This actually worked. I had entered my crontab incorrect. I am able to locate steams now on my site with the above code but when i click on the preview box of my site it says “The requested URL /stream// was not found on this server.”
where streams.php is located there is this code that calls to it
echo '<div class="sm_gallery" style="background:url('.$thumb.') #12181C; background-size: 249px 142px; width:216px;">
<div class="gallery_overlay"><img src="images/games/'.$game.'.gif" alt="" />
<small>'.$viewers.' VIEWERS</small><br/>
<a href="stream/'.$streamID.'/">'.$title.'</a>
</div>
</div>';