and i see some people who were closely involved they the national secretary kerry others here. was an example. of such non-zero sum thinking recognizing differences but also recognizing that we could define common objectives. and maintaining respect for the interests and concerns of all participants led to the very difficult but successful outcome of the negotiations leading to the j.c. puree. and that may be why. those who see everything in terms of one sided profiteering are intrinsically opposed to this deal without even reading immediately after the conclusion of the j.c. if you're iran sought to use the same approach for the persian gulf and propose to create a regional dialogue or. the proposal fell on deaf ears. but that proposal is still on the table you know why because that's the only game in town that's the only viable alternative out of the misery that we have been for the past many decades it could become if our neighbors join us a forum that will be used as an instrument for helping organize an advance dialogue at the poor and informal levels in our region and whi

entire middle east he got some very serious pushback following those remarks for example from john kerry who said essentially there is no military alternative if we torpedo the iran agreement we will hear renewed pressure to bomb iran and that will solve nothing interesting lee enough he got some say. uprising support our support from a surprising quarter namely from a russian official on the panel the head of information and communication for russia mr pushkov who said he absolutely agrees with kerry the iran agreement must stay in place as a means of containing iran and both of them essentially saying that it's bad diplomacy on the part of the trumpet ministration to undermine that agreement because it only makes compromises with iran on other issues like support for extremism more difficult so essentially a very indeed a widening gulf as that discussion was entitled between those who say containment is possible and necessary even iran proposing a new security architecture to build cooperation amongst all of the regional powers and those who say that's not feasible and it's not going t

i mean john kerry john kerry maybe bob you think. well i mean look well run run again do you think i have no idea i do think there will be a very big democratic field in two thousand and twenty. on our numbers in our poll joe biden starts out as the clear favorite this by his age despite his age. but there's also a sense in that play and bernie sanders has a hard core of supporters but there's also a sense in those numbers that people are yearning for someone new but kerry did a kerry almost got elected president he became he was a terrific secretary of state if he ran again i think he'd be a serious candidate but they're going to be twenty people up on that stage i mean i don't know that these debates may have to be broken into elizabeth one will be in the hunt right bernie sanders as you said any. long shots that might not be long shots well thought they're all long shots they're all these these these new folks who. who are registering at three or four or five percent. cory booker hair or joe kennedy the third but you've got to ste

how we are getting reaction obviously we've got the former us actually of state john kerry. he's criticised netanyahu his remarks and we'll just have a quick listen to what was said. i am a great friend of israel. i had one hundred percent voting record over twenty years in the united states but today he said to you that in ten years around will be on its way to having a nuclear arsenal is just not accurate. we know that kerry hasn't been a friend of iran in the past nevertheless he's not on the same scientists as netanyahu on this issue why do you think that is. the sole carries a genuine friend of israel should really realize this even though in the eyes of a litany oh and his government kerry and obviously obama where almost enemies of israel they care about israel is about the future of israel much more than some right wing has in israel so i think that kerry was courageous enough to say the truth of the truce is that there is nothing better than this agreement and there will not be anything better than this agreement that the neo still believes that by bomb being iran e

all this today was a scathing condemnation of the iran nuclear deal we had john kerry the former u.s. secretary of state sitting in the audience that is one of his biggest diplomatic it sequence as he sees it himself forging that particular deal is not news to him that have been innocent you know is against this but basically he spent most of his speech warning of iran as a rising force in the region with israel very concerned of iran seeking a new power base in syria after that drone was shot down last week which the israelis didn't say was bringing the rain to night that it is one of the drones of the actually quite impressive the actually produced a piece of that shot down drone addressing iran's foreign minister zarif who was not in the room as you to speak it later. basically asking him to do you break do you recognize this you can take this home so that much for so affect everybody but what we just heard now was i would say almost a hot faucet pledged to the concert. of the two state solution that netanyahu has been increasingly ambiguous about in the past with pledges to that c

