a utah state senator is calling it bullying and an abuse of power. dozens of children in salt lake city had their school lunches pulled from their hands and thrown in the garbage this week all because their parents were said to be behind in their lunch money accounts. meantime, the cafeteria manager and a district supervisor have been placed on leave while the salt lake city school district investigates. nbc s mike die eastboutaibbi ha reporter: politicians called it an outrage. parents of children attending salt lake city s uente elementary school have lit up facebook with words like pathetic, disgusting, shamed. how can anyone take the lunches out of the hands of 30 to 40 kids and throw those lunches away because their parents had
waxman was a key architect of obamacare. and fluke may try for the seat. what do you think of that? i don t know. i don t know. henry is a 17th member of the house this year to announce his retirement. the salt lake tribune. parents are outraged after lunches were taken away from nearly 40 children and thrown in the garbage. that is unbelievable. why did they do that. the school district notified parents this week that more money was needed in the lunch accounts and parents said they did not receive the warning. the cafeteria manager has been placed on leave. they said it wasn t handled properly by throwing the food away and not giving it to the kids. real estate giant is considering raising subscription
cafeteria manager are on paid leave. all investigations under way and they expect results from the investigation and into the processes and policies of the school lunch program there. brooke? the kids in tears, those poor kids. miguel marquez, thank you. coming up here, dennis rodman currently in rehab for alcohol addiction talking once again with chris cuomo and told him why he likes to drink. we will talk to a psycho therapist who knows dennis rodman quite well and coupled his ex-wife. do not miss this conversation.
gunman to put down the weapon. i was him the whole time. i had a teacher come in and cafeteria manager. so i walked him through it and talked him and told him it was okay, we all have situations in our lives and i went through a tragedy myself. but i recovered from it, so it was going to be okay. if i could recover from it and open up a business, he could, too. after the gunman surrendered these pictures aired live. children being led out of the school and police was scared a vehicle outside the school could have explosives. we had to move the kids from the rear of the school and find an escape route, which we had to cut a hole in the fence, take the kids through the back of a house, down a small embankment to an adjoining street. get the kids on the school bus. david mattingly joins me with the latest. what have you learned and why he may have done this? reporter: he s been identified in the last hour,
bouncing off the walls. that s lunch a short documentary illustrating that cafeterias and counters and what gets ladled on students trays every day. and avis richards joins us now. why is it so bad? we examined a lot of school lunches traveling around the country and we found overprocessed food, too much salt and sugar. we found sodas in schools, and that s not what we re supposed to be feeding our children today. they should have whole food, whole muscle meats, not chicken nuggets with, you know, that much chicken in there. we really have to get back to the basics, eating in season, people cooking meals in the school cafeterias. we no longer have that. my mom teaches in a public school and she describes what she sees at breakfast and lunchtime as starch, starch, and more starch and that s in a place where apparently the cafeteria manager is applying for grants to bring in fresh produce, you know, star fruits on the table. there are these districts that