Also, the note found at the suspects home, and what were learning about him a Longtime Army reservist. His struggles with Mental Health, and what his family told us about him hearing voices our full Team Coverage also tonight, Israeli Forces carrying out a targeted ground raid in gaza. Armored bulldozers breaking through, a column of tanks rolling in our team inside gaza witnessing an israeli air strike, children rescued from the rubble the deadly toll from Hurricane Otis. At least 27 killed after the monster storm slammed acapulco our report from the storm zone and the strike breakthrough the uaw reaching a tentative deal with one of the Big Three Automakers where does that leave the other two . Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt, reporting tonight from lewiston, maine. Good evening, everyone the state of maine is in a State Of Shock and fear tonight streets are virtually empty as residents shelter in place 24 hours after Authorities Say a u. S. Army reservist walked into a Bowling Alley and then in a bar just over my shoulder and shot and killed 18 people, wounding 13 more tonight, a massive search is under way for 40yearold Robert Card Police say he is Armed And Dangerous and should not be approached and Authorities Say card spent two weeks in a Mental Health facility this past summer after acting erratically. Tonight, miles of businesses and homes in and around lewiston, maines second largest city, are on lockdown, including a nearby college and grade schools, as hundreds of Law Enforcement officers search for the suspect. It is this years deadliest mass shooting, and it has jolted the country once again tonight, A Mass Killer is on the loose, and a large swath of maine is on Lockdown Hundreds of Law Enforcement officers urgently searching for the Armed And Dangerous man they say carried out a Shooting Rampage at a Bowling Alley and a bar in lewiston, killing at least 18 and injuring at least 13. There is a fullcourt press by all of our partners to bring him into custody. Businesses and schools up to 50 miles away are closed. Police advise that maine people should not approach him under any circumstances. Officials say the suspect is 40yearold robert card from bowdoin, a longtime member of the army reserve. A Family Member says he struggled recently with Mental Health issues Law Enforcement sources tell nbc news a note was found at cards home. They are working to determine its meaning. Police say they also located a white subaru, registered to card, at a nearby boat landing. I want to know who, where, when, why why would he do this why in lewiston, maine . Today, body bags were removed from just in time recreation, where the rampage began. Active shooter incident, all available units to lewiston Officials Say the first 911 call came in at 6 56 p. M. Wednesday night, reporting a shooter at the Bowling Alley, which was hosting a youth night. He was probably 15 feet behind me i mean, he was close very close people inside hid under tables and behind bowling pins. I just booked it down the lane, and i slid into where the pins are and climbed up into the machine and was on top of the machine for about ten minutes until the cops got there. Police say seven were killed there. Two active shooter locations. The second will be at schemengees. Just 12 minutes later, more calls flooded into 911 the shooter had opened fire again, this time four miles away at Schemengees Bar and grille, where police say he killed eight. Officials say multiple Law Enforcement agencies were dispatched to the scenes its unclear what time they arrived among the dead at the Bowling Alley, bill young and his 14yearold son aaron, and tricia asselin, who worked there and was bowling with her sister when shots rang out. Her mom says she was killed while calling 911. Her sister survived. The world lost a great girl, and i lost a precious daughter. Leroy walkers son joey was a manager at schemengess. He says the suspect had been there before. And all of the people over there, they know him. So he would come to schemengees . Would come schemengees. Hes been there off and on leroy says he waited 14 hours to hear whether joey was among the dead youre all going through a lot of pain right now. Its awful. That moment when i got the call that said joeys dead it just it brought me back there, brought me right back to my knees. He says joey was a married father of two who Loved Running Corn Hole Tournaments at the bar. As manager of that club, he loved that club enough and the people enough that he would give his life. And thats what he did. A State Trooper told the family joey died a hero. He picked up a butcher knife, and he tried to go at the gunman to stop him from Shooting Anybody else does that change your pain at all, knowing this it made it worse. Yeah yeah, it made it worse. Tonight, President Biden ordering flags across the country to be flown at half staff to honor joey and th 17 others who lost their lives. My boy joey will be missed by thousands. You were close . Oh, yeah. Yeah and were learning new details about the suspects background with guns, and about potential Warning Signs before last nights shooting sam brock is in the suspects hometown sam, what have you learned today . Reporter lester, Law Enforcement says a gun was found in that white subaru they are looking right now to see if its the same weapon that was used in the mass shooting, as we ar hearing from the card family, who says that they alerted authorities that this is someone who needed help in robert cards hometown of bowdoin, maine, areawide shock. Its mindblowing everything about it is unbelievable i mean why this is going on and why this happened reporter even as the suspects own family reveals chilling details about the decadeslong Army Reservist. His sisterinlaw telling nbc news they alerted police and military officials that card was experiencing an acute Mental Health episode in the months before wednesdays massacre, saying he had been fitted for highpowered hearing aids a couple of months ago and was picking up voices that he had never heard his mind was twisting them around. The family concerned about the mental state of someone who performs gun training. What we did meeting him, the way