on the thermometer but today is the day have of action for sure. starting off with the fog, and then eventually late they're morning we will see southerly component ushering in the rain and come through intermittently. while you might not get wet all day long not worse idea to keep the umbrella at the ready because this rain could douse you. here is your cold front. five or six or 7:00 p.m. it starts to advance. over philadelphia eight or 9:00 o'clock tonight. some storms could be locally strong especially with gusty wind down toward the shore points here. heading into tomorrow we have just enough moisture as it looks like low pressure that redevelops on the tail end of this to bring south rain showers in the morning and then we will clear out. right now flirting with 40 in most locations cooler to moderate depending where you are but we expect to spike to flirt with 70 degrees but watch out for rain and thunderstorms by this evening. vittoria, over to you. >>> good morning everyone. so still again waiting around for the rush hour if you are traveling out and about pretty fantastic out there. there are in delays of either direction of any of our majors. we will look first at the schuylkill expressway heading to and from center city philadelphia this shot around montgomery, it is great out there. only a few vehicles travel not only around center city but western suburbs it is a beautiful ride. so we have more good news coming. taking a look the at the vine street expressway this ramp to i-95 traveling to i-95 or schuylkill straight shot through center city. speed sensors high up in the 50's and, in pennsylvania, delaware and traveling in new jersey, so just good news all over. unfortunately this is our one dim spot we have an accident in new jersey closing democrat road at swede bureau avenue. your best alternate within to take harmony road. watch out for construction on plymouth road dealing with the closure there as a result of the sink hell between blue route and germantown pike. in delays for mass transit. erika. >>> a drexel graduate is among victims of the german plane crash in the alps. that plane went down in the morning of the monday. 2013 drexel graduate emily selke was among the three americans of the 150 people on game. damage voice recorder indicates one pilot was lock out of the cockpit before that plane crash. >>> one person was killed and dozens injured in tornadoes across oak a the town of moore was hit by six tornadoes over the past 15 years. >>> it is september eppsing day for cristina regusters who was quick of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a five-year old girl in 2013. >>> 5:16. get ready for big changes on facebook, new features that will change the way you use the social network, plus this. >> you know, what you saw on that video is not who i am, who i was raised to be and not what i think of myself to be. >> oklahoma college student at the the center of the racist chant scandal breaks his silence. the changes he promises to make after that video went when heartburn comes creeping up on you... fight back with relief so smooth... ...it's fast. tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue ...and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum, tum tum tum...♪ smoothies! only from tums. >>> new this morning a fraternity at rutgers university is shut down for under age drinking. significant man file epsilon had has been suspend by their national headquarters. a 20 year-old member was hospitalized last year after he drank at that fraternity house. rutgers says six fraternities and one sorority are being investigated for alcohol violations. >>> meanwhile university of oklahoma student caught on this video leading a racist chant says he is embarrassed and sorry. levi petit spoke publicly for the the first time since this video surfaced. the the university quickly responded to the scandal earlier this month shutting down the chapter of the sigmaha epsilon and expelling petit and other student. >> all the of the apologies in the world will not change what i have done. i will try to bring the people of all races together. that is why i hope and pray comes out of this. >> the university is expect to announce the results of the investigation to the fraternity tomorrow. >>> former congressman jesse jackson junior is spending his final few hours in prison. jackson is supposed to be released from a federal prison in alabama today. he spent last year and a half behind bars after admitting he used campaign fund for personal use. jackson won't be a freeman just yet he will spend last six months in a halfway house in washington d.c. >>> still ahead this morning a costly win for the the flyers two key players are finished for the the season have after 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emily selke was a music industry major and vice president of the gamma sigma sigma national service sorority. emily's mom, yvonne, also died in the crash. we spoke with one of emily's friends. >> she wanted the best for everybody. and she made everybody feel important. and i think that's why everybody loved her. was because she made you feel important, and that's hard to find in people these days. >> emily and yvonne are from virginia. yvonne was a u.s. contractor. >>> a controversy over young immigrants has some claiming that kids are being illegally imprisoned in burks county. the issue centers on the residential center in bern township. it's being used to house illegal immigrants. but an immigration attorney says the facility is not safe for children. and he has written a letter to attorney general kathleen kane about it. >> look into this matter, investigate why the department of human service continually issues a license to a facility that is clearly operating illegally in the imprisonment of children. >> now, kane's office says it is reviewing those allegations. burks county commission

emily selke was a 2013 graduate of drexel university and member of the gamma sigma sigma sorority.friends say her smile was infectious. >> her mother also died in the crash. she grew up in springfield, delaware county and graduated from springfield high school in 1975. she recently signed up to attend the 40th high school reunion planned for october. >> i'm just sorry for your loss and they just need time to heal. it will take a long one with this one and especially due to the circumstances. >> yvonne and emily selke lived in virginia before the crash. a third american killed has been identified as robert oliver. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> the first alert weather team is keeping a close watch on the skies. thunderstorms are expected to form and hit our area a short time from now. our live sky-cam network shows a dreary afternoon right now that's showing showers as we look at the philadelphia sky line. nbc 10 first alert meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is here with us. >> have they formed yet? >> no, but just every computer model shows that happening within

we also know that the sorority she was a member of, gamma sigma sigma, they have posted on their facebookage paying their respects, calling her, she beautifies what their alumni stands for and they give a long, long posting to her memory. we also know that emily selke worked as a car workplace here the washington, d.c. a spokesperson there confirming that she did work there. but this is the headline. we now know the identities of these two americans, a mother and a daughter, yvonne selke and emily selke. cnn has been in contact with raymond selke, he is the father and the husband of the two victims here. he tells us that he will be issuing a family statement later on today but tells cnn he is just broken up and just too emotional to speak further, which is perfectly understandable, just such a tragedy. but we're starting to learn more information about these two victims. as we get more, we'll get that to you, pamela. >> so sad. a mother and a daughter killed in this plane crash. our hearts certainly go out to the father and the husband there. rene marsh, please keep us posted. we apprecia

her sorority gamma sigma sigma, posting on their facebook page their regards and memory for her saying quote, they are mourning the loss of their beautiful alumni. we know the two are from nokesville virginia about 45 minutes outside of washington, d.c. they leave behind raymond selke who is the father of emily and the husband of yvonne. he spoke to cnn today and as you can imagine, wolf he says he is too distraught to talk. but the family will be issuing a statement later on today. wolf we also know that emily selke worked in the washington, d.c. area. and we have been in touch with her employer. they too, are mourning the loss of this young woman as well. >> what a tragedy. only two of those 150 souls on board that plane, all presumed lost. much more on the other victims coming up. let's talk a little bit about some of those other victims of germanwings flight 9525. they include two german opera singers, 54-year-old and a 34-year-old. both fresh off a performance at barcelona. ♪ aby on board at the time. and also on board, a nurse and her 21-year-old son. the two were on a european v

sigma sigma. drexel is deeply sad toned hear about the tragic loss of alumni em lie soul is beinge and her mother read a university e-mail. our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friend. and, in another statement, the sorority that emily belonged to praised her for her giving service oriented spirit. that she always showed. we will have much more on this when we join you at 6:00 live from the drexel campus i'm walt hunter, for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> walt, thank you. >>> french officials are ruling outer wrist many as a cause of the crash. investigators have started analyzing the plane's voice data a recorder hoping it will reveal why the the air bus slammed into the the mountains. cbs news correspondent tina krause has latest now from france. >> reporter: investigators have started analyzing the voice recordings from one of the plane's black boxes. they say it contains usable sound and voices but caution their findings are preliminary. >> we hope to have a first or rough idea, in a matter of days. >> reporter: authorities say they don't have the slightest explanation why the germanwings air bus lost altitude and slammed in the french alps shredding into pieces. french president francois hollande says the casing of the plane's second black box has been found but not the flight data recorder itself. hollande, and the german chancellor and prime minister marion a rihoy made a joint appearance at the crash side to thank first responders andes from their condolences to the families of 150 victims. the crash site can only be reach from the air so emergency crews are staging here about 8 miles from where the plane went down. three of the victims are americans, including a u.s. contractor from virginia and her daughter. most passengers were from spain and germany including 16 students and two teachers from the the same high school, in the small germantown of halter. the school's principal says that nothing will be the way that it was at our school anymore. in france, tina krause for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> and keep it right here on "eyewitness news" for continuing coverage. you can get latest on the investigation anytime at cbs philly.com. >>> it has been gray, all day long with the round of showers rolling through from time to time, and more rain is on the way. meteorologist kathy orr is outside on the cbs-3 sky deck tracking the conditions, kathy. >> we have some 30's and 40's out here chris but there is a i chill in the air with the breeze and more showers to go around throughout the evening. then a big warm up. but as usual it comes at the a price. temperatures around the region right now though still well below normal. forty-five in philadelphia. thirty-nine in reading. forty-three in wilmington. average high is 56 degrees. so this month will continue to be a cold one. first forecast shows temperatures steady or slowly rising throughout the evening hours, staying in the 40's, with some areas of fog, and on storm scan three you can see bulk of the rain has moved through with breaks late. we do have a few more lingering showers to go but they will be spotty this evening. so coming up we will talk about what is to come? we do have some rain coming up associated with some warmer air tomorrow, so a batch goes through in the morning some heavy downpours as well and then by the evening here comes that cold front, a line of showers and some embedded thunderstorms will be rolling through the delaware valley and philadelphia, right around that 8:00 o'clock hour. so coming up we will talk more about the one day warm up, how warm it actually gets, the storm risks coming tomorrow and when it will be turning colder again as fit could not get any colder around here. i'll see you later in the broadcast. >> thank you. >>> former sportscaster don tollefson is sentenced to prison time for selling bogus sports packages in the name of charity. "eyewitness news" reporter matt rivers was in the courtroom when that eventens was handed down and he joins us live from the bucks county justice center in doylestown, matt. >> reporter: jessica tollefson received a sent isens of two to four years in state prison, followed by 15 years of probation. he was also ordered to repay nearly $165,000 in restitution. don tollefson was charged with defrauding nearly 200 people including charities. he sold them things like super bowl tickets and trips to eagles game but never delivered on any of it. wednesday prosecutors were pleased with the judge's ruling. >> get him incarcerated, even if it means he is making license plates for 50 sent an hour. >> reporter: several people made victim impact statements before the court wednesday using word like vial, despicable to describe tollefson's actions. one of those people was cindy mufet. >> it is not about the money but principal. as long as he can't do it to anybody else anymore then justice has been served. >> reporter: tollefson spoke on his own behalf and said he made poor decisions due to drugs and alcohol addiction and took responsibility for the crimes. also testifying a psychologist who said tollefson told him he had been sexually abused by his mother, forced to sleep in her bed until he was 16. he said tollefson's mental problems could stem from that. judge could have handed down a far harsher eventens but chose not to. >> justice needs to be measured and balanced. >> reporter: one of group's tollefson scammed was brandly fox foundation a charity named for a fallen police officer. that officer's parent were not happy about the sentence. >> it is disappoint to go them and they don't feel that justice was served today. >> reporter: with good behavior and considering time already served in jail tollefson could get out of prison in as little as 14 months. we're live from doylestown bucks county, matt rivers for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> matt, thanks very much. >>> officials are monitoring air quality following a three alarm fire in bethlehem. flames tore through a warehouse there and smoke could be seen for several miles. fire happened at 11 muck maulh chuck road in bethlehem and noel mcclaren is live at the scene tonight, noel. >> reporter: one of the big concerns has been the the lingering smoke in the area, we did have some rain and we're starting to get more rain that has helped out with that problem but if you take a look at the size of this puddle behind me you can see fire fighters used plenty of what ther from their own hoses and if you take a look at top of the warehouse you might be able to see how parts of it are still smoldering. there is still a lot of damage control to be done around here. hours after crews income down most of the warehouse fire a plume of smoke lingered in north bethlehem and on moravian college's campus. >> whole room smelled of smoke. then i got a cough kind of thing. >> reporter: some students as well as 300 area homes lost power for six hours as fire fighters for the those flames. warehouse is own by a fabrication company that handles sheet metal and oils. officials say that is what caused smoldering conditions through most of the the day. >> there was a lot of smoke that poured through the city of bethlehem and even into allentown because of the weather conditions and kept the smoke close to the ground. >> everything down by the the hill was just a straight wall of smoke. it smelled all the way through campus. >> reporter: emerge i management are continuing to test air quality throughout bethlehem to make sure levels remain safe. >> we're looking for oxygen level, we're looking for hydrogen soul filed, carbon machine oxide and gas, explosive gases. >> reporter: they are monitoring local creeks for chemicals. so far air and water quality levels remain at normal levels but you can see that crews are still on the scene and they say they will remain on the scene and throughout the surrounding areas throughout the evening to keep a close eye on conditions. we're in bethlehem noel mcclaren for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> so, again although smoke in the area may be uncomfortable to some we're told air quality is considered safe. of course, we will have more on this ongoing investigation coming up at 6:00 but for now we are live in bethlehem noel mcclaren for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> thank you very much. >>> a man turns himself into police following a deadly stab nothing olney. chopper three over the 5900 block of 19th street just before noon time today. police say a man was found dead there on the kitchen floor of a home suffering with stab wound to the front of his body. charges have yet to be filed against his alleged attacker. >>> mayor michael nutter is creating a civil is yan oversight board to implement changes in the the wake of the justice department study of police involved shootings in philadelphia. nutter signed an a executive order at city hall today. that d o.j. report suggested that philadelphia police needed new training and use of of force and a deescalating situations. >> must get back to a hand on actively engage, on the street, type of policing where officers know their community they know their residents where they know the dangers and challenges in those neighborhoods but also requires better training for our officers increased foot patrols and greater community engagement. >> the the mayor's move creates a 15 percent citizen board led by temple law school dean joe and epps. >>> still to come on "eyewitness news" at 5:00 forget about changing a light bulb, how many elephants does it take he to keep a tractor trailer from overturning? some deputies found out? we will have the story coming up. >>> warning for farmer atlantic city casino workers, not only will they lose their jobs but they could become target of scam artists jim donovan has a warning for those struggling to remain in their homes. >>> eagles head coach chip kelly sits down with the media at nfl owners meeting, we will hear from the coach later on in sport caring for you and your eyes... ... just got a little easier. pearle vision accepts flex accounts and most vision plans, including eye med. this is genuine eye care, right in your neighborhood. this is pearle vision. >>> well, developing right now, today the the u.s. military, charged army sergeant bowe bergdahl with crimes that could put him behind bars for life. sergeant is accused of abandoning his post in afghanistan just before being captured by the taliban. the his long captivity drew the attention of many including president obama, who traded taliban prisoners in exchange for his freedom. today, the military charges against bergdahl were made public. >> sergeant bergdahl is charged under the uniform code of military justice with one count of article 85 decision with intent to hazardous duty and one count of article 99, misbehavior before the enemy good if found guilty of both charges, bergdahl could face a maximum of life in prison. >>> first, they lost their jobs. now many casino workers are losing their unemployment benefits. could they now be targeted by scam artists. >> three on your side consumer reporter jim donovan has a warning for those workers struggling to remain in their homes. >> reporter: it has been six months since revel, show boat and trump plaza casinos shut their doors leaving many without jobs. according to the new jersey department of labor currently 2,040 casino workers are collecting unemployment benefits with 1530 of them who will exhaust those benefits by the end of march and another 200 in april. which posts problems for those who own homes. >> that will be an area hard hit by foreclosures and people starting to have difficulties paying their mortgage because of the loss of their unemployment. >> reporter: patty hassonnies with clarify the region's largest none in profit consumer credit counseling agency. she aid when benefits stop, laid off casino workers could be vulnerable to scams. >> there is a lot of firms that advertise, we can help you stay in your home. the costing thousands of dollars. if they are asking you for money up front to save your home, just call time out, go on the internet and look for a hud certified counseling agency, clarify is one and we can help you through that process, at no cost. >> reporter: now save your home scams are not new. the hundreds of bogus mortgage modification companies and sleazy law firms took advantage of the struggling homeowners at the height of the recession. you should never pay money up front to anyone to save your home. i will post more information as well as contact information for clarify on cbs philly.com, as well as on my facebook and twitter feed. >> there is help. >> yes, but what happens when these unemployment benefits run out the sharks start circling and they start going after vulnerable people. >> good warning, thank you. >>> septa's 15th street subway station will be getting a total make over soon. septa's design team handed out flyers with renderings of the the new look. twenty million-dollar project will bring a new finish, lighting better access for riders with disability and improvement on the tunnels between the broad street line. the construction is expect to begin in winter of 2016. >> very nice. >>> imagine no more speeding tickets, that sound good right? still to come how a built in device in some new cars will automatically slow you down. >>> then stopping strokes before they happen health reporter is on your side with new technology that could save thousands of lives. >>> chip kelly on the hot seat at owners meetings in phoenix. he talk about the earning issues surrounding the team, more from chip and his rise to power within the eagles organization ahead jim kenney. son of a firefighter. first in his family to go to college. he's been councilman at-large, representing the whole city. a progressive voice who'll be a mayor for our neighborhoods. bringing philadelphia together... expanding pre-kindergarten improving our schools... ...and partnering with businesses, community colleges and universities to create jobs jim kenny, the block by block mayor we need to move philadelphia ahead. >>> eagles nest in hanover york county just got more crowded, that is because a second baby eagle made its debut one day after its fury siblings arrival. the baby bold eagle hatched just as the sun came up this morning and thousands of people, including us here, we have been watching it, watched on live stream video set up by the pennsylvania gaming commission. officials say the eagles won't be ready to fly until later this summer. >> they are so cute. >> i didn't know eagleet was a technical term. >> there is an eagleet cheer. >> that is what we can call our children, who are eagles fans. >> yes. >> very good. >> we need a name for them. >> that is for sure. >> hit us up on twitter. >> really pretty. >> what is going on out there. >> momma eagle had rain falling on her. we will check it out on storm scan three. we have a few sprinkles as warmer air moves in. more showers. even a few rumbles of thunderstorm. first thunderstorms of the season a sign of the spring season. take a look where we have cloudy skies across the region. this is view from campbell's field. we could see breaks in the cloud before sunset. that is the good news especially in the northern and western suburbs. live neighborhood network takes to us cape may courthouse where temperature is 42 degrees wind east/south east at 10 miles an hour. palmyra cove at nature center in new jersey, the temperature the same, 42 degrees. wind north/northeast and foggy day as well and we will take to you kutztown where at the middle school we are seeing temperatures that are cold in the 30's or light southeasterly wind and more clouds then anything else. the as we look ahead we are looking at a in of march that will stay well below average. this will be a month that will gladly say good bye to. temperatures offer 4 degrees below normal. when you have a month that is 1 degree below normal that is a big deal. 4 degrees is amazing. precipitation nearly 5 inches of precipitation and we are 2-inch's above normal. the that is significant. highest temperature was on st. patrick's day 68 degrees. lowest temperature only 11 degrees. the right now 45 in philadelphia. thirty-nine in allentown. thirty-two in the poconos. milder air in pitberg rather right now at 69 degrees. richmond 60. washington d.c. is just 54 degrees. we are going to watch on storm scan three as we see one heavier band moving into new england. we have a break here. a few more showers or sprinkles through allentown reading and lancaster. that is about it through harrisburg we are seeing a few breaks in the overcast. we will watch this front approaching from the west tomorrow and drag out some mild moist air strong southeasterly wind 15 to 25 miles an hour. temperatures well in the 60's. some areas topping off in the 70's especially south and east and watch the rain. once the front moves through cooler air for friday but wye really bottom out with temperatures struggling to make it in the 40's. the storm threat for tomorrow downpours, general thunderstorms with obviously lightening and moderate winds but as far as hail is concern a tornado ace low probability of that. rain amounts generally a quarter inch to a half inch and on our european model where we are capturing very well. overnight tonight low temperatures will be in the 40's and rising toward dawn. the highs tomorrow in the 60's. on the exclusive three day forecast you can see tomorrow is peak of the warmth and then gradually getting colder over the weekend. that is you tell us what you want to pay and we help find options to fit your budget. nah, nah, insurance, nah, nah, nah, discount. my name's flo, you want to go out with me? no. uh-huh-huh! >>> eagles coach chip kelly back on the hot seat at the owners meetings explaining the latest changes in the eagles organization. here's the the coach on his rise to power, over howie roseman. >> we just tried to maximize everybody's strengths and howie does an unbelievable job on the cap side and financial side and we're just moving in the different direction in the personnel center. >> unaudible. >> i just think we are trying to reassess and we are just trying to find people to put in the right position. >> it is a hockey night in south philadelphia when flyers take on chicago, they will face their former teammate kimmo timonen for the first time. he played eight years here before the trade last month. he was asked to speculate on how flyers fans will react when he takes the ice. >> well... sorry. >> i agree. he was respected here. >> absolutely. >> loved and respected here. >> we will be cheering for him in the news room. >> there we go. >> beasley, thanks very much. >> still to come in the next half an hour a bomb shell from boy band, one direction. >> and then video you have to see to believe where this bus got swallowed by a sink hole and then washed away by raging river. >>> some plans to turn show boat casinos into college classrooms has hit a snag. we will tell you why a deal made more than a few decades ago might leave a college with a casino they cannot use. >>> it is national medal of honor day we will take you to a special ceremony at valley forge national historical park and show you why today is more than just >>> a graduate of drexel university, emily s el ke and her mother were among three americans killed in the french plane disaster. investigators are analyzing the plane's voice data roared and hope it will reveal why that air bus crashed in the mountains. >>> a bucks county judge sentenced former philadelphia sportscaster done tollefson to between two and four years in state prison plus 15 years of probation. in january aquaray convicted tollefson of scaming 200 people out of money for bogus travel packages. it requires tollefson to pay his victims restitution. >>> officials are monitoring air quality, following eye three alarm warehouse fire in bethlehem. no one was injured there the cause of the fire is under investigation. >>> kate? >>> good evening, to you chris. well started out sunny but then clouds and showers moved through, and showers will be widely scattered throughout the rest of tonight. we have a warm up but that warm up comes with a a bit of the price. it comes at the expense of sunshine really. cold air does come back quickly. sun will come back with it but also a chance to see some snow flakes, by sat the day with a big drop in temperatures. we will have that full seven day forecast in just a few minutes, jessica. >> kate, thank you. >>> new at 5:30 the deal is in jeopardy. legal dispute is sinking stockton university's plan to create an island campus at the shuttered she boat casino. "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan is live in atlantic city with the details, cleve? >> reporter: well, jessica show boat is one of four casinos to close last year, 8,000 people in atlantic city lost jobs and now their next door neighbor taj mahal is trying to smother one of the bright spots by invoking a 27 year-old agreement that could stop or fatally stop stockton from bringing a college campus to the boardwalk. >> i just want to ask them how much is enough. >> reporter: to some idea taj mahal trump entertainment the is trying to stop stockton university from building a college campus at former show boat ace paul. >> the the self-serving bottom feeders and the selfish casino interests, they have to remember why they're here. the purpose for the casinos here was the soul purpose was revitalize atlantic city. >> reporter: not only dit bring expectations for new jobs and business but double stockton's classroom space and provide housing. stockton officials say caesars entertainment made them aware when they bought property in december there was an obscure 1988 covenant with trump entertainment restricting show boat property to the casino hotel. up until a couple weeks ago they thought the issue was resolved. >> actually the assurances are in the contract saying it was not an issue it would not be an issue. we're caught between what caesars said a they were able to do, and apparently not. >> reporter: trump entertainment it says in a statement wednesday that all parties knew the deal from the start, they are embroiled in the bankruptcy and don't think college students next door is good for business quote having kid under 21 who will attempt to gain entry to the casinos and engage in activities reserved for those only 21 and older would create numerous problems, we do not want. >> i don't see how a college next to any casinos will be bad for business. >> it doesn't have a vacant building sitting there the rather than a college campus. >> reporter: stock son says that every day that the show boat remains empty they are losing money. if they cannot resolve something within the the next two and a half to three weeks they will try to find a buyer for the show boat. in atlantic city, cleve bryan cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> an update to a story we brought you yesterday swedesboro woolwich school system's computer network is backup after an on line attack. hackers broke into the system disrupting standardized testing for students. four elementary schools were affect by that. the the attack wanted ransom and demand $5.00 bit coin a digital currency equivalent to 125 you this dollars. >>> protesters greeted new jersey governor chris christie at his fundraiser at union league in philadelphia today. they blasted the governor for not supporting paid sick leave legislation in new jersey. philadelphia city council recently passed a paid sick leave bill. >> in new jersey there is about 1.2 millworkers who do the not have access to earned sick time earn compensated sick time. so if they get sick their child gets sick they run risk of losing their job, they run risk of not making end meet and all we're saying is governor christie lead on this issue. >> reporter: governor christie argued paid sick leave legislation would kill job growth within the state. >>> well now a terrifying police car crash that was caught on the the the officer's dash cam, this oklahoma police officer took the the exit ramp off of interstate 40, when his suv veered off the road and went completely out of control. the car was totaled but the the officer did survive after a witness broke out a window in order to save him. >> i wanted to get out, but i was afraid the first thing that was going to happen was the vehicle might catch on fire. >> well, suspect was never caught police blamed slick roads for that accident. >>> well, take a look a the amazing video out of brazil. this is a bus being swallowed by a sink hole and pulled down by flood waters beneath the road. passengers were able to escape moments before it fell into that large hole. they filmed the incredible video of the bus as it popped out on the other side of the road. thankfully in one was harmed. >>> a big rig in louisiana need sod super sized help after it the gets stranded on the side of the road and in danger of tipping over. the truck's cargo elephants got out and actually help upright the trucks so it would not overturn on the soft shoulder of interstate 49. those elephants were being transported as part of the circus, and boy, was there help ever needed. local tow truck was called in and managed to pull that truck out of the predicament. >>> and, at 5:36 we are outside on the vine street expressway where we're seeing jams in the westbound lanes heading in to the schuylkill expressway. in real problems if you are heading eastbound into i-95 speaking of i-95 right around cottman avenue starting to jam up through the work zone heading in the center city area north bound lanes are moving just fine. the currently we are dealing with ten minute delays on the market frankford line due to some earlier police activity right around area. so ten minute delays there. give yourself extra time n olney there is an overturn vehicle will on third street and gaining avenue and there is police activity on the scene trying to clean up that scene for the time being. the outside on the pennsylvania turnpike in the westbound lanes is there an accident right past bensalem that is push over in the right-hand shoulder. the as for the rest of our majors we have 422 there 202 into oaks that is heavy so far. the westbound it will take you 19 minutes. twenty-one minutes on the schuylkill expressway from the vine in the blue route if you are heading westbound. currently no delays at philadelphia international airport. chris and jessica back over to you. >>> jessica, thanks very much. >>> consumer alert tonight coming up here three on your side with the ice cream recall. >> having trouble maintaining the speed limit? new technology can make sure you never get another ticket. >>> a stroke prevention device, just approved by the the f.d.a. for some patients, our health reporter stephanie stahl is on your side with how it works, kate? >>> more march madness in the the forecast we're talking about highs near 70 tomorrow with the chance for thunderstorms and then 30's and 40's by the weekend with the chance for a few snow flakes big swings in the forecast, we are tracking that rain and warm up when we come >>> well some breaking news right now, philadelphia fire truck, has been involved in a crash, in olney. a chopper three is live over that scene at third and grange, you see the truck there, up on the sidewalk and then what appears to be an suv on its side. we do know that a female in this vehicle that is on its side was injured and taken to the hospital. we don't necessity how serious those injuries may be. we're told no fire fighters were hurt but exactly what happened here remains under investigation. chopper three is there and we will keep you posted on the air and on line at cbs philly.com. >>> blue bell ice cream is adding to the list of products its recalling. company is recalling 3-ounce cups of vanilla chocolate and strawberry ice cream. this comes after tests detected listeria in the ice cream. blue bell says no illnesses have been reported in connection to the ice cream cups. cot recalled ten products earlier this year after three people died from contaminated ice cream. >>> a huge merger between some of the most well men food brand in our nation. two companies became one on wednesday, when heinz bought out kraft foods. the new company will be called the kraft heinz company. it will be the third largest food and beverage company in north america behind only pepsi co and nestle. the wall street journal reports that the merger deal is worth at least $40 billion. >>> some new technology from ford could make speeding ticket a thing of the past. the auto maker's new smax model comes with what they call intelligence speed technology. a camera on the car will read speed limit signs and then slow the car down accordingly. drivers can override the system by pressing firmly on the accelerator but otherwise drive the speed limit. ford says technology will be available worldwide. we will be right back. >>> well, it has been mostly cloudy and a damp today another dreary day around the city. >> it appears our city has had a fair share of dreary days when you compare to other place's cross the country. meteorologist justin drabick is live in the cbs-3 mobil weather lab with the art museum today justin. >> i can think of many dreary cities across the country but yes, it is cloudy, damp. we are waiting for a warm front to move through to brighten up our skies during the day tomorrow which will warm us up. the city sky line socked in with some clouds at this hour. i does have a dreary feel to it. you want to think philadelphia, as a dreary city but guess what, a meteorologist from alaska came up with the study and ranks philadelphia pretty high as far as dreary conditions. so lets go to the weather graphic and try to explain this. he came up with the dreary index. he took 73 cities of the population of 250,000 or more so these are large cities calculated annual presip number of wet dates and cloud cover for each of the cities and he came up with only 15 cities are as dreary or more than philadelphia. so again, that ranks philadelphia pretty high, on the dreary list. if you look at a national level you can see map of the u.s., it is yes valley new england, pacific northwest. those are most dreary areas and would you think seattle sock in with fog and mist. least dreary will be mountain southwest where you do have the sunshine such as arizona and desert conditions where they have many days down there. i talk to people around philadelphia here and they don't think philadelphia is dreary at all. >> philly is not dreary. i mean during the summer philly is great, man. >> we don't get as much snow as boston get. we don't get as much rain or cold weather. >> no way, no way. today, yes. but from everything that we have known and seen, you know, no, it is great. >> reporter: can't argue with that. i met somebody from england and she laughed at idea philadelphia being a dreary city because she knows what dreariness is all about. here we are with the cbs-3 mobil weather lab 45 degrees, at this hour, and different story, we will get a warm front coming through here, maybe some sunshine and we could make a run at 70 degrees with the chance of some rain. for more on that forecast we will send it back to the studio with kate with a check of that seven day. good evening. >> i wouldn't consider philadelphia a dreary sit the is i. even though it has been cold we have had bright, sunny days this month of march. unfortunately today was in the one of those days. tomorrow will not be either. here's the reason for warm up. we have a warm front. you can see where warm front is. cold front extend back into portions office central part of the country. right here in the middle of the cold front and warm front is what we call warm sector of the storm. when you get in the warm sector we have wind from the south and west. that is what we will be feeling tomorrow. southwest wind will help us warm things up until cold front comes through. when that cold front does come through unfortunately we will be right back to chilly below average conditions as we head toward weekend. the lets check with our eyewitness weather watchers reporting temperatures in the lower 40's right now which feels more like a february day then a march day. phil in philadelphia chest tonight hill at 43 degrees. moving into new jersey we will check with doug and he is at 42 reporting some cloud in southampton as we head into the first state of delaware, still chilly down there greg mccoy in marshall ton reporting 43 degrees as well. it is a chilly dreary day for sure but it toss warm up tomorrow. lets go outside and start off down the shore. you can see cloud cover. low gray cloud hanging on in ocean city. the good news is steady precipitation has moved on out, take a look at storm scan three. you can see sprinkles moving through into the city right now. you may need to swipe those wipers a few times out and about tonight but steady rain has moved on out of here. we will have spotty showers throughout the rest of tonight and first half of tomorrow. right now 47 at the airport. forty-two in reading. forty-three in wilmington. look at this big wedge of warmth 76 in nashville. seventy-eight in birmingham. we have 80's across oklahoma and texas. we will tap into that warmth thomas we are in the warm sector. the cold front is back to the west. as we head into tomorrow morning we will see showers here and there. not a total wash out. 6:00 p.m. not a lot of rain or sunshine either. we will see with the squall line along that frontal bound dry. 9:00 o'clock tomorrow night thunderstorms could rumble through. that the clears out. couple lingering showers and clouds early friday and watch what happens saturday a disturbance could bring us a few flurries or snow showers. a big difference. drop in temperature and change from rain to perhaps a few snow flakes. not a lot of rain. generally less than a inch locally higher amounts in any thunderstorm band. you can see how temperatures warm up, by 1:00 p.m. we have upper 60's and watch how the front comes through and slice necessary to that by later thursday night into friday morning we are back to the 40's and eventually the 30's. you're witness weather seven day forecast, 68 tomorrow. it will feel great. not a lot of time to enjoy it with the rain around. notice drop, saturday down right cold. sunny for part of the day but watch for snow showers and flurries. sunday still chilly. it looks to warm up back to the 50's and a 60's early next week jessica, back over to you. >>> breaking news a fraternity member speaks out and asked for forgiveness levi petit is one of the university of oklahoma sae fraternity video in the much publicized racist chant. the national sigma alpha epsilon closed ou chapter this month and he and another student were expelled, he spoke at a news conference just moments ago. >> although i don't deserve it, i want to ask for your forgiveness. there are no excuses for my behavior. i never thought of myself as a racist, i never consider it a possibility but the bottom line is that the word that were said in that chant were mean, hateful and racist. >> he also met with the chair woman of the oklahoma legislative black caucus, black civic leaders and pass tors. >>> on the cbs-3 healthwatch tonight a new you device called a watchman could be a game changer for tens of thousands of patients at risk of having a stroke because of an irregular heart rhythm. health reporter stephanie stahl has one of the first patients to receive this new therapy. >> reporter: eighty year-old margaret is minutes from getting a new device that will lower her risk of a stroke. >> i was advised it would be very good for me. >> i'm ready for whatever has t

