nbc gabe gutierrez is with us now outside of the courthouse.his is an afternoon of fast moving developments and sound this lone juror is causing some, i don't want to say delays, but potentially creating a deadlock situation. >> reporter: that's right. just within the past few minutes we learned that significant development. up until now we didn't know how many jurors couldn't agree on a verdict but according to that note just handed to the judge, it is one juror that is stopping this process right now. the jury, again, saying they cannot reach a consensus in this case. this has been, obviously, a difficult case for the jury to weigh. they have now spent more than 16 hours on this, over three days, deciding between either this guilty verdict on the murder charge or voluntary manslaughter or the acquittal. right now according to the foreperson, that one lone juror cannot in good conscience, the juror writes, find former officer slagr guilty. so that seems to suggest that the other jurors had found him or wanted to find him guilty on one of the t

lets bring in gabe gutierrez.s back. >> reporter: yes, the jury just came back and sent a note to the judge, their best efforts, they are unable to reach a unanimous decision literally in the past few seconds. the judge has to clear the mistrial in the case. this is something that we had been expecting for some time since the jury returned on friday and said they are at a deadlock. again, in the past few seconds, really, the judge declared a mistrial in this michael slager trial. the jury had deliberated for more than 23 hours at this point. this was a case that was watched around the country. they had been choosing between several different options. one was a murder conviction and conviction over voluntary man slaughter or acquittal in the end, they're unable to reach the decision. twelve jurors and eleven white jurors and one black joouror. lets listen into the judge. >> all those issues will be addressed. i want to thank for your service, you did good in this case and long deliberations and the longest that i h

tonight nbc's gabe gutierrez has an inside look at these compounds that have stood in plain sight for decades. >> reporter: tonight inside this compound, in maryland, a rush to pack up and get out. a day after the u.s. has said it was shutting down the home, and another one on new york island as part of its retaliation against russia. the obama administration has not detailed what type of intelligence took place in these buildings, but an official said they were not part of a cyber campaign against the u.s. instead, they were secure facilities where the russians could hold secret meetings. >> they've been quiet neighbors. >> reporter: across the bay from washington, the maryland compound is 63 miles from the white house and near nsa headquarters. these pictures from inside show massive dining rooms and luxurious lounges. the sprawling 45-acre estate known for diplomatic parties flowed. closing the compound now, perhaps more symbolic than operational. >> it is possible that this is more of sending a message, almost an annoyance to the russians, saying, look, you had these nice faciliti

as gabe gutierrez shows us, it's a part of a rise in air rage. >> reporter: it was a midair meltdown. a man lunging at another passenger. a woman cursing as police yanked both of them from a delta flight. >> why? for what? >> in my million miles of fly, i've never seen anything like it. it was horrible. >> reporter: he took this cell phone video says it all started when the woman tried to use the restroom during takeoff, when a flight attendant told her to sit down. shed and her partner started shouting. >> the captain came on, told the people in the back to listen to the flight attendants. >> reporter: less than an hour into the flight the pilots turned around. >> 2565, we do have the authority to call. we should be at the gate when they get there. >> air rage takes fraph this flight in baltimore to charlotte t. pop star richard marx. there were 10,000 air rage, a 16% jump president the year before. >> i don't think that alcohol really is the cause of the increase in air rage t. real cause of air rage increase is the lack of personal space on aircraft. >> after this latest outburst t

we get more tonight from gabe gutierrez. >> i do consider myself a white supremacist. >> he chuckled as he recalled the horror at the church last year. >> we all know i'm guilty. now for the first time a look at what prosecutors showed jurors on the third day of federal trial where he's accused of 33 counts, including hate crimes. >> what i did is so miniscule to what they're doing to white people every day. >> this is video of him entering the building. when the bloodshed was over, he quietly walked out. gun in hand. >> i was in absolute awe there was nobody out there. >> police arrested him during a traffic stop the next day and seemed surprised when he was told nine church members had died. >> you were under the assumption you killed four or five people, but you're numbers are doubled. it was nine. >> the fbi agents asked what he would tell the families of the victims. >> i couldn't look at them. >> the defense team is not disputing the facts of the case. their goal is to avoid the death penalty. on the witness stand he said after confession he told the then 21-year-old his plan t

