Republicans can call in at 202 7488001. Emocrats, 202 7488000 independents, 202 7488002. You can also catch up with us on twitter and facebook. Very good Tuesday Morning to you. We begin where the senate left off last night, those for gun measures failing in a series of senate votes. We are getting here thoughts. Here is the headline from the Washington Times this morning efforts to do something about guns devolves into partisanship. The story notes that senators could not find the sweet spot, instead retreating to partisan corners and stale mating on competing plans to try to keep firearms out of the hands of terrorists. Said thekers democratic plan ran roughshod of the Second Amendment. Last night after those votes failed in the senate, senator bill nelson talked about those votes and lamented the senates inability to act on gun control. What am i going to tell 49 grieving families . What am i going to tell the families of those that are still in the hospital fighting for their lives
We are also told that some bulldozer crews are en route to help fire crews move around from this to get better access to actually whats burning. We havent seen the bulldozers yet but well keep an eye out for that. An active situation. Once again more than two hours since this fire started in newark. Believe in newark, im mark sayre, kpix 5. One of our directors was flying over the scene of that fire today and he got this video from the sky. The faa said that they have not restricted flights yet. They may impose flight restrictions however which would impact local aircraft but not flights arriving at oakland. Now to the latest on the dallas officers ambush. Heres what we know right now. Among the five officers killed, a newlywed and iraq veteran. We also know more about the gunman. We know his name and that police now believe he acted alone. Were also learning there have been targeted Police Shootings in georgia, tennessee and missouri. We have a series of reports. Our Team Coverage beg
City try to piece themselves back together again. A crowd mourned at a multifaith vigil on friday. Never in our wildest dreams would we have imagined that five Police Officers would be dead this morning. This was a wellplanned, wellthought out, evil tragedy. The night before an otherwise peaceful protest in dallas became the single deadliest day for Law Enforcement since 9 11. Police say 25yearold Micah Xavier Johnson a former Army Reservist with no criminal record used rifle to shoot five officers in an ambush. Five were killed and two civilians were injured. Get them here a standoff lasted hours. When negotiations broke police used robot to plant an explosive. The suspect died in the blast. We are horrified over these events and we stand united with people. And the Police Department in dallas. Investigators searched johnsons home friday trying to get more information about why he attacked Police Officers and whether he acted alone. We are learning more about the victims. One was fred
Journal on combat tactics. Police say the army veteran was general set over the Police Shooting and want was upset about the Police Shootings and wanted to kill white officers. There are three others still in custody. This was a wellplanned, a well thought out, evil tragedy. We wont rest until we bring everyone involved to justice. Jonathan the Dallas Police chief take part in a prayer vigil today. Two patrol cars covered in flowers are parked just outside the Dallas Police headquarters in honor of all of the officers killed. President obama has ordered flags to be flown at half staff. Tonight new protests in response to deadly Police Shootings this week. D. C. Bureau chief sam ford joining us live outside the department of justice where one right now is taking place. Sam . Sam we are outside the department of jut the process of Getting Started here. A number of young people have been here for maybe 45 minutes. A lot of them are Holding Signs saying black lives matter. I have a young w
Were live from dallas with all the latest on the investigation. Nightly news begins right now. Tragedy in dallas. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Reporting tonight from dallas. Good evening. Tonight police say the shots that turned the streets behind me into a killing zone, taking the lives of 15 Police Officers 5 Police Officers, wounding 7 others and 2 civil juans came from one man operating alone with a grudge against police and white people. Tonight the nation shares dallas anxiety and shock over how a peaceful protest of Police Shootings of black men turned into an ambush of Police Officers here in texas. As marchers ran in fear from the shots, police took cover and desperately tried to neutralize the attacker. Tonight weve learned the killer is a black army veteran of the war in afghanistan. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez has details. Go, go, go ambush was wellplanned, wellthoughtout and evil, police say. Hundreds of protesters caught in the cro crossfire, while officer were targ