(officer abel torres/ lapd) "the gentleman gave us a lights, some mistletoe and candies.] the officers drove the tree to mr. herman's (kimberly cheng/ reporting) then they came back monday armed with presents donated by other officers. (nats) "mr. perry, here's another one. one more."."thank you." police calls don't always end up like this. (officer natali nunez/ lapd) "it was just nice to be able to do something nice for a vet. (officer abel torres/ lapd) "and hopefully we can give him something that shows that you know hey, you're loved. you're cared about." memorable. life-changing. for all the right reasons. (herman perry world war ii veteran) "i will never forget this." >> ready for christmas, we found another toy shop in an unusual location. tonight, on "news 4 at six", ktiv's sheila brummer will travel to springfield, south dakota to show us how the christmas s irit has spread to a a state prison. plus... in our last edition of "law review" we covered wills after you die. but, what happens to that money, or property, if a relative owes someone else money? the answer

(officer natali nunez/ lapd) "it was just nice to be able to do something nice for a vet. (officer abel torres/ lapd) "and hopefully we can give him something that shows that you know hey, you're loved. you're cared about." memorable. life-changing. for all the right reasons. (herman perry world war ii veteran) "i will never forget this." >> that was kimberly cheng reporting from venice, california. still ahead: elf on a shelf. only, it's not an elf; it's a principal... and it's not a shelf; it's a roof. it's been her fight for twenty years. something is wrong with our healthcare system and it needs to be fixed. then, it was about health reform and getting eight million kids covered. now, it's about stopping republicans from repealing obamacare, and taking on insurance companies to bring down drug prices. i'm not going to let any family be deprived of healthcare. i'm not going to let the republicans rip up obamacare and throw it away. <

lapd is requesting the sheriff's held inspect the threat. they want to search every single los angeles school, pierre, that is quite a task. >> reporter: it's a huge task. you have to factor in mass we're not just talking about terrorism. we're talking about mass shootings. everybody remembers columbine. newtown. they have to exercise caution. >> i want to turn back to matt gutman in los angeles. matt, as we mentioned, has been covering the san bernardino attacks since they began nearly two weeks ago. you're talking about the impact of that attack on the community. and now what's happening in l.a. this is a city on edge. >> reporter: absolutely, amy. terror disrupts the 1/2natural flow of lifestyle. that's what's happening here. they're clearing and searching every single school. hundreds of schools attended nearly 700,000 students. a tremendous disruption to life. that's what happened in san bernardino. the entire city government was and still, many of the members of the environmental health division have not gone back to work. that's how b

it is too big to bring in the national guard and lapd to search every school. that electronic investigation is trying to pinpoint where this threat is so the police and fbi can get in there, comb it, and make sure it is safe. so i am looking for the electronic information that will lead us directly to the school. >> jenna: we are all thinking terror but haven't heard that specifically. there is so much to still learn. >> jon: the parents of two thirds of a million children, 640,000, learned there is no school today. mild chaos as a result. we will talk to one of those parents coming up. anncr: when the attacks come here... ...the person behind this desk will have to protect your family. will he be impulsive and reckless, like donald trump? will he have voted to dramatically weaken counter-terrorism surveillance, like ted cruz? will he have skipped crucial national security hearings and votes just to campaign, like marco rubio? 27 generals and admirals support jeb bush. because jeb has the experience and knowledge to protect your family. right to rise usa is res

lapd is mustering at the los angeles coliseum to go through each school. the children who do arrive at school will not be left alone. the parent has to show up with id to get their child. burbank and other districts are open. the chief of nypd is saying los angeles overreacted and new york received an identical threat from a jihadist somewhere overseas. we are told by adam housely who talked to the fbi here we are not sure that lausd consulted with the fbi before making that decision. coming in at 5 a.m. and making that decision apparently by 6 a.m. not to open schools that day we don't know how much law enforcement involvement was made before the decision was made. back to you. >> very interesting. we have got former new york city police detective bowe coming up and we will get into that. i know the associated press is reporting the e-mail came from overseas. what are you learning? >> reporter: we were told it came from a jihadist of some kind. what the superintendent referred to, and i think this is an important context for him and the board, he said bec

