A very good day to all of you from the Tom Brokaw News Center in los angeles. Welcome to alex witt reports. Breaking news to share. Police are closing in on a gunman suspected of killing at least three people in two separate shootings in false township just north of philadelphia. Police say he got away in a vehicle. He carjacked the vehicle at gunpoint. Lets go to nbcs George Celisse in the area. He joins us on the phone. Lets talk about what we know about the suspect and the victims. What is the timeline here . Reporter good afternoon alex. Of fluid and developing scene. What we are hearing from police sources, is the suspect is currently tracked to home in winds, new jersey. And neck area he has ties to it appears that s. W. A. T. And the police to permanent on the scene. L back it up for how we ended up here. To false township police, just before 9 00 this morning they were dispatched to a home. It is roughly an hour away from philadelphia. Be determined and verified the shooting su
work to finish the memorial continues. raising money to honor those who have already paid the ultimate price. alex, the memorial begins here at 12:30 p.m., when the program starts. it will include a presentation of the names of the 40 killed here as well as a ringing of the bells of remembrance. then we ll hear remarks from the president of the organization of the families of flight 93 as well as former presidents bill clinton and george w. bush and then there will be the unveiling of the memorial, the white marble wall. that will be done by vice president joe biden. we ll check in with you again. thank you so much. thank you. fire in the hollywood hills. we ll tell you which big name celebrities former home went up in flames last night. and also, will congress act on president obama s plan for jobs? there are some promising signs in washington. we talk about them next. later, call of duty, the men and women who saw 9/11 as an inspiration to join the military.
obligation to make them aware. but at the same time, you can t analyze these threats and conflate them based on the amount of information you have. it s important to recognize, again, because of this weekend and all that is surrounding it, i think this particular threat, because it is specific and because it is credible and viewed as imminent with the 9/11 weekend, it is just a little bit of a different animal than what we ve seen in the past, alex. roger cressey, thanks for your insights and also staying with us through that pentagon tribute. you bet. in shanksville, pennsylvania, today, a tribute to those who died when united flight 93 crashed into an empty field on 9/11. the official dedication of the flight 93 memorial will begin in a few hours. nbc we are live in shanksville, pennsylvania. tell us what s planned there today. good morning, alex.
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peter, thank you for that. we are waiting for former president george w. bush. those are the walls of a pentagon, just outside of a plaque where the former president will be laying a wreath. a solemn memory and tribute. it was scheduled about five minutes ago. we re keeping our eyes trained on that. let s bring in a terrorist analyst, robert cressey. all of this heightened as a result of that credible but unconfirmed terror threat. where do things stand on that front and is there any chance we re making too much of it? well, alex, there s always a possibility we re looking at this threat and we re inflating it, not because we re overhyping it, but because it is aimed at the 9/11 anniversary weekend. i think as we discussed earlier, if we had not had this weekend coming up, this type of threat would have been handled differently. the fact remains, though, the