Good afternoon. Im tori campbell. Topping our news, a 16yearold sophomore went on a stabbing rampage this morning at a High School East of pittsburgh, pennsylvania, leaving 20 people injured. Seven of them critically. Rob roth has been following this story and joins us from the newsroom. What are you hearing . Chaos and panic. Thats how the police chief of murrysville, pennsylvania describes what he saw as he arrived at Franklin Regional High School just after 7 00 eastern time this morning. Students ran from the building when it pulled a fire alarm to get the other teenagers to evacuate. Witnesses say the attacker was walking down the hall with two knives apparently slashing and stabbing others at random. There was blood all over the floor. I thought maybe somebody had a nose bleed. Someone yelled, she got stabbed. My one friend got cut across the face. She was bleeding. The one friend got stabbed in the back. My one friends brother. He got tackled to the ground and they stabbed him s
Employees began flooding out of the building and that is when police went in. The police chief picks it up from there. Watch. Officers encountered numerous employees fleeing from the building. It was very chaotic. While conducting a search, officers located a second individual with a gunshot wound that appears to may have been selfinflicted. We are still working on confirming that. Police have confirmed the shooter was a female and they believe this was Domestic Violence and that she was targeting a male. We do know that one male is now in Critical Condition after being shot. It is unclear if the person who was critical is the same person that she may have been targeting. There was all kinds of speculation that the shooting began outside and then moved inside. But we do know is that police, and searching the building, found for shooter and the victim together in one room. Both of them are suffering gunshot wounds. There are three other victims with what police are now calling gunshot r
Actor robert wagner, a person of interest in her death. And panic on a plane. Fire erupting in the cabin when a phone charger suddenly explodes. Passengers jumping into action. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, everyone, and welcome to our viewers in the west. In a country virtually numbed by the frequency of School Shootings, what happened in a Los Angeles Middle School today came as a stunning shock. A 12yearold girl in custody accused of bringing a gun into the classroom where shots rang out, striking some of her classmates. Five were injured, one left seriously wounded. And tonight distraught parents who spent part of this day anxiously awaiting word about their children, are asking why. Our Steve Patterson is in los angeles today with late details. Reporter terror inside a middle school classroom. Shooting at 1575 west second street. A better location is castro middle school. Reporter shortly before 9 00 this Morning Police responded to reports of a shooting
And in person at the white house continuing to argue that he wants u. S. Troops out of syria and calling on the u. S. Military to guard the border with mexico catching pentagon officials off guard for the second time in less than a week. The first time being the syria delegation. Also, as he stood alongside the leaders of the baltic stalts, the president claiming that nobody has been tougher on russia than he has. He also said he thinks he can have a very Good Relationship with putin. Today first sentencing in Robert Muellers probe, the attorney ordered to 30 days in jail a 20,000 fine after admitting he lied to the fbi about contacts with a Trump Campaign full and a ukrainian businessman. And last night, Court Filings revealed showing the Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein h, that mueller had charges that Paul Manafort was colluding with russian government officials. And a mission that would naturally cover ties that a former campaign ties had to russian political operatives, russian back
Caravan now which is towards the middle of mexico, coming up from honduras is breaking up very rapidly. Thats because mexico has very strong immigration laws, as we should have. We should have those laws. We do not have. We have immigration laws that are laughed at by everybody. And it has to be changed. Neil now the caravan that the president is referring to is a large group of honduran immigrants, more to the point, Illegal Immigrants when they cross the border into mexico. They continue to proceed north. Now the fact of the matter is, here, these caravans can be different sizes in eight of themselves, not necessarily security threats. But they did start out as a few hundred, than 800, now over a thousand, now close to 2000. Nevertheless, the president focusing on these developments saying that the mexicans have intervene to break down the caravan tribes, in other words to chop it up into smaller pieces. That does not necessarily mean that a number of illegals presumably from hondura