Hundreds of students were locked down on campus away from parents for the 17 hours following that report. Over 1,000 stew people, including students, staff and First Responders ended up needing individual scans by epa inspectors by the chemical. We wanted to know why the initial reports were so downplayed. And they thought it was only in the gym area and the n students and three administrators were the only one infected. Today we learned that it had spread to clothes, shoes and hair of dozens of 6th, 7th and 8th graders. Once they started doing readings and started findings reading ons throughout the school the level of concern raised and said we need to take this a step further. Mercury bounces like ate little beads and you can track it everywhere. Which is why we were cautious about sending people home when it was potentially on their questions about how the incident yesterday into last night and eerily this morning was handled over at the school. You can catch the full interview on
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
Its immensely frustrating, its out of hand, its pandemonium out here, theres nobody taking charge. Just one of hundreds of parents who felt they were left in the dark overnight after School Officials duscovered spilled mercury. That led to the lockdown and the epa being called in. Followed by more than 16 hours of screening students kept inside the school. This morning a School District spokeswoman, the School Police chief and an epa representative all said things went well and according to how but that message is not sitting well with parents. Many of them came to an information open house tonight at a nearby school. Fox5s Miguel Martinez valle was that and joins us not to tell us if parents have caled down. Or jsut become more frustrated. It was supposed to be an open discussion a place for concerned parents to ask questions to officials like the epa the School District or the fire chief. But when parents werent getting answers to their quickly went out the door. Natyou wouldnt relea
Going to kick things off on the right foot . Kim wish it was football kelly wish it was football weather. We have to get through this round of triple digits. Today a whole lot of sunshine. 96 by noon and 100 at 4 00. That is our expected high. Were going to vegas coming up. Krystal were following breaking news. First a deadly train crash in spain killing four people. 47 others injured this. Happened in the past two hours. The train derailed about 280 miles northwest of madrid. Michelle were following more breaking news out of north korea, claims to have successfully tested a nuclear monitors detected a big blast there. They measured the quake with a 5. 3. State tv said the north was now capable of mounting Nuclear War Head on ballistic missiles. World leaders are condemning those test. Krystal Walter Johnson middle School Closed again today as the e. P. A. Continuing its investigation. Parents of students a that room packed last night at Jacobson Elementary School where a meeting was t
Ar . Riding out on a horse in a star spangled rodeo . This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. A battle that started aboard an Aircraft Carrier catapulted into a dogfight today. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton appeared separately last night at a forum aboard the u. S. S. Intrepid museum in new york. We learned more about how they intend to fight americas enemies and each other. Nancy cordes begins our coverage. Its a game to him. Everything is a game. Reporter clinton argued thats the only explanation for some of trumps claims last night. Al the generals have been reduced to rubble. Reporter he called military leaders embarrassing, and claimed the u. S. Should have seized iraqs oil reserves when how were we going to do that . You would leave a certain w group behind and you would take various sections where they have the oil. The United States of america does not invade other countries to plunder and pillage. We dont send our brave men andr w