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busy miami highway, slamming into an suv a dramatic video of a passenger jumping to safety, another killed. republican leaders on the ground in ukraine today. the new warning from putin, as sweden and finland make moves to join nato. devastating news from britney spears. the pop star opening up about her miscarriage. plus, extreme couponing is back. how americans are getting in on the coupon craze to fight rising prices. all will be $3 instead of $39 that s crazy how you can save big. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening it was the most simple of everyday activities, going grocery shopping, that turned deadly. a gunman in upstate new york opened fire at a topps supermarket, killing ten people the sheriff described the act as pure evil details still coming in tonight here s what we know right now. in addition to the ten killed, at least three people were injured. this video shows the alleged shooter being taken into custody al
Flight, an air canada flight, arrived in that very terminal on a flight from alaska earlier today, that he waited for his luggage along with the other passengers on that flight, that he retrieved his bags where he had checked firearms. These are firearms that you can legally check with the airline. And he legally was able to do that. He went to a bathroom, retrieved the firearm and came back out and started shooting. According to the initial investigations, it doesnt appear that he was targeting anyone in particular. He appeared to be shooting ram donnelly. There was no rym or reason to the shooting. But it appears that a lot of the people who he would have shot and some of the people that were killed might have been some of the passengers that were on this flight. Again, he came on a flight, an air canada flight were told, that came from alaska and landed earlier at ft. Lauderdale international airport. Again, this is a twist on something weve never seen before. Again, weve seen shoot
Reporter no other gun man is found. At this point it looked like he acted alone. Reporter officials wont say if the suspect was targeting someone on an arriving flight or if hes cooperating. Randi kaye, cnn, new york. Lets get much more on this. I want to bring in jeffrey thomas, an aviation perspective, joining us from skype. Great to have you on the program. We want to talk about Airport Security to start off with. Should we be alarmed that this individual was able to check in a firearm when hed already flagged himself up to authorities . Absolutely. It is a troubling background to this gentleman from what has been reported to us. The fact that he had some problems apparently, allegedly, and then indeed checked this
firearm with his checked baggage which of course is allowed in certain states of the United States. And that was nothing illegal this doing that. However of course what transpired of course was a terrible tragedy. But the problem weve got here is that although some cases
Committed to replacing obamacare the same day it is repealed . Cnn newsroom starts now. Hello again. Thank you for joining me. Im fredricka whitfield. We have distressing new video from inside that ft. Lauderdale airport. Showing when the gunman opens fire in the baggage area. This video is difficult to watch. It is crucial in understanding the context of this shooting. This is a freeze frame, now, of what appears to be Security Camera footage, obtained by tmz. The man in the blue shirt is believed to be accused gunman, esteban santiago. We will play the video one time throughout this hour. It is silent. And it is security footage. And it is disturbing. Pay attention to the left side of your screen, where the man in the blue shirt enters the frame. He is due in court. He is facing serious charges. All of them eligible for the death penalty, fred. Boris sanchez. At ft. Lauderdale airport. I want to bring in Matthew Haras and paul shmek. Good to see you. Your reaction to the video . I th