NBC Nightly News - 2009-04-03

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[0:03] On the broadcast tonight, deadly

[0:04] rampage. A gunman storms a building with

[0:06] dozens of people inside and opens fire,

[0:08] leaving a trail of death, injury, and

[0:10] unanswered questions. Jobs wanted, new

[0:13] unemployment numbers out today, the

[0:15] highest in decades. With so many jobs

[0:17] gone, where do we go from here? Allied

[0:20] powers. The president and first lady get

[0:21] a warm welcome in Europe. But who's the

[0:23] bigger star of this show? And picturing

[0:26] history, more than 40 years after Martin

[0:28] Luther King Jr.'s death. New images

[0:31] surface of a tragic night and a

[0:33] photographer remembers. Also tonight,

[0:35] the long run, one woman's way of making

[0:37] a difference. Nightly News begins now.

[0:44] >> From NBC News world headquarters in New

[0:47] York, this is NBC Nightly News with

[0:50] Brian Williams.

[0:52] >> Good evening. I'm Anne Curry and for

[0:53] Brian Williams tonight. And we begin

[0:54] with today's dramatic events in upstate

[0:56] New York. A place that has for decades

[0:59] helped immigrants adjust to their new

[1:00] lives in America suddenly became the

[1:02] scene of a shooting rampage with the

[1:04] gunman barricading himself and taking

[1:06] hostages and forcing the evacuation of

[1:09] nearby buildings, including a school.

[1:11] When it was all over, 14 people had

[1:14] died, one believed to be the shooter,

[1:16] and four people were wounded. 37

[1:18] hostages got out safely. NBC's Ron Allen

[1:21] joins us now from the scene in

[1:22] Bingmpington, New York. Ron,

[1:26] >> good evening. An a number of people have

[1:27] said that this is probably the worst day

[1:29] ever in the city of some 45,000 people.

[1:32] We are just down the street from the

[1:33] American Civic Association, the scene of

[1:35] the crime. It is just off Main Street

[1:37] over there, right in the center of this

[1:38] community. Police have identified the

[1:40] gunman as a local Vietnamese man, age

[1:43] 42. They haven't positively identified

[1:45] him yet. They say he was no stranger to

[1:48] this cultural center. They say he killed

[1:50] at least a dozen people, horrifying this

[1:52] community.

[1:54] It was 10:30 this morning at the

[1:56] American Civic Association, which helps

[1:58] new immigrants with a new way of life.

[2:00] Suddenly, the sound of gunshots. Local

[2:03] police arrived and cordoned off several

[2:04] square blocks in the heart of the city.

[2:07] SWAT teams moved into position.

[2:09] >> Stay away from this area.

[2:10] >> A gunman had barricaded the back door of

[2:12] the building with a car and stormed in

[2:14] the front door, armed with handguns and

[2:16] a knife. He shot the receptionist and

[2:18] kept moving.

[2:19] >> What she did is she uh pretended she was

[2:22] dead. After he shot her, she went down

[2:24] to the ground. He went into a room off

[2:27] that reception area, shot several people

[2:30] and as he exited went down the hallway

[2:32] in the building. Uh she crawled

[2:34] underneath the desk and sometime after

[2:37] that she called us.

[2:38] >> Police locked down a nearby high school,

[2:40] evacuated nearby homes and businesses.

[2:42] They basically just told us not to leave

[2:44] the building, to stay in the back part

[2:45] of the building, stay away from the

[2:46] windows.

[2:46] >> The gunman held some 37 hostages, some

[2:49] hiding in a closet, others downstairs in

[2:52] the boiler room.

[2:53] >> We were in communication with them all

[2:55] the time. If the point came where we

[2:56] thought the shooter was down there, we

[2:58] would have moved out.

[2:59] >> As the standoff dragged on, groups of

[3:01] hostages were released while others were

[3:03] brought out on stretchers. Finally,

[3:05] around 300 p.m., nearly 5 hours after it

[3:08] had begun, police entered the building

[3:10] and found who they believed to be the

[3:12] gunman dead. The residents of the city

[3:14] of Bmpton uh are safe and and we have we

[3:18] have no idea what the motive is.

