on the green agenda. can the congress rein in energy costs. in a moment, we will speak about all of this. sandra: big show coming up. first, america reports with the safety of the supreme court in focus at this hour following a threat on the life of justice brett kavanaugh. hello, welcome everyone. sandra smith on this thursday afternoon in new york. hi, john. john: good to see you, glad you got the pink memo today. john roberts in washington. activists assembling outside of kavanaugh s home to protest demonstrations that are prohibited under federal law. the protest and in your face exercise just hours after police arrested a man accused of planning to assassinate the justice. police have charged nicholas roske with attempted murder. he could be indicted as early as today according to a criminal complaint. roske was planning to kidnap and kill kavanaugh when he was arrested early wednesday morning. sandra: republicans point the fingers at democrats rhetoric on abort
mia cerillo covered herself in her friend s blood, pretended to be dead so that she could survive. the hearing comes as pressure mounts on u.s. lawmakers to address a recent string of mass shootings. this afternoon the house will vote on a set of bills that would raise the minimum age to buy a semiautomatic weapon from 18 to 21, ban high capacity magazines and crack down on ghost gun purchases or guns that are not traceable. the bill is unlikely to garner republican support, but a different story is unfolding in the senate where the top democratic negotiator of a bipartisan package of gun bills says a deal could be reached by the end of this week. some issues on the table include addressing mental health, expanding background checks, providing incentives for states to implement red flag laws and strengthening school security. the calls for lawmakers to act got a boost on tuesday afternoon when actor matthew mcconaughey a uvalde native made an emotional plea from the white hou
commenting publicly, exclusively to cnn. he was called out as the commander responsible for the delayed response at robb elementary last tuesday. the tactical teams took more than 45 minutes to enter the classroom where a gunman had locked himself in that room with children he had just shot and students who were calling 911 pleading for help. so the texas department of public safety says arredondo has not responded to its request for a follow-up interview with the texas rangers who were investigating this shooting. but just last night away from public view, from any media coverage arredondo was privately sworn in and onto the uvalde city council as a councilman. cnn s shimon prokupecz is in uvalde with this. what did the chief tell you? reporter: he insists that he s cooperating, that he s calling the dps, the state investigators. they obviously say he hasn t been returning their calls, but the key question here, the key question over what his decision-making was, what
announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from buffalo, new york. good evening from buffalo. a still proud but deeply wounded community asking tonight, why us. why a teenager traveled hundreds of miles to this city, to this block, to this grocery store to allegedly seek out black people to kill today we learn the gun attack that killed ten and injured three may not have gone entirely as planned police believe the shooter, pumped up on false and racist conspiracy theories, intended to head down the street and shoot more people. thankfully he was stopped and arrested it came on the same weekend as a mass shooting at a southern california church, an attack on taiwanese church members being investigated tonight as a hate crime that was politically motivated. we ll have more on that in a few moments. let s begin here with the pain, remembrances, and fear in buffalo tonight, buffalo still struggling to come to terms with how someone could turn a s
store at predominantly african-american neighborhood. the fed investigating as hate crime. authorities say it was carried out by a young self-proclaimed white supremacist who they say planned his deadly assault for years. hello, everyone, this is fox news live on a sunday i m eric sean. arthel: hello, eric, arthel neville. president biden is going to speak out on capitol hill after calling the attack domestic terrorism. the president is attending a memorial service honoring law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty this year. and as it turns out a retired buffalo police officer was among those senselessly killed in yesterday s mass shooting. 55-year-old erin salter was working as a security guard as tops store and being held as hero after he tried to stop the suspect by shooting him and didn t work because the armed man was wearing a vest. first, we are going to go to alexis mcadams, she s live in buffalo, alexis. reporter: oar they will, the comm