>> steve osunsami with us tonight. steve, thank you. >>> now, to another american university, 37 students, members of a fraternity facing a range of criminal charges. some now facing charges of murder, after a brutal case of hazing. authorities now say the frat members searched the internet after the incident, looking for what to do after a concussion. instead of calling 911 right away. abc's linsey davis with what happened. >> reporter: tonight, 37 college students face a slew of criminal charges. two years after the death of 19-year-old chun "michael" deng. a pennsylvania grand jury recommending that five of those fraternity members face charges of third degree murder. >> this is a clear case of why hazing is not permitted. >> reporter: authorities say in december of 2013, members of the pi delta psi fraternity at new york city's baruch college carried out what police say was a brutal hazing ritual, outside a rented house in the poconos, where pledges were forced to run across a frozen field, blindfolded, weighed dow

>> steve osunsami with us tonight. steve, thank you. >>> we're going to turn now to kentucky, and that county clerk at the center of the debate over same-sex marriage. back to work today, after being jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, saying she's facing an impossible choice tonight. obey god or obey the people she serves. abc's t.j. holmes is there. >> reporter: today, an emotional kim davis, surrounded by law enforcement, promising not to stop her deputies, who are issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. >> i'm here before you this morning with a seemingly impossible choice that i do not wish on any of my fellow americans -- my conscience or my freedom. >> reporter: and then -- the first test. davis staying inside her office, door closed, curtains drawn as shannon and carmen wampler-collins, together for 23 years, got their license to wed. >> there's your receipt, and congratulations. >> thank you, brian. >> thank you, brian. >> appreciate it. >> reporter: their license doesn't incl

steve osunsami, abc news, atlanta. >>> coming up, the credit card companies are hopping to chip away at fraud but are retailers ready? either way, your cards will still work after next week's deadline. >> ahead in our next half hour, everyone has got a different story what went on during this high school football game. you're watching "world news now." >>> "world ne >>> well, you and i have travel the extensively abroad. we know the u.s. lags hinds other major countries in credit card security. but that is apparently about to change. >> because next week, retailers will either have to read the chips in cards or be responsible for fraud. >> more on how it works from abc's gio benitez. >> it's the new technology that aims to stop thieves cold. and in just a few days this hi-tech chip in your credit cards could lead to a lot less fraud. here's the problem right now. watch as this fast food attendant swipes a customer's card once and then a second time using a small device. watch again from the register to the skimmer. it looks like this. small enough to fit in a thieve's pocket and coul

abc's steve osunsami is there. >> watchne of the doors. nobody in, nobody out. >> reporter: these were the fightening moments in the middle of morning classes at delta state university. ethan schmidt was shot to death in his office, and police were outside their windows, looking for an active gunman. >> i took his class over the summer. i'll still in shock right now. >> he was a great guy and -- just pray for him and his family. >> reporter: at 10:43, the school sent this emergency alert to cell phones across campus. students had to use desks to barricade their doors and had to walk out of school buildings with their hands up behind their heads. >> these students out here on the quad on the west side, can i put them in a building safer? >> reporter: tonight, the search continues for this man. 45-year-old shannon lamb. an instructor who taught gee yog fill at the university. >> at this moment, we do consider mr. lamb to be armed dangd rouse. >> reporter: police have now identified as a suspect in another killing that took five hours south,

abc's steve osunsami is at the ballpark tonight. >> reporter: tonight, managers at turner field are still waiting for toxicology reports to see if they might help explain why 60-year-old greg murrey fell to his death saturday. >> someone just fell over the upper deck. >> reporter: alex rodriguez was at bat for the yankees when fans started booing. witnesses say murrey was one of them, losing his balance as he stood up in this second row, tumbling over the seats right in front of him, and then over the railing. dr. joe ricotta tried to save the man's life. >> i heard a loud noise on impact and then immediately knew that it was a person and sort of instinctively rushed in that direction. >> reporter: critics are questioning whether there's a safety issue at ballparks. this is now the third deadly incident at turner field since 2008. >> you're definitely thinking about that family. it's definitely a huge tragedy. >> reporter: the victim's family released a statement saying he was doing what he loved when he died, watching the braves. david? >> steve, thank you. >>> when we come back here ton

one of two cases in the news tonight, and here's abc's steve osunsami. >> reporter: in clayton county, georgia, this morning, temperatures were only in the 60s, and it was a cloudy day, but police still arrested kimberly bandoh, a lawyer and former judge who they say left her two young children in her car, while she was inside the courthouse handling a case. her kids are 2 and 3 years old and were in the car for less than 30 minutes. >> probably the children would have been okay, but i don't think the law gives that level of discretion to our police officers. >> reporter: authorities across the country are responding to the shockingly high number of children dying in hot cars. an estimated 660 since 1998 and 23 so far this year. just last night, an 8-month-old boy was found dead in the back seat of a car in a walmart parking lot in macedonia, ohio. >> okay, what's going on there? >> there was a baby left in a car. that somebody didn't know about. >> reporter: police say it was an accident, telling us the baby's father left him in the car and then the grandmother drove that car to work