[3:23] >> Police are still trying to identify all

[3:25] the the victims. They believe the gunman

[3:27] took his own life and died with a bag of

[3:29] ammunition tied around his neck. Four

[3:32] people are still in critical condition,

[3:33] so the death toll could very well go up.

[3:36] President Obama and Vice President Biden

[3:38] have both been in touch with this

[3:39] community, expressing their condolences

[3:41] and offering their prayers. And as you

[3:43] heard there, the police say they have no

[3:45] idea why all of this happened.

[3:48] >> NBC's Ron Allen tonight. Ron, thank you

[3:50] so much. Well, also on the scene tonight

[3:52] is NBC's Rahma Ellis, and she now joins

[3:54] us. Raa, what more can you tell us about

[3:56] this community and how it's reacting to

[3:58] this sudden violence?

[4:01] And I can tell you this is a city in

[4:03] shock tonight because this is a city

[4:05] that ranks as one of those with the

[4:07] lowest crime rates in the nation. So

[4:09] it's no wonder that people here are

[4:11] saying they never thought a tragedy like

[4:13] this would happen in this community. The

[4:15] place where the tragedy occurred at the

[4:18] American Civic Center. It's a place that

[4:20] provides immigration services for people

[4:22] who are coming here as new residents to

[4:25] America. It's been operations, people

[4:28] tell me, since 1939. And the most recent

[4:31] immigrants that's been serving have been

[4:33] from Laos, China, North Korea, and

[4:35] Vietnam. People we talked to said that

[4:38] the center provides services such as

[4:40] English language services, citizenship

[4:42] classes, psychological and social

[4:45] counseling for people who are trying to

[4:47] understand a new country and a new

[4:49] culture. This community is known, I

[4:52] should tell you, an as a company town

[4:54] because this is where IBM was founded.

[4:56] And people say as a result, people here

[4:58] try to help each other. They're wrapping

[5:00] their round their arms tonight around

[5:01] the victims and the survivors tonight.

[5:04] An

[5:04] >> all right and NBC's Raheima Ellis, thank

[5:06] you so much for that report. Well, NBC's

[5:08] Justice Department correspondent Pete

[5:10] Williams now joins us from Washington.

[5:12] Pete, what more do we know about this

[5:13] alleged gunman?

[5:15] >> Not a lot tonight. Police say he was

[5:17] known to the people at the center and

[5:19] that he borrowed a car from a family

[5:21] member today to drive there, saying that

[5:23] he needed to take classes at the center.

[5:26] It is that car, police say, that was

[5:28] used to block the rear doors to the

[5:30] building. He's 41. He was from nearby

[5:32] Johnson City, where officials say he

[5:34] does have relatives, and police have

[5:36] been told that he is a US citizen and

[5:38] has lived in the US for nearly 30 years,

[5:41] but they've so far found no incident in

[5:43] his recent past that would have touched

[5:45] something like this off. Ann.

[5:47] >> All right, Pete Williams tonight. Pete,

[5:48] thanks for your report on this. Now,

[5:50] we're going to turn to today's economics

[5:51] uh numbers, which are offering a grim

[5:53] jobs report. It says that the

[5:55] unemployment rate jumped nearly half a

[5:57] percentage point to 8.5% in March.

[6:01] 663,000

[6:02] more people lost their jobs. And there

[6:05] is more bad news. The unemployment

[6:06] picture for January was actually much

[6:09] worse than the government first thought.

[6:11] The original report was 655,000

[6:13] job cuts. The actual number turns out to

[6:16] be 741,000

[6:18] jobs lost. CBC's Trish Regan has the

[6:21] story behind the numbers.

[6:24] An already tough job market is growing

[6:27] even tougher. 5.1 million jobs lost

[6:30] since the start of the recession in

[6:32] December 2007.

[6:35] Nearly every sector lost jobs in March.

[6:38] Even the government cut 5,000 positions.

[6:40] >> The companies were overoptimistic

[6:43] and uh and now they've thrown in the

[6:45] towel and now they are laying off people

[6:48] at a faster rate. And it's not just the

[6:50] companies in trouble that are reducing

[6:53] payroll.