(s/ chief charlie beck / lapd 1:03 - 1:09) easy to criticize when you have no responsibility for the outcome of that decision. lapd chief charlie beck defends the decision to leave hundreds of thousands of potentially unsupervised students out of school -- (s/ chief charlie beck / lapd 1:18 - 1:25) "southern california has been through should we risk putting our children through the same? (s/ student / mos) there have been a lot of school shootings and i was just worried about my brother and happy to be holding lolod ones just a little bit closer. jennifer bjorklund nbc news los angeles. >> storm lake police are filling in a few more details about the disappearance of two young siblings and the arrest of after the children were found safe. police say 3-year old ymani banks and one-year-old yamir banks were found at a home in alta about six 'o clock last night. witnesses told police the children were dropped off by another family member earlier monday. police say the witnesses were unaware of a court order that the children be rned over to authorities. the children's father, 32- year-

i know that the same set-up exists with the lapd. are you looking at this today and wondering, does the lapd need more resources? does the lapd need better contact with federal officials? or do you not view that as the issue today? >> i'm not sure that that's the issue. i think there were a few things that went into the different decisions. one of the key ones may have been, as the mayor was pointing out, that new york had the advantage of knowing about l.a. perhaps before l.a. knew about new york. that's a pretty critical factor. but also, you have different experiences. new york has had to deal with more threats than probably any other city in america. they have had a great deal of experience with this. and they have to make difficult calls, as do all cities. but you add to the mix that we just went through a really traumatic attack in southern california, which has heightened sensitivities in our region. so i don't think we should rush to be critical of los angeles for reaching a different conclusion, even though we may come to a

based on lapd's continued investigation.ased on the collaboration and communication with sheriff mcdonnell, chief back. finally, the briefing with the superintendent. at that time, we would make a decision to open up our schools. thank you. >> good morning. i want to thank the mayor, the chief, the sheriff, our chief of police. especially our superintendent of schools. on behalf of the entire board and the entire board is gathered here in solidarity. in support of everyone who is working and has been working through the night to keep our children, our schools safe. so they can return to be the anchors of our community. i want you to know that i have never been prouder to be an angeleno than i have been over the last few hours. this entire city has come together. this is not an easy situation. this is difficult day for teachers who want nothing more than to teach our kids and to give hope for the future. the only thing that is more important to all of the civic leaders that are gathered here today, the only thing more importa

lapd reports indicating they are sweeping.e day to sweep through all of the schools and their campuses. any explosive devices in them. the extraordinary disruption throughout the city of los angeles. 640,000 children who have to stay home. >> right. 45,000 teachers sent home. the parents who after been to work, getting the phone calls now. >> all of this because of one credible threat. andrew peake is with us. you are a former intelligence officer. i know what you are thinking here. this is not isis. why do you think that? >> i have to agree with both edell on this. if feels wrong. the two attackers or the male walked into a christmas party and just started shooting. calling in a thread ahead of time is something that the ira used to do. it is really not a hallmark of modern islamic terrorism. it feels wrong to me. >> you still have this enormous disruption. they have parents who may or may not be able to go to work today. it looks like to me that los angeles is going to shut down. it is chaotic. >> this is a problem we have b

lapd and fbi are now analyzing this threat. in the meantime schools will be shut down so authorities can sweep the buildings. this will likely take all day. school officials just briefed the media at a news conference, take a listen. >> until it is deemed safe by law enforcement and concurred with our district officials which we believe we'll be able to occur by the end of this day, >> reporter: again, school officials closing out of an abundance of caution getting what just occurred in neighboring san bernardino where a mass shooting left 14 dead and wounded 22. the superintendent of schools in los angeles ramone also former nyc school's chancellor under mayor giuliani said he's not going to take a chance with the life of a student, david. >> thank you. as we've said, the nypd has handled this vague threat in a completely different way. in fact, commissioner bratton, who used to runt lapd and put in place many of its counterterrorism measures says, his former city overreacted. let's go now to michael george who's live in flush

i do not -- i don't know if you can wait for lapd to get back to you. i think you'd reach out to the fbi, but, again, if they can't respond before you have to make the decision, you still have to make the decision. >> of course, every action has consequences, in this case, to go through them all would be almost impossible. that 7 00,000 students and the teachers and staff that go along with them would not have class today. parents would have to figure out what to do with those children. it would be happening around 7:00 in the morning. those things are complicating matters. as you look back on this over the past six hours of this, is it your sense now, it sounds like it, that correct decisions were made based on the information that the superintendent had? >> it's not my decision, and i don't even have all the information about how the school operates. it is very easy for me to say, well, now that we know that similar e-mails were sent to new york and perhaps other places, and that the new york e-mails were considerably less credible than the l.a. e-mai

