Y purchased that miautomatic rifle heused elier this nunts inpo nevada. Ce believe he bypassed the metal detectors and seurity points by cutting his way through an exterior fce. He randomly fired into the crowd firing more than 40 rounds. Some people were trampled runs to safety. Again, that 6yearold boy, a 13yearold girl and a man in his 20 oz were all killed. The police chief spoke earlier today about the young victims. Well, i think any time a life is lost its its tragedy, but when its young people, its evense. And its very difficult. I dont know that theres i dont know what, if any, associaon there is. Seems that this was a random act. Now nbc news has confirmed this afternoon that before th shooting the 19yearold suspect posted on his instagram accounta about racist manifesto. Investigators also said they were looking into reports that legan mightavead an accomplice, but that has not yet been confirmed. Leon, back to you, and pat. Terrible story. Yeah. Thank you, jim. Well have a
Additional charges dropped tonight or tomorrow. Herndon high school placede th former drama teacher on leave when this broke in april. He talked about the timing, school is out as of last were. Youve got to worder how long have police known that students were victims and a lot of parents had no idea. Thats a fantaic question, jim. We asked the mayor in the press conference and he said it had nothing to do with the end of school. We wanted the community to know this when we did. There was another update in april and may. At both of those press conferences, the major stood at the podium and said there is no connection to herndon high school. Ad that point the amount of images theyve h time to go through, there was no connection to the high school and no reason to believe that any of those devices were ever brought into herndon county. The major stood up hwae he disappointed to learn that theyve found images an video to dicate there was a lot of recording going on inside of the school. Dr
Security is visible for the holidays. And in boston, lining the charles river, a half Million People will watch the fireworks. City Officials Say they are a bit nervous. Obviously, everyones concerns have been raised because of all the isis activity thats going around. Reporter isis is urging its sympathizers to attack in the u. S. The fbi reports no specific plots uncovered, but in pittsburgh, the cops are alert. The lone wolftype thing, there is generally no precursor warning because of the very nature of it. Reporter heres a warning, the roads are jammed. This is new jersey on the way to the beach, the heaviest holiday traffic in eight years. Heres denver. Cheap gas has more people driving. Prices today are almost 90 cents per gallon lower than they were last year. Reporter jammed roads . Check. Fear of terrorism . Check. Millions having holiday fun . Check. In pittsburgh theres been so much rain, they say their big problem is they had to cancel their annual regatta. And Boston Poli
People were late, trains singletracking of course slows everything down. They had crowded platform. I talked to one gentleman who said it took him about an hour and a half to get home yesterday. Normally it takes half an hour. I told him unfortunately we are still singletracking and he was not happy. I have to be at work at 6 30 and im tired of this. Reporter so singletracking between grosvenor and the twinbrook station on the red line. I talked to a worker earlier this morning and they hoped to get things back to normal within half an hour and were keeping an eye on the situation. For the moment bake in some extra time in your commute because things are still slow here this morning. Well let you know as soon as they return to normal operations. With more on traffic, we go over to melissa mollet. Hows it looking . Not so bad. Well check back with megan throughout the hour. Were tweeting about this on first 4 traffic as well. Singletracking between twin brook and grosvenor. And train 30
To the u. S. S. Intrepid. The president is expected to spend a weekend at Trump National golf club in bedminster. President trump will sign another executive order making it easier for churches to participate in politics. Without risking their tax exempt status much the order will protect faith based protecd pay for contraception coverage under the Affordable Care act and its also aimed at easing an i. R. S. Provision that forbids churches from endorsing to candidates. An escaped prisoner from Howard County back in custody. Police caught david watson last night in jessup. Police received a tip yesterday morning that watson was spotted in a wooded area near the location where he escaped custody from officers last week. Watson was in jail for attempted for murder. Alcohol smuggling and other security risks as it was making nearly 700 million to protect the u. S. Air base and p16 fighter jets in iraq. There were accusations of prostitution, of human trafficking, of sex trafficking, female