[6:53] >> We're seeing plenty of employers that

[6:55] are making workforce reductions uh for

[6:57] opportunistic reasons.

[6:59] >> Critics site employers like IBM. Despite

[7:02] the company's profitability, IBM is

[7:04] reportedly laying off 5,000 US workers

[7:06] while expanding overseas. US workers now

[7:09] account for roughly 29% of Big Blue's

[7:12] workforce, down from 35% in 2006.

[7:17] Rick Clark spent 11 years at IBM's East

[7:20] Fishkill, New York office. He was

[7:22] shocked to be let go just one week after

[7:24] the company announced strong earnings.

[7:27] >> It was almost like I was dreaming. I was

[7:29] like, I must be dreaming. I I can't be

[7:31] laid off.

[7:32] >> And the car is too.

[7:33] >> IBM did offer Clarks the opportunity to

[7:35] apply for a job overseas, but at a local

[7:37] wage.

[7:38] >> If I were to go to India, I would only

[7:40] make about a quarter or a fifth of what

[7:42] I'm making making now. Instead, Rick, a

[7:45] civil engineer, hopes to benefit from

[7:47] stimulus dollars spent on new

[7:49] infrastructure projects.

[7:51] >> There are a number of firms that have

[7:52] bids on projects, and if they get to

[7:53] work, they're understaffed. They'll need

[7:55] people.

[7:56] >> For Clark, the sooner, the better. Trish

[7:59] Rian, CNBC, New York.

[8:02] >> On Wall Street, the stock market

[8:03] shrugged off today's gloomy job numbers.

[8:05] The Dow finished the day up more than 39

[8:07] points, closing above the 8,000 level

[8:09] for the first time since early February.

[8:12] The Dow is up 21% in the past four weeks

[8:15] alone. London's G20 summit is over, but

[8:18] President Obama's overseas trip

[8:20] continues. His it's his first as

[8:22] president and he has a busy agenda.

[8:24] Tonight he's in Strawburg, France for a

[8:26] NATO summit. And traveling with the

[8:27] president is our chief White House

[8:29] correspondent, Chuck Todd, who joins us

[8:30] now from Strawburg with the latest.

[8:32] Chuck, good evening.

[8:34] >> Well, good evening an one summit down,

[8:36] two more to go. The president this

[8:38] morning woke up in London. He's

[8:40] overnighting here in France. In between,

[8:42] he stopped in Germany to pick up that

[8:43] third stamp on his passport just today.

[8:46] And all the while playing salesman chief

[8:48] at this 60th anniversary celebration of

[8:51] NATO.

[8:55] Today, President Obama took on old

[8:57] Europe. The day divided between France

[8:59] and Germany.

[9:00] >> Hello.

[9:01] >> Hello. How are you?

[9:02] >> Trying to convince old allies that an

[9:04] old alliance like NATO has a new

[9:06] mission. And French President Nicholas

[9:08] Sarcoi, for one, was quick to get the

[9:10] message.

[9:13] It feels very good to work with a US

[9:15] president who wants to change the world.

[9:18] A compliment, President Obama returned.

[9:21] >> He's courageous on so many fronts, it's

[9:23] hard to keep up.

[9:24] >> But the French president found it hard

[9:25] to compete on the reception line when a

[9:27] French woman asked Mr. Obama for a kiss

[9:29] instead.

[9:32] But Mr. Sarcoidi's famous wife was a bit

[9:35] more reserved as was the reception in

[9:37] Germany and his meeting with Chancellor

[9:39] Angela Merkel.

[9:46] >> But the highlight of the day may have

[9:48] been an unprecedented campaign style

[9:50] town hall meeting where the president

[9:52] addressed the elephant in the room when

[9:53] it comes to transatlantic diplomacy.

[9:56] There have been times where America's

[9:58] showed arrogance and been dismissive,

[10:02] even derisive.

[10:05] But in Europe, there is an

[10:08] anti-Americanism

[10:11] that is at once casual, but can also be

[10:15] insidious.