but we are here, chief beck and i with the local law en forcemet here through lapd's extensive training and leadership who connected the dots nationally on this. it is, was, of course, we have reached out and the school district reached out to the federal law enforcement officials who have been taxed in recent weeks since san bernardino to bring them into the inis vestigation, but it is also in talking to the counterparts in new york, and learning of other places, we realize that it is always a city to face that threat. we will continue to hope to think this is nothing and our children can be back at school tomorrow. but as a parent, and a mayor, certainly, i am here to support this school district as it seex our help to ensure that we can look at each one of the campuses and make sure that they are safe for all of the children. in an abundance of caution is something that all of us who have children appreciate. we will be here, and continue to be here. and we have activated the city's emergency operation center at level one, but it is constant staffing to continue to share any informat

he had a choice today to say nothing or throw lapd and ls under the bus.t the same threat and we didn't do anything about it. diehard 3 was a movie. jeremy irons was not holding the new york school district hostage. but i'm curious, what would his bar be? do you have a detachment that can make that call the night before in can a school board member forward and email and one of your guys are going to say that's a hoax. kennedy: i would like to know as someone who consumes and talks about this information professionally and someone who happens to have public city school kids, i want to know what the bar is. i want to make sure the kids in l.a. and new york and all across the country are safe. i understand l.a. may have a different reaction because of the san bernardino shootings. that was awfully close to home. >> every parent knows that the closer you get to finals, the bigger the grain of salt you take these threats. the bomb threat to get out of the geology 101 fine was invented at my alma matre and has been replicated across the country. there was just a

we know that lapd is working with the fbi on this. they are certainly going to sweep through all schools and make sure they are safe before students can return to school, if that happens, tomorrow. >> miguel, stand by. joining me now, nbc news law enforcement animal cyst, retired atf special agent jim cavanaugh. jim, let's talk about the process here. if this report is accurate here, this threat according to the associated press was sent to a school board member and "appeared to come from overseas." how would they determine that? >> well, it might -- of course the ip address if they checked it. they could have had some language or language they believe maybe was from a terrorist entity by what they were threatening. the school superintendent did say it was a rare threat. that they get a lot of threats in schools but this threat was rare and unusual so they took those steps. as you've been so accurately discussing this morning, this is unprecedented, the huge school district there. but we got to remember that we're facing a threat from

lapd chief charlie beck defends the decision to leave hundreds of thousands of potentially unsupervised students out of "southern california has been through .should we risk putting our children through the same? (s/ student / mos) there have been a lot of school shootings and i was just orried about my brother and happy to be holding loved ones just a little bit closer. jennifer bjorklund nbc news los angeles. the emailed threat mentioned explosive devices, assault rifles and pistols and appeared to originate from frankfurt, germany but officials say the location could have been masked and bounced and they suspect the origin is much closer. coming up... the last republican debate of the year - and the first since bernardino. what to look for tonight. their hours to an extreme to accomodate holiday shoppers. that's coming up in just a few minutes. here's a live look at the storm track 7 live doppler radar. storm track seven meteorologist denice pelster has your full forecast next. and when you see news - or if you have pictures or video to share... you can do that by on facebook. you ca

after a search of his home by the lapd internet crimes against children tasask force. they swept the home after a tip from a, quote, concerned citizen. >> mark salling was lichg along, this put his career on life support. >> this isn't salling's first brush with the law. his ex-girlfriend filed suit alleging sexual battery. he recently settled for 2.7 >> what mark has to look forward to right now is a great deal of emotional pain, a great deal of public humiliation. a great deal of expense with attorneys and publicists. >> he is due back i in court on january 22. >> coming up in the carololina kitchen, hold the pancake syrup, we are making a favorite flavor from frui >> bruce brown of bruce's fabulous foods is here with us. >> hi. >> how are you? >> i'm doing great. excited to be here as always. >> what do you have? i like mango pancakes. >> barbara likes pancakes. i'm making them with a maple topping. in the mixing bowl, i have all purpose flour, baking soda, a tablespoon of sugar and salt. mix that together. then i have 1/2 cups of mango pees. i pureeed, egg, a littl

