and vice president vow to act on gun control. russia s major advancement in ukraine. what vladimir putin said in calls with key western leaders. allegations of widespread price gouging, as the baby formula shortage gets even worse what parents can do to fight back new rental car warning, as the summer travel season kicks off, you may have a confirmed reservation, but they may notave your car just had no cs.s. and they just clearly overbooked and on this memorial day weekend, the man turning veterans houses into homes. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening. i m kristen welker in for jose as the memorial day weekend get underway, the anger is growing as we learn new details about what happened inside robb elementary school. while law enforcement waited nearly an hour to move in on the shooter who claimed 21 lives. we now know the name of the police chief who gave the order to wait and we learned that he and his department partici
the people around them knew that both killers had toldd other people they planned to t commit a mass shooting and then they did. what can we learn fromys this ? well, the first most obvious answer is that the system in place didn t work. candace owens teacher sent him to a mental hospital for evaluation. they knew he was a threat. they tried their bestea . cr he committed a massacre anyway. so we know for a fact that what we re doing isn t working. but we should also be honest enough to acknowledgeed that its very hard to know what to do. instead, despite what you may have heard, the problem isn t that we don t care enough. there s not a person in this h country who was not horrifiedht by the sight of murdered children. it s the worstre thing. and everybody thinks that them problem is that the human mind is much more complex and hardere to control than we like to admit. a person who is intent on committing violence is very hard to stop under any c circumstances. an act of con
sean, i can t even begin to express what an enormous loss this community has suffered here today and here at this vigil at the fair play here in valge county and the families that came here to honor the 19 children that died came here. they said a broken heart with just a need to be together in a time off mourning. you can see everybody leaving right now. we ve got t a lot of crowd behid us . but i got to tell you, sean, earlier today it didn t matter where i went in this town. people were hugging each other. they were saying, youay know,ha i knew a childt that went toad that school and it made sense. this is a population just over 16000 people. so everybody knew somebodyne everybody was connected to somebody i did know somebody in this town. i knew i knew a family here that i lived only about maybe a an hour and 40 minutes from uvalda here in texas and the family was shocked and stunned to discover that a number of people on their daughter s softball team had been killed in
who learned about his daughter while aiding other victims. plus, new details raising questions about why it took police so long to stop the killer. we ll have the account from the witness who says police were gathered outside while the gunman was on his rampage inside. tempers flare after democratic candidate for texas governor beto o rourke interrupts a news conference of a man he is trying to replace. good morning, and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, may 26th. i m jonathan lemire. we re glad you joined us. this morning it is not clear why a teenager in uvalde, texas, attacked an elementary school, killing 19 children, and two teachers. while investigators work to find the motive we re learning more about tuesday s attack and what led up to it. after crashing his grandmother s truck outside the school, the gunman ran into the building, armed with an ar-15 style rifle and at least seven 30-round magazines. the gunman then fired at a school resource officer who
Foreign power. The growing calls for him to resign even in his own party. Also tonight, Tropical Storm ophelia taking aim. The path from North Carolina up the east coast. The United Autoworkers expanding their strike across 20 states. How it could impact you if you need a car repair. And the invitation to President Biden. Will he join the picket line . New images of the surge at the border. Were inside a shelter talking to migrants. Why they say they converged on one small texas town. News on that f35 fighter jet that went missing. The 911 call after the pilot ejected and landed in a backyard. Youll hear what he and the stunned homeowner told the dispatcher. The deadly bus crash involving a high school band. The band director and a retired teacher killed. The investigation. And ukraines stolen children. One mothers 3,000mile journey to bring her son home. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, and welcome. A highranking democratic u. S. Senator, who is no st