itself, that the person talked about cruz s gun ownership, about his desire to kill people, about his erratic behavior, his disturbing social media posts and the potential of him conducting a school shooting. by this bureau s own admission this should have been assessed as a potential threat to life. but that information when the bureau got it, it never imparted it to it s miami field office. director christopher ray he is promising to get to the bottom of this. but as you mentioned a moment ago governor rick scott is furious. he wants christopher ray to resign. and there s reporting tonight that the school looked into a risk assessment for him about a year ago. what is that about? this is our affiliate reporting that in january 2017, this is according to a school document that station obtained, the school requested a quote, threat assessment of him to
that it is best to stay indoors until it s absolutely safe to go outside. are you getting any indication as to when officials think they might be able to address some of the power outages? because as victor rightly mentioned earlier, the heat particularly in that area of the country right now, i mean, that alone can kill people. well, the county emergency management says that it would be a couple of hours before they got the scope of the damage. they were going to wait till the sun comes up, that s according to local affiliate reporting now. right now we just don t know. it s too dark to understand how bad it was outside last night. we know that we rode the storm through it here with a lot of other people at the omni. the winds were howling. those rain bands were really slamming against our hotel, but i think the expectation was that it was going to be a lot worse, and residents here, at least those that we ve spoken to this
a call. nbc s dallas affiliate reporting that a bystander was also shot during the incident. it took place near a fire training academy. and from the world of sports, nba legend larry byrd, larry legend announcing today he is stepping down as the president of basketball operations for the indiana pacers franchise. the hall of famer says it s time for him to do something else. he says he s probably going to do some scouting and some advising work for the pacers. of course, before he was with the pacers, as a boston fan, i have to say he was and will always be a boston celtic. at least to us. back to politics now. people from all across the country gathering on may day. a day that traditionally promotes workers rights, but some this year aren t fired up just about labor issues, instead, they are focusing on president trump and his policies. our own steve patterson is in los angeles. he s at one of those rallies. so, steve, it s may day, goes back a long ways.
also joining us criminal defense attorney. so, first nick, bring us up to the speed. this has bean lengthy trial. five weeks of testimony. lot has to do with what you just reported. 13 women all of them african-american, all of them accusing that former oklahoma city city police officer of raping them of sexually assaulting them. the state alleges that he singled out his victims, trying to pick out people in impoverished areas, people with checkered pasts or run ins with the police department so if they ever did come forward to report this their credibility would be drawn into question. his credibility, the defense called his ex-girlfriend to the stand to speak to his character. she talked about how according to local affiliate reporting he read bible scriptures to her. they were together about year and a half. but the big bomb shell in this case is skin cells, rests on skin cells of then a 17-year-old
affiliate reporting that they have arrested the father and brother of the french national you mentioned, the one identified attacker, so far. identified, i learned earlier, by his fingerprints, arresting them, possibly a question. we don t know the substance. we know there s a connection. are they searching for a connection? you have, as you say, senior french official telling us they re not certain there may be other attackers out there. they have to find that out to make sure there s not more attacks. i want to jim stay with me brand-new video in to us here at conditinn that s extraordinary. it s troubling. a shoot-out, last night between french police and the terrorists that attacked the theater right behind me. watch. [ gunfire ]