Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. And there is no better way to show the power, size and scope of the weather that has dominated the news this week than to show you the view as recorded in hd by an american astronaut on board the International Space station. Video so spectacular well repeat it here to show you what we look like at 17,000 miles an hour from 200 miles above the earth. The lights from the Population Centers on the east coast are visible. You can follow the i95 corridor while that monster storm swirls offshore in the atlantic. Heres what it did on earth. A wave the size of a house in marshfield massachusetts, where some lost everything to the relentless atlantic ocean. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer is there tonight to start us off. Miguel good evening. Reporter brian, good evening. This Small Community was in the bullseye of this storm. It was snow wind and ice that did damage but it was
Subject of our segment a deeper look. You are look at live pictures from Santa Barbara where we are awaiting a News Conference on a deadly shooting rampage. Six killed, seven wounded near the university of california Santa Barbara last night, when a man opened fire in a series of driveby shootings. The 22yearold shooter was found dead had his car and his family attorney said the shootings came after posting chilling Youtube Videos. Brian rooney joins us with more from Santa Barbara. Good morning. What do we know about this suspected shooter . His familys lawyer went before the press and said he has as burger sint room and a syndrome and a history of Mental Illness. The father of a victim, about an hour ago, spoke to the press unexpectedly. His son, Christopher Martinez was among those killed and it was very emotional for a few minutes. You dont think it will happen to your child until it does. Chris was a really great kid, ask anyone who knew him. His death has left our family lost and
Pasichukes legs. Police say the killing began at Elliott Rodgers apartment where he stabbed to death his two bay area roommates and a third student from fremont. He drove to the sorority where the sheriff says he shot and killed 22yearold Katherine Cooper and veronica weiss. In the positive sense, she was fierce. She was strong. She was smart. She had a great sense of who she was. And she took on everything. Reporter today, veronica weisss father joined a chorus of victims families saying there are too many guns and not enough being done to help the mentally ill. As a society, we try to find better ways to help kids who are in his situation and its just what we have to do. Reporter the Santa Barbara county sheriff confirmed that signatures served a search warrant at the gun world shop. They are looking for shops where Elliott Rodgers bought his firearms including online sites where he may have purchased ammunition. Tonight there is a vigil for veronica weiss. And tomorrow a big memoria
To turn out. Im lester holt and this is dateline. Here is Keith Morrison with trapped. The room is a whipped snake as it winds the california coast up through the golden hills past the vineyards and north into the central valley. Highway 101. Who among us knows where fate lies waiting . Wide beneath the bridge south of a town, the concrete is stained permanent black. People have a sense that it could have been them. Yes, it certainly could have been, but this time, this time the fate came barrelling out of nowhere was for a young mother and her two little girls, so by the time it ended, a whole bridge full of fates was turned by the awful amazing thing that happened here. Two kids and adult. The date was january 12th, 2012. 36yearold kelly groves was taking her girls on a trip, her two little girls and newborn boy. Sage, she borrowed her sister carrys bmw, felt safer, more reliable. So she strapped the baby seat in the back. Uhhuh. And took the two girls. She did. I think sage had aske
I thought what is this . This is not how it was supposed to turn out. Are. Im lester holt and this is dateline. Heres Keith Morrison with trapped. Reporter the road is a snake as it winds away from the coast up through the golden hills. Past the celebrated vineyards and into the central valley. Highway 101. Who among us knows where fate lies waiting . Or why beneath the bridge just south of a town called buellton the concrete is stained a permanent black. People have a sense that it could have been them. Reporter yes, it certainly could have been. But this time it came barrelling out of nowhere for this mother and her little girls. By the end it was changed by the awful thing that remains here. We have two here that cant breathe. Reporter the date was january 12th, 2012. Kelly groefs was taking her two little girls on a special weekend trip. Her newborn milo and her fourth grader sage. Sage the soccer star. Sage the dancer. She borrowed her sisters bmw. Felt safer somehow, more reliabl