talk to us about where the gannett building is located. >> this is the main headquarters for the gannett today" in suburb virginia near tyson's corner mall. that's a familiar landmark for a lot of people. i'm told my co-workers have been evacuated from the building. that happened just a few minutes ago, they're outside, not sure what's happening. we've also heard reports of a person with a gun, but that has not been confirmed. so we're in kind of a wait-and-see mood at the moment. my colleagues tell me there are a lot of police officers on the scene now. >> very quickly, susan, talk to us a little bit about how many people go to work every day at that building between all the offices on the gannett side, "usa today" side and how heavily protected is it? >> this is a very large office building with two towers. you see it sometimes if you're driving to dulles airport. thousands of people work in that area, hundreds of people were surely in the building at the point of the evacuation. it includes not only gannett and "usa today," but also other businesses that lease offices in that building

. -- is new-media and gannett. going us to talk about it is brooke sutherland.mbining biggest newspapers in america. gannett owns "usa today" and a variety of local dailies. bunchdia brings another of local dailies. that is their path to survival. it is interesting the synergy number here. to make all of this work and keep paying a dividend, they think they can cut $300 million of cost, which means a lot of jobs and facilities. i think it is worth pointing out that when gannett tried to buy tribune, they were starting with a $50 million annual synergy number. what does that mean in terms of the job cuts? companies, gannett has been the tory us for their cost-cutting -- has been notorious for their cost-cutting. i am curious how much more cost they can take out of it. brooke: they have been cutting pretty significantly over the past couple of years. gannett had a play for buy more of a vicious cost cutter, but the difference was alton global didn't have the financing, whereas new-media is getting a loan to make all of this possible. alix: so where are the cuts? i

however as is protocol, police have responded to the gannett building, evacuated part of that complexolice to leave the area and police are investigating. this something in progress. police are investigating this. at least one person called in, saying they saw a man with a weapon. police are investigating to see whether any shots were fired or what is the case right now. kate is this. >> if anything is still happening there. it is all happening right now. jessica will be following that with any updates we get from the local police. thank you, jessica. really appreciate it. another scary day in another city in america. the president right now is in ohio, saying he wants to grieve with the have families of the nine victims who lost their lives in dayton, ohio, after the horrific shooting this weekend. on his way there, the president was asked if anything he wants to do -- if there's anything he wants to do to stop these mass shootings from happening. this uniquely american tragedy. he said there is no appetite to ban military-style weapons but is open to expanding background checks. tha

gatehouse media acquired gannett, which owns usa today, among other papers, for $1.4 billion. new company will own over 250 daily newspapers and hundreds of other weekly and community publications. the company, which will retain the name gannett, will own over one-sixth of all daily newspapers in the united states. critics warn the merger could result in newsroom layoffs. and local reporting may be sacrificed in favor of stories produced remotely and republished across many of the company's newspapers. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. juan: and i'm juan gonzalez. welcome to our listeners and viewers from across the country and around the world. the death toll in the shooting at a wal-mart in el paso has risen to 22 after two more victims died monday. it is one of the deadliest mass shootings in u.s. history. just before the shooting, the gunman published a man necessary owe claiming his actions were being done in response to what he described as a "hispanic invasion of texas." parts of the

agent orange and many of the top 12 percent that are gannett pollutants that destroy our world. rachel carson said it in a book silent spring but how it said it in his book agriculture testament that industry that had gotten used to making chemicals the wall they got so addicted to profits that the then retooled and redesigned agriculture to make it dependent on these chemicals. were. a neo nicotine oid is a neuro toxin for an insect so when an insect ingest the neo nicotine oid it actually disrupts the nervous system of that insect so no it is an insecticide which is used to kill an insect in a recent set of publications which are nearly over $800.00 papers they've shown that nicotine oids are actually showing up in the pollen of wild flowers which are then being consumed by b. so the sun and butterflies. is thought of the design of the use of only says. what's different about noids is that they're present all the time the seeds were coated with the near nicotine oids and then the seed was planted the new nicotine oid is water soluble so it goes into the soil the seed sprouts a

