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Is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. And while we are covering developing news on several fronts on this friday night, most urgently this evening there has been another School Shooting in this country. This time at a High School North of seattle in marysville, washington, where a student started shooting in a school cafeteria. We want to begin with the very latest. Nbcs Hallie Jackson is covering for us tonight. A possible shooting reporter moments before students sprinted out of Marysville Pilchuck high school, austin in the cafeteria with a classmate. I see him stand up, pull something out of his pocket. At first i thought it was just someone making a really loud noise with like a bag, like a big wild pop until i heard four more after that. And i saw three kids just fall from the table like they were falling to the ground dead. Reporter from inside the school tweets from students, dont go towards the cafeteria, school in lock down, shots fired. Im so scared. Three dozen teens huddled in a room with their math teacher. The principal came on and said this is not a fire drill. We are in lockdown. Reporter as police raced, marysville guns drawn, ambulances took teenagers to a nearby hospital where 25 doctors responded to the shooting, some triaging patients in the parking lot. All three are young people who are in very critical condition. Reporter another person is hospitalized with less serious injuries. We have one known suspect. Reporter High Level Law enforcement sources identified the suspected gunman as Jaylen Fryberg who shot himself after killing one other person, a female student. Fryberg is described as a popular freshman Football Player who reportedly had a fight recently involving a girl. I saw a lot of kids running the same way i was. A lot were crying and freaking out. Reporter parents reunited after an orderly e vokuation process, one the school had rehearsed. We havent heard anything yet. Nothing. Everybodys calling. We just dont know. Reporter this is the worst School Shooting in Washington State since one person was killed and two others hurt at Seattle Pacific university this summer. Community leaders say their priority right now is supporting the families whose lives are now forever changed. A vigil is planned tonight at a local church as marysville begins what will be a long and difficult grieving process. Brian. Nbcs Hallie Jackson starting us off tonight. Thanks. Now to our other major story tonight, the ebola virus. Which as you know doubt know by now is has a rooifed in new york city. A doctor just back from volunteering to treat ebola patients in west africa is now himself in isolation at a new york City Hospital as officials now try to keep 8 Million People calm along with visitors from the worldover. And complicating that effort, this patient crisscrossed the city of new york right before his symptoms appeared. Our report on all of it from nbcs katy tur. Reporter as 33yearold dr. Craig spencer finished his first full day in treatment at Bellevue Hospital, officials were tracing his every move around new york city. Beginning tuesday at 7 00 a. M. When he started to feel tired to around noon thursday when he reported a 100. 3 degree fever. And this afternoon they went to the Brooklyn Bowling alley he visited the night before he got sick. We came here to see if there was any reason to be concerned. If there were any exposures. There arent any. Reporter still the venerable New York Times asked, can you get ebola from a bowling ball. Experts say the simple answer is no. Ebola is an extremely hard disease to contract. Its transmitted only through direct contact with the blood or other bodily fluids of another individual. Reporter disease detectives are looking for anyone who may have had contact with doctor spencer with help from the nypds missing persons unit. Authorities know in addition to bowling he went to restaurants, a public park, rode a cab and took the subways. Millions of people ride the new york city subway system every single day. And experts want to emphasize that the risk of becoming infected by sitting next to somebody on the train is next to zero because this is not an airborne disease. Its something that new yorkers we spoke with seem to understand. The chance of catching are probably less than winning the lottery and getting hit by lightning at the same time. Reporter dr. Spencer had been home for about a week from guinea where he was treating ebola patients for doctors without borders. Photos from his Facebook Page show the humanitarians lighter side. Spencer grew up in michigan and went to gross point north high. Had a maturity beyond his years that we could see here even in high school in his ability to connect with diverse groups of people. And i think that we could see early on that he had a heart for others. Reporter dr. Spencers fiancee and two friends are still under quarantine as well. Officials say so far they have not shown any signs or symptoms of ebola. Officials want to stress that dr. Spencer was taking his temperature twice a day. And they do believe, brian, that he called the Health Department at the first sign of a fever. Katy tur in Bellevue Hospital in manhattan tonight. Katy, thanks. This doctors movements around new york city have raised some questions about whether or not he should have been quarantined immediately upon his return from volunteer work with patients in africa. Meantime, we did get some good news on the ebola fight today about one of the nurses from dallas. Our correspondent Peter Alexander has our report. Reporter walking out of the National Institutes of health today, nurse nina pham said she felt fortunate to be free from ebola and eager to go home to dallas. And try to get back to a normal life and reunite with my dog bentley. Reporter but first a stop at the oval office and a hug to president obama to send a message that someone cured of ebola is not contagious. Medical experts have also stressed that the disease cant be spread before someone has symptoms. Still, dr. Spencers case raises new concerns. Late today new york and new jerseys governors announced from now on anyone who had contact with an ebola patient in west africa will be automatically quarantined for 21 days. Weve agreed quarantine is the right way to go. This is not the time to take chances. Reporter federal Officials Say theyre considering a similar move. Should americans or others return from the ebola zone be forced into a more strict or mandatory quarantine . That is something that is right now under very active discussion. Reporter how dr. Rick sacra warned confining Health Care Workers could discourage them from risking their lives to help. If you see other doctors returning and facing a lot of criticism or stigma, its going to have an impact on thinking about going somewhere like that to help out. Reporter as for dr. Spencer, sacra says hes a model of what youd want any doctor to do. Peter alexander, nbc news, washington. One more item on a point we just brought out there. There is another side to this new quarantine policy. Already tonight some medical professionals have been on television saying the governors of