Static Page Featured Layout

I am trying to design a section of my homepage template to display the most recent posts with the thumbnail, author, post date, total comments and excerpt in one column and the next post four posts with thumbnail, author, post date, total comments, and excerpt in another column.

I used the following but the author name, date, and excerpt are not displaying. The image image thumbnail and the title display as they should. Also, the glyphicons for the author and date appear just nothing follows.

The removed the code from this section because it is not displaying correctly.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Thank you