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As we await this news conference, the charge is disorderly conduct. class four felony, lowest felony classification. what more can you tell us about what he is facing here? >> i don't know if he has any wires. i am going to guess he doesn't. if he did, i think they would have revealed that. so a first-time offender facing a low level -- what is called an illinois class for felony. ordinarily, would not be a candidate for incarceration. >> sandra: we just got a heads up that the police have entered the room. the chicago police department will start their news conference here any moment now on j...

So to the extend that other accusers may not be part of the criminal prosecution, they may end up being witnesses if they are substantially similar situations in the past. these charges are very, very serious. in new york, rape in the first degree is a 5 to 25 year sentence, minimum of five years because it's a sexually violent crime. but the criminal sexual act is equally as serious. it carries virtually the same punishment and that is oral sex by forcible compulsion and that is something equally as serious as rape, at least in terms of the felony classification and the sentencing. >> katie, ...