they say the third person has minor injuries. local reports say the driver of the u-haul is in police custody. we will bring you any breaking details as soon as they come in to our newsroom here. an assistant basketball coach, this time at syracuse university, is denying he molested two young boys. there was a statement released by his lawyer, bernie fine, and he called the allegations patently false, adding that he s confident his reputation will be restored. his accusers, bob davis and mike lang are both adults now, and both claim fine molested them when they were ball boys for the university basketball team. the ncaa announcing an investigation into the child sex abuse scandal going on at penn state, and now it will focus on the university s control of its athletics program, the, or inaction of key penn state personnel. david lee miller remains live at university park, pennsylvania,
a statement, saying this is unfortunate news and another sad note for our penn state community. meanwhile paterno s son jay, still on the coaching staff, described his father s reaction after receiving the diagnosis. he just waved me off. said, oh, don t bug me about that. i ll be fine. you worry about coaching the football team, worry about the game next week, don t worry about me. every day i ve gone by the house to bug him, and he says the same things. he has a tendency to minimize things, but he ll be fine. reaction from current and former players ranges from sadness and shock. one former player, though, did say that joe paterno is fighter. jamie, back to you. thank you so much, david lee miller live on campus. thanks, david lee. tonight be sure to tune into fox news reporting. we have a special the crisis at penn state, hosted by our own john roberts. you ll only find it on the fox
jerry sandusky. the pennsylvania district attorney s office has charged sandusky with 40 counts of sexually abusing young boys. now he and the school could face a long line of civil lawsuits as well. joining us now is former trial attorney, ellis cannon, publisher of the pittsburgh sports report. thanks for joining us today. as david lee miller was reporting earlier in our program, this story changes by the second. having said that, it does appear likely that some sort of litigation will be coming toward sandusky, and possibly the school along the lines of a civil lawsuit. do you expect it to be one by one or could it be a class action? it s going to depend on how things unfold in the criminal phase of this. there s a school of thought that says you jump on these cases as soon as you can. there s another that says let s see how the criminality is apportioned. i know this, that for about 10 of the last 14 days i ve been on with fox, and we ve talked a lot
limitations, you have to go back to a critical moment in the legislature, 2002, and that in effect says that if you were under 18 at the time of the abuse you have until 30. now, we don t know all of these victims. again, you pointed out, david pointed out, jamie pointed out, we re starting to see more and more people come forward. we have to basically sort that out as the process goes on. we ll have to win know out all those people coming forward. the second mile program was not to to try to help at-risk children. what s going to happen to that program? they too could come under the gun in terms of some sort of civil action. well, they could. part of that is the investigation. perhaps the more immediate concern, we start talking about the collateral damage, legal, academic, financial, and so forth, and you have to look at them and ask, not necessarily only the issue about what they could have done, or what they did, who they protected, were funds being used, records preserved, but