new york and new jersey might have just made the fight against ebola more difficult in west africa by disincentivizing american doctors who would normally want to travel there to volunteer to help but dont want to then lose three weeks of their lives upon their return to the u. S. Well, just before our air time here last night we reported on a grievous attack on two uniformed nypd officers by a man wielding a hatchet. He was later killed. And in light of the attack in canada this week, new york police worried he was a socalled lone wolf with terrorist intent. Well, today they seemed to confirm those fears. We get our report tonight from nbcs stephanie gosk. Reporter a lone attacker charging across a new york city sidewalk hatchet in hand. New York City Police commissioner bill bratton is calling it a terror attack. This was a terrorist attack, certainly. Reporter two injured officers, 25yearold Kenneth Healy struck in the head. Thompson radicalized inspired by terror groups online more than likely. Visiting websites that are focused on designated terrorist groups, al qaeda, isis, al shabaab as well as looking at different acts of violence including beheadings. Reporter allegedly leading to this attack on a Street Corner in queens. The target of the attack, four Rookie Police officers standing about here. The man with the axe injured two of them, the other two had the wherewithall to draw their weapons and defend themselves. You can see the bullet holes in this building. Police say thompson converted to islam two years ago. This is believed to be his Facebook Page with verses of the quran. The kind of actor that has Law Enforcement concerned. Protecting against those who are radicalized is extremely difficult for police and intelligence officials. Trying to find that person who is both radicalized and is going to take action when theyre operating on their own is near impossible. Reporter Law Enforcement around the country are on alert trying to identify those just talking about attacks and those ready to commit them. Stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. And to our north in canada today at times it felt like the entire country had come forward to pay tribute to the military reservist Nathan Cirillo who was gunned down this week while standing post at canadas war memorial. People gathered along the highway for hundreds of miles as a hearse brought him back to his hometown. Our report tonight from nbcs Kevin Tibbles in ottawa. Reporter today, corporal Nathan Cirillo began his final journey home. I never knew him. I never knew anyone that knew him. But hes canadian, he belonged to us. Reporter the 24yearold canadian soldier was gunned down wednesday as he stood guard at the national war memorial. His killer, 32yearold michael zehafbibeau was later killed in a shootout inside the canadian parliament. Security video shows him running with a rifle as by standers ran for cover. As Corporal Cirillos casket traveled the 325 miles, people gathered on bridges to pay their respects. It has become a tradition in canada that as a fallen soldier makes the final trip home, people line the route out of respect and to say goodbye. Emotion emotional . Its deeply emotional. As a human being, as a canadian, as somebody who cares. Reporter while Corporal Cirillo lay bleeding, passers by, complete strangers, tried to save his life. I wasnt thinking of a whole lot. Just wanted to help. I told him that his family loved him so much. And i just kept repeating that. Were not heroes. We were just able to help in the ways that we could. Reporter in his hometown cirillos friends remembered him this way. He was just such a caring guy. He rescued animals and he loved his son so much. Reporter at home the corporals dogs were still waiting for him. A new honor guard now posted at the memorial where Corporal Cirillo last stood, a crowd gathered to sing o canada in tribute. Kevin tibbles, nbc news, ottawa. In this country, we are headed for what could be an election cliffhanger, a little over a week from now control of the u. S. Senate hangs in the balance. And tonight the moderator of meet the press, chuck todd, is out on the road. Chuck, you have been to diners and truck stops and universities and town squares in iowa. And tonight i believe is madison, wisconsin. What is your report from the political front . Reporter well, brian, as you know polls have been saying voters are unhappy. They think the countrys headed in the wrong direction. I came out here to try to get the why. Why do they think this. Well, its a Pretty Simple explanation whether it was veterans in kansas, students in iowa or political activists here in madison. And that is its gridlock is the problem and polarization. Now, the problem these folks all express is they dont have faith that if they vote change again, whatever change is defined as in their state that anything is going to actually change. Theyre desperate to do something. Theyre desperate to express this frustration. But they really dont know where to turn. And, brian, thats the wild card of this election. And thats why all these polls are tied right now. They dont know where to go. All right. Chuck teeing up the conversation from madison tonight. 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Reporter but more important might be what they got a whole lot of people across six states to do this week including our two moms from new york. To spend the day as superheroes with some superhero kids who are going through a tough time. This week we also heard from melody who emailed us from arkansas about a teacher named charity west. Charity is a High School English teacher from stillwater, oklahoma, who got the surprise of her life when about a hundred of her students and dozens of colleagues decided to raise money to remodel her home. So many people had come together for someone who is no more deserving than anybody else. I was just so overwhelmed. Reporter miss west as shes known to her students has been struggling this past year with Chronic Health problems that affect her nerves. Her students wanted to lift her spirits and make things a little bit easier for their beloved teacher and friend. Shes done so much for us. Shes just really inspires us. Reporter and finally, some of the good thats going on in detroit. Robert from michigan wanted us to know about the detroit moir group, People Volunteer their time cleaning up the citys overgrown playgrounds and parks. The kids, thats number one. Good deeds going on all over the place. And we will continue to share their stories. That is our broadcast for this friday night and for this week. Thank you for being here with us. Im brian williams. Lester holt will be here with you this weekend. We of course hope to see you right back here on monday night. In the meantime, have a good weekend. Good night. Honey boo boo gets the ax. Mama june speaks out about the shows sudden cancellation. Now on extra. Here comes honey boo boo. There goes honey boo boo. Honey boo boos out. Tlc pulls the plug after mama junes rumored relationship with a sex offender. Ill not ever, ever, ever put my kids in danger. How much money mama and boo boo just lost. 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