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Witness gets emotional describing Minneapolis shooting scene, seeing students on stretchers
NBC News· 2025-08-27 22:25
At what point did you get a sense, Chan, that this was something major. Aside from the police presence, seeing the stretchers coming out, the parents, at what point did you realize this could be a school shooting that that kids could be involved. Did you see children coming out of the church. Did you see any of that.>> I saw kids on the the sort of semicircle pad in front of the church. And so, you know, it was hard to say just because the school and the church are so close to each other whether or not this ...
NYU tests out an upcycle thrift shop where everything is free for students
NBC News· 2025-08-27 22:23
It's hard enough to be a student. It's expensive enough. >> NYU's new pilot program, Swap Shop, helps students save money and the planet.>> We've collected items from students who have moved out and from other locations. And then when students move in, instead of buying new stuff, they can get gently used stuff that's ready for use in their dorm room or apartment right here for free. >> Throughout the spring and summer, students NYU's Office of Sustainability and Facilities gathered roughly 5,000 items.Ever ...
CDC director leaves agency just weeks into job
NBC News· 2025-08-27 22:22
Some breaking news just into us now. We are learning the newly installed director of the CDC is leaving the agency. According to the health department who posted on X, Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.We thank her for her dedicated service to the American people. She has only led the agency for about a month and remember the agency is going through a lot of changes that we have been telling you about here under health secretary RFK Jr. . want to bring in ...
Shooting witness details running to scene, holding hand of bleeding student until EMT arrived
NBC News· 2025-08-27 22:01
So, I live a half a block from the school. Okay. And I heard the shots as I was working from my home office.I didn't I first I thought it was like a roofing job or something. Then I realized it was gunshots and I knew where it was coming from and I immediately just ran up to the school and wanted to get up there and help. Well, the church and school.I didn't know which one it was at that time and but I knew it was probably not good and I wanted to get up and help in any way I could. So, how how many blocks ...
Nostalgic time capsule sealed by Princess Diana opened 35 years later
NBC News· 2025-08-27 22:00
Well, a time capsule sealed and buried by Princess Diana has been opened after nearly 35 years. That capsule was buried inside of a wall at a children's hospital that Diana was the president of. It was put there to mark the laying of its foundation stone.Inside a trove of '90s memorabilia and pre- internet age technology. NBC News correspondent Danielle Hamejin joins me now. So Danielle, uh, this box apparently wasn't supposed to be open for at least a hundred years.So, why are we getting this early look an ...
Mortgage fraud is the Trump admin's newest allegation against political foes
NBC News· 2025-08-27 21:36
can't have an infraction, especially that infraction because she's in charge of, if you think about it, mortgages, and we need people that are 100% above board. Mortgage fraud is the latest allegation the Trump administration is using against its political foes. Mortgage is their new weapon to go after their critics.The Trump administration has accused New York Attorney General Leticia James, California Senator Adam Schiff, and Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, who President Trump has attempted to fire. T ...
Amid Israeli restrictions, the killing of journalists in Gaza limits stories told
NBC News· 2025-08-27 21:36
What does this say in a broader sense about the ability for a journalist to cover this war. >> Every day has been dangerous for our colleagues, our peers, our fellow reporters and producers and photographers in Gaza. But every time, and as we mentioned, the numbers are very high.Every time a journalist is killed, that is less information that we're getting. That is pictures left untaken. Those are stories untold.That is less information Israel is not letting in. and they control the borders of Gaza. They ar ...
Shooter left videos online, manifesto filled with with 'extremely violent thoughts'
NBC News· 2025-08-27 21:33
Uh, we know that the shooter's name is Robin Westman. At one point in his life, he was Robert Westman, 23 years old, if I'm correct. It sounded like he left a manifesto.What more do we know about him, Tom. Or about about them, I should say. Yeah, sure, Tom.So, we've gone through a whole host of videos that were left behind online as well as what he said. So the videos show a series of diaries, a series of writings, and he flips through them much the way if I were to show you a book and flip through it uh ri ...
Walz says 'strongest desire' is to make sure no one experience 'a day like this'
NBC News· 2025-08-27 21:27
And it's my strongest desire that no state, no community, no school ever experiences a day like this. Motans will not step away. We'll stand with this community.We'll redouble ourselves to do the best we can to understand what we can do to prevent any parent from having to receive the calls they received today from any school dedicated to children having to respond to a situation that as we said is unthinkable but that's all too common not just in Minnesota, but across this country. It's Minnesota's day tod ...
Hacker uses AI chatbot to hack at least 17 companies
NBC News· 2025-08-27 21:26
A hacker used an AI chatbot to hack at least 17 companies. Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot, Claude, said in a report that the hacker convinced Claude code to automate the whole operation from finding targets, hacking them, and then writing ransom notes. Anthropic didn't say which companies were targeted or the how the hacker was able to take advantage of the chatbot, but noted that it added more safeguards to clawed. ...