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. >> graham spanier says he did nothing wrong. >> graham spanier has harsh words for the report that accuses him of covering up the child abuse of jerry sandusky. >> that report is absolutely wrong. the conclusions that we conspired to conceal a known child predator are just incorrect. >> critics charge that he should've gone to the police in 2001. graham spanier says he was only told the incident only involved a force play. >> when i heard the term horseplay -- >> he insists he would not cover up such allegations. he was abused at the hands of his own father. >> i had four operations as an adult to correct injuries from my childhood that were inflicted by my father. i have never met anyone who was at a higher level of awareness about such issues then i have had. >> he is not charged with a crime. he feels he has been unfairly indicted by the media and by the independent report. >> people have to know me and what i stand for. >> despite this photograph graham spanier insists he did not really know jerry sandusky. >> pact is abc 7 news at 5:00. -- that is abc 7 news at 5:00. >> one ye

. >> graham spanier is not facing criminal charges. however, sandusky could spend the rest of his life in prison when he is sentenced later this year. >>> lawyers for george hugely are going to court today. asking for a new trial. he will be sentenced next week in the murder of his former girlfriend, yardly love. hugely was convicted of killing love in february. he is facing up to 26 years in prison when he is sentenced. >>> a washington state man is

abc's josh elliott is going to press graham spanier on the investigation and alleged cover up of abuse there. and we're always online at abcnews.com. jimmy kimmel is up next. we'll see you tomorrow.

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the former president of penn state, graham spanier. he sat down to answer questions about the crime sending coach jerry sandusky to prison. abc's josh elliott went one-on-one with him today. >> reporter: do you feel like you failed those kids? >> i wish, in hindsight, that i would have known more about jerry sandusky and his terrible, terrible hidden past, so that i could have intervened, because it would have been my instinct to do so. >> reporter: spanier acknowledges that in february 2001, he was told a penn state staffer had seen jerry sandusky in the locker room with a boy, engaging in what spanier says was described as horse play. he claims he was never told the horse play was at all sexual in nail sure. when you hear horse play, what do you think? >> i guess i was thinking back to my own childhood, where horse play involved throwing water around, snapping towels. i didn't ask about it. but that's what i was conjuring up. >> reporter: spanier revealed he himents was abused as a child, lending him a heightened awareness to the sig

noticeably absent, though, from these cases is former penn state president graham spanier. he's not been charged with anything. he sat down with our jeffrey toobin and "the new yorker." jeff, people have been really, really wanting to know what this guy had to say. you spent several hours with him. >> i did. >> over a couple of days. >> i did. >> a lot of heart-to-heart conversation. everyone's wondering why he hasn't been charged along with other leaders at penn state. did you get an answer? >> i went into this gnu like a lot of people. i was so horrified by the jerry sandusky scandal. i wanted to see all these people thrown to the wolves. but spanier has a story. spanier says, look, sandusky was horrible, but i did not know. and there are two incidents at the heart of the freeh report. the 1998 incident and the 2001. and we went through those in considerable detail. and he says, in 1998, i was copied on a couple of e-mails. i did not know. and by the way, those were, in fact, reported to the police, that incident. and the police declined to press charges. the 2001 inciden

noticeably absent, though, from these cases is former penn state president graham spanier. he's not been charged with anything. he sat down with our jeffrey toobin and "the new yorker." jeff, people have been really, really wanting to know what this guy had to say. you spent several hours with him. >> i did. >> over a couple of days. >> i did. >> a lot of heart-to-heart conversation. everyone's wondering why he hasn't been charged along with other leaders at penn state. did you get an answer? >> i went into this interview like a lot of people. i was so horrified by the jerry sandusky scandal. i wanted to see all these people thrown to the wolves. but spanier has a story. spanier says, look, sandusky was horrible, but i did not know. and there are two incidents at the heart of the freeh report. the 1998 incident and the 2001. and we went through those in considerable detail. and he says, in 1998, i was copied on a couple of e-mails. i did not know. and by the way, those were, in fact, reported to the police, that incident. and the police declined to press charges. the 2001 i

former penn state president graham spanier fighting back against criticism on how he handled the sex abuse scandal. he tells abc news the scandal caught him by surprise. >> never in my time as president of penn state did i ever once receive a report from anyone that suggested that jerry sandusky was involved in child abuse, sexual abuse, any criminal act. >> he and his lawyers are attacking a university-backed report by the former fbi director that closes the graham spanier and other top university officials of concealing allegations against jerry sandusky. 7 is on your side with details on a mysterious new disease doctors. investigating a disease found that causes aids-like symptoms for people without hiv. the patient goes union system becomes damage and leaving them unable to fend off germs. it occurs in adults and is not inherited. it does not appear to be contagious. in other health news, the fda says an indiana farm is tied to a recent salmonella outbreak in cantaloupes. it has agreed to stop distributing cantaloupes at this time, but the fta has decided to issue a formal recall