gabe gutierrez, nbc news. >>> emergency search-and-rescue efforts are under way tonight along the houstonoast after calls came in of an army apache helicopter crashing into the water. there are reports that at least two people may have been on board. the coast guard said the chopper had taken off from a nearby airport. >>> it was on christmas day 20 years ago that jon-benet ramsey was found murdered at her family's home in colorado. the case that captured national attention still unsolved and now a huge lawsuit has been filed against cbs by jon-benet's brother, who says he's been falsely accused of killing his sister. we get details tonight from gotti schwartz. >> it's a $750 million lawsuit. stemming from this two-part cbs special that aired in september. a panel of investigators suggesting that burke ramsey, the brother of jon-benet ramsey may have murdered his sister when he was 9 years old, but in a lawsuit filed today, ramsey is suing cbs, claiming permanent damage to his reputation resulting from the defendant's false accusation that he killed his sister. in the show investigators t

>> gabe gutierrez, live for us in tennessee.hank you, gabe. >>> a solemn and historic moment late today when japan's prime minister became the first of his country's leaders to visit the "uss arizona" memorial at pearl harbor. and by his side, president obama making what is likely his final visit of his presidency to the site. our tammy leitner is there with more. >> reporter: a silent moment, unimaginable 75 years ago. the prime minister of japan paying his respects at pearl harbor, on the "uss arizona" memorial. above where hundreds of sailors and marines are entombed below. >> translator: it was a place which brought utter silence to me. >> reporter: japanese prime minister shinzo abe visiting the battlefield where over 2,400 americans died. the first japanese leader to visit the memorial. today, abe stopping short of making an apology. >> translator: i offer my sincere and everlasting condolences. >> it is here that we remember that even when hatred burns hottest, even when the tug of tribalism is at its most primal, we must

nbc's gabe gutierrez was in the courtroom. >> reporter: fueled by racism, he walked into their sanctuary and opened fire. this afternoon, a jury found dylann roof guilty of 33 federal counts, including hate crimes. >> i knew it was going to be guilty, guilty, guilty. >> reporter: felicia sanders, one of three survivors that awful night, who testified during the trial how she watched roof take her 26-year-old son tywanza. >> not too many mothers ever see their son come in and leave the world. so that was very painful for me. >> reporter: during his closing argument, the prosecutor raised his voice in anger, calling roof a man of immense hate red and tremendous cowardice, who shot his victims while they prayed and had their eyes closed. these nine people exemplified a goodness greater than his message of hate, he said. the defense conceded the horror of the rampage, but his attorney tried to bring up his client's mental state. >> he's still in here, i'm afraid. he's still in there. >> reporter: this chilling 911 call from inside the church was among the evidence laid out for jurors, includ

gabe gutierrez, nbc news, mccowan, texas. >>> up next, the close encounter you will not want to miss.>> some tourists certainly got their money's worth off the coast of south australia when a 12 foot long great white shark not only the bait but look at it, jumped completely out of the water. while some watched it from a boat others got to see it unfold from a shark cage beneath the surface. a close encounter they will not soon forget. >>> the annual list of the most popular dog names is out. there is a survey, it's compiled by the folks at rover.com. this year' top names for male dogs, max, charlie, buddy, cooper and jack. female dogs, bella, lucy, female dogs, lucy, daisy, lola and luna at the top of the list. more than half pet owners say they named their pets offer a book or movie character. we named our pet senorita chocolate. but it's not on the list. >>> when we come back, our inspiring america report. when kindness wins out over competition. >>> finally tonight, in the world of sports, from the pros all the way down to the school level, it's not every day that a member of one t

