doctor duggan did not respond to our request for comment. organizers of today's rally claimed the controversial firing was made without public input, and one board member this morning said she is going to call for a public hearing next week. that board member is a supporter of doctor duggan, by the way. one of doctor duggan supporters also pointed out that of the four trustees who voted for her firing, three might not be here. in january, one is retiring, two are up for reelection. i did email the four trustees who voted for her ouster about an hour ago still have not yet heard back. reporting live here in san jose. bob redell nbc, bay area news. all right. thank you very much, bob. so in san francisco, a man is under arrest for allegedly firing a gun at police officers. this happened about 8:00 last night at ninth and mission streets. the officers were in plain clothes at the time, chasing an armed suspect. now, neither the officers nor any other person appears to have been shot. in a statement, chief bill scott thanked the san francisco sh

. >> reporter: attorney shanon duggan was inside of the courtroom.een walking down the street holding his chest and looking at his phone as he flagged down a passing car. after the car passes he suddenly collapses. then, stumbles to get back up and search for help. images that prompted people in the courtroom to gasp and that bob's brother said were painful to relive. >> of course you can expect that hard to watch. and, i think the video speaks for itself of what happened that day. we look forward to justice being done >> that video was part of 50 minutes of surveillance footage showed to the jury that pro theyed a time line of events before and after the fatal stabbing. one grainy video showed the stabbing itself. two figures can be spotted in a low corner of the image, one in light clothes identified as momeni and the other in dark clothes identified as bob lee. the figure in white can be seen advancing towards bob lee. still, duggan says all of there is up to interpretation by the jury >> if you take the defense question and interpretation that bo

doctor duggan has beensu. >> after she was fired, mary duggan filed a lawsuit saying the board violatedounty supervisors say they'll look into the possibility of changing how the superintendent is appointed. >> our time now 533. san jose council member omar torres says a recent police investigation into him was sparked by a consenting online sexual relationship that took a dark turn last week. the police confirmed torres was being investigated for having child sexual abuse material. allegations that torres says are entirely false. a lawyer for torres issued a statement about these allegations. he said in part the content referenced in the affidavit pertains solely to private communications between adults of age that involved talk about outrageous fantasy and role play. the online relationship with the individual extorting him began in february of 2022, when the individual who would later become his stalker was 19 years old. meantime, the san jose police officers association is urging council member torres to resign, saying in part, omar torres must resign immediately and face the conseq

doctor duggan has been superior. >> after she was fired, duggan filed a lawsuit saying that the boardntract. county supervisors say they will look into the possibility of changing how the superintendent is appointed. >> our time now, 734 strike has been averted by teachers in sonoma valley school district and the teachers union reached a tentative contract agreement. we don't know the details, but we know teachers wanted smaller class sizes and higher pay, as well as due process when it comes to disciplining their members. the tentative agreement still has to be reviewed and then ratified by the school board and the union. >> parents and teachers in san francisco spoke out about the district's planned school closures last night in a virtual town hall meeting this week, san francisco unified released a list of 13 schools that could either close or merge in a move to address a severe budget crisis. at last night's town hall, people submitted questions for the superintendent, doctor matt wayne. many wanted to know why san francisco unified wouldn't make deeper cuts at the district office

doctor duggan has been superior. >> after she was fired, mary duggan filed a lawsuit saying the board violated her contract. county supervisors say they will look into the possibility of changing how superintendents are appointed. well, teachers in sonoma county have averted a strike. the sonoma valley school district and the teachers union reached a tentative contract agreement yesterday. while details of the tentative agreement have not been disclosed, we know that teachers were asking for smaller class sizes and increased compensation and the due process and discipline of its members. the tentative agreement still needs to be reviewed and then ratified by the school board and union. parents and teachers in san francisco spoke out about the district's planned school closure last night at a virtual town hall meeting this week, the san francisco unified released a list of 13 schools that could either close or merge in a move to address a severe budget crisis. at last night's town hall, people submitted questions for superintendent matt wayne. many wanted to know why san francisco unif

