cell phone video shows teacher david fritz wrestling a student to the ground friday. he is wearing a halloween costume. fritz was arrested and charged with willful cruelty toward a child and police say there are signs he was drunk. >>> a shark attack survivor and tampered halloween candy. those are some of the headlines on the morning newsstand. the philadelphia enquirer says police are investigating reports of tainted halloween candy. sewing type medles inside wrapped candy bars they got while they were trick or treating. >> we all checked our twix and our skittles and our snickers so we didn't find any in the snickers. we only found them in the twix. >> police say the needles were found in candy bars and no one ate the candy. >>> a woman was bitten by a shark off florida coast. she was bitten on the ankle as swimming in waist deep water in cocoa beach yesterday. she was taken to the hospital and officials say the shark was three to six feet long. >>> the omaha world herald says a woman was attacked in the zoo when she trited to pet a tiger. they say jacqueline ite s

. >> reporter: a bad day made worse when david fritz was carted off campus in handcuffs after cell phoneideo showed him tackling a student in his english class. >> the student was acting up. the teacher told him to sit down. he wouldn't sit down. then he finally sat down. we could not understand him. he was slurring words. >> reporter: students ran to get a school resource officer and the 58-year-old was taken into custody. josh williams was in his class. >> i was like are you serious. i thought it was a rumor at first. >> reporter: the 20 year educator is tough and eccentric, a teacher who always invited a healthy dialogue, but because words turned physical coupled with troubling witness accounts, officials are looking into whether alcohol may have been involved. >> this is completely unacceptable in our schools. it is inappropriate to the say the least and completely unacceptable so we will take every step we need to follow-up to make sure our students are safe. >> reporter: the officials say the student seen in the video was not seriously hurt and all parentress easied an automated ph

police later escorted david fritz off-campus in handcuffs. students who witnessed the encounter say it all started over a disagreement. >> the student was like -- acting up in class. the teacher told him to sit down and stuff and he didn't sit down and pay attention and stuff like that, he sat down and the teacher started yelling at him and we couldn't understand the words because he was slurring his words. >> well, the student in the video was not seriously hurt. thankfully. the teacher is recovering from cuts and bruises. you can see them in that mug shot there. so far, he has not been fired. >>> well, let's switch gears to 70 degrees out there right now. it's ridiculously nice. it's absurd. >> i mean even with the sun going down a great evening and really nice. do yourself a favor and get outside after eyewitness news >> of course. favor. get outside and walk around a little bit because bonus days here in november. outside we this evening and we have a -- go this beaning and we have a beautiful -- evening and we have a wonderful sunset jus

you can see the veteran english teacher david fritz flipping a 15-year-old's desk and chair over whileostume. the teacher angry that the 11th grader was late to class and on his cell phone. trying to figure out if fritz was drinking at the time. there's his picture. >> more treats than tricks for kevin mccarthy this halloween. he just got engaged. how sweet is that. best. kevin getting down on one knee to pop the question in front of the characters from the nightmare before christmas at disney world. he and his now fiance are obsessed with the movie. she said yes. i talked to him about this on friday. gave me inside scoop. that was his dream to get engaged there. we're so happy for you. hear the applause. >>> extreme weather to bring you in texas. it is a sad and devastated story there. claiming six lives. the storm there. a confirmed ef-2 tornado touched down near houston, in friendswood. as many as six tornadoes were reported in that area. the same storm bringing more than 12 inches much rain. police say that four victims were swept away in their cars by the floodwaters. maria molina

>>reporter: a bad day made worse when david fritz was caught in handcuffs after cellphone video captured tackling a student in english class. >> the student was acting up in class and the teacher told him to sit down. he didn't pay attention. he sat down and the teacher started yelling at him. we couldn't understand his words. he was slurring his words. >>reporter: students ran to get a resource officer and the 58 girl teacher was taken into custody. >> it blew my mind. i said, are you serious? i thought it was a rumor. >>reporter: they described the twenty-year educator as tough, but eccentric. a teacher who always invited a healthy dialogue. because the words turned physical coupled with troubling witness accounts, officials said they are looking into whether alcohol may have been involved. >> this is completely unacceptable in our schools. it's inappropriate. we are going to take every step we need to in following up to make sure the students are safe. >>reporter: mcclatchy officials say the student was not seriously hurt and all parents received an automated phone call and email from