several parents voiced their concerns at an open house thursday night at walter jacobson elementary school. after wednesday s hazmat scare at johnson junior high. emotions ran high as many parents want to know the extent of the mercury contamination the mother of the teen who touched the substance that set off the quarantine says she wants to know what to do next. tanja babajan, parent: (( i don t know what to do, where to go, whom to ask, whose gonna help us, whose gonna clean my house, whose gonna check my little kids. he told me he gets headaches, he s naseaus, he has diarrhea. now. )) ((kirsten joyce)) police say they are working to figure out how the mercury got into the school and who brought it. if you have items that may be contaminated, police urge you to bring them to johnson junior high this morning at 8. /// ((kirsten joyce)) during last night s school board meeting school district superintendent pat skorkowsky said he will meet with the officials involved
3-teachers tested positive for levels of mercury. everyone was deemed safe. but parents remain unhappy and unsettled. hours after the nearly 20-hour ordeal. 8 news now reporter michael stevens is live outside the middle school with reaction. good morning michael? ((michael stevens)) brian, kirsten. today, marks day two of classes being canceled at this junior high school. the district says it s because the school is being cleaned and decontaminated. contain anymore exposure. last night, the district held an open house to answer any questions about what happened. a lot of concerned parents directed sometimes angry questions at officials. at one point there was shouting. parents saying they were not thrilled with the lack of the communication. and many left the meeting feeling like their questions parent: i don t know what to do, where to go, whom to ask, whose gonna help us, whose gonna clean my house, whose gonna check my little kids? )) ((nicole watson // parent: they di
plus. today could be a landmark day for the clark county school district .. the major vote to decide whether or not to reorganize. ((brian loftus)) and. a cool down coming our way . will make it feel like fall.. the drop into the 80 s .. in sherry s weather now forecast. ((kirsten joyce)) 8 news now good day, the valley s news leader, starts right now./// ((now, live.this is 8 news now good day.)) ((brian loftus)) thanks for waking up with us on 8 news now good day, the valley s news leader. i m brian loftus. ((kirsten joyce)) and i m kirsten joyce walter johnson junior high . after staff and students were exposed to mercury. and held for testing for nearly 20 hours. ((brian loftus)) the district says 9-students and 3-teachers tested positive for levels of mercury. everyone was deemed safe. ((kirsten joyce)) but emotions boiled over during last night s community forum to discuss the ordeal. 8 news now reporter michael stevens is live outside the middle school with
go through and test all the backpacks and shoes left behind by students after many were kept late into the next morning for screening. at last check -only about 170 bags have been cleared out of more than 13-hundred. they might have to be moved so school can resume next week. investigators are also still trying to figure out where the student managed to get the mercury from. (( randy nattis/epa: in some cases it s usually from grandfathers shed or backyard and grandson or daughter finds a cool jar and mercury looks nice in a jar and want to play around with it. )) ((mauricio marin)) says there were no thermometers missing from school that could contain mercury. many parents feel the school district didn t do a good job communicating with them about what was going on the night many kids were kept for about 17 hours inside the school. skorkowsky admits there s room for improvement. and says the district will have a debrief on how to better handle a situation that could arise l
more than 100 others. the ntsb beleives some clues could be found in the train s two event recorders one of which was pulled last night. but it will take some time to recover the second one. the ntsb is looking into all possible factors that could have led to the crash. (bella dinh-zarr, vice chairman, ntsb) they will be examining the following areas. operations, mechanical issues, human performance, signals, survival factors and track issues. ((karen caifa)) commutors who describe the chatoic scene. (mos) at the end of every track there s a bumper, a steel bumper, it went right through the bumper and right onto the platform (mos) there was just this impact, and it sounded like an explosion. and we were stunned. (mos) the speed seemed normal: but as we got closer, you know i didn t really realize it at the time but, you know, did not slow down at all. the engineer of the train has been identified as 48-year-old thomas gallagher ((karen caifa)) an employee of