How californias dry season is making the battle even harder. And Betty Buckley. Our conversation about her extraordinary life on and off the stage. We begin this hour with the aftermath of another mass shooting in america. A drifter walked into a Movie Theater and 20 minutes into the movie he pulled out a gun and opened fire. He committed suicide. Were learning more about the victims and the gunman. Jonathan martin is in lafayette. Jonathan. Reporter hi david. There is a whole lot they dont know. One, they want to know why he is here in lafayette louisiana he is from the alabama area. Authorities are focusing not just on louisiana but going to alabama to find out more about houser, who few him who spoke to him. Piece together a time line and ultimately a motive. John russell houser, a 59yearold drifter who left a series of antigovernment writings online. We looked at the blogs. He makes rants about situations around the United States, around the world. Police in lafayette louisiana sai
Because there is not much cloud cover across the north bay. The air is dry. Petaluma is down to eight miles. Late arriving clouds on our exploritorium weather window, we are cooler this morning at 50 to 61 and by noon total sunshine and it will be strong at 64 to 76. By 4 00, 64 to 84 and below average. Grab a coat. 60 to 76. Friday lite commute . Leyla . This is richmondsan rafael toll plaza and traffic is light. And sparse. It will only take five minutes to head into the north bay. Into the north bay into napa county roads are still closed. Highway 128 at wragg canyon because of the wragg fire you will not be able to use the roads. Both sides are shut down. Another closure will impede the commute up to lake tahoe and that is in the next report. Chris and eric . Developing news residents near the out of control fire bumping in napa county have to worry about water and names. The fire is burning this morning near the borders of napa and Solano County south of state route 128 and has pu
Matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on friday morning. 7 00 on the west coast. We hate to say it but another week, another tragic shooting in louisiana. Were getting more information as we speak. Authorities have just released this new information about the gunman. His name, john houser, a 59yearold from alabama. Authorities describing him as kind of a drifter. We know that disguises including wigs and glasses were found in the search of his hotel room. Were going to get more on that in a live interview with Louisiana State police in just a moment. But lets start on this friday morning with nbcs john yang. John, what can you tell us . Matt, right now investigators are processing this crime scene. They say the theater is littered with personal belongings, shoes, purses, keys, cell phones, things people dropped and ran whether the shooting started. Were learning more about the shooter, more about the victim, and mor
Them were closed. Now every once in a while theyre letting cars through the area. What were seeing is this massive backup behind this as all of these lanes try to merge together on the northbound side. Thats right around the pa turnpike. We head over to our maps and i can show you exactly what to do if youre heading out in that area right now in mansfield township. If youre coming from new jersey, your best bet will be to take 295 to get by the scene and out in pennsylvania you can take route 1 and get on 195, then hop back onto the new jersey turnpike. You can see youll be stuck for quite some time. We have a backup all the way to willingboro. We know youll update us throughout the morning. More breaking news. Police have identified the gunman responsible for last nights deadly shooting at a lose louisiana Movie Theater. He had a plan to escape. Good morning. Im chris cato. That gunman killed two, wounded nine before killing himself. Authorities have identified the shooter at 59yearol
We start the morning at the live desk. Were getting new information about a man who shot nine people in a Movie Theater and then shot himself. Police say he was staying at a hotel near the Movie Theater and when police got in there they found wigs glasses and another license plate for his car. Police say he was planning an escape. They say he opened fire about 20 minutes into the movie train wreck, and then he left and tried to leave with the crowd. When he saw the police he went back in and shot himself. Police dont know why he picked this city and these people. We talked to some of the family members last night who dont have very much contact with him or havent seen him. So he just seemed like he was kind of drifting along. Now, houser killed two young women two survivors got out of the hospital this morning but the others are still recovering and one of them is in critical condition. Thanks, chris. The white house says president obama was briefed about the shooting aboard air force