also her sorority there, she was a member of gamma, sigma, sigma. they also paid their respects to her via facebook. we do know that she worked emily worked at a company by the name of car works here in washington, d.c. she worked as a community manager and we know her mother works for the consulting firm booze allen. so that's what we know about those two. cnn has been in contact with richard selky who is the father and the husband. and he says as you would imagine that he's just bloken up and cannot bring himself to speak, but we are expecting some sort of family statement at some point today, we don't have a timeline for when we will get it but we're expecting that from richard selky. on to that third american we are still without any information as far as the identity the state department saying that they're actively working now to get in touch with that individual's family and notify them first. >> can't even begin to imagine what these families are going through. as we get more information, obviously, we'll pass it along. for now, rene marsh,

sigma sigma national service sorority. emily's mother also died in the crash. we spoke with one of emily's friends. >> she wanted the best for everybody and she made everybody feel important. i think that's why everybody loved her because she made you feel important and that's hard to find in people these days. >> emily and her mom are from virginia. yvonne was a u.s. contractor. >>> happening today students in bucks county will help celebrate their new school at a groundbreaking ceremony that will take place in croydon in the bristol township school district at the site of the former mary divine elementary school. this is part of the district's elementary school overhaul plan which includes nine school closings and students coming together in different buildings. >>> the fraternity at rutgers university is in trouble over an incident involving underage drinking. sigma national headquarters suspended the rutgers chapter. a 20-year-old member was taken to a hospital back in november because he was in an intoxicated state after drinking at the fraternity house. rutgers says six fraternities and one sorority are under review for alcohol violations. >>> now to news from our jersey shore bureau a major beach replenishment project is in the works for a popular stretch of the jersey shore, but some say the timing couldn't be worse. the work in ship bottom on long beach island is scheduled to start in late april and expected to last 35 days. the u.s. army corps of engineers says no more than two to three blocks of beach in ship bottom will be closed at one time but some residents and business owners on lpi are concerned that the construction could extend beyond the busy memorial day weekend. >> if you're going to rent an oceanfront house and you have that in front of you, i don't think you're going to rent an oceanfront house or you'll want your money back

she went on to drexel university where she was on the executive board of the guama sigma sigma sorority. today, her sorority sisters posted this photo writing "emily was an integral part of our growing chapter. she always put others before herself and cared deeply for all in

they put out a statement on their facebook page earlier today the sorority gamma sigma sigma zeta chapter. as a person and friend emily always put others before herself and cared deeply for all of those in her life. we know that emily also worked for a company called carr workplaces hospitality in alexandria. they too, put out a statement saying that it was such a tough, tough time. and we should let you know that cnn reached out and spoke with raymond selke, he's the father the husband of the deceased and the father of emily. and he said to cnn, he said to us, very upset, very distraught as you can imagine. he is asking for privacy for his family, but event wally they will have another family member who will represent them to talk more about who they are and why they were out there. but these were two individuals very close, mother and daughter were traveling together. emily, we are learning through her lingk linkedin page loved festivals and so it is tragic. >> tragic all the way around. suzanne malveaux thank you. nic robertson, my thanks to you as well. >>> let me bring in our cnn avi

