Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Today in the shadow of the South Carolina state house it t. Took an honor guard just 36 seconds to lower a symbol that has divided this nation for a century and a half. The applause was thunderous and sustained. Look at the crowd. After 54 years the confederate battle flag was brought down from the site for the very last time. It was a swift and dramatic turn in history. Born of the racist murders of nine members of a black church in charleston less than a month ago by a man who embraced that flag. Tonight we have two reports. Ron allen starts us off from columbia. Ron, good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. All that remains of Confederate Flag here now is the concrete slab behind that monument on the ground that the flag pole used to stand in. A flag that for more than 50 years as one editorial writer put it, signaled to about a third of the
Right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Today in the shadow of the South Carolina state house it took an honor guard just 36 seconds to lower a symbol that has divided this nation for a century and a half. The applause was thunderous and sustained. Look at the crowd. After 54 years the confederate battle flag was brought down from the site for the very last time. It was a swift and dramatic turn in history. Born of the racist murders of nine members of a black church in charleston less than a month ago by a man who embraced that flag. Tonight we have two reports. Ron allen starts us off from columbia. Ron, good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. All that remains of the Confederate Flag here now is the concrete slab behind that monument on the ground that the flag pole used to stand in. A flag that for more than 50 years as one editorial writer put it signaled to about a third of the states populatio
And harrison you see the peach coffeeshops that alley is exactly where the three suspects Ross Malinger arrested around 130 in the morning as the right to the dramatic video barrel looking for suspects involved in a burglary mirandas one Undercover Police officer of does 1 5 to start chasing the car for backup and you can say it does with it get through the streets of San Francisco the sirens in the background according to some of my sources they say this was a good time to do this in the reason why is still not allow pedestrians and cars on the roadway had happened right now they would not have pursued these people would have let them go and try to arrest them at a different time but in this case is all the circumstances as being the over nine hours in continues pursuing alternately arrested three people the breakdown is the two women and one male we understand that the undercover officers was not injured the three suspects the names of not being released at this point. Will tran harv
Scene out here. Police still trying to figure out and piece together all the different stories theyre thorg figure out exactly what happened. They know a vehicle, a black car, pulled up right here about where the police van is standing. The driver got out, may have been wearing black bandana or a mask. And he walked right up to three young men standing in front of that building right there on saratoga avenue, and he fired several shots. There are five shellicates in front of the building casings in front of the building. Police trying to figure out the motive and who was being targeted. What we know is that a 21year old man was shot shotin the chest shot in the chest. He was killed. An 18yearold and 20yearold were hurt in the arms with bullets. They were taken to brookdale hospital and will recover. This happened on saratoga aeven. And avenue. And there were a lot of people on the street when it happened tonight. The three fellows was just sitting in front of the building. I said hey,
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