abc's steve osunsami has been tracking this story for us. good morning, steve. >> reporter: good morning, amy. the lockdown has been lifted at delta state university this morning. but classes are still canceled as they mourn the death of that history professor. this was the chaos after the shooting on campus shortly after 10:00 a.m. monday. students barricading their doors with desks, forced to walk out of school buildings with hands held up behind their heads while police with long guns search for the killer. >> these students out here on the quad on the west side can i put them in a building safer? >> reporter: shannon lamb was a university instructor accused of shooting a history professor dead in his office. they spotted his vehicle along a mississippi highway overnight when he ran into a wooded area and police say killed himself. >> we didn't want it to happen this way. he made that decision. >> reporter: police say lamb is also a suspect in an earlier killing nearly five hours south near biloxi. they say that victim is 41-year-old amy

the judge ruled against defendant ross harris in a pretrial hearing and steve osunsami has the story. >> reporter: everything that police say justin ross harris told them that early evening in june of last year when his 22-month-old son cooper died in a steaming suv is now admissible at trial. he wasn't arrested until later that evening. but the judge's ruling that a jury should hear harris' statements and emotions at the scene saying that he wasn't being questioned by police at the time. >> and therefore those statements will be admissible. >> reporter: in court one of the lead investigators who got here first shared her take saying he didn't look like a grieving father. >> he was yell iing, but the yelling was scha mon to tone. it wasn't wha you'd normally see at like death scenes where you see tears. >> objection. >> reporter: but witnesses who saw harris pull into this parking lot north of atlanta say he seemed deeply wounded after discovering he left his son in the hot car for more than seven hours. >> kept saying what have i done? what have i done? >> reporter: harris is charged

abc's steve osunsami is in charleston. good morning, steve. >> reporter: good morning to you, robin. this former police officer is charged with murder and remains in isolation at the county lockup but there's a chance he could get bail and walk out of this courthouse today. >> 223 dispatch, shots fired. subject is down. he grabbed my taster. >> reporter: this morning we're learning how the former police officer in this disturbing recording plans to defend himself in court in the cell phone video seen round the world, michael slager is seen shooting an unarmed black man in the back as he's running away. prosecutors say that walter scott was no danger to himself or the officer. but at his bail hearing today slager's attorneys will show a different video, a few seconds of the original enhanced by the fbi. it's hard to make out here but they say this is scott fighting with slager on the ground before the shooting. >> but the fbi analysis of the video is a violent physical assault in which clearly on that video mr. scott obtain

steve osunsami has the story. good morning, steve. >> reporter: good morning, george. this former ceo is already 61 years old. so they're calling this a virtual life sentence. this morning, a first of its kind decision in a loud and clear message about safety to america's food industry. >> the food safety lost out to greed. >> reporter: former peanut company ceo stewart parnell is in an albany, georgia, jail cell right now. a federal judge sentenced him to 28 years monday after one of his roasting plants was blamed for a deadly outbreak of salmonella in 2008. nine people died. 714 got sick across 46 states. at trial, prosecutors shared e-mails where they say parnell pushed employees to sell tainted food, saying, just ship it. i cannot afford to lose another customer. gabrielle meunier was one of those customers. her son christopher was 7 years old when he got sick. she spoke at parnell's sentencing. >> i have to tell you, when i first spotted him, i wanted to cry. i feel badly, this should never have happened. this never should have happened to begin with. >> reporter:

steve osunsami. >> reporter: he's 61 years old so they're calling this a virtual life sentence. this morning, a first of its kind decision in a loud and clear message about safety to america's food industry. >> the food safety lost out to greed. >> reporter: stewart parnell is in an albany, georgia, jail cell, a federal judge sentenced him to 28 years monday after one of his roasting plants was blamed for a deadly outbreak of samantha. 9 died and 714 got sick and at trial prosecutors shared e mails where they say parnell pushed saying, just ship it. i cannot afford to lose another customer. gab bring yell gabrielle meunier was one of them. >> it should never have happened to begin with. >> reporter: they're holding executives and even farmers responsible. two egg executives got sentences after a 2010 salmonella outbreak. last year two cantaloupe farmers were sensed for a listeria outbreak but parnell's sentence is the stiffest punishment the industry has ever seen. >> my mother surely beat cancer and died from eating peanut butter. today was a victory. it was justice for her and