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important. a 72-year-old suspect who was found dead at the scene about 12 hours later from what officials believe at this point was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. but there s more to the story. nbc news now on staining this new and exclusive surveillance video that actually shows the moment when an apparent hero helped disarm what is believed to be that suspected gunman, and then this person speaking at it with lester headlight. i had to believe that i was going to die. like, my life was ending here at that very moment. but something something amazing happened, and a miracle actually, he started to tray to prep his weapon so he could shoot everybody, but then it came it dawns on me this was the moment to disarm him. i could do something that could protect everybody and potentially save myself. we begin our coverage. jim, welcom we have an eye on when we ll get our update and we ll go to that when they come out. the horror, the carnage, the lost lives. we could ta ....
covid lockdowns was anti science. tonight i can tell you that democracy is grinding through its process and there could be a speaker of the house elected tonight. now, i know that s a change from what you ve heard all week but we can report that in the next few hours, it could actually happen. the house is reconvening any second, and the ingraham angle is hearing from a high level source kevin mccarthy does have the votes to get elected. let s go live to capitol hill, things are very fluid they can change but senior congressional correspondent who has been working very hard this week, chad perfect gram is standing by. chad what can you tell us? laura good evening, kevin mccarthy gained support as speaker on two roll call votes today. he did not gain any support on 11 votes for speaker over the previous three days. the question is whether mccarthy can close the deal tonight. we are told he should have the votes later on and be sworn in as speaker. two of his supporters ....
david scott. effries. so here s the thing you can see the tally chart on the right-hand side. we are making sure everybody has voted. we believe the magic number is 217. as you see right there kevin mccarthy has 216. when they start another roll call we will go back to that immediately but in the meantime let s bring in our chief congressional correspondent chad pergram chad do we appear to be one vote short. that s right. this is why it always takes a while at the end because you have the tellers, the tally clerks in front of the chamber they are going through manually and comparing notes and making sure that everybody has the same numbers. let me do a deep dive right now. so this is where we stand. okay. so remember that the speaker must win an outright majority of all members casting ballots for somebody by their last name. okay? so the present votes do not count. the present votes do not count. so if you laura: chad can we pause? because i think we have ....