Good afternoon in the news this noon, the Television Camera man who contracted ebola in liberia has arrived back in the United States for treatment. The Supreme Court announced it is staying out of the samesex marriage debate at least for now. We begin with breaking news, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission has cancelled its contract with the Teachers Union. The src said it exercised its authority with canceling the contract with the federation of teachers and impose its own terms. Todays actions will require teachers to make contributions to healthcare. Tom corbett released this statement a short time ago which read in part well have much more on this breaking news story coming up in a live report on action news at 12 30. School officials in new jersey are working to calm the fears of parents after a young childs death has been linked to entrovirus d68. Chad perdelli is live outside Yardville Elementary School in hamilton township, Mercer County with the latest. Chad. Reporter s
Christie smith, nbc bay area news. Thank you so much. San francisco sheriffs may be heading to court tomorrow, lawyers are expected to try to expunge the record. A controversial figure in San Francisco after a new years eve altercation with his wife in 20011. He was charged with Domestic Violence and child endangerment. He pleaded guilty to false imprisonment. He was suspended from the Sheriffs Office during that investigation but later reinstated. Heat running for reelection in november. But is not expected to win. Tomorrows hearing could be meaning hes eyeing jobs with a conviction could pose a problem. One person is hurt after an apartment fire. Flames broke out 10 00 this morning at a fourperson complex on Fourth Street across from wildwood park. Firefighters first got there, they found heavy fire conditions and called for help. One person suffered minor injuries. The red cross stepping in to help people who have been displaced find a place to stay. Right now looking to see how the
Untimely death. When its error after error after error after error after behavior that you cannot even begin to get your head around, you get mad. This morning, rivers talks about her lawsuit and her legendary mom. And back to where it all began, savannahs in australia, the country where she was born, taking her mom on a very special journey. Can you hear can you hear that thunder this is the room that you took your first breath in. Oh, wow today, monday, may 4th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today. Savannah in sydney with matt lauer live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And Savannah Guthrie live from sydney, australia. And we welcome you to a special edition, split edition of today on a monday morning. Savannah is in the land down under, sydney, australia, where it all began. Savannah, good morning. Reporter good morning. I should say good evening. Its 9 00 at night here in sydney. We have a beautiful evening. Not a bad view, right . You saw it as th
Prevention center. Those also provide staff training for the Early Education program. Okay. Thank you for pointing that out. The piece that so you eventually got to the teacher training piece or the in services in terms of having teachers be exposed to the curriculum itself i guess, and i am glad youre doing that and not just turning the material over to teachers because i know from my experience that a lot of times teachers wont use the curriculum because theyre not comfortable especially when it comes to these types of issues where they dont know how to talk about it themselves let alone to students so thats a good thing. I am just wondering if were going to do truly tackle this as well as we can it would make sense to me that if were going to work with City Partners and cbos and so forth there is a Good Opportunity to open up the teacher training in services to cbos because we need to be consistent in terms what were hearing, what were saying and treating the kids and the vocabulary
Ways once you get into the details and yes how the police are going to take that, what the next steps are could be very serious so we want a staff person there so were also getting the information because this could be information that we need. When the student shares information and it happens to be about a another student in the school for instance and we need to know that so i think that process has been communicated fairly well to our counselors and to our sros. Thats great and then i wanted to ask do we have a confidential hot line that students may call . We do. And how effective is that hot line . That would be the other kevin [inaudible] im sorry. The question . About the confidential hot line students may call and wondering how effective is that . I think the majority of the call thases we get are from adults seeking response to a situation that occurred. Its fairly rare that the call is coming from students. So is there anyway to outreach to students so theyre away they may a