. >> charles hinman will take over after former superintendent mary ann duggan was terminated without cause two weeks ago. >> new tonight ktvu lamonica peters was at tonight's meeting where parents pushed back against the board's decision. >> at the santa clara county office of education board meeting, there were more questions and concerns about the firing of superintendent, doctor mary ann dewan. about 30 people spoke during the public comment session, with some people supporting doctor dewan and others supporting the board's decision to terminate her. >> in addition, they're hiring an outside law firm to defend their actions as a taxpayer, i believe this to be unconscionable. it is a failure of the board's fiscal and legal responsibilities. >> thank you to the board members who voted to fire doctor dewayne. with this, we have hope. tara justice has been served. tara sreekrishnan and victoria chan were the only board members who voted to keep dewan as superintendent. >> the board has not explained why they decided to remove dewan, and a superior court judge ruled wednesday that the

board members voted to terminate superintendent mary ann duggan, who you're looking at right here withoutause. they say they have placed her on paid administrative leave for 30 days, and that's effective immediately. so that motion was passed with three yeses, two no's and laura, one board member abstaining from voting. and so without cause, we really don't know why they took this action yet. no, we don't know why. i've reached out to every board member to ask why the board is not specifying. however, a source close to the board says the reasons behind these actions. they do involve some of the concerns that the investigative unit has recently reported on. so it was just last august. we were there as six federal monitors visited the santa clara county office of education in san jose to look into concerns that the office misused some federal money meant for its head start program. this is a program that helps vulnerable students throughout the county. shortly after a head start whistleblower spoke with us, saying some staff were being retaliated against for coming forward and i've recently

live and work and call detroit and michigan home snapped back with pride from the city's mayor, mike duggan posted the largest nfl draft in history. the tigers are back in the playoffs. the lions are headed to the super bowl. crime is down and our population is growing. lots of cities should be like detroit. we did it all without trump's help. michigan's attorney general said this, quote -- this guy is calling us ugly and then asking us out on a date. we all know that guy. in the state's governor, gretchen whitmer, stood by the motor city. quote, detroit is the epitome of grit defined by winners willing to get their hands dirty to build up their city and create their communities. something donald trump could never understand. so keep detroit out of your mouth, and you better believe the traders won't forget this in november. donald trump believe continuously criticizes new york city while he was here for his fraud and criminal trials, and this summer, he called milwaukee horrible right before the city of milwaukee hosted him and the republican national convention. at least that time he pann

this morning my kid was on his phone staring out at dawn lana, mike duggan late for do that. you get the idea of hospital inside this lawsuit james's that tiktok coins? so this is digital currency that you can buy. and if you're watching an influencer live, you can tip them in coins and tiktok. usually it's about 50% and there's markups on it. and it's kind of digital financial network that the state attorney general say you didn't get approval for that. you can't do that. so more than half of the teenagers, 13 to 17 years old and united states use tiktok 1 billion kids worldwide and tiktok is going to ban in the united states on january 19th if they don't find a seller that see us based. so i don't know. maybe my tiktok probably my kids is about to end between attorney general's in between, you know, law that went into effect early is here. that's going to be stunned to see how that plays out, that the i mean, i big winners could be because they financed graham snap to be a big winner capturing kids. eyeballs. but he could you pick is going to potentially purchase it. are th

courage of the first responders, adding we commemorate the resilience of the pittsburgh community dugganand in solidarity with the survivors of this attack. the families who lost loved ones and the entire jewish community. u.s. officials sounding another alarm over online election misinformation. top security leaders say other nations have been trying to create chaos with fake videos and photos deepfakes the threat is being described as mostly coming from russia, iran and china. what they do is create lies. but people need to do is build their awareness, go to a reliable news outlet. they need to go to a reliable source. >> last month you might remember the justice department charged 3 men from iran with hacking accounts and stealing information from people associated with former president trump's campaign. a new un report is warning that current climate policies will result in a temperature hike of more than 5 degrees fahrenheit by the end of the century. that report says the global greenhouse gas emissions soared to a new record last year and are not on track to slow down. >> unfortuna

the nbc bay area investigative unit actually investigated some of the complaints that while under duggan'seadership, the office of education misappropriated funds from a federal program called head start intended for low income children. well, yesterday there was a show of support for dwan where teachers, parents and current at least one of those current board members demanded a civil grand jury investigation and her reinstatement. this has destabilized the programs it has caused injury to the students that we serve. it's left the staff in turmoil. it's left a lot of the work we do at the county office of education in chaos of elected officials sent a letter to trustees asking them to reconsider their decision to fire dwan. oakland mayor sheng thao is highlighting her administration's accomplishments in her first term as mayor. last night, she delivered her state of the city address inside city council chambers. among the progress she's highlighting, the work being done by the city's department of violence prevention. but opponents disagree with her claims that crime is trending down. dvp

