i shot him. i m sorry. we ll hear from the victim s distraught family. and an eye for danger. nik wallenda reveals his next death defying stunt, walking at the top of this ferris wheel in florida. but wait there s more. the big news he saved when he joins us live today, tuesday, april 14th, 2015. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on a tuesday morning. savannah s got toe morning off. i m here with hoda kotb. nik wallenda takes a year off my life watching these stunts. even seeing the clip was making me nauseous. and he s got an aspect he s announcing here this morning. let s get to this other story. this is our top story. an unusual incident on an alaska airlines flight. the crew forced to make an emergency landing after an airport worker fell asleep inside the cargo hold. nbc s joe fryer has the latest. good morning. reporter: good morn
good evening, there s no harder lesson than the one taught today to angry atlanta educators. the judge threw the book at them. teachers principals among them handing down lengthy prison sin tenses for their roles in a massive cheating scandal at which standardized test scores at underperforming schools were inflated. our chief education correspondent rehema ellis shows us how it all played. this thing was pervasive, it s like the sickest thing that s ever happened to this town. the judge imposed harsh sentences on eight former atlanta public school educators, convicted of racketeering conspiring to fix standardized test scores to improve results. there were thousands of children that were harmed in this thing, this is not a victimless crime. three disgraced educators were sentenced to 20 years, serving seven in presidenten, the rest on probation. the others were sentenced to five years, serving one to two of them behind bars. emotions ran high. as the sentences came d
identified by police was found sleeping on a bench this morning at daytona beach, florida, more than 500 miles away from that community college. tonight, authorities are working to extradite him back to north carolina where he allegedly gunned down a man and then ran off. i can say with confidence that mr. stancil had a calculated plan and he in fact carried out that plan. brianne: 20-year-old kenneth stancil is behind bars tonight in florida after allegedly shooting and killing a staff member at a north carolina community college. this is being investigated as a possible hate crime. brianne: police say monday morning, stancil shot the 44-year-old campus print shop director ron lane. stancil was a member of the print shop work study program but was let go for missing too many days. lane s supervisor at the college says lane was gay but police aren t saying if that was a motive in this crime back at the college, it s a day of healing after a terrifying start to the school
reporting live stephen tschida abc 7 news. alison: ok. thank you for that. now, also, the associated press just released this video right here of the moment that gyrocopter landed on the west capitol lawn. a tourist captured the video as the pilot flew over a group of kids and then came to rest right there on the lawn. so we re also hearing from witnesses near the u.s. capitol at the time of this incident. d.c. bureau chief sam ford continues our team coverage from near the capitol. sam? sam: well, alison, what is amazing is how normal things are. after 2 1/2 hours ago, everybody was going crazy around here with the thing flying in but now on the tourist buses, people are posing for pictures in front of the capitol. but it was about 1:30 this afternoon when everybody s eyes swung towards the sky. this is not good people! no, it s not! sam: workers, tourists anybody outside of the west front of the capitol section of the mall had their attention captured first by the sound o
he stopped about a city block short of the actual building. falling there on the grounds. and law enforcement sources are telling me that federal law enforcement may have had some idea. who this man was and been tipped off that this flight was going to occur. right now they will be trying to pinpoint exactly where he took off from. and whether there is any more evidence to collect there as well. for now, reporting live at capitol hill. back to you. and pat lawson muse learning more about what the pilot s motives could have been. police aren t confirming his identity but he already said this on his webb. doug hughes said he has been planning it for two years. he was carrying 535 letters addressed to lawmakers, asking for campaign finance reform. he single in an interview with the tampa bay times that he wants a, quote, wall of separation between the government and big money so government will represent the people. the writer who did that feet bur hughes said he doubt that