NBC Nightly News Full Episode - Aug. 12

Tonight, inside the takedown, a gunman goes on a. shooting rampage in a Target parking. lot. The trail of terror through Austin. What we're learning about the people. killed. A Target employee wrangling. carts. A grandfather and his. granddaughter. The accused gunman. bloodied and bruised in his booking. photo. Scars of Yuvaldi 3 years after. the hallways of an elementary school. changed us forever. What new and. unreleased body cam shows us about law. enforcement's delayed response, parents.

desperate please and the injuries the. gunman's own family sustained. Plant. disaster. What happened before this. explosion and giant smoke plume at that. steel plant near Pittsburgh. Our. questions for the CEO of US Steel and. what workers are telling us about what. they saw and heard. Tropical Storm Aaron. on track to become the first and major. hurricane of the season. where it's. headed. Al Roker standing by for us. tonight. Federal agents and National. Guard take to the streets of Washington.

Democrats accuse the president of going. too far as the White House calls it a. crime crackdown. The new details just in. about the Trump Putin summit in Alaska. and why President Zalinsky may be out in. the cold. What the new inflation report. tells us about the economy as markets. hit record highs. From smash and grabs. to major bust. Why thieves are. increasingly targeting tens of thousands. of dollars of laboo. The must-have. accessory. Nightly News starts right.

now. This is NBC Nightly News with Tom. Yamz. >> And good evening. Tonight, the chilling. new details emerging from the terror in. that Target parking lot that left three. dead in Austin. Emotional moments in. that lot yesterday. You can see here. shoppers and workers evacuated from that. store in the wake of the chaos. The. shooting victims revealed as Target. employee Hector Martinez Machuka who was. collecting shopping carts in the lot and.

grandfather Adam Chow and his. four-year-old granddaughter Astrid who. were killed as the shooter stole their. car. The accused shooter identified as. 32-year-old Ethan Nineker, seen here. with bruises and blood on his face. Police say he was found naked holding a. Bible and claiming to be Jesus. Priscilla Thompson now with more from. Austin on that shocking attack. >> Tonight, harrowing new details in the. shooting rampage at this Target parking. lot that left three people, including a. four-year-old child, dead. 32-year-old.

Ethan Nineer appearing bloody and. bruised in this booking photo, now. charged with those murders. >> The suspect is armed and has shot. multiple people. Police say the 911. calls started pouring in at 2:15 p.m. Authorities arrived to find Hector. Martinez Machuka, a Target employee, shot, attacked randomly while collecting. shopping carts, police say. >> He was transported to the hospital where. he was later pronounced deceased. >> The suspect then fired off more shots,

they say, before running up to a gray. Toyota, shooting the driver, 65-year-old. Adam Chow, and killing his four-year-old. granddaughter, Astrid, in the back seat. They were pronounced dead at the scene. Police say the suspect threw Mr. Chow's. wife from the vehicle as she clutched. the child, then stole the car, sped off, and crashed it. >> Over the next hour, Nineker committed. multiple crimes, including attempting to. steal a water truck, causing multiple. crashes, assaulting another female. driver, and stealing her Volkswagen. >> Police say they found him across the.

city in a backyard naked, holding a. Bible where they used a taser to bring. him down. He said that he was Jesus and. there was really no reason whatsoever. given. It was a completely random. choosing of the victims. >> According to authorities, the suspect. has a history of mental health issues, including two 2018 police calls for an. emotionally disturbed person. Austin. police say he's been convicted in the. past for violation of a protective. order, driving while intoxicated, and. assault. >> This man had some serious issues. There.

were some serious failures here. Ashley. Fairley was checking out inside the. Target with her daughter when gunshots. rang out. >> We're not doing well. I feel nothing. I. just feel like void in a way. >> Tonight, the Chows are remembering Adam. as the steady backbone of the family and. young Astred as pure silliness and joy, writing, "We are broken and miss them. both so much.". >> Priscilla joins us now live from that. parking lot in Austin. And Priscilla, if.