he showed us how to use a weapon, the man is smart hes really smart. And he is tactical reporter former Army Reservist phil gregory says he learned how to use an m16 rifle from card they werent in the same unit, but the 40yearold left an impression on gregory. He knows warfare. He understands it. He may never have been deployed, but he is smart. He knows what to do. I think the soldiers need to be here, to be honest i really do. Reporter the Assault Rifle believed to be the one used to massacre and maim at least 30 people was purchased legally in 2023, according to two senior Law Enforcement officials briefed on the matter and officials tell nbc news card threatened a Military Base and was sent by his own commanders to a Mental Health care facility for two weeks of psychiatric treatment in july. How could someone that fits that profile still be in possession of semiautomatic weapons . Well, i do think the statutes around firearms and the possession of those are pretty complex i know well be reviewing that information as we move forward. Reporter back in bowdoin, where cards family has owned land for generations, childhood neighbor Richard Goddard is blindsided no one would have seen this coming . Never never expected anything like this to happen here. Reporter sam brock, nbc news, bowdoin, maine and with a killer on the run, many families spent hour after hour here on Lockdown Emilie Ikeda has more on a community on edge reporter tonight, amid an urgent manhunt, Tens Of Thousands of people across two counties are sheltering in place. Police telling people to secure their homes and vehicles ive never locked my door once at night. I leave them wide open now im going to get a ring cam scary. Reporter today, the streets of maines second biggest city, lewiston, eerily quiet. Gas stations, restaurants, and pharmacies shuttering their doors. And dozens of schools even three hours away canceling classes. Jasmine gray hasnt left her dorm room at College Since last night. I didnt think this was going to happen my first year of college. Its something that just doesnt happen in maine, because its so safe reporter a shock echoed by trevor brooks, who learned one of his customers is in critical condition. It is a closeknit community, you know. I would say were more like three degrees of separation rather than six around here. Reporter governor janet mills, who worked in lewiston for years, called wednesdays violence an assault on maines peace of mind. Our small state of just 1. 3 Million People has long been known as one of the safest states in the Nation Reporter the Mass Shootings death toll approaches the number of homicides the entire state typically sees throughout the year a total of 29 homicides last year. 202 year before. On the Facebook Page for schemengees, where eight people died, this post. Im at a loss for words. In a split second, your world gets turned upside down for no good reason. How can we make any sense of this . A heartwrenching question many here are wrestling with here tonight. Im going to go home tonight and be with my kids and im not going watch the news, thinking, wow, that was in florida, in texas that was in my backyard. Reporter emilie ikeda, nbc news, lewiston, maine. Were keeping a sharp eye on the situation in the middle east tonight. Israel targeting hamas in gaza and is now carrying out what it called a targeted raid on the ground, as fears grow for hostages held by hamas, including some americans. Chief Foreign CorrespondentRichard Engel has late details. Reporter israel tonight says it killed a senior hamas commander hours after the militarys biggest Ground Incursion yet into gaza. With armored bulldozers and columns of tanks firing on the move israel called it a targeted raid to prepare for the next phase of the war against hamas. Its also a test of hamas defenses, to probe for tunnels the militants use to move and launch surprise attacks. They are not new nearly 15 years ago, i went down into one so ive just reached the bottom its 18 meters from top to bottom. Its extraordinarily claustrophobic down here a lot of this tunnel remains. Its reinforced with wood the tunnels have gotten more elaborate since then a maze under gaza, where released hostages say they were held hamas has only freed four hostages so far today, israeli families pleading for the rest to be set free Simona Steinbrecker recalling being on the phone just before her daughter was taken she was crying and afraid, and crying, mommy, mommy, they came to take us, help me, help me, mommy, but i cant go to help her, because all the place was with hamas reporter for now, israel is striking whats above ground. Our crew in Southern Gaza witnessed an israeli air strike and rushed toward it a boy is rescued from the rubble but a girl remains trapped. She is eventually freed, and our cameraman caught up with her in an ambulance. She is dazed and seems unaware of whats happening around her at the hospital, shes treated on the floor given air, and comes around as she is cleaned. She says her name is miral and asks if her father is alive. The medic tells her he is fine, but doesnt know a woman next to her asks, why are they doing this to us what did we do . Israel and President Biden accuse hamas of using civilians as human shields. But palestinians who cant leave gaza ask, where else are they supposed to go lester Richard Engel, thank you. Rising tensions are fueling an alarming increase in antisemitism, while palestinians have been targeted, as well. We get more from andrea mitchell. Reporter videos showing jewish students scared inside a Cooper Union College library, as propalestinian protesters pounded on the door, shouting free palestine. Antiisrael slogans projected at night on campus buildings at George Washington university in Downtown Washington a jewish man describes a Home Invasion in los angeles. He says the attacker was shouting this free palestine, we need to kill the israeli people. Reporter an alarming surge in antisemitic incidents in the u. S. Since the hamas Terror Attack in israel, and israels air strikes in gaza. According to the antidefamation league, up 388 over the same period last year to what do you attribute it when you dehumanize and demonize