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the time you go to bed tonight you need to be where you intend to ride this storm out and you need to be as prepared as you can be, because weather will start to deteriorate very quickly tomorrow. i want to bring in nbc news meteorologist bill karins with the latest on ida s path and when people along the gulf coast will really begin to feel the impact of this storm. bill, we are talking potential ocean surges of up to 15 feet above normally dry land. what does it mean for people in the direct path? that means it is historic. that means know your elevation. if you are in southeastern louisiana, the coast of mississippi, one of the most important things you need to know is what the elevation of your house is. if you are above that 15 feet, you don t have to worry about wave action on top it, likely you will be okay. your emergency managers know all of this information. if they re telling you to evacuate, evacuate. this is not a storm to pool around with. we do not kn ....
gunshots. oh, my god, they re all shooting back and forth. patron joshua mcgill described what he saw and heard. it was like boom, boom, boom. were people screaming? people laying on the ground, taking cover. jumping the fence. i think the pension actually broke with people pushing on it to get out. there was just too many shots, bang, bang, bang, that s when you know chaos, it was just turmoil. patrons trapped inside began calling 911. four us still hiding, lights are off in club. cops are here, but haven t got us yet. thank you, i jumped out. there s people still hiding inside the closet, that the shooters don t know they re in there. the club managers managed to post this notice on their facebook page, everyone get out of pulse and keep running. if only they could. my son was in the nightclub what his boyfriend and other friends and i know that his boyfriend has been shot multiple times and is in the emergency room. reporter: the gunman armed with h ....
friday, july 15th, 2016. announcer: from nbc news this is a special edition of today. terror in france with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to today on this friday morning. we were just talking about what words we can use to set this day apart from so many other days that we ve started the show by talking about a major terrorist attack somewhere around the world. when you think about what happened. this moment of celebration in france and then horror. it s unspeakable. there really are no words to measure what happened. here is where things stand this morning. the death toll rose overnight to at least 84. including a 51-year-old father from texas, and his 11-year-old son. just moments ago, after visiting a hospital in nice, france s president said around 50 people are in his words in absolute urgency between life and death. president obama issued a statement condemning this attack. h ....
in grief and outrage. you will not break us. we are better people than this. good evening from orlando. i m lester holt and this is a special edition of dateline. at least 50 dead, 53 wounded, many of them in critical condition. the biggest mass shooting in american history, and says president obama. an act of terror. the gunman omar mateen, stormed a gay nightclub, armed with an assault style military nightclub, opened fire and left the dance floor covered in blood. his motive, pure rate. reporter: it was supposed to be a night of fun, letting your hair down, saturday night had become early sunday morning, the music loud and funky. this video posted on the internet from inside club pulse around 1:00 a.m. last call, last dance, latin theme night was wrapping up. a crowd of about 300 packed into orlando s popular gay nightclub. approximately 2:00 a.m., everything changed, the gunman holding an assault rifle encountered an offduty police officer and exchanged fire ....
us. as americans, we are you nighted in grief and outrage. you will not break us. we are better people than this. good evening from orlab dough. i m lester holt and this is a special edition of da dateline. 50 dead and 50 wounded. president obama says an act of terror. the gunman omar mateen an american gunman with isis proclifts, opened style with an military assault rifle left the dance floor covered in blood. nightclub, opened fire and left the dance floor covered in blood. his motive, pure rate. reporter: it was supposed to be a night of fun, letting your hair down, saturday night had become early sunday morning, the music loud and funky. this video posted on the internet from inside club pulse around 1:00 a.m. last call, last dance, latin theme night was wrapping up. a crowd of about 300 packed into orlando s popular gay nightclub. approximately 2:00 a.m., everything changed, the gunman holding an assault rifle encountered an offduty police officer and exc ....