He did have at least two long gun, which would be considered rifles or shotguns and did he have one handgun. Reporter skip rel wells and Thomas Sullivan were two of the marines killed. We will not leave any stone unturned for the victims of this heinous and cowardly act. Reporter u. S. Officials tell nbc news Muhammad Youssef abdulazeez was not on a terrorist watchlist. But he had a blog and posted three days before the shooting. We will look at every possible aspect to include his use of social media. We obviously want to know what his thoughts were. Reporter all a shock to the gunmans friends. Its awful. I want people to know they want always like this. Reporter disbelief and grief. These were men that served their country. They gave everything they had yesterday to protect us. Reporter a city of southern hospitality, still reeling from the darkest of days. Nbc news has learned that the gunman took a trip to jordan from april to november of last year. His dad is from jordan, but inve
Away. Families facing tough struggles forgetting all their troubles on the open seas. Nightly news begins now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. It was an act of terror but with no clear motive. Remarkably a day after a young kuwaitiamerican man shot up a pair of military sites in tennessee investigators have yet to uncover the telltale pieces you would normally expect to find answering the question why. It was confirmed today that Police Fatally shot Mohammad Abdulazeez but not before he had taken the lives of four u. S. Marines. Most of them we also learned today were war veterans. The question tonight is if he believed strongly enough to kill why didnt he leave behind an explanation . Our team has been working the story all day. We want to start with kate snow. Kate good evening. Lester good evening. The fbi this evening saying they have tracked down 70 leads and though so far there is no evidence to sugg
That breaking news coming from the u. S. Navy telling us a sailor injured in the chattanooga shooting died. We are going to update you. Im tracking rain on storm team 4 radar. When it comes to an end and the latest on the heat wave. 10 01 on the dot. A fifth Service Member died after the deadly shooting in chattanooga. One of the petty officers injured in the attack passed away. We are in touch with a sister station in chattanooga. 26yearold Randall Smith was critically injured. The suspected gunman abdulzeez is accused of killing smith as well as four other marines. A Police Officer also wounded. We are going to have new details into the investigation coming up in a few minutes. First, lets get a check of the forecast. Amelia segal is standing by tracking a heat wave. Temperatures david already in the 70s across the area. Despite the rain moving through it is muggy and warm already. 79 in washington. 75 in winchester where the rain has already moved through the area. Annapolis at 80.
Can see 90 degrees for the High Temperature in the city. Were looking at a few scattered showers around once again especially the first part of the day. It looks like more clouds than sunshine too. Down the shore some clouds, also some scattered showers. The shower chances highest during the first half of the day down the shore. 80 degrees so a little cooler if youre looking for some relief there. The pocono mountains low 80s. Also, the threat for a few scattered showers isolated thunderstorms in the mix. Coming up much more on that heat and how long this heat and humidity is going to last with the seven day forecast. Back to you. All right scott. Remember you can track the forecast with the fox 29 news app. You can see live radar images and get whether alerts sent right to your phone. Download the app for free from the apple or google play stores. Breaking right now, new details just released in the murder of a West Philadelphia woman. 27yearold Jasmine Wright was found dead in her ap
Fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of awesome awesome. Developing right now on fox 29, dud deadly gunfire outside of a West Philadelphia rec center. One span dead and another is injured and the masked gunman are on the loose tonight. Good evening im dawn timmeney. Im chris oconnell. Tonights shooting sent children running for cover. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live at the scene tonight in over brook. Shawnette, what are investigator investigators telling you . Reporter well, as of tonight chris we know a 42yearold man was shot dead execution style. Were told a 38yearold man an innocent bystander was taken to the hospital, shot in the hand by stray bullet. This all happened just outside this rec center earlier tonight it was full of kids and young adults. Next thing we know we just hear gunshots, pop pop pop. Alex nash describes the heart racing shots we heard while his group was working out at the rec center at 60th columbia in west philly this morning. They scatter