NBC Nightly News open - 1999-08-10

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[0:00] for you on channel 4.

[0:04] >> It's happened again. Children under

[0:06] fire, this time an assault weapon at a

[0:08] daycare center in Los Angeles. How do we

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[0:39] >> From NBC News, this is NBC Nightly News

[0:43] with Tom Brokoff, reporting tonight from

[0:47] Los Angeles.

[0:49] >> Good evening from Los Angeles, where

[0:51] this city has spent the day dealing with

[0:52] another shooting. This time here in the

[0:55] San Fernando Valley and this time it was

[0:57] a suburban Jewish community center, a

[0:59] summer camp for youngsters. But the

[1:01] details are sickeningly familiar

[1:03] tonight. A male with a gun, apparently

[1:06] an Uzi assault weapon, walked into the

[1:09] center of the Los Angeles suburb of

[1:11] Granada Hills in the northwest San

[1:12] Frernando Valley and opened fire. NBC's

[1:16] Dan Lotheian is at the scene tonight.

[1:18] Dan. Tom. Investigators are still

[1:20] searching for that suspect. They have

[1:22] expanded their search area to this

[1:24] surrounding community. One man who

[1:26] entered that daycare or rather that

[1:28] center shattering the safety of a day

[1:30] camp still on the run.

[1:36] 11:10 a.m. The first police and

[1:38] firefighters arrive on the scene.

[1:40] Emergency crews find five people shot.

[1:43] Three boys ages 8, 6, and five. A

[1:46] 65year-old female teacher and a

[1:48] 16-year-old female teachers aid. 11:25

[1:52] a.m. Rescue workers tend to the injured

[1:54] as evacuations begin. One child taken by

[1:57] ambulance to a nearby hospital. An air

[2:00] ambulance picks up the most critically

[2:02] injured boy.

[2:04] 11:30. More police converge on the

[2:06] scene. Some search for the gunman

[2:08] identified later as a male in his 40s

[2:10] wearing green clothing, but he is

[2:12] nowhere to be found. Others gather the

[2:15] remaining 22 children who were in the

[2:17] lobby and lead them to safety hand in

[2:19] hand in a human chain to a nearby

[2:21] temple. Police later describe them as

[2:24] confused and very frightened, but none

[2:26] is injured.

[2:28] 11:45 frantic parents who've seen TV

[2:31] reports rush to the scene. One parent

[2:34] breaks through security lines looking

[2:35] for his child is tackled by police. He's

[2:38] detained but not arrested. Others will

[2:41] try to reassure him. 12:30 p.m. SWAT

[2:44] teams and counterterrorism units now

[2:46] arriving. A search car to car. An hour

[2:49] later, the bomb squad looks at a

[2:50] suspicious van as helicopters join the

[2:53] manhunt. At the same time, parents are

[2:55] picked one by one, matched to their

[2:57] children inside and allowed to pick them

[3:00] up. 1:30 reunited families are allowed

[3:03] to go home. That 5-year-old that

[3:06] 5-year-old who was injured is now

[3:08] clinging to life. For the parents whose

[3:11] kids have survived and are doing okay,

[3:13] it has been an emotional day. Now they

[3:15] ask, why did it have to happen? Why

[3:18] here? Tom,

[3:19] >> NBC's Dan Luthian tonight. Thanks very

[3:21] much. And this evening at the White

[3:23] House, President Clinton spoke briefly

[3:24] about the shooting in Los Angeles.

[3:29] It calls on all of us not only to give

[3:32] our thoughts and prayers to the victims

[3:35] and their families, but to intensify our

[3:38] resolve to make America a safer place.

[3:43] Susan Gilbert's 9-year-old daughter,

[3:45] Jessica, spends her summer days at the

[3:47] Jewish Community Center. Today, Gilbert

[3:49] rushed to the scene and found out that

[3:51] she's one of the lucky parents. Her

[3:53] daughter was on a field.