. >>> and we have the exclusive interview with former penn state president graham spanier. there with josh. >> he has a lot to say about his role or lack thereof, in the scandal that really brought one of the nation's great universities to its knees. >> we'll play that interview and let people make up their own mind. >>> and we're also going to turn to l.l. cool j. the star taking the law into his own hands, knocking out an alleged burglar who broke into his home. can you imagine that you broke into a home and l.l. cool j. is there. >> what a mistake that was. >>> let's start out with isaac. it is gaining strength and heading towards florida. sam, you've been tracking it overnight. >> unexpected moves from isaac overnight in kind of a weakening situation here. we watch the system that's 100 miles past guadeloupe and martinique. it put down four to seven inches of rain across the island. still, in that weakened gusts.th, flooding and big wind we're not worried about it staying weak. let's show you why that is. here's the path that the hurricane center has lined out for this

. >>> and we have the exclusive interview with former penn state president graham spanier. you see him there with josh. josh you spent a couple hour was him yesterday. >> i spent a couple hours with him in philadelphia. he has a lot to say about his role or lack thereof, in the scandal that really brought one of the nation's great universities to its knees. >> we'll play that interview and let people make up their own mind. >>> and we're also going to turn to l.l. cool j. the star taking the law into his own hands, knocking out an alleged burglar who broke into his home. can you imagine that you broke into a home and l.l. cool j. is there. >> what a mistake that was. >> we're going to get to that. we have a lot coming up. let's start with tropical storm isaac. it is gaining strength and heading towards florida. sam, you've been tracking it overnight. in kind of a weakening situation here. we watched this system a couple miles past guadalupe and martinique. it put down four to seven inches of rain across the island. still, in that weakened strength, flooding and big wind gus

. >>> and we have the exclusive interview with former penn state president graham spanier. there with josh. >> he has a lot to say about his role or lack thereof, in the scandal that really brought one of the nation's great universities to its knees. >> we'll play that interview and let people make up their own mind. >>> and we're also going to turn to l.l. cool j. the star taking the law into his own hands, knocking out an alleged burglar who broke into his home. can you imagine that you broke into a home and l.l. cool j. is there. >> what a mistake that was. >>> let's start out with isaac. it is gaining strength and heading towards florida. sam, you've been tracking it overnight. >> unexpected moves from isaac overnight in kind of a weakening situation here. we watch the system that's 100 miles past guadeloupe and martinique. it put down four to seven inches of rain across the island. still, in that weakened strength, flooding and big wind gusts. we're not worried about it staying weak. let's show you why that is. here's the path that the hurricane center has lined out fo

. >> graham spanier is not facing criminal charges. however, sandusky could spend the rest of his life in prison when he is sentenced later this year. >>> lawyers for george hugely are going to court today. asking for a new trial. he will be sentenced next week in the murder of his former girlfriend, yardly love. hugely was convicted of killing love in february. he is facing up to 26 years in prison when he is sentenced. >>> a washington state man is due in court later today. 31-year-old anton calorey is accused of emailing threats to president obama. federal authorities say he was armed with a otgun when he answered his door yesterday. he claimed that he had explosives, and agents searched his home, but did not find anything. >>> a new poll is showing that the presidential race right now is very close. neck and neck. the candidates are focused on those fall battle ground states. president obama is starting his day in nevada. paul ryan kicked off the day for the republicans in virginia. danielle nottingham has details. >> in the battle

the ex-president graham spanier is waiting whether he will be charged. >>> are you still steeming over how long it took bge to restore your power from the outage in june? the meeting starts at 7:00, a little less than two hours from now. >>> beautiful out there kelly. everybody's out there soaking up some sunshine. look at the shot. not a cloud to be found but things will change in the next 24 hours. here's temperatures, 87 in town. the warmest spot frederick at 88. d.c. is pushing the 90 park. tomorrow we can push the 90 park with more humidity. clear overhead, but i want to go out toward the west, just about 17 hours. this is not good. more tornado warnings over the midwest. it's going to be a gorgeous evening, comfortable around 80, a few high clouds. 74 degrees. 68. we wake up to a lot of sunshine. here's the deal. the clouds come into play and strong storms could be in the mix. the latest seven-day forecast forecast is coming up. >> you can take your forecast with you. just head to abc2news.com/weather to learn how to download our app to your smartphone. you can also get the storm