and there's the lapd right behind him. >> with the driver in a new car, the chase starts again. >> lapdells me on the scene, "we have never, ever seen anything like that." >> the driver gets on the freeway, the 710, heading north with an armada of cops behind him. but they don't move in. they can't take the risk. >> this is a very dangerous pursuit. >> it's now almost 6:00 and the chase has been going on for nearly an hour, unfolding on live tv as the sun goes down. >> people are home making dinner, expecting to get the weather, and then they're wondering, is this guy going to come into contact with somebody i know and somebody i love on the streets of l.a.? >> he is not hesitating to hit vehicles. >> the police are playing it carefully. >> the tactic here basically is just let this individual run right now, because it would be far too dangerous to do a pit maneuver or anything like that. >> the officers aren't going to stop him. the helicopters can't stop him. but as the driver gets on to the freeway, he runs into the one thing almost no one in l.a. can escape -- a traffic jam. >> he's

he within the lapd of cooking books and doing this. though kelly is on point but then again, you are not like pontius pilate, you are not that clean. they have been cooking books for years trying to go to the books, 7 felony counts and not them down, misdemeanors' don't get counted at all, that is a regular process. if you'd get snatched, they study the precinct, come back in a week and we will file a crime report and called 311, they do kind of crime actually ending on the books. >> is that encouraged by a brass or something each everything -- >> this is the equivalent every time any man, rudy guiliani or mayor bill deblasio, ask them about tickets, there are no quotas, just guidance, performance standards we set. always quotas, $1 billion in tickets have to be written each year. ben: what is your sense? earlier in the year the may/june time. a lot of attention paid to the fact the shootings were on the rise and murder were on the rise but now they are saying the second half of the year was cowher, not so bad, set -- the same or less.

the lapd tells "e.t." they obtained a search warrant for his home in conjunction with homeland security and found images of child pornography on his computer. sally was immediately arrested and taken into custody. on instagram from costa rica. >> hey! >> he was there with close friend randy fob. he thinks he was hacked and doesn't believe any of it saying if it's true, it is one of the best kept secrets and he must be a great actor. he has had legal troubles in real life n 2013, he was sued by a woman who claimed he committed sexual battery on her by forcing sex without a condom. he denied the allegations and paid $2.7 million to settle the case. go www.etonline.com for the latest updates on his arrest. >> thank you. let's turn now to oprah. we know she is always battling with her weight and she's really been open about it. but now she is revealing a lot more in a candid new commercial. actually, "e.t." was the first to show her debut ad that has been bringing out a lot of emotions. commercial, i cried. >>

. >> to me the lapd should have been consulted. i'm not certain they were consulted. i think this was a decision made first by the school authorities, not the police. >> what we didn't do, we didn't have an adult in the room, homeland security, fbi, who said, no, no, we're taking a look at this. this is not something you need to react to. >> reporter: after the recent san bernardino shootings, some not questioning the decision. peter king who sits on the homeland security committee says there are lots of threats every day. >> sort this out to see who was going to assault and who wasn't. >> reporter: local officials have to make the best decision they can, sometimes with little time. good decisions are critical, but he also doesn't want to saying they shouldn't be shy next time about making any safety decisions. >>> coming up on "nbc nightly news," how these type of threats have become normal for students across america. watch for that tonight at 6:30. >>> a health emergency at a long island high school. dozens were raced to the hospital when they suddenly got sick. th

times." >> i'm extremely angry with the lapd for their outrageous action.rape our city, they somehow had time to bother korean shop owners guarding their stores. how can an owner of a business just sit back and watch his life be burned to the ground? >> david would have a very different reaction. >> my brother stole a car, and we went into, like, all of the neighborhoods, and then quickly realized it wasn't, like, about race, it was just about people stealing stuff, but we were out looting, we were causing chaos, and you know, i don't think we got anything good. i think i got a tv stand. >> was it life-changing for you? >> it's like you grow up and things are explained. here's the police, they're not doing anything they're supposed to do, just normal men and women of society acting like animals, and i was like, oh, everything i've been taught and learned my whole life is just disintegrating before my eyes. but in the end, we're, you know, from great disasters come great things, right? koreatown burned down. it's like we own l.a. now. it's half the l.a. >> n

