husband on the telephone? i just spoke to him on the phone. we wish you all the best. they re going to be okay. that s the latest from the walmart parking lot. again, this is wxia, the affiliate there in it the parking lot of the walmart, which is very close to this elementary school. it was evacuated. this all happening within the past hour. according to police, an individual was able to enter that school, an armed individual, and at some point shots were fired. the gunman arrested, no injuries reported. the school, like so many others, just opening after summer break. this does bring back into perspective the ongoing conversation of school safety and how to keep children safe while they are at school. we ll continue to follow this breaking news story. also ahead, prosecutors in the ft. hood shooting trial rest their case and turn it over to
about that. okay. but right now, as you pointed out, the parents and individuals are at a nearby walmart. is that where they re reuniting parents with their children? that is correct. and this is an elementary school? we re talking kids as young as, what, 10 years old? is that the complete level? does this include middle school students as well? i m not sure about that. the name of the school is the ronald e. mcnair discovery learning academy. all right. thank you very much. we re going to go to wxia. this is the local affiliate talking with parents right now who are being reunited with their children. let s listen in. it s a matter of gathering all the children together and getting them over here. you have children in the school as well? i have two. how old are they? 8 and 6. have you heard anything about where they are? my husband is up there at the school right now. he said they re waiting for them to clear the streets out. once they do that, they re going to b
i m talking about kruklo dollar. he preaches in his massive church just outside atlanta. no, he says he did not punch her. no, he says, he did not choke her. those are the accusations that got dollar thrown in jail on thursday. earlier today, these words from the pastor to his congregation. the truth is, she was not choked, she was not punched. there were not any scratches on her neck. but the only thing on her neck was a prior skin abrasion from eczema. anything else is an exaggeration and sensationalism. our nick fuentas is watching this whole thing, saw him in church today. what s going on here? police are saying one thing and crefla dollar is saying another thing. he choked his daughter over an argument about going to a party. he s saying, no, you can t go because you had bad grades. what police are saying happened is he choked and beat her. he s saying it was a family incident that escalated, got out of hand, he never meant to harm anyone. before we go on and tal
protesters. at least 46 people were killed. you re about to see ads urging people to quit smoking. it s the first time that the cdc has ran a paid anti-tobacco effort. they say they need to spend the money to go up against the multimillion dollar campaigns that get people to smoke. here s one of the ads. we warn you, it is quite graphic. i m mary and i want to give you some information how i get ready in the morning. former illinois governor, rod blagojevich, has one more hour before he hags to report to federal prison in chicago. he s serving a 14-year sentence for corruption including trying to sell the senate seat once held by president obama. here he is shaking people s hands at the airport in chicago. last hour i spoke to a former official about what to expect when he goes to prison. when you go to prison, you re not rod blagojevich anymore. when i went, i wasn t jim laski. rod blagojevich will get this in the next few hours. he will get strip searched and they w
federal justice department probe more than three years in the making, detailed in a 22-page letter to the maricopa county attorney, detailing a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against latinos at the mcso, that s the maricopa county sheriff s office, that reaches the highest levels of the agency. it goes on, sheriff arpaio s own actions have helped nurture mcso s culture of bias. in addition, it details a study commissioned by the department of justice that found latino drivers are four to nine times more likely to be stopped than similarly situated non-latino drivers. there s more in the report documenting detention officers at the sheriff s jail using offensive slurs and profanities, calling them web backs, stupid mexicans and slurs we can t use on the air. according to the justice department s civil rights division, they re also investigating whether they failed to investigate hundreds of sexual assaults and child molestation cases. many of the victims appa