Good morning, everyone. We begin with new details in the shooting at an atlanta area elementary school. Michael brandon hill is in custody after surrendering to police. The police dont have a motive. But the 20yearold apparently had stopped taking his medication. Theres the school clerk who managed to talk hill into laying down his weapon and ammunition, most likely saving many young lives. We begin our coverage with abcs kristin fisher. Reporter 20yearold Michael Brandon hill is in Police Custody this morning. But his motive for terrorizing this Atlanta Elementary School may never be understood. Even his own brother is at a loss. I couldnt tell you what his mindset was when he went up in there. I honestly can tell you he has a long history of medical disorders and everything. Going to including bipolar. Reporter timothy hill says his brother has a troubled past. He was arrested earlier this year for alleged terrorist threats and acts and sentenced to probation and anger management. An
Developing story. The Justice Department is saying now it will go ahead with its efforts to block texas new voter i. D. Law. It was implemented after the Supreme Court back in june struck down a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights act. Nbc news justice correspondent Pete Williams joins us live. Its making headlines. It escalates the battle. The center piece is the Supreme Courts decision striking down the heart of the Voting Rights act. Before the court ruled texas had to get preclearance for any changes on the election law and the federal court said no both to texas changing its voter i. D. Law and redrawing its district lines for congressional and legislative districts. After that the Justice Department is pursuing new courts. We cant stop you under the old Voting Rights act but well use a new section to claim this voter i. D. Law is unconstitutional. A written statement says we will not allow the Supreme Courts decision to be determined as open season for the states to pursue me
Now. But im still im still trying to understand what we as the u. S. Are now supposed to do with all this given what is going on internationally. I think about it a lot. I never come up with any answers. It is like im debating myself. I feel like i could do a good job on both sides of the debate, which shows you that it is a quandary for anyone trying to deal with it. I got to say, i dont i feel a little bit of empathy for the president on this. Even though i dont i think we put ourselves in this position. We put ourselves in a box. Everybody agrees we put ourselves in a box. If it is that we feel like we have to do something to just keep our credibility, thats not necessarily a great reason to go get involved somewhere. I still if we were going to do it, i kind of am with Richard Engel and others that say, if youre going to do it, have an objective. Shut down his air capabilities, maybe tip the scales in favor of, you know, the devil you dont know. Maybe there is good people in maybe
Pressing police to let his niece out of jail. He says, he was just helping out a relative in trouble. The surprising reaction from the cops. Was his call for freedom an abuse of power . Im on top of the world just plane crazy. Look at this. Yep. Thats two 9yearold girls standing on two planes, flying at 100 miles an hour, right into the record books. And a very good morning to you, america. We do have some news out of egypt this morning. Former egyptian leader, Hosni Mubarak, set to be released this morning. Hes going to be placed under house arrest. Well have the latest as news develops. Also coming up the latest out of that School Shooting in georgia. The dramatic 911 calls that show how brave that bookkeeper was in talking that shooter down. And who knows how many lives may have been saved in the process. Were going to turn to the wildfires all across the west. As we mentioned, our reporter, abcs neal karlinsky, on the front line, just outside Yosemite National park. Good morning to
If a program like stop and frisk is abandoned, will people die . Well, i think, no question about it, Violent Crime will go up. A san diego mayor bob filner, the citizens of san diego have a message for you. Its time to resign. Im chris matthews. So anchoring with we want to begin tied with the ongoing crisis in egypt. Enter islamic militants are on the ground taking responsibility for the execution style killing of Egyptian Police in the north si sinai peninsula. The lawyers for Hosni Mubarak says their client should be released from custody in the next few days until any Court Proceedings begin against the former president. Reporter chris, a lot of moving pieces here, showing how volatile this situation has become. You mentioned the killing of 25 police soldiers, police conscripts in the northern sinai happening this morning after they were taking off a bus and shot execution style. They were simply on vacation. But it gives you a sense of the increased lawlessness in the northern si