13th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning and welcome to today on a friday morning. Friday the 13th. Im Savannah Guthrie along side matt lauer and al roker. You were up all night downloading songs. 14 new songs from beyonce. And video. She just dropped it. It was cool. I like how you used the lingo. Yeah, a little marketing by no marketing. Its interesting. News that the longest held hostage in u. S. History that disappeared in iran seven years ago was, in fact, working for the cia. This was something the government always denied. Nbc justice correspondent Pete Williams is on the story this morning. Pete, good morning. What can you tell us . Reporter well, savannah this information does shed new light on what bob levinson, a former fbi agent was up to when he vanished in iran in the spring of 2007. Turns out he was doing contract work for the cia. Since the day Robert Levinson went mis
Any town. There are many difficult days, weeks and months ahead. Starting tomorrow, parents will begin burying their children, trying to imagine its almost unthinkable. Its impossible to find the words. All the words that we can say in this hour are going to seem so small, the face of the tragedy that has occurred here. Now, is a time to lean on one another or the parents and the loved ones and the families here to be the ones to lean on. They came together for a convince il, crowding into the local High School Just behind me. The local High School Auditorium to listen to spiritual leader offering any words of comfort they could. President obama spoke as well and said that we as a nation are simply not doing enough to keep our children safe. He promised to work, to put an end to future tragedies like this one. Well play you his call for action shortly. But we dont want to focus on the killer. For the last several days we havent said his name. I dont want history to remember him. We and
I wish to god she had had an m4 in her office locked up so when she heard gunfire she pulls it out and she didnt have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands, but she takes him off, takes his head off before he could kill those precious kids. Saying something Many Americans are in agreement with. Frank bruni, when i hear that, i just despair, but it is a view Many Americans have. Polls suggest that if the teachers had all been armed, one would have shot the guy and if Police Officers cant fire with an accuracy, they cant fire. Why would we believe teachers in schools would have wonderful marksmanship and would make this a better thing. It defies common sense. It cannot be true. America has the most guns of any of the civilized world. And the most gun related deaths. Twice as many as anybody else. The penny doesnt seem to drop with many people. Ive been writing on and off about gun control. Since then 15 years, states have gotten more lax. The federal government has done anything.
Killer, but he certainly was a delivered killer on august 27. I am not satisfied with anything, because i think everybody lost. He needs to be punished, but my heart goes out to him. There are a lot of hurt people. We are heard on are in because danny was hurt. They are hurting on therein. He is a boy that is going to jail. He committed a crime. They are hurting, we are hurting, there is no winner. Gladden was also sentenced to 20 years in prison for use of a firearm in commission within a crime of violence. That will run concurrently with the 35year term. The judge said he would recommend that gladden be sentenced to the patuxent institute. Two people are dead after an overnight shooting in northeast baltimore. Detectives were called to my pillar street just before midnight where they found a man lying in the street, shot in the head. They discovered, and also shot in a vehicle parked right of the street. Police have no leads on a motive or a suspect, but anyone with information is ur
We dont know whether he shot at people inside and outside but we know there are multiple fatalities. The sheriff repeating what weve been told earlier by the School Superintendent and senator bill nelson. A horrible and tragic day in south florida. He was found offcampus, the suspect, and we saw that happen live here on fox news through the facilities of wsvn 7. There are new stations joining us. We are live on Fox News Channel. Another Tragic School shooting. 2 30 this afternoon. We know the suspect is in custody, taken into custody not far from school, less than a mile. There sheriff says hes an 18yearold who was at a local hospital being treated for we dont know. Will be taken for processing. We note multiple people have died. We do not know how many. We are beginning to get accounts from teachers inside the school. One of them, a man named jim gardner, a math teacher. They have had a drill in the morning and now they are hearing those same noises again. He tells the miami herald si