[10:16] >> The purpose of the event wasn't just

[10:18] about winning goodwill.

[10:19] >> So, I understand that there's doubt

[10:21] about this war in Europe. There's doubt

[10:25] at times even in the United States.

[10:28] But know this, the United States of

[10:30] America did not choose to fight a war in

[10:32] Afghanistan.

[10:33] >> The challenge for the president is to

[10:35] convince NATO allies that this isn't

[10:37] just America's war.

[10:38] >> It is important for Europe to understand

[10:42] that

[10:44] even though I'm now president and George

[10:45] Bush is no longer president,

[10:48] al-Qaeda is still a threat. Tomorrow, he

[10:51] hopes to get a substantial NATO troop

[10:53] commitment for the war. Now, the

[10:55] president is going to come back to

[10:57] France in almost exactly two months as

[11:00] he accepted an invitation from French

[11:01] President Nicholas Sarcoi to attend the

[11:04] 65th anniversary of D-Day at Normandy

[11:07] Beach. And

[11:07] >> all right, Chuck Todd tonight. Chuck,

[11:09] thanks. One major concern for the

[11:11] leaders meeting in Europe has been a

[11:13] nation thousands of miles away, North

[11:15] Korea. That country's nuclear program

[11:18] and its insistence on carrying out a

[11:19] controversial missile test have made it

[11:21] a problem that defies solution. More on

[11:24] this tonight from our man at the

[11:25] Pentagon, Jim Mosesi. Jim, good evening.

[11:28] >> Good evening. And US officials say

[11:30] tonight that North Korean missile is all

[11:32] gassed up and ready to launch any time

[11:34] now. Satellite photos show the TypoDong

[11:37] missile sitting on the launch pad on

[11:39] North Korea's coast. Now, the North

[11:41] Koreans say that this three-stage

[11:43] missile will be used to put a satellite

[11:45] into orbit, but US officials are

[11:47] claiming that this launch is actually

[11:49] the test of a long range ballistic

[11:51] missile that could ultimately reach the

[11:53] United States with a nuclear weapon.

[11:56] President Obama today called this

[11:58] potential launch provocative, and US

[12:00] officials are considering and

[12:02] threatening additional UN sanctions, but

[12:04] US officials admit there may be no

[12:06] stopping the Koreans at this point. And

[12:10] uh as of tonight, all systems appear

[12:13] ready to go. An

[12:15] >> all right, Jim Moseski tonight, Jim,

[12:16] thanks. When nightly news continues on

[12:19] this Friday evening, more than four

[12:20] decades after Martin Luther King Jr's

[12:22] assassination, there are newly revealed

[12:25] photos of that tragic night. And later,

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[14:36] >> Tonight, peace, love, and DNA evidence.

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[14:58] Iowa today became the first state in the

[15:00] Midwest to legalize same-sex marriage.

[15:02] The state supreme court ruled

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[15:12] place in 21 days. 41 years ago tomorrow

[15:16] night, a single rifle shot ended the

[15:18] life of Martin Luther King Jr. The

[15:20] assassination was one of the most

[15:22] shattering and unforgettable events of

[15:24] our time. So, you might think that any

[15:26] photographs taken on that awful night

[15:28] would have surfaced long ago. Not so.

[15:32] Here's NBC's Mark Potter.

[15:35] For 41 years, this was the image from

[15:38] Martin Luther King's assassination. But

[15:40] there were more photos from Memphis that

[15:42] day from a different photographer whose

[15:44] work only now has come to light. A

[15:47] >> sad time in the country. Life magazine's

[15:49] Henry Groskinsky was on assignment in

[15:51] Selma when word came that King had been

[15:54] shot. He headed for the Lorraine Motel

[15:56] and began taking these aftermath

[15:58] pictures. It

[15:59] >> was like a church. Everybody was very

[16:02] quiet. You know, they and it was just it

[16:04] was just just awful.

[16:05] >> At the hotel in Dr. King's room, he

[16:08] found a somber gathering of civil rights

[16:10] leaders. It was like going to somebody's

[16:12] wake. But I didn't want to interrupt him

[16:14] because they were discussing, I guess,

[16:16] what they were going to do.

