. >> dan noyes is here with more. >>> despite -- >> despite those complaints, the teacher kept his job. but a new witness came forward after hearing our report. you will hear what he told police. and what the boy's parents are now planning to do. the brave 24-year-old woman who battled a flesh-eating good morning! wow. want to start the day with something heart healthy and delicious? you're a talking bee... honey nut cheerios has whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol. and it tastes good? sure does! right... ♪ wow. delicious, right? yeah. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... ♪ well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. high school special ed teacher who slapped students and still kept his job. >> a key witness has now contacted police after seeing our i team investigation into the case. >> dan noyes is back now with the latest for us. >> larry and carolyn, police told me the santa rosa school district refused to cooperate, refused to turnover the name of an adult staff member who saw this teacher striking students. now there is movement in t

>> dan noyes is here with the sometimes surprising answers in this i team follow-up. >> larry and carolyn, i first told you last month that the school district investigated a teacher and found that he had in fact slapped at least two special ed students in the head at santa rosa high school. well since i first heard about the story i have been trying to find out how he still has a job. go to the santa rosa school board, and you risk getting a lesson in semantics. >> is it ever okay for a teachers and tore strike a student? >> i asked the board president what i thought was a simple question. >> it is a yes or no, larry. come on. is it okay for a teachers and tore strike a student. yes or no? >> dan. can i ask you a question? >> how hard does the teacher have to strike the student to be struck? you are kidding me, right. >> the i team has the documentation. the school district did its own investigation and confirmed that 67-year-old willie swindle slapped two special ed students last semester hitting one in the face at least twice. the other student smacking both ears at the same time. it i

. >> dan noyes is here with more. >>> despite -- >> despite those complaints, the teacher kept his job. but a new witness came forward after hearing our report. you will hear what he told police. and what the boy's parents are now planning to do. the brave 24-year-old woman who battled a flesh-eating bacteria. how she turned tragedy into >>> we have an update on the high school special ed teacher who slapped students and still kept his job. >> a key witness has now contacted police after seeing our i team investigation into the case. >> dan noyes is back now with the latest for us. >> larry and carolyn, police told me the santa rosa school district refused to cooperate, refused to turnover the name of an adult staff member who saw this teacher striking students. now there is movement in the case. 16-year-old michael delgado told me several times last semester the special ed teacher called him into the hallway and smacked both of his ears at the same time. it is what some high school students call the thunder clab. >> -- thunder clap. >> then it makes a ringing sound. >> oh your ears ma

>> dan noyes is here with the sometimes surprising answers in this i team follow-up. >> larry and carolyn, i first told you last month that the school district investigated a teacher and found that he had in fact slapped at least two special ed students in the head at santa rosa high school. well since i first heard about the story i have been trying to find out how he still has a job. go to the santa rosa school board, and you risk getting a lesson in semantics. >> is it ever okay for a teachers and tore strike a student? >> i asked the board president what i thought was a simple question. >> it is a yes or no, larry. come on. is it okay for a teachers and tore strike a student. yes or no? >> dan. can i ask you a question? >> how hard does the teacher have to strike the student to be struck? you are kidding me, right. >> the i team has the documentation. the school district did its own investigation and confirmed that 67-year-old willie swindle slapped two special ed students last semester hitting one in the face at least twice. the other student smacking both ears at the same time. it i

>> dan noyes is here with the sometimes surprising answers in this i team follow-up. >> larry and carolyn last month that the school district investigated a teacher and found that he had in fact slapped at least two special ed students in the head at santa rosa high school. well since i first heard about the story i have been trying to find out how he still has a job. go to the santa rosa school board, and you risk getting a lesson in semantics. >> is it ever okay for a teachers and tore strike a student? >> i asked the board president what i thought was a simple question. >> it is a yes or no, larry. come on. is it okay for a teachers and tore strike a student. yes or no? >> dan. can i ask you a question? >> how hard does the teacher have to strike the student to be struck? you are kidding me, right. >> the i team has the documentation. the school district did its own investigation and confirmed that 67-year-old willie swindle slapped two special ed students last semester hitting one in the face at least twice. the other student smacking both ears at the same time. it is what the kids ca

dan noyes has the >>> the owner of a small airport is battling with a neighbor.t puts pilots and the public at risk. the sonoma valley airport is located off 121 in an area surrounded by vineyards. and now a whole lot more. the story from i team re@orter dan noyes. >> the 65-year-old sonoma valley airport is a magnet for vintage airplane buffs and home to some very rare planes like this grummond, one of two in the world still flying. pilots came here decades ago and plan to stay until the end. tinkering with the plane that started flying when he was a british paratrooper. >> i decided i wanted to be british. i wanted a british airplane. >> even in this crowd he stands out. here he is in 1993, flying and turning loops for the camera. he restored planes by hand and he actually bought the airport in 2008. it is open to the public. >> i have been here all my life. >> and now he is struggling to stay. safety issues could force state aviation authorities to shut him down. and he says his neighbor is to blame. >> how serious of an issue is this? >> this, i believe, is a

dan noyes has the >>> the owner of a small airport is battling with a neighbor. and whether it puts pilots and the public at risk. the sonoma valley airport is located off 121 in an area surrounded by vineyards. and now a whole lot more. the story from i team re@orter dan noyes. >> the 65-year-old sonoma valley airport is a magnet for vintage airplane buffs and home to some very rare planes like this grummond, one of two in the world still flying. pilots came here decades ago and plan to stay until the end. tinkering with the plane that started flying when he was a british paratrooper. >> i decided i wanted to be british. i wanted a british airplane. >> even in this crowd he stands out. here he is in 1993, flying and turning loops for the camera. he restored planes by hand and he actually bought the airport in 2008. it is open to the public. >> i have been here all my life. >> and now he is struggling to stay. safety issues could force state aviation authorities to shut him down. and he says his neighbor is to blame. >> how serious of an issue is this? >> this, i