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. >> the chief of the lapd had this to say to him and others. >> i would say this to people that areritical -- it is very easy in hindsight to criticize a decision based on results that the decider could never have known. it's also very easy to criticize a decision when you have no responsibility for the outcome of that decision. >> all right if i put myself in his shoes, eric, i don't know what i would have done. i can understand the abundance of caution, but-day see bratton's point as well. >> i know this didn't happen, but it doesn't seem like it did, based on all the back and forth. but if i were the lapd or the police chief or the superintendant, i would have gotten on the phone with the major cities of the country saying hey did you get anything like this? if t feels like l.a. got it. they didn't call new york. new york said we're not going to act on it. this apparently happened last night. they received the initial threat. and then they just went ahead and made the decision on their own, independent of anyone else. in what's the congresswoman from california who was on tv toda

as you mentioned, she is in los angeles, now in the custody of the lapd. transferred to lapd's custody by u.s. marshals after she was brought back from mexico. now, that is a question. ethan couch remains in mexico city. he was transferred from an immigration detention facility in guadalajara and then brought to mexico city yesterday afternoon. now, his newly retained mexican attorneys filed a motion, a writ of omparo, that basically it's a legal motion that immigration experts say could be a delaying tactic to try to take the hands -- try to take the decision over whether to extradite him from immigration agents, kick that up to the court system, to a higher court. now, the u.s. marshals service expects it could take several days, if not weeks. and so that's why he remains in mexico. another possibility could be his age. he is a minor, 18 years old, considered a minor, and the mexican judicial system. and that may offer him several other protections different from his mother. of course, it's also possible that she did not fight her extradition, and that's

again, the lapd confirming that they're at a level one right now and not on tactical alert. we'll have to wait and see what the next moves are. i should also tell you that private schools are still in session, at least some that i talked to, as this -- you can imagine the tension and the heightened sense of tension throughout los angeles this morning as we said the large school district, as you pointed out, 900 schools, 640,000 students, the second largest in the country, l.a. unified school district shut down this morning amidthis threat. >> paul, stand by. the superintendent said he made this decision in the wake of what happened in san bernardino, which is ver nearby los angeles and also what's going on oversaes. i'm sure he's talking about what's going on in paris, around the united states and i imagine he's talking about oregon and the like. juliette, you mentioned that you wonder if this superintendent -- you expect he made the decision in conjunction with the mayor's office and local authorities. what about federal authorities? what about the investigations going on i

the lapd now says that he has been located in la paz, mexico. but posts attributed to his family are denying that claim. >>> a dangerous situation in fremont. two police officers are exposed to toxic gasses. a container of acid started producing gases. the hazmat crews were able to stieblize the container. the exposed officers were treated and released. >>> an unusual and dangerous situation on a local runway. an alaska airlines plane struck and killed a deer just as the plane came in for a landing. it happened on a flight from seattle. the tires clipped the deer midair and the antlers punctured one of the plane's tired. no one realized they hit the deer. no injuries to the passengers on board. >>> they are hot holiday item and apparently they are getting hotter. hover boards or roller boards are one of the most popular gifts so far. but firefighters are warning of the danger not from falling but from sparking. >> reporter: while the hover boards don't hover their popularity is soaring. as fast as they are catching on, people say they are catchi

when bill bratton left los reporting for duty, lapd, he was accused of fudging the numbers there. this should not be a shock. look the other day. the city bike stolen at twice the rate they were the year before, assessed propertywise and $200,000 which makes it a felony crime if you snatch it. all of a sudden, and why bidi meeting with citibank officials to figure out how they could fudge the assessment of the bicycle below $100,000 so it will no longer be a felony, misdemeanor, show up on stats. this is what you call technology, you fudge the numbers, make felonies into misdemeanors and you will look better. does anybody really feel safer in a street in new york city? any people out there walking around gee whiz, it is so much safer now than it was under rudy guiliani or michael bloomberg? is reality. >> you said there would be no homeless people in the subways. six people at rush hour, 5:00 yesterday, you know they had a shopping cart, the whole nine yards, come on, of course they're fudging the numbers. >> looks like hillary clinton will be campaigning in iowa after she has bee

