announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from buffalo, new york. good evening from buffalo. a still proud but deeply wounded community asking tonight, why us. why a teenager traveled hundreds of miles to this city, to this block, to this grocery store to allegedly seek out black people to kill today we learn the gun attack that killed ten and injured three may not have gone entirely as planned police believe the shooter, pumped up on false and racist conspiracy theories, intended to head down the street and shoot more people. thankfully he was stopped and arrested it came on the same weekend as a mass shooting at a southern california church, an attack on taiwanese church members being investigated tonight as a hate crime that was politically motivated. we ll have more on that in a few moments. let s begin here with the pain, remembrances, and fear in buffalo tonight, buffalo still struggling to come to terms with how someone could turn a s
predominantly black neighborhood was previously spotted in buffalo back in march and witnesses are telling me they saw him at the store the day before the shooting, being investigated as a racist hate crime. please confirm that he posted a 180 page racist rant, and warning sirens signs were missed. tonight, the fbi opening another hate crime investigation into the shooting at a california church, one killed and five injured. all members of the taiwanese community. police say the shooter change the doors and open fire. how brave churchgoers subdued him, and the major baby maker formula baby close down over safety concerns. how soon could an impact of the shortage. tracking severe storms along the east coast. tens of millions on alert.