gabe gutierrez, nbc news, warren, ohio. >>> six months ago tonight, hundreds of people packed into a gay nightclub in orlando, florida. hours later, 49 people were massacred at the hands of a gunman who had pledged allegiance to isis. tonight family members are still dealing with that tragedy as new images emerge from the crime scene. scott cohen has our report. anger of the horror before and after the deadliest mass shooting in recent history. 49 lives taken from a place they thought was safe from bullying and judgment. video at the pulse nightclub shows the gunman parking underneath a canopy on june 4. two minutes later after the first shots were fired, police arrived. some patrons ran for their lives. others lay wounded inhe 2:35. martin calls 911 from inside the club and announces his allegiance to isis. >> i want you to know i'm in orlando and i did the shooting. >> reporter: the standoff lasts three hours before martin is finally taken down. six months later, people still come to this shuttered nightclub to pay their respects. >> it's heartwarming to see all the messages knowin

>> gabe gutierrez in charleston, thank you. >>> there's late word about president-elect trump's phone conversations with foreign leaders, some that are raising eyebrows in washington and around the world, including one that has the potential to infuriate china. nbc's peter alexander has more on this developing story. >> reporter: exactly seven weeks before his inauguration, president-elect donald trump's now raising red flags for a series of phone calls with world leaders whose relationship to the u.s. remains complicated at best. today speaking with the taiwanese president, the first contact between a president-elect, or president, and taiwan, since 1979. likely to infuriate the chinese who view taiwan as a renegade province. it follows controversial calls to the heads of pakistan, kazakhstan and the philippines, whose president recently slandered president obama's mother. >> the wrong message could be received. so he should be fully briefed by the state department before those communications. >> reporter: here at home, trump's team is planning a series of events similar to this rall

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nbc's gabe gutierrez has the latest. >> don't shoot him. don't shoot him. >> reporter: more than two months after this dramatic video stunned the nation, today the district attorney announced that brent vincent, the charlotte police officer who shot and killed keith lamont scott, that officer vincent acted lawfully when he shot mr. scott. >> reporter: the shooting sparked nights of violent unrest here. social media catapulted the story into the national spotlight, based on false information, the prosecutor says. according to state investigators, initial witness accounts that scott was holding a book proved to be false. his wife's statement she didn't know he owned a weapon, also false according to investigators, based on text messages the and they say witness claims that it was a white officer who shot scott are also untrue. police say they were trying to serve a warrant to a different man at an apartment complex when they saw scott with a gun and marijuana. investigators say scott ignored commands to drop the weapon at least ten times. >>

>> gabe gutierrez in charleston, thank you. >>> now to the that's left a washington, d.c. neighborhood in fear. it started with a dangerous internet hoax that caused a gunman to open fire at a d.c. pizza shop. swept up in a conspiracy theory pushed on social media, even by a member of president-elect trump's inner circle. we get the latest from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: under arrest in washington, 28-year-old edgar wells, accused of firing a weapon inside investigate pizza-gate, an internet rumor alleging a clinton campaign child sex ring. >> these stories are completely is entirely false. >> reporter: the pizza-gate conspiracy began with a wikileaks and e-mail stolen from campaign john podesta about a fund-raiser involving the restaurant. users are the board for chan, known for rogue political discussion, suggested without any proof whatsoever that the word pizza was code for child sex restaurant. the conspiracy theory quickly spread to reddit and youtube, feeding fake online news stories, then jumping to facebook and twitter. eventually reddit banned the thread. b

