News from sfo. A teenager is in custody after he opened an exit door and jumped on the runway. The plane he was on was flight 208, copa airlines. As it was still on the runway, the 17yearold popped open an exit door on the boeing 737 and jumped off the jet. A spokesperson says construction workers tackled the teamer and Police Officers arrested him. Passengers say there was a big commotion when they noticed one of the exit doors was wide open. Standard landing and started noticing that i was sitting behind the emergency exit door and everyone noticed the door had come off. Sfo Officials Say the teenager is an american citizen. Its unclear what criminal charges, if any, he might face. Dozens in san jose are being slapped with citations for setting off illegal fire work. But some say theyre innocent and say the city is fining them without proof. Reporter dan, last year the city just issued warnings, but this year was the first time they sent out citations to people, and some say that the
People, and some say that the city is just relying on neighbors reports and theyre not accurate. Illegal fireworks it will up the sky in san jose the night the warriors won the nba finals. Amy heard them and posted on the website. I said, warriors just won the nba championship. Were just going to have to ride this one out. And a month later i get a citation saying i set off fireworks on that night. Its crazy. Reporter she immediately called and spoke to the fire marshal to tell him they had the wrong house. He said if two people report you, they dont need photo or video. Thats enough for us to consider you guilty. I almost couldnt speak. Reporter out of the nearly 1100 complaints made, she was one of 45 people who were issued citations during the enforcement period this summer. We really cant have illegal fireworks in the city because of the safety and fire hazards that they present. Reporter the city says citations were issued based on if neighbors sent in a photo or video or two peop
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Good morning. Im dara brown. Right now fast moving developments in the ebola emergency. Another american exposed to the virus. The story hitting close to home for us. Ashoka mukpo is a freelance cameraman hired by nbc news this week. Nbcs tracie potts is live in washington, d. C. For us. Good morning to you. What more can you tell us about this . Reporter he is 33 years old and had just been hired a few days ago by nbc but had been working in that region for three years. He is an american and he is headed home. This is dr. Nancy snyderman in liberia. A photographer working with nbc dr. Nancy snyderman in west africa tested positive for ebola. Snyderman tells msnbc he was immediately quarantined. Hes being kept in the clinic there right now. The rest of my team very healthy. We have been extraordinarily vigilant. Reporter 33yearold ashoka mukpo is being flown back to the u. S. For treatment. Nbc sending a private jet for the rest of the crew. Theyll stay in quarantine here for 21 days.
Thats important because metro now gets control of its tracks once again, can start making repairs and get Yellow Line Service restored. As far as what happened learning more about that too. The ntsb makes a number of key points about yesterdays frightening and confusing episode. This was an electrical issue involving the third rail and power supply cables to the third rail. Some sort of electrical arcing incident which is essentially a big spark and pop happened. It happened in a tunnel about 800 feet south of the Lenphant Plaza amount of smoke to tour into the tunnel and the train. There was not a fire on the train. The train did not redeath rail. Michael flanagan, lead ntsb investigator describing the issue. The third rail runs along the side of the track and at various points there are cables that connect that third rail to the power source of the pump station. And that appears to be where the arcing occurred that generated the event. Reporter people were taking it upon themselves t