Tonight. The [hall] at a K through 12 school in Wisconsin after police say a student opened fire. The massive police response to the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison. A teenager and a teacher shot dead, at least six other students injured. The suspect, a student, also found dead. Our live report from the scene. Also tonight, the northeast on edge. As the drone mystery deepens, the infrared technology being deployed by Homeland Security. As president elect Donald Trump suggests, the federal government knows more than it is letting on about the strange sightings. Just in new trouble for that accused Delta flight stole away where she has an arrested again while on bond. President elect defending his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy junior. And what they're both now saying about the incident. TikTok appealing to the Supreme Court, hoping to stop a nationwide US ban. Our conversation with the new Los Angeles County d a. As he faces a major decision. Will he support we sentencing the Menendez brothers to shake up the. Could impact the brothers new chance at freedom and the long awaited official honor for the that symbolizes the USA. ___________________________________ https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/118281686 Meet the Press (0s): Only on Meet the Press as President-elect Donald Trump's plans take shape and Democrats face challenges ahead. Kristen Wilker sits down with Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator Bernie Sanders only on Meet the Press. Listen to the full episode Now wherever you get your podcast. 1 (18s): Tonight the whore at a K through 12 school in Wisconsin After police say a student opened fire, the massive police response to the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, a teenager and a teacher shot dead. At least six other students injured the suspect. A student also found dead. Our live report from the scene Also tonight, the Northeast **on Edge** as the drone mystery deepens the infrared technology being deployed by Homeland Security. As President-elect, Donald Trump suggests the federal government knows more than it is letting on about the strange sightings just in new trouble for that **accused** Delta Flight **Stowaway** where she has been arrested again while on Bond President elect Trump **defending** his health Secretary Pick Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 1 (1m 7s): And what they're both now saying about the polio vaccine. Do you remember repeating what you said? RFK jr's views come under scrutiny. TikTok appealing to the Supreme Court hoping to stop a nationwide US ban our conversation with the new Los Angeles County DA as he faces a major decision. Will he support S sentencing? The Menendez brothers? Describe the amount of pressure you're feeling of the shakeup that could impact the brother's new chance at freedom and the long awaited official honor for the bird that **symbolizes** the USA. 2 (1m 44s): This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. 1 (1m 49s): Good evening and welcome. A Christian school community in Madison, Wisconsin is tonight suffering beneath the crushing weight of grief and loss, its sense of safety **shattered** by a mass shooting that left three people dead, A teenage student and a teacher were murdered. Another teen believed to be the shooter dead as well. The shooting took place late this morning at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison. The attacker, according to police, was a student at the K through 12 school. Six other people were injured, including two students rushed to a hospital with life-threatening wounds. Officers responding to a call of active shooter arrived at the school to find the suspected shooter. 1 (2m 29s): Dead police say officers did not fire their weapons. President Biden in a statement tonight saying it is unacceptable that we are unable to protect our children from this **scourge** of gun violence. NBC Shaquille Brewster is in Madison now with the latest developments. 3 (2m 46s): Tonight, heartbreak hits the Midwest after a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin. 4 (2m 53s): We know that three people are dead, including the suspect shooter. We know that the suspect shooter was a teenage student who attended the school. 3 (3m 3s): A teacher and teenage student were killed in the shooting. 5 (3m 6s): Everybody can come in. All EMS can come in. Shooter is down. 3 (3m 10s): Police are not releasing the shooter's age or gender, but say they injured six others, they say the scene was confined to one space in the small private school which houses kindergarten through 12th grade. 4 (3m 21s): Two students are now in critical condition in the hospital and these injuries are considered life threatening injuries. 3 (3m 29s): Police crediting a team of medics who were conducting a training exercise nearby for rushing into aid. The response neighbors witnessed the scramble. 