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saluting the class of 2022 from the president to the fonz. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >> good evening. i'm tom llamas in for lester tonight, a dangerous tropical threat taking aim at florida, parts of the southern coast getting pounded by heavy rains. the tropical cyclone with warnings issued for a large part of the state, including south florida and the keys also on alert, parts of the bahamas and cuba where at leas one person already died dangerous rains expected to continue overnight, causing torrential downpours and possible tornadoes. just this wee...

67 students aged 14-18 from the Kyanguli Secondary were killed by an arson attack on their dormitory in March 2001.

Tomorrow marks seven years since the horrific shooting at sandy hook elementary school in connecticut. there is hope as a group founded opened the first crisis center of its kind to prevent other school tragedies kate snow has the first look. >> nobody gets in trouble. we're just here to help gather information, okay? >> reporter: tucked away in this miami office. >> i just wanted to make sure someone spoke to him. >> reporter: every beep is another tip coming in. >> there is an immense power here because they are saving lives and intervening right now as we stand here. >> reporter: nicole haw...

Police talking on their radios screaming and surrounding. i didn't hear any of the shots. but it was scary. >> police say 18-year-old karl pierson, a student at arapahoe high school, was looking for a specific teacher. it stepped from an earlier disagreement between the two. >> when the teacher heard this individual was asking for him, the teacher exited the school immediately. in my opinion, it was the most important tactical decision that could have been made. >> the chaotic frantic scene resembled other school tragedies. sandy hook a year ago today. and columbine high school in 1999. a scho...

Guns out of schools and away from kids? >> i think the example you showed in the lead-in shows just why it doesn't make good sense to put more guns in schools, and i think it's unfortunate because more -- the most amount of kids that we're losing is not in the schools. it's where the legislators can actually do something. it's on the streets, and if we could tighten up gun laws and get more illegal guns off the street we'd reduce the number of youth we're losing to gun violence. that's a serious issue and i think it's unfortunate that they are using these very horrific tragedies, school traged...