seattle with more. kyle, good morning to you. reporter: good morning. cheers of welcome home could be heard as amanda knox appeared before the press here at seattle sea-tac airport. her four year ordeal is finally over. she s home, she s free and she s back with her family. a homecoming four years in the making. a tearful amanda knox was greeted with a rousing applause from supporters as she returned home after four long years in an italian prison. i m really overwhelmed right now. i was looking down from the airplane and it seemed like everything wasn t real. reporter: a day after an italian appeals court overturned her conviction, knox thankeded her supporters. what s important for me to say is just thank you to everyone who has believed in me, who has defended me. who has supported my family. reporter: it s knox s first taste of freedom since the seattle exchange student and two others were charged in 2007 with the brutal murder of knox s british roommate, meredi
we begin this morning with a long a waited home coming. just a short time being a go, amanda knox was locked up for a crime she says she didn t commit. now the young woman is back on u.s. soil with loved ones who have waited for years to be reunited with her. kgw in portland, oregon is in seattle with more. kyle, good morning to you. reporter: good morning. cheers of welcome home could be heard as amanda knox appeared before the press here at seattle sea-tac airport. her four year ordeal is finally over. she s home, she s free and she s back with her family. a homecoming four years in the making. a tearful amanda knox was greeted with a rousing applause from supporters as she returned home after four long years in an italian prison. i m really overwhelmed right now. i was looking down from the airplane and it seemed like everything wasn t real. reporter: a day after an italian appeals court overturned her conviction, knox thankeded her supporters. what s important for
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of it who last year challenged to put it mildly an israeli diplomat like this. [cheers and applause] the students screaming and disrupting a speech by israel s ambassador when he spoke on campus last year. after the da filed those charges, a group of university professors fired back, 100 of them outraged that these students are being charged for this behavior. trace gallagher picks up the story from there. trace? reporter: and it s important to note, megyn, the university of california irvine has long had a very strained relationship between jewish and muslim students, and now the university says we need to close this chanter and move beyond it. but the orange county district attorney says, no, we don t, we re not going to do that. i want to show you, again, what happened when israeli ambassador to the united states, michael horton, was speaking at uci.
agency was supposed to deport 890 hard-core criminals who are all here illegally. it s not who they didn t know who these folks were, they were locked up already in prison. men and women already convicted of the worst crimes imaginable and behind bars. instead of keeping them there, i.c.e. now admitting it let these felons go pack out onto the streets where you live when they left prison. some of them repeat offenders who have committed robbery, murder, kidnapping, sexual assault. the report blamed serious staffing and workload issues at i.c.e., and now we re getting new reaction from agency officials. trace gallagher picks up the story from our west coast newsroom where we now have both sides on this issue represented. trace? reporter: yeah. the report was compiled by the inspector general of the department of homeland security, and we are now getting brand new reaction from i.c.e., and they are acknowledging there are gaping holes in the system. here s how this whole thin