6 (3m 38s): I saw groups of kids coming out of the school in groups into the church sanctuary probably as they were in lockdown and clearing the building and slowly taking out the kids bit by bit by bit. According 3 (3m 52s): To an NBC news **tally**, this is the fourth active shooting in an American school this year. Police say a handgun was used, but say they don't yet have details of a possible motive. The police chief says the shooter's family is cooperating. The White House says Federal officials have offered support to local **authorities** to aid with the investigation. Last year, a shooting at a Christian school in Nashville left six people dead. The shooter or former student was shot dead at the scene tonight, parents in Wisconsin left shaken as another community is again left in mourning. 7 (4m 25s): This is not okay if your kids are at school, they are not okay. If they are church, they are not okay. If they are outside elsewhere, they are not okay. Where are they going to be safe? 1 (4m 38s): Shaq, what more are you learning about the investigation at this hour? 3 (4m 43s): Well, Esther Police say they've made contact with the family of the suspect but would not detail those conversations. We know investigators are interviewing witnesses, going through **surveillance** video and executing search **warrants**. But the motive tonight and how the suspect was able to get access to that firearm is still unclear. Lester. 1 (4m 60s): All right. Shaq Brewster. Thank you. Tonight, much of the country remains on edge After nearly a month of those reported drone sightings and with everyone demanding answers, Tom Costello reports on how federal officials are trying to **patrol** our skies and put the public at ease. 8 (5m 16s): Tonight, the flashing lights from thousands of reported drone sightings across the northeast may be coming into clearer focus. Homeland Security says infrared technology is now helping police on the ground identify drones in the air in New Jersey, the **epicenter** for most drone sightings. For nearly a month, lawmakers continue demanding answers. 9 (5m 37s): I won't let the federal government insult the American people and claim they aren't seeing things that they're seeing with their own two eyes 8 (5m 44s): Over the weekend. An FBI officials said there had been more than 5,000 reported sightings, but only 100 warranted review. The vast majority appear to have been planes, helicopters, and legitimate drone operations though president elect Trump today suggested the government or military knows more about the drones than they're sane. 10 (6m 3s): Something strange is going on. For some reason, they don't want to tell the people 11 (6m 7s): We have not identified anything **anomalous** or any national security or public safety risk over the civilian airspace in New Jersey or other states in the northeast. 8 (6m 18s): Meanwhile, a company specializing in drone radar, Robin Radar is now working with state police in New Jersey. How small of a target of a drone can you identify? 12 (6m 29s): Yeah, so we can, everything in radar comes down to how big it is, what's it made of? How fast is it moving? 8 (6m 36s): Because drones fly so low, FAA aviation radar typically doesn't spot them. FBI and FAA officials have said most drone sightings appear to line up with airport takeoff and landing patterns suggesting the public might be mistaking regular air traffic, even passing satellites For drones. Drones are legal in daylight and nighttime. The FAA requires they remain under 400 feet. They must stay at least five miles from airports and restricted areas be in the line of sight of the drone operator and the drone operator must have a license for larger drones and any commercial activity like other news organizations. 8 (7m 16s): NBC News uses drones for our news gathering. According to FAA regulations, we have a white strobe flashing on top. Planes on the other hand have white strobes on the wings, a solid red, a solid green light, and then a flashing red. Former FBI counter drone Chief Rob Dko. They're 12 (7m 33s): 400 feet below, they have their lights on and they can see the drone. There's nothing illegal about it. Even if it's over your own property, you don't own the airspace. 8 (7m 43s): Most drones have less than 30 minutes of battery life and limited range. 12 (7m 48s): It's hard to deny that there's a lot of rules out there and some people will follow them, some people won't. 1 (7m 55s): And Tom, we understand there's a late warning now from the FBI, 8 (7m 60s): The FBI Newark office. Now warning, don't try to shoot a drone out of the sky. You may be hitting a helicopter, a plane, a legitimate drone. It's a felony. In addition, that debris could cause serious injury or kill somebody on the ground. Lester. 1 (8m 15s): Alright Tom, thank you. Now to breaking news about the stowaway caught aboard a delta flight to Paris Vet Lana Dolley was brought back to America earlier this month, but now she's been arrested again. Jonathan Dean's just getting late, breaking details. Jonathan, what happened? 