united states and all around the world. i m rosemary church. just ahead on cnn newsroom. a search for answers in allen texas as investigators try to piece together a motive for saturday s mass shooting. we are learning new details about how the rampage unfolded. and explosions light up the skyline over gaza as israeli forces launch a wave of targeted airstrikes. we will have a live report from israel just ahead. plus, more rain on putin s victory day parade. as russia prepares to mark one of its most important holidays. signs of an actual victory on the battlefield are few and far between. thank you for being with us, here in the united states, a pair of tragedies has put a spotlight on two of the country s most divisive issues. guns and immigration. in allen texas, a mass shooting that killed eight people has devastated an entire community. and it has reignited the fierce debate about gun reform in america. to the south, the border town of brownsville is also coping with t
the yellow mendoza was in the fourth, her sister sophie was a second grader. rays of sunshine, that s how they re school principal describe them in a letter to other parents, their mom was critically wounded. it s not a good evening when this woman s family is now making plans to return her family to india for a funeral. her name was aishwarya thatikonda, she came here some five years ago to pursue a masters degree and she was at the mall with a friend who is also wounded. nor is it a good evening when a security guard christian lacour is remembered in death as the kind of person who would light up the room instead of celebrating life for him. and, all eight people were murdered saturday. the killer wounded seven others before he was shot dead. 128 years into the year, it was the country s to 122nd mass shooting. 222 incidents where people were wounded or killed. 222 opportunities as a society to actually do something to honor the victims of gun violence to make them the last
killed on the subway beyond tha the circumstances of his death, the reason for the actions of the former marine who put the man in a minutes long chokehold are all under investigation. they are all open to interpretation and have provide new yorkers that many across th country. here is what we ve seen on part of the video which only shows even it s an entirety part of what happened jordan neely, black homeless men with mental health issues is being held in that chokehold by a former marine who, according to witnesses, acted after he had been pacing the subway car yelling that he was hungry and thirsty and ready to die. the marine apparently grabbed him and held him in the chokehold until neely went limp. two other subway drivers. to be helping to hold neely dow here it neatly died later in th hospital. democratic congresswoman aoc tweeted that he was murdered bu because he was helpless and crying for food and a time when the city is raising rents and stripping services to mil
anywhere. the chief correspondent, jonathan hunt, it has the latest on the search. jonathan: it is an urgent search increasingly so. right now, the man who allegedly shot and killed those five people including the young boy you mentioned has simply disappeared. we don t have any tips right now to where he maybe. jonathan: according to investigators, francisco, a mexican national, was firing a gun outside his own home in cleveland, texas when neighbors asked him to stop so that their baby could sleep. minutes later, he allegedly burst into that neighbor s home and opened fire, targeting adults and children alike. three children that we loaded that night and put in an ambulance, they were covered in blood. from the same ladies that were laying on top of them trying to protect them. jonathan: four adults and a nine-year-old boy died. translator: he had no right. we never offended him. we never disrespected him. he was pointing his gun at me. he told me i was lookin
unsealed and what will happen when mr. trump arrives in a new york city courtroom. just released, the names of the nine soldiers killed in the nightmare training crash of those two army black hawk helicopters. our inside look at a remarkable new treatment helping people regain their sense of smell and taste lost for years due to long covid. and the cinderella teams making it all the way to the final four announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening as we come on the air tonight, we are tracking those violent and damaging storms on the move in the south central part of the country right now including early concerns of mass casualties and tornado destruction in the little rock area the mayor there asking for the national guard to assist. tonight, severe weather alerts including tornado watches are in effect in several southern and midwest states larger cities potentially in the path tonight include memphis, st. louis, and des moines earlier the