also, is trump holding his lead? is clinton holding off bernie sanders? we have new numbers out of iowa and new hampshire. and russia joins the fight in syria. putin realize there is s going to be no push back whatsoever from the united states. has the u.s. ceded the upper hand? joining me are mark leibovich, amy holme les of the blaze, ruth marcus of the washington post and rich lowry of the national review. welcome to sunday, it s meet the press. good suay morning. this week roseburg, igoregoil joined the roll call of american towns thafihave suffered a mass shooting. nine victims from 18 to 67 gunned down on a community college camp s. jason johnson. serena daun moore, lucero alcaraz, rebecca carnes, quinn cooper, trevin taylor, lawrence levine and kim dietz. familiar questions about how this could have happened and what it means for the battle over the issue of guns in america. we ll get to all of the politics in just a moment but for the latest i want to go to
hospital killing doctors and patients? and in flight emergency as a captain becomes incapacitated during a flight. a co-pilot calling for help, rushing to get the plane on the ground. nightly news begins right now. good evening. a dam breach forced new evacuations and fresh anxiety here. as days of relentless days of flooding begins to subside. this afternoon we were among those given minutes to move from our original location along a swollen creek to higher ground when the dam opened up. nine people have died in south carolina. following what officials are calling a thousand year storm. hundreds of have been forced from homes, roads and bridges are closed and clean water has been cut to thousands. the slow-moving storm 16.5 inches of rain here into columbia sunday alone. that according to the national weather service made it the rainiest spot in 16 years. we begin tonight with kerry sanders. reporter: a major dam breach caused raging powerful water to rush through se
good evening. a dam breach forced new evacuations and fresh anxiety here. as days of relentless days of flooding begins to subside. this afternoon we were among those given minutes to move from our original location along a swollen creek to higher ground when the dam opened up. nine people have died in south carolina. following what officials are calling a thousand year storm. hundreds of have been forced from homes, roads and bridges are closed and clean water has been cut to thousands. the slow-moving storm system dumped over 16.5 inches of rain here into columbia sunday alone. that, according to the national weather service made it the rainiest spot in 16 years. we begin tonight with nbc s kerry sanders. reporter: a major dam breach caused raging powerful water to rush through several communities. triggering a full-scale evacuation in some areas. the greatest fear, a larger dam down river could get hit by a wall of water and also give way. we ve got to get people downs
lose their grip and a painful process, it really is. let s start with the radar as we would have reports in charles county, and a lot of folks are down there with plenty of power. heavy rain east of i-95, the west side of the bay. and in delmarva. here is the radar over the last hour. you can see the rain pushing from the southeast to the northwest. a little bit of a breakdown to the south with pretty moderate rain in most of loudoun county and montgomery county. i ll widen the radar out. don t let it fool you as this is a massive storm sitting off the coast of south carolina, producing rain all the way up in to southern sections of new hampshire. this is a big, big nor easter. we ll look ahead at 8:00. it will be chilly in the upper 40s. some folks had their first fire of the season tonight. well why not? 49 in the morning in gaithersburg, bowie, 53 downtown in manassas and 49 in leesburg. by 10:00 not much better in the low to mid-50s. it is generally green, which is just l
yesterday at umpqua community college in oregon. some were fresh out of high school, new to college. others were returning to education to make a new start in life. president obama this evening has ordered flags across the nation at half-staff. nine others were wounding, including chris mintz, a hero amid the horror. he was shot three times as he tried to stop the gunman. john blackstone is in roseburg, oregon, and begins our coverage. reporter: the smiling faces of the victims are now known ranging in age from 18 to 67. they include three 18-year-olds, recent high school graduates, rebekah carnes, lucas eibel, and quinn cooper. carrie boyd spoke for cooper s family. quinn was funny, sweet, exapgzate and such a wonderful, loving person. he always stood up for people. reporter: 19-year-old lucero alcaraz hoped to be a pediatric nurse. and 20-year-old treven anspach was a fire and e.m.s. member. douk fire chief marl delivered a message from treven s family. treven was l