sigma sigma national service sorority. her mother yvonne also died in the crash. they are both from virginia. yvonne was a u.s. contractor. >>> let's get our forecast from meteorologist bill henley. >> morning, vai. a great start by a warmer start. temperatures in the low 40s now. near 70 this afternoon. by then any fog will be gone. but we will have some showers in the area. that's a light fog over center center. quarter-mile visibility. dense fog for trenton and wrightstown, though it's starting to improve. wrightstown was down to zero visibility. it's up to three-mile visibility in wildwood. showers already streaming across the shore. >>> christine maddela is watching the roads for us. good morning. >> good morning. an accident on 95 southbound near mammans road. it is causing a slowdown especially on the southbound side. as we look at your drive times, it is slower heading 21 minutes, 95 southbound from the blue route to nammans road. also slow at the normal problem spots. vai? >>> police are investigating a home invasion in point breeze where a woman says the intruder choked her. police are calling it a strong-arm robbery around 4:00 this morning on south chadwick street. the victim told police the attacker asked her for money, then grabbed her by the throat. the intruder did not take anything home. . >>> this is an nbc special news report. here's matt lauer and savannah guthrie. >> good morning, everyone 8:00 in the east. 5:00 a.m. on the west coast. we have disturbing developments. officials are releasing chilling information on that german wings plane in france. what they are saying this morning is that the co-pilot of that plane appears to have crashed it deliberately. >> so they have been pouring over the cockpit voice recorder from that flight. here's what they are now saying. they've listened to the last 30 minutes of conversation in the cockpit between the pilot and co-pilot. they were speaking amicably during that time. towards the end of that tape the pilot tells the co-pilot to take over. because he's going to take what is a natural call probably to use the restroom and then the pilot gets locked out and the co-pilot while still in the cockpit goes completely silent but they can hear the pilot outside pounding on the door trying to smash the door in and even screaming from passengers. >> what we have now learned is that the co-pilot according to authorities decelerated at the dissent using the monitor system to speed up the dissent as it approached the mountains. we want to get to keir simmons. he is near the crash site. france has been monitoring this news conference as well. good morning what else can you fill in for us? >> reporter: savannah good morning. this is absolutely stunning and devastating news. remember we are talking about this a-320 flying into the mountain range behind me here wlachl we are hearing from the french prosecutors, this co-pilot deliberately manipulated the controls of the plane to make it descend thousands of feet into the alps here behind me and as you mentioned, they say what they are doing is analyzing this black box recording of what was going on. they are saying they can hear the pilot banging on the door trying to get in while the co-pilot is doing this. the prosecutors office says we assume that he meant to destroy the plane and have asked the german authorities for information on his personality. they say there was no response from the co-pilot but right up until the moment of impact on the mountains here you can hear him breathing. so they say he was alive right up to the moment of this crash. guys. >> you are going back to this conversation they had, there was nothing out of the ordinary in the conversation that the pilot and the co-pilot were having prior to the pilot getting up to take that break and leave the cockpit. >> reporter: yeah that's right. i'm just looking down to see what exactly they said. i am told they say during the last 20 machine the two pilots spoke naturally and the commander prepared a briefing for the co-pilot and asked the co-pilot to take command. we listen and hear him push his chair back and go out of the cockpit. they don't appear to know why he left. buts a you say, he may well have been going out for a short break for natural reasons and then what happens is that the co-pilot starts to change the speed of the plane and starts to change the altitude of the plane and the plane begins to descend down into this mountain range. you just shudder to think what must have been going on in the rest of the plane as they realize what is happening and as you mention, you can hear the pilot trying to get back if again. what we know about the door into this cockpit is it is possible for a pilot on his own to prevent anyone else from coming in. normally that is for good security reasons. in this case it appears to have been used by this co-pilot in order to kill himself and kill the other 149 souls who were on board this plane. >> keir that raises the question who is this co-pilot? i don't think we have a fame released publicly. we have been told he had 650 hours of flying time which we have been told is not that much relatively speaking. was he on any terror watch list? do you know his personality? >> reporter: we think he is german. we don't know have very much about him. in fact suspiciously we mulligan to think they have not been releasing the name of the pilot and co-pilot as we mulligan to get this news that perhaps something very, very wrong had gone on in the minutes before. as you mentioned, the co-pilot had this 630 hours of flying time. he had undergone a trading and joined german wings, this small airline that is a part of lufthansa back in 2013 so he hadn't been flying for that long. another question by the way, savannah matt is going to be why was one of the pilots allowed to stay in the cockpit on their own given that we know and this may not actually be compliant with regulations, given that we know it is possible for someone on their own in a cockpit to prevent anyone else from coming inside. and we assume too, that nobody on board the plane was able even contact anyone on the ground. we know that the plane did not put out a mayday signal. there was no emergency indicated to the control tower. the control tower are simply trying to work out what is going on as this plane devends in silence. so there are going to be many questions from this but at the moment just absolutely shock here really about what we are finding out about why that plane dropped into this mountain range. >> all right. keir thank you very much. let's bring in tom costello who covers aviation for us here at abc. tom, this is a very disturbing turn the co-pilot alone in the cockpit sitting silently. although on the tape you can hear him breathing right up to the moment of impact. >> i think we are looking at a mass murder investigation. that's what this boils down to. this individual has killed 149 people t. question is going to be of course why. i think the other question is going to be from a security standpoint how is it possible that that first pilot left? we believe the captain left the cockpit and then under normal protocols, at least in the united states, a flight attendant comes into the cockpit to stand there and essentially kind of stand guard with the flying pilot to then let that pilot and go to the restroom let him back in. what happened to that flight attendant? was he or she either not threatened or possibly killed as well prior to the incident? >> and, tom, also, a very short period of time here we know this pilot left the cockpit after the plane reached its cruising altitude of 38,000 feet and we know from the flight record that it wasn't at that altitude very long before it mulligan that slow controlled descent. it wasn't out before the co-pilot took these deliberate actions. >> reporter: they were only at 38,000 feet for 21 to three minutes before that descent mulligan. i began. that's not you irregular, it probably wou he may have really needed to use the lab. but then to go into a vision immediately after he's left the cockpit that the descent begins the rather dramatic and programmed descent speaks to some sort of nefarious action. >> we have been given name of this pilot, andre lepitz. as we continue to talk to you, one of the key questions how much vetting does a pilot get before he is permitted to fly and hold the, in his hands, the lives of 150 people whether it's a mental health background check or something liking into whether he has more nefarious motives. >> in the united states anybody who is going to be going through pilot training goes through a criminal background check. certainly if you go through the commercial pilot program with all of the mainline carriers in the united states there is extensive veting and psychological testing, et cetera then every six months of course you go through a physical evaluation. i would pointed out that 630 hours of experience before becoming a or while being a first officer, that's not a lot. in the united states you need 1,500 hours to become a first officer and in this case we are told he had 630 houmpls i think there will be a lot of questions. certainly, we have questions about how many hours are required for you to become a profileer and a first officer. but what are the background checks. exactly what are the experience levels required and then the psychological testing behind this individual. but as i mentioned, this is now a mass murder investigation. >> tom costello thank you very much. captain cox flew the a-320 and spent more than 20 years in safety investigations. captain cox, good morning to you. first of all the plane gets to 38,000 feet. it reaches its cruising altitude. is that a time where it would be unusual for the pilot to leave the cockpit and, secondly do you know about the protocol in europe in terms of a member of the flight crew, a flight attendant taking that pilot's place in the cockpit? >> well first, it would be a normal time for somebody with a physiological need once the airplane reached its cruise altitude. if they're going back to the laboratory that's a good time to do it. the work load has dropped down. you know as you approach your destination, in this case discussle door discuss dousele dusseldorfe securit requirem and w the cockpits the protocol for managing a flight, a pilot coming out of the cockpit and who comes in in most cases, a flight attendant will come in so that there are two people in the flight deck. as far as was this required of this operator? the information, the research i've done it's got conflicting information, so at this point i don't have that resolved yet. >> captain john cox, thank you for your perspective having flown this very plane. thank you. we have a lot more here on "today" also on nbc news.com. some of you will be returning to regularly scheduled program. for the rest of you, there is more of "today." . we continue now 8:10 on the east coast on "today." we have been following this breaking news overseas. this disturbing story that a pilot put down this commercial plane on purpose. >> no question. there is a big story. here is a threat of more severe weather after a tornado is down in arkansas and other places oklahoma over the last 24 hours. >> fortunately, nothing quite as severe as we had been seeing over the last 24 hour. at least seven tornadoes touching down. at least one person killed several critically injured. >> that heavier weather now starts to make its way into the northeast and on the back side of this system we are actually looking at some showers and we're also looking at some snow in central indiana, into parts of michigan and ohio as well as we watch as pittsburgh right now, foggy, as the rain gets ready to move in we're going to be looking at some showers and thunderstorms. afternoon highs today are going to be in the 20s and 30s through the northern plains. the 90s continue in the southwest in california. 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news told the band's nearly 37 million followers on facebook i have to do what feels right in my heart. i want to be a normal 22-year-old who is able relax and have private time out of the spotlight. fans today have social media. with more than 121 million follower zane's departure may be hitting closer to home. it's a much more personal connection than it used to be. social media has fuelled tear rise to fame and it makes this particular departure that much more personal. >> reporter: simon cowell the band's mentor thankss zane saying he is immensely proud of the 22-year-old and truly sorry to see him leave. rest assured, this isn't the end, they say they are hugely excited about the future of the band. for now, their future is as a foursome something we got a glimpse of first hand when zane was an unexpected no show in november as the boys put on that like concert for "today" in orlando promoting the new release of that new album appropriately called four. >> so let's start with the obvious, where is zane? >> we only found out this morning that he couldn't go. we are sad, he is as well, he can't be here. >> reporter: it is a sentiment one band's direction share, as for the success with one less member we will have to wait for that story to play out. >> savannah hold back your tears. the tour will continue that's for sure for one direction t. band's next stop is saturday south africa. >> just four? >> that's right. >> okay. >> so far four. >> all right. thank you. >> are you okay with that in. >> i am. >> okay. let's send it over to matt and jeremy piven. >> thank you so much this man won a golden globe as the hot headed ari gould on entourage. he stars as an american tycoon behind one of london's finest department stores in the pbs masterpiece series "mr. selfridge." take a look. >> how was your trip to dublin in. >> take the selfridge lane? >> that's the idea. >> and victory over aviation now? >> what? where'd you get that information from? >> they say you are planning to buy the land for an air drone, mr. selfridge. >> pure speculation, although aviation is the future. i'll say that. >> what's happening, jeremy. welcome back. >> good to see you. >> when you got down with "entourage" three yafl years ago, did you say to yourself i'm doing something completely opposite from ari gould? >> absolutely. much to my surprise "mr. selfridge" landed on my lap. they to the i was the guy. after hearing his story, i pretended like i needed a minute to figure it out t. reality was i couldn't get there fast enough. >> why? first of all, i they lot of people if they haven't seen the show on masterpiece, don't know who he was. who is he? >> he's a guy from the mid-west who essentially invented the department store went over to england before shopping existed, created the culture and here we are 100 years later, it was voted the best store in the world. he was brilliant from 9:00 to 5:00 and an absolute disaster at night. >> as a lot of people. >> kind of like you, matt. >> thank you very much. spoken like a true friend. a bit of p.t. barnam in this guy? he was a bit of a showman? >> yeah he loved p.t. barnam. he loved putting on a show. he was the first man-made celebrity in pop culture, really. he believed heavily in advertising. he was there every morning at 9:00. >> as often the case with masterpiece shows, there is a lot more than just what's happening in the linen department here the show is a period piece. it takes place in the 1,800s. we learn mr. suffrages wife is sick and it has been picked up for a fourth season? >> yes, indeed d. love of his life that he finally gets back and realizes what means the most to him in this life which is love and family and as soon as he gets that she tells him that she's dying. so it's an incredibly tranlic story and a cautionary tale. season three opposite up on the funeral and a wedding and we hit the ground running. >> let's make the pivot now, okay. because you have said about ari gould, which by the way, we are all getting ready for "entourage," the movie. >> yes. >> you said playing ari gould was exhausting were you eager to jump back into the role or did you have to be convinced? >> i did not have to be convinced in anyway shape or form. i was excited, after being in england and playing opposite the best actors of the world. >> you wanted to get back to guys at "entourage"? . >> ah. >> two can play this game. >> yes, indeed listen i threw you a slow pitch. i appreciate you swung at i. well done sir, well done! i fixed that i could raise my game and that's why i went over there and it's like anything else you know when you play ten necessary with someone that's better than you, your game is raised. and i figured i had something more to contribute to playing ari gould and that's what i'm hearing. >> was it easy to step back into those designer shoes? >> you know what it's funny. it was and at the same time i mean being with the cast and we hit the ground running and that was all very very smooth but it's fascinating because ari exists as a human being on his lowest level and yet it's fascinating to watch. because all of us operating at our lower level are reactive and crazy and overly emotionally invested. that's the space that ari lives in. yet, people love to watch it. i guess people love to watch pen behaveing badly. >> you are nothing like him. i love what you said in an interview, people often come up on the street and they meet you as jeremy piven. you are disappointed they are not more like ari gould. >> they are disappointed. everyone is disappointed. i will continue to disappoint them. it's the great pleasure of my life. >> the movie is rated "r." does it earn the "r" rating? >> very much so. to the point we were filming, doug allen the creator went this is not a porno, what in god's name is happening? we need to bring this down a bit. i guess you go as far as you possibly can, push the envelope and then bring it back. that's kind of what we did. i showed a rough cut to a friend who had never seen the series and they love idt. it's for people who are fans of the show and people who have never seen it. >> i would say wait until their 17 18 possibly. >> good as vice. appreciate it. >> thank you, man. i appreciate it. >> always a pleasure. he will be back in our next hour and the new season of "mr. sufrage" premiers the sunday on masterpiece on pbs. savannah. >> thank you. i am in the kitchen. we are making something delicious. a little middle eastern spin on chicken, right? >> yeah. we are making a sort of healthy good for you for your brain dip that will go over this chicken. >> i love it brain food woke fight wonder 35 minut >>> good morning i'm vai sikahema. let's get our first alert forecast on this thursday, march 26th with meteorologist bill henley. >> thick fog is starting to thin out. you can see it in the pocono mountains. that's the view a little fog hugging the delaware this morning. showers will be moving in later today and pocono mountains. right now it's south jersey that's seeing some light rain showers. the heavier showers have pushed offshore but there's still a possibility of a thunderstorm during the day along the coastline. the rest of the area could see some late-day storms after a warmup. it's 42 degrees right now in philadelphia. already in the 50s in parts of delaware and south jersey. we'll warm through the 50s into the upper 60s with showers this afternoon. >> thank you bill. >>> first alert traffic reporter christine maddell is keeping an eye on the roads. >> we're still seeing delays due to an earlier accident. 32 minutes your travel time from the blue route to naamans road. 95 southbound from wood haven road to the vine street expressway is also slow as is the schuylkill expressway and 422. you can see your travel times here. 23 minutes from route 29 to the schuylkill. vai. >>> happening today, a hearing in philadelphia will take a closer look at governor tom wolf's moratorium on executions in pennsylvania. members who oppose the ban are holding the hearing at city hall. they'll listen to testimony from the families of murder victims. right now the state supreme court is deciding if the moratorium is illegal. we'll have another update in another 25 minutes. we'll send you back to the "today" show. >>> it is 8:30 on a thursday morning, it's the 26th day of march, 2015. this morning we are following stunning developments in that german wings jet crash in the french alps from tuesday. >> stunning and disturbing as well. investigators have identified the co-pilot at the controls at the time of the crash. they are saying this morning he appears to have deliberately crashed that plane. tom, what are you learning this morning? >> good morning the co-pilot is identified as andrea lubitz they said when the captain got out of the cockpit, the co-pilot began this descent, that they say on the cockpit voice recorder they can hear him breathe, normally. he is fought responding to radio calls and the captain mulligan pounding on the door but the co-pilot refused to answer him or allowed him in. he had locked the captain out of the cockpit as it mulligan descending and slamming into the mountain air traffic controllers were trying to warn the co-pilot of his deskrentd, his trajectory he was headed straight for a mountain. he refused to answer. the cockpit voice recorder picked up screaming from presumably passengers worn realizing at that point what was going on. they saw the captain pounding on the door to get into the cockpit. then they saw they were going lower and lower and lower. so was this a terrorist attack? the prosecutor said there is no known links to terrorism. at this point this appears to be a case of mass murder back to you. >> it is that indeed tom costello i knee you keep following it. al. >> let's move ahead towards the weekend. starting tomorrow we will have wet weather along the southeastern atlantic coast into florida. wet weather moving into the pacific northwest with the heat continuing in the southwest and will continue again on saturday rain in the pacific northwest. windy conditions through the plains. much killier here in the northeast t. sunshine returns to florida and on sunday we look for snow in the up or michigan wet weather into the mid-ohio river valleys. more rain continuing into the pacific northwest. >>> good morning, i'm meteorologist bill henley. tracking showers and a chance of thunderstorms. look at those temperatures middle 60s to 70 degrees this afternoon. storms roll through this evening and behind them a chilly day for friday. 46 in the morning, 52 in the afternoon. still a possibility of some showers on friday and a slight chance with colder conditions on sunday. snowflakes and raindrops, no accumulation saturday. sunshine sunday and warmer weather, back into the 50s, monday, tuesday and wednesday. have a great day. >>> and that's your latest weather. savannah. >> all right. al thank you so much. now to more of our ongoing "today" parenting series. raising a child is fulfill,ing, let us say it is not always glamorous. the ugly truths of parenting. the topic that bubbles in our community. everything the baby books don't tell you but what you really want and need to hear. i admitted i knew nothing before i brought vale home. i quickly learned on the job. the members of our community shared when the frustrations do get the best of them. danielle admits that sometimes being a mom isn't fun. >> i'm so exhauchted that words cannot make sense. i feel my sanity deteriorating. >> reporter: they assure u.s. >> it is okay when you have tear know that practice makes perfect. >> reporter: parenting can be overwhelming. it's often better when you know the secrets of others in the same boat. all right. let's talk more about the good the bad and ugly of parenting. a mom of two and host of dot complicated on serious fm. andy is an anchor in washington, d.c. and jen, a mother of five author of "for the love" ladies good morning to you. >> good morning. >> you are all impressive. you are all great momles. but we are talking act the ugly truth. i'm so glad we are. elet's not sugar coat it. we have four ugly truths. the first is my favorite t. decline of personal hygiene. so really this happens, right, when you have a new baby? >> that's why you don't see moms in facebook photos anymore. you only see the baby. the truth is out. >> it's true. does anyone let us on to their personal record for not showering? >> i showered today because i had been gone from home for about a week. >> i remember my husband coming home at one point when i was home with the littles, he says baby i need to tell you something, it's been five days and you need to go visit the shower. i go you know what you don't know my life. >> don't judge. >> you don't know me. >> what's so funny is you need the shower you are leaking from every blase, dry milk all over the place, my whole thing was my favorite thing was that squirt bottle that they give you when you leave the hospital that you use in the restroom and basically, your minutes are just limited, right. you got to squirt and go. >> i asked for a black napkin for black pants. >> it's only a little poop. >> we can follow up on that. related to that is sometimes your body image isn't great so you kind of have the whole sex thing, no way, like aahh. that happens. >> not feeling very attractive i guess. i think the big thing is as i mentioned before you are leaking, the girls are leaking, right, your stretched out. your sagging here and there, so you definitely don't feel attractive and i think that's hard for a lot of women to deal with. i think the reality is the moment that you realize what you have done this beautiful thing that you have made whose battle scars are absolutely worth it. i find it's taken two kids to get to that point is that basically the best thing is when my husband sighs how i mother my children i don't have to be perfect. i don't have to be good when he sees how great i am to them he finds that a little bit sexy. >> let's talk about our next truth, which is empractice is the sexy guys don't you call us crazy, maybe there is a sort of like okay i'm just doing the best i can thing. >> my husband, bless his heart. he tried, i bought you ice cream. i screamed at him. i was like i'm not just a dog you throw treats at. what is wrong with me? he's just being nice. i definitely think it overtakes your brain and i think everyone just kind of needs to be a little nice to the new moms in their lives. >> it doesn't last forever. there is a moment where it's emotional. >> i remember my husband coming home at one point. i'm on the kitchen floor with a baby and a toddler and a preschooler, all four of us are crying i will get that to work. >> your broken comes back you wear pants with a button again, you wear a normal bra again. it all comes back. so it is a stage and it is hard. it is also it is so kwivenlg i always say that early childhood is like five minutes under water. that's how it felt to me. >> it does. it does indeed. >> i can remember literally every lyric to every madonna song but cannot remember every children's name. how does the brain work that way? >> it's crazy, so we embrace it. we did a survey online today.com. we talked to 3,000 parents, 73% said being clueless was a very popular truth. it's true. we're all clueless anybody anybody who is acting like they know what they are doing, angie, they're not letting on. >> the way i describe parenting, it's like you are performing daily at the improv. there is no one who is a professional at it. if you try, you are setting yourself up for failure. i think it's so funny that we teach our children how to color in between the lines only for them to get older and us to say, hey, color outside the lines, maybe get rid of them t. bottom line is sometimes we have to brake our own rules. that's okay. nothing will go awry. >> we are out of time. our next quiz you will never be aloan again. it needs no explanation. carson is over in the orange room with more. >> very good stuff there, guys thanks. >>> all month long people have been sharing on the parenting page. these are our top stories. now we will reset the leaderboard, any of you can be up their the next month. time saving hacks to make parenting less stressful and more fun. head over to today.com/parenting team join in on the conversation. let's head back over to savannah. >>> today's parenting team is brought to you by johnson, so much more. >>> all right. carson thanks look forward to that. >>> coming up next lily pulitzer teaming up with target. we have your first collection. >>> a lot of people are excited about target's next designer collection. this it's with lily pulitzer. we get a sneak peek. good morning. >> good morning. >> i love when designers team up with affordable outlets. >> it's a win-win situation. >> we seen versace. lots of people have done it. >> they get catapulted into the masses. every day shoppers are aware of the name the exposure is great for the designer retailer taps into their cache and everything all the trappings that come with being a luxury brand. >> absolutely. let's go, we have models. lily pulitzer is known for her resort wear. >> chic resort wear. >> we have a couple adorable mod ill els -- models quinn and mia. >> it's something you can dress up as we have here with the head scarf, the gore gus gold bangles and the wedge. really it comes in plus size so it works with extra small to 3x. it's great for everyone. >> did you say everything is under for 40 bucks? >> everything is under $40 bucks. everything is a clothing. there is 250 pieces in house wear hammocks, everything. >> look at this little cutie. >> we have the presents designed by lily for camouflaging. she was trying to disguise the stains from orange lemons this is the outcome. perfect for little kids running around. we have the mismatching accessories. it's fun for the girls to play. >> the prints are sweet. i love the gold sand apples you paired with it as well. >> quinn, thank you so much. >> next mikaela and maggie. two great looks as they come in. this is perfect timing for spring lily is known for the prints. >> hi girls! i look adorable. this is basically shorts 2.0. 30s and tee shirts get boring. the next level, the pink shorts, pink crochet. maggie has this gorgeous little dress. it's perfect. adults it's a big trend on the runway. we are seeing it trickle down into the kids' market. there is a cute lily signature in every piece. kind of find it. where's waldo almost. it's perfect, little kids floating around. who wouldn't want to wear them? >> we see a lot of kids' stuff there is a lot of adult's line at target? >> it's everything you could wish for. >> tanks, ladies. alice and bea. >> there you go hi bea! >> they are off to the beach. i love this look. this is a great lesson in mix and matching prints. the collection has 15 exclusive printsz with it. so everything works together. so you can go for it. you can experiment. obviously, sarong every beach-goer's dream, you can cover up anything you are ashamed of. not that alex has anything to be ashamed of there, this as a pots i know this is going to make getting dressed easier in the morning, it's like the one piece pull-on and go wear this with a beach coverup or a pool party. >> here shoes, lily too her shoes? >> every little thing is here the tote the hats the accessories. >> so cute. we have all of the models come out one more time. little girls. i don't know if they got the coup. here they are. when is this available? >> this is available from april the 19ing. i guarantee there will be people lining up around the block. >> i can see it being an instant sellout. thank you so much. models you did a great job. happy spring. exactly, head into the kitchen next. the week night wonder that will take you minutes to prepare. it is a yummy one. first this is "today" >>> another week night wonder on tap. ready in 30 minutes or less. ten minute meals on own zones.com. guys downstairs are you ready? >> we think. >> let us know how this worked out, you get to do all the eating. i'm up here in the kitchen. what are we making? >> i'm taking you to the middle east. i grew up there. this is easy simple. you probably have a lot of ingredients. >> it's chicken breast with a red peppery sauce? >> it's red in arabic. its full of walnuts, which i've toasted here. these are so good for your brain. they look like little brains and having one-and-a-half-year-old i need all the help i need in the brain department. >> what's here? >> this is roasted red bell peppers. sun dried garlic lemon veseyt and parsley. nothing super exhausted. >> you are making a mess here. >> welcome do my kitchen, matt. >> that's okay. we feed liquid. >> if you pour in the lemon juice,ly do the olive oil here. for a little spice, this is actually a little honey. would you mind doing the honors? >> absolutely. >> i'm doing salt smoked paprika and red chili flakes for the heat. >> you can add as many red chili flakes as you like? >> exactly. i will recreate aleppo pepper it's smokey and spicy. it goes on hopefully. you kind of and it's as simple as that. >> let's get to the chicken. >> with the clicken. i got it on paper towels. >> only veseyt? >> they cook so quickly. the dryer your chicken, the better our crust you will get. into a skillet, that will help you get a good crust too, once you got a good crust on thatslide side will you flip it. it takes a minute or so. >> could you use the different side of the chicken, thighs to get more flavor in them? >> thighs are delicious. they take longer to cook. and then you just take this paste, which you can put this on chicken, you can put it on bread, on a keyes sandwich it's delicious. >> let's get a progress report from downstairs. how is it going? >> amen we weren't familiar with this flavor profile. >> it's new to my palette. it's new, it's exciting. >> do you see the brain lighting up? >> artie grew up in dubai was born in india, so you must have had interesting flavors in the house. >> i have a split personality. between the two of them. >> how long does this cook? >> about ten minute in the oven. it looks like this a simple a accompanyment is salad oil. >> you do that. >> we will smack it. >> why do you do that? to release the flaf? >> and my aggression. >> savannah grab some limbs. >> i like your style. >> a little feta. >> you use good feta. you don't skimp on that? >> there are so few engreedents here you want the nice creamy texture. pepper lemon. that's it. >> salt. can i put my fingers in there? >> lots of salt. >> how is your salad, guys? >> unbelievable. simple but tastes great. >> it tastes like summer. >> it looks like summer too. >> the great thing is can you have a delicious and healthy meal in about 30 minutes. it's transportative. i'm taking you to syria here and the summer i know you guys can use it in new york. >> do you like it as much as i do? >> do i. >> can you make the salad ahead of time? >> you could, the obviously thing i would salt it before you serve it because it releases a lot of that tomato juice because it may get soupy. at the end i take the bowl in the kitchen and drink the juice. it's my little treat to myself. >> before you serve it? >> yes. >> after she serves it. it's on all of your plates. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> that was a nice way to end the segment. you can find all of this week's week night wonder recipes on our website today.com. we will finish off the week tomorrow with carson and siri. we are back in a moment on nbc. . all right. perfect time to check in with willard scott. hey, willard. >> everything is better in new york. happy birthday. it's always a pleasure. take look. fran weiss. fran is from wilmington north carolina. she is 100-years-old, happy birthday. she loves physical and mental exercises. here's the queen, ernestine, she is from jamaica, new york that is. 100-years-old. we love her very much. her fate past time is baking sweet potato pie. i like that. edwin parten. he is from lehigh acres in the great state of florida. we wish him a happy birthday. 100-years-old, terrific. he is everybody's handyman. he can do everything when nobody else can. ralph johnson, modesto, california. we witch him a happy birthday. that's all for this singment. we'll come back again as soon as new york lets us come in the back door. >> willard, thank you very much. >> any time willard. >>> what's coming up in the next hour guys in. >> we will chat some more with mr. jeremy piven, the "entourage" guy and christine ricci. and real estate dos and don'ts. all that coming up >>> good morning, i'm rosemary connors. it's just a few minutes before 9:00. weather conditions including low cloud cover are causing delays at some arriving flights, averaging around an hour and 20 minutes at philadelphia international this morning. that's the issue out there right now. let's get a check of the forecast from meteorologist bill henley. >> we've seen some scattered light showers in delaware and south jersey and i'm tracking heavier thunderstorms in maryland that will be moving into delaware during the morning hours and could produce some pretty good rainfall in philadelphia by 11:00 this morning. just some scattered light showers right now in atlantic city, cape may. we've seen the showers taper off in southern delaware but look what is just to the southwest. very heavy thunderstorms. the rain falling at a rate of more than 5.5 inches an hour. 57 lightning strikes so far. those storms are moving off to the northeast. >>> nbc 10 has just learned that sentencing for the woman who abducted a 5-year-old girl from school and sexually assaulted her has once again been postponed. a jury found christina regusters guilty last year. she took the girl from the school, was wearing muslim garb and said she was her mother. she took the girl home sexually abused her numerous times then left her at a playground in upper darby. the maximum sentence in the case would be life in prison. >>> today lawmakers and advocates will come together in trenton to lay out a series of bills to help new jersey's budget. a group called better choices for new jersey will hold a briefing and talk about legislation to make the state more transparent and reliable when it comes to budget decisions. i'm rosemary connors. we'll have another update in 25 minutes. now back to "today." have a good one. >> >>. >>> from nbc news this is "today's take live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, everybody, welcome to "today" on a thursday morning, march 26th, 2015. i'm al along with tamron hall and natalie is on assignment and as we come on the air, some disturbing breaking news about this german wings aircraft. >> yes, the investigators have now released more information of what's happening about the co-pilot co-pilot co-pilot. right now the indications are the co-pilot appears to have crashed that plane deliberately with 150 people on board including high school students and small children. let's go to nbc correspondent ke ri simmons who is in france near the investigation site the crash site with the latest on what we have learned. keir. >> reporter: good morning. this is absolutely chilling news. as you can hear the helicopter flying overhead, that's one of the many helicopters transporting investigating up to the crash scene, what they are now saying and, frankly, tamron what they are saying is that this was the mass murder of 149 people because what they have concluded is that the co-pilot locked himself in the cockpit of the plane and then deliberately manipulated the controls for a devastating descent into the alps mountain range behind me here. let me ask the cameraman to pan across that mountain range as i describe to you more of what the french practices security has said. he says while the plane was flying over the mountains here the pilot left the cockpit to go we think perhaps to the restroom. then the co-pilot then locked himself in that cockpit and refused to open the door to the pilot who mulligan to frantically bang on the door. you can see in this animation what it may have been like. he was banging on that door trying to get in. apparently the co-pilot did not respond to that and chen then changed the direction of the plane so it mulligan to head down from 38,000 feet down to this mountain range. i think we can show you as well the scene there, just to make the point of how devastating the impact was. what the french prosecutor says in the statement that he made just in the last hour is we assume that the co-pilot meant to destroy the plane and asked the german authorities for information on his personality. what is really frightening is that according to the prosecutor you can hear the co-pilot breathing all the way through the moment of impact. so they assume that he was alive and in the final minutes as well as the pilot trying to get into the cockpit, you can hear the screams of the passengers on board. it must have been absolutely terrifying in those final minutes of this a-320 huddled down into the alps. all of these people realizing they were headed for certain death. what do we know about this co-pilot? we are told he is 28. >> that he had 600 flying hours that he has joined this airline after training german wings owned by the german airline lufthansa. by the way, in the next hour or so we expect the ceo of lufthansa to have a news conference. just yesterday, that ceo is saying he didn't understand it. he didn't understand what happens. now he is going to have to explain why and i think we can see pictures now of what we believe is the home of the co-pilot andrea lubitz the ceo of lufthansa is going to have to explain how it is that a co-pilot was flying their plane and appears to have taken an opportunity, if you like to fly an a-320 into the mountains here while the other pilot was desperately trying to get inside. also on this black box, they say there were 20 minutes of ordinary conversation between the pilot and co-pilot before he left that cockpit. so guy, absolutely no indication why this co-pilot appears to have done this. it really s. it's just absolutely devastating. >> keir what do we know about the protocol whether or not the pilot or co-pilot can be in the cockpit alone? what is the protocol for that airline? >> reporter: it doesn't know. but we do know according to regulations in most of the airline industry it is not supposed to be the case that one person is left inside the cockpit. the point of how this door to the cockpit is that you can't get in there as an ordinary passenger for very good reasons after 9-11 in this protection for terrorism. but other members of the crew should be able to get in there. so what we assume from that and what clearly investigators and the french prosecutor is assumeing is that the co-pilot prevented other members of the crew from getting inside and then changed the direction of the plane. so as it appears, even though we don't hear from the co-pilot on the black box recording, we are assuming he knew what he was doing and it was deliberate. because those were deliberate acts. >> keir simmons, thank you very much. french prosecutors saying there was nothing to suggest this was a terror attack. it certainly was terrifying. >> the part that makes me feel the most sick is like you said the kids were on this plane, when my husband heard this was an act that meant to be on purchase he said think about those parents, those high school parents that were waiting for their kids at the airport to come home from spain and how they feel now. when you hear about people that do these acts of evil you have to think about those kids and their parents and the amazing loss that they feel today. >> that's a horrible horrible situation. >> oh okay. well let's move on to something a little lighter. >> yes. >> there is joseph amorosi is $7 million richer. >> all right! >> have you ever won a scratchoff ticket? >> i think a dollar once. >> his father bought him a get well ticket to cheer him up. he worked for verizon. he scratched it off, right, in the hospital in a get well card and he won $7 million bucks. >> wow! >> not just buck $7 million dollars. can you imagine seeing that number and counting the zeros and saying this can't be right? >> can i imagine running out of the hospital. >> can you imagine his wife he married ten months ago. >> exactly. >> all of a sudden she's a very rich lady. obviously, you had hernia surgery, there is no jumping up or down. >> i might risk it. >> he says he will continue to work. i hope he takes his wife on a second honeymoon. >> and the dad as well. >> as he calls him now, fool just kidding. >> they are all going on the honeymoon together. >> i have to buy myself a lottery ticket. >> you have to buy it and give it to someone. >> like my dad. >> there you go! >> buy mae lottery ticket. >> instead of an ice bucket challenge, it comes to a lottery challenge, keep buying me ticket. so i love this story, the past few days wisconsin basketball player nigel hayes has been challenging the ncaa stenographers with difficult words at press conferences, anti--disestablishment or i want a beer! yesterday, the press conference got started. ifying el's mic picked up more than actually what he wanted to. or maybe not. >> nigel, we want to know is there anything you want to say to our stenographers just to tip things off? >> synergy. gosh she's beautiful. did you hear that? >> i heard that. >> all right. so. we'll open it up to questions. >> oh i love this. >> i think we have pictures of the stenographers. >> oh they are. gosh. they are attractive. >> he was so embarrassed. >> have you ever left your mic on al? >> during roker-a-thon. >> he sure did. >> i heeded nature's call and gave new meaning to live streaming. so i have in fact done that. >> that's the only time? >> to the best of my knowledge. >> to the best of my knowledge. i didn't quite do a frank -- >> okay. that's. >> do you know what it is? >> is it something that's dirty? >> no! no. >> you never know with al. >> it's from the movie "naked gun." he goes in with an open mic at a press conference he goes into the bathroom he starts singing. he's at the urinal and finishes off with a few notes. >> so we can watch it over the weekend, i'll call you. >> what about you? any mic accidents? >> thank gosh no. no. >> you still got time. >> let's get a check on weather, lots to talk about? >> yes, there is seven tornadoes reported yesterday. we got more severe weather popping up right now. in fact as we look. you can see along that frontal system yesterday, one person died. three people injured critically out of this. the skies clearing out of memphis. there is another line working in. we have wet weather, much colder tomorrow as that front moves through. in fact the back side of this system three-to-five inches of snow in wisconsin, up of michigan syracuse you will see rain and wet snow. one-to-three inches by tomorrow possible. the wet weather continues along the coast. we will probably have airport delays walk new york on into parts of boston and atlanta >>> good morning, i'm meteorologist bill henley. tracking showers and a chance of thunderstorms, but look at those temperatures. middle 60s to 70 degrees this afternoon. storms roll through this evening and behind them a chilly day for friday. 46 in the morning, 52 in the afternoon. still a possibility of some showers on friday and a slight chance with colder conditions on sunday. snowflakes and raindrops, no accumulation saturday. sunshine sunday and warmer weather, back into the 50s, monday, tuesday and wednesday. have a great day. >>> and that's your latest weather. 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>> college. >> i was 13. >> i was working here. starbucks created no 20 years ago starbucks instrentd frapuccino. >> it's been around 20 years? >> yes, that's right. this got a commemorative birthday cake. >> oh birthday cake. >> the blend of vanilla bean hazelnut topped with raspberry infused whipped cream. 20 years ago. let me tell you something, i don't drink coffee. i had one somebody gave me one. i thought, this is pretty tasty. by the end of the week i was up to drinking three frappuccino. i literally could see through my eyelids. i was vibrant. i love these things i love it i love it i love it! >> can you imagine al on a frappuccino. that is scary. >> when i came off, i crashed. it was ugly ugly. >> it's sugar and caffeine. cheers to the frap. >> i have a flight after this. i may not. >> didn't he tell you when he had one of these in. >> i'm not going to drink that, i lie it's a lovely color. >> it's a mountain dew joy. >> it's like a potato chip. you can't stop. >> take another swig. >> chug it chug it! >> come on. come on! tamron tam ron! tamron! tamron! >> fine. >> tamron! tamron! . oh brain freeze! oh! >> are you okay? >> oh it will be a good news today. >> oh i'm dizzy. that's what i see. that's a lot of sugar. my gosh. >> maybe you shouldn't have done that? >> as we look ahead to the weekend. wet weather in the pacific north. her head is literally blown up. we got wet weather along the eastern seaboard look for light snow. tomorrow around western pennsylvania rain in the pacific northwest. 97 in phoenix tomorrow and on sunday still in the 90s, >>> good morning, i'm meteorologist bill henley. tracking showers and a chance of thunderstorms, but look at those temperatures. middle 60s to 70 degrees this afternoon. storms roll through this evening and behind them a chilly day for friday. 46 in the morning, 52 in the afternoon. still a possibility of some showers on friday and a slight chance with colder conditions on sunday. snowflakes and raindrops, no accumulation saturday. sunshine sunday and warmer weather, back into the 50s, monday, tuesday and wednesday. have a great day. >> oh this could be a disaster. >> this is terrific. >> and that's your latest weather. it's hard to believe it's almost 20 years since christina ricci befriended a lovable ghost if "casper" and played a teen in the movie "now and then." who could forget her as wednesday in "the adams family." >> last year she starred in "liz city borden took an axe" based on a student repriced of murder. >> now she explores lizzie's fictional life after being acquitted. >> i want peace and respect. we can run father's business. i know about solving problems. the problem right now is everyone thinks you are an easy target. >> that has to change. >> i'm not afraid of you. then you haven't been paying attention. >> exactly. >> okay. >> that character, christina is with us right now. good to see you. >> good to see. >> you this is brilliant. people are so fascinated with the story. it follows what happened after lizzie borden was acquitted. it draws us in even more. >> we have a lot of freedom. we are taking this iconic character and imagining what could have happened. >> this is your second go around playing her? >> yes. >> what do you think? do you think she did it in. >> it serves our stories for her to have done it. we are certainly keeping it. but i mean there has been so much conjecture about this so no one really knows anymore. >> this mini series is dark. there is not the comedy. you kill about two people per episode. >> but it is kind of done in a very elf self self aware, tongue in cheek. it's macabre. >> did you ever want to get away from wednesday, turn on pop music, have a frapuccino? >> i always want tore a frapuccino. she is such a fun character tore play. it's fun material. it's dark and pa cobb it's outrageous and over the top. at most i would want to get out of the corsette i was in. >> you had a phenomenal career that spanned many years. i'm looking at your skin just perfection. it is we were looking at the clips from "casper" i know it's not politically correct to say this to an act tres, have you not aged a day, it is more about your looks and sometime. but you've maintained this level in hollywood both classy and approachable. >> well that's very nice of you to say. >> it's rue. >> i try. we try. >> do you battle within yourself on what roles to take that are consistent with everything that you have worked hard to represent? >> yeah i mean that's definitely a consideration. i think that also i have always sort of trusted my instinct. if you do the things that you naturally gravitate towards, there thereby a through line t. choices are who you are, and your case. >> you do kind of like the macabre a little bit. from wednesday to "adams family." >> i really love a crazy person. nothing is better to me than someone behaving really poorly like right over there. >> which do you love more playing a crazy person or tamron's shoes? >> oh it's neck and neck. >> those are crazy shoes. >> christina was saying she loved my shoes, i love yours, which size shoe you wear? >> 7-and-a-half. >> we are done. you don't want to have my shoes. google baby feet. >> he's seven-and-a-half-month-old. >> what's the one thing that you learned that no one told you that has been a part of our parenting series we have done in. >> that's interesting. >> first of all, everyone told me how much i would go nuts and love him, but you can't describe that feeling until it happens. it's like a crazy just joyous feeling. i never, i never accept i mean i never knew quite what it was going to be like. >> congratulations on being a mother. >> you look good girl. >> thanks. >> it's crazy. >> thank you so much. in the lizzie borden chronicles premiers sunday april 5th this is an allen family production. and here's why we love chex. one, choices like chocolate, vanilla and honey nut. two, no artificial colors or flavors. three..it's gluten free. chex. full of what you love. free of what you don't. i've smoked a lot and quit a lot, but ended up nowhere. now i use this. the nicoderm cq patch, with unique extended release technology helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. i want this time to be my last time. that's why i choose nicoderm cq. i already feel like we're the most connected but i think this solo date will seal the deal. sure! i offer multi-car, safe driver, and so many other discounts that people think i'm a big deal. and boy, are they right. ladies, i can share hundreds in savings with all of you! just visit progressive.com today. but right now, it's choosing time. ooh! we have a winner. all: what? 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>> that's it. >> when you auditioned you had to learn german and a monologue, you had to learn this in 24 hours. >> it was very strange, i had a meeting with harvey weinstein. >> which is intimidating. >> which is intimidating. the meeting was going well. i was saying my good-byes. he says i have a film in mind for you, can you speak german? i said no you can learn by tomorrow anyone else you would say, no, him, you go okay i'll do it. i'll do it. i put together this monologue was terrible terrible general. hom so you it got me the part. >> what did you have the rosetta stone? >> youtube and google translate in there smart. very nice. >> so when you saw you would be in this film with helen mirren and ryan reynolds did you feel great? >> i thought great. then i thought they must have been drunk. why cast an english actor as an austrian opera singer? i can't sing german or sing opera. thankfully i didn't get the phone call no we're recasting you. >> you weren't actually in the scenes with either of them in. >> no the flashbacks and modern day scene, we'd part each other, what kind of film are you making? what itself the fix e tex cure what itself the flavor? but to be surrounded by such fantastic characters katie holmes helen mirren it's a great dream come rue. >> you grew around fantastic actors in a home where great actors dwell. the rest of us have great (but come on. >> my parent were good people. >> even when people asked for autograph surface. >> yeah that's still just dad. they kept me away from the sort of pantomiming of this business. when i meet someone like helen, you get incredibly star struck. i felt i was going to meet the queen. >> that's how it is. >> when you meet helen mirren of course. it is interesting. you say having those parents, besides them being terrific parents, you say it's also from the fame standpoint a blessing and a curse? >> i think in england nepotism is frowned upon in the class system. initially there might be interest in you, because of who your parents are. if you walk in there unprepared with a bad attitude assuming the world owes you something because of who your parents are, people will remember that and they won't forget it and for give it. you have to go in humble. >> i saw the movie, max irons, so nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> >>> so tuesday we asked you where should we send jenna on her next adventure and you responded. >> thank you so much. >> here are four of our favorites. >> here we go. ashley says send her and the him paraglideing in torey pine san diego. this would be your view. >> after she has a frapuccino. >> diane says send her to cedar point, ohio it goes up to 400 feet. there you go. >> that looks cool. >> jane says. >> a free fall in kissimmee, a 300 foot drop you get pulled up face down. >> no no no no. >> there is it. >> no no no no. say no. >> that's my vote. >> no no no no. >> first of all, natalie has to come with me right? >> momma says send jenna to west vach. >> no no no no. >> you don't like the way that looks? >> would you like the way that looks in. >> okay. go to today.com, vote for your >>> good morning. i'm rosemary connors. it's just a few minutes before 10:00. that fog is still hanging around out there this morning. in fact at philadelphia international airport, weather conditions are causing delays of some arriving flights averaging around an hour and 20 minutes. when is it going to clear out of here? let's check in with meteorologist bill henley. >> it's never going to be clear today. we will see the fog disappear, but then showers and possibly some thunderstorms will take over. the temperatures are climbing in spite of the cloud cover. that's a live view of boat house row. it's up to 49 in philadelphia. near 60 degrees in dover. we are watching for rain. it's dry right now in philadelphia, but tracking some showers and thunderstorms that are moving to the northeast at 50 miles per hour. those thunderstorms could arrive in dover in about a half an hour's time. >>> once again, a philadelphia judge has postponed sentencing for christina regusters. a jury convicted regusters of taking a 5-year-old girl from a neighborhood elementary school bringing her to her house and raping the little girl. whenever christina regusters is sentenced, she could face life in prison. >>> today in the lehigh valley fans will say a final fare well to chuck bednarik. there's a viewing tonight at connell's funeral home in bethlehem and a private mass for family and friends tomorrow. the hall of famer, known as concrete charlie died over the weekend at the age of 89. he played both offense and defense for the eagles from 1949 to '62. i'm rosemary connors. have a good one. >>> from nbc news this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> okay. >> all right. hello everybody. by that we mean everybody. it's march 26th. we have a twisted show for you today. one of the biggest stars of youtube is here. one of the most awesome up and coming funny ladyies to watch. >> this girl is about to branch out, baby. >> yep. all about her new show. >> then if it's raining in new york it must be ambush thursday. they found two lovely ladies. and we're back to turn junk food into joy food. we're going to transform two favorites. >> she's been right so far. >>> we did start off this morning with breaking news. that germanwings plane crash. >> yeah. >> everyone was wondering what caused the plane to go down. today, it was confirmed that the co-pilot appears to have crashed the plane deliberately into that mountain side. when the pieces of the plane were so descent grated, they ruled out a bomb. they say when a bomb blows up a plane -- >> there are fragments. >> shredded they said. >> i think the scary thing, when you hear what happened according to the cockpit voice recorder was that the pilot, the more experienced of the two, left the cockpit to either go to the restroom or something, and he came back to get back into the cockpit and it was locked. he knocked and followed the protocol it said. he was locked out basically. >> and you can hear that apparently the pounding and screaming -- oh, dear lord. >> they did release the the name of the co-pilot. his name is andreas lubitz. he's 28 years old. he's a german national. now we know what happened -- >> we want to know why. >> i think trying to get into the mind of someone like that why he flew that plane in, i mean you know it's one of those things you think to yourself, if your goal is to commit suicide, why are you taking 149 people with you. >> anger. so furious about something. the conversation before it all happened with the two pilots was quite gracious. >> the guy didn't have tons of flight time compared to what is required in the u.s. almost double that. he mainly -- started off i guess on single engine planes. only a hundred hours plus on this type -- >> they're saying he was totally qualified. they do get a medical test once a year to make -- >> but not -- >> but not a psychological. until we know details, and they will emerge. >> they always do. >> yeah. you can't really speculate. i guess you can sort of have a hunch. what's your gut telling you? >> i really don't know. you think this guy seems like a lone wolf again. when no one claimed responsibility it made you think it probably wasn't terrorism. but you still want to know what's going on inside this guy's head. >> if he wants to kill himself, that's his business. there was a picture of him in front of the golden gate bridge. people were saying why didn't you just jump instead of taking lives with you. >> we're going to continue covering that story. >> you have some wonderful, wonderful -- >> you know we've been telling you about the little girl -- well, leah who i am crazy about. she's a 4-year-old girl. she was diagnosed with canscercancer. >> you adopted her, which is precious. part of your "truly brave" video. >> they found more cancer after this video we shot. it was heartbreaking. she found out last week that early tests indicated she was getting better. today, her dad confirmed all the tests came back clean. he wrote after dreaming about what it would feel like, to hear doctors say my daughter was in remission, i finally know the feeling. >> yay! calls for a celebration. up not down. i can almost imagine that i'm -- there we go. >> there it is. >> we're so happy for little leah. >>> so yesterday, we had tyrese on. >> what a cutecuity cute pie. >> he called it his drink. >> okay. so it is a large hot chocolate with three shots of espresso and four pumps of hazelnut. >> it sounds horrible to me. >> this is his waky wakey. >> oh, my god. is that a chaser? did you not drink it? >> you didn't take a sip? you did not take one single sip? you won't like it. >> no i knew i wouldn't. >> we have some news about one direction and we understand young girls around the globe are weeping because zayn has decided to permanently leave one direction. young girls are -- we've heard -- that's him. >> they're devastated. >> what would you do if it was your era and ringo said nice talking to you or any of them left. so he's out. what are they going to do? >> i don't know and i really -- on a scale of one to ten, don't care. >> they interviewed one direction. >> yes, they had their fourth album coming out or something. >> one was missing. >> what happened to zayn. >> stomach bug or something like that. >> fame is not for everybody. not everybody's like you hoda, made for it. you know what i'm saying? honestly i remember i went to hollywood all these years ago, my sister was so much more talented. she lost her colon as a result of the anxiety and depression she had. >> yeah. >> what did she -- it's been so long. she's fine now, thank god. but she almost died from the stress of it. i was like, hey, if you need a cartoon, call me. >> you could handle that life. >> and you are. look at you. >> zayn says this my life with one direction has been more than i could ever imagine. i feel like now's the right time for me to leave the band. i have to do what feels right in my heart. i'm leaving because i want to be a normal 22-year-old who's able to relax and have private time out of the spotlight. >> he's not going to be normal for a long time because there are too many people -- women and fans who adore him and he's going to be recognized wherever he goes. he maybe could be a normal 30-year-old. after -- yeah -- >> one direction issued a statement too. we send him all of our love in the future. >> you know what the beatles did just find with four. >> you could be right. >> they'll be very smart and say, we're going to do a worldwide search for his replacement. >> oh! >> and they're going to milk it and milk it until the cow is butterless. >> or people can vote. >> make it a big, big deal. >>> so we have a -- >> we have an issue. >> yesterday on our program we showed you donna who's one of the people on our show we love. we poured coke on her hair because we read somewhere if you put it in one's hair it gives your hair more texture. we're like oh my god, look at donna's hair, awesome. then we found out she had washed out the coke. this is donna doing her hair on her own. >> it's not that big of an issue because i still have my hair. so yesterday, i went home to my two roommates. i brought home two liters of coca-cola coca-cola. i was like, have at me. they poured it on me. it was sort of a fun activity, but don't do it at home. >> call it now the coca-cola challenge. >> it feels the same to be honest. >> not sticky at all? >> no. >> you rinse it out with water. >> does it feel clean, though? >> it feels fine. i think the takeaway is that it feels soft but it looks more textured and therefore thicker. >> like you have baby fine hair. >> the appearance. >> still stick by my word and maybe do it once a month. >> thank you, donna. >> she'll do all the things we won't do. >>> this is a girl a country artist who sounds a lot like taylor swift. okay? her name -- kelsey. here we go. >> love me like you mean it. i like the title. ♪ ♪ oh, hey, boy with your hat back i kind of like that ♪ ♪ if you want to walk my way, i will shoot you straight up show you what you made of ♪ ♪ i don't have time to waste ♪ >> i like it. rain and games don't rhyme, but it's still cute. ♪ if you're going to hold me, hold me like you're leaving ♪ ♪ if you're going to love me love me like you mean it ♪ >> cute. >> isn't that nice? it's fun, right? >> did she write it? >> i don't know those details. >> that would make her more like taylor swift than not. >> she is adorable. just reminder you can listen to us on sirius xm channel 108. >> and her own show called the hoda show mondays and wednesdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern. and a lot more people are doing that now because it's a great show. >> all right. so why go to the salon when you can come to the plaza and get ambushed. >> why not? 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>> well, i'm here now and that's all that really matters, right? >> not to us grace. >> we like to be first. we're second. >> i'm older than larry king. i have more experience okay? >> did they really give you any good advice? >> they did. larry king actually gave me really great advice. he said he made his career off of being dumb. >> he meant that in quotes. >> he doesn't approach interviews thinking he's smarter than the lawyer knows more about medicine than the doctor. >> reads the books. >> i think he also assumes that most people don't know about the subject. >> right. >> so let that person tell you the details. >> what about andy? he's nuts. >> he's got that child-like wonder about him when he speaks. you can't help but feel his excitement. i think he's really good at what he does. >> what made you want to step into this pool? >> you had a nice gig going. >> i guess i thought, why not. >> yeah. >> it felt like television is something i wanted to try and do. the internet has been a great moment in my life how can i incorporate that into something on tv. >> so you don't -- do you have a vision? >> yeah, i want to do a show that is kind of a curious, introvert's nighttime talk show. >> i like that. >> i want to invite people over to my home and have conversations with them and have fun. and that can happen in a variety of ways. so we have a lot of activities planned, a lot of great guests should be coming on. i'm excited just to experiment. >> in late night, it's kind of a boy's club. >> how are you going to make your way? >> i'm going to be myself because i can't do otherwise. >> yeah. >> and i'm going to try and focus on making just a great show rather than think about myself as a girl in the nighttime space. >> that doesn't do you any good. unless you decide to think like a girl and be something so completely different. you're alternative programming. >> how do you manage it? >> i don't know. >> i don't read the notes, so that's helpful. i think i'm larry king. >> the key to it is fun. if you're having fun, your audience is going to have fun. >> i think you guys have so much fun here. i think that that's really -- it's great. >> going from a youtube situation to now what it feels like to have more people around you, does that -- even though you try to keep it in the same vein. >> i really want to try to maintain the incident -- intimacy. a lot of the conversations are going to be talking directly to a camera. >> which you're used to now. >> really bringing the audience in to get to know the camera men. >> pretty much doing exactly what we do. for a whole lot more money. anyway we're happy for you. >> thank you. >> show premiers friday april 3rd on e. >>> what advice would you give your younger self? 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>> celebration women continues with gorgeous ambush makeovers. >> and if your advice is to skip dessert, you may not have to. >> and thanks to all those lovely ladies who shared with us. my budget was always second guessing me when i'd buy stuff for the family. fingerhut. fingerhut. fingerhut. fingerhut. at fingerhut.com we can shop with low monthly payments. over 200,000 items and growing from brands like samsung lego and kitchenaid. just click on over to fingerhut.com to get the credit you deserve and great stuff for your family. not fingerhut. i got that at a garage sale. for a dollar. ♪ this is kevin returning to his childhood home. this is the smell of baked pears, making him feel warm. then pie crust as he wonders if it's too soon to ask what's for dessert. now vanilla, reminding him of pep talks with mom and slightly inappropriate advice from dad. new air wick life scents in mom's baking the first constantly changing fragrance that acts like real life and says 'welcome home, kev-y bear.' this is him, secretly loving the name kev-y bear. air wick home is in the air. >>> nbc 10 news starts now. >> good morning. i'm rosemary connors. it is 10:26. we have some fog out there and some showers as well. meteorologist bill henley has the details in the first alert forecast. >> yeah. fog has been hanging out for most of the morning. now we're seeing showers enter the picture. a line of showers and some thunderstorm activity as well. you can see it moving into central delaware right now. that's where the lightning is the thunderstorm with heavy rainfall is quickly moving towards dover. it is moving to the northeast at 50 miles an hour. so minutes away from dover and pretty good showers moving toward middletown delaware as well. showers and thunderstorms at times during the day. but won't be an all day rainfall. the temperatures are climbing. almost 60 in dover. 50 degrees in northeast philadelphia. and climbing into the 60s this afternoon. >>> we continue to follow breaking news overseas. a french prosecutor says the co-pilot of the germanwings flight intentionally crashed the plane into the side of a mountain in the french alps on monday. the crash killed all 150 people on board. we will have all of the details and analysis from a local aviation expert on nbc 10 news at 11:00 this morning. >>> three americans are among the crash victims. one with philadelphia ties. emily selke graduated from drexel university in 2013. she was a music industry major and vice president of the gamma sigmad garcia of second degree murder in the death of kristen massey. i'm rosemary coners. back to the "today" show and we'll have more news could coming up at 11:00. >>> we're back with more of "today" readily to reveal the am buck makeovers for two lucky ladies. >> and working their hair and wardrobe magic as always "today" contributor and hair stylist to the stars -- >> luis licari lalala! >> and jill martin. >> it's rainy. >> just a little. we got between the drops. it's warmer today. >> it's warming up yeah. >> it was great. >> first up melinda dotter. she's 58 years old. this housewife who lets her husband cut her hair -- >> oh dear. let's say that again. >> she can also proudly say she's a first time spanx wearer. >> instead of an interview, i'm going to have her read her sign. >> my lips are too thin my butt is too fat, i don't know how to use eye liner, please make my stomach look flat. my hair's a mess and there's something growing on my chin. don't make me stay out here please pi

