i just know bart officers fired shot. >> you've been listening to bart spokesman linton johnson recapping the events tonight. just to start from the top it was around 9:30 a call came through about a drunk man. at 9:46, he reports two bart police officers shot and killed a suspect on the platform. this is all taking place at the civic center bart station. latest word is the station is still closed at this hour. they are not letting people in or passengers in or any trains that are traveling through are traveling straight through the station and they are not stopping. george kitayama is on the scene. he is going to continue to gather information. i trust we can get him one more time to give an update on the story. an officer-involved shooting on a bart platform in san francisco that has resulted in one man's death. >>> okay. on to other news. talking about many of us preferring a more tame form of transportation. commercial airline. but with summer travel season comes the chances that your flight could be canceled. then what? a ruined vacation? well, as nbc bay area's vicky nguyen shows us

this morning we reached out to linton johnson, and this is what he had in response to what is happening today. quote, while this news outlet must think it's acceptable to promote unsafe and illegal belavier b.a.r.t. is focused on keeping passengers safe, secure and on time. we find it reprehensible that this news outlet would even both tear ask tuesday participate in this and risk the safety and security of bart passengers and employees and other guests. reporting live, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> thank you. arson investigators are on the scene at daily city elementary school. crews responded to a one-alarm fire at skyline elementary school sunday night. report shows the fire started outside the back area of the school, then spread into a reading lab. investigators have not ruled it arson. they are trying to find the source of the blaze. >> a weekend sleepover turns tragic, one girl is dead and three friends ill after they drank a soda mixed with an unknown substance. police suspect alcohol but will not know until a toxicology report. the 14-year-old was found dead on her bedroom

now just a few minutes ago linton johnson, the chief bart spokesman arrived and gave us the officialwn as he has it. here he is. >> at 9:00: -- at 9:33 we got a call and our officers responded. at 10:45 two officers arrived at the platform and they saw a person with a knife. a suspect with a knife who ended up being the suspect who was later pronounced dead. 9:46 we got a call that said there were shots fired by our officers and that's when the investigation started. >> reporter: the investigation involves san francisco police department investigating with the bart officers as well as a bart internal investigation. apparently two san francisco police officers left with a bart officer at one point left the area. that's the situation here, ann, at civic center. back to you. >> don, we heard that the civic center bart station had been closed during the incident. any word whether that will open tonight? >> i don't know about tonight, ann. clearly now a homicide investigation. so obviously when there is an investigation like this and particularly when will is a police officer involved tho