Ali velshi, in this history making week. Nina simone. The legendary singer and civil rights activist. And we begin with the shootings in chattanooga and the intense focus on the young man the fbi says murdered four marines. A portrait is emerging of Mohammed Yousef abdulazeez. A portrait and a transformation that people describe as a agree gairs younggregarious and changed person. Hinted at the horror thatched that happened yesterday. Lisa stark is in washington. Lisa. Before yesterday Mohammed Abdulazeez was not on the Homeland Security radar. Part of a widespread investigation. Federal investigators are gathering every bit of information they can about Mohammed Yousef abdulazeez, to try to determine what turned a man described as nice and friendly into a murderer. They are treating this as a terrorist investigation. It would be premature to speculate on exactly why the shooter did what he did. However, we are conducting a thorough investigation to determine whether this person acted
And death in custody. Police say a texas woman committed suicide in jail, but her system doesnt buy it. And now the fbi is involved. Good evening im del walters this is al jazeera america. Were learning more tonight about the gunman who shot and killed four please be the chattanooga, tennessee. The fbi saying Mohammed Yousef abdulazeez, recently traveled to jordan, bisi onileere, new details about the gunman but no motive just yet. Reporter no not yet del. I want you to take a look behind me. Its just after 11 00 here in tennessee and you can see that the crowds are still pouring in. Very emotional all day. As you mentioned we do have some new details about the gunman. We know that he was not on the u. S. Threat list so authorities right now are trying to dig really deep and try determine a motive. Theyre going through phone records talking to family members and checking computers and looking for clues. After a rampage that left four marines dead, details about how the suspected shoote
Zone right now. And caught on camera. Elephant rampage. The angry animal gone wild chasing down his handlers tossing this car like a toy, so what set him off . All right, hey, good morning. Were going to start here with the story that is still developing this hour. Firefighters tell us theyve never seen anything like what happened overnight on this freeway in california. The video shows the moments when a fastmoving wildfire swept across this highway. The drivers were surrounded by those flames. Hundreds of them running for safety. Their cars and trucks left to burn. And an infuriating question this morning, were efforts to fight those flames from the air hampered by the interference of amateur Drone Operators . Lets get the latest now from abcs matt gutman who is on the scene in phelan, california. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, paula. That fire is still smoldering. Now, it raced across the countryside here chewing through thousands of acres in six hours. So facet caught u
Footage of the queen as a 7yearold making the nazi salute. And whoa, baby [ baby cries ] caught on camera. A texas woman giving birth in the front seat of her car as dad video taped the entire thing and its going viral today, saturday july 18th 2015. From nbc news this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im carson daly. Im Sheinelle Jones in for erica hill. Is that the mom screaming . Can we pull over . Put the camera down dad. By the way, you can take all the birthing classes in the world. Nobody prepares you for what to do in the car. We will have more on that coming up. Lets get to the top story. The ferocious fire in california. It is spreading at a rapid rate. Nbcs Scottie Schwartz has more. Good morning. Reporter good morning, carson. This is the interstate 15. A popular interstate. One of the main thoroughfares from los angeles to vegas. This morning, traffic ground to a halt. When people looked off to the right in tr
Immediately stopped traffic and closed the freeway and the folks continued like you mentioned earlier grabbing whatever they could just to get out of their vehicles and these folks might not even know if they still have vehicles or not. The biggest problem is getting water on it or retardant. Grass fire itself has burned at least 2,000 acres. Not clear how that got started. We still doesnt have a lot of information about whether there are any injuries but you can see the potential with cars on fire and that fastmoving fire that people could get hurt. We saw cars, trucks and a boat catch fire. Paul deanno, its got to be like 100 degrees down there but what about the wind . 99 in San Bernardino right now southwest wind gusting to 17 Miles Per Hour. Its nothing like big wind events in Southern California. Have you ever walked through San Francisco and walked between two very Tall Buildings and that wind gets amplified . Same thing on interstate 15. Youre going between mountains on both si