Fwr breathtaking view thats disappearing fast. Nightly news begins now. Announcer from nbc World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening, im lester holt sitting in for brian. We shudder at the thought as to how this broadcast might have read. The word of shots fired inside Mcnair Discovery Learning Center in decatur, georgia, was quickly followed by images of s. W. A. T. Teams surrounding the school, children being hurried to safety by teachers. A scene we have witnessed far too many times with horrifying outcomes. This time thankfully no one was injured, but as the School Year Begins around the country, todays scare raises new and difficult questions about what we have really learned from the newtown tragedy. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez joins us from decatur now with details. Gabe . Reporter lester, all 800plus students have been accounted for tonight, and no injuries have been reported. Visitors are supposed to be buzzed into the school, but someh
Police say he had no obvious connection to the school in decatur. The school was evacuated and no one was injured. The gunman told one School Employee he was sorry for what he was doing and was willing to die. Tarika duncan has our report. Reporter Elementary School children sprinted to safety after a gunman opened fire at the ronald e. Mcnair Discovery Learning Academy in decatur, georgia. What did they tell you . There was a lockdown because someone was in the building. Mmhmm . Right . And it was scary. Reporter 800 students were evacuated. No one was injured. Police say 20yearold Michael Brandon hill snuck into the school with an Assault Rifle and ordered a secretary to call an atlanta tv station. Station employee lacy lecor answered the call. The front desk called ahead to say im transferring someone and she says shes in a School Office with a gunman. I asked her what he wanted and she said he wanted us to start filming as police die. Reporter Authorities Say hill fired several sho
Information. Breaking news from london. It involves a united jet that left heathrow this morning heading to sfo. Reporter you may have seen it. Thousands of lightning strikes light up the bay area overnight. Well tell you where most of the activity was reported and why this wild weather has firefighters on high alert. Reporter were live in fremont where a big rig and a car crashed. Well tell you what police are saying and which city streets are closed. Welcome to mornings on 2. Were live at the scene of a serious accident where a big rig flipped over hitting cars. Well have more on that in just a moment. Im tori campbell. Im dave clark. Lets check weather and traffic. Steve is here to tell you a lot of things. Red flag warning continues from now until 5 00 on wednesday. Probably go into thursday. Possible thunderstorms, more lightning. Things have rotated north and off the coast, still lightning strikes being reported out to the farrahlons. Were still in line for the wraparound of clou
Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening, im lester holt in for brian. They are horrifying images that will instinctively make you want to look away, yet they cant be ignored. In a long war thats brought death and misery to both sides, the Video Evidence of what may have happened inside syria, a mass chemical will weapons attack, has shocked the world. Hundreds, many children, are dead. Tonight the claims of a chemical attack have still not been verified. From the syrian regimes, denials, which the Obama White House which for a year has called the chemical weapons use in syria a red line is now being cautious as it calls for an investigation. Youre about to see what the rebels say is the evidence, some of it very graphic. Our chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel joins us now with that. Richard . Reporter good evening, lester. More videos emerge from syria today. They are unconfirmed by nbc news, but they are
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