Good morning, everyone. Welcome to week ends with with alex witt. Breaking news in iraq. This is new video of u. S. Military aircraft kraerg out a second airdrop of food and water for thousands of refugee trapped in modern iraq under the threat of hard line militants. Members of yazidi have been trapped four days and fear they will be slaughtered. Targeted air strikes against isis in the worst humanitarian crisis. Hundreds of women have been taken by isis militants saying some of them were being held in schools in the second largest city of mows us. Iraqs top religious leader is urging iraqis to be united against the isis threat. Meantime, this has become number one at the white house. Kristin welker, good start morning to you. What are you learning about how much deeper the u. S. Could get here . Reporter in terms of the timeline, they are reluctant to put a timeline on this operation. It could go at least for some weeks. Now, yesterday during the daily briefing, White House Press sec
A 15yearold High School Student open fire on his classmates. The spree ended yesterday morning when he turned the gun on himself, but not before killing one of his classmates and critically wounding several others, and now there are reports he is related to some of the classmates he targeted. Theres a possible shooting. Moments before students sprinted out of the high school, Austin Taylor was in the cafeteria with a classmate. All of a sudden i saw him stand up and pull something out of his pocket, and at first i thought it was somebody making a really loud noise like with a bag, and then four more, and then i saw kids falling like they were dead. Tweets, dont go towards the cafeteria. Three dozen teens huddled in a room with their math teacher. The principal came on and said this is not a fire drill, we are in lockdown. Ambulances took the injured to a nearby hospital where 25 doctors responded to the hospital. Another person that was hospitalized with less serious injuries. We have
Welcome to weekends with alex witt. New alarm today. After a second patient has been positive in texas. The new patient is a Health Care Worker who helped treat Thomas Eric Duncan, the ebola patient who died last week. Procedures werent followed. Clearly, there was a breach in protocol. We have the ability to prevent the spread of ebola by carrying safety for patients. In dallas, texas, of course, with more on this breaking story. Tell us exactly what we know about this Health Care Worker who got infected, and who is it . Reporter well, alex, weve learned this Health Care Worker is a woman who in treating duncan had repeated close contact with him. Now, so far, shes not been able to identify specifically when this breach in protocol occur d occurred. She was 1 of 19 Health Care Workers being asked to selfmonitor signs or symptoms of possible exposure. She reported a fever on friday. Within 90 minutes, she was inside the hospital, in isolation and being tested. Those test results came b
Hey, there, everyone. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. Super bowl xlix now just hours away. This years event expected to be bigger than last years. Between 171 million and 184 Million People expected to watch the game. And for the lucky people able to watch the game in person, on average, they shelled out nearly 6,500 for a ticket up more than 114 from last year. Of course security also a huge part of this annual event thousands of officers will protect the super bowl site. A team of local, state and federal agencies in uniform as well as undercover will screen virtually every inch. I think the key is vigilance. And weve devoted a lot of resources and a lot of effort to making sure this event is safe and secure. And the skies around the stadium will also be a nofly zone on sunday. Craig melvin joins us from glendale, arizona, the site of the super bowl. Lets talk about security first. How big a situation. How present is it that youre able to see . Reporter you know youre going to se
Antiterrorism meeting would be held in washington next month. The head of hezbollah says extremists acting in the name of islam are doing more harm to the religion than any cartoon. And reuters reports they condemn the paris attacks saying there was no justification for killing innocents. French authorities are continuing their pursuit of this woman, she is suspected of being an accomplice of one of the attackers. There are reports shes not in france and maybe in syria. And a propaganda video of the man that attacked the paris supermarket. He pledges his support to isis. Nbc news has not yet verified when or where this video was produced. First up for more on the rally, ron allen joins us from paris where it is now 6 00 p. M. Ron, tell me about the crowd there. Reporter well were about three into this march from the time it officially began. I can tell you here in this plaza, there were people here early this morning. It started building hours before the march. And in the french media,