. >> dan noyes is back now with the latest for us. >> larry and carolyn, police told me the santa rosao cooperate, refused to turnover the name of an adult staff member who saw this teacher striking students. now there is movement in the 16-year-old michael delg told me several times last semester the special ed teacher called him into the hallway and smacked both of his ears at the same time. it is what some high school students call the thunder clab. >> -- thunder clap. >> then it makes a ringing sound. >> oh your ears made a ringing sound. i bet that hurt? >> yes. i thought i was going to lose my hearing. >> at his parents' urging the school district investigated. hey did not confirm thate hit michael with the thunder clap, but found on two occasions he struck another student that way. swindle slapped michael in the face other times and flipped, pinched and pulled his ears. michael's mother confronted the teacher when he stopped by the family's house unannounced. >> i said, so why are you hitting my kid? he is just like, you know, trying to deny it. i said, well, michael the vi the

dan noyes revealed the district refused to give police the name of a key witness who saw the teacher striking students. after seeing our report that witness has come forward. the district included he struck the 16-year-old and his parents hired a lawyer. >> there is a school district has to do an independent investigation and get to the bottom of this. >> and you'll hear what that witness told police tonight on abc news at 11:00. >> there is today's katie features a story highlighting preciousness of life. and she made national headlines in may after contracting a rare flesh eating disease when gashing her leg in a georgia river. doctors had to amputate each of her limbs. and asked about a difficult decision. >> was there a point where you said i can't do this? i'd rather die? >> no. no. i don't that, is never really an option to me. because i mean, i love life. it's a beautiful thing. >> and that is an amazing spirit. tomorrow, heidi klum joins katie for an interview following news of her pending divorce from seal. >> and abc 7 news continues here tonight wheel we'll be live from th

we're going to begin with dan noyes, with more on lacey's background you've been looking into that, today. >> as is often the case, it's the day after that we find a more complete picture this, time, he left clues on the internet. including a detailed resume. >> chris lacey was a freelance computer programmer using this web site to look for work. he claims to have done contract work for several companies. no confirmation tonight and the i team reached an owner confirmed he hired lacey for four month autos i remember feeling like well, i'm not sure whether i trust him exactly or not. >> days later he told us he had concerns about lacey but couldn't figure out why. >> sometimes you can tell when people have you know they seem to be nice and conversational and everything, but you can tell underneath they're angry, boy say. >> his father told abc 7's allen wong he and his wife saw mental health problems emerging from an early age, growing up in bend, oregon. >> sometimes we'd talk to him he'd be engaging and other times, he would be just kind of depressed and not wanting to talk or just kind

and i-team reporter dan noyes has been looking into his background and joins us with the important part of the story. >> reporter: we have seen this before. it's the day after we find a more complete picture of the gunman, this time he let clues on the internet, including a detailed resume. ♪ >> chris lacy was a computer programmer. he looked for work and dates. he contacted several companies, including ebay but we reached one owner he hired lacy last year for four months full time. >> i remember feeling like, i'm not sure whether i trust him exactly or not. >> dave told us by skype that he had concerns about lacy but couldn't quite figure out why. >> sometimes you can tell when people, they seem to be nice and conversational and everything but you can tell underneath that they are angry. >> the father told alan wang that he and his wife saw mental health problems from an early age. >> we would talked to him very engage and other times he would be kind of depressed and not wanting to talk, kind of crawl inside himself. >> craig says his son suffered a psychotic break his senior year at

dan noyes confronts members of the santa rosa school board. plus, turkey attack.one rushed to an animal hospital after being shot with an arrow. what one animal rescue group is doing to help. join us for those stories and more on abc 7 news at 11/right now mike shumann here with the sports have. teaming storeds the a's and the giants in the post season. >> taking two out of three from the rockies. tim lincecum got lency of offensive support. i asked the two young ladies what they think of larry beil. enough said. sanchez lifts one to left and brings home hunter pence. still in the first. brandon crawford slaps one to the right field corner. hector sanchez gets the green light. coming around third. gets the wind knocked out of him but stayed in the game. a solid outing for lincecum. six innings. walked four. struck out 8. top nine. giants add to the tally. hunter pence. standup rbi triple. giants win big. coupled with attorney loss to arizona, giants now up 7 in the national league west. >>> a's and angels in anaheim. a.j. griffin looked to extend h his winning str

story tonight from dan noyes. >> 75-year-old sonoma valley airport is a magnet for vintage airplane buffshome to some very rare planes like this f 3 f one of only two in the world still playing in. pilots like ken cop came hear decades ago and planned to stay until the end. tinkering with the men that first flaw around the time he started flying as british para trooper in the 1940's. >> i decided i wanted being british i wanted a british airplane. >>reporter: even in this devoted crowd chris stands out. here he is on abc 7 in 1993 flying tourist and turning loop for the camera. he is a master builder restoring planes by hand. rebuilt over 20 of them. and actually bought the airport in 2008. it's open to the public. >> i have been hear all my lif life. >>reporter: now he's struggling to stay. safety issues could force state aviation authorities to shut him down and he says his neighbor is to blame. how serious of an issue is this. >> this i believe is airport existence or airport extinctio extinction. >>reporter: that's where jorn comes n.he bought the property next door in 2004 to build a