the suspect had such a documented. history of criminal activity and mental. health issues, how did he get a gun? >> Yeah, Tom, authorities are looking into. that. They say he used a handgun that he. got from family. And I asked. investigators whether anyone else could. be held accountable as it relates to. this gun and they said they're. investigating. Tom. >> Okay, Priscilla Thompson for us. Priscilla, we thank you. We're going to. stay in Texas now. Tonight, the Yuvaldi. school district releasing hours of new. body cam footage and thousands of.

documents following a lawsuit by NBC. News and other news organizations. It. brings insight into law enforcement's. long wait as children's parents demanded. action in one of the deadliest school. shootings in US history. We do want to. warn you some of the content you're. about to see and hear is very. disturbing. Here's Morgan Chesy. >> Sir, this is our school district police. Can you please put your firearm down? Tonight, new video capturing crucial. moments inside Ualdi's Rob Elementary. School after a gunman opened fire on May.

24th, 2022. The district releasing hours. of never-before-seen footage showing a. response caught amid confusion and. chaos. >> At 11:40 a.m., just minutes after the. shooter entered the school, you can see. officers treating his grandmother, the. first victim, who IDed her own grandson, as the gunman. >> Salvador Ramos. Apparently, he just shot. his grandmother. >> outside Rob Elementary as precious time. passed. >> Panicked parents heard off camera.

shouting at authorities to do something. >> By 12:00 p.m., with dozens of armed. officers lining hallways, the school's. police chief, Peter Rodondo, began. pleading with the gunman barricaded. inside a classroom. >> These are innocent children, sir. Please talk to me. Please talk to me, sir. >> No response is ever heard. >> I need cover. We got more kids. >> Nearby, other officers tried to clear. classrooms of terrified students and.

teachers. >> Go pass go. >> At 12:08 p.m., the gunman's own aunt. heard begging authorities to shoot him. >> Get him. Get him. >> Help us. Help us. He's doing it because his mom and. everybody. >> Nearly an hour after that first gunshot, authorities shout questions back and. forth looking for keys. >> Anybody?

>> They'd later find the door unlocked. Painful minutes follow until 12:50 p.m. when a team of officers breached the. classroom. With the gunman dead, authorities. frantically call for medical backup. >> The frightening scene unfolding. >> into one of the deadliest school. shootings in US history. And tonight,

NBC News has reached out to the families. of those victims, but has yet to hear. back. Arerodondo and another district. officer are the only two who faced. criminal charges for their actions that. day. Both have since pleaded not guilty. Tom, >> incredibly tragic, all of it. All right, Morgan Chesky. Now to Pennsylvania where. the steel plant explosion has killed two. people. New questions tonight about what. caused it and what one employee tells us. about the moment they felt that blast. Adrien Bratis reports. Tonight,

devastating damage seen from above after. this massive explosion at a US steel. plant as investigators work to find the. cause. >> We're not going to speculate. We're. going to let the people do their work. and support them and that important job. >> Officials say there were no warnings. that indicated any problems at the. factory. >> Routine maintenance is is what they were. preparing for. Uh I think it was. actually going to happen next week. Andrew Macy has worked at the Claritton. Steel Plant for 44 years.

>> There was a very loud bang. We looked to. our left thinking that on the main line. of our railroads, the two engines. collided headon and then as we turned to. our right, we saw a plume of black smoke. and immediately there was silence. >> Here's video of the plant from 2019. You. see the five smoke stacks at the center. and this is what it looks like after. Monday's blast. Aerial show portion of. this bustling work site now a massive.

cleanup operation. The remains of a. truck and scattered debris. >> What caused this explosion and is it. safe to operate? >> Well, first it is safe to operate now. We don't know the root cause of the. issue. It was isolated between um a. couple of our our batteries. So, we're. investigating that. >> The explosion killing two people. 39year-old Timothy Quinn, a father who. came from a steel mill working family. The second person killed has yet to be.