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was going to watch my daughter get shot down in front of me >> reporter: workers evacuated today at gannett virginia headquarters, after a report of a former employee with a gun >> we do have a lot of police now approaching the front of the building >> reporter: authorities found no evidence of violence. but similar scenes across the country. panic in new york's times square last night, emma heaton capturing the moment that set off the stampede >> people were tripping over each other, kids on the floor, shoes all over the place >> reporter: seeking safety wherever they could find it. nbc news lindsey wolfson saw the fear firsthand >> the first instinct was oh, my god, this is an attack mkingbir" actor gideon glick tweeting screaming civilians tried to storm our theater for safety the audience starting screaming and the cast fled the stage. this is th near salt lake city, shoppers ran for cover at west valley mall, mistaking a falling sign for gunshots >> be quiet. >> reporter: these preschoolers in san diego preparing for the real thing 3 and 4-year-olds in an active shooter drill. the cold

police searching the massive gannett building floor by floor, in mclean, virginia, later determining it was a false alarm. >> prayers have been answered. everybody is safe. >> reporter: overnight in times square, hundreds of panicked tourists and customers, after hearing what sounds like gunfire. certain they are under attack by an active shooter, they hide in restaurants and stores. >> it was pretty much a stampede of people just sprinting as fast as they could. >> reporter: another false alarm. turns out that jarring sound was a motorcycle backfires. and tuesday, people literally running for their lives at a utah shopping center, fearful a gunman is coming for them after a sound eerily like that of shot fired pierces the afternoon. >> within 30 seconds, it was evacuated. >> reporter: the scene is cleared after authorities find a sign had crashed to the ground making that troubling noise. >> and pierre thomas joins us now live. thankfully, pierre, authorities found all those were false alarms. but those incidents examples of so many americans on edge after those mass shootings. what

the food chain bacteria in the water convert the mercury into something even more talks in order gannett compound called methylmercury which is easily absorbed in the digestive system mercury unlike many other pollutants magnifies every time it goes from one link in that food chain to the next so a fish at the top of the food chain in a contaminated region can have mercury levels millions or tens of millions of times higher. then the water in which they swim where does that fish end up in many cases it ends up on the dinner plate of people that live hundreds of miles downstream of . the east for the numbers and his team attested hair samples of more than a 1000 people throughout the model of the the u.s. more than 75 percent had levels above the limits considered safe by the environmental protection agency some as high as 33 times the limit. to focus. mostly. one only has a legal case because. they. can look at this. time if you can very little but. over time mercury impacts the central nervous system it could cause problems with vision hearing and memory at high levels it can cause brai

of course, gannett is selling itself to new media.apollo, merging it with koch media and northwestern broadcasting. david: this is an interesting possible merger that is not so much about saving costs as it is having more at the bargaining table. brooke: there are some cost cuts involved in this, but it is about having more negotiating leverage because of the sheer amount of consolidation we seem. if you look at the deals at&t has done over the years, that tells you why we are seeing consolidation at this level with tv stations. alix: why now versus before? there's been a lot of consolidation. brooke: the fcc actually change the rules come i no longer cap -- change to the rules, and no longer cap ownership levels at -- cap ownership of the same levels. you have seen that unleashed a wave of consolidation. tribune sold itself to next are, star, had already -- to nex which had already sold itself. alix: brooke sutherland, thank you very much. coming up on this program, argentina facing some credit downgrades. the chief government minist

today for the orange and black top of the first giants leading 2 to nothing newly signed scooter gannettrs first homer as a giant the dugout giving him a nice little reaction right there. 4 nothing giant bomb the 5th all tied at 4. daniel murphy winds one into right field that will drop to kick up against the wall nolan are not. a wild throw from the cut off man and no one is covering home here comes our he is certain. rockies now lead 5 to 4 top of the 8th, we go. big spot for buster posey 2 on with one out posey lines one in the room. doesn't get a good angle on it coming into scores, kevin poe r and here comes austin slater, he will score and just like that the giants take the lead. the game is still in progress right now i keep looking down at my phone. it is the bottom of the knife giants leading 6 to 5 is hosting the cardinals currently in prfgress. we'll have those highlights it and now on to some nfl talk. it is day 7 of the 49 ers training camp and one rookie who has been continuing to shine during practice, defensive end, nick bosa he's been progressing very well, according to

