Reporting tonight, lester holt. And good evening. Coming off the 50th anniversary of the march on selma and a weekend in which so much of the nations focus was on racial healing, what has played out at one of this nations major universities may seem particularly galling. It centers on a video that has exploded across the internet. It captures members of a university of Oklahoma Fraternity chapter spewing a racist chant referencing lynching. The target was black students but the hurt has been universal. On that campus tonight widespread condemnation of those on that video from other students and University Officials who quickly moved to shut down the Fraternity Chapter behind it and launch an investigation. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is on the story for us tonight. [ bleep ]. Reporter the video first posted sunday has sparked national outrage. [ bleep ]. Reporter now a second recording from a different angle shows members of the Fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon or sae at the university of oklaho
This proceeding. But the facts, the law and my oath of office just dont leave any doubt about what i have to do. The three legislators are representative reverend Louise Williams bishop, representative Michelle Brownlee and former state representative harold james. All three are charged with accepting illegal Cash Payments in exchange for agreeing to peddle their influence. All three had the opportunity to appear before the investigative grand jury. Two of the three accepted responsibility admitting what they had done. All three have surrendered this morning to the Pennsylvania State police in harrisburg. The full details are laid out in the grand jurys presentment. Returned this past friday. Ill give you a brief summary here. Representative bishop was captured on tape 14 different times, by the same lobbyist who paid off other legislators already indicted. Bishop was a long time acquaintance of the lobbyist. She told him that she was worried about raising campaign funds. He handed her
The dog shows. One prize winner dead and new questions whether six other animals were intentionally poisoned, as well, today tuesday, march 10, 2015. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone it is 7 00 a. M. On the west coast on a tuesday. A lot of people have been asking this question when migh secretary clinton address this email scandal. We now know the answer. Shell address it today and well tell you more about it coming up. More on that story, but fir our top story of the morning a new fallout over the video of racist chant by the members of a fraternity at the university o oklahoma and some are claiming that was not an isolated in Gabe Gutierrez is live at the campus this morning. Gabe, good morning. Reporter savannah, good Mo University officials are not mincing words. They say they are sickened by this video. They have shut down the fraternity and theyre looking into whether the studen
Reporting tonight, lester holt. And good evening. Coming off the 50th anniversary of the march on selma and a weekend in which so much of the nations focus was on racial healing, what has played out at one of this nations major universities may seem particularly galling. It centers on a video that has exploded across the internet. It captures members of a university of Oklahoma Fraternity chapter spewing a racist chant referencing lynching. The target was black students, but the hurt has been universal. On that campus tonight widespread condemnation of those on that video from other students and University Officials who quickly moved to shut down the Fraternity Chapter behind it and launch an investigation. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is on the story for us tonight. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ] reporter the v posted sunday has sparked national outrage. [ bleep ]. Reporter now a second recording from a different angle shows members of the Fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon or sae at the university of oklah
Reporting tonight, lester holt. And good evening. Coming off the 50th anniversary of the march on selma and a weekend in which so much of the nations focus was on racial healing, what has played out at one of this nations major universities may seem particularly galling. It centers on a video that has exploded across the internet. It captures members of a university of Oklahoma Fraternity chapter spewing a racist chant referencing lynching. The target was black students, but the hurt has been universal. On that campus tonight widespread condemnation of those on that video from other students and University Officials who quickly moved to shut down the Fraternity Chapter behind it and launch an investigation. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is on the story for us tonight. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ] reporter the video first posted sunday has sparked national outrage. [ bleep ] reporter now a second recording from a different angle shows members of the Fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon or sae at the university