good morning. and a special edition of "early today" is where we start you with this ouday. i'm richard lui coming to you live from san bernardino, california and wedi have the late break developmts and a lot of details about wednesday's shootings to share. they have released the names of the 14 victims. we will have more on them in just a moment. president obama taking time out at the . national tree lighting ceremony last night to

families who lost loves ones saying their loss is the american peoples' loss. and thousands of people attended a vigil and many who say they knew victims and victims' families. afa and a mosque holding a vigil and urging them not to link islam or the islamic community with those attacks. and we're learning more about the shooters, syed farook and tusheen malik. he appears to have m been in contact with those with extremists believes. i want to bring in nbc's jay gray with the very latest. and you were covering the story allto day yesterday. that first 24 hourses of that data that we really got, a lot about

>> amazing to see that they had had communications with people outside the country and with those who they thought had terrorists ties and that compared with thed picture that people paint. they describe farook as quiet and nice. and when they thought who was behind the trigger, shocked, didn't believe it. >> the police chief came out and gave more information. they've not necessarily moved one way or another on motive. >> and that's going to take time and cooperation between police on the ground and federal agents. they'reag looking at those communications and as you know, twoow cell phones and a hard drive damaged by the couple.

to make sure no one knew what attack. and were they recipes they used fromse a terrorist organization? were they something they came up with online somewhere else? >> thank you so much for the latest on the suspects and the investigation there. the names of all 14 people killed in this massacre, as i mentioned earlier, have been released. morgan radferred has that story for us and more on what's happening, including what we learned about some of the women. >> this was the moment ryan raes found out his partner had died. until then he still 74 hope that daniel kauch coughman made it out alive. an office holiday party became a target.

father of six, coached youth soccer. and aso played santa for children. and nicolas, a loving husband. >> i'm sure that h he went down fighting and protecting people. >> reporter: his wife says she knew the gunman, syed farook. >> he never had anything bad to say about him. >> reporter: he often wore traditional tassels and his wife targeted. >> heta believes in the jewish tradition and i believe my husband was basically martyred. >> reporter: tensert moments unfolding with each passing minute. 21mi wounded, several critical. >> i will believe it for the patients themselves to tell their own stories. >> reporter: families of the survivors speaking out. >> door open, gunman started shooting, everyone hit the floor.

her sister's body. >> the bullet is apparently stillen somewhere in her abdomen. >> reporter: waiting and praying. >> you never think it's going to hit that close to home until it happens. >> reporter: but it did. families now asking for support an sd answers. >> reporter: san bernardino police lieutenant mike madden was the first officer on the scene of wednesday's mass shooting. a 24oo year veteran who normally has a desk job and was on his way to lunch when it broke out. take a listen. >> i'll tell you that something that although we train for it, you're never actually prepared for it. my goal was to assemble an entry team and engage the active shooter. this mindset and type of training became indoctrinated in us after the columbine incident

as we made our way to the east side, evident that the reports we were getting were 100% true. there were victims that were obviously deceased outside of the conference room and i relaid that information to the other responding officers and again requested assistance. it was unspeakable the carnage that we were seeing, the number of people injured and unfortunately already dead. and the pure panic on the face of thosee individuals that were still in need and needing to be safe. and when wee entered, there was fresh gunas powder and the smell of gun powder in the air leading me to believe that there was in fact --n there were in fact shooters still. it was extremely loud. the fire alarms were going off. there were people who were obviously injured and obviously

that was evident in the moans and the wails that we were hearing in the room. it was very loud in the room and we had fire sprinklers going off in the room and that was adding to further chaos. i noticed upon entry that there's a christmas tree in there, all the tables are decorated for a christmas party and it just seems so senseless that here's people going into their holiday festivities and now we're dealing with that. there were many officers who did extraordinary jobs yesterday for our department and all the agencies who responded so quickly. it was -- it was -- it was truly overwhelming to see all of the agencies who got here and got here in a hurry to provide us assistance. nobody hesitated. everybody knew what their job was and that was to bring calm toal chaos. >> reporter: moving now to

into syed farook's background and perhaps understand a motive. pete williams with more on that. >> reporter: investigators say they're analyzing a trove of evidence found in farook's house in ouredlands, including cell phones and computers. they found indications that he was communicating by phone and social media with people in the u.s. and overseas during the past year who showed an interest in radical jihad. another important discovery, an explosive device left behind at the shooting scene. three pipe bombs tied together with a remote detinator and inside the suv was the remote control itself, made from a remote for a model car. that same design was used to set off the boston marathon bombs and investigators are looking at whether that same design was

nonterrorist source. u.s. officials are also looking at his overseas travel. twice to saudi arabia where he said he met his wife and to pakistan where she's from. >> so, we don't know whether this is workplace rage or something larger or a combination of both. >> reporter: they also say the attacks were planned in advance. they found 4500 rounds of ammunition and pipe bombs in the redlands house. and the suv was a rental picked up three or four days ago. >> there's nothing impulsive ul boit this about this shooting at all. >> reporter: so with all that fire power, did they have other attacks in mind? >> we don't know yet the extent of their plans.