revenues in line gannett says rising inventory levels became a challenge for macy's in q2 the customer has no appetite for price increase right now >> mr. gannett missed the quarter and missed the quarter and also talked about missing fashion, rising e ining invento levels i think that this is brick and mortar and brick and mortar is particularly bad i think that this is just a continual theme. i think that jeff is -- jeff gennette, we have positive comparable store growth. that is the kind of thing you say to yourself, if you had done better in women's sports wear, and private label, wouldn't you -- think about it like this, they're up against jcpenney, that's a pitiful company to go up against execution plus they talk about the tourist, i'm tired of hearing about the tourists who doesn't come here. yes, i absolutely know the dollar is strong and i know that the beautiful herald square store is not up to the numbers, but i still come back to the executioner seems sloppy seems sloppy we'll get bad numbers from a bunch of brick and mortars, this is really -- there is something wrong her

we have confirmed with virginia police and usa today that the a gannett building in virginia have been evacuated. we have an update from our washington bureau chief, susan page, what do we have? >> this is a mistaken report, a false alarm that they have not found a person with a gun. this report did provoke va evacuation of the entire building and a massive police response there in suburban virginia. >> susan, it is a great news. we are glad to hear it. there is no danger at the usa today building. coming up next, the white house invited tech companies to talk about violent extremism online. plus, president trump calls for stronger background checks and red flag laws. what's the holdup? we'll look at the politics of guns. you are watching "velshi & ruhle" live on msnbc. watching "& ruhle" live on msnbc at hilton.cm i get to select my room from the floor plan... free wi-fi... ...and the price match guarantee. so with hilton there is no catch. yeah the only catch is i'm never leaving. no i'm serious, i live here now. book at hilton.com and get the hilton price match guarantee. >>> welcom

gatehouse media is buying gannett compy, which owns "u.s.a. today" among other dailies.he combined company will include more than 260 newspapers. to >> woodruff: bacur look at guns in america. excluding el paso and dayton, just since yesterday, at leastwe 88 peopl shot and at least 28 people were killed by guns in 27 states, according to the gun violence archive. in fact, we rarely report on these events: gang warfare, domestic violence, robbery. and that excludes suicide, the largest factor for gun deaths. amna nawaz reports that the number of guns in america-- some 393 million of them, more than one per person-- is greater than in any other country and, that even on days of relative calm, guns kill roughly 100 people in this country every day.id >> nawaz: prt trump condemned the shootings andsu denounced whitemacy and "racist hate," which he said fueled such violence.he lso warned against "the perils of the internet and socialedia," which he said helped to foment that hate. but he declined to call for tougher gun laws, instead pointing to the mental state of the killer

the food chain bacteria in the water convert the mercury into something even more talks in order gannett compound called methylmercury which is easily absorbed in the digestive system mercury unlike many other pollutants magnifies every time it goes from one link in that food chain to the next so a fish at the top of the food chain in a contaminated region can have mercury levels millions or tens of millions of times higher than the water in which they swim where does that fish and up in many cases it ends up on the dinner plate of people that live hundreds of miles downstream. to the east for the members and his team of. tested hair samples of more than a 1000 people throughout the modulator the u.s. more than 75 percent had levels above the limits considered safe by the environmental protection agency some as high as 33 times the limit. to talk of. the flu. one only has a legal case because. they. can look at this. time is in very real and. over time mercury impacts the central nervous system it could cause problems with vision hearing and memory at high levels it can cause brain damag

