good afternoon everybody. ok. let s get hello. i know that was a long 2 minutes. i apologize. let s get started. before we start the briefing, i want to take a moment to recognize the lives lost and forever changed in buffalo. former buffalo police lieutenant erin salter, 55 is a hero. a security guard who engaged the suspect to save lives and was killed in the process. ruth whitfield, 86, was mother of buffalo s retired fire commisioner, garnel w. whitfield. groceries. katherine massey, 72, was a well-known community figure who wrote for her local newspapers, assisted in elections, and dressed up in costume as mr. broccoli. to teach local schoolchildren to eat right. pearl young, 77, was a substitute teacher and a true pillar in the community who volunteered at a church, food pantry every saturday. heyward patterson, 68, a driver and church volunteer. heyward worked as a driver who gave rides to residents to and from the grocery store and would help with their groceries wh
it s on. todd piro. the battles in california where g.o.p. contenders tracking for the settlement nomination. we ve been talking about this for a while. the fierce battle shaping up to be one of the highest profile primaries of the year. check yvonne joins us with the candidates on the official thoughts. good morning. it is on. today s the republican spot on the midterm ticket in what will likely be a tough race to keep the pennsylvania senate seat in gop hands. pick a candidate who can stop the democrats. lots of people are figuring out who to vote for and they are zerooed in and asking themselves three questions. who is going to represent and fight for the values i hold dear. who can win the general election in november and who can get to the senate and make a big difference on day one? carley: and kathy barnett becoming a surprise top contender, credits her rise to her authenticity. they are mad because i didn t ask for permission to be in this space, i just wa
the feds are reporting a record shattering number of migrant encounters with a quarter of a just last month alone. that s a record. this, while our drone captured some pretty disturbing images at our southern border just over the last three days. on saturday we saw just how brazen migrants have become, not even barbed wire stopping them from hopping a fence onto private property in texas. then, just hours later on sunday morning, and even larger group numbering roughly 150 is seen wading in the river and crossing illegally into our country. and yesterday that scene was repeated and multiplied several times over, raising fears that the worst is yet to come. raymond, it s hard to believe that 234,000 migrant encounters in april, record, and 100,000 released into the interior of the country. think of that, one month, attended a million people. just to put this in perspective, title 42 is listed, we have a number all our viewers need to know. 1.9 million migrants with title 42. i
saying he spoke with the suspect. the alleged gunman asking, are you going to be here tomorrow? stephanie ramos here at the scene tonight. we are also learning more about the victims here. and we will honor them. the youngest, 32, the oldest, 86. tonight here, their stories. and the hero security guard killed while confronting the shooter. our interview tonight with a mother and daughter working inside the store. what they saw that guard do. tonight, how they describe his heroism, his bravery. the investigation tonight and major questions now about the warning signs. the suspect interacting with law enforcement around the time of his high school graduation last june. his alleged threats one year ago. and what s now been found tonight. what he posted just two weeks ago on the internet. was his plan out there weeks before this horrific attack? pierre thomas and what he s learned tonight. the other mass shooting in america, this time, at a church in california. one perso
announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from buffalo, new york. good evening from buffalo. a still proud but deeply wounded community asking tonight, why us. why a teenager traveled hundreds of miles to this city, to this block, to this grocery store to allegedly seek out black people to kill today we learn the gun attack that killed ten and injured three may not have gone entirely as planned police believe the shooter, pumped up on false and racist conspiracy theories, intended to head down the street and shoot more people. thankfully he was stopped and arrested it came on the same weekend as a mass shooting at a southern california church, an attack on taiwanese church members being investigated tonight as a hate crime that was politically motivated. we ll have more on that in a few moments. let s begin here with the pain, remembrances, and fear in buffalo tonight, buffalo still struggling to come to terms with how someone could turn a s