don t die thank you for joining us this hour. i m a myth muddiness. 1 am on the east coast, midnight in uvalde, texas, where a mass shooting at an elementary school has left 19 children and two teachers dead, as well as a shooter. several more people are injured. that makes it the deadliest school shootings since the attack on sandy hook elementary school in connecticut, a decade ago, were 20 we are the only nation in the world that has so many school shootings, that we have to rank them by body count over years and decades. let that sink in. like today shooting, the sandy hook massacre in 2012 happened at a elementary school, and in the aftermath, there was such collective national horror what had happened, that it really seemed, for a moment, like something might change. that we might actually do something. we ve gotten so used to being in this country that it is hard to remember now, but there was this genuine sense that something had finally snapped. with 21st graders
the victims and their families. it s not just littleton. we know that lots and lots of places. we been through this too many years, took decades now. as i said just a few months ago, and i said a few months before that, and i said each time we see one of these mass shootings are our thoughts and prayers are not enough. schools should be places of safety and sanctuary and learning. perhaps now america would wake up to the dimensions of this challenge. if can happen in a place like littleton. and we can prevent anything like this from happening again. and now, president biden once again joins his predecessors in what has become a sick ritual of addressing the nation after a horrific mass shooting inside an american school. this was the scene from the white house yesterday. after the latest massacre in texas. american flags were also lowered at federal buildings. military installations and at u.s. embassies around the world. we ll go live to texas in just a momen
See a child in the hands of terrorists. The desperate race to save the abducted israel calling up 300,000 reservists is a Ground Offensive coming our Richard Engel near the gaza border taking cover under fire he joins us tonight. And President Biden huddling with advisers as the u. S. Moves a strike group closer to israel the growing questions, was there an Intelligence Failure before the attack and did iran play a role as security ramps up back home. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight live from israel. Good evening from israel, a nation beyond stunned tonight, vulnerable in ways it has never had to accept after a far weaker adversary, hamas, unleashed a ferocious attack over the weekend that seemed to come from everywhere, raining deadly rockets into residential streets and sending militant fighters across the gaza border, where they murdered and kidnapped israeli civilians. Israel says it has Retaken Control of areas hamas had seized tonight israeli
In the worst attack here in decades. 11 americans among the dead. The stunning images. Hamas attacking by land, sea, and air, dropping out of the sky on paragliders and opening fire on a Music Festival. 260 people massacred there. The new drone images revealing the scope of destruction. Hamas now threatening to kill hostages after kidnapping more than 100. The white house now warning americans are likely among them. The horrifying videos. A woman ripped away from her boyfriend. A 12yearold boy taken away by hamas gunmen. We spoke with his family. You keep coming back to the video . Its something that no parent, no human can ever imagine, to see a child in the hands of terrorists. The desperate race to save the abducted. Israel calling up 300,000 reservists. Is a Ground Offensive coming . Our Richard Engel near the gaza border taking cover under fire. He joins us tonight. And President Biden huddling with advisers as the u. S. Moves a strike group closer to israel. The growing questions
Two friends lost their lives in a drowning incident on Easter Sunday. Esau Castillo and Eduardo Martinez were reportedly socialising at the riverbank near the Iguana Creek Bridge. Sometime during their visit there, they decided to go for a swim in the river. But the two men never made it out of the water alive.