with a 2 -year price guarantee. hello everyone, i am alicia call today. menendez, live in uvalde, texas, where there are new questions mounting over the mass shooting at robb elementary school. behind me, left 19 children and two teachers that. texas authorities updated the timeline on the attack, feeling students made 691 calls as officers made calls other classroom. according to the texas safety department, the local chief commander made the wrong decision not to enter the barricade a classroom for over an hour. and then your survivor said that police also encourage students to call out for help, which allowed the government to locate and shoot one of his classmates. nbc news has learned that federal agents has eventually defied police orders and fatally shooting the gunman. meanwhile, parents outside the school trying to rush in and rescue their own children. the mother of a third grader describing the desperate scene of police restraining parents, as shots rang out. we
the u.s. coast. house republicans voting to hold attorney general merrick garland in contempt of congress, but will it go any further than that? and remembering the nba legend whose silhouette became the league s logo. lebron and jordan paying tribute tonight to the great jerry west. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome. we are watching an extraordinary weather story unfold in south florida tonight. the rain just not stopping. for a second day, a slow-motion system triggering intense downpours and flash flooding. tonight, flash flood warnings and emergencies are posted into the evening. many streets are impassable. cars have been left stranded. adding insult to injury, the risk of lightning and severe wind gusts. rain totals in the last two days across southern florida exceeding a foot in some places with no relief expected before saturday. downpours just this afternoon falling at an estimated rate of four to six inches per
touching down, cutting off a community. we re in the storm zone. also tonight, the new twist in the deadly hijacking of a transit bus in atlanta. the suspect by chance speaking to tv cameras hours before the chaos. what he said about his struggles with mental health. the mass casualty incident in illinois. three sheriff s deputies shot as they entered a home with a barricade suspect. president biden in italy for the g7 summit. the new security agreement he s expected to sign with ukraine as russian warships reach cuban waters 90 miles off the u.s. coast. house republicans voting to hold attorney general merrick garland in contempt of congress, but will it go any further than that? and remembering the nba legend whose silhouette became the league s logo. lebron and jordan paying tribute tonight to the great jerry west. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome. we are watching an extraordinary weather story unfold in south fl
officially said that this was a bad call, that the commander on scene who was the chief of police for uvalde this derek treated this like a barricade suspect, someone who was holed up in a building instead of an active shooter. apparently at that time, authorities were trying to assemble and stand up a swat team to go in and take the shooter down. possibly, even have a sore undergo she asian with them. when, in fact, we now know that during that time, students themselves, as well as teachers, we re calling 9-1-1 asking that the police come in and save them. frank, msnbc has learned that the chief has attended an active shooting trading as recently as december. it is a question of protocol or training, will go through your