donald trump. the new bomb cyclone targeting the west and the urgent relief effort in the south after that deadly tornado outbreak. our team in the storm zone with families who have lost everything. the deadly fire at a migrant center near the u.s.-mexico border. dozens killed. was it started as a protest? allergy season off to an early start. why it s getting longer and stronger, and how you can get relief. and the photographer who teamed up with young engineers to keep chasing his passion. he is inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone, and welcome. as families grieve the lives of six people murdered in a nashville private christian school, we re getting a chilling look into the heart-pounding moments when the first responding police officers braved gunfire, entered the school, and advanced from room to room, locating and fatally shooting the suspect. newly released video of the attack just part of a tro
was targeted. and we re getting a disturbing look at the moment that suspect who police say is a transgender person and a former person at the school shoots out the school s windows and walks inside to carry out the attack. we re also learn much more about the six victims. three students, just nine years old and three adults in their 60s, including the head of the school. the lost, once again, renewing calls to do something to prevent the next shooting. the mayor of nashville sharing this call to action earlier on today. the country needs to pick itself up and say no to an assault weapons lobby that, again, is making it too available and too convenient and too first of mind for people to go out and commit terrible acts. and that is where we begin today. yasmin is in nashville for us. you were on your way home from one disaster in mississippi when you got the call to reroute to another tragedy. this time in nashville. i know you as a mom, your two boys, you keep thinking a
in the south, the white house promising help for the communities ravaged by powerful tornadoes this weekend. we re live in one of the hardest hit areas. plus new details surrounding the grand jury investigating the hush money payment made during the 2016 campaign. who just testified and what he could say. we re live in paris thousands of protesters are blocking trains and streets once again over the plan to raise the pension age. we begin this very busy hour with the latest on the deadly shooting at the school in nashville. this morning the heartbroken community is in mourning after three students, all 9 years old, were gunned down along with three adults by a 28-year-old former student. today we re learning new details about the victims of the tragedy. among them the head master, a substitute teacher and the custodian. the children were 9 years old. police say a sense of resentment may have played a role in the attack adding the suspect had a map of the school and cond
the same areas that have been hard hit. then you go up into the mountains where it s cold enough for snow. we re looking at about 3 to 4 feet of snow. also want to point out, this is going to be the next storm system that is going to race across the country and increase our severe threat for friday in orange. from iowa, illinois right down into arkansas and parts of mississippi. winds over 60 miles per hour. large hail and we could see more tornadoes out of this next storm on friday. all right. dylan dreyer, thank you so much for that. in france today, new mass protests as hundreds of thousands marched in opposition to president emmanuel macron s decision to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. police clashed with protesters in paris. the demonstrations have been growing since macron pushed the change through parliament without a vote. in mexico tonight, just across the border from el paso, texas, a search for answers after a fire killed dozens of people at a migrant detention
cross the border. and they were stopped by officers and several months before that, another group that was at the u.s./mexico border in el paso oat. this is such an awful tragedy. you look at the pictures from outside the scene. and what we re not showing you is there were also boies that were laid on the side of that migrant holding center. we just heard a short time ago from the mexican president who tells us this fire started last night around 9:30 local time. and what the president said happened is there was a protest that unfolded. some of the migrants were upset that they were told they were going to be deported. so they put up small mattresses. then the fire raged out of control. the death toll is at 39. several dozen more people injured. what we know is that many of those migrants were from central america. and also there were some from venezuela as well.