Good morning, im jo ling kent. Its 7 01 here in new york. Heres whats happening right now. Theyre going to shoot random and mysterious, the latest mass shooting again in texas. New details this hour and frankeni frightening accounts of what happens. Dorians path is looming and uncertain and the time we with have this morning. And a few key states who could decide who wins and who loses. All of that coming up in politics next. Were starting with breaking news this morning, a shooting rampage has left at least five people dead and 21 injured in west texas. It started when state troopers stopped a man for failing to signal a left turn. That driver opening fire and speeding off, and then randomly firing at innocent people while speeding through odessa and midland texas. At one point he hijacked a u. S. Postal Service Truck and two witnesses describe fleeing from the chaos. The vehicle that was described was actually behind us, like a little less than 500 people. And we saw the flash of the
The House Judiciary Committee working through this weekend reportedly on articles of impeachment. For the first time this week, weve heard from one of the president s twitter targets. How the barrage of tweets have changed her life. An inside look. Two house keepers who worked at one of the president s golf courses talk about their encounters with him. Stories to share with you. But topping the news, new details about the mass shooting investigation in pensacola, florida. The gunman a Saudi National had been training at that base. Lets go to nbcs blayne alexander who continues to follow this story from pensacola for us. Blai blayne, who whom has the fbi spoken to in their investigation . Reporter well, alex, thats certainly one of the questions well be asking them when we expect to hear from officials, possibly within the next hour, hopefully at some point today. Were standing by at the county Public Safety office to get more information and find out exactly where fbi officials are in
respectively. nbc s vaughn millard is in iowa covering the weight of the contenders there ahead of the teamsters forum. with a good day to you, vaughn, what s happening where you are? reporter: we ve got joe biden, pete buttigieg, amy klobuchar, bernie sanders are all going to be entering here, veterans memorial coliseum here in cedar rapids. to note, elizabeth warren is up in new hampshire here today. what you should be expecting is this is one of the last katia call events we should be expecting, essentially where the candidates come one after another to make a case to the teamsters in iowa. when you look at the candidates, who s qualified for the debate stage next month, it s a white stage. no candidates of color have qualified for that debate stage at this point. and as you ve seen the likes of kamala harris drop out of the race earlier this week, you re beginning to see the candidates focus on one another, namely pete buttigieg and elizabeth warren. elizabeth warren on thursday
with a foreign nation, saying that that is not the path that folks in the press, quite frankly, should be following him down, saying that the question should be focused clearly on president trump and his conversations with a foreign leader and the director of national intelligence refusing to turn over a whistle-blower complaint, which by law he is supposed to do, to the intelligence committees of the senate and the house. you just heard the vice president very defiant about what the question and what the focus of this conversation should be. okay. vaughn, thank you very much for that from the steak fry there in iowa. we appreciate it. and by vaughn s description and all of you looking at this video and seeing the live event right now, as he said, boisterous. it s an energy drumming up, potentially, also they get more money, people start donating because they feel emboldened and empowered by the candidate that they re supporting there. there is an issue about money right now. alex si
something for the house democrats, where they re all going to have to say, we see what we see, what are we going to do about it? right now, nancy pelosi is shying away for political reasons from moving ahead on impeachment. that s going to get harder to do. okay, john, melanie, good to see you both and having this conversation. thank you so much. thank you. let s go to iowa. we ve been talking about joe biden. let s go to our nbc road warrior vaughn millard. you re there at the stake fry and joe biden is expected to be there any moment. is he within your sight now? is he there? i think he s here. reporter: you re watching joe biden. he just met up a drum line just greeted joe biden. this is the iowa steak fry. thousands of folks here four months from the iowa caucus and you ve got 17 democratic presidential candidates and i think you re looking at a live shot of joe biden. he was just greeted by a couple hundred of his supporters as well as a drum line here. he is about to ta