. >>> graham spanier is offering his strongest and most personal defense yet of his actions in connection with the jerry sandusky sexual abuse case. spanier does acknowledge he was told in 2001 about sandusky engaging in what was described as, quote, horseplay with a child. but in an interview with abc's josh elliott yesterday, he claimed he was never told the child was actually being abused. >> reporter: didn't you have a moral obligation to find out who that child was and find out what happened? >> i didn't conjure up anything more than what i would have thought of as simple horseplay. so, no, i didn't think of anything more than that. it's not in my nature to go around thinking the worst of people. i'm not a law enforcement agent. i'm not an investigator. i was a university president. >> spanier revealed he was abused at the hands of his father. he talks about the penn state-backed report in which he is accused of covering up the sandusky case. >>> for the lighter side of sports, nfl's week three of preseason is tonight. as for baseball highlights, we have more from espn. >> good morni

. >>> well, former penn state university president graham spanier is offering his strongest and most personal defense yet of his actions in connection with the jerry sandusky sexual abuse case. spanier does acknowledge that he was told back in 2001 about sandusky engaging in what was described as, quote, horseplay with a child. but in an interview with abc's josh elliott yesterday, he claimed he was never told the child was actually being abused. >> didn't you have a moral obligation to find out who that child was and find out what happened? >> i didn't conjure up anything more than what i would have thought of as simple horseplay. so, no, i didn't think of anything more than that. it's not in my nature to go around thinking the worst of people. i'm not a law enforcement agent. i'm not an investigator. i was a university president. >> spanier also revealed that he himself was abused as a child at the hands of his father, in fact. coming up on "good morning america," spanier talks about the penn state-backed report, in which he's accused of covering up the sandusky case. >>> for the l

. >> former penn state president graham spanier speaking out for the first time to the jerry sandusky child sex case, the report that accused him of helping cover it up and his own past as a child abuse victim. he told abc news when jerry sandusky acted suspiciously with a boy in the team showers, that was back in 2001, the notorious incident, he said he was only made aware that sandusky engaged in quote, unquote, horseplay. >> didn't you have a moral obligation to find out who that child was and find out what happened? >> i didnconjure up anything mo than i thought of simple horseplay. i didn't think of anything more than that. >> former fbi chief louis freeh came out with his independent report in which spanier totally blasted the attorneys and blasted as well calling the university funded review a, quote, flat out distortion of facts infused with bias and innuendo and accused spanier of being complicit in the alleged coverup of the child sex abuse scandal and we'll talk to jeff t toobin later this hour. >> interesting stuff. jeffrey has a lot of information. five minutes after the

graham spanier is not charged with a crime. he is cited in the report, that damning report by louis freeh who said that spanier empowered sandusky to attract victims to campus, ultimately failed to protect children for more than a decade. jeff toobin sat down with spanier for an extensive interview and you can read it at the new yorker.com. >> he is contradictly. let's talk about the contradictions in what he says. he talks about joe paterno as being an important figure at the school and in the community and that clearly he was in charge, it was not joe paterno. he writes i always consulted with him because he had opinions and sometimes he would persuade me and sometimes i would persuade them. anything you heard about how joe was the boss of the university, not so. contradictory. >> is it? i am not sure it is a total contradiction. football coaches are powerful everywhere in college sports, but what spanier was saying is he was powerful but i had the last word, i was the president, he was just a football coach. >> i guess where

the former president of penn state, graham spanier. he sat down to answer questions about the crime sending coach jerry sandusky to prison. abc's josh elliott went one-on-one with him today. >> reporter: do you feel like you failed those kids? >> i wish, in hindsight, that i would have known more about jerry sandusky and his terrible, terrible hidden past, so that i could have intervened, because it would have been my instinct to do so. >> reporter: spanier acknowledges that in february 2001, he was told a penn state staffer had seen jerry sandusky in the locker room with a boy, engaging in what spanier says was described as horse play. he claims he was never told the horse play was at all sexual in nature. when you hear horse play, what do you think? >> i guess i was thinking back to my own childhood, where horse play involved throwing water around, snapping towels. i didn't ask about it. but that's what i was conjuring up. >> reporter: spanier revealed that he himself was abused as a child, lending him a heightened awareness to the s