identified. >> They're family. That's what we are in. here. And in an incident like this, we. bond together and we'll all come back. >> And with that, Adrienne Bratus joins us. tonight. Adrien, part of that factory. there behind you still shut down, >> Tom. That's right. part of the plant. remains offline out of an abundance of. caution. That's what investigators are. telling us. And plant officials also say. they have assembled a team including. outside experts who will interview.

everyone who was on site yesterday as. they try to get to the bottom of what. happened. Tom. >> Adrien bris for us. Adrian, thank you. All eyes are on the Atlantic tonight as. tropical storm Aaron swirls out there at. sea. Al Roker is here tonight and Al, a. lot of questions at this point about the. path and if this is going to be the. first major hurricane of the season. >> It looks like it will, Tom. Normally, we. would see right around August 11th of. average formation of of a hurricane. And. what we're looking at right now, Tropical Storm Aaron, it's about 950 mi. west of the Cabo Verie Islands moving.

west at 22 milesPH. It'll probably. become a hurricane sometime early Friday. morning. A major hurricane category 3 by. Sunday afternoon. the model paths. basically for the most part taken up and. toward Bermuda before it reaches the. east coast, but we're going to have to. continue to track this because it's. still very early, Tom. >> Yeah, I'll see you on top of it all. through the weekend. Al, we thank you. for that. We do want to head to. Washington now. The city's police under. federal control and the National Guard. has been activated. It's all part of. President Trump's effort to combat.

violent crime in the city despite some. stats showing it was already declining. Here's Courtney Cub. Tonight, hundreds. of National Guard troops reporting for. duty, awaiting deployment around the. nation's capital, acting on President. Trump's orders after he declared a crime. emergency, activating 800 Guard members. and instituting a 30-day federal. takeover of DC police despite police. statistics that show violent crime is. declining here. We've been watching. members of the DC National Guard trickle. in one by one all day here at the DC.

Armory. Soon, as many as 200 at any time. will be in neighborhoods like this, where a defense official tells NBC News. they'll be supporting law enforcement. with activities like crowd management, perimeter control, and other security. assistance. Most guard members won't be. armed and won't be making arrests, according to the defense official. Instead, their support is intended to. free up law enforcement to fight crime. The White House says its push is already. well underway. Last night, approximately. 850 officers and agents were surged.

across the city. They made a total of 23. arrests. Those arrests include homicide. and drug distribution, according to the. White House, which also says homeless. people could be jailed if they don't. comply with efforts to clear. encampments. Some Democrats slamming the. move as presidential overreach. >> This is about the president playing. king, trying to be the authoritarian. leader, the dictator. But after meeting. with Attorney General Pam Bondi today, the city's Democratic mayor striking a. cooperative tone. >> If and and while we have this federal.

surge, we're going to put those officers. to good use. >> DC residents we spoke to today had mixed. reactions. >> It's unnecessary and frightening. There's crime in any city and this is. not solving a crime problem. >> I don't see the need for it. At the same. time, if it makes the street safer, so. be it. >> And with that, Courtney joins us live. Courtney, what exactly is the National. Guard going to do right now? >> Well, Tom, the 800 troops have been. activated, but they're still checking. in, getting their orders. A small number.

are starting to move out to various. locations around the city, but the. reality is this entire process of. getting them on the streets will take. until the end of the week, Tom. >> All right, Courtney Q with a lot of new. reporting there. Courtney, we thank you. And preparations are underway for that. highstakes summit between President. Trump and Vladimir Putin on Friday. Gabe. Gutierrez has new reporting on this. And. Gabe, it now appears the White House is. trying to temper expectations. >> Yes, Tom. The White House now says the. president's Friday summit with Putin in. Anchorage, Alaska, will be a listening.

exercise. So, a ceasefire deal appear. appears unlikely, at least in the short. term. Today, I pressed the press. secretary here on why Ukrainian. President Zalinski was not invited. She. told me it was Putin who asked for this. meeting and that President Trump hopes. to hold a trilateral summit eventually. Still, Zalinsky said today that Russia. is ramping up its offensive in Ukraine. ahead of Friday's meeting and that it's. impossible to talk about Ukraine without. Ukraine. We're expecting a call between.