russian interference in the elections so and they see that as an attack on american values so during the kerry years and even before that during the clinton years there was more of a willingness to in their mind reset relations after they had. deteriorated on one issue or the other host ukraine crisis and certainly. particularly now with with still the investigations on what happened in the elections going on it's very hard for tillerson or any or trump as we've discussed to make the case to the american public that we should have better relations now despite the hostility if the americans and the russians so i say why when it came to fighting isis and now the terrorist state is all but defeated i mean should we expect the u.s. to distance itself from problems like syria and play out well there. i would say under the trumpet ministration there is been more disengagement. although there are as efforts now in the state department elsewhere to begin thinking about reconstruction in syria i would say in my own mind i think you know both russia and the u.s. have big interests and share big interest

now during the john kerry years so lost hope that this approach of working on some issues while clashing over others will actually lead to a comprehensive amending the russia u.s. relationship but that hasn't materialized why doesn't taylor send continue working this line. well there has been you know a sea change and nobody saw this exactly coming but you know obviously there are dead there difference here is on the interpretation but most americans believe that there was russian interference in the elections so and they see that as an attack on american values so during the kerry years and even before that during the clinton years there was more of a willingness to in their mind reset relations after they had. deteriorated on one issue or the other host ukraine crisis and certainly. particularly now with with still the investigations on what happened in the elections going on it's very hard for tillerson or any or trump as we've discussed to make the case to the american public that we should have better relations now despite the hostility if the americans and the russians so i see why

entire middle east he got some very serious pushback following those remarks for example from john kerry who said essentially there is no military alternative if we torpedo the iran agreement we will hear renewed pressure to bomb iran and that will solve nothing melinda today is the final day. of the conference what is the overall feeling and what has been achieved at this year's meeting. the meeting was entitled the overall title of the conference is to the brink and back with a question mark at the end and we just heard the chairman of the conference saying at the closing he had hoped that by the end he could delete that question in other words we're coming back from the brink but he doesn't feel that's the case and in fact the hot spots that were named and discussed here range from north korea enormous concern about nuclear proliferation proliferation not only there but because of rising tensions also between the u.s. and russia for example on the use of intermediate range nuclear weapons and whether agreements on nuclear disarmament can hold so that's one whole constellation the nucl

kerry sanders with us tonight. thank you, kerry. >>> president trump says he plans to visit the site of this horrifying massacre in the coming days. today he addressed a grieving nation while many are calling on the president and congress to finally address guns and mental health. we get more from nbc's peter alexander. >> reporter: the president's efforts to comfort the nation tonight striking for what he didn't say. >> answer hate with love. answer cruelty with kindness. >> reporter: president trump in a nearly seven-minute statement not once mentioning the word "guns." instead again signals his focus is on the mental health of shooters, not the weapons they use. >> to every parent, teacher and child who is hurting so badly, we are here for you. >> reporter: the question tonight, how and when. >> we cannot tolerate a society and live in a country with any level of pride when our babies are being slaughtered. >> reporter: even some of the president's allies like florida governor rick scott calling for action. >> h

. >> and finally, please give a warm welcome to kerry lightfoot.ause] >> my partner in crime right here to my left is a loosely -- colonel. lee, retired he is the cochairman of the trump-pence second amendment coalition, former republican party state chairman, and current rnc member. a founder of the rnc conservative caucus, he is a retired army airborne ranger armor combat veteran, u.s. military academy at west point graduate. ? read that too fast, didn't i with degrees in engineering and public administration -- and by the way, i had to cut his bio a lot more than this. i all his accomplishments, think he is most proud of his wife and his church, our savior lutheran church in virginia. welcome, willis lee. [applause] >> graham, let's get started with you. did a wonderful job, but i thought it was interesting they said that the heller decision, what they one auto -- won was the right to keep. the second amendment says keep and bear arms. an important distinction. tell us about that? thisank you for having panel. that is an important distinction. t