they did. >>> former penn state president graham spanier is speaking out about the jerry sandusky. he is blasting the internal report accusing him to cover up the sex abuse to protect his image. >> the freeh report is wrong and unfair and deeply flawed. it is as many errors and omissions. i know they had a lot of very good people on the teamworking on this. they interviewed over 400 people. many of them described the interviews to me as a witch hunt. >>> at midnight tonight, casey anthony will be a free woman as the one--year sentence for check fraud ends. she was acquitted of killing her 2-year-old daughter caylee. >>> the editors of "forbes" magazine are telling us the most powerful women in the world. angela merkel. hillary clinton comes in second and the brazil's first female president rounds out the top three. >>> the mars rover curiosity is roving. that is good news for nasa. curiosity was able to move forward, turn and back up and that is good news for nasa. nasa is confident of the maneuver ability. it will have curiosity move 1,300 feet to a drilling site. >>> it is the po

graham spanier sat down for an interveiw with the new yorker magazine. two former university administrators are accused of lying to a grand jury and failing to report the abuse. spanier has not been charged and says he feels for sandusky's victims. >>there are times when i am in a mood of substantial grief about what happened to those kids ... but i never ever heard anything about child sexual abuse ... a penn state review claims spanier took part in a coverup to spare the university bad publicity. spanier denies that claim. flames are raging in northern california as governor jerry brown declares a state of emergency in areas affected by the wildfires. a state of emergency has been declared in three california counties. the "ponderosa fire" seen here is just one of many burning through the western half of the u.s.. the massive blaze sends hazy clouds of smoke through the air impairing visibility. some areas are under mandatory evacuation orders. officials say at least 50 buildings have been scorched in the past week. no one thought much about a bundle o

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graham spanier is opening rejecting all of the findings from the so-called freeh report. former fbi freeh. that report wag commissioned by penn state. that report says, in fact, four of the most powerful people at the pennsylvania state university failed to protect against a child sexual predator harming children for over a decade. ex-president spanier sat for an interview with "the new yorker" magazine. >> the freeh report is wrong, it's unfair, it's deeply flawed. it is as many errors and omissions. i know they had a lot of very good people on that team working on this. they interviewed 400 people. many have spoken to me about their interviews. many of them describe the interviews to me as a witch hunt. >> the interview was conducted by cnn's jefferey toobin. lord, god, tell me this man is not free from the threat of prosecution. i'm glad he is speaking to you and you and i can talk about it, but why for his sake is he talking at all? >> i think he is pissed off. it is as simple as that. he feels like his reputation has been destroyed. i think he is right about that. i

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. >> graham spanier accused of a coverup, opens up in an abc news exclusive. it is thursday, august 23rd. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >>> good morning, everybody. i'm rob nelson. >> and i'm paula faris. we'll get to that exclusive, eye-opening interview in our top story. >>> and then, what could be the worst ever outbreak of west nile in the country. how another big city is taking to the skies to kill mosquitoes spreading the disease. 41 deaths according to the cdc. >> we see this a lot during the summertime but particularly bad this year. again, get rid of standing do what you have to do, water, get on the bug spray, getting rough in parts of the country. >>> also this morning, the excitement for nasa as the mars rover starts a crucial new step of its mission. the latest pictures and why scientists are watching the rover's every move. >> red rover, red rover. >>> and later, designing your own personal soundtrack with help from a guy who ought to know a thing or two or three about music. hollywood scoremaster, hans zimmer making it h

>> attorneys for graham spanier are hitting back against the university's internal investigation into the jerry sandusky sex abuse scandal. a report last month blames spanier, football coach joe paterno and others for covering up the alleged child sex abuse. spanier has not been charged in the case and he says he was led to believe sandusky was involved in nothing more than horseplay. >>> incredible pictures from ecuador where a volcano has erupted near the capital, quito. it's been spewing molten rock and lava since the weekend, covering villages with ash and forcing evacuations. this volcano has been active since 1999. >>> did you know you may be throwing away almost half of the food that you bring home from the grocery store? according to a report from the national resources defense council americans are wasting 40% of food. that's about $165 billion a year in waste. fruits and vegetables get tossed out the most followed by seafood, grain products, meat and milk. you can blame portion sizes. our dinner plates are about 36% bigger than they were decades ago. anyone who's been to a g