American swimmers involved in that gas station incident at the olympics. Ryan lochte reportedly facing as long as ten months out of the water. Why some critics say even that would be too light. And vanishing act. New video emerges showing a suspect in las vegas breaking free from his handcuffs and then fleeing through the ceiling. That tricky escape and how Police Caught up with him today, thursday, september 8th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Do anything interesting last night . It was a nail biter. Ill tell you that. Serena williams pulled it out in the end. It was really, really good. A lot of people were watching something else. In fact, this commander in chief forum on nbc last night. Away. We want to get to the state of the race today. With the forrum behind her, Hillary Clinton returns to the campaign trail with a rally th
Kickoff of football season. The high roller is lit up orange and blue for the broncos that won that game. Krystal it was a clencher. Well have highlights. We have traffic and weather for you every 10 minutes. Michelle we have kelly curran standing by and tom standing by. Kelly here is the roller behind me there blue and orange. Here is a look at what we expect today. As you are heading out the door this morning got temperatures in the 70s. By 9 00 a. M. 87. 100 even the high today. Tom weve got a pretty good commute to start things off although we have an early got flashing lights down there. Eastbound is the predominant flow of traffic this time of day and that is not affected. Krystal Walter Johnson middle School Closed again today as they continue testing and investigation. Kendall has been on this story since it broke wednesday. We saw that meeting last night or his son came home and told him they had been playing with the mercury on campus started on friday. That is five days befo
Will shift creating breezy conditions by the afternoon. A trough from the Pacific Northwest starts to slide down the coastline overnight sunday and that will usher in much cooler temperatures for our area beginning monday. The uv index for friday is 8 or very high. Here is a look at your drive here are the accidents to watch out and alternate routes you can use construciton areas to look out for and alternate routes listed on our maps back to the news desk. A follow up now to that toxic spill at a valley middle school. The slow release of information to parents during the 17 hour lockdown of Walter Johnson Junior High School caused a lot of frustration. A town hall meeting last night to update parents about the mercury spill only fox5s peter dawson is live from the school this morning with reaction from angry parents. Las vegas fire, School Police and one representative from the e. P. A. Gave generic statements about the dangers of mercury and tried to answered questions from parents a
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
They had mercury in a plastic bag and these boys were playing around in the locker room and i think it broke everywhere mercury just bounces like little beads and it gets on your foot and you could track it everywhere which is why we were very cautious about sending people home when it was potentially on their shoes the School Districts Police Department says now that they know everyone is safe the next step is figuring out what happened. But he was very clear, they do know it started with a group of kids just messing around. As for the parents theyre glad everyone is safe but they habe some hard feelings about the way this whole thing was handled, especially when it comes to communication. They say it was a mess last night, and for more on that, John Christine will you. Continuing our Team Coverage is fox5s eric hilt. He joins us live in the newsroom after spending nearly all day yesterday with parents eric, how are those parents feeling today . Theyre tired because some of them staye