Calls to close the beaches right now. Holy guacamole. The recipe sparking the great guacamole debate. Peas or no peas going so far it crossed the party line even getting president obama and jeb bush to agree. Why so many are saying no to this new recipea. And good morning, america. Boy, youd never know whats going to light up the internet is now the debate over guacamole. Where do you stand, peas or no peas . Something tells me we have a taste test in our future. We will decide right here. But we want to begin with that breaking news that Freight Train carrying toxic chemicals catching fire in maryville, tennessee, forcing thousands from their homes. Abcs david kerley is in washington with the latest. Good morning, david. Reporter good morning, robin. Talking one railcar but fire and Officials Say this chemical involved has led them to tell 5,000 people they need to evacuate get out of their homes and get away from that area. It is a toxic cloud on the move this morning near a tennesse
Need to be here. The report of a potential active shooter turned out not to be true but Officials Say the caller did the right thing by alerting police. The 2 1 2hour incident closed m street between south capitol and 11th street southeast. Other buildings with federal agencies and even some schools were closed as well. Officers at the navy yard search building 197, interviewing employees. Emotions ran high because thats the same building were in 2013, a lone gunman killed 12 people. But today, the investigation revealed there was no gunman, no shots fired, no one was hurt. Im very proud of all of the officials that anticipated the call. We know that there have been a lot of Lessons Learned from previous incident fatality here at the navy yard. And we have found that there has been a clear, coordinated and convincing response to this scene. Reporter heres what will happen next. Law enforcement agencies that responded here today will hold an afteraction meeting with the navy. We are goi
This is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from los angeles. Good evening. Amid warnings about threat of attacks over the july 4th weekend, the images we saw plastered across the tv screens from washington this morning were exactly the kind we feared most. Ambulances and police cars racing to reports about a shooter on the rampage. Of course by now we all know that what happened at the Washington Navy yard this morning was a false alarm, but the sheer size of the Police Response not only at the navy yard but across the Nations Capital spoke volumes about the disturbing and very Real Security climate we all find ourselves in this Holiday Weekend. We start tonight with Peter Alexander and a nation on edge. [ sirens ] reporter this morning fears of another mass shooting sparked a massive response in a city already on edge. The 911 call came after 7 00 a. M. A woman inside a Washington Navy yard building reported hearing possible gunshots workers scrambled for cover. I hea
Action. We will get june jobs figures in less than 30 minutes. A strong report would give more ammunition to fed policymakers leaning toward raising Interest Rates in september. 233,000 jobs. There will not be any more negotiations from greece and a new poll says the vote is simply too close to call. 47 of greece leaning toward a yes vote. 43 favor no endorsement of the governmentss position. This morning, the greek finance minister spoke with guy johnson about the proposal. If we sign that agreement, in 12 months, we will be even closer to insolvency. I am not going to put this question to people. It is a senseless question. They agree greece will want us to stay in euro. How to achieve that. Stephanie he also said he will quit if voters do not support the government the governments position. We will speak with Erik Schatzker in athens in just a minute. Matt a takeover in the Health Insurance industry again. The price is six . 8 billion in cap. Medicaid, health matt, health net an apa
Potential president ial run meaning he may challenge hillary clinton. We want to begin with a con tkpwaeugs with gun and gun ownership. A new study looks at how Many Americans own a gun and a third have at least one gun. We have divided our phone lines differently for the first 40 minutes. We want to hear only from gun owners and heres our question, why do you own guns . 2,027,488,000. And 2027488001. Skwroeufrpb us on facebook and send us an email at journal . Org. Hes been looking into some of these numbers. Thank you for being with us. Hi, steve. Thanks for having me. Host a surprising number. One in three americans own guns. Where did you come up with this figure and what was your Research Like . We conducted a national represent tative survey of all u. S. Adults. 18 18 anyone from the age of 18 and we asked them good gun ownership so they answered that they own at least one gun. You got to keep in mind that this is a question for each person, not the household survey. So they said