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. >> after she was fired, mary duggan filed a lawsuit saying the board violated her contract.ey'll look into the possibility of changing how superintendents are appointed. >> parents and teachers in san francisco spoke out about the district's planned school closures last night at a virtual town hall meeting. this week, san francisco unified released a list of 13 schools that could either close or merge in a movement to address a severe budget crisis. at last night's town hall, people submitted questions for superintendent matt wayne. many wanted to know why san francisco unified wouldn't make deeper cuts at the district office to spare changes to students. >> we are going to continue to have to scale back the district office, and so you saw doctor huntoon, right? she shared that we're going to have over 500 positions that are going to be reduced. well over a third of them right now are identified from the central office. and, you know, but again, the central office only accounts for 20% of the district's general fund expenditures. >> so the superintendent said the district wi

off upon her return from their she has joined forces with foreigners, including american john mark dugganmer florida sheriff's deputy who fled to russia following felony charges. do been denied to cnn that he's acting on behalf of russia is faces there for a reason useful idiot is a useful idiot without question, how much of a win is it for the russians to be able to get an american like this to essentially launder their narratives. >> i think that it's incredibly important and you see the importance in how hard they've worked to recruit americans like him and what they're seeing this year is a much bigger impact act on the social media conversation than in the past. we know they work for the russian state but there's still allowed to spread these messages, these completely false narratives with, without any mitigation whatsoever how well do you think we're doing in this war against the russian disinformation more broadly extremely poorly do, you see that changing anytime soon now, alex, great piece. how effective are these russian narratives? i mean, do we, do we have any sense of that?

but she's been working closely with an american called john mark duggan, who is a was a florida sheriffs deputy who fled to russia back in 2016 after facing felony charges. here in the united states. and he has been helping spread many of these narratives. this is what those clemson researchers told me about him. take a listen he's useful idiot, is a useful idiot without question, how much of a win is it for the russians to be able to get an american like this to essentially launder their narratives. i think that it's incredibly important and you see the importance in how hard they've worked to recruit americans so john, our sources tell us that not only was he is spreading that disinformation, but who is she being paid for it as well? that is something that he denied when we reached out to him, another name is tara reed. she was a former staff writer and then senator biden's office back in the early 90s, she accused him of sexual harassment that is widely disputed but you can imagine how important it is for these russian efforts to get these americans to launder that information because

i'm not suggesting it was deliberate but it's indicative of the fact that the democrats are so dugganas being seen as the party of women. they have somehow made it impossible to talk about. the truth is these issues about boys in school, men's mental health, employment, these have been really worrying for years if not decades. i

i'm not suggesting it was deliberate but it's indicative of the fact that the democrats are so duggan -- dug in has being seen as the party of women. they have somehow made it impossible to talk about. the truth is these issues about boys in school, men's mental health, employment, these have been really worrying for years if not decades. i think it is time to wake up and i think it's time to throw out the zero-sum. it is time to say we can think two things at once. if they are real problems in society and they're not being addressed they can turn into grievances. grievances can be weaponized. if we don't with these real problems for boys and men to turn into grievances, we must acknowledge and address them. it is the failure to acknowledge and address them i believe that has created this real difficult situation we are in now. the solution is to just straight for the address them. they are real and parents are seeing it. wives and sisters are seeing it. they do not want us to take it off the gas for women and girls. they just want us to pay attention to boys and men as well. host: we

vincent mcaviney, bbc news. 0ur reporter craig duggan is near the scene of the crash. the situation this morning? as you can see the road is closed behind me. the police closed the road less than a mile from the site where the collision took place. the main road from north to south wales runs adjacent to the line and emergency services working from it at a point close to the site of the collision alongside the road. we understand the train is still on the tracks, according to a passenger who came out after the collision. it is upright. the investigation is ongoing and we had a statement confirming one person died. a multi—agency response was called at 7.30 and many emergency vehicles where here and we heard from the police at one o'clock this morning that 15 people were taken to hospital with injuries not believed life threatening or life changing. thank you. we will bring you the latest on the situation on people who have been injured as we get it. now more of today's news. more than 1,000 more inmates are being given early release from prisons in england and wales to