In is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Substituting tonight Peter Alexander. Good evening. Just days after storming a University Campus killing 148 people most of them students, the somali terror group behind this weeks attack in kenya is warning kenyan cities will run red with blood. That threat coming as that countrys president is vowing a fierce response. The victims were singled out because they were christian. And tonight for the first time were hearing how one young survivor escaped the carnage. We begin tonight with nbcs bill neely in nairobi. Reporter after the shock, anger. Relatives fighting at a mortuary desperate to see if their brother was among the dead. They soon find out. Another victim of kenyas massacre identified. For nearly 150 families this is agony. And this is the third day. Kenya is on high alert fearing another attack arresting five suspects in connection with the killings. To add to the pain of the bereaved the somali based Al Shabaab Terror Group that did t
This is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im carson daly along side Natalie Morales. Al is over at the weather post. Matt has the morning off. There is a renal reason al is at the weather post. You call this storm a triple threat. Absolutely. Were looking at every kind of weather you can talk about. Look at what its doing to the traffic already. Heres the 14th street bridge. Nonstop traffic. I95 in philadelphia a real mess. So lets first take a look at the 14th street bridge. Traffic moving but, boy, its going to start to back up and then we go to philadelphia from our nbc station there, channel 10, you can see overturned tractor trailer on i95. This is going to be a mess. Were just getting warmed up here, friends. This is going to be an icy mess for a good portion of the country. Heres the set up weve got. Well be looking at arctic air making its w
Politicians in washington. Reporter read from dr. Seuss. I would not eat green egg s and ham, i i do not like them, sam i am. Reporter Many Republican colleagues arent awe mused. Senator cruz has become a figure standing alone, talking a lot, but doesnt have many friends. Reporter cruz provoked a backlash this comparison. You go to the 1940s. Nazi germany. Reporter cruz claimed those who dont join his fight are appeasers. They would have been saying you cannot defeat the germans. Reporter john mccain has often clashed with cruz and said that went too fantastic. Too far. I uh i reject that. Reporter it frustrated some republicans who worry his personal aspirations could risk damage to the Republican Party brand. Kelly odonnell, nbc news, the capitol. While this was a oneman protest and not a filibuster, lets put that aside as the theater aspect of this. Now to the reality. Nearly everybody in this country will be required to have Health Insurance next year. Today the white house provide
Two days before he carried out an attack that was planned to kill as many innocent siecivili as possible. Reporter pictures released today show alexis arriving at 7 53 a. M. Driving his rental car into a parking deck. At 8 08 he walks in into building 17 carrying a backpack presumably with the gun and ammunition inside. He emerges from the restroom, holding the shotgun, looking for victims, looking into office doors. Another camera catches him coming down a stairway t with the shotgun. Fired at victims on at least three floors of the building. The last video shows him in another hallway, hiding behind a corner as people rush away at the end of the corridor. He was killed at 9 25. He scratched into the barrel of the shotgun, end to the torment. On the body of the gun, not what yall say, better off this way and my elf weapon. Alexis held a belief he was being controlled or influenced by extremely low frequency or e. L. F. Lekt magnetic waves. Reporter the navy used e. L. F. To communicat
Substituting tonight Peter Alexander. Good evening. Just days after storming a University Campus killing 148 people, most of them students, the somali terror group behind this weeks deadly assault in kenya is threatening a long gruesome war. The Islamic Extremist Group al shabaab today warning kenyan cities will run red with blood. That threat coming as that countrys president is vowing a fierce response. The victims were singled out because they were christian. And tonight for the first time were hearing how one young survivor escaped the carnage. We begin tonight with nbcs bill neely in nairobi. Reporter after the shock, anger. Relatives fighting at a mortuary desperate to see if their brother was among the dead. They soon find out. Another victim of kenyas massacre identified. For nearly 150 families this is agony. And this is the third day. Kenya is on high alert fearing another attack, arresting five suspects in connection with the killings. To add to the pain of the bereaved, the