Our kyndell nunley, shes been covering the story from the beginning. Kyndell, what we also learned from las vegas fire, that this was the largest decontamination effort in their history. This is big. Kyndell that is correct. Categorized as something much hugeer than at least our initial reports. I can tell you that those initial reports told us that the mercury was isolated toward the gym area and a handful of students who be affected for a maximum of three hours. Well that number jumped to 17 long hours and the number of people needing epa inspection for the chemical nearly 1300. After scanning the School Officials with the Environmental Protection agency found mercury readings past the gym throughout the school. Reason enough to scan every single student and staff member on campus. Clothes and shoes confiscated to stop further spread and officials worked to wash and initial reports went from categorized as not so much of a big deal to historical. So much so last nights efforts were u
Hundreds of students were locked down on campus away from parents for the 17 hours following that report. Over 1,000 stew people, including students, staff and First Responders ended up needing individual scans by epa inspectors by the chemical. We wanted to know why the initial reports were so downplayed. And they thought it was only in the gym area and the n students and three administrators were the only one infected. Today we learned that it had spread to clothes, shoes and hair of dozens of 6th, 7th and 8th graders. Once they started doing readings and started findings reading ons throughout the school the level of concern raised and said we need to take this a step further. Mercury bounces like ate little beads and you can track it everywhere. Which is why we were cautious about sending people home when it was potentially on their questions about how the incident yesterday into last night and eerily this morning was handled over at the school. You can catch the full interview on
Morning. Heres the next round of moisture which is getting ready to lift north an move into our neck of the woods this afternoon. Its cloudy and damp, drizzle, expect to see showers probably sometime after lunch thats when the next batch of moisture begins to pull on through. The call from accuweather today, cloudy and damp, breezy, 69 or 70 give or take, a couple of showers possible later on. When i come back we have sunshine for you in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, ill let you know when it arrives and have the latest on Hurricane Matthew. Thank you for the update. Island like island like to remind island like to i would like to reminds you can get the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast at 6abc. Com weather. The public will turn out today to salute two wilmington firefighters who were killed answering the call. The memorial for Christopher Leach and jerry fickes begins at 1 00 p. M. At the chase center on the waterfront in wilmington. 6abc. Com will stream the memo
What else did we learn . Nikole the fbi is trying to figure out whether this was terrorism or a workplace shooting. Chaos in california. After a heavily armed couple opened fire at a holiday banquet at a social Services Center outside of los angeles. You are searching that motive. Nikole Police Identify the shooters as 27yearold Tashfeen Malik and 28yearold sayed was juan farouk. I have no idea why he would do that. Nikole the pair were killed in a shooting after a search of the suv, a big bomb thrown at officials during the chase. We do not know if this is a terrorist incident. Nikole president obama renewed calls for gun control. President obama the one thing we do know is that we have a pattern of Mass Shootings in this country that has no the steps we can take. Nikole the president is pushing for commonsense gun safety laws and stronger background checks. Nikole killion, kcci eight news. Elizabeth the shootings happened to 60 miles east of los angeles. Emmy victor is here with more
Dillinger stole nearly 300,000 of taxpayer money. Its also hurtful to me to think that there are still people who are defending what she did, still denying what she still denying while it was , pretty obvious. Kim casey mayor Forrest Schnobrich says hes in shock and denies knowing anything about the fire or embezzlement. Im very upset. I very angry and disgusted and am thats the best i can do for you. Thats the only comment i want to make. Kim cose and zimmerline admit its comforting to have federal officials back up their suspicions. Its closure and i hope it brings everybody back together and we can work to get our Community Back on its feet. Kim the good news is that casey live in casey, kim st. Onge, kcci 8 news, iowas news leader. Stacey tonight, new information on a deadly accident on interstate80 in jasper county. The iowa state patrol released the name of the woman and child killed in tuesdays crash. 39yearold sabrina wakins and 13yearold nataija waktins died. 14yearold bryneis