nbc's gabe gutierrez has details. >> acen has been shot, oh, my god! >> reporter: these are the horrifying moments when an arkansas woman realized her 3-year-old grandson has been shot. >> i was at the stop sign and the guy blew the horn at me and i blew it back. and he shot but i thought he shot in the air, he shot at the car. >> reporter: the newly released 911 call comes as little rock police urgently search for the gunman. >> it should shock all of our conscience. >> reporter: it appears acen king's death of a random act of road rage after a driver became upset the boy's grandmother wasn't moving fast enough at a stop sign. >> young people are dying at the hands of violence, specifically gun violence, and that's happening far too often. >> reporter: she told authorities a black chevy impala drove up behind her in the pouring rain. the driver of the impala honked his horn, she honked back. that's when he got out and fired at her car. only after she drove to a department store parking lot did she realize the bullet had hit her grandson, who was in th

gabe gutierrez has the details. >> after jurors saw these chilling videos of dylann roof taking target practice. there there's so many people dead. >> they heard the horrifying 911 call from one of the church massacre's three survivors, 72-year-old polly sheppard. >> he shot the pastor, all the people. come right away. >> she dove under a table. she testified roof asked, did i shoot you? no, she responded, and he said i'm going to leave you here to tell the story. then came more gunshots. >> what's going on, ms. poly? >> after his arrest, fbi agents asked roof about the woman he spared. >> do you remember telling that lady i'm going to let you live so you can tell my story. >> yeah, i remember saying that, but there's really no story. >> investigators say there's a long story, that roof carefully planned out his racist rampage. >> those who died that night simply died because they were there and they were black. >> malcolm graham is the brother of cynthia herd, one of the charleston in my opinion who was shot at least 7 times. roof's lawyer did not cross-examine poly shepherd, telling

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nbc's gabe gutierrez has details. >> the court therefore must declare a mistrial in this case. jury deliberations, tonight a mistrial in the murder case against former north charleston police officer, michael slager. >> there's no unanimous verdict, then we're back to square one, and that's where we are in this case. >> reporter: by this afternoon, their final note that the panel of 11 white people and one black man couldn't reach a unanimous decision. >> being that we did not get a guilty verdict, it's a little disappointing. but the good thing is, that we have two more >> reporter: the dramatic cell phone video shocked the nation, walter scott, shot in the back multiple times in april of 2015. during the month-long trial, slager told the court, he was in total fear for his life and shot scott in self-defense. slager said scott ran from a traffic stop and grabbed his stun gun during a struggle. >> i don't care how it looks. it's not over. >> reporter: scott's family, who had already won a $6.5 million civil settlement from the only round one. >> we're firm, and we believe that

and as our gabe gutierrez tells us, it's part of a troubling rise in cases of air rage in our skies.porter: it was a mid-air meltdown. a man lunging at another passenger. a woman cursing as police yanked both of them from a delta flight. >> why! for what! >> in my million miles of flying, i've never seen anything like it. it was horrible. >> reporter: patrick whalen, who took this video, said it all started when the woman tried to use the rest room during takeoff. he says, when a flight attendant told her to sit down, she and her partner started shouting. >> the captain came on and told the people in the back to sit down and listen to the flight attendants. >> reporter: the plane, on its way from minneapolis to los angeles, less than an hour into the flight, the pilots turned around. >> the authorities called, they should be at the gate when you get there. >> reporter: air rage seems to be taking off, from this brawl on a flight to baltimore, to this take yawn in charlotte, to popstar richard marx helping subdue an unruly passenger last week. worldwide, there were 10,000 cases report

we get more from gabe gutierrez. >> don't grab her! don't grab her! >> reporter: tonight, this arrest caught on camera is sparking outrage in ft. worth texas. jacqueline craig said she called police to report a neighbor had grabbed her son's neck for littering. the video begins after the officer arrived. >> don't put your hands on my son. >> why don't you teach your son not to litter? >> he can't prove to me that my son littered. but it doesn't matter if he did or didn't, it doesn't give him the right to put his hands on him. >> the exchange quickly escalates. craig and several other women begin screaming at the officer before he takes three of them into sfd custody. >> i just felt like i didn't get justice for what i called for, basically. >> reporter: the video has been viewed more than a million times on facebook. it's unclear what happened during at least three gaps in the recording. >> it was not edited in any way. if someone messages or calls, it skips a beep. >> reporter: ft. worth saying the initial appearance of the video may raise serious qu