kerry. he was reunited with a man who change his life and allowed him to pursue his dream of the nfl. chris wirn has the story. >> for t.j. kerry of oakland raiders valentine's day is anything but typical holiday. >> it's been a long time. >> a little bigger than the last time i saw you. >> a tad bit. >> at the children's hospital in stanford kerry met face-to-face with the surgeon who repaired his heart 12 years ago. he was diagnosewood a congenital heart detective which made it hard for him to breathe. he had to go undergo open heart surgery. this doctor was the surgeon in the operating room. >> your heart kwn kwn several decades ago wasn't diagnosed off opinion 37 people didn't know it existed. >> he was joined by 24-year-old taylor another patient who is livingston a healthy and productive life after muchlt surgeries. >> it's not just fixed and done. there is a lot of emotional things that go with it. and you know, now the doctors and nurses are realizing that as well. >> taylor's mother

we also engaged with former secretary of state john kerry. the israeli government in .ransition caused the failure after all of this, how can it be said that we failed negotiations. we have never refused any initation to participate negotiations. cannot say we rejected negotiation. we believe that negotiations are the only path towards peace. negotiations?ect deadlock, with this we have neither given up. andelieve in the purposes of united nations. affirmed the right of self-determination. nobody has held israel accountable but it occupied our territory and 1948. self-determination of of the issues this council will address tomorrow. in spite of all of that color the united nations have failed to commit its resolution until this very day. is this possible? is it logical that despite ,doption 705 general assembly 705 resolution from 1948 till this very day. another of them have been implemented. that are these resolutions they have adopted? no result whatsoever. that israell violates its obligations to implement resolution 21 and 194? and 194?

but first, let's go to nbc's kerry sanders. he's at the campus for us this morning. hi, kerry. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. teachers have now made it here to marjory stoneman douglas, past the new security, which is rather intense, and through the gates to the school. and now, students are beginning to arrive. students who tell me they arrive today 14 days after the massacre somewhat anxious. but also comforted, they say, by what they feel is not only a community, but a nation's warm embrace. >> reporter: this morning, as students and staff return to class, emotions are fragile. the new normal at marjory stoneman douglas high includes armed deputies, counselors and therapy dogs. still, there's an atmosphere of hope. >> i will get through this and so will the rest of my -- the eagles. >> reporter: for many, the nightmare is still very raw, and returning to school, uncertain. >> it's something that will haunt me forever, i think. >> reporter: taryn says by the grace of god she left class early on valentine's day, before the gunman started his rampage. she later

nbc's kerry sanders is in parkland. kerry, you spoke to these students and teachers about what happened. what more do we know about scott peterson? is there any argument to be made that protocol is he should stay outside because it seems unfathomable. these are kids. he saw them every single day. >> no protocol at all. deputy in a dynamic situation has to make a certain call but clearly the sheriff here, scott israel, believes, because he reviewed the security videotape, that that deputy took a position, a defensive position, behind a wall for four minutes during the six minutes of the shooting and it was -- the sheriff who here says the deputy did not do what he is trained to do. clearly the reaction from the teachers and the students backs that up in terms of their sense of what they would have anticipated him to do. scott peterson's been unavailable for comment. he was given the option to retire and that's what he chose to do. he's been on the force here for 30, almost 33 years. he's a veteran. he's 54 years old. jus

kerry: you are right on the money. stability, there is clarity about the repricing, that will feed into the market stability. there is a level around 3%. if we see treasury yields rate through that, it will be a period of readjustment. it is very much about the pace we have seen the move, rather than the magnitude. rise, given them to the economic backdrop and the fed raising rates four times this year. companies are not at a level that will impinge on the outlook. stabilize, weat think bond yields will continue to rise this year. if they do it at a slower rate, the market can continue to absorb it. kathleen: bill deadly said four hikes is the base case. why do think it will be four rate hikes? fed is a think the little behind the curve in terms of the outlook. -- thek the necessary impact of the fiscal stimulus will come through. it will exacerbate some of that. four rate hikes, ultimately possible this year. the market is not pricing that in yet. we might see that from jay powell. the meeting in march will set the to

