the victims, it is pain and agony, but it is a big step and i hope we get the answer, from the trip from idaho to pennsylvania, or any time even prior, did he kill anyone else, because this someone of the most vul cigar and vicious attacks we ve seen in recent attacks in recent history in america, a very personal attack with a brutal knife, a big knife, a k-bar knife, did this guy kill before or others on the trip, and all of these things are possible and we don t have those answers. maybe these are the only murders he did. we ll have to wait and see. big questions, gadi will be jumping into it and i m sure jim we will be having you back for your analysis. thank you very much. and as americans finalize those new years eve plans, health experts are warning of another spike in covid cases. driven by a new dangerous variant, hospitals are already stretched to the limit by the so-called triple-demic, the mix of covid, flu, and respiratory
there. we don t quite know yet. we should find out in the coming days. and it has to be said again, richard fiero, the man who stopped the shooter, saved countless lives with his heroism and the help of other people inside that club. we re grateful for his courage. in idaho, investigators have searched a new area hoping to uncover clues for the quadruple homicide of four university of idaho students. joining us is nbc news correspondent gadi schwartz. gadi, what s the latest there? reporter: good morning, willie. the area you just mentioned, it was actually an area right behind the house. they temporarily roped it off. it seemed like for a little while there investigators were trying to get a bead on the entryway and the exitway of the back door there, but at this time there s still no word on how this killer was able to make it in and out of this house undetected.
is no suspect, no murder weapon, and still no motive. joe? gadi, nine days as you pointed out in between the murders and today. four people killed with a knife. that would have you assume that there s lot of blood, a mess, and you d also assume the way knife killings go more often than not, the killer also is cut during something like that. do we know have they finished cleaning up the crime scene itself or are they still working on it? reporter: all we can tell is what we can see outside from beyond the crime scene here, but as you just mentioned, you d imagine that something like that would be would leave lot of blood inside. we know that two of the victims were killed on the top floor, two of the victims on the second
floor, and then the surviving roommates are on the bottom floor. now, whatever happened inside, it does not look like there is a blood trail or an obvious blood trail outside of the home either out the front door or out the back door. as you can imagine, after killing four people inside that s something that investigators were looking for. but you have this area behind the home. it s got a lot of leaves, a lot of trees. there was some snow on the ground. again, you don t see any obvious signs of blood anywhere. so we don t know what happened inside. but the question that a lot of people in this community are asking is did this killer have time to possibly clean up a little bit while inside of the home. right now only investigators know. just horrifying. the search for answers continues today. gadi schwartz live in idaho for us. thanks so much. turning to politics now, and a new opinion piece this morning in the new york post by former attorney general under donald trump william b
back to you. yeah. and gadi, that s the real challenge here, isn t it. it s such a tragedy. it s now a tragedy that has an entire community just absolutely frozen in place and fearful. i was just leaving the university of florida back in i guess 90, 91 when the killings started taking place on the university of florida campus. and unrelated, it seemed one after another unrelated. and i guess from what i ve read, and if you could tell us a little bit about it, what is scaring the students there and why professors are thinking about canceling the rest of the semester. there just are absolutely no clues right now. the police are baffled. this home was a home where a lot of people came in and out. one sister said that the padlock