[16:17] >> There he saw something he would never

[16:19] forget. King's briefcase, just the way

[16:22] he left it before he was killed.

[16:25] >> I thought, "Wow." I thought this is this

[16:28] he's, as I said, this is the end of this

[16:30] great man. He's not going to come back

[16:32] anymore. Uh this is

[16:35] it's almost like a monument to him. On

[16:37] the hotel balcony, he found minister and

[16:39] civil rights activist Will Campbell

[16:42] alone in his grief.

[16:43] >> He was out there in this state of almost

[16:45] hypnosis. He was just feeling so bad and

[16:49] and remorseful about what had happened

[16:51] here and thinking what a what a terrible

[16:55] thing that's that's taken place in

[16:56] America.

[16:57] >> Kuskinsky would also turn his lens to a

[16:59] building across the street where he

[17:01] believed this open window is from where

[17:03] the assassin fired his shot. It's a

[17:06] witness to history. That's what it is.

[17:07] >> A Life magazine spokesman says it's not

[17:10] clear why these pictures weren't

[17:11] published until now on life.com, but

[17:15] today they too are part of history. Mark

[17:18] Potter, NBC News Miami.

[17:21] >> And you can see more of these historic

[17:23] pictures and hear more from the

[17:24] photographer who took them by going to

[17:26] our website, which is nightlyc.com.

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[20:25] We reported earlier in the broadcast on

[20:27] the serious issues being discussed at

[20:28] the NATO summit this weekend. But there

[20:30] is something else that's going on that's

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[20:34] meeting between First Lady Michelle

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[20:42] Outside a palace in Straber, France. The

[20:45] meeting of two international

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[20:49] Not the president, their wives. The much

[20:52] anticipated first encounter between the

[20:55] world's most famous first ladies.

[20:57] >> I think everybody's in love with those

[20:59] two first ladies. I think it's a little

[21:01] girl in us, you know, who's coming back

[21:03] to look at the fairy tale.

[21:05] >> Arriving at a NATO dinner tonight, both

[21:07] women were dressed in basic black, but

[21:10] in style and substance they are

[21:12] distinctly different. Mrs. Rooney, a

[21:14] former model and singer

[21:19] >> who grew up in an Italian castle and

[21:21] dated rock stars like Mick Jagger and

[21:23] Eric Clapton. Mrs. Obama is an Ivy

[21:26] League trained lawyer from the south

[21:28] side of Chicago who fell in love with a

[21:31] community organizer that he took me out

[21:34] on a date and his date was to go with

[21:36] him to a community meeting.

[21:39] I know how romantic.

[21:43] But for all their differences, these

[21:45] first ladies have one thing in common, a

[21:47] public here in France and in America

[21:50] that is endlessly fascinated with them.

[21:53] Not to mention the international press.

[21:55] They're meeting today analyzed down to

[21:57] every last move. Some tabloids are even

[22:01] talking up a rivalry.

[22:03] >> Come on, Carla.

[22:05] >> When Rooney came to England a year ago

[22:07] for a state visit, England was besided.

[22:10] But this week, it was Carla who after

[22:12] Michelle took the town. But today, they

[22:16] were loyal to their lady in Paris.

[22:18] >> Maybe ours is the most gorgeous one.

[22:21] >> But in the long run, what may matter

[22:23] most is what they have in common.

[22:25] >> They have strong personalities, very

[22:27] strong carriers, and nobody pictures

[22:30] them as, you know, world flowers that

[22:33] would be humble behind the husbands. Two

[22:36] women on the world stage adding their

[22:38] own janesqua to the picture. Savannah

[22:41] Guthrie, NBC News, Strawburg, France.

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[25:25] >> Next, how police say DNA brought down a

[25:28] busy car thief. The one car model the

[25:30] suspect went after and stalled again.

[25:32] Saturday, markets moved to a new site.

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[25:52] Finally tonight, it's been a busy week,

[25:54] but we've followed the news over the

[25:55] past few days. We've also been following

[25:58] your emails and keeping an eye out for

[26:00] some of the good things that people are

[26:01] doing for each other during these tough

[26:03] economic times. Which brings us to this.

