together from the charter school where that alleged attack happened on that girl nearly a week ago. the school claims it learned after that arrest that almost none of the school s employees had been fingerprinted or had their backgrounds checked. ian is live in the news room. ian, some of these people were fired. that s right. and no one on the schoolboard would say why, citing it s a confidential personnel matter. all three of the employees fired, including the suspect, jonathan chou, were assistants at the school. the decision what is announced at the sparks schoolboard meeting tonight. parents there upset more wasn t done to protect their kids. i was shocked. and then i was angry. i m angry because the school didn t communicate to us that they didn t do background checks, they didn t communicate to us that fingerprinting wasn t done. the board addressed the status of school employee background checks tonight. the principal says all of them are now in and the county w
reporter: police are still on the scene, such a tragic situation. people coming here to work out at the gym when this happened. it happened 6:30 right behind me. police say an elderly woman was trying to park in front of the gym in one of the parking spots when she had pedal confusion, meaning she hit the gas instead of the brake. she drove her mercedes suv 60 feet into the gym where there was a fitness class going on. everyone who was injured was in that clasp this happened lifestyle in livermore. five were treated and released from the hospital with moderate injuries, and one woman was killed, 49-year-old woman from livermore, her name has not been released today. police are still on the scene, trying to figure out what happened here. quite chaotic. glass everywhere, people trying to help the injured and, you know, the fire department arriving. reporter: the 80-year-old woman behind the wheel was not injured, and she has not been cited. the d.a. will make that decisio
and as we ve been reporting during this eventful night on this of all days we also have the start of a ground war in the gaza strip with israeli troops invading tonight under a sky lit up by flares and incoming fire. so we begin this second half hour of the special edition of our newscast tonight with the downing of this 777. nbc s tom costello who covers aviation for us has been covering this all day long. tom, good evening once again. the malaysian prime minister said late today there was no distress call from this airline and it was flying in an ore declared safe by global civil aviation authorities. it left amsterdam at 1:30 p.m. local time bound for kuala lumpur. they lost contact with the plane. very quickly the ukrainian government reported that russian-backed separatists had shot down the plane using a surface-to-air missile. u.s. intelligence and military sources confirm to nbc news that infrared satellites detected the missile laumpl and explosion. malaysian fligh
no justice no peace. an autopsy sparking protests on the streets of los angeles the death of a young black man shot and killed by a police officer. i feel like rosa parks, you know. we need to get rid of discrimination. breaking ground on gay marriage. a look back on the most progressive year in american history for same sex couples. welcome to al jazeera america. i m del walters. i m stephanie sy. indonesian officials have located dozens of bodies in the java sea from the missing air asia jet. an emergency door and other debris in the water came from flight 8501. a shadow of what appears to be the aircraft is underwater. this is a live look where indonesia s president is set to speak. we have more on what they did find overnight. good morning air asia has put out a statement only in the last few minutes confirming to the debris found is from the missing plane. since it was discovered just a few hours ago an indonesian navy vessel has been recovering bodies.
many flights tonight and tomorrow. yes many of the flights flying into the airport tonight finding out from us that the airline had to pull 128 aircraft out of service, because they were not timely inspected for a backup hydraulic system. and now, that is for the most part many of the passengers were supportive of the airplane. i talked to jay rollins a retired pilot, and he said it is a good thing that the faa did not tind the misfind the mistake or there would have been a massive fine involved. well with that danger, there is a lot of people flying on the planes, and so a lot of people could have been hurt or die. it is the responsible thing to do. i hate to see them, let them fly the planes when they were not inspected. i have flown southwest a lot, and only one bad experience and so i have faith and trust in them. the faa say ss they will allow them to put all of the plans back in service, but still, today, 22% of the planes were out of service, because of a fai