to the classroom they were last in when the shooting began to reunite with those who survived. >> kerry sanders in parkland tonight, thank you. >>> there's late word of an agreement to stop the massive teacher strike in west virginia that's kept all public schools closed and hundreds of thousands of students out of the classroom for days now. the dispute igniting a national debate over education. nbc's gabe gutierrez is there with the latest. >> reporter: tonight a dramatic finish. >> teachers will go back to work on thursday. we'll use tomorrow as like a cooling-off day. >> reporter: for four days across west virginia's 55 counties, more than 30,000 school employees went on strike. third grade teacher tamatha richardson was fighting for better pay to take care of her son with special needs. >> we're just fighting for our rights. if that's illegal, here we r. >> reporter: their teacher pay ranks 48th in the country. an average salary of $45,000, compared to $58,000 nationwide. >> what's at stake here is public education and the future of west virginia. >> reporter: last week the governo

now during the john kerry years so was hope that this approach of working on some issues while clashing over others will actually lead to a comprehensive amending the russia u.s. relationship but that hasn't materialized why doesn't tillerson continue working this line. well there has been you know a sea change and nobody saw this exactly coming but you know obviously there are dead there difference here is on the interpretation but most americans believe that there was russian interference in the elections so and they see that as an attack on american values so during the kerry years and even before that during the clinton years there was more of a willingness to in their mind reset relations after they had. deteriorated on one issue or the other host ukraine crisis and certainly. particularly now with with still the investigations on what happened in the elections going on it's very hard for tillerson or any or trump as we've discussed to make the case to the american public that we should have better relations now despite the hostility if the americans and the russians so i see why w

nbc's kerry sanders has more on all this. hey, kerry. >> reporter: good morning. overnight, two victims were released from the hospital. that leaves, now here at the hospital, one in critical condition, six others in stable condition. but this morning, there are so many more victims who are recovering at home. not injured physically, but rather, emotionally wounded. this morning, inconsolable anguish for 17 devastated families. >> those lives should not be lost in vain. >> reporter: and heartbreak for an entire community, who will never get to hug, kiss or laugh with their friends and classmates again. haley betancourt lost eight friends. >> i was really close with them, too. it's horrible. why? >> reporter: among the dead, 15-year-old luke hoyer, who loved basketball. 15-year-old peter wang, last seen holding a door so others could escape. football coach, aaron feis, protecting his students from bullets by using himself as a human shield. >> he is a hero. he will be remembered as a hero. >> reporter: 17-year-old joaquin oliver became an american citizen just last

we get the latest from nbc's kerry sanders. >> reporter: in florida, louisiana, and texas today, the offer of free flu shots brought out families like the belews. >> we know it's more prevalent this year than it has been in the past, and so we just knew it was time. >> reporter: an urgent reason to get vaccinated, cases like 45-year-old hope mccord-mcfarland. >> it's every mother's worst nightmare. >> reporter: now on a ventilator in virginia. >> flu shots saves lives. if you get the flu shot, you won't be living the nightmare that i'm living now. >> reporter: as more schools across the nation close for deep cleaning, at catholic churches, parishioners no longer share the same chalice during the sacrament. >> i ask the lord every day to bless me and keep me healthy. >> reporter: widespread flu has driven demand for tamiflu. the anti-viral drug reduces the flu's duration and symptoms. it's safe for pregnant women. what happens if you don't have the flu but you take tamiflu? >> you can take tamiflu to prevent getting the flu if you've been exposed to the flu. >> reporter: the fda and c

that's how long it it is. >> thank you, kerry. >> did you by any chance kerry, find a pineapple that's check it out and show you what we have today. we're watching this system a fast mover. it's going to come barreling through and it's going to bring a decent amount of snow in here as it gets caught up in the jetstream. heavy snow through the dakotas on through chicago and detroit. as we move into saturday snowfall amounts anywhere from 4 to 6 inches of snow in the plains. as we get into the midwest friday night, thursday night into tomorrow night we're looking at a lot of snow from chicago that's what's going on around the country. here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> we'll have another day of near record high temperatures and starting out cool but we're heading up to 70 degrees in san francisco. more sunshine tomorrow. and 67 degrees. a breezy but cooler weekend with highs in the low to mid-60s for san francisco. up to 70 degrees for the inland areas. we're going to come down from these near record high temperatures even as we go into next week with a high of 67 de