[26:06] What kind of a person gives up a dream

[26:08] job to help the homeless? You might be

[26:11] surprised. NBC's Janet Shamlin

[26:13] introduces us in our Friday Making a

[26:14] Difference report.

[26:16] >> She was a flash of light in the pre-dawn

[26:19] darkness.

[26:21] Her daily run through Philadelphia's

[26:22] grittiest neighborhoods took her right

[26:24] past a shelter where troubled men

[26:27] without homes or hope would wave to her

[26:30] and smile. I just stopped and looked

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[26:39] >> Due to start her dream job in

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[26:47] >> like I found my purpose like why I'm

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[26:53] >> So, she ditched the job and started what

[26:55] some called crazy.

[26:57] >> So, do you guys meet? We'll get going. A

[26:59] running coach for the homeless.

[27:03] >> Hoping that runner's high, that sense of

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[27:08] >> I've been at the lowest of any low.

[27:11] >> A drug addict who lost his family lost

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[27:23] dozen Philadelphia shelters with a

[27:25] hundred success stories. Like James

[27:29] Drug-free nine months, James has a job

[27:32] and a life.

[27:33] >> It's helped me to identify who I am. I'm

[27:36] James. Not James the drug addict. Not

[27:39] James the mess up, but James the new

[27:42] person. James the person that's willing

[27:45] to do anything to keep his life going

[27:48] right.

[27:51] >> Right past the finish line of whatever

[27:53] he's done.

[27:55] Thanks to a woman helping others run

[27:57] from trouble.

[27:58] >> When you watch somebody realize the

[28:01] potential inside of them, there's

[28:03] nothing better than that.

[28:06] >> Janet Shamlin, NBC News, Philadelphia.

[28:10] >> What a heart. And we encourage you to

[28:12] keep sending us your stories about

[28:14] people who are making a difference. You

[28:15] can go to our website at

[28:16] nightly.msnbc.com.

[28:18] And that is our broadcast for this

[28:20] Friday evening. Brian Williams is back

[28:22] here on Monday. I'm Anne Curry. And for

[28:24] all of us here at NBC News, thank you

[28:27] and good night.

[28:42] >> School plot. Four students in custody

[28:44] for plotting to kill classmates and

[28:46] teachers at two Marian County schools.

[28:49] >> They were they were intent on on

[28:51] committing some crimes up there. What

[28:52] tipped off investigators?

[28:54] DNA first. For the first time, police

[28:56] used genetic fingerprinting to put a

[28:59] suspected car thief out of business. We

[29:01] >> honestly don't have a lot of sympathy

[29:02] for anybody that was using drugs or made

[29:05] that bad decisions they stopped doing

[29:06] drugs.

[29:07] >> How many cars the suspects accused of

[29:09] stealing in one night. Deep cuts.

[29:12] Prisoners set free. School days cut.

[29:15] Trooper positions eliminated. The

[29:17] drastic cutbacks lawmakers are pushing

[29:19] at the state capital.

[29:21] >> From the KGWHD

[29:23] studios,

[29:26] where the news comes first, News Channel

[29:29] 8 at 6 starts now.

[29:32] >> Good evening. I'm Wayne Hly

[29:34] >> and I'm Laurel Porter. Tracy and Joe are

[29:35] off tonight. First at six, a deadly plot

[29:38] aimed at students and staff at two small

[29:40] town schools is stopped. And the

[29:43] suspects, listen to this, 13 and 14y

[29:45] olds now held in detention. The plot

[29:48] centered on Cascade Middle and High

[29:49] Schools in Turner, just east of Salem.

[29:52] News Channel 8's Kylie Bosshi's there

[29:53] live now. Kyle

[29:54] >> and Laurel, the sheriff warns this was

[29:56] more than just idle chatter. This was a

[29:58] serious threat. The young suspects face

[30:00] felony charges of a conspiracy to commit

[30:03] aggravated murder.

[30:07] A lone officer stood guard after police

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