>> nbc's pete williams reporting for us. let's go back to rockefeller center. shiba is there. and in terms of what's happening in san bernardino county, we're across the street from the irc and that's an indication as days go forward, they're moving forward withe their investigation. >> more signs of progress. thank you. political reaction was a big part of a busy thursday on capital hill. senate republicans overwhelmingly rejected gun legislation twice yesterday. democrats tried to attach two provisions, including the ability to bar suspected terrorists from getting guns. and gutting obama care and it nowt heads back to the house where it's expected to clear and

the other big move by the enist senate, they passed a five year transportation infrastructure bill and not a moment too soon. current funding expires today forod the highway trust fund. and the act that allows money for 9/11 first responders is not included. andcl we want to take you to incredible images from sicily, italy, mountain lighting up the sky on wednesday. the lava shot up more than 3200 feet and00 spewed ash over the surrounding area. the eruption lasting for about an hour, the firstor time in about two years. nbc meteorologist, bill karins. >>ka it doesn't seem like that could be really going on.

>> by far the worst wither in the country is in south florida. and as we go across the weekend, incredible warmth. and we have a lot of snow on the ground in nebraska, dakotas and back to wisconsin. it will probably be all gone by this upcoming weekend. and bismark getting up to 46 degrees. so, temperatures running five to 15 degrees above average and on saturday, boston five degrees above average.av and this is beginning of november type warmth and clearly into the first week of december and sunday, we're staying very warm. it's going to be dry, lots of sunshine, so no excuse not to head out doors and enjoy it while we ican. that's your national weather, now aat closer look at the day ahead. so, this is a beautiful forecast from texas all the way through the south.

not surely, be melting that snow in sioux falls in minneapolis the next couple of days, highs today near 40. and we're still waiting for our first snowflakes in syracuse, which is unheard of. straight ahead, the second amendment under fire as the presidential candidates weigh in. "early today" is back in two minutes. coughing...sniffling... and wishing you could stay in

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we can take basic steps that would make it harder, not impossible, but harder for individuals to get access to weapons. >> reporter: donald trump slammed the president with innuend innuendo. >> radical islamic terrorism and i'll tell you what we have a president who refuses to use the term. he refuses to say it, there's something going on with him that we don't know about. >> reporter: it's a political divide graphically illustrated in new york tabloid. muslim killers versus god isn't fixing this. and a tweet storm calling out law makers who offer prayers but oppose gun laws, talking about how much money they'll receive by the nra. >> thavl ey've been thinking and praying but doing nothing at

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>> this is 7news now. everybody. we made it to friday. we're good to go for "today in new england." >> jadiann: that's right. t.g.i.f. breaking news out of lynn this morning. firefighters say as many as four people could be missing after this house fire overnight. two people were rescued by firefighters and taken to the hospital. >> christa: the f.b.i. looking at evidence this morning as they try to figure out the motive behind that deadly shooting out in california. also getting our first look at the guns and other weapons used by the attackers. >> jadiann: and testimony is set to resume in the philip chism trial today. yesterday a judge ruled a key defense witness will not be able to take the stand. >> christa: all right. let's send it over to

>> jeremy: good morning. it's friday, fantastic weather. mostly sunny skies today and through the weekend with a nice, warming trend. the temperatures this weekend behaving more like november than december. right now it's cool out there. but it's not bitterly cold. we've had colder mornings this fall. the city at 39 right now. bedford 35. norwood at 30. plymouth at 35. i think the enemy this morning will be the wind, for some of you. it's not as feisty as yesterday. yesterday winds were gusting 30, 40mph. we don't have a gusting wind this morning, but there is a breeze out there. so that breeze is making it feel like the upper 20s and the lower 30s. the high pressure through western pennsylvania, western new york does begin to move up into new england during the day. and that will set the table for a nice one with lots of sunshine. wind fading away as we work through the day with seasonal temps. normal highs right around 45. numbers for some of you slightly above normal. boston this afternoon 47.

north of town, the merrimack valley, new hampshire seacoast, numbers running in the middle 40s. back into the worcester hills. jaffrey later on today around 40. worcester 42. out on the cape and the islands, going to play some golf today? maybe a little bit cool but warming up as we work through the weekend on the cape and everywhere else. tonight mostly clear, chilly. lows 31 to 36. and for tomorrow and for your weekend forecast for that matter, lots of sunshine, both saturday and sunday. and a little unusual, but i think maybe a little sea breeze tomorrow. so coastal areas upper 40s tomorrow. low 50s further inland. and then on sunday, lots of sunshine. a nice, mild day on sunday. temperatures on sunday mid-50s. 7news begins now. >> christa: we begin with breaking news at 5:00 a.m. a lynn home going up in flames. two people rescued but investigators searching for several more who could be missing. ism and police released photos of weapons and the vehicle from the crime scene of that deadly