coming and again are going to be losing the blame game again going to refuse to another player after kerry after clinton after all sorts a preempt so a preempt on jaws or limb thinkings or jerusalem is is a case of we'll get a lot of support to our board in the muslim war and here's another supports more stuff to ward is now war about syria a boat libya a boat to yemen abode. for germany in the middle east zone not much interest in the palestinians anymore. just last question to hurt the palestinian former palestinian foreign minister it's sad that this was kind of a last drop for the palestinian by trump to recognize. capital one is that this could actually provoke another intifada. uprising force we are two months with a month since the. you remember the predictions the dictions well for ward was free to all the middle east in fire tell all over american embassies will be borne nonsense nonsense i hold two weeks before the declaration when they discuss it this is an empty gun and empty gun and they cannot threaten us with this by the way the palestinians should look at themselves because

. >> reporter: i'm kerry sanders in parkland, florida, where 12 days after the massacre, the attorney for armed campus deputy scot peterson is speaking out. peterson, under withering criticism for never entering the building as the killing went on inside. >> what is he seen doing on video? >> nothing. >> reporter: peterson's attorney now saying his heart goes out to the families of victims in their time of need. however, the allegations that peterson was a coward are patently untrue. and that peterson, who resigned last week, took up a tactical position, because he thought the shots were coming from outside the building. >> based on his training, his protocols, equipment and tactics, he should have went in and done everything he could possibly have done to neutralize the killer. >> reporter: internal affairs investigative sources tell nbc news they believe, in the crucial four minutes while peterson was outside, six people were gunned down on the third floor of the building, and now the broward county sheriff's office is investigating whether two or three more deputies arrived and did

kerry sanders joins us from parkland, florida, this morning.e students who are coming back made it past the new, intense security, and they are on campus. the school superintendent says ten students say they will never come back to this campus, as have five teachers. it's too much for them to return. as students do return, they're confronting an intense police security here. in fact, one student said it feels as if every law enforcement officer in the state is here at marjory stoneman douglas high school. this morning, students at marjory stoneman douglas high school is back in the scloclass. >> why isn't there bullet proof glass? >> reporter: things trying to get back to normal. but that may be a tall order with armed guards roaming the halls. >> it will be like a medicine to get back to the norm. >> reporter: is it the norm or a new norm? >> it will be a new norm. we will always have the memory of what happened. >> reporter: zach and his sister, taryn, looking to the future with hope. >> we're not going to let this defeat us. we're going to u

john kerry still very popular among his fans. they were kissing and hugging him.at charm and wit that exudes from the former secretary of state john kerry as he tries to maneuver through baggage. but it's impossible. >> kimberly: did they lick the tree? time for kimberly's food court. this is a good one. this is interesting. we all have our snacks in our drawers. moving on. according to a new survey, we have the drawer but we keep a secret stash on the side. this is fruit manufacture crispy green conducted a study of 2,000 women. they found two-thirds, 66% of american moms have a supersecret supply of their favorite snacks they keep hidden from their families because they don't want to share. >> jesse: no sharing. set your dvrs. never miss an episode of "the five." "special report" up next. do you like my blazer, bret? >> bret: yes. news about jared kushner's security clearance, what does it mean for his role in the white house? justice department launches its own investigation into the foreign surveillance court, fisa. president trump gets a jump on the competiti