israelis and jews, it leads to antijewish sentiment around the world and weve seen how antisemitism has been normalized here in the united states. Reporter palestinian groups also reporting incidents against them the most devastating, the murder of 6yearold Wadea A Fayoume and stabbing of his mother. Chicago police say by their landlord in an alleged hate crime it is very concerning it is an example of what can happen to a community when theyre dehumanized. Reporter the white house calling the incidents of antisemitism over the past week a disturbing pattern that shocks the conscience and turn the stomach lester andrea mitchell, thank you. In 60 seconds, the devastating and deadly toll of Hurricane Otis well go to hardhit mexico, where a popular tourist town is in tatters, right after this back now with a deadly toll from Hurricane Otis at least 27 killed after otis roared ashore in mexico near acapulco, leaving a path of devastation through that tourist hot spot telemundos Julio Vaqueiro is in the Storm Zone Reporter tonight, utter devastation in acapulco at least 27 dead after a category 5 hurricane slammed into the popular mexican tourist destination, home to nearly a Million People im not sure how we are alive, he says, but we are. Hurricane otis, now the strongest storm ever to hit Mexicos Pacific coast. Otis more than doubled its strength just hours before landfall, leaving residents and tourists with little time to prepare. Some of the worst damage along the citys waterfront, where 165mileperhour winds shredded highrise buildings and left the streets choked with mud and debris the exterior of this hotel room, 21 stories tall, hipped clean off, as the terrified guests sheltered inside with the streets under water and power out for hundreds of thousands, mexican authorities are now scrambling to assess the damage and provide relief our house was a total loss, this woman said, as desperate residents fend for themselves the devastation in acapulco has no precedent. This is one of the most famous and most important resorts in mexico its recovery will be a huge challenge for the Mexican Government and for president Andres ManuelLopez Obrador for now, we still dont really understand the scope of the damage. Lester all right, julio, thank you. And next, on the road to a major deal in detroit between striking auto workers and carmakers. What it means for you. Good news on the u. S. Economy it grew by an annual rate of nearly 5 in the third quarter, beating expectations and as maggie vespa reports, there is major progress in something thats been a drag on the economy, the weeks long autoworkers strike reporter tonight, for ford workers, cleanup along the picket lines it was bit of a shock. I didnt expect ford to come to the table with a deal so soon. Reporter six weeks into their sweeping strike against americas big three car companies, United Autoworkers last night announcing their first tentative agreement. Our standup strike has delivered. Reporter uaw leaders say the ford deal, which still needs to be approved by members, would guarantee a 25 increase in base pay, reinstate cost of living allowances, and get rid of, quote, divisive wage tiers. Ford saying theyre pleased with the deal. The wage increases, the cost of living allowance is huge. Reporter but other members arent so huge. What we were shooting for was at least 30, 35 . 25 is didnt know. Reporter meanwhile, strikes at stellantis and gm plants grew this week. Gm saying the stoppage has already cost them 800 million in pretax earnings in the wake of fords breakthrough, both companies confirm talks continue i wouldnt be surprised that eventually gm and stellantis ultimately agree to contracts with the similar type of pay raise for their workers. Reporter tonight, President Biden, who made history joining the picket line last month, calling the ford deal a testament to the power of employers and employees coming together. Ford saying they want to get their close to 20,000 workers back on the job soon uaw leadership saying no date for the Ratification Vote has been set lester maggie vespa, thank you. Why what happened here in maine is hitting home for so many coming up, one of my colleagues with that story. Finally, one more American Community is suffering through the horrors of a mass shooting, this one here in maine. Its a place where our Cynthia Mcfadden knows Well Reporter though its home to a college, lewiston is not exactly a Quaint College Town nor is it what lots of people may think of as a quintessential maine town no lobster boats or rocky shore. No major Tourist Economy to speak of. It does, however, have its own Natural Beauty i grew up in auburn, maine, the twin city of lewiston. La, as locals call them two towns, one community that sit across the Androscoggin River from each other. When i was growing up, if the wind was blowing just right, you could smell the river before you could see it it was so polluted by decades of cotton and paper mills using it for power. We werent famous for very much, but all eyes were on lewiston in 1965, when sonny liston was knocked out by a 23yearold Muhammed Ali Lewiston is a blue collar and middle class family kind of place. People tend to their own business there, but rally around when someone is hurting and tonight, theyre hurting. My maine people are safe tonight, sheltering in homes i remember from childhood, but too many of our friends and neighbors will never go home again. So tonight, we lead the news another gunman took the lives of more innocents in one more town where we thought it could never happen. Cynthia mcfadden, nbc news thats nightly news for this thursday thank you for watching, everyone im lester holt. Please take care of yourself and each other. Good night im raj mathai. Next on nbc bay area news tonight, the situation is changing by the hour. Where is he hiding . Is he even alive . Were following the latest developments in maine after that mass shooting. Also, a california loophole blamed for making our car breakin problem even worse. Well explain why. And technology that could save lives after a big earthquake, but it hasnt quite caught on here in the bay area. We investigate. And with halloween coming up, did you know about