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Administrators called in. very serious problem. >> tell me how this mouse mail works. theres a lot of stuff out there that tries to block this for kids or let parents know when theres a problem. how is this different. >> this is different because up until now theres been no way to effectively block the obnoxious texting or sexting or the cyber bully. up until now you could get a message and your child could get a message at the same time, but there was no way to block it from getting to the chil...

Was no permanent science teacher here, and there were similar teacher shortages district wide. >> i have more challenging working environments. i have higher class sizes and lower salaries. not conditions that compete with my more wealthy suburban neighbors. >> reporter: desperate, administrators went halfway around the world recruiting teachers from india. >> if you look at this animation carefully. >> reporter: of 14 indian teachers bridgeport recruited, this ph.d. physics teacher with six yea...

This horrific incident? >> i dont know that he feels that strongly about what happened to him prior to this incident. i think he chalked it all up to, it happens to everybody. he himself told me that there are no rules in school. that the bad kids are bad and the good kids stay out of their way. >> and do you feel that too many teachers and administrators just sort of feel the same way, and they look the other way. you know, some kids just arent nice, kids can be mean and thats just the way it i...

Me. and sean stuck his head in the hatch and stuck a hand out and said, hi, im sean okeefe. he was just a few weeks into the job. later that evening, he came out and stayed with the americans. we had a little barbecue and he just sat around and talked with us. that impressed me. thats the kind of guy that sean is. a natural leader that knows he needs to talk to the troops and enjoys it. >> a lot of talk about nasa these days and the changes that its undergoing with the end of the shuttle mission...

Terms of making schools more competitive. this program initiative, the president just put in the last year-and-a-half and got through congress. a lot of money going to schools all around the country. but also, the president wants a heavy emphasis in this speech on actual college completion. hes going to talk about how one of the problems is a lot of people start college in the united states, but dont finish it. and so he wants to attack that in a number of levels. first of all, dealing with maki...

1300 people missing after flash floods in china. left entire villages buried in mud and rocks. few fallout today from the scandal over fat cat paychecks for city officials in bell, california. turns out seven more administrators were found to have six-figure salaries. there is no end to the fun out in bell and the locals out there not taking the news very light lightly. our a till yacht at kttv following this. bob, the list goes on and on. the city manager got over 800,000, the police chief over...

Laura ingle, what did you find out? >> reporter: its true, administrators say its their job to make sure that every structure is safe, up to code, and on the books, and found that turning to the internet was really the fastest and cheapest way to do this. when the town started looking at expired permits for pools about a year ago, they realized that there were people out there who had no permits at all, which can be dangerous, no permit, no inspection, which means no safety precautions. whats wo...

Currently and they need to be addressed now, not just perpetuating the problem by increasing spending. >> neil: in my district not too long ago there was a big vote in our state for all the school districts, something that if you heard the teachers union say, my two boys would not be eating lunch at school and if your father works at fox, youll be executed. then you realize, if were cutting these services back, why not administrators or overpaid or unresponsive teachers. that never comes up yet ...

You remember this. bell, california, finding out that the newly released documents shows seven more city employees pulling down hefty six-figure salaries. some were part time. you remember the outrage there. they were furious to find that administrators were making $400,000 and three others made $200,000. now we have reports with benefits on top of the salary, the excity manager compensation totalled $1.5 million. up next, is the obama administration taking steps that could prevent our troops on...

Laboratory in mississippi, i was there this week as they brought in more fish and more shrimp to be tested. and throughout this whole ordeal they have found no evidence of oil in any of the species they brought in. so thats very good news indeed. but the restrictions still remain out in the gulf of mexico. you cant go fishing out there yet in the federal waters. but the administrators there say that slowly they will begin to open up more areas, perhaps as early as september. fishermen will be ba...