as far as sightings of the suspect, who is still on the run, they re getting multiple reports of sightings of this individual but different locations that they haven t been able to confirm. they re saying basically anyone who is a black male on the street right now with a hoodie, someone is calling about them. they are trying to follow up these credible leads. no status on those victims that were shot and, again, a hard perimeter of about a mile has been put up around this area where the incident initially happened during the lunchtime hour in midtown. this is still very much an active situation and a very fluid situation. no update on the conditions of those victims but the mother is cooperating with police and he was there for a medical appointment for himself. they declined to give further details because of hipa. they want people to pay attention that about a mile around that area is locked down currently. your understanding is that the suspect is on the run, that the s
announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and thank with us. official assurances that all is safe near the site of that ohio toxic train derailment aren t playing well with many area residents tonight, not with people experiencing physical symptoms and fish dying by the thousands in nearby streams. it has been almost two weeks since the train jumped the tracks in eastern ohio near the pennsylvania border spilling tanker cars carrying hazardous chemicals. after a controlled burn meant to avert a catastrophic explosion, officials signaled it was safe for evacuated residents to return, but tonight there is worry, skepticism, and anger about what is really happening and about what people are being told ron allen is covering it for us tonight. reporter: tonight outrage growing less than two weeks after that massive train derailment and the controlled burn of hazardous chemicals sent up a toxic plume of black smoke in east palestine, ohio. it doe
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