Her behind closed doors. Was the hotel negligent for letting it today . Happen. Opening statements get underway today, tuesday, february 23rd, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today. Tuesday morning. Im savannah guthrie. We have willie in for matt again this morning. The battle between apple and the government got more interesting. Remarkable twist yesterday when the founding father of the Silicon Valley speak out. Bill gates. Came out on the side of the government against apple. Weve seen titans line up on different sides. Our top story is politics. Todays nevada gop caucus and, of course, next weeks super tuesday contest are looming large for both parties. Lets start with nbc National Good morning. Savannah, good morning to you from here on the vegas strip. Donald trump is in the drivers seat in the race and, yet, his rivals have barely touched him. Today will pit trum
With light winds. The winds will pick up tomorrow and stay breezy through thursday with temps cooling a bit. Ill have that forecast for you in a few minutes. New this morning. A new program in eastern iowa is dedicated to helping students feel more comfortable expressing themselves in school and in their community. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo. She caught up with people in the prgram its called the waterloo writing project, and its dedicated to improving peoples writing and communication skills. Talking about things that are important to them in the community and then write about it. Would want to communicate their writing to am audience. Whether its music. Slam poetry or dance. At the end of each writing project session, there is usually an mics. Putting those kids in the students at the waterloo writing project is a volunteer, this is a soon to be nonprofit kevin says this is a third space for students to learn outside of school or home. Weve got you covered live in
Forecast for you in a few minutes. Our top story this morning. An this morning. An uber driver and accused mass shooter is now facing 16 charges. Police say he killed six people in michigan. Hes being held without bail, as the investigation. Motive remains unclear at this point in time. Shooting rampage in michigan. One of the pieces of evidence that was seized from the suspect was his phone, other key evidence the handgun police say they found on suspect jason brian dalton. The pistol consistent with shell casings from all three crime scenes. Perhaps even more disturbing, the heavy duty jacket capable of concealing a pistol. Which Law Enforcement says dalton bought less than three hours before the first attack. Also, a veritable arsenal a total of eleven rifles investigators found at daltons home. This, as one injured victim is still recovering, expected to survive. 14year old abigail cough is in critical condition. The only survivor in the third and final attack. Her father spoke abo
Away a 6yearold had taken a gun out of his mothers diaper bag. We started freaking out and didnt know what to do. Reporter her mother rushed to the park with a friend called to tell her what happened. Its a pretty traumatic thing that happened to them, and i dont know how no one got hurt. Reporter Police Responded too, and charged this man with negligence for putting the firearm in his girlfriends diaper bag. I cant think of too many worse places to store a firearm. Reporter they also charged him with tampering with evidence. When he found out police were on the way he tried to throw the gun into the bay. Jeff patterson, news channel 8. Sarasota deputies say a venice couples home was filled with guns, drug, and explosives, all within reach of a 5yearold. They discovered it when they went to the home to check on the child in their care. Along with pipe bombs and hand grenades. The child is in protective custody. Two arrests have been made in a weekend shooting at a holiday i think expre
Dierdorff is on the scene now working to get an update from firefighters. Thank you for joining us on this tuesday, im deiah riley. Im dan shaffer. In the last week we first told you about middle School Students sexting in highlands county. 20 middle school girls sending nude photos and videos. Abc action News Reporter Michael Paluska was in lake placid last night as the principal called an emergency meeting for parents. Reporter hundreds of parents showed up here to talk about the dangers of sexting. The principal saying the issues with this are because of cell phones and using video and pictures. He says students need to know it can change lives. This is against the law. Reporter this is a meeting Lake Placid Middle School Principal Chris dodi never wanted to hold but had to. One student says to me everyone does it. Its concerning to me. Reporter the Sheriffs Office started the month with one cell phone. The number jumped to 20 and full blown investigation for children ages 12 to 14.