sigma sigma zeta sorority, they post add message on it facebook page, mourning the loss of emily and her mother. emily was integral part of the growing chamber and put others before herself, cared deeply for all of those in her life. we do know there was third american on the flight, how much, that person's identity has not yet been released. mike, alex? >> all right, 7:05. police are investigating home invasion in the point breeze section of the city. they have called out to the 1700 block of south chadwick street to the home after woman there, the woman told police a black male broke into her home and assaulted her, the victim was not taken to the hospital for some reason. police say nothing was taken from the home. and more breaking news, this out of chicago, former us representative jesse jackson, jr. is south of jail this morning, the 50 year old was serving time for tax evasion and misuse of campaign funds. he will serve the remind of his sentence in halfway-house. >> 7:06. sentencing scheduled today for the women convicted of and ducking a five year old from a philadelphia school and sexually assaulting her. >> i will never forget this case, so horrific. bryant elementary the name of the school, right, steve? >> reporter: above the criminal justice center see the city of philadelphia flag, just above the scales every justice, the reason i point that out is because this has got to be the most if not one of for sure the most horrific kidnapping cases however in philadelphia history, schedule to come to a criminal court conclusion here today, prosecutors want a life sentence for 21 year old christina, if you don't recognize the face in the mugshot, you will recognize the face you don't see in the surveillance video, that was taken from the school stairwells, and hall whales. the only person ever arrested and convicted for kidnapping a five year old girl, right out of her philadelphia public school classroom, in west philadelphia, posing as her mother, going to the office first, and not having identification, but, getting the little girl pulled out after classroom then backing out of the school with her, and not figured out until hours later when her family was looking for. well, this little girl has physical and emotional wounds, that will never hear, according to tom kline decline, her well known attorney. as the criminal case ends, this civil lawsuit where he is the attorney against the city's school district, continues to wind its long way through the system, no amount of money tom kline decline says, will ever make up for the life-long damages this little girl is still suffering with today, and will, forever. >> yes, rest of her life. oh, my god, so tragic. 7:07. viewing will be held today for chuck bednarik at the connell funeral home in bethlehem. >> bednarik played for the eagles his entire career from 1949 to 1962. he was an all-pro eight time, unbelievable career, he is one of the last players to play both offense and defense, until dallas in 1996. chuck bednarik 89 years old. >> concrete charlie, he was tough. well, a racist note gets sent to pennsylvania state police nominee, colonel marcus brown. the note was hand delivered to his home in harrisburg. it red: no bleep lover will wear my uniform. the letter was signed didn't don't in reference to criticism over brown's decision to wear the state police uniform despite not having graduated from the academy. so, brown has been very voice full about his plans to recruit more minorities. >> the hearing for the men accused of murder sergeant robert wilson iii set for yesterday, has been pushed to may. you will remember he was postumously promote today sergeant. prosecutors say brothers carlton hips and ramon williams both shot williams during a robbery attemptment at the game stop march the fifth. they intends to show surveillance video of the shoot-out. the brothers face the death penalty if convicted. >> veterans regional offices, pledging aggressive togs address charges every mismanagement of disability claims. the changes include a new regional office director, additional training, and protection, for whistle blowers, very important. >> 7:09. the secretary of state is scrambling to reach nuclear deal iran before the end of the month, deadline. john kerry returned to switzerland, he is scheduled to be to meet with iranian foreign minister. kerry hoping easing sanctions will prompt iran to agree to terms. deadline for preliminary agreement is march 31st, there have been talks they might he can tend this deadline to mid april. kerry hopes to have final deal in place though by the end of the june. >>> meanwhile, iran's foreign ministry is warning against air strikes in yemen. they say, it is a dangerous step that will likely worsen the crisis there. sawed r i abe yeah launched series of strikes against shiite, close us ally president fled the country. they say yemen on the brink of violent collapse. >> the army sergeant who was held captive by the taliban for five years could face life in prison if convicted on two charges. here are the charges. the army sergeant who was held captive by the taliban for five years, bo burying dall charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. army officials say bergdahl walk @ way from his stand in afghan 20095 month after arriving in afghanistan before captured by the taliban. he was released last summer. president obama negotiated his release in exchange for a group of taliban leaders, five in all. >> all right, 7:11. a former university of oklahoma fraternity member caught on video lead ago racist chant on that bus. he actually went in front of folks and spoke. >> yep, he now says the chant was discusting and he regrets not stopping it. >> i never thought of myself as a racist, i considered it a possibility. go the bottom lines the words said this that chant were mean, hurtful and racist. i will be deeply sorry and deeply a shame of what i have done for the rest of my life. >> levi and several other members of the sigma alpha epsilon fraternity were caught on video, you remember, rye citing a chant that referenced lynching, and using a racial slur against african-americans. petit, another student, were later expelled from school for their leadership role in the chant. you can see them in the video. you know, encouraging others to do it. >> the sae chapter at the university of oklahoma was also shutdown. >>> well, whitney houston's mother said she presently friend if her granddaughter doesn't make t sissy houston gave interview to new york radio station yesterday. 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sigma sigma chapter. they put out a statement saying, emily always put others before herself. emily will be greatly missed by her fellow sisters. please keep emily, her mother and their family during your thoughts and prayers during this heartbreaking time. >>> i want to update you on the other stories we're following. president obama delivering remarks marking the five-year anniversary of his landmark health care law. >> it's working despite countless attempts to repeal undermine, defund and defame this law. i mean we have been promised a lot of things these past five years that didn't turn out to be the case. death panel, doom a serious alternative from republicans in congress. >> so house speaker john boehner and nancy pelosi's long-term plan to finance health care for older americans while paying the doctors who treat them is reportedly in jeopardy. a senate vote is scheduled for tomorrow, but as of now, senator harry reid and other senate democrats still object to abortion restrictions in that bill. >>> right now, the governor of alabama is set to speak on the last day of events marking the 50th anniversary of the selma to montgomery march. and just this afternoon, we're learning that zayne malik, get this, has decided to heave the pop group one direction. he says he wanteds time to be a normal 22-year-old and have some private time out of the spotlight. so one-d down to four members. >>> new developments in that racist video from the fraternity at the university of oklahoma. a few hours from now, one of the frat members is going to give his first public comments. levi pettitte and another member of sigmalogize again today, something the chair of the oklahoma's black kaus us can called for. >> i believe this is a great start. i think it has to happen in order for us to look forward and help this young man move forward. but i think our community has to learn a lot about it as well. >> so sae is now shut down on that campus. the other fraternity member no longer attends ou and he's already apologized in a statement. another problem confronting colleges, the issue of sexual assault or campus rape. the high-profile incident of an alleged gang rape at uva only exacerbates the nationwide situation. on monday police said they could find no evidence substantiating claims made in a shocking story reported by "rolling stone" magazine last year. sexual assault or rape on campus is the subject of a critically lauded documentary in theaters right now called "the hunting ground." >> in your time at unc, how many students came to you and said they'd been assaulted? >> um -- it's hard to put a number