. >> kerry may be the worst negotiator i have ever seen. how about, how about this guy, how about -- and obama, of course. he's the one. >> peter, we have showed a little bit of it. i didn't show him doing the snake. if you want to pick that up. it was sort of the best or the worst of the campaign rally speeches. >> well, it really did harken back to 2016. this is an audience that was looking for red meat and he was going to give them red meat. as we say, he attacked hillary clinton, barack obama, john kerry, not by name but john mccain. interestingly, meghan mccain said she got a call from president trump promising not to attack her father given that he's ill at this point. that seems to have gone by the wayside or maybe he considers it not attacking him because he didn't use the name. we know who he's talking about. this is a kind of setting the president gets a charge out of, one where he gets to make his case but also take on his enemies. he likes having an enemy to take on. here we are still arguing with president obama, still arguing

now during the john kerry years so that the surprise of working on some issues while clashing over others will actually lead to a comprehensive amending the russia u.s. relationship but that hasn't materialized why doesn't taylor send continue working this line. well there has been you know a sea change and nobody saw this exactly coming but you know obviously there are dead there are difference here is on the interpretation but most americans believe that there was russian interference in the elections so and they see that as an attack on american values so during the kerry years and even before that during the clinton years there was more of a willingness to in their mind reset relations after they had. deteriorated on one issue or the other host ukraine crisis and certainly. particularly now with with still the investigations on what happened in the elections going on it's very hard for tillerson or any or trump as we've discussed to make the case to the american public that we should have better relations now despite the hostility if they americans and the russians so i say why when i

but we do know and i'm going to ask you to answer briefly we know kerry is far from being a friend of iran's nevertheless why do you think he's not with netanya netanyahu on this particular issue. remember the iran deal to was. you know the. top success of the obama administration and they don't not want to sell it out i don't think also the american establishment or that keeps the it is happy or causing the war was iran nobody feels that this is going to work and so this is a voice of moderation remember the munich security conference has become now for long for propaganda in a state of reaching agreement discussing issues how to solve them creating a new peace by the time.

[ cheers and applause ] it tonight from show -- next week we have new shows with chadwick boseman, kerryamie dornan, lupita nyong'o, dave salmoni has wild animals to show us, danai gurira, billy eichner with music from zz ward featuring fitz, elise trouw, russell dickerson, and rick springfield. and this is bigly. on tuesday night, the president will deliver his first state of the union address and our guest will be two women who know a thing or two about having sex with the president, kerry washington who i mentioned before, and stormy daniels herself will be here. it's gonna be fun and educational, i'm going to get deported, i have no doubt that i'll be kicked out of this country. i wonder where i'll go. >> we go together. we'll go to mexico. >> jimmy: okay. our first guest tonight is one of the most talented and highly decorated actors anywhere. she has two tonys, an emmy and an oscar in the trunk of her car. her show is called "how to get away with murder." watch it thursday nights on abc. please welcome viola davis! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you look fantastic. >> thank yo

with "scandal," you guys have a crossover episode. >> yes. >> jimmy: in which -- now, will you and kerryossover episode? >> that's the whole point. olivia pope and annalise keating. and i have to tell you, every time we touched on the show, it was static electricity. >> jimmy: really? >> every single time. it was black girl magic on steroids. [ applause ] >> i'm telling you. you didn't think it was the real thing, but every time. >> jimmy: little pops and sparks coming out. did that translate to the screen, have you seen it yet? >> i haven't. i'm hoping. >> jimmy: you know, they don't do that, that much anymore. i used to love when that would happen. >> remember george jefferson used to be on "all in the family." >> jimmy: yeah, and it spun off from that. i hope they follow the lead and do more crossover. guillermo, let's do another show right after this. we'll walk on to one. we'll go barge into "ellen." >> that's right. >> jimmy: well, it's great to see you. i hope your daughter is getting -- she can come any time and get snacks here. >> she said she couldn't find a bagel. >> jimmy: we

improvement in the cooperation and that may build some trust back into the relationship now during the john kerry years so that this approach of working on some issues while clashing over others will actually lead to a comprehensive amending of the russian u.s. relationship but that hasn't materialized why doesn't tillerson continue working this line. well there has been you know a sea change and nobody saw this exactly coming but you know obviously there are dead there difference here is on the interpretation but most americans believe that there was russian interference in the elections so and they see that as an attack on american values so during the kerry years and even before that during the clinton years there was more of a willingness to in their mind reset relations after they had. deteriorated on one issue or the other host ukraine crisis and certainly. particularly now with with still the investigations on what happened in the elections going on it's very hard for tillerson or any or trump as we've discussed to make the case to the american public that we should have better relations n

