And one of the victims was 14yearold anabell pomeroy, the daughter of the churchs pastor frank and his wife, sherri pomeroy. The gunman has been identified as 26yearold Devin Patrick kelley. The gunfire started around 11 30 local time the the gunman walked into the First Baptist church and started shooting. Heres what a grandmother of two of the victims had to say. Were just waiting to find out what happened with my grandson. We just found out one of my granddaughters is not going to make it. I had four grandchildren and my daughterinlaw in front of the church. One of my granddaughters and my daughterinlaw were taken, too. Were here with one grandson still in surgery. Hes been in surgery for several hours. He was shot four times. Oh, my god. His sister was 7, like i said, we just found out shes not going to make it. Heartbreaking. Lets go now to nbc news justice correspondent Pete Williams. Pete, we just heard at some length from Governor Abbott. What did you learn or take away from th
Then president went ahead and did just that. So josh, tell us more about the briefing materials, what was on them and what the president ignored . Exactly, anderson. So before a call with any foreign leader the president is extensively briefed both his National Security team in person and in written papers that are given to the president. What we reported tonight are there were two parts of this written briefing that the president ignored in his call to Vladimir Putin. One was a part that said in caps do not congratulate on Vladimir Putin winning the election. Obviously many people believe that the election is a sham, fixed. But the second part was to condemn Vladimir Putin for an attack in london of an exspy who was killed with a nerve agent. The president did not condemn Vladimir Putin as that part of call that he did. Instead he talked about syria and north korea, which were also topics that were supposed to be discussed on the call that were provided in the briefing. He did mention
package was found today. i wonder what officials are saying about this item. i talked to the chief of police last night on the broadcast who said his understanding, and the atf is obviously look into the bomb components and so is the fbi. but some of the components in the bomb device, actually at that point we re just getting pictures of the site of what may be this new explosion. these are just pictures we re getting from our affiliate there in austin kxan, and you can see first responders on the scene. they already have the area cordoned off. you re saying this is not too far from the fedex facility? well, let me paint the picture here for you. there were two packages with the explosive devices found here in austin and one near a town called sherts, which is suburb
finally an ambulance gets out there and he dies. they couldn t get through the snow. they wouldn t get out of the ambulance to truck through the snow. that s even worse. now they might be fired. but we re staying on top of that. staying on top of the outrage. all right. any more pictures of you and the flying tomato soup can? no? tomorrow maybe? maybe tomorrow. we had a lot of fun. i want to learn how to snowboard. and you ve got him in your phone, right? so give him a text. see ya, tony. let s get you going here. it is thursday, the 18th of february, and here are the faces of the stories driving today s headlines. the dalai lama white house meeting this hour with fellow nobel laureate president barack obama. tiger woods, his first public statement before tv cameras since he admitted infidelity. but please, please, please no questions. professor amy bishop red flags and warning signs. why weren t they enough to stop a campus shooting spree? good morning,