Almost suffers a major wardrobe malfunction when she finds out she was nominated for a s. A. G. Award. Meet the 5yearold artist whose work has already captured the eye behind the creator of garfield the cat early today starts right now. Good morning im phillip mena. And im frances rivera. A new Jersey Community is in mourning after a deadly attack the first funerals were held overnight for the victims of a shooting at a small Kosher Grocery store that Police Believe was intentionally targeted according to social media posts viewed by nbc news, one of the two suspects appears to have pushed antisemitic conspiracy theories and praised attacks on jewish people and Police Officers for the latest we go now to nbcs Gabe Gutierrez gabe, good morning. Reporter frances, good morning. There is now stepped up security at synagogues across the region, but there is still no official motive here. Theyre the stunning moments before a rampage a white van parks on a busy street when a man calmly gets o
counter the hateful things that were being shouted at our group. and they do. a student removes his shirt and the chants drown everything out. two minutes later, you hear a drum beat. that is nathan philips, an omaha tribe elder and another drummer. philips says it was their attempt to thwart potential violence. the kids danced to it and began chanting along. i realized i had put myself in a really dangerous situation, you know. it was like here s a group of people who were angry at somebody else, and i put myself in front of that. phillips, a vietnam veteran, walks around. other students avoid him, until you see him come face-to-face with a student who has now gone viral. in his statement, the student says he was the one trying to de-escalate the situation, not phillips. i believe by remaining motionless and calm i was trying to diffuse the situation. perhaps a group of adults was
potential violence. the kids danced to it and began chanting along. i realized i had put myself in a really dangerous situation, you know. it was like here s a group of people who were angry at somebody else, and i put myself in front of that. reporter: phillips, a vietnam veteran, walks around. other students avoid him. until you see him come face-to-face with the student who has now gone viral. in his statement, the student says he was the one trying to de-escalate the situation, not phillips. i believe that by remaining motionless and calm, i was helping to defuse the situation. i realized everyone had cameras and that perhaps a group of adults was trying to provoke a group of teenagers into a larger conflict. sandmann has every opportunity to move back. so does phillips. neither do. while they faced off, kids face more taunting from the hebrew israelite group. this is a bunch of
rhetoric, he faces hate, too. you have all these dirty ass crackers behind you with a red make america great hat again on and you want to fight your brother. reporter: at first the catholic students there for the march for life are in small numbers but more and more show up, watching but not engaging. the small group of men continue taunting them. a bunch of incest babies. a bunch of babies made out of incest. reporter: sandmann says the rhetoric was startling because we were being loudly attacked and taunted in public. a student asked one of our teacher chaperons for permission to begin school spirit chants to counter the hateful things that were being shouted at our group. and they do. at one point a student removes his shirt and the chants drown everything out. two minutes later, you hear a drum beat. that is nathan phillips, an omaha tribe elder. it was their attempt to thwart
what looked like a teen confronting a native american elder at the lincoln memorial. it led, of course, to outrage and condemnation. but as cnn national correspondent sarah seidner shows us the emergence of another video gives us a different perspective. reporter: the catholic high school student who comes face to face with a native american elder in a viral video is now responding. in a statement, student nick sandmann says the viral video does not reflect the true nature of events when the students arrived at the lincoln memorial. when we arrived we noticed four protesters who were also on the steps of the lincoln memorial. the protesters said hateful things. indeed, a small group of black men who identify as hebrew israelites did say hateful things to seemingly everyone around them, including a priest. a bunch of child molester s.