. >> pamela osbourne shows us how the active shooter scenario played out inside a campus dorm. [ sirens ] >> reporte >> the message is get indoors right now. >> this is a test. >> reporter: the sound of the siren was only the beginning of an emergency response exercise in this active 145shooter shcen, they went in looking for people in need of youlating for the ben fft the police officer. >> reporter: fresh on everyone's mind today, the very real active shooter situation that played out on ucla's campus yesterday. professor klug was killed in an engineering building on campus. the suspect returned the gun on himself. >> you really understand why we exercise. it's a shame that we have to, but it's important that we do. >> reporter: kevin helps coach students training to be emts to handle the various injuries. >> it's really not the same to say, yes, he'll open this patient's airway and determine what level of triage bag the patient is at. but when the paerkt tient is screaming and crying and it's a different feel. >> reporter: security officers locked down every building and staff at tem

nbc 10's pamela osbourn talked to him about his homecoming. >> the tony goes to leslie odom jr., hamilton> reporter: his journey to this achievement began in this area. >> are there any defining moments when you figured this is what i want to do? >> my earliest experiences of taking in art at freedom theater and at philadanko. i'm a philadelphia artist. my whole lens is, you know, i got from philadelphia. the way i look at art, the way i perceive it. it comes from being raised as a young black man in philadelphia. >> reporter: odom earned a scholarship to freedom theater, pennsylvania's oldest african-american theater and training program. >> i didn't know that i was going to be prepared for a career on broadway. it was just a great place to get some discipline, and some training, some focus. >> reporter: it was about that time odom began to act out the word love. for this kid growing up in east oak lane influenced by his parents' music collection and the local artists from around town, there was no greater love than music. >> the thing that you dedicate yourself to and spend time with, t

. >> reporter: in north philadelphia, pamela osbourne, nbc 10 news. >>> coming up next, concert canceled forced wildwood to scrap a fourth of july show on the beach. and why it says the holiday will still go down in history for the jersey shore town. >>> new jersey drivers breathing a sigh of relief tonight. what will not be happening at gas pumps, for now anyway. nbc news at 6:00, next. >>> nbc 10 news at 6:00 begins with a welcome reprieve on the roads of new jersey. this is a live look, of course, at the ben franklin bridge as drivers head to the shore for the holiday weekend. >> tonight they can coast into new jersey knowing the state's gas tax won't be going up. at least for the fourth of july as some had feared. nbc 10's andrea is live in trenton where the lawmakers failed to vote on the tax hike. >> this isn't the end of the road for the possible hike, though, right, andrea? >> reporter: that's absolutely right. the one thing that all sides agree on is the gas stacks hike. the point of contention are all of the tax breaks put in the plan to sweeten the deal. so this means if you d