kerry sanders has more. >> reporter: nbc news has learned shooting suspect nikolas cruz may have had plans to unleash even more carnage inside his former high school. law enforcement sources say at the time cruz dropped his ar-15 he still had five fully loaded magazines, more than 150 unspent rounds. one of the magazines marked with a swastika. inside the school, the windows were shattered from the inside. investigators believe cruz tried to shoot out the windows at students running for their lives. but the hurricane-strength windows would not break. cruz was captured more than two miles away by coconut creek police officer michael leonard. honored as a hero. >> my heart is very heavy. obviously, i have a child, similar age. and when you -- when you come against evil like that and you have children at home that are about that age, it's very close to my heart. and it was difficult. >> reporter: the high school now patrolled by armed deputies, in place to protect students who 14 days after the massacre returned to school. like tara and zack. >> one word to describe your anticipation. >

it was lavrov and kerry, now, with the current administration, it is president to president.ing what the us is capable of doing in syria and what europe is capable of doing in syria. right now, the united states has a couple of thousand troops in the areas that are held by syrian kurdish forces, that they have been working with against isis. how can that be right, that we overstate america's potential in syria but not putin's? america had the same chance as russia did. given all the considerations, made the decision it was not in us interest to assert that kind of military power to try to change the balance of power on the ground. but president putin determined that it was in russian interests to do so. and would wave in front of the international community that the government of syria, the legitimate government of syria invited him in. ryan crocker, i know you dispute the idea we are near the end, but would you agree nobody stands a chance of winning it, if that is a word, except for assad now? well, you have to define winning. how will he rule over, how much will he will ru

nbc's kerry sanders has details. >> reporter: the broward sheriff says the protocol is clear. armed deputy scot peterson seen here at a school board meeting in 2015, should have hunted down confessed gunman nikolas cruz. instead video showed that peterson stayed just outside the freshman building where cruz was shooting. >> and he never went in. >> reporter: brandon huff said he saw the athletic coach rush in. >> they were running in there shielding killeds from bullets. the only armed protected person on campus was just standing are. >> reporter: tonight new details on that missed warning call to the fbi. a suspect shows that cruz's close friend told agents she feared he's going to explode. and that he would be getting into a school and just shooting the place up. but the transcript shows the caller did not say where and when. this as teachers return to school today. >> we're trying to put a broken egg back together. >> can you? >> yes, i think we can. we're a strong school. we're a strong community. >> they were able to shelter in place. >> reporter: but the emotional wounds

the contras in nicaragua the cia backed army against the electorate sent at least a government but kerry was somebody who was. committed to an independent journalism and that increasingly i think put him at odds with not only the conservative part of the us power structure but also the liberal part as well ok well that take us back a little what was a scale of u.s. backing for defacto drug smuggling that bob perry exposed. yeah there was one of the big stories i mean not only the weapons flying in from u.s. sources to the contras in nicaragua and then i'd seen eighty's but the planes would come back not empty with drugs to supply. in the united states some of the drug. conveyance ally and of course money coming from that as well so they were called off the shelf deals we are if the cia or the u.s. government couldn't through legal channels fund the contras with the weapons and the so-called non-lethal way the drug trade could help. free up a whole lot of money and so perry really exposed that the reagan administration from the top down wasn't just oliver north contrary to medium it but t

