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the s.w.a.t. team responded to congregation beth israel, the synagogue in colleyville about 17 miles northeast of fort worth. they responded to what is, what we now know, to a hostage situation. abc news is reporting there are four people being held hostage including the rabbi of that synagogue. the rabbi of that synagogue is named as rabbi charlie citron walker, known to be the full-time rabbi of congregation beth israel. right before 2:00 there was a live stream of services there this morning for the sabbath today, a religious day, obviously, for jews. and on this live stream it was cut right before people could kind of hear muffling in the synagogue. you couldn t really see much, but there was a fixed camera shot of the pulpit, you could hear the faint voice of a man heard in the background. the fort worth telegram is reporting that this man repeatedly mentioned his sister and islam, and he said a few times that he didn t want to hurt anyone, and he mentioned he had childr
a key piece of smith s case, the pressure trump put on his vice president, mike pence, including a call on christmas day asking mr. pence not to certify the results. mr. trump allegedly telling pence, quote, you re too honest. how pence reacted today. our team in washington and our legal analysts standing by. also tonight, the scare on capitol hill. staffers running out of the senate office building after reports of an active shooter. police later giving the all-clear. what happened? the gunman who killed 11 people at a pittsburgh synagogue sentenced to death for the worst anti-semitic attack in u.s. history. the disturbing images, a cinder block cell in an oregon home. the fbi says a kidnapped woman was kept inside but made a dramatic escape. tonight the plea to the public for help. are there more victims? and visitors flocking to a zoo in china after this video exploded on social media. is that a bear or a human in disguise? announcer: this is nbc nightly news w
today. horrifying, incomprehensible, inhumane, just some of the words used to describe videos of the brutal beating of tyre nichols at the hands of memphis police. the shocking images were released last night, and we want to warn you, some of what you re about to see is extremely graphic. i didn t do anything! hey, i didn t body cam video of the traffic stop shows officers approaching with their firearms, yanking nichols out of the car. he breaks free from the officers and runs towards his parents home. a struggle ensues after a chase, police then using pepper spray, batons, their fists, and feet to beatnik cols. at one point, he cries out for his mother. mom! mom! mom! video from a pole camera showing the full extent. you see nichols there, who is unarmed, kicked in the face, struck at least nine times in just several minutes, bloodied, propped up onto a squad car. officers are then seen just standing around, not providing nichols with any potentially lifesaving a
yeah. 2620. 2640. how you doing. how are you? what s going on, man? good. hi. drop the hammer. um, no. hey, hey, hey. what is going on? we re not getting an answer. oh, [ bleep ] . backup, code 3. just incredible to watch. the court also released surveillance footage from cameras installed by d.c. police which shows us them breaking into the house, right there. cnn s veronica miracle is right there for us. also, the court released paul pelosi s 911 call. tell us about that. reporter: yeah, alisyn. first of all, that video so disturbing and hard to watch, especially knowing that paul pelosi suffered a skull fracture and nancy pelosi says he still hasn t recovered. that was three months ago, and she says it lle months before he may feel like himself again. so that 911 call, though, that you mentioned, it certainly paints an interesting picture because it happened right before all of the attack happened. it happened in the middle of paul pelosi trying t