on a day when the way critical issues are handled right now may well determine the outcome of the elections from primaries through november s midterm. not just for candidates, but for our economy, our safety. consider these new pieces of the puzzle. there s a brand new poll that shows 83% of americans describe the state of the economy as poor or not so good. prices for everything from clothes to food on the rise. the average cost of gas hitting another record high today. this hour we ll hear from americans about the pain at at the pump. plus this weekend saw another devastating round of mass shootings that left at least 12 people dead, 38 injured. among the communities experiencing these latest tragedies, philadelphia, chattanooga, saginaw, mesa, arizona. that s according to the gun violence archives. this weekend is pushing some americans to the brink. here s one philadelphia woman after the shooting there killed 3 and injured 11. i m furious. not just for my neighbor, but
tuesday, but the gunman was not killed until just after 1 p.m. initially the texas department of public safety said the resource officer at the school fired at the gunman but steve mcgraw, director of the texas dps said he did not. it was a brave, independent school district resource officer that approached him, engaged him. at that time gun fire was not, changed. confronted him. he followed him right in immediately. so if this version of events is accurate, that means an armed school officer responsible for the safety of the children and teachers inside saw a man dressed in tactical gear carrying an assault rifle and did not use force to stop him from entering the school and killing 19 children and two of their teachers. nbc news reached out to texas dps for comment previously. the director said the gunman was engaged, quote, immediately and that two officers were wounded. inside the school a teacher heard gunshot as end of year celebrations were in full swing. speaking
2016. Announcer this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. We want to get right to this breaking news, a man armed with a knife shot and killed as he tried to enter a Police Station in paris. Kelly, good morning. What do we know . Reporter matt, good morning to you. Another frightening morning for some in the french capital today, this man armed with a knife tried to break into the Police Station in the northern part of the city around noon paris time and was shot dead. Paris police already on edge should down this naked around noon paris time telling shops to while a robot checked for a suicide belt on the body of a man shouting god is great in arabic. The explosives were fake. President Francois Hollande was paying homage to those killed in the Charlie Hebdo attack. Police are still looking into who this man was and his possible motive but they do say he was found with a phone, a piece of paper with an isis flag and
Speech. Before literally getting the boot from Sharon Osborne on today thursday, january 7, 2016. Announcer this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. We want to get right to this breaking news, a man armed with a knife shot and killed as he tried to enter a Police Station in paris. Kelly, good morning. What do we know . Reporter matt, good morning to you. Another frightening morning for some in the french capital today, this man armed with a knife tried to break into the Police Station in the northern part of the city around noon paris police already on edge should down this naked around noon paris time telling shops to close and people to go home while a robot checked for a suicide belt on the body of a man shouting god is great in arabic. The explosives were fake. President Francois Hollande was paying homage to those killed in the Charlie Hebdo attack. Police are still looking into who this man was and his possibl
A lot of demonstrations of people against the police, it was like riots in the street in paris, two days ago, the paris people are angry, and saying we lack, we cannot protect the country. We dont know what happened. This is a very important moment. Police saying we cannot go protect well, the plans, we need more budgets, that is in the talk about the latest on the investigation. President saying they would be leading the investigation to a large extent. What are you hearing, you have a lot of sources, what are they telling you . Do you feel like this is probably terrorism . They feel, of course, they are not sure. They are looking at every possibility. At this moment, he would like full cooperation with the egyptians. He really wants to have the elements. This is a very important. The other thing s they are looking at the plan, they know there was a saudi, there it was three men. Who was this person. Looking at a man who was an iraqi person. They are looking at the nationality and the