By Dan Donahue, NBC Nightly News |
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Good Thursday afternoon. Here’s what’s in our Nightly Rundown tonight. |
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Two killed in California high school shooting, suspect in “grave” condition |
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At least two students were killed, and multiple others were injured, when a teen opened fire at a high school today in Southern California, and the suspect is in custody and in “grave” condition, Los Angeles County authorities said. |
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The suspect has been identified as a 16-year-old student who carried out the attack at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita on his birthday, according to the sheriff’s department. The two victims who died were a 16-year-old girl and 14-year-old boy, and three other students remain hospitalized, investigators said. |
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Officials said the suspect was captured on surveillance camera taking a handgun from his backpack and shooting the other five students, before turning the gun on himself. No motive has been determined yet, according to authorities. |
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Miguel Almaguer is at the school for us tonight. |
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Student witnesses describe scene of Santa Clarita school shooting |
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Pelosi accuses Trump of bribery and says Ukraine call “perfectly wrong” |
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats have not made a decision on whether to impeach President Trump, but accused him of bribery, as Capitol Hill prepares for the second public impeachment hearing on Friday. Peter Alexander is on the story for us tonight. |
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“Perfectly wrong”: Pelosi said Trump “has admitted” to bribery, and said that the July 25 call with Ukraine’s president, which Trump has repeatedly described as “perfect,” was in fact “perfectly wrong.” Pelosi added that Trump’s pressuring of Ukraine to launch investigations into his political rivals, and what she described as a subsequent cover-up, “makes what Nixon did look almost small.” Pelosi’s new attacks came shortly after Trump retweeted a conservative columnist’s criticism of Pelosi, and added that the “Impeachment Hoax is such a bad precedent and sooo bad for our Country!”Impeachment round two: On Friday, the House Intelligence Committee will hear from ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch at the second televised hearing. Yovanovitch previously testified privately that she was the victim of a smear campaign spearheaded by Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney, aimed at removing her. In May, Yovanovitch was abruptly recalled from her post, months before she was scheduled to depart.The other phone call: Also testifying tomorrow, but behind closed doors, will be State Department official David Holmes. Holmes is the State Department official who overheard a phone call between Trump and Gordon Sondland, the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, on July 26, a day after the call with Ukraine’s leader, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The call was revealed on Wednesday during the testimony by acting William Taylor, the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, who said a staffer — Holmes — heard Trump ask Sondland about “the investigations,” and then heard Sondland assure the president that the Ukrainians were “ready to move forward.” Attacking the whistleblower: A day after Republicans repeatedly tried to shift the focus of the first public hearing to the whistleblower who first filed the complaint about the July 25 call, Trump took new aim at that individual. “Where’s the Fake Whistleblower?” Trump tweeted. |
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Deval Patrick enters the 2020 Democratic presidential primary |
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Is there room for one more in the crowded field seeking the Democratic nomination? Deval Patrick certainly hopes so. The former Massachusetts governor today officially announced his 2020 campaign for president. |
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“I admire and respect the candidates in the Democratic field,” Patrick said in his announcement video. “They bring a richness of ideas and experience and a depth of character that makes me proud to be a Democrat. But if the character of the candidates is an issue in every election, this time is about the character of the country.” |
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Patrick’s entry into the race comes days after Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire and former New York City mayor, took steps to potentially launch his own campaign in the Democratic primary. |
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And could the party’s 2016 nominee be considering another run? Hillary Clinton is stirring new speculation, after told a BBC interviewer, “I, as I say, never, never, never say never. I will certainly tell you, I'm under enormous pressure from many, many, many people to think about it.” |
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Deval Patrick files to appear on New Hampshire's 2020 ballot |
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Police searching for gunman after nurse killed in Chicago |
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Police are hunting for a killer tonight, after a 32-year-old nurse was gunned down on Chicago’s West Side this week. Frank Aguilar was coming home from work late Tuesday night when someone in a gray SUV opened fire, hitting him in the chest. |
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Aguilar’s family said he had just left a shift at the hospital, and was wearing scrubs and carrying a laundry basket when he was killed. Police are asking anyone who may have surveillance video of the incident to come forward. |
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“He was my biggest inspiration,” Aguilar’s niece April Barahona told our Chicago affiliate. “He was everybody’s role model. He was there for everybody.” |
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Ron Mott will report on the mystery for us tonight. |
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