charles: breaking news, a gate house media buying gannett.he industry declining with growth of print editions. they will have more than 360 daily papers in the u.s. >>> dow down more than 800 points. close to 900 points. continues to be pummeled by all uncertainty. go back to jackie deangelis on floor of new york stock exchange. jackie, any talk of stepping in, buying the dip down there? reporter: no talk of that right now, charles. dow industrials, nasdaq are on track for the worst day of the year. we have the tit-for-tat with the chinese striking back and currency move as well. the question traders have is, what impact will this have on u.s. corporations and their revenues and profits. what is president trump going to do next? does potentially step back, throw a punch and weaken the dollar to fight back? do we get into a full-blown currency war here. there is uncertainty in the market. there is fear in the market. that explains why you're seeing this selloff on the dow now at 861 point. we're seeing red across the board. every single stock

jeff gannette was very clear, with or without the tariffs, viciously competitive landscape he's looking at. >> the last line, he did say consumers do not have an appetite for price increases. that's something i think we really need to focus on. given that these tariffs haven't really been passed on to consumers as much as they potentially could be. on the conference call today, he did say that they weren't going to increase prices with that 10% increase, but should tariffs increase to 25%, then they could potentially increase prices. last time in may, they did slightly increase prices on luggage and housewares and realized consumers don't like it. the earnings report was really a miss and not primarily due to tariffs. more because of just the woes that plagued macy's for so long. they missed on their athletic private label. it didn't do well. it wasn't fashionable enough. they had a slowdown in international tourism which i think is a big sign about the economy, too. weaker tourism, stronger u.s. dollar which makes it more expensive to buy clothes in america. then too much inventory whi

isn't that a sign of something i was seeing jeff gannett, he thinks business is good and he paid down. so then someone would say to me, go back and forth in your head, don't you realize macy's is doing badly. i say, yeah, but it is doing well but don't you realize it is terrible i say, it is not terrible. there is no winning in this. people keep saying, wait until walmart rolls over wait until target rolls over walmart is accelerating. target is having a great quarter. i want to -- it is -- let's -- i debated this this morning. i debated coming on the show and saying, you know what, carl, everything i think is good is really bad that's like 1984, war is peace and peace is war >> right that would be glib we don't want to be glib here. we want to be -- >> we're stuck with -- it is empirical things aren't as bad as the bonds are indicated empiric empirical. >> we have news in the media space, cbs and viacom in the final stages of negotiating this deal that would reunite sumner red stone's media empire kc viacom at nearly $12 billion with an enterprise value of more than $20 billion cbs w

there was a false alarm at the headquarters of one of the nation's biggest newspaper publishers, gannetted a man in body armor carrying a rifle in springfield, missouri. a 23-year-old las vegas white supremacist was arrested on suspicion of possessing parts to make a bomb and allegedly wanted to attack jewish-americans and patrons of an lbgtq bar. a florida man arrested for illegally writing on football three more days of probation left and then i get my ak-15 back. don't go to walmart next week. hundreds of federal agents conducted immigration raids at meat processing factories in mississippi leaving these indelible images of children who were left behind. all of this set up a strange combination for the iowa state fair this weekend. so nearly all of the democratic field showed up to the fair. it was -- the weather was beautiful. there was, as usual, fried food on sticks. the butter cow sculpture, and it was coupled instead of with the usual light-hearted fun with intense talk about american culture especially through the lens of the gun issue. with that i'd like to welcome in my panel

. >> reporter: workers evacuated at gannett's virginia headquarters after the report of a former employee> we have a lot of police approaching the front of the building. >> reporter: authorities found no evidence of violence. but similar scenes across the country. panic in new york's times square and capturing the moment that set off the stampede. >> people were tripping over each other, there were kids on the floor, shoes all over the place. >> reporter: seeking safety wherever they could find it. nbc news lindsay wolfson saw the fear firsthand. >> the first instinct was, oh, my god, this is an attack. >> reporter: there was no gun, just a motorcycle backfiring creating chaos at broadway's "to kill a mockingbird." >> the audience started screaming and the cast fled the stage. this is the world we live in. this cannot be our world. it is our country. near salt lake city, shoppers ran for cover at west valley mall, mistaking a falling sign for gunshots. >> be quiet. >> these preschoolers in san diego preparing for the real thing. 3 and 4-year-olds in an active shooter drill. the cold war's