The decision to close schools in los angeles that publicized the apparent hoax. To disrupt the daily schedules of half a million schoolchildren, their parents, day care, buses based on an anonymous email without consultation, if in fact consultation did not occur with Law Enforcement authorities, i think it was a significant overreaction, yes. Reporter tonight many Security Experts are praising the decision here in new york to keep the schools open. We will hear from one of those Security Experts at 6 00 tonight. Live in fort greene, brooklyn, n. J. Burkett, channel 7 Eyewitness News. N. J. , thank you. The lapd so far says 80 of the schools have been cleared. Authorities hope to have the systemwide sweep completed by 7 00 p. M. Our time. Administrators are defending their calls to close the schools. Reporter well, sade, the latest reports are that this was a hoax and that comes from u. S. Representative adam shift from los angeles and a Ranking Member in the house intelligence committ
Went on a deadly shooting rampage targets his own family. Gas prices falling again. Thats bad news for some businesses and not just the Oil Companies who are feeling it. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im del walters. Im stephanie sy. In pakistan, right now a rescue abrasion i guess underway after a deadly attack at an army school that happened in the northwestern city near the afghan border. 120 people are killed, most children between the ages of 916. Officials saying hundreds of students and teachers still held inside. The Pakistani Taliban taking responsibility on the militaryrun school. John joining us now, what else do we know now . We began Mondays Program with news of a siege and must do the same here on tuesday, different part of the world, different kind of siege but still a siege. Right now Pakistani Security trying to gain control of the building. They fear the death toll could rise at scores of teachers and students are still trapped inside in the military run school. This
An Emergency Landing. We take those threats seriously and will take extra precautions during the holidays at thats right. Theater threat, the sony hacking scandal forces the company to cancel the new york premier of the interview. Some theaters are refusing to show it. Right now pakistan is observes a national day of mourning, the first of three as that country grieves more than 140 killed. Most of the children be children. Dozens of funerals are taking place, mourners around cough finance, many candlelight vigils held overnight. Inside the school, these images show the horrors that took place, the Prime Minister promising justice, reinstating the Death Penalty overnight. We have the latest. When you look at the size of those coffin, you think this attack was against the countrys most vulnerable. One of the things thats so difficult to comprehend is the number of young lives taken yesterday in just such a short time. The news is still not good this morning, because some children were a
And we begin with all the latest on the ebola crisis as that patient in dallas struggles right now. Had so much fear the epidemic will spread right here in america. Look inside that plane landing at newark, airport yesterday. Homeland security on board after officials in hazmat suits removed a man with flulike symptoms. It turned out to be one of many false alarms being checked out by the cdc. Director tom frieden here today along with dr. Besser here and ryan owens starts us off from dallas. Good morning, ryan. Reporter george, good morning to you. Thomas eric duncan has now been at this dallas hospital for a full week, and this morning, his condition is worse than ever. The hospital will only say the Liberian National is in Critical Condition. His family says much more. His nephew tells abc news duncan is not conscious. Hes so heavily sedated. Hes gone into kidney failure and is on dialysis. The ebola victim also cannot breathe on his own and is on a ventilator. Duncans girlfriend an
All headed to the north. Point reyes, a strong cell moved over your neck of the woods. Just 15 minutes ago you can see the spotty cells, those are thunderstorms. Fair game for that today, but the heavy batch of rain we have headed our way doesnt come in until tonight. Tracking this between 3 00 and 7 00, then were really going to be in the thick of it throughout the night, so you do want to keep that in mind. The heavy rain will return later on today. Showers linger into tomorrow. Then throughout your thursday, a bit of a dry break, good looking for travel, but then we have a potent system on friday. This is the one im trying to gauge. Ill bring you information in moments. Count on some active weather for the rest of day, into tomorrow. Dry break on thursday, then a big one comes through on friday. More in moments. Back to you, scott, laura, and the rest of the top stories of the day. We are talking about the overnight rains in the north bay. It led to some flooding. According to the m