in the evening is when dc fire and ems crews responded to the scene. i also want you to take a look just beyond the smoke there at the door, and very top part of the building there, what you re seeing, look at that soot that is completely staying right where the smoke and flames were shooting upwards. let s take you now to video that dc fire and ems shots when they were here on scene to also very impressive, scary. let you know this is an underground transformer fire. very big flames here. there s a lot of, from what i understand be those transformers have a lot of oil in them. that s what burns so much, when you perhaps have a corroded wire. that sparked that flame. there wasn t much dc fire could do until pepco fire got here on scene. it says about 12:56 is when they finally arrived on the scene to almost an hour past before the power was cut off before dc fire could get in there and put the flame retardant and get the fire out. we still had the smoking going on for hour up
your session hous lows. as we settle a little bit here. the s&p off, but no industry is doing as badly as the dow jones. we will be talking to individual stocks but not a good way to end the trading. lori: it has been a tough couple of days with all of the nonsense and the fiscal cliff. we will get that in detail on this christmas eve. let s zero in on the semiconductor names among the worst performers today with the semi etf seeing a move to the downside. including intel, texas instruments and farm holdings. david: the whole energy sector, names like chevron, marathon, all posting losses today. lori: retailers themselves were not all in on the holiday spirit on this christmas eve trading day. back in eagle, staples among the biggest losers in the sector. david: those idiots inside the beltway cannot seem to get it figured out. don t expect one anytime soon. lawmakers are gone for the holiday, so does the white house even want a deal by the new year, or automatic tax hikes wh
we re with you in this tragic hour and we will be with you forever. we are waiting for a news briefing from the governor of texas. prior to that, let s check in with jim cavanaugh, former senior atf official. sadly, for him, one of the people we check in with. there is a certain sameness to this coverage. i m told we do not have jim cavanaugh. tammy leitner, or correspondent covering the story. tammy, did we hit most of the facts available at this hour? reporter: brian, unfortunately, there are quite a few parallels between this school shooting and previous school shootings. let s talk about this one in parkland. you talked about a fire alarm. we know that a fire alarm went off around 7:30. one of the big questions and one of the things that law enforcement will look into was did the shooter pull the fire alarm himself. as you recall, in the parkland school shooting, the shooter there pulled the fire alarm to draw the students out, then to obviously lure more of the victi
patients. you said the male patient is in his 30s? middle age. chest injury? chest area i would describe it. thanks. that s our latest briefing from the university of texas medical fwlarcbranch in galvest where a middle age male is being treated for chest injuries. he s described in critical condition. they have two patients both with wounds to the leg believed to be in good condition, one of them is under 18 years old. we are still trying to get a handle on the number of people who have been killed. we know eight for sure but based on comments made by the harris county sheriff s office just a little while ago it may be ten. let us continue with this breaking news here on msnbc from texas where police are reporting as we said eight to ten people are dead after a shooting at a high school this morning. we don t know how many of the people killed were students or staff or faculty, police say one person is in custody. another person is being questioned as a person of i
having an asthma attack. i just wanted he was in a classroom where the shooter was according to him, three students down in the classroom. and when they were coming out, two more students down right outside the back door of the school. she called me. said, mom, there are shots. and i said what? she said shots in the school. she was crying. i turned around and just hauled it all the way to the school. parents worst nightmares. tammy leitner continues to follow developments for us. tammy what more do we know at this hour? reporter: craig, take you through what we know. sheriff s receives the first call at 7:32 a.m. this monrning. students say a fire alarm was set off. unclear who set it off but we know the students were walking out calmly at first until they reported hearing what some say were gunshots. others say were explosions. they reported hearing from three to eight gun shots. some say they heard three explosions. these are kids, keep in mind. some of them may