mayor de blasio criticizing the man that succeeded him as chief of the lapd. >> it's very easy in hindsight to criticize a decision based on results that the decider could never have known. it's easy to criticize a decision when you have no responsibility for the out come of that decision. >> to be sure, new york has more experience dealing with terror threats than l.a. but l.a. on edge because of what happened in san bernardino. eyewitness news reporter n.j. burkett in the fort greene section of brooklyn with the story. >> reporter: a tale of two cities and two different reactions to the same threat, a threat that was so present poster rouse, patently absurd experts say it had to be a hoax but some parents are questioning the city's decision to keep the schools open. met did not spend the day worrying about the threat because they hadn't even heard about it. although they were relieved to hear it was dismissed as a hoax, many were surprised at the mayor's decision to keep schools open. >> they should have closed the schools. you never know if it's true or false. >> they said they knew. >>

of "glee" arrested this morning on child porn charges and this turns out to be a massive, massive lapdtion conducted by the internet crimes against children task force. here's what we know. our law enforcement sources have told us this morning and dennis and i

as lapd investigates his parents are pounding the pavement down in l.a. where he was a producer at a special effects company. this is the last known image of eric kohler as he was leaving work on tuesday, but without his wallet, laptop or bag. surveillance video shows his black range rover pulling into a grocery store parking lot, also in the city of gardena. then, phone records show his phone was switched off and it has not been on, again. now, that is part of tleenz his parents are worried. they're also concerned because he missed thanksgiving with his family in oakley here in the bay area and he also missed a major deadline at his job, which he lov loved. >> and disappeared and it's heartbreaking. i don't know what to say. as his father, i can't do anything to help my son. it's so horrible. >> now, eric kohler went to freedom high school here in oakley in the bay yare. his parents are hopeful that maybe he will reach out to someone here at home or perhaps someone here in the bay area knows something. his parents are reaching out in person down in south

she is a firearms instructor who's preparing to join the lapd. >> i'm not muslim, but even if i was, i don't think that is grounds for them to call the police on me instantly. >> the officers have apologized to sanga. a store manager for dick's referred our questions to its corporate office and we have not heard back yet. >>> now to an investigative unit exclusive. drinking, smoking, even brawling. 20,000 feet into the sky. unruly passengers can cause headaches for both travelers and airlines. investigative unit combed through years of flight records and showed a dramatic increase in complaints. disrupting a commercial flight is a serious crime. but as the investigative unit uncovered many of these rowdy passengers are set free without any criminal charges. >> many times on an international flight a passenger is disruptive and ruins the experience for a lot of people around that paerssenger and the plane lands and the passenger walks away. >> a loophole that lets unruly passengers off the hook and what one group is doing to crack down on this safety threat. the story tonight at 11:00

that was a turning point for lapd. was a turning point for all of law enforcement when it comes to active shooter scenarios. law enforcement used to show up, organize and try to determine where the shooter was, then enter the building or just wait for a s.w.a.t. team. >> right, at columbine you had more than a thousand law enforcement offices outside the school setting up a perimeter, setting up, you know, command and control, waiting for tactical teams to show up for hours. while inside these two psychopaths were killing people and one teacher was bleeding to death. >> right. and i think what you're going to start to see now is a shift in the way law enforcement responds to these incidents. i was watching the video as this stuff unfolds. and we're still in the mind set where we throw all of our resources in the location where this is actually happening and not only are we putting our resources in danger, but their ability to go to multiple locations slows down. and so i think what we're going to have to start seeing i

the lapd is looking into this threat.ns into tonight residential -- presidential debate in las vegas. the newest poll shows him at 38% support. ted cruz is second at 15%. ben carson each at 12%. a jury and baltimore resumes deliberations in the case against the first officer on trial for the death of freddie gray. seriousgray suffered a spinal injury while it be -- being taken to jail. night,rs came out last thousands of guests filled three theaters are the premier of disney's star wars episode seven, the force awakens. that is a look at the first word news right now. you can get more on these 24 hours a day at bloomberg.com. betty: thank you. i'm assuming we will be talking a lot about star wars in the next few weeks. wall street is having some flashbacks to 2007. route hasield debt made it hard to trade assets. month's turmoil a harbinger of things to come? is this lehman brothers all over again? i want to bring in michael moore who wrote a story about this, and the people you talked to that said no -- said nope. michae

