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schools notify commended students immediately. they re also going to try to work with the national merit scholarship corporation to implement a layered notification strategy, e-mails, some kind of system to make sure the information gets to students. they re trying figure it all out. thank you, appreciate that. straight ahead, what we re learning about the moment actor jeremy renner was crushed by a snowplow and the attempt to save his nephew. and we all know, i feel this way sometimes, flying can be scarey. one flight attendant has gone viral for going above and beyond to calm one passenger s nerves, and he joins us live next hour. try this robitussin hohoney. the real honey you love, plus thehe powerful cough relief you need. mimind if i root through your trash? robitussin.. the only brand with real honeneyand elderberry.
superintendent. that s her calling right now. reporter: sorry about that. d you might need to get that. did she say where they delayed the notification? reporter: there s not a division-wide protocol saying the students would receive commen commendations. now all the students who were semifinalists who had to fill out more forms and move on in the competition, this is not a problem for them. there was no division-wide protocol. different schools will handle it different ways. the national merit scholarship corporation sends these by snail mail in a packet to the principal. sometimes they just say principal on the envelope, and not their actual name. there s one school that never received their packets. they say that they believe this was human error. there is, of course, an investigation being carried out by the virginia attorney general into fairfax county schools because it was eight school that is had this happen. the schools are doing their own third party investigation