Glendale. Matt . Yeah, definitely packed, no doubt about it, and a lot on the line for one of the Largest Community colleges in the country and here in the valley, of course with more than 200,000 students that could be affected by major changes, we are talking more than 1,500 fulltime faculty members and more than 4,500 adjunct faculty members, the Glendale Civic Center tonight, more than 500 people in the room, and they had to bring out extra chairs for this one. Only a couple of people actually spoke up publicly and raised concerns about hair about their jobs. The chancellor says dividing the school into regional control will bring the number of president s down to five, saving about a million dollars. But thats a place to startrt i terms of keeping faculty on site. It was an hour and fiveminute meeting, which ended pretty earlier, and when i asked one of the School Officials about layoffs, they said in terms of this plan, no, layoffs are not a part of the equation. Maybe something
Glendale. Matt . Yeah, definitely packed, no doubt about it, and a lot on the line for one of the Largest Community colleges in the country and here in the valley, of course with more than 200,000 students that could be affected by major changes, we are talking more than 1,500 fulltime faculty members and more than 4,500 adjunct faculty members, the Glendale Civic Center tonight, more than 500 people in the room, and they had to bring out extra chairs for this one. Only a couple of people actually spoke up publicly and raised concerns about hair about their jobs. The chancellor says dividing the school into regional control will bring the number of president s down to five, saving about a million dollars. But thats a place to startrt i terms of keeping faculty on site. It was an hour and fiveminute meeting, which ended pretty earlier, and when i asked one of the School Officials about layoffs, they said in terms of this plan, no, layoffs are not a part of the equation. Maybe something
Reporter a dedication ceremony took place early this morning at the Granite Mountain hotshots memorial state park, where governor ducey and family got a preview of the park, a sevenmile hike along the trail, 19 stone plaques honor each of the fallen hotshots and six interpretive signs tell their story along with the timeline of what happened on that day back in 2013. Theres also a ring of stones protecting the area where the hotshots bravely made their last stand, and an area for Community Members to reflect, which is what they have been doing out here early this morning. The park officially opens tomorrow to the public. Back to you. Okay, courtney. Now over to tennessee where evacuations in gatlingburg and surrounding communities. They are just dealing with a disaster there. Several homes in the area have burned to the ground. Dry conditions are making it you ever it for firefighters. There are reports that a 16 story hotel was at least partially, if not fully destroyed. The National
Nightly news begins right now. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Reporting tonight from havana. Good evening. Well have coverage of a remarkable outpouring in the streets here today over the death of fidel castro over the weekend, but we lead off with late details on todays bloody knife attack on the campus of ohio state university. The suspect, who after plowing his car into pedestrians, and then attacking people with a knife, was identified late today as a somaliborn, osu student. His rampage ended when he was shot and killed by police. The campus put on lockdown, leaving thousands confused and terrified. The fbi has joined the investigation and this evening officials have not ruled out terrorism. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk has the latest. We have several pedestrians struck by a vehicle. University this morning. Shots fired, one down. Reporter students just getting back to class, after the long Holiday Weekend, when the university tweeted a shelter in place alert, at 9 56 a. M. Jus
Fire alarm caused a crowd to gather outside an engineering building. Thats when a man in a car jumped the sidewalk and plowed into them. Someone came through, hitting them with his car. Reporter police say the man got out of the car and attacked bystanders with a butcher knife. We heard the chaos, shouts, screams, that kind of thing. Reporter an officer confronted the attacker and shot and killed him. He engaged the suspect and eliminated the thrat 18yearold somali living in the u. S. Legally, a student at ohio, named Abdul Razak Ali artan. Police were seen searching a home not far from campus. They believe the attack was intentional now they are trying to figure out why. Reporter one clue might be this Facebook Rant he posted before the attack saying attacks on muslims around the world led to a boiling point. I cant take it anymore. Done on purpose, go over the with a knife. Thats that was on purpose. Reporter all are expected to survive. The emotional wounds may take longer to heal.