the offensive e-mail was sent 14 months ago to members of the cap pa sigma -- kappa sigma telling brothers not to invite certain guests and profanely talking about women. no one at the frat house would talk about this today, but the national frat house said the member of the e-mail id the language and views in the e-mail are inexcusable in stark contrast to our values. >> it's not that kind of place. >> reporter: students from a neighboring fraternity condemned the e-mail. >> no. i don't think the e-mail represents the house at all. >> reporter: this has sparked widespread discussion about fraternity life. >> the fact that this believed they could send out an e-mail and there would be no repercussions says something in itself. there's a lot of progress that needs to be made. >> i have no words. i don't know. i'm shocked. >> i was in a fraternity and some of the things you'd hear people say was shocking. >> reporter: all of this is in the wake of that shocking racist video that came out of the university of oklahoma and the sae house there. around university of maryland there's been some ch

sigma fraternity. they are counter to everything kappa sigma stand for." kappa sigmaently taking action to expel the students from that chapter. >>> this incident comes after another story we first brought you here on "cnn newsroom." the university of oklahoma's chapter of sigma alpha epsilon disbanded after a video surfaced of members chanting racial slurs. now they are fighting back. the fraternity has hired a high-profile attorney who says he isn't ruling out a lawsuit against the school. he also says fraternity brothers are making death threats and some have been physically assaulted. miguel marquez with more. >> reporter: the alumni board for the new-defunct sae chapter says it's lawyered up because those former members of the fraternity are being threatened on campus testimony also says fraternity members and those that were expelled got a raw deal. [ chanting ] [ bleep ] >> reporter: the reaction to the reaction of the now-infamous video university of oklahoma sae fraternity brothers singing a racist song is on. >> i think there was a premature rush to judgment

