Night and we are hearing it again tonight. Many parents are here are at Jacobson Elementary School waiting for some answers on how the mercury contamination happened at johnson junior high. More than a thousand students and staff were quarantined for more than 16 hours as Emergency Responders struggled to deal with the largest co tonight, the Health District and Environmental Protection Agency Officials will meet with parents to discuss what went wrong and moving forward. What happens now. Shakala Alvaranga the district is planning on reviewing their procedures. Meanwhile, Police Continue to investigate whether anyone will be charged in this incident. Reporting live Shakala Alvaranga 8 news now. paul joncich thanks shakala. Continues our team coverage. Denise Valdez shes live at johnson junior high. Where clean up crews have been decontaminating the campus all day. karen castro while crews worked inside hoping to get answers from administrators. But the doors are locked, adding to thei
A property manager who shot and killed a man who police say broke into a homes will not be charged for the death. Metro says it was a case of self defense. Fox 5s Ophelia Young is live at the home where the deadly confrontation took place yesterday. Ophelia you spoke with the District Attorney today . Da Steve Wolfson says it doesnt matter whether its in your home a friends home or on the street if you feel your life is in danger you can use deadly force. In this case fox 5 was told the manager was punched several times in the face. If youre being punched if youre being attacked youre allowed to defend yourself and if youre are in a reasonable believe that serious Bodily Injury is going to occur youre allowed to use whatever force is necessary and often times thats deadly force. District attorney Steve Wolfson says in nevada a victim can fire a gun when danger as long as you have a reasonable belief that somebody is goign to commit a serious felony against you. Thursday afternooon righ
Preventing greiving familes from acheiving their closure congressman Cresent Hardy threw his support behind the joe hecks good samairtan seach and recovery act friday on the house floor. David its a win win for everyone how can it be wrong its a completely logical bill friday the bill was passed with unanimous support as an amendment to an existing law. It was inspired by a 2012 las vegas murder in which a love triangle turned deadly for Keith Goldberg. Cell phone pings helped red rock search and rescue narrow in on where his body was located. But regulations stopped them being able to go in and retrieve it. Davidhad we had this in place when Keith Goldberg went missing we wouldve recovered him in may we started looking for him april 2012 by may we knew he was in because of all the able to get in until Jeff Goldberg it was horrible no proof that hes really dead prior to the Good Samaritan search and rescue act. Rock search and rescue. Looking persons faced roadblocks and Million Dollar
Closed captioning will resume shortly closed captioning will resume shortly closed captioning will resume shortly Alfred Hitchcocks the birds but students at one Valley Middle School appear to be sharing their cafeteria with a about the problem and a video showing them inside the lunchroom. Fox5s les krifaton joins us live outside Cashman Middle School on desert inn near decatur. Les what is the School District saying . They sent us a statement this afternoon saying school staff work diligently to keep the campus clean but the problem as you are about to see still exists. This is not what you want to see inside a school cafeteria. Pigeons looking for and eating crumbs left behind by students. The School District says they pigeons get in when the janitorial staff are removing garbage. The district insists it makes sure the birds are not inside when the kids are there. Family physician dr daliah wachs says the pigeons do pose a health risk and parents should remind their children about w
Doors open to remove trash, pigeons do fly in to eat crumbs or food that have been dropped on the floor by students. End quote the boys mom we talked to heard there was a problem and when we showed her out video she was shocked those birds have diseases. The kids have to eat lunch in there what if they go to the bathroom on the table and gets it on his sandwich and doesnt realize it. He could get really sick. Family physician dry daliah wachs says the students and parents have good reason to be concerned. We love pigeons we feed the pigeons, but you know that carry diseases, they carry bacteria, they carry fungi, they carry viruses they carry disease. Dr. Wachs says parents need to remind their kids to stay away from the pigeons and to not for instance put their sandwiches or food on the table where they sit just in case. Whether you go to a restaurant, whether they eat in the room etc and so if the students themselves arent going to wipe doe the area they need to be aware that area co