that he believed his wife passed down her, quote, serpent dna and so he thought his own children were going to grow into monsters so he had to kill them. good morning to you, ben. this is such a tough story to talk about because it s so awful and it is a demonstration, as we said on this show, of how deadly disinformation and conspiracy theories can be, right? the real-life consequences of this stuff. yeah. i think it is also a demonstration of how fast things can happen. if you look at coleman s instagram pages, facebook pages, you don t see anything about qanon on there. you don t see anything at all about this stuff. granted, he was running a business but you see what appears to be a very happy family there. right. when you hear him talk to the feds, this is a man who killed
only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. so we talk aid lot about qanon and conspiracy theories on this show, how they ve taken root online, worked their way through communities and even mainstream politics. we re about to share a story about horrific real-world consequences about these beliefs. matthew taylor coleman was charged with the murder of his 2-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter. their bodies were found monday by a farm worker just over the border in mexico. so what could possibly possess a father to murder his own children? according to fbi officials, coleman was a follower of qanon and illuminati conspiracies. he allegedly told investigators
ann thompson reports that other states are doing the same. reporter: for sister suzanne robertson and june maloney, saint coleman s home was a house of horrors they say they were sexually abused at the catholic-run orphanage in new york by a nun named sister regina who is deceased what did she do? she assaulted me. she put her hands up me. reporter: it was around 1962. suzanne and june had just hit puberty. she took the washcloth and put the brown soap on it and poured the rest of the bottle of lysol and she brought it up between my legs and shoved it up reporter: how often do you think about what happened to you? every day i try not to think about it reporter: almost 60 years later, they can finally sue their alleged abusers, including saint coleman s which did not return our request for comment new york is the first of five states this year to pass a bill allowing child sex abuse victims to file civil suits. no matter when the alleged acts happened advocate katherin
the path. from ohio to new york this morning and airlines are playing catch up after 900 flights were canceled. another severe storm watch in effect today. let s get the very latest from meteorologist rob marciano live in olympic park in atlanta. rough night for us up here. reporter: it was. not just for new york city, it was a massive storm system, christine. yesterday morning at this time we said the atmosphere was primed to explode and mother nature certainly took the cue yesterday afternoon. take a look at the radar from yesterday, i mean this damaging line of storms stretched from hartford all the way back through the ohio valley in through northern texas. 1700 miles of damaging storms over 300 wind reports that caused damage and one report of a tornado up there in elmira, new york, we don t expect to see that sort of action today but some folks will. leftover storms from last night across the delmarva and mid-atlantic and today that s where the main threat will be f