13 (8m 31s): Yeah, Lester, she first gained **notoriety** after **allegedly** flying as a stow away from New York to Paris and she's back in **custody** again. Two senior law enforcement officials tell NBC. That's that Lana Deli was staying with her boyfriend in Philadelphia and as part of her bail had been ordered to have her whereabouts monitored by GPS ankle bracelet. Those officials say she cut her bracelet in Philadelphia and **fled** to the US Canada border on a Greyhound bus and picked up by Canadian authorities near Buffalo. She'll be in court tomorrow. Ester, and she's expected to be sent back to New York City to face charges tied to her alleged flight. Dally first captured law enforcement's attention after she **evaded** TSA security before boarding that flight from Paris to Paris from JFK 1 (9m 19s): Mr. Alright, Jonathan, thanks very much for that. President elect Trump gave a strong defense of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Today as his choice for health and human services. Secretary Amid questions about his views on vaccines as Kennedy met with senators who will decide if he could get that job? Garrett Ha has the latest 14 (9m 38s): Tonight Donald Trump's pick to be the nation's top federal health official longtime vaccine skeptic. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Making the first Capitol Hill appearance of his confirmation process as the president elect held his first news conference. Since winning the election, Trump defending his Department of Health and Human Services selection. Kennedy repeatedly. What do you say to people who are worried that his views on vaccines will translate into policies that'll make their kids less safe? 10 (10m 4s): No, I think he's gonna be much less **radical** than you would think. I think he's got a very open mind or I wouldn't have put 'em there. 14 (10m 9s): Kennedy has pushed discredited theories that link childhood vaccines to autism and has been under fire after the New York Times reported. A top advisor had petitioned the FDA in 2022 to revoke approval of the polio vaccine. You're 10 (10m 23s): Not gonna lose the the polio vaccine. That's not gonna happen. But we're gonna look into finding why is the autism rate so much higher than it was 20, 25, 30 years ago. Kennedy 14 (10m 33s): Pressed today on if he supports the polio vaccine. Trump asked directly if schools should mandate vaccinations pivoting to covid. 10 (10m 42s): I don't like mandates. I was against mandates. Mostly Democrat governors did the mandates, 14 (10m 47s): But school vaccination requirements are decided by states with the federal government providing only recommendations and schedules limiting the direct influence. Kennedy or Trump could have the president-elect press conference called to Tau, a hundred billion dollars investment from Japanese tech firm's soft bank, which Mr. Trump claimed would create 100,000 new American jobs. He's kept a **low profile** since his election victory rarely straying far from his Mar-a-Lago Club as tech titans and foreign leaders have flocked to Florida to see him 10 (11m 17s): In the first term, everybody was fighting me in this term. Everybody wants to be my friend. I don't know my personality changed or something, but the biggest difference is that people want to get along with me this time 14 (11m 29s): Today commenting for the first time on the killing of the United Healthcare CEO. 10 (11m 34s): It was coldblooded, just a coldblooded horrible killing. And how people can, like this guy is that's a sickness. Actually. 14 (11m 44s): Trump also told reporters he sees ending the war in Ukraine as more complicated than settling the conflicts in the Middle East, insisting that both presidents Putin and Zelensky have to be willing to make a deal. 1 (11m 55s): Lester. All right, Garrett. Hay. Thank you. And Also tonight, Syria's ousted dictator is breaking his silence for the first time since fleeing to Russia. It comes as families torn apart by his brutal regime are scrambling to reunite. Richard Engel is in Damascus and a warning the details are disturbing. 15 (12m 14s): Bashar Assad offered his version of events tonight. A week after he was overthrown in a statement, Assad claimed he was overseeing combat operations against the rebels. He called terrorists and only left after a Russian commander ordered him to evacuate for his safety. At no point during these events did I consider stepping down or seeking refuge. Assad said on the Syrian presidency Telegram channel, although we cannot verify if Assad still controls the account, he said nothing about the mass graves now being uncovered daily or the more than 100,000 Syrians still missing. 15 (12m 54s): You just handed me this. She said, please, please, please put this one on camera. Everyone here hoping behind hope. But what's so disturbing is not a single person here has said that they've received a phone call. Samir Zakour is looking for her son, Rashid, I've been searching for him for 11 years now. She says some reunions are happening. These two cousins were freed by the rebels from a regime prison. They say they were savagely, tortured, said they used scissors to just cut off his fingers. These men were in the Aya prison where we reported last week how detainees described how Assads guards used the hydraulic press to torture and kill people. 