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"if the shooting of michael brown had take nl place about 500 yards to the southeast he would have died not if ferguson but in the neighboring city of jennings. the court system which is overseen by a white judge but has almost exclusively black defendants routinely sends peel to jail for failure to pay minor traffic fines, a new lawsuit alleges. had the shooting occurred 3 1/2 miles to the north, the world might turn to a city where police stop black motorists at a rate nearly three times the share of the population. court fines and fees accounted for over 40% of the city's general operating revenue last year." so perhaps i guess what i'm saying is there would be a cost savings if you were to go through consolidation, but the net-net would be the same result as it applies to minorities. >> i can't dispute that report. but the problem is much bigger than ferguson. the problem is st. louis county as a whole and i think ferguson just happens to be the place that michael brown was shot and it just happens to be one of the worst offenders. the justice department report which to me everybody ought to read is required reading for i think an american citizen these days talks about how not only were the ferguson officials bragging and boasting about the amount of money they were taking in but they were also boasting about the amount of money they were taking in relative to other municipalities in the county. so they saw themselves as kind of i guess the dubious leader in an amount of money that they were getting out of their citizens. no i don't say that other municipalities in st. louis county are better. but i think a message has to be sent that you can't have all of these little municipalities competing against one another and then competing against one another to see how much money they can extract from obviously poor people. >> mr. deberry thanks for your comments. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> now for a different point of view. for many who protect and serve in this country, our police officers the deep tensions in ferguson have a whole different meaning. many in law enforcement believe events in ferguson have sparked a war on them fueled by anti-cop hatred and rhetoric. joining me now milwaukee county sheriff david clark. sheriff, welcome, and respond to what you just heard about this notion of consolidation. would that change anything? >> i don't know. you know we have to look at what has led to the rise of the american ghetto in the united states to begin with and i think it's failed liberal government policies that have torn a black family apart, created a lot of dysfunction. some of this is self-inflicted. when you have kids out of wedlock, you don't embrace education, involve yourselves in drug and alcohol abuse. you're not going to do very well in life. however, some of what was mentioned about what's going on in ferguson and other cities across america is also happening at the federal level with the irs, and i don't hear too many calls for abolishing the irs. so what we need to do is take a look at -- >> i understand the comment about the breakdown of the family being a contributing factor to crime. i happen to share that. but i don't understand what that has to do with the irs. >> it has a lot to do with the irs. picking people's pocket turning people upside down and shaking their pockets out to create revenue to spend on these failed liberal government policies. if we want to straighten this out and we really want to get to the heart of this matter we're going to have to eliminate the dysfunction that happens in many of these american ghetto where is people can't find meaningful work. they have to send their kids to failing k-12 public schools. there's chronic unemployment high unemployment in these areas, and they're crime riddled. those are the things that i think we need to have the discussion about instead of laying this at the foot of the american police officer. i'm tired of these two-bit politicians and bureaucrats taking all of the pathologies and maladies of the american ghetto and laying i at the feet of our nation's finest our community's finest. we have to go in to save other good law-abiding people. the overwhelming majority of people that live in these areas are good law-abiding citizens and we have to keep them separated from the criminal element which involve assort of policing. when things go wrong in our world, and they can, and they often do like what happened in ferguson then what we need is for responsible people to use their heads and not inflame the situation, not rush to judgment and then apply the facts and the evidence to the rule of law, and we have to accept the decision. we don't have to like the decision that comes out of these grand juries but we have to accept it. and until we start to do that you're going to continue to see this assault on our nation's finest, the american police officer. it happened in l.a. it happened in san francisco. it happened in new york. this is happening all across america. and that's why i say they need to stop laying this stuff at the foot of the american police officer. if we don't go -- who else is going to do it? who else is going into these crime-ridden areas, these american ghettos, trying to save other black people? >> is there a benign nondiscriminatory explanation for the data that has made so many headlines? you know the data that african-americans comprise 67% of the ferguson population but account for 85% of the car stops? that's just one of many data points. is there a nondiscrimination explanation behind that that you could offer? >> sure. you could cherry-pick data all you want. that wasn't an objective report by attorney general eric holder. he came to the conclusion first and went out and found information and found data to support his claim. you know he finds a couple of distasteful, disgusting e-mails. out of how many that he looked at? we found the same thing at sony picture, yet i didn't hear anybody indicting the entire motion picture industry as being racist. what eric holder did not mention in his report was that blacks -- the astonishingly disparate rate of criminal involvement by young black males and the astonishing rate of victimization of other black people as well. in milwaukee, for instance, in 2014 72% of the homicide victims were black people. 80% of the known or named suspects were black as well. those are astonishingly disparate figures that we have to add to this report as well but eric holder chose to dismiss that. >> you anticipated my next question which is to say would we, if we looked at the data points for your area come to a similar conclusion. i wish i had more time because i enjoy what you have to say. we'll do it again. thank you. >> thank you. >>> coming up sigma alpha epsilon is fighting back and lawyering up. the high-profile attorney for the disbanded sae chapter at the university of oklahoma says he's not ruling out suing the school. >>> welcome back. two students have been expelled from the university of oklahoma for singing that racist song. and the school's president says more expulsions could be coming. steven jones, the lawyer hired by the fraternity is hoping that the issues can be resolved out of court. here's what he said at a press conference yesterday. >> we are not here because we are interested in a legal solution. we hope and i hope my statement will make it clear, that we seek to have some other resolution of this matter. >> let's bring in a professor at ucla law school. he's also the author of a great blog. professor, is the reason that he says he is seeking a nonlegal solution because he doesn't have a legal leg to stand on? >> i think when he says nonlegal solution he means they don't want to have to go to court. and there

e-mail were inexcusable and in stark contrast to the values of kappa sigma fraternity and they are counter to everything that kappa sigma stands for." the university says it will create a student multicultural group to advise the president on any diversity issues here on campus and meanwhile, the fraternity says it will implement a diversity training program for its members year round. reporting in college park jeanette reyes, abc 7 news. jummy: developing now, crews are getting a look at the damage left behind from tornadoes that ripped through oklahoma and arkansas overnight. at least one person was killed. karen traverse takes a look at the mess left behind. karen: they're picking up the pieces today in parts of tornado alley. overnight, seven reported tornadoes in arkansas and oklahoma. >> we know what to do. we've been down this road before. and i'm very grateful that we have so many people that work so hard over the night to make sure that people are safe. karen: at least one person was killed. several were injured. thousands still without power. >> we got another one! karen: roofs ripped right off of houses. cars

sigma house at salon -- members of sigma out the epsilon were seen -- sigman s alpha epsilon were singing a racist chant and were responsible for "creating a hostile environment" and they will learn that it is wrong to threaten and exclude for stop hundreds have marched in a protest against racism. we will have more on this story later in the broadcast. protesters gathered near atlanta on wednesday to protest the police shooting of an unarmed african-american man. anthony hill was reportedly running naked around an apartment complex when a white officer opened fire. a witness said hill had approached the officer with his hands raised in the air. the officer reportedly appeared shocked after pulling the trigger, sitting in the streets with his head in his hands. hill was 27 years old, an air force veteran, and an aspiring musician. he had bipoloar disorder and was reportedly in the midst of a mental episode when he was shot dead. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. nermeen: and i am nermeen sheet. welcome to our listeners and viewers around the country and around the world. we begin today's show looking at the follow from the open letter sent earlier this week by republican lawmakers warning iran against a nuclear deal with the u.s. on monday, a group of 47 republican senators released the letter which reads in part -- "we will consider any agreement regarding your nuclear-weapons program that is not approved by the congress as nothing more than an executive agreement between president obama and ayatollah khamenei." iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif, dismissed the letter as propaganda. minister zarif: this is a propaganda ploy and there is no legal value. this shows us how worried one group is. there is no agreement yet, and one group is speaking about the content. in any case, a propaganda move has been made with response to benjamin netanyahu's speech to congress. it is regrettable there is a group against reaching a deal. of course we insist that if we do reach a deal, it has to be one in which the rights of our people are reserved, and we are sure there are ways to achieve this result. nermeen: zarif went on to warn -- quote -- "if the next administration revokes any agreement with the stroke of a pen, as they boast, it will have simply committed a blatant violation of international law." secretary of state john kerry responded to the letter on wednesday. secretary kerry: my reaction to the letter was utter disbelief. during my 29 years here in the senate, i never heard of nor even heard of it being proposed anything comparable to this. if i had, i could guarantee of no matter what the issue and no matter who was president, i would have certainly regretted -- rejected it. no one is questioning anybody's right to dissent. any senator can go to the floor any day and raise any of the questions that were raised in that, but to write to the leaders in the middle of a negotiation, particularly to leaders that they have criticized other people for even engaging with or writing to, to write them and suggest that they are going to give a constitutional lesson, which, by the way, was absolutely incorrect, is quite stunning. this letter ignores more than two centuries of resident in the conduct of american policy. nermeen: according to the website lobe log, the senator who spearheaded the letter freshman arkansas republican senator tom cotton received , nearly $1 million in donations to his election campaign efforts last year from the emergency committee for israel, run by neoconservative pundit bill kristol. the intercept reports cotton was set to appear at a secretive meeting of weapons contractors the day after sending the letter. secretary of state john kerry returns to switzerland sunday in a bid to reach a nuclear deal before a march 31 deadline. amy: to talk more about the letter and what's at stake in the nuclear negotiations, we're joined now by two guests. hillary mann leverett is with us. she served at the national security council under presidents clinton and bush. from 2001 to 2003, she was a u.s. negotiator with iran on afghanistan, al-qaida, and iraq, in which capacity she negotiated directly with iran's present foreign minister javad zarif. she is the ceo of the political risk consultancy firm stratega. she will join georgetown university as a visiting scholar next month. she is co-author of "going to tehran: why america must accept the islamic republic of iran." ali gharib is a contibutor to the nation magazine. his most recent piece is headlined "meet tom cotton, the senator behind the republicans' letter to iran." we welcome you both to democracy now! how unusual is it, where was it sent, who sent it yet? hillary: it really is unprecedented as far as i can determine. it is really unprecedented. if you can imagine during the 1960's, the republicans in congress had written to the soviet leader khrushchev warning him not to negotiate with kennedy over the cuban missile crisis because the united states would bomb the soviet union two years later if the republicans won the election. it is tantamount to that kind of reckless interference and dangerous, reckless interference for u.s. interests. the effect here, the conventional wisdom i think in washington is the effect has serves to just portray the republicans as somewhat ignorant or really ignorant and marginalized. a but i think it is having a little bit more of an effect that should be taken seriously. in that letter, the letter that nermeen read the quote from specifically honed in on how republicans warned that this agreement would be just between president obama and ayatollah hominai is very insignificant. any agreement between you and i states and iran, first of all, secretary kerry said yesterday before congress would not be legally binding, so whether someone finds it to begin with is a question, but even if they were to sign it, it would be secretary kerry who is in you know she is getting it -- who has been negotiating it for the united states. it would not be ayatollah khamenei. really to get to the ethnic and identity issues that republicans in particular have been pressing here in washington somehow this is about islam and islamic radicalism and muslims and to tie them into this package as prime minister netanyahu did when he came to washington and made his speech in quitting the islamic republic of iran to the islamic state, that there are two sites to the same coin. in that context, president obama has been in some ways eerily silent and i think this is a serious mistake. it behooves the president to make the case, the strategic case to the american people why a fundamentally different relationship with the islamic republic of iran is in america's interest. not that we are doing i ran a favor to welcome them back into the international community, and said that this is critically important for the united states that after a decade of disastrous wars in the middle east, we need a fundamentally different policy and that starts with a fundamentally different relationship with the islamic republic of iran. but i'm afraid the administration is not making that case because they do not want in some ways to be seen as liking the ayatollah or islamists in iran or elsewhere. that will be a problem going forward anywhere with any deal even if there is some sort of technical agreement by the end of the month. that is when to be a problem going forward. the at administration's inability to embrace a fundamentally different relationship with the islamic republic of iran, and i stress the islamic republic of iran. nermeen: hillary, some have suggested that even though some of dismissed the letter of propaganda some have suggested the letter may have made the u.s. appear an untrustworthy negotiating partner to iran, thereby weakening the chances of reaching an agreement. could you comment on that? hillary: i think the chances of reaching an agreement from the iranian side are quite high. i was in iran in november. i was invited to address a conference at the university of tehran. it is funny anyway, on the future of american executive legislative relations in the wake of the midterm elections here and the capture of the senate by the republicans. so i think in iran they have a very acute, situated understanding of u.s. politics, and they went into these negotiations very clear eye. foreign minister zarif i liken him to the kissinger of our time. he is a great statesman and a superlative strategist. the iranians have gone into this negotiation very clear and without any mistaken, wishful thinking that somehow congress and particularly the pro-israel lobby and i in washington is somehow going to embrace iran. i do not think this will inhibit them in any way, but they're certainly not going to -- if there were any inclination to trust president obama's word or secretary kerry's word, this letter certainly hurts that. they are certainly not going to go down that road. it will be more focused on getting international guarantees. for example, through united nations security council resolutions, through increased relations and cooperation agreements with russia and china. both russia and chinese presidents will be visiting iran this spring, so prime minister zarif and iranian leadership and their foreign-policy and national security council -- they are focused on getting what they want. they have a plan, and they are not going to let this kind of washington politics do without them. amy: washington lawmakers defended their decision to sign a letter. this is senator rand paul of kentucky. senator paul: i signed it to an administration that is not listen, to an administration that at every turn tries to go around congress as you think you cannot get your way. the president says, oh, the congress cannot do what i want so i have got a pen in my phone and i will do what i want. the letter was to you. the letter was to iran, but it should have been cc'd to the white house because the white house needs to understand that any agreement that changes legislation wadi pas -- will have to be passed by us. amy: hillary mann leverett, 47 republican senators signed this letter and he is particularly significant given that he could be a presidential contender in 2016. so in iran's eyes, he could be a person if he were to become president, who would do just what the republicans are threatening, that somehow they would unsign the agreement. hillary: yes and yes my different voice on the republican side, certainly not someone who is an inox with neoconservatives here in washington. something also that when i was in i run was noted. they know the who's who in terms of candidates here. it is significant, this change in a senator paul's position. it is a little bit odd that you have senator paul not only lecturing, joining a letter to lecture iran's leaders but nothing in fact it should have been sent to the white house where of course the president is not only a harvard law graduate but withas a constitutional law professor at the university of chicago. the last time i looked, senator paul does not have that kind of pedigree. but even with that, i think what senator paul's argument gets to come i can which is greatly needed, is the administration has not made their case. president obama has at most that well, this is 50/50, as if it is a take it proposition to get an agreement with iran. he is not made the case that we need in american interests for a fundamentally different policy toward the middle east that gets us off the trajectory of dominance in the region and instead allows a more natural balance of power in the region where iran can be a more normal strong state to balance the reckless impulses of even some of our so-called allies like the saudi's and even the israelis. that is critically important, but president obama has decades, see you are seeing even someone like senator all, who i think has had a more measured or policy approach than the neo conservatives in his policy has joined as letter to demand essentially that president obama make the case or come to congress and let them do the foreign-policy making. nermeen: i want to turn to comments made by arkansas republican tom cotton. weeks into his first term in the senate, he warned against a nuclear deal with iran wealth eating at the heritage foundation in washington. senator cosan:tton: first, the goal of our policy must be clear -- regime change in iran. we cannot and will not be safe as long as islamist desperate's rule in iran -- despots rule in iran. we need to promote a constitutional government at peace with united states israel, and the world. the united states should seek all appeasement and conciliation towards iran starting with the sham nuclear negotiations. certain voices call for congressional restraint urging congress not to ask now u lest iran walk away from the operating table. the end of the negotiations is not an unintended consequence of congressional action. it is very much an intended consequence, a feature, not a bug, so to speak. third, congressional actions start with crippling sanctions against iran. these sanctions should be immediate, not contingent on further negotiations with iran. and contrary, iran achieving through slow-motion all it might want in a final deal, exploiting the amount obama administration was the desperation to keep the negotiations alive in for a deal -- any deal. it is time for the response what adults in -- it is time for the response what adults in both parties to stop this farce. nermeen: that was a publicans that are tom cotton who led efforts to have this letter signed and sent to iran and authored it. ali gharib, can you talk about who tom cotton is? ali: tom cotton is himself a harvard law graduate, and he sort of gain conservative same by calling in 2006 4 james rison to be jailed of the "new york times" for writing about how the u.s. tracks terrorism. he was at the time deployed in iraq. that open letter he wrote at the time, he was a fan of the format, got the attention of bill kristol, who began meeting with cotton when he was stationed at the arlington national ceremony -- cemetery in 2007. over the next few years, they develop this relationship, years before cotton entered politics of eventually he was elected to the house in 2012, spent two years before becoming a freshman senator and immediately made a's lash by the sinking himself as the most hawkish member of an incredibly hawkish body. this letter is basically par for the course for him. it is exactly what he is trying to do. you know, you can just listen to tom cotton himself. he is trying to and these negotiations, and he does not quite say that the next step is military action, but it seems obvious that if you want u.s. policy to be a regime change and you want to have a no nuclear program at all there are not a lot of waste to a that unless you are going to attack them militarily. this is basically the pattern, and there is no surprise that the "daily beast" reported that this letter was produced in conjunction with advice from bill kristol, the guy who is called for attacking iran for years now. so tom cotton has really been shepherded along. as you mentioned, he took $1 million for his campaign from the emergency committee for israel. these are exactly the type of neoconservative hawks that drove us into iraq, and these are the people who shepherded and really birth to tom cotton's political career. it is not a surprise you he is here doing what he is doing. nermeen: can you explain why these people in these institutions are opposed to reaching a nuclear deal with iran? ali: i think part of it is what hillary was hinting at before. there is a balance of power in the region, especially a lot of these people are sort of altra pro-israel hawks. there is a balance of power they do not want to disrupt where israel maintains -- its sort of dominance over the region and the israeli hawks, pretty much the broad spectrum of israeli political decision, they think iran should be isolated and crippled -- amy: it does not matter whether netanyahu wins next week in the israeli election. ali: yeah. it sort of ranges from a fear of any nuclear deal with iran to outright opposition to it. there is nobody there in the political system that is making any sort of argument for iran. people do not talk about it. even the leader at the zionist camp, bogie herzog, iran does not come up. everybody is certainly in step with netanyahu on it. amy: bill kristol said iraq would be a cakewalk. you then early big supporter of sarah palin. ali: right, this is the combination of disastrous and unnecessary foreign wars and pushing clownish little candidate to who will help him carry out this agenda. amy: hillary mann leverage, can you talk about who is negotiating this deal? if you read the letter from the 47 senators, it looks like it is a deal between the united states and iran, but in fact to the countries are, and also interestingly, that right now iran is helping the iraqi military defeat the so-called islamic state. hillary: yes, but if i can just come back to a point that you were just discussing with ali that i think is important in terms of the balance of power in the region. in the 1980's, the israelis were not at all concerned about iran's nuclear programs. they were not concerned about other activities that they now process concern about for so than 1980's, the united states wanted to impose sections on iran about the bombing of the rude. then the israeli government and a live interview by the event minister ariel sharon said israel would oppose sanctions being imposed -- they would opposed sanctions being imposed on iran. that changes in 1990 now because many changes in iranian behavior but because the iraqi military was essentially taken out after the invasion of kuwait and the u.s. rounding of iraq from kuwait. literally six months after that and early 1992, you have the first visit to washington by then prime minister -- who was considered more dovish than netanyahu, and it was then that he started to raise concerns about the prospects of sanction and it was then in 1995 that the united states first imposes its comprehensive economic embargo on iran. it is important to understand that even though prime minister netanyahu's rhetoric is very vitriolic, there is nothing in the region that would check israel's reckless impulse is the citys these of. it is something a seems a bit underscore by the desperation and netanyahu's rhetoric and the desperation in the rhetoric of this letter by senator content. it is not being recognized as a bad thing by the american general dempsey yesterday before congress will stop iran's influence in countries as far afield from iran as the m is now recognized and not seen as necessarily a bad thing. some in washington would prefer iraqi influence in yemen as opposed to al qaeda in yemen so there is already been a sounds of power around the world, but i think there is an unacknowledged way, excepting in some form. that comes into play with negotiations with iran. even though they appear right now to be very focused on the u.s.-iranian part, they do very much include the other members of the security council, plus germany. in the security council, i think two of the most important players on the iran issue are russia and china. they have not been very vocal in terms of what their demands are in the negotiations, but they're going to be critically important for iran going forward. not because of some military or nefarious reason, but because particularly for china, as china is looking to in a lot of ways reestablish their silk road and balance against the u.s. encroachment toward them in east asia by trying to reestablish this silk road, looking west into central asia and thwart iran, iran is quickly important. i think we will see an historic visit by chinese president xi to iran in may. there are certainly a lot of other important players here. i think secretary kerry in some ways is doing a good job trying to juggle all those pieces and reorient the united states for a fundamentally new world where the balance of power in the middle east is already changing. the balance of power around the world is already changing, and the united eights must accommodate itself to that. amy: and the u.s. being on the same side of iran when it comes to the islamic state. hillary: yes. in a different balance of power where the united states is not seeking dominance in the middle east, where we are not seeking to impose political outcomes or regimes in the country. in that kind of scenario where the united states is not seeking all-out dominance, iran has to be not just an important player but an important partner and i think an american administrations have recognized that before. they certainly recognize that under the shah's iran, but it was unstable because it was not representative. what is so important about iran today as the islamic republic as many in washington in particular do not like what is so important is that it is pursuing an independent foreign policy and it has indigenous leak created and that for much more legitimate political order, with all its flaws, it is indigenously created, and therefore has much more -- that others do not. it may sound counterintuitive, but that is precisely what the united states needs full stop we do not need a senator cotton advocating contrary to america's real interest, which would be for peace and stability in the region. amy: we are going to have to leave it there, but i want to thank you very much, hillary mann leverage, for joining us, who served on the national security council under residents -- presidents clinton and bush. she was u.s. negotiator with iran for such he is co-author of the book "going to iran," and thank you very much to a ali gharib, we willing to your articles on iran. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. when we come back, we are going to ferguson where two police officers have been shot. they are in areas condition. it is not clear who shot them. a news conference will be held soon. also, the police chief of ferguson has resigned. they with us -- stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: mozart's string put in g minor. i am amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: we turn now to ferguson missouri. , two police officers were shot during a protest outside the city police headquarters early this morning. the shooting came just hours after the city's police chief quit following last week's u.s. justice department report that found widespread racially biased abuses in the city's policing and municipal court. st. louis county police chief jon belmar said he believed the officers were directly targeted. chief belmar: i do not know who did the shooting to be honest with you right now, but somehow they were embedded in that group of folks. i would have to make in a suction right now that based on the fact that these officers were standing together and there were several officers standing right there together when this happened, that, you know, these were shots that were parallel to the ground, not up in the air. they were not skip shots, and we have to make an assumption that these shots were directed exactly at my police officers. amy: one officer was shot in the face, the other was shot in the shoulder. some eyewitnesses disputed the claim that the shooter was embedded with the protesters. activist deray mckesson tweeted -- "the shooter was not with the protestors. the shooter was atop the hill." yourpierre thomas with abc news says it appears to be a random shooting by someone who just showed up. just hours before the shooting ferguson mayor james knowles discussed the resignation of ferguson police chief thomas jackson and the justice department report. mayor knowles: we need to talk about the way moving forward with someone else, so he left, but that is not to say that that is an indication of anything at this point. again, we want to go, and we have been going through that report and identifying the breakdown. amy: police chief jackson will receive $96,000 in severance pay. city manager john shaw, who resigned a day earlier, will receive $120,000. the city of ferguson will also cover their health insurance costs for a year. municipal judge ronald brockmeyer has also resigned. we will go now to ferguson where we are joined by a pastor from the first baptist choice in massachusetts, who was dispatched by ferguson -- to ferguson by the reconciliation. most significant lead right now he was outside the police station right last night or early this morning. reverend, start by telling us exactly what happened at that time. where were you, what did you see, what happened? reverend: thank you amy. we were wrapping up around 40 or so protesters across the street that had been pushed back by the police on more than one occasion , and then all of a sudden three shots to four shots rang out north of the protesters and north of the holy police station full stop we all turned in the direction of a hill on a one-way street where the shots were coming from, and then we saw the officer down and screaming. then chaos ensued, everyone took cover, we helped clear the lot to get people out say. the police with through their weapons. a number of police cars headed toward the area, and we did all we could to get people out but the idea that the shooter was embedded inside the group of protesters, that it came from that crowd is not true. rather it came up north of the protesters as we were between the shooter and -- there is a hill on a one-way street that runs perpendicular into south floris, right in front of the police station. amy: reverend, -- nermeen: reverend, what you think this impact is likely to be in ferguson? reverend: the reality is this is a no-win situation for anyone involved, for michael brown for the two officers who was shot, for a community that is grieving, and to has been protesting peacefully nonviolently for some 200 days in the wake of a devastating department of justice, which has confirmed the claims and cries of the protest, and so its impact can be great. we are concerned that the protesters, this movement will be demonized for the shooting of the officers, and it is just a no-win situation for anyone involved and who has a stake in that, but we are nonetheless committed to nonviolence in this movement, and we will in due time, in due respect, continue our activities to highlight the systematic injustice that the department of justice report articulated. amy: reverend sekou:, one of the officers who was shot in the face was from webster groves and another was a st. louis county cop. there will be a news conference where we will get more information. there have been shots fired before in these last months during the protest, again people saying they are not part of the protest, equally condemning this. also being extremely frightened. did you all take over when this happened? reverend sekou: yes, yes, we all went down. we ducked and kind of looked in realize the officer had been shot. everyone either began to run or got down behind cars. i mean, it was quite terrifying for all of us, including the protesters as well as the police, many who went down and began to curry -- to scurry themselves. amy: and your response to police chief jackson stepping down, who has resisted the pressure for quite some time now. reverend sekou: well, it is so comic. it is both sad and laughable that it took over 200 days of people in the street, over 600 arrests in a variety of protests and actions around. the department of justice report, and then a week following, for him to resign. it speaks to a level of -- a level of resistance on the part of the ferguson system writ large to admit any wrongdoing, and to be sure both the mayor and others have said, the resignations do not represent an admittance of wrongdoing. he shall receive a severance package, and his record will not be tarnished, but while he has dissipated in the violation of the civil rights of citizens and journalists over the last 200 days, so it is too little too late. we are continuing to be saddened by the whole affair. nermeen: vince warren, could you give us your response to the department of justice report and in the resignations among ferguson city officials? vince: first of all, i agree with the reverend that situations where police officers get shot in the midst of these protests are very complicated, and it is complicated and terrifying for the protesters and for the police officers. one thing that needs to happen -- what should not happen is that all the sudden all of his energy starts getting shifted toward the protesters. clearly these are people that -- like what happened in new york, comment and shoot police officer's out of some crazy motives, and it has a tendency to deflate the movement, and that should not happen. it is important to recognize that the department of justice inquiry was a scathing report that essentially put the entire system -- saying in an official doj paper what the protesters had been saying out there for 200 days, and that is important. even though the mayor called the police chief and "honorable man," what is happening here is the police department is trying to preserve itself. this is actually strengthening its bargaining position with the doj because what happens next is they are going to have to show the department is going to have to show we can fix this and fix ourselves. we know that no system, and particularly no pulley system, can fix itself, and it is hard to see how you are an honorable man when you are presiding over what is essentially a racism factory in the police department for a very long period of time. amy: we were both this weekend in selma where it could be possibly 100,000 people, 8000 -- 80,000 people marched for voting rights 50 years after bloody sunday when 600 voting rights activists marched over the edmund pettus bridge and were beaten by alabama troopers. among the people who were there was lesley mcspadden, the mother of michael brown. also sherilyn eiffel, the president of the naacp legal defense fund. i started by asking lesley mcspadden, mike brown pokÉmon, if she thinks there should be more federal monitoring of the ferguson police. lesley: to be honest, i do not think there should be a ferguson police department anymore. amy: what should there be? lesley: maybe just fire them all and let there be some new top, and with the old us with the new training, start with a new batch, and they will get the proper training to give the cubs that are already working. amy: do you think jackson to go, the police chief? lesley: [laughs] do you think jackson should go? amy: do you think the mayor should go? lesley: the you think the mayor should go? amy: what the governor? leslyey: same question. amy: i just want to leslie mcfadden, the mother of michael brown, and i asked her about the monitoring of the police department and retraining, and she said they should all be fired. why try to retrain the old, one not bring in a whole new group. what you think about that? ms. ifill: it is not clear to me that this town of 21 thousand people neither own police department. we need to look at regional policing issue so we can get some quality control. you cannot get your hands around all of those tiny jurisdictions. ferguson is one of the 90 jurisdictions in st. louis county, so honestly we want real change to happen there. we want a real policing solution. amy: that was cheryl and eiffel of the naacp legal defense fund -- that was cheryl and eiffel -- sherrilyn ifill of the naacp legal defense fund and before that lesley mcspadden michael brown's mom. vince: what you get is an island of ok, and that is not ok. i agree with sherrilyn ifill. this will cost a lot of money for the department to make the changes it needs to make. we need to find a resource is and be able to have some sort of systemic oversight over all of these departments so that it is not a series of races to mayberrys that are happening in everybody is firing police cheese and the department of justice has to come and times. you can create a better system of oversight through looking at the county. amy: and reverend sekou: the feelings on the ground in ferguson? reverend sekou: many are still in shock having seen an officer go down and having heard the gunshot. so there is definitely an uneasiness, there is a concern that this movement will be blamed for the shooting of these two officers. and we nonetheless will continue to raise our voices in a rich tradition of nonviolence and bear witness to the reality that has been set forth by the department of justice. and quite honestly try to keep track of all the grieving, of all the weeping, of all the wailing that has been going on in the small hamlet of ferguson. we will continue to organize in such a way that we highlight the structural violence and the structural racism that has been manifest through the municipal courts and policing systems in greater st. louis. amy: reverend osagyefo sekou, we want to thank you for joining us. he went to high school in st. louis, and when we were in ferguson, we always saw sekou there. vince warren, we would like you to stay with us executive , director of the center for constitutional rights, as we move on to break any controversial in oklahoma over the racist songs and the expulsion of two students. stay with us. ♪ [music break] [♪ "the charade" by d'angelo & the vanguard ♪] amy: here on democracy n ow!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. nermeen: two members led a races video. if i included a racial slur and val that no black people would ever join their group. the school says to students who allegedly led the song works of war creating an "hostile learning environment," and all of those who were involved "will learn it is wrong to use words to hurt, threatened, and exclude." hundreds of students have marched at the school in a show of protests. amy: jordan is from oklahoma city is rashid campbell, senior at oklahoma university. he has been participating in the protest against the sick mouth at salon -- against the sigmalon fraternity after a leaked video showed some of its members singing a racist chant. also tracie washington president and ceo of the louisiana justice institute on . rashid, we will go to you first in oklahoma city. lay out what has taken place and explain what this fraternity is, the song that was sung, the words of these young men on a bus were singing. rashid: well, exactly what is happening is the song and the chant that the fraternity is saying, the chance that has been taught to them by their elders or the older people in their fraternity, i have been given information to know that the song has been handed down. it is not just this chapter at the mercy of oklahoma, but it is also chapters around the country who have a similar chance, if not the same tent talk to them. what is happening is the fraternity went on the day party. it was leaked. everybody in the country at large were able to see what was being said behind doors. as soon as this information leaked, a lot of people at

