good night and i am symone sanders townsend in for stephanie ruhle. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. the capital of the great state of mississippi is of course jackson. the airport in jackson, mississippi is called jackson medgar widely evers international airport. that airport in jackson is named after medgar evers, the civil rights leader. he was a decorated u.s. army veteran in world war ii. after he came home from the war, after the united states supreme court ruled on brown versus the board of education. in may 1954, segregation, racial segregation was of course supposed to end in american public schools. as you know, it did not. six months after brown v. board, the naacp named medgar evers its first ever field secretary in the state of mississippi. they named him field secretary in mississippi so he could lead their efforts in that state to organize against segregation, to organize for civil rights. and in 1
northern borders it. it is a war zone. 508% increase of crossings at the northern border. even people who don t like me say this is a terrible thing to do. alvin bragg going forward to bring charges against him. if they can t win at the ballot box. they are going to do this. brian: we begin with a fox news alert. you have been watching this coverage over i guess the last 18 hours. nashville police releasing shocking surveillance footage of a shooter who stormed into a nashville christian elementary school killing three 9-year-old students and three adult staffers yesterday. the suspect who identifies as a transgender was a former student. authorities parents and the entire community in shock after the senseless loss of life. the daughter of the school church s pastor among the dead. i saw little kids coming out that was really tough for me. because they looked a little bit above knee high. they were waving and my heart just dropped. it s like why, why? steve
fox news alert. nashville police have released shocking security footage of the shooter who stormed into a nashville christian elementary school killing three 9-year-old students and three adult staffers yesterday. the suspect, who identified as a transgender was a former student. authorities, parents and the entire community, in fact, the entire country in shock after the loss of life. the daughter of the school church s pastor is among the dead. little kids coming out and that was really tough for me because they looked like a little bit above knee high. they were waving and my heart just dropped. it s like why? why? right? ainsley: why 9-year-olds? footage shows 28-year-old audrey hale driving into the parking lot of the covenant school after 10:00 a.m. central time. and moments later seen blasting through the glass front doors right there of the school to get inside. then, climbs the stairs, goes to the second floor and is seen roaming the halls armed with two rifles
philadelphia officials say that the city s drinking water is safe for now after a chemical spill in the delaware river. safety concerns prompted a rush of people at stores this weekend pic u tens of thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets of israeli cities last night after prime minister benjamin netanyahu abruptly fired his defense minister. a deadly explosion at a chocolate factory. all of the people missing are now accounted for. seven people were killed in that blast. if they are going 100 miles an hour, i am going to as well. norah: and in honor of women s history month, meet the woman breaking barriers as the first black female to lead an nfl team. you don t have to look a certain way or come from a certain background or pedigree in order to have a seat at the table. norah: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. tonight, a targeted attack in tennessee. a scene that has become all too common in america: a ma
saying no laws existing or proposed could have ) what happened yesterday in nashville. such a deeply offensive thing to say. it really is. if this had been a muslim shooter, we would have seen a thousand bills proposed for more things for homeland security to do. willie, the idea that every time a horrific tragedy like this happens, if you even talk about trying to do something to make our school safer for our children, people say, oh, there s nothing you can do. they say you can do something for everything else but this. that s why you find ourselves in a position where our children are afraid to go to school. this is the leading cause of death. it is the leading cause of death among children. you know, it wasn t always that way. i was explaining to some people a bit younger than me yesterday, that when colubine happened, it was a shock to the system. that was really something that massive had happened, and we thought it was a one off. then a movie theater in aurora,