15 (13m 46s): They told me they heard the press and the screams and that now they are restarting their lives with children who barely know them. Syrians are demanding that Assad be returned from Moscow, so it can be tried here for war crimes. It's unlikely that Putin will hand over as former Ally Lester. 1 (14m 5s): Alright, Richard Engel, thank you. In 60 seconds, TikTok takes their fight to the Supreme Court fighting a law that could ban it here in the US next. Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist (14m 15s): Hey guys, Willie Geist here reminding you to check out the Sunday Sit Down podcast. On this week's episode, I get together with the one and only Billy Crystal to talk about a life in comedy and the acclaimed new series that shows he can play deadly Serious too. 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Listen for free each week or unlock new episodes early and enjoy ad free listening by subscribing to Dateline Premium on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or dateline premium.com. 1 (15m 43s): Just in the major escalation to the battle over banning TikTok, Savannah Sellers joins us now. Savannah TikTok is now taking this fight to the Supreme Court. 20 (15m 51s): Lester, that's absolutely right. The company filed an application with the court asking it to block the implementation of that law that could ban the app that millions of Americans use after a lower court upheld that very law citing national security concerns. They want the Supreme Court to take up the case writing that the law will shutter one of America's most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration. That law would go into effect on January 19th if the justices don't side with TikTok and if tiktoks Chinese parent company hasn't sold the app. In the meantime, TikTok, CEO met with President elect Trump today at Mar-a-Lago. A source familiar with the meeting tells NBC news. That was just hours after Mr. Trump said he has a warm spot for the company. 20 (16m 35s): TikTok has asked for a ruling on this pause by January 6th, Lester. Alright, 1 (16m 39s): Savannah, thanks for the update coming up my exclusive interview with the new Los Angeles County da, what he says about re-sentencing the Menendez brothers. Next, we're back now with my conversation with the new district attorney of Los Angeles County whose inbox includes a 30 5-year-old murder case that still captivates the nation, fanned recently by films on Netflix and Peacock raising questions of possible new evidence. In the case of Lyle and Eric Menendez, how would you describe the amount of pressure you're feeling on the Menendez case? 19 (17m 12s): You know it's not pressure and this is why you sign up for a job like this, is 1 (17m 16s): That the job leading the nation's largest district attorney's office 19 (17m 21s): I, Nathan Hockman, 1 (17m 22s): Nathan Hockman was swept into office amid a voter backlash against what critics saw as soft on crime policies of his predecessor, George Gascon and rising violent crime your predecessor is referred to as a a progressive. What does that make you? 19 (17m 41s): So what it makes me is common sense. I reject the extremes about decarceration, which predetermines that certain crimes and certain criminals would not be prosecuted, not withstanding the facts in the law and also the other extreme of mass incarceration. 1 (17m 56s): Hockman a Republican turned independent vous to operate from what he calls the hard middle, including in his approach to the Menendez case in which the previous DA asked a judge to sentence the brothers who are currently serving sentences of life without parole for the 1989 murders of their parents. 19 (18m 17s): The pace is expeditious because we have a January 30th hearing and I'm reading thousands of pages of confidential prison files. 1 (18m 25s): Hockman not tipping his hand as to where he may land on the case, but confirming personnel changes among the team that led the re-sentencing effort. Have you removed people who were directly involved in, in the Menendez case? 19 (18m 38s): So one of the people is actually no longer, will no longer be with the office and I will be speaking to everybody who's ever touched the Menendez case in the DA's office. We 1 (18m 48s): Refer to them as the Menendez brothers, assuming they're always a package deal. In your view, as you do your review, do you leave open the possibility their cases could be handled differently, that they would be split? 