with the things that the university of oklahoma and sigma alpha epsilon got right, because they are numerous. i commend the national leaders of sigma alpha epsilon, who i know well for their handling of the situation. as soon as this video came to light, their executive leadership team met and followed the procedures outlined in their organizations bylaws and constitution's. they went through recognition. they have been

sigma alpha epsilon got right, because they are numerous. i commend the national leaders of sigma alpha epsilon, who i know well for their handling of the situation. as soon as this video came to light, their executive leadership team met and followed the procedures outlined in their organizations bylaws and constitution's. they went through recognition. they have been supportive of their chapters nationwide who are suffering from being associated with the chapter locally at oklahoma. what is important for folks to understand that sigma alpha epsilon, like every national fraternity and sorority, has high standards for their members and their chapters. in taking these actions this week they are enforcing the standards and demonstrating to the rest of their members and chapters a you must live up to those standards. all the private commentators agree, they are all within the rights to take the actions they took this week. when you turn to the campus, i have been extremely impressed, and most observers have been impressed by the way that community has come together and rally against racism. it is notable that the football and asked about team took time out from practice -- football and basketball teams made it clear to the world that the students bodies -- didn't bodies reject racism. a noted leader, a former senator , of great renown, probably one of the nation's most prominent university president, he has been very involved in this action. a lot of people understand his decision to expel the students at the center of

sigma fraternity acknowledged that the e-mail's author was indeed a member who was suspended once the e-mail came to light. kappa sigma also says they're moving to formally remove him from kappa sigma. >> it's a cultural thing. i don't know how you can easily measure that. >> reporter: for now it's being addressed with an investigation and plans for what's being called an educational intervention by university staff that the college park chapter of kappa sigma. and that intervention as it's being called is scheduled to take place immediately after students return from spring break. news 4 at 6:00 a discussion that was actually happening downtown with some links to what's going on out here on this campus. live in college park back to you. >> thank you, derrick. >> about this rain veronica. we don't have to deal with it for the whole day, right? >> most of the day tomorrow. we're going to get a little bit of a break i think for the afternoon hours, but for at least starting pretty soon we're talking about slippery roads and reduced visibility on those roads from fog as well as the rain that will be coming into the area. take a look. here we are tracking the rain on storm team 4 radar

sigma fra terpt. they are counter to everything kappa sigma stands for." >> it's very hard for something you say to be kept private. jeanette: the university says it will create a student multicultural group to advise the president of any diversity issues here on campus. and meanwhile, the fraternity says it will implement a diversity training program for its members year round. reporting in college park jeanette reyes, abc 7 news. kimberly: an unexpected delivery for a mother in montgomery county after she gave birth along i-270. you're about to see amanda and john nelson along with baby jacob now at the hospital. that's where they were heading just before 4:00 this morning when jacob simply refused to wait any longer. jacob's father delivered him on the highway near the shady grove exit in rockville. paramedics arrived and took them to a nearby hospital where they are both doing very well. alison don't do that. alison: every time we see those stories, we get a little nervous. it's good to get good news from the highways around here. that doesn't happen very often. kimberly: that's exactly right. ali

sigma alpha epsilon. but we know the history of sigma alpha epsilon, what is affiliated and not affiliated with sae. the bigger issue, we need to communicate that and how it's perceived by people not in the fraternity. >> i get being proud of one's history. i have roots in the south as well. i understand being proud of, you know, the people who founded the fraternity. i know a lot of pledges memorize the names of the original founders and apparently this bus was going to a founder's day party but don't you think, if one of your goals moving forward is perhaps and maybe it's not but to attract african-american members, you say you think about how it might be perceived, don't you think that would be perceived differently by african-americans than it might be perceived by whites of the southern background? >> absolutely. and there's part of the discussion, i mean, we're looking at a lot of different options. our leadership is also engaged with people to reach out to us to offer their support and also the things that they think that we need to take into consideration. so that we can do a better job of b

