christian school in nashville. police say the shooter was a 28-year-old transgender woman armed with two assault-style firearms and a handgun. how officers took the ok shooter down. the disturbing evidence police have found and the suspect s link to the school. also tonight the deadly path of destruction in the south. at least 22 people killed. entire towns destroyed. the powerful ef4 3r tornad1 for nearly 60 miles. the harrowing stories e1 of survival and the new threats on the move right now. al roker is here. new testimony in e1e1 the donald trump hush money investigation in new york.xd the tabloid king the grand jury heard from today. israel in crisis. tens of thousands protesting in the fá streets over a controversial plan from prime minister benjamin netanyahu. what he has now agreed to do. and the real-life ahe riveters.e1ç■ @&h(lc& the special honor today for the women who played a critical role during world war ii. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with
we all could have been dead.5a■ reporter: melinda washington s husband frantically dug her out of the rubble friday night. her 12-year-old son screaming in agony as q5a■ his mom lay buried.ñrq5a■fái] it s a lot different from seeing it on tv until you lp actually live it. reporter: bruised, battered, but alive, xd now left to face a new reality.t( we re in a small community. we have nothing. no running water. no lights.lp no houses. no transportation. reporter: rolling fork and silver city are small rural towns where more than a third of people live in poverty. nearly three times the national average.lp ìñ9 a lot of people didn t have rental insurance. i didn t. no vehicle insurance.w3 a lot of people didn t have nothing. reporter: some 2,000 people now desperate for help.
many of them with homes that look like this. we ve got mema and fema, joint teams on the ground here. reporter: president biden sending federal resources to help fill the gap, approving funding for temporary housing and loans to e1 those with no one of the major issues that we re going to face is housing. reporter: some residents fear the aid may not be enough. on a road to recovery that could take years, not months. which is why people here are coming together, looking for small glimmers of hope, like melinda s coffee shop. one of the few standqn%9ñstill one less thing to e1 rebuild. as these communities struggle to pick up the pieces. i don t have a lot of plans because i don t have a lot of >95 c1 money. and so i m just trusting god during the process. i know he saved a lot of us for a reason. and so i trust him. u(r&la thompson, nbc news, rolling fork, mississippi. here in new york