gabe gutierrez has her story. >> baylor medical center in dallas. the biggest christmas gift is also the smallesmal smallest. i don't think there is any experience in life that can prepare you for what you face when you have a child that's sick. >> four times a day, lacey and brayden visited their daughter. wats this christmas, she defines all odds. >> if miracle did not happen, we would not be here. >> baby watson did not gain weight. lacey was diagnosed with health syndrome of a rare complication of pregnancy. both the mother and baby's lives were at risk so doctors decided on an early c-section. watson was just 25 weeks olds and only 11 ounces. the tiniest child ever born at baylor dallas. >> even with all the technology we have, even to fit the tube like a breathing tube for her is really tough to get the size for her. most babies this size have a 20 or 30% survival rate. watson is now up to 85%. >> watson is a miracle. she's a little miracle. i have never seen anything so small and so feisty. >> in just two months, she's already tripled in weig

nbc's gabe gutierrez went to the border to find out why, and how the idea of a wall is figuring in the debate. (nats)at the u-s-mexico border...this year's onslaught...is agents like marlene castro....not just chasing smugglers...sot: (marlene castro/border patrol agent) (07:38:30): "they dropped their bundles of narcotics and went back in mexico."but now...dealing with ?more? families from central america...who are running ?to? u-s officials...not from them. surrendering and seeking asylum...from violence back home.(start graphic) apprehensions on the southwest border...along the rio grande...are rising. 20-thousand more ?this? october...than the same month two years ago.(end graphic)the largest spike since the massive surge of unaccompanied 2014.sot: (marlene castro/border patrol agent) (from go-pro footage) 00:03:27:00"traveling through here, the-- the biggest problem would be the brush, of course, the-- the heat and humidity."just last month...the federal government sent 150 more agents here...to process the migrants.(nats)and if the flow seems never- ending...so does the debate...

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nbc's gabe gutierrez has details. north carolina state capital, more arrests, as protests erupted for a second straight day. >> it's terrible. it's sneaky, and it's just not constitutional. >> let us in! >> reporter: demonstrators banging on the doors of the legislature, after outgoing governor pat mccrory signed the first of several controversial bills, aimed at limiting the next governor's powers. >> they've decided now to go back and frustrate the will of the voters. >> reporter: the legislation would slash the new governor's ability to appoint state and local board positions, hire and fire government workers and appoint his cabinet without lawmakers' approval. >> this isn't unprecedented, but it is extraordinary. and i think it reflects the polarization of our times. >> reporter: the debate raging during a special session before government-elect roy -- governor-elect roy cooper takes office next month. >> we don't look good to our people here in north carolina, or to the rest of the country, when laws are passed h

. >>> nbc's gabe gutierrez is live in charleston for us. you had a chance to talk with the man who captured the shoot willingi shooting on his cell phone. what is his reaction to the mistrial? >> reporter: good. santana was that eyewitness that shot that cell phone video that resonated around the country. he was in the courtroom yesterday as the judge declared this a mistrial. i spoke with him last night. he said he was deeply disappointed by the decision, but here's the rest of what he had to say. >> officer slager when he testified said that he was in total fear for his life. do you believe that? >> i can't speak for him, but that's not what i saw. i saw a person that was in total control. saw a person that was -- walter scott was -- the only thing he tried to do was run, get away from that taser. and michael slager didn't really -- don't make sense for me. >> reporter: now, feidin santana said he's prepared to testify in any of the other two trials that may be forthcoming. the local prosecutor says she plans to retry this case. michael sl