. >> reporter: he adds the lapd will have an increased presence when school starts tomorrow. although the threat was found to not be credible. investigators don't know who made it. nbc news, los angeles. >>> a southwest airlines plane rolled off the runway and got stuck while taxiing into its gate. southwest flight 31 landed in nashville when the accident occurred. passengers later described their experience. >> i didn't hear any screaming. it was a bunch of commotion. everyone's scared. >> there was just a big boom. it sounded like to me that a wheel blew out. i don't know if a wheel blew out or collapsed or something like that. >> fire officials say eight people were transported to the hospital with minor injuries. the faa is investigating the incident. >>> a florida car theft shows you can never be too careful. this man had just finished gassing his car when a 12-year-old boy told the 89-year-old passengers his tire was deflated. he stepped out of the car to check. when the boy dropped his bike and hopped in the driver seat he took off with the car. the boy later wrecked t

now, as lapd investigators, his parents are pounding the pavement down in l.a. where he is a producer at a special effects company. the last-known himmage of him is on tuesday where he was leaving work without his wallet or his bag. surveillance video shows him in his black range rover pulling into a grocery store parking lot and then phone records show that he switched his phone off. part of the reason his parents are worried. he missed thanksgiving with the family in oakley and also a major work deadline. >> he doesn't have enemies. his normal routine is just like any other 27-year-old boy. >> he went to freedom high school in oakley, so his parent are hoping that perhaps he'll reach out to some friends or family here in the bay area. we are posting that link to that missing poster on our website. nbcbayarea.com. if you know anything, his parents would certainly love to hear from you. laura? >> let's hope people recognize something. thank you, kris. >>> the man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death after a stense standoff on the peninsula. this is vid

. >> reporter: the lapd has assigned a detective to the case who doesn't believe foul play is involvedeven days though, and missing without a trace. dave lopez, kpix5. >>> a tanker truck erupted into this fire ball upon a southern california freeway today. it was hauling almost 9,000 gallons of fuel when it exploded. this was on interstate 15 on river side county. witnesses say one of the big rigs' tires shredded and ignited the underbelly. the freeway was shut down for hours. no one was hurt. >>> well, tonight, the united states is about to get more deeply involved in the war against isis. cbs reporter david martin is at the pentagon. >> reporter: about 200 u.s. special operations forces will be based in the northern iraqi city of erbeal where they will strike against isis. secretary carter revealed plans of a targeting force. >> this is an important capability. it takes advantage of what we are good at and it puts everybody on notice in syria. you don't know who is coming in the window. >> reporter: until now, commando raids against isis have been few and far between. two in the past

police say lapd internet crimes against children task force served a warrant at the 3-year-old's home. lee found more than a thousand images of child sexual exploitation on his computer. >>> time now is 4:46. we were expecting some holiday light especially at this time of hour. it's not the case on the east shore freeway u. alex in for sal keeping an eye on that. >> good morning to both of you. they have just moments ago cleared that big accident that we have been following in burke lee, and we'll get you right out here and show you a live look at the situation there going through burke lee and the traffic already beginning to give way just a bit. there was a major back-up. cars were virtually at a standstill there. you can see it is pretty busy still on the right-hand side. that is eastbound 80 where this accident was. it was just before university, a multi-car crash that we had been telling you about. no serious injuries thankfully u. and again, they just got tall cars cleared out of the roadway. all the lanes thankfully back open in area this morning. than is good news. >>> all rig

police and i believe the lapd and not sure about san bernardino but lapd has gone through active shooter drills and drilling for multiple active shooter attacks in multiple locations. >> true. i think the larger departments have been drilling this nypd obviously in the forefront. tactics have changed. back in the days of columbine they would have formed a perimeter in a situation with an active shooter and deliberately did a slow and deliberate entry. now they are training for a dynamic engagement with the shooter. i'm not sure that the smaller departments have this much training and not so sure the first responders, ones most likely to encounter scenarios like this get as much training as we think. the swat team obviously yes but not the ones that are out in the patrol car each day. the ones most likely to pull up on a scene like this so i don't think there is as much training as many people thing. >> agas we're awaiting this pre conference and i think it will be important and that's why we want to bring it to you live when it starts, we have cnn's scott glover reporter who has new info