person who has kids in schools that are being locked down in reaction to the shooting today is also responsible for reporting on that shooting. it s uncanny, right? you feel for the anchor in that moment, both responsible for covering it and conveying to the public what s going on and also experiencing in her own life, in her own family s life in that moment what it means for them to be in the midst of that same crisis. all right? what are the odds that something like that could happen? that the people who are covering the news will end up having a personal connection to the very gun violence they are responsible for reporting on. it turns out in this country the odds of that are pretty good. hearing from their administrators letting them know that they are okay and that they are monitoring the situation closely. holly, amanda. yeah, speaking of that, i m getting emails from my child s school that they re going into lockdown at this time just as a precaution and at one
for women for years to come. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. some genuine all american heroes are taking us off the air tonight. and on that note, i wish you a very good night. it s great to be with my family last week. but i love being back here with you. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. thanks for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here with us tonight. so, this is how the news today in nashville unfolded on live tv and that city. this was in nashville as it happened, live on the channel 4 local news. we do anticipate this news conference starting any moment. this will be the first official news conference where we can hear where police are at with their investigation. is joining us live with some perspective, some personal perspective on this as well. joy lynn? yeah, there s absolutely no word for what s going on today. i m actually a school shooting
night. thanks to you at home for joining us. happy to have you with us here tonight. this is how the news unfolded today, in nashville. how the news unfolded on live tv in that city as it was happening. this was on the channel 4 local news in nashville. we anticipate this news conference starting at any moment. first official news conference where we can hear where investigators are in their investigation. some personal perspective on this as well. yeah, there s absolutely no words for what s going on today. i m actually at school, a shooting survivor myself, happened years ago, it was if eighth grade and all of this is flooding back flashbacks for me and what i went through with my classmates. i was actually in the hallway during break when the gunman opened fire shooting one of my peers and killing them and just after hearing the gunshots i just knew to run and i hid underneath the risers in my choir class and those minutes and hours of waiting to be released by pol
strike, their embassies and consulates around the world closed. the head of their consulate in new york quit his job in protest, and every major city in that country people turned out in the streets waving flags, singing the national anthem, saying our legal system stays independent. you will not take it over. we are not giving up this pillar of what makes us a democracy. they also have now won. today they won. the prime minister delayed and delayed and delayed the speech he was supposed to make to the public about how he was going ahead with this plan no matter what, but then finally he did give that speech and he announced, okay, actually, we re shelving it. we re not going to force it through like they were planning, at least not yet. so it worked in both places, less than three weeks apart, one place today in israel, one place earlier this month in georgia.
nashville, tennessee, sir, thank you for joining us on a really difficult night. the whole country has nashville in their thoughts tonight, thank you. well, we appreciate the country having us in those thoughts and prayers, and again, let s just hope that we can get beyond this epidemic of gun violence. thank you, sir. good luck to you. thank you. as scarry and as horrifying as the scene was today in nashville, it was, of course, very familiar, and it brought to mind one of the worst incidents of gun violence anywhere in the world. it s been a little over ten years since a young man with an assault rifle killed 26 people at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut. one of them was 6-year-old dylan hockley, in the aftermath of the sandy hook tragedy, dylan s mom nicole summoned the strength to become a leading voice on the issue of gun violence, sandy hook promise is a nonprofit that s dedicated to trying to