catie beck, nbc news, austin, texas. >>> coming up here tonight, the home run that wasn't one of the craziest things you will see on a baseball field this season. >>> a school bus driver has been charged with vehicular homicide after a crash that killed a middle school student and a teacher on a school trip in new jersey last week. authorities say the 77-year-old driver attempted to make an illegal u-turn disregarding the no u-turn sign. when the bus was hit by a dump truck. >>> if you have an amazon echo, this might be your worst nightmare. a family in portland, oregon, says their echo recorded a private conversation that sent it to a random contact. in a statement amazon says the amazon misheard the conversation and mistook words for a series of commands to record and send. the company says it's evaluating options to make mishaps like this less likely. >>> going, going, not quite gone at yesterday's twins tigers game, brian dozier belted one to center field that looked like it had the distance until it didn't landing smack into the seam of the outfield wall. instead of a homer, he

catie beck, nbc news, minneapolis. >>> still ahead here tonight, a violent takedown on the beach. a woman arrested and an officer seen punching her in the head. we have the tape and what police say you don't see caught on camera. >>> also, a heart-stopping rescue. look at this, the guy they are calling spiderman scaling a building to save a little boy hanging on for his life. n ♪ ♪ i can do more to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin. and i take trulicity once a week to activate my body to release it, like it's supposed to. trulicity is not insulin. it comes in a once-weekly, truly easy-to-use pen. and it works 24/7. trulicity is an injection to improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. don't use it as the first medicine to treat diabetes, or if you have type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. don't take trulicity if you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, you're allergic to trulicity, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. stop trulicity and call your doctor right away if you have sympt

catie beck, nbc news. >>> a moment of silence was held on the house floor monday in honor of the ten people killed in the santa fe high school mass shooting. but it turned dramatic after a person was heard yelling out in protest right as the moment of silence was ending. >> mr. speaker, i yield back. >> with that objection, five-minute vote willing continue. >> do something! >> now initial reports claim it was a protest in the gallery shouting, but it turns out that person was in fact democratic congresswoman donny watson coleman from new jersey. she was calling for action in response to this latest school shooting. >>> a three-hour car chase across southern california hit speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour. the hours long tri-county pursuit came to a bizarre in riverside county after the suspected car thief drove wreck lislie on highways and streets. at one point appearing to drive circles. where am i going to go, left or right. about two hours into the chase, the driver then abandoned the stolen toyota camry and tried to flee on foot along with his female passenger. well, despite

here's nbc's catie beck. >> reporter: this morning, police are trying to determine why a man may haveentionally crashed his car into this north carolina restaurant. >> our initial investigation, the officer got there, saw a car completely in the building of the surf 'n turf's lodge and saw multiple injuries. >> reporter: witnesses tell local affiliate wcnc that roger self walked into this restaurant with his family, then returned to his car and drove it right into the building at high speed where they were sitting. >> 249 to county, hold the channel. we've got -- >> reporter: self's pastor and good friend, austin rammel, telling wsoc tv that the suspect had been suffering from mental illness and had sought medical help after mental breakdowns in recent months. rammel also says self had all the guns removed from his house. among the dead, the suspect's own daughter, kaitlin self, an off-duty sheriff's deputy. she was a four-year veteran of the gaston county sheriff's office. her colleagues now in mourning, writing on facebook, "our hearts are broken and we ask for your thoughts and pra

catie beck is in raleigh for us this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah.today to confront state lawmakers spot some of those teachers saying they've been inspired watching what's happening around the country, watching states like west virginia, colorado, arizona, teachers fighting for better pay and more resources in the classroom. here in north carolina, some republican lawmakers are already condemning today's rally saying this is nothing more than a political stunt organized by teachers unions and questioning why they had it so close to the end of the school year. teachers saying this is a critical issue, a conversation that needs to happen now because north carolina is ranked 37th nationally for average teacher salaries. now these teachers will be heading back into the classroom tomorrow. they say work will resume as normal, but their fight here at the capital will be far from over. savannah. >> all right. thank you. >>> that is your news. you already for a boost? >> we are. >> i love this time of day. here's a case of man's best friend also being dog's