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sigma alpha epsilon fraternity members. the expulsions come days after a video clips surfaced showing frat members participating in the chant. today william bruce james the last african american members of all comus sigma alpha epsilon fraternity spoke about the video. >>: i was deeply affected as a black men in general and i was also devastated after being in that house for four years and putting my own blood sweat and tears into a culture that would never do that. >>pam: the national chapter of s a e has shattered the house at oklahoma university the students have until midnight to pack their bags and get out. oakland oklahoma university presence as the university's affiliation with the fraternity is permanently done. >>pam: the activists hacking group all anonymous is claiming responsibility for a cyber attacks on the city of madison wisconsin. anonymous post audit posted a you tube video sunday demanding all audio recordings in the police shooting death of tony robinson. robinson was killed last week by a madison police officer. the shooting has prompted city wide protest as well as a probe by the state investigators. >>pam: the fierce day >>pam: the nine deaths since and i as a turning says that he did participate in the bombing in boston but he was recruited by his radicalize brother. >>pam: the first day of free agency sees big chances to the 49ers kron 4 sports director gary radnich will join us at 5:45 p.m. to break it all down. and next why tiger woods cannot use his own name on his latest project. at subway, a great meal starts with a great sandwich on the new "simple 6 menu." six of our best six-inch subs-now in made-just-for-you meals-for just $6 each, every day. ♪"i got it made fresh at subway."♪ take your pick from six of our best subs, like the tender turkey breast, the italian b.m.t, sweet onion chicken teriyaki and more. with any bag of chips and a 21-ounce drink all six are just $6 every day, on the new simple 6 menu. ♪"i got it made fresh at subway."♪ the wod isillewithir. t fopeop witcopd sotimebreaing r cabe diffult. if you havcopdask ur ctorboutnce-ily oro lia. itelpseoplwithopd breae beer for full4hou. anoro elpta theirst a-apovedrodu containingwo lg-acng bronodilors onenhal. anoris n forsthma. anoro coains typof medine tt ireas riskf deh ineoplwithasth. it is not own thirisks incrsed cop ano wot reace resc inhers for ddenopd mpto and shld n be ed me thannce day. tellour ctorf yohave hearcondion, origh ood essu. tell youdoct ifou he glauma, osta or bladd proems, orrobls paing ine as anormay ke tse oble wor. call youdoct rig awaif u ha woenedreatng chest in, elli of ur moh orongu prlemsrinang oeyeprlems includinvisi chaes o e pa whi takg ano. noing n reverscopd the rld fild wi air and anoro iselpi peoe wi co breh aibett. t yo first prescriion fr at oro.m. 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run. his feet and just not carry him in the longer. he was scheduled to make $8 million this coming season. he says no how turn my back on the money because i can no longer go. >>: there is not a day in my career that i do not feel like .. and i gave this game everything that i had. >>gary: everyone was crying time so was crying everyone was crying it wasn't very emotional deal. aias ask now what's next for willis'. he said it was of spiritual roots awakening as well and he wants to do good work with people. the mid-overdo this may be a mom is the when you have that uniformed command more attention but this guy is for real and when you turn down $8 million in obviously do not want to play anymore. is pretty tough for guys to cut-bearer of their career short age 30 with jim brown and fred williamson. >>gary: coming up a little bit later 645 to be exact ronnie lott as a matter fact we will listen mention ronnie lott and what he meant the hem. will have ronnie lott on talking about the departure of willis' and with: jim harbaugh and running at 645. >>reporter: 01 finest currently tracking of the bay area today is making for a pleasant evening. 57 in oakland 63 in san jose 66 in concord. moisture is starting to increase as the winds have veered ahead in this cold front will push through as we head into tomorrow this problem with this is there's so much dry arid place in this and this big disconnect so were not looking at a lot of what rain fall taking a look at their future cast it as a mostly cloudy conditions overnight because a little but a spirit of giving to the south and east of livermore did not blink because the will go quickly. we're not looking much wet weather as we enter to win the morning. not everybody gets what is the day goes by. >>reporter: not a lot of this rain will be reaching the ground the brakes and the cloud coverage temperatures will be in the upper '40's. just a stray showers is ending loud mid-60s spotty showers in the morning as we head from thursday and friday talking about the drying warming trend if you get into the upper elevations here's our snowbomb report the temperature will climb over the weekend. we might get wanted to inches of snow out of the maximum. are currents no levels of 49 in. in town hall. tahoe... >>reporter: waters losers on wall street as was a big drop in the market today and that means a stronger dollar. >>reporter: nasa good thing if your lawyer european vacation this summer in the urals is more bang for the buck. the as the dollar got weaker six years ago were seven years of a bull market interest rates your prison now is time to invest in europe if you have some european and its closure. exposure >>reporter: we want a stronger dollar because of reflects a stronger job market. a stronger economy. >>reporter: now the talk about apple watch. >>reporter: apple introduced the watched yesterday's $17,000 goal virgin version. it does mean something apple is not apple's gonna be big in china were a watch is a luxury item. the louis baton mollet of his sea of watches. >>reporter: president is expected to announce some changes to set up a repayment of student loans. >>reporter: president of barack obama is introducing using ideas of that students bill of rights. many students that graduates to date greg tweet was a least $24,000 worth of debt. and i think he's doing a right step may be making a bill of rights. >>reporter: have a question for robert this will postpone the facebook page. >>: at miller law firm with two banks. we sue banks. to close someone that some modification review is illegal in california now. was a number of lost help owner of homeowners. if all home on a request that a bank is as close to set up a single contact so pursuing a low modification is not such a wild goose chase. the hope owners should call mel a law firm and we sue banks for this. and try to keep people in their homes. 65 eighth >>pam: time crow's remains to this day the church of scientology is high-profile members. but he continues to be vilified by some in clogged in mystery. bevel explosive new documentary that promises to expose was really going on inside the church. >>reporter: will do say to anybody that's considering joining the tom church of scientology. strom >>reporter: words from construction worker tom barton was one of many ex members who are speaking out against the organization and the hbo documentary documentary going clear. based of scientology in the prison a belief based on the book by lawrence right. the allegations made are explosive. lawrence wright claims the church of scientology is responsible for using children as young as six or seven who must sign of a billion year contract and work long hours performing manual labor. the church says these claims are fabrication and a publicity stunt. >>reporter: the church of scientology has responded broaches late to the claims on its website freedom man ag dot or in a full-page ads in the loss angeles and new york times in a statement released of the insider they're referred to the film and the book as quoted bigoted propaganda built on false foot invented by admitted liars will have so much more this story tonight at 7 on the insider. listen gary batty pam >>pam: you watch all the celebrity know's on kron 4 after the insider in the statement tonight air at 730. >>pam: now at 6:00 tragedy in oakland. a mother this try to protect her two young children the clouds and a hail of bullets. good evening everybody i am pam moore. the death of 30 year-old chanel pierce marks the 19th homicide this year. we're learning more about the woman as police continue the hunt for the killers. >>: she loved children to put children first she sacrificed her life for children >>reporter: that is what 30 durocher male peers dead after rival gangs had a shootout near xx 800 block of chestnut street in west oakland. says that she'll ride at home after peggy r. children up from elementary school when his shot rang out. >>: shoe's coming up guard's to get the baby but before that could happen >>reporter: some help years was fatally hit by a stray bullet. amal paris chymil pierce.. a role in home and says pairs lost a life as a result of a violent gang feud. mrs. pierce lost her life because of a gang feud. >>: 2 china get children to safety and losing her life. and it's very sad that they lost their mother. >>haaziq madyun: 0 grumpily is an crime stoppers are offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading up to an arrest in this case. >>pam: ms. pearce worked for caught kaiser permanente a. they send condolences that their hearts go out to their her family and they're fighting grief counselors counselors for the employees during this difficult time >>pam: still no rest in the shooting and hunters point neighborhood this morning it happened on the 100 block of kirkwood ave. when authorities the ride there found evidence of the shooting but no victim. one personnel later went to the hospital with a gunshot wound no word on the updates. >>pam: albany city has there first, homicide of 2004 old woman was found dead in her apartment. the l.a. county coroner has not released for named yet for the calls a day death >>pam: santa clara police have turned over their investigation of me 49ers running back miller. he was arrested on spousal abuse charges. >>reporter: of the d.a. is still investigating the case and try to determine what if any chant charges will be filed the court date is being set for april 20th if they do decide to file charges. after the ray macdonald in this incident the 49ers hot decided they wanted to do more for domestic violence. >>reporter: the did that domestic right violence arrests of 49ers fullback bruce miller is a reminder of similar troubles like the arrest of ray macdonald last august. in that case the d.a. does chose not to prosecute dude insufficient evidence. shortly after his arrest they started working with an anti domestic violence organization. >>: we have since that time. since then we have been having regular meetings to get a regular plan. >>reporter: the program is not yet completed but will be part of the been niners existing engagement program. >>: will help players understand numerous up things and that could lead to domestic violence. >>reporter: the 49ers are also working with a group called futures without violence. there the program is designed with medical staff and rookies. it has not yet been introduced to players. >>reporter: knight of the organizations would indicate when these programs would be ready to roll out we contacted the 49ers and there was no comment. >>pam: this is the latest in a series of runs for 49 players. grant lodes joins us right now with the new addition to the team that has his own troubled history. >>grant: around since and is his name he had trouble staying on the field because of not of injuries but of cissus suspensions. he has violated the substance-abuse policy. previously he's been busted for id you why and marijuana related incidents. three arrests since 2000 and eight. 2008... the niners want to win with class. you gonna have asked france g. and track balky. trent gm. >>grant: what patrick willis' is calling it ended his career m&m of one of more about the free agencies as 645. >>pam: which is hoping that the bay area could get a glass of moisture we have a nasty here to let us know. manasseh >>reporter: we have so much dry air close to the surface. it looks promising with the grain moving in for the south south east to the northeast. we're currently experiencing and a called russia because of raindrops are evaporated before they hit that area. none of the water is reaching the ground will have to wait another 24 hours to for the atmosphere have enough rain to hit the surface. about 6,000 mi. up the cup coast of california cold air is just to the south of that sense system and is taking this time of the moisture is moving in so we're not looking at much of rainfall totals. >>reporter: very limited fog expected an isolated sprinkle is expected. we're talking about hit or miss for any rain. we tried very quickly after lunch time a bit of a breeze along the coastline the temperature will be allowed to mid-60's as we wrap up the day tomorrow. >>pam: also coming up new surveillance video coming up of a motorcycle that video and it turns out there's been rash of crimes they're in a 24-hour pellet. in san francisco's morrison sold it. and hillary clinton friend center she finally addresses the e-mail scandal. ♪ ♪ ♪ first impressions are important. you've got to make every second count. banking designed for the way you live your life. so you can welcome your family home... for the first time. chase. so you can. >>pam: here are surveillance pictures showing a motorcycle death in progress. here in walnut creek this and was more on six vehicle stalled early monday morning. it happened at 515 sunday morning at a trendy apartment in walnut creek and that same building was hit monday morning. ec to thieves stealing a motorcycle this time in a rental van. a certain that other person says of his bike was swiped to. and he told police it was very unlikely for him to give is bite back. >>: what i've been told was a flight to three guys and a truck define these bikes but among the truck and a tarp over the truck and they're gone >>pam: police and walnut creek is say that is not just what all motorcycles that are being stolen there's also cars being stolen to. the at this time police cannot say at all of the crimes are connected. still >>pam: ahead bad news for target employees. they've just announced a round of layoffs. to find out how many jobs or on the chopping block. in the bay area's tried to take all action against a soda more if the mission about the legislation proposed today. >>pam: a health alert from the east bay high school officials in alameda kind county are trying to track down people that may have been some spot of exposed to tuberculosis. they were unified school district send a note to parents that a high-school student tested positive for tilt tuberculosis. the student will not return to school until cleared by the health department. meanwhile tuberculosis is a highly contagious disease. the symptoms include a bad cough pain and the chest weakness or fatigue weight loss and fever. >>catherine: san francisco supervisors are considering a new plan to put health warnings warnings on sodas and fruit drinks. for sugar sweet drinks the ads will be this is coming from some the same people pushed through a tax on share green drinks. and they want to ban putting ads on city-owned property. at a similar to the ban on tobacco ads and alcohol ads. the spending bill billions to target low-income and minority communities and that it from the areas that has the highest rates of diabetes. >>catherine: instead of just the kids may have been soft drinks that have a choice of low-fat chocolate milk apple juice is still by a soft drink but is not of listed on the kids' menu they have been held groups have been pressing the pressing hard working and other bomb restaurants. >>catherine: this follows last week's announcement that they will live eliminate several thousand jobs a target the try to say the least $2 billion in costs over the next two years. the cuts will most likely happen at the company headquarters in minneapolis. >>reporter: alive look of the golden gate bridge. were talking about that upper 50s 61 in san jose, curd is looking as 64. there and i went out of the west and southwest are helping to bring miles west air into the lower levels of the atmosphere. this system off the coast of california continues to weaken. we will get some rain but it will not be much for talking about a minute amounts of rainfall. you'll miss the showers. expecting. as early as 11:00 tonight you may see an isolated sprinkle everybody will get wet. as we headed to about 3:00 a.m. nicosia few sprinkles south of livermore but the ball stays to the north and west of san francisco and much of the bay area. we will have some spotty showers right of store door of a part of our wednesday been in the afternoon most of the wet weather will push away. 4:00 p.m. on little shower off to the west and we drive out very quickly. when looking at a drawing in warming trend as we head into thursday of the upcoming weekend. low 50s along the bay 54 to the coastline in a be a mile star for us will be mostly cloudy skies last fall than what we saw this morning. and will have despite spotty hitter miss showers. bevel see less fog that we saw this morning. the temperatures would be anywhere from the mid to low 60s. tomorrow the spotty showers. possibly attend of an inch of rain possibly. spotty showers most of the tongue will see this wet weather in the morning in the early part of the afternoon in the be the coldest day of the work week around 64 degrees average. >>reporter: temperatures of dinosaur later on in the week. temperatures will soar much fire in the late latter part of the week much higher here in the latter part of the week. looking at the low 60s as we head into the upcoming weekend. 49 in. and tall with the snow tahoe... for additional information check out snowbomb dire, >>pam: hillary clinton is trying to stop the e-mail controversy. pish pablo sandoval says >>reporter: hillary clinton is breaking her silence. i opted for convenience to use my personal e-mail account. she addressed her use of a private e-mail lockout and a private server. her reason was she simply minutes to carry one foam. one phone telephone. >>reporter: she's turned over tens of thousands of e-mail's that war work-related she's turned over to the government. she insisted she said no classified information. but in a move that may cost additional criticism. she deleted e-mail's that were personal. her highly anticipated response came after how much pressure from the main media. in one camp says that hillary has not been open enough. >>: we haven't had any transparency at all. >>reporter: looking back into the cellar says it would been better for her views a separate phone instead of one device parian obviously she was wrong. >>pam: coming up next questions arise about track safety after train derails. and in tsb releases its report on that harrison ford airplane crash. ♪ at kaiser permanente everything you need is under one roof. another way care and coverage together makes life easier. okay, a little easier. become a member of kaiser permanente. because together, we thrive. ♪♪ >>pam: crows are working to remove train cars that derailed in san jose. the firefighters arrived to see a union pacific train with the cart pair of gravel tracks they went off the tracks. coming up a 630 elected to the top stories including new information on the oakland mother the was gunned down while she was protecting children. plus the 49ers fans are up in arms about the team's recent lows the social media chatter that is gaining same. and new information on the final moments before actor harrison ford crashed in a golf course crashes plane and a golf course. female narrator: for over 60,000 california foster children a pair of shoes is a small but important gift. my shoes have a hole in them. i can barely fit in these anymore. i hope no one would notice. they hurt my feet. i never had new shoes before. to help, sleep train is collecting new shoes of all sizes. bring your gift to any sleep train, and they'll be given to a local foster child in need. not everyone can be a foster parent... but anyone can help a foster child. >>reporter: homicide investigators here in oakland police headquarters say was a stray bullet don issued out between rival gangs that claimed the life of a mother who tried to shield her children as the shots rang out. >>: are mothering instinct to 10 right away she tried to children to safety. >>reporter: the homicide victim was missed more. the police are offering up to $20,000 that lead to an arrest in this case. >>reporter: in another big story albany police are investigating a first homicide to take place in this town and more than a decade in happen and a 1000 block of cain ave. about 4:00 p.m. monday afternoon they found into though apartment 1068 apartment to and they found a 37 year-old woman found dead on her floor. police are not releasing her name or much information on how she died the all that of the measure will be forwarded from alameda county coroner's office. >>reporter: 0 have more on the arrest of fullback michael miller on domestic abuse violence allegations. should they decide to five files charges a court date has been set for april 20th as at levi stadium kron 4 news >>reporter: 40 niners fans are expressing disappointment at the team's lineup. i spoke to 1¢ a says he the lifelong 49ers fannie's bid hundred and $60 a ticket and a subset >>: i feel really let down that they're not doing as much as they can't some re-signed players and a track better players >>reporter: a rash of the vehicle vehicle thefts have been three cars and three motorcar mired motorcycles a been ripped off within hours. the last death was reported at 815 monday morning. to the death of this downtown complex at two different times but had both times cameras were rolling. >>reporter: and san jose police started to clean up an encampment. you can see in this video that police say they received numerous complaints about this encampment. they said that they were trying to work with those people that call this area home but this is private property. after giving people some time they did start issuing tickets for trespassing. they also picked up three people on outstanding warrants. >>pam: the clock is ticking for the oklahoma fraternity this at the center of all races some scandal has up until midnight to clear out of house. the university took action to expel two students that was seen on the video shouting racist chance using the n word and said that blacks would no longer be entered into the fraternity in oklahoma. they had 130 disciplinary actions over the past year nationwide. at least 10 deaths have been associated to this fraternity hazing alcohol or drugs. the schools of the day of school affiliation with this fraternity is over permanently. >>pam: harrison force plane crash that happened over the golf course. the report states that his world war two inspired aircraft had a loss of engine power right after take off but he did manage a crash landing as son monica golf course despite hitting a tree on his way down the 72 year-old actor is still in the house bill and is expected to make a full recovery. >>grant: the chances of a massive credit just increased. a massive earthquake the eyes of the up 8.2 or greater or earthquake hitting a state has now gone up to a 7 percent chance. this the scientists give the explanation that they have a better understanding of fault lines. and multiple slots faults can rupture at the same time which would create a mega quake. >>reporter: a developing storm system continues to weaken as it approaches the california coastline. the showing green as of now right now with we have moisture but the raindrops are evaporating as they get the dry air this closer to the surface so were not receiving any rain. and this system is moving to the bay area very quickly. cold air is about to run a mile off to the northwest. the system is actually starting to fall apart and pushed inward. because of this we're gonna have his meager amounts of rain. isolated sprinkles. it will be cloudy and patchy areas of fog and not as intense as it was this morning. >>reporter: coastal breeze will pick up in the afternoon will dry out very quick to and. we're talking about a trace of rain. not too much into art in terms of rain. tomorrow we're looking comfortable in the morning of the temperatures in the upper '40's. and because of the direction of the when we talked about the temperatures to get warmer and start off in the '50s in some areas. talk about low 60s as we had a peseta rosa in redwood city. >>reporter: for the most part of and have the middle '60s tomorrow the warmth will increase. come friday awarded will web record warmth some of our areas may even reach the 80 degree temperature. >>pam: what happens when three men crashed this party. coming up the tomahawk glued all gymnasts and room and minor nina no. latin funds semiannual emma homicide finite and and flew a the food the influence >>grant: tackle the work report about to a broadcast slidell was brought to and some of it was captured a tv show here this is file size hospital in johannesburg south africa. he was working for the south african and broadcasting operations was approached by a multiple guys walked out of frame 64 men were all ironed and demanded all the crows' phones laptops carrier equipment and the crew did that over all the possessions. right there he could see the suspect like he's holding cash they don't care about the camera parred the bright light was not deterring them. police looking for the criminals now >>pam: coming up next on the insider digs deep into the religion of scientology. and we will be back and kron 4 news at 8:00. gary top star ronnie lott coming up as some interesting and vice advice >>gary: convening everybody is one of the best linebackers of his generation patrick willis said goodbye after eight seasons with the 49ers. his first seven made the pro go. 2014 year his year was cut short the after suffering a serious toe injury that required surgery after that surgery he found out that he can no longer run his feet to carry him no longer. he is a very spiritual man that wants to do good work in the community and was very emotional today. >>: they have the same while is that guy and that's a concept that i i i i understand and and no longer have bet that need to give that kind of wall. there is not been a day in my career and cease sopping he sobbing. i gave this game everything that i had. >>gary: i tell you what that meant you leave $8 million on the tape to table that shows you what kind of man he really is. it was mentioned in patrick willis as retirement speech and ronnie lott carry it >>: ronnie lott speaking i think that that is enough gary. another checks me that question i think that he is the guy that could possibly wear the yellow jacket for a lot of reasons. when you think about him using the accompanying you think about how passionate was and more importantly he was just a great player of great physical football player that a new what to do on the football field each and every time that he walked out there. he gave it everything that he could as he said. and the great thing about him as you love the way he pursued his greatest every time he walked out there. >>gary: patrick brought up your name at the retirement conference today listened to know what patrick willis said. >>: after a mob first year of having a meeting with mr. riney light lot mr. ronnie lott he tell me always given the man's face face and begin never be as great as you wanna be unless you have a significant other or lady. >>gary: did you hear that riney he says basically your advice was to stay away from women >>: i think might be advised was you do have to stay away from where and women in order to reach your greatness. >>gary: players coming bowl that's the way the leakey is a frank gore after a tense phases i think in many respects he was the heart and soul of the team what he think the 49ers not try to keep them. >>: well gary that's really hard to say you find yourself in a situation where you wondering where the organization is that. you thought that you would think that they would be able to have communicated with them. just looking and no one was going on because it is unfortunate. this frank gore situation won't surprise them is such that right merrill you still that there's a lot of things that are not on the same page. i get it they lost the coach and also personnel. they're going to some changes right now but they have to regroup and find a way the pickup get the dirty dozen i call the coach of the dirty dozen in debt and group together and find a way to collectively figure out whether one ago right now. >>gary: you think the early criticism of times ... they are. tom so lot sula... >>: what i do know is this you have to go out and coach people teach them to be able to get them to play at their best. but right now it is hard to say what he can possibly been. i would be remiss to say that right now because i do not know when he could be. but i would imagine he's gotta be something better than what he was. that means is that go out and show people that he can lead. >>gary: will decide the 49ers fans that looks at all the players going harbaugh is leaving my beloved team is going up in flames would you tell them parian >>: i would tell them this there's always tomorrow we thought that there was never gonna be an opportunity be great and get three years ago we found a young man who found itself coming into this organization and changing it they found patrick willis they found bowman they found borland. they confine great players and for me the hope is still there dealt with that can they do it together as a collective unit. they can actually get every ballot body and rally everybody including capernick because they do have the talent. >>gary: riding how are you doing otherwise is to look like you could play. >>: i just love watching gary and i know which are white says about you every day gary which your wife says about two >>gary: are you knocking me because i miss is the she's so young you can handle womanlike at cannes. >>gary: continued good luck ronnie lott get take you good luck for you >>gary: ronnie lott has his hands and a lot of charities around the bay area. the saw works in an and the great ronnie lott >>pam: this a showers on the way and will hear 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night with an been looking at less cloudy skies and less fog. tomorrow there could be topos body showers. all loan with a coastal breeze. as of traced the possibly at 10th of an inch of rain for the higher elevations. so tomorrow will be comfortable upper '40's mid-50s as we wakeup spotty showers in the early part of the afternoon met the low 60s and then abruptly big warmup as we head into thursday and saturday. some of us may even reached the lower 80s by saturday afternoon parry @ >>pam: will be back at 8:00 say and touch at the kron-4-dot-com. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ great rates for great rides. geico motorcycle see how much you could save. >>> the insider with perspective on today's top trending stories. >> overnight, another video has surfaced. this one appears to show the fraternity's house mother using the same racial slur. 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sigma alpha epsilon fraternity. two weeks after video surfaced of university of oklahoma sigma alpha epsilon fraternity members singing a racist chant, today o.u. president david bourne announced the findings of a university investigation into the incident. >> our purpose is to learn lessons and be held accountable and move forward with our lives. >> he says it was taught to pledges as part of the informal and formal pledgeship process and it was learned during a sigmapsilon leadership conference four years ago. >> that chant was learned and brought back to the local chamter. >> reporter: the national organization has denied that the chant is part of their culture. the university shut down the chapter on campus in the wake of the controversy and disciplined more than two dozen members. >> it's approximately 25 additional students and as you know two students have been withdrawn from the university. >> reporter: their punishments ranging from expulsion to community service and mandatory diversity training. levi pettit one of the expelled members, publicly apologized earlier this week. >> the words said in that chant were mean hateful, and racist. >> reporter: and now boren says it's time for the students involved, the university and the nation to respond. >> we can stop it if all of us in the institutions and organizations we belong to and all of us as individuals say we have zero tolerance for racism in america. >> reporter: a change he insists will

this morning, sigma alpha epsilon says the problem seems to be limited to one chapter. >> sigma alphas come under attack. a lot of chapters and members are vilified. that's unfair. we hear the critics. we hear the conversations taking place. we know we can make this better and prevent this from happening. >> reporter: calling it a horrible cancer the fraternity says racist behavior entered its university of oklahoma chapter three to four years ago. that's about the time ou junior keith logan started college. he was among the dozens of people who attended a previously scheduled town hall meeting wednesday night to discuss racism on campus. >> it is very sickening at the same time. it is not surprising. >> reporter: parker rice one of the members in the video who apologized, is keeping quiet after saying his family has been threatened. outside his empty dallas home, a small group of protesters gathered. >> we're planning on filing a complaint with the department of justice so that way they can look into every chapter across the nation of asae. >> reporter: but the fraternity says so far

racism in oak after a video showed members of the sigma alpha epsilon fraternity on a because chanting racial slurs against black students and the sigmapsilon has been shut down. >> six patients have new kidneys because of six donors and surgeons in san francisco. a woman walked out of the medical center three daze after donating a kidney and is credited with kicking off the we largest donation chain in the history of the hospital. >> watching the watch, apple is expected to reveal details of the highly anticipated new watch in san francisco this morning happening at 10:00 a. and we will tweet live. follow us at twitter@abc7newsbayarea with the detail on the news at midday it look like june with marine layer clouds in most neighborhoods and half moon half mile visibility and bart is mostly in the 50s and still some upper 40s in lafayette and pittsburg. this afternoon the clouds pull back and you will be near 60 and the rest of us in the 70s. sky seven is over palo alto where a person has been struck and killed at palo alto on the tracks northbound train 3309 is now stopped could you can expect some heavy delays. follow me on twitter f

which shows freshmen at sigma alpha epsilon fraternity singing a song with racial slurs. today, the members of sigma alpha epsilon continued to pack up their things. letters on their house removed. their charter revoked. fraternity evicted. >> are you embarrassed? >> extremely. >> the incident is dominating campus life in o.u. some students told abc the chant is part of s.a.e.'s racist legacy. >> the enthusiasm that they had behind it. >> the national chapter which boasts 15,000 members denies any connection to the offensive lyrics. >> this song is not sanctioned endorsed or otherwise a national song. >> the chapter president of oklahoma's historically black fraternities and sororities gathered last night to talk about how the s.a.e. video could be a learning experience. >> i think this is an opportunity to turn the tide and to really move forward and set a precedent for the entire nation. >> oklahoma's president said today there will be zero tolerance for threatening racist behavior. and the investigation into what happened on that bus will continue. he suggested there could be others disciplined o