Trump and much more an a busy tuesday. Early today starts right now. We want to begin with cell phone video that some viewers may find disturbing and shocking. It appears to show a officer body slamming a student. It happened yesterday in columbia, south carolina. Heres one view of the incident. Hands behind your back. Give me your hands. Give me your hand. Wow, Authorities Say the students was first asked to leave and did not. And the officer was called and the student again refused. Heres reporter chad mills from nbc ayil iate. Reporter so many people have many say its disturbing, some say its worse than disturbing, that theyre at a loss for words. But Richland County Sheriffs Department is asking for cooler heads to prevail for now as they investigate whatever happened. I want to read you the narrative we got a little while ago from the sheriff. The Student Resource officer was acting in response to a student disrespecting the class. The student refused to comply to leave the class.
6th. Good morning. Im betty ngyuen. President obama is renewing list quest today for foreign support of a strike in syria. On the second and final day of the g20 summit. In washington thursday, a cia meets csi closed door briefing on the evidence. The Senate Intelligence committee was shown video of the alleged chemical attack. One senator called the footage horrendous, but it is still unclear whether there is a Global Coalition behind a potential strike. Russia, china and the European Union have all condemned the attack, but they say its too soon for military action. And concerns are rising in iran, a syrian ally. Ayatollah khomeini, the supreme leader, told the state body the u. S. Will, quote, certainly suffer loss if it takes military action. Nbcs chief White House Correspondent chuck todd is traveling with the president. In st. Petersburg. Reporter the handshake was friendly enough. Even lasted a couple extra beats. Russian president putin welcoming president obama to st. Petersbu
The gunshots. They were confronted by a gunman who shot one officer in the leg and then ran away. The Police Caught up with him two blocks away. At that time one officer fired his weapon at the suspect. They did not hit him. The suspect immediately surrendered, dropped the gun and was taken into custody. A witness said the initial gunfire happened when a man matching the description of the hitandrun driver shot at him after he refused to let the man take his bike. To have the audacity to to shoot at an officer tells you the level of violence we are dealing with. We will do everything in our power to put an end to this. The police chief said hes determined to end the wave of violence by sending a clear message. He plans on working with the d. A. To make sure these criminals get the maximum sentence possibility. Allen wong, abc7 news. Law enforcement on the peninsula is work to go get guns off the streets. Today if you are willing to give yours up, they will pay you for it. Kira klapper
north korea is preparing to carry out a new nuclear test. meanwhile, the u.s. chairman of the joint chiefs says the pentagon has bolstered u.s. missile defenses because he can t take the fact that pyongyang won t soon engage in some military action. nbc s jim maceda is in seoul, south korea. good morning, jim. give us the latest there. reporter: hi. well, the latest, betty, is that here the defense ministry has backed off, as you suggested, from that earlier statement. that was coming from another official from another ministry who had said that north korea was preparing for its fourth nuclear test. now, the ministry is denying that, saying there is, in fact, no indication that north korea is preparing such a test at its test site up in the north. obviously trying to tamp down tension here already high as south korea and the whole region, really, is waiting to see if and when the north korean leader, kim jong-un, test-fires another ballistic missile expected in the days a
we go to the floor, i m still hopeful that what i call the sweet spot, background checks, can succeed. debate on the measure by the full senate could begin as early as tomorrow. secretary of state john kerry is in israel this morning. trying to revive peace talks that stalled back in 2002. he just finished meeting with palestinian president mahmoud abbas. abbas says he will not negotiate until israel stops construction in the west bank. meanwhile, tensions in the region have risen following rocket attacks from the hamas-ruled gaza strip. israeli warplanes followed with its first strike on the territory since november. kerry is scheduled to meet with the israeli president and palestinian prime minister today. a roadside bomb has killed at least nine people and injured 22 others in afghanistan. the latest in the surge in springtime violence that led to the deaths of at least six americans over the weekend. this 25-year-old diplomat has become the face of this weekend