President Trump, European allies, and. Zalinski tomorrow morning. Tom. >> All right, Gabe, we thank you. Markets. today hit records highs after new. inflation numbers came out. Overall, things held pretty steady, but there are. some warning signs as well. Christine. Romans joins us now to help us break it. all down. And Christine, the question we. keep asking you, have we felt the. effects of the trade war yet? >> Yeah, you know, July inflation was. stubborn, but not as bad as many. economists had expected here, Tom. Lower. gas prices really helped keep the number. under wraps, but strip out volatile food.

and energy prices and inflation 3.1%. That's still above normal. So far, many. companies have been absorbing tariffs, but we're beginning to see higher costs. for furniture, tools, shoes, pet. supplies, coffee. These are all things. from countries now hit with significant. border taxes. The White House. celebrating today's numbers, calling. inflation low and stable. But just step. back for a second. Over the past 5. years, car insurance up 60%, housing. 52%, electricity up 38%, used cars, food.

both up strongly as well. All of it. while wages are up 24%. Tom, it's why. the cost of living is still issue number. one for American families. >> So many items dayto-day are so. expensive. All right, Christine, we. thank you for that. In 60 seconds, why. laboo, yes, laboo, of all things have. gone from a fad to a target for thieves. and the massive hall worth tens of. thousands of dollars police just busted. That's next. We are back now with the wildly popular. trend that's prompting a new wave of.

crime. Lab boooos are increasingly being. stolen and police are recovering. collectibles worth tens of thousands of. dollars. Our Camila Bernal has this one. Furry bodies, wide eyes, and a toothy. grin. Reselling for hundreds of dollars, and now a very obvious target. >> My Little Boooo got stolen. >> Someone stole my Laboo. >> Laboo, the summer's most soughtafter toy. at the center of a crime wave. In. Southern California, the thefts amount. to tens of thousands of dollars. The.

latest in Chino, valued at approximately. 30 grand. Police say they recovered 14. boxes of stolen merchandise that were. soon to be resold and shipped all over. the US. In La Pointe, it was all caught. on camera. The theft here also amounted. to about $30,000 because while these. Laboos can sell for as little as 30. bucks, they're hard to find and widely. resold for much, much more. >> The fact that, you know, u some people. think that, hey, it's just Laboos. No,

you know, it's more. It's a organized. retail theft. >> Connie Zuniga has spent over $5,000. amassing her collection. Taking measures. to deter thieves. >> Is you get these little They're like. little locks with a screw. So, I will. clip both of them on my purse. So, that way they have a double double. lock. It's very sad because it kind of. feels like they're taking a piece of a.

happiness, a moment, a memory. >> While the toys may be cute, the. sheriff's department says they take the. thefts seriously. Camila Bernell, NBC. News, La Point, California. >> And we're back in a moment with the. popular tourist destination now overcome. by wildfires, even fire NATO. That's. next. We're back now with new details in that. shooting at the CDC campus in Atlanta. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation now. says the shooter fired nearly 200 rounds. of ammunition at the headquarters.

Patrick Joseph White shot and killed. police officer David Rose before dying. by suicide. And this just in a train. derailment in Texas. Look at that. This. happened this afternoon. Emergency crews. responded when about 30 cars went off. the rails in Gordon, Texas. This is west. of Fort Worth, sparking small fires. Crews are checking for hazardous. material leaks right now, but so far. none have been found and no one was. injured. Wildfires and heat waves. showing no mercy to Europe this summer. Fires in Portugal causing a fire NATO.

spiraling into the sky. The country is. now under extreme weather alerts from. high fire risk with temperatures soaring. up to 109°. That's nightly news for this. Tuesday. I'm Tom Yamos. Thanks so much. for watching tonight and always. We're. here for you. Good night. We thank you for watching and remember, stay updated on breaking news and top. stories on the NBC News app or watch. live on our YouTube channel.