>> all right, kerry sanders in florida tonight, thank you. >>> we now know the names of all 17 people killed inside that school. 14 students, a coach, the athletic director and a teacher. the tragedy bringing that devastated community together last night for a highly emotional vigil. and again today as the first funeral services were held. nbc's catie beck has that for us. >> reporter: hundreds packed into a room remembering alyssa al haddef, a 14-year-old soccer superstar. >> i could always count on her. >> reporter: friends and family all struggling to come to grips with such consuming grief. >> a knife was stab in my heart. >> reporter: yesterday alyssa's mother had a message for her friends. >> reach your goals for alyssa because you're her voice now. >> reporter: last night thousands gathered to remember all 17 victims. >> this is impossible. my girl, my 14-year-old baby. >> reporter: jamie guttenberg loved to dance. her father says she was the life of the party. >> my job is to protect my children. in the morning sometimes things get so crazy she runs out behind and she's like,

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nbc's kerry sanders starts us off tonight from tallahassee. >> reporter: students, survivors, and now activists. >> we are demanding change. we have stared down the barrel of an ar-15 ourselves. >> reporter: more than 100 from marjory stoneman douglas high school on an eight-hour trip to meet lawmakers and rally outside the florida state capitol tomorrow. >> now is the time to make compromise, to come together. >> stop gun violence! >> reporter: again today across florida, students walked out of class, demanding safety from gun violence on campus. >> it's so easy to get a gun nowadays. it's ridiculous. >> reporter: but this afternoon, florida legislators declined to hear a bill on banning assault weapons. students in attendance overcome with emotion. this as friends and family gathered for three more funerals, including 15-year-old peter wang, member of junior rotc. today west point honored his bravery with a posthumous appointment to the academy. >> i just prepared to die. >> reporter: it was only six days ago teacher dara hoss was teaching freshman english when she heard the first g

>> all right, kerry sanders, thank you. >>> tonight, millions are under a severe weather threat with flood watches across much of the south, while a major winter blast is taking aim at the northeast. al roker joining us to track it all. al, good evening. >> good evening, lester. we've been seeing all this rain. that's why we still have 19 million folks at risk from texas all the way to tennessee. more heavy rain coming in tonight and tomorrow. rainfall amounts through tomorrow, anywhere from 2 to 3 inch inches, locally could be up to 5 inches. this nor'easter, watching the storm push to the east. snow in the great lakes tomorrow, heavy rain in the mid-atlantic. friday, a coastal storm will develop. that's the nor'easter. strong winds and heavy rain along the coast. heavy snow back to the west. so we have winter storm watches back to the west for heavy snow inland, difficult travel and a coastal flood risk with rain, urban and river flooding, and probably a lot of beach erosion, lester. >> all right, al, good to have you here, thank you. >>> now to a warning about a growing danger on

now during the john kerry years so was hope that this approach of working on some issues while clashing over others will actually lead to a comprehensive mending of the russia u.s. relationship but that hasn't materialized why doesn't taylor send continue working this line. well there has been you know a sea change and nobody saw this exactly coming but you know obviously there are dead there are difference here is on the interpretation but most americans believe that there was russian interference in the elections so they see that as an attack on american values so during the kerry years and even before that during the clinton years there was more of a willingness to in their mind reset relations after they had. deteriorated on one issue or the other host ukraine crisis and certainly. particularly now with with still the investigations on what happened in the elections going on it's very hard for tillerson or any or trump as we've discussed to make the case to the american public that we should have better relations now despite the hostility if the americans and the russians so i say w

kerry sanders in florida with details. >> reporter: confessed gunman nikolas cruz keeping higs eyes and head down in court today. this as a leaked 2016 state report reveals croods received psychiatric evaluations after he posted a video on snapchat in which he cut himself and said he wanted to buy a gun. >> the nick we knew was not the monster he turned out to be. >> reporter: the snead family says they knew nothing about the reports when they took kroo cruz into their home after his mother died. >> i've been racking my brain if something should have said in my head maybe we should have paid more allegation. i can't -- i don't know. had cass a completely normal week. >> he told me two weeks ago, this is the happiest he's ever been. >> reporter: james and kimberly snead gave cruz a room when their son said the teenager had nowhere else to live. >> when he moved into your house, did you know he had an ar-125. >> -- a rsh-15. >> i knew he had guns. i respect guns. part of the stipulation he had to get a gun safe and he did. i thought at that time i had the only key to the gun safe. >> repo