19 (18m 59s): Well, you're, you're absolutely correct. While they're called the Menendez Brothers case, there's an Eric Menendez case and a Lyle Menendez case. There's actually two different victims. There's a Jose Menendez, the father, and Kitty Menendez the mother. So we will look at each case separately is which is the way they actually should be handled. We'll look at each victim separately, which again is what, what the law actually demands us to do in reaching the re the ultimate decision over re-sentencing. 1 (19m 28s): Have you thought about what message it would send if you were to endorse s resentencing in this case? 19 (19m 33s): It's not so much a message, but a precedent because the precedent of whatever we do in this case will apply to future cases that we deal with, with request fors, resentencing, we have to be consistent. 1 (19m 45s): Do you wish this was not on your desk? 19 (19m 49s): Do I wish it was not on my desk? You know what? You, you, you are dealt the cards you're dealt with in this life and the Menendez card has been dealt. It's a card that we will deal with 1 (19m 59s): Part of my conversation with the new district attorney of Los Angeles County up next for us tonight. Believe it or not, the bald eagle isn't America's national bird. But there's breaking news on that front tonight we'll explain, 19 (20m 12s): But then when I finally got 21 (20m 13s): To the four, Making Space (20m 14s): Hey everybody, it's Hoda Cop from The Today Show reminding you to check out my podcast Making Space. In this week's episode, I sit down with singer songwriter Tyler Hubbard of the Duo Florida Georgia Line. It's a really special conversation about his family, his faith, and finding the balance in all of it. You can Listen to the full conversation right now. All you have to do is search making space wherever you get your podcasts. Sky News StoryCast (20m 34s): The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakeem is a brand new podcast from Sky News with me, sky News's, lead world news presenter, Yalda Hakeem, and me Richard Engel, chief former correspondent for NBC News. Every week we'll be reporting from the frontline of the world's trouble spots and asking the big questions to the world's most important and influential people. Join us for the ground truth to help you understand what is happening in the world today and why it matters to you. So That's the world with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakeem. Listen, every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcasts. 1 (21m 5s): Finally, in many ways, the majestic bald eagle has long been a symbol for the United States, but it hasn't been official until now. Ryan Noble's with the good news tonight 15 (21m 16s): On the banks of the Mississippi, a sleepy town in Minnesota has a unique tie to one of America's most iconic symbols. 23 (21m 24s): I've been wrong all these years and so has everybody else in the country. 15 (21m 28s): At least they thought they did. I mean, were you shocked to find out that it wasn't already the National Bird? I was 24 (21m 32s): Shocked. Yes. I think everybody's 15 (21m 34s): Shocked. The bald eagle is featured on the Great Seal of the United States and all over uniforms, flags, insignias, and government buildings. But it's never officially been named the country's national bird. My 25 (21m 47s): Teacher told me it was, 26 (21m 49s): Yeah, we might need to go rewrite a few 15 (21m 51s): Textbooks. We have a national tree, a national mammal, even a national flower, and yet the eagle has never received its official title. But in Waha it was one man, Preston Cook, who discovered the omission while researching for a book and is working to fix it. 27 (22m 9s): If you ask the question to anybody on the street, they're gonna give you the same answer. It's the bald eagle. 15 (22m 14s): We have no national bird, right? 27 (22m 16s): We have never had a national bird 15 (22m 17s): To put it mildly. Cook is obsessed with a bald eagle. 27 (22m 21s): If it had an eagle on it, I'd buy it. 15 (22m 23s): Starting in 1966, Preston collected anything he could with an eagle on it. His collection has grown to more than 40,000 pieces. We 27 (22m 32s): See more than an eagle. We see freedom, we see independence, we see power. 15 (22m 37s): So Preston set out on a mission partnering with Wa Baha's, national Eagle Center. He wrote a bill that makes the eagle, the national bird. 23 (22m 45s): Preston Cook brought that up to us years ago and it was like, oh, come on Preston, you're kidding me. So I'm glad that we're now figuring that out and making that happen. 15 (22m 52s): In late July, the Senate passed the bill 100 to nothing, a rare feed in today's partisan Congress, and tonight the house passed the bill as well. An amazing comeback for an amazing creature who almost 250 years later is finally getting the status. It is already earned. Ryan Noble's, NBC News, waha, Minnesota, 1 (23m 14s): The Eagle has landed. That is Nightly News for this Monday. Thank you for watching. I'm Lester Holt. Please take care of yourself and each other. Goodnight. The Today Show (23m 25s): Let The Today Show make you a gift giving expert. 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