gabe gutierrez, nbc news. >>> there is news tonight concerning the biggest safety recall in u.s. history involving some 69 million defective car airbags. government regulators say it is taking far too long to swap out the defective bags with new ones. so far less than 20% have been replaced. so today the department of transportation laid out a new plan to speed up the process. deciding which cars get fixed first. here is nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: next time you are on the road, look around. roughly one out of every six cars has a potentially defective airbag made by takata. airbags with ammonium nitrate inflaters under the right conditions can explode sending metal shrapnel flying into the front seat. without enough parts replacing all 69 million airbags is taking far too long. only 12.5 million have been replaced so far. now government regulators are picking up the pace. imposing deadlines on the models that need to be fixed first. >> we actually have priority to make sure that people in the highest risk get their inflator first. >> reporter: as of today, 19 brands and mul

great report, gabe gutierrez. thank you very much. >> thanks.inter weather making it tough for some travelers out there. a blizzard warning is in effect for the snow covered great plains and some states in the midwest are on a winter warm up as a matter of fact. i want to check in with our meteorologist, bonnie snyder. >> we are watching an area where we could see some more conditions well into the evening. the blizzard warning has been expanded and extended to 7:00 p.m. we are watching for freezing rain and this is a different part of the country, upstate new york into central pennsylvania and well into northern new england, we could see snow tonight developing and watch out icy area. the snow is piling on heavy and hard all the way through wednesday, parts of the cascades could see two or three feet of snow at the higher elevation. a wintry week ahead. some locations, area to the south, we have warm conditions and temperatures have been unseasonably mild and we see record breaking numbers. look for more records to be shattered with unseasonabl

gabe gutierrez went to the border to find out why and how the wall is impacting the debate. >> reporter: at the u.s. mexico castro not just chasing smugglers but families running to u.s. officials, not from them, seeking asylum from violence back home. apprehension in southwest border and rio grande are rising, 20,000 more this october than two years ago. the largest spike in the surge of 2014. >> the brush, heat and humidity. 150 more agents here to process the migrants. if the flow seems never ending, so does the debate on how best to secure the border. >> get a sense of the winding scope of the river, more than 300 miles in the rio grande valley alone. >> the landscape a monumental challenge for one of president-elect donald trump's signature promises, building a wall. >> i never look at one singular solution to a very complex problem. >> sector chief says a brick and mortar wall is only part of the answer. >> it includes aircraft, it includes technology. in some place as fence is absolutely necessary. >> at the sacred heart church, the sister and volunteers are helping more than 300

>> gabe gutierrez for us there in charleston, gabe, thank you. bring in criminal defense attorney bill nettles, and reverend al sharpton. action network and politics nation here on msnbc as well. bill, i want to start with you because i think for the purposes of this conversation, we should note that you were the u.s. attorney essentially on duty there in charleston when this all went down and also during the dylan roof shooting at the church but let's talk about the slager case right now. how surprised were you that the jury deadlocked? >> i wasn't terribly surprised. it was always a plausible option. as you reported in september a year ago, there was evidence that there had been a struggle on the ground prior to the shooting and evidence that mr. scott's dna was on the taser. that was evidence that could allow a jury to arrive at a decision other than murder. also, you couple that with the fact it's a divisive issue in the country right now and, you know, in order to get a unanimous verdict, you've got to get 12 people to agree on the options.

gabe gutierrez joins us from one of the busiest airports on earth.like this is your home away fromhome. how is atlanta looking today? >> hi there, hallie, you and me both spend a lot of time on the roads, certainly used to the atlanta airport. you're in west palm, but even you're not immune to the delays west palm beach, two flights delayed about an hour and a half. the big board at the security checkpoint, minneapolis also delayed about an hour and a half. those are two the of the problem stops. minneapolis, l.a.x., this area where i'm walking right now it's in front of the main security checkpoint. not much of a line here. things are moving very smoothly here in atlanta's hartsfield-jackson airport. lines moving very quickly. they are saying they're taking about 15 to 30 minutes so far to get through this line, but hey, hallie, it could be a whole lot worse. as you mentioned, the trouble spots are in the upper midwest, some folks seeing